As NSC seems calm with everyone getting along at present I thought a nice thread that everyone will agree on. Stage and film musicals.......what utter garbage. Who in their right mind would want to go and see Dirty Dancing, Les Mis, We will rock you etc etc. you'd have to mad wouldn't you ?
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Stage and film musicals.
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Meade's Ball
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School of Rock was more acceptable, eh. Better when it's a film about musicians, when it would be stupid if they didn't play a single song, than films about normal people suddenly overtaken by an urge to warble their internal thoughts.
vegster
Sanity Clause
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pasty
A different kind of pasty
Pah, musicals !
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Tony Meolas Loan Spell
Slut Faced Whores
Some great ones
Rocky Horror
Return to forbidden planet
Jersey Boys
Thats three to start.
Rocky Horror
Return to forbidden planet
Jersey Boys
Thats three to start.
beorhthelm
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film makes the musical redundant. there are so many artistic devices you can use to tell a story that breaking into song is pointless.
studio150
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As with all artistic things, all down to personal taste.
There are lots of good musicals that are well worth seeing on stage (Cabaret, Fiddle of the Roof, Chicago, Jersey Boys...) The problem at the moment would seem tat following the success of Mama Mia and We will rock you, that a formula has started of buidling poor musicals around Pop acts (Spice up your live!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) what next Anachy in the UK - The Musical.
Opera anyone?
There are lots of good musicals that are well worth seeing on stage (Cabaret, Fiddle of the Roof, Chicago, Jersey Boys...) The problem at the moment would seem tat following the success of Mama Mia and We will rock you, that a formula has started of buidling poor musicals around Pop acts (Spice up your live!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) what next Anachy in the UK - The Musical.
Opera anyone?
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Pah........... Firstly you declare your undying love for him or her, then you sing a bit about it for an hour or so and then one of them ends up dying (normally stabbed) and then you sing a few dirges about that for the last 15 minutes. Poppycock.
Kent Seagull
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I've seen Les Mis on stage 3 times and will def be going again, it's the best thing I've ever seen! We Will Rock you wasn't so bad either. Maybe some people appreciate top quality music, even if it's not everyone's taste?
Witches of Eastwick
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And you can't forget the all-time classic Joseph and his Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat
I don't believe that cinema has made theatre redundant; they are both excellent forms of entertainment and I particularly enjoy watching people actually singing and acting 'for real'.
Slice of Saturday Night
And you can't forget the all-time classic Joseph and his Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat
I don't believe that cinema has made theatre redundant; they are both excellent forms of entertainment and I particularly enjoy watching people actually singing and acting 'for real'.
We went to the opera for the first time a few weeks ago, very enjoyable but certainly an acquired taste.
vegster
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Do you keep falling asleep and missing the end then ?
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They played some of the music from Les Mis on radio 2 the other day when I was at work. I couldn't believe people would actually pay to go to the theatre and listen to it live. ......
And Russell Crowe ffs.
"Father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or I will start singing."
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Norman Potting
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I am sure that "Les Miserables" is a truly wonderous cinematic or theatrical experience. However whenever I hear it mentioned I always think that it should be a "Viz" character, and whenever I hear a song from it I automatically think of this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-fG8c-CMoU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-fG8c-CMoU
Kent Seagull
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Russell Crow can't sing! As much as the film was very good, the singing in the stage show is a hell of a lot better. The exception in the film is the talented Samantha Barks who played Eponine, she has appeared on stage and in the film and is superb in both. and bloody gorgeous too!
Horsham Gull
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I enjoyed it much easier to follow the story line and you can see the emotion on the actors faces when they are singing
skipper734
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That Shakyspere waller didn't find it necessary to add music and dancing to Romeo and Juliet, till a few years later he tried it, renamed it West Side Story, then a lot more people saw it. Funny thing is the Performing Rights Society couldn't find him and gave all the royalties to a couple of chancers who claimed to have been responsible for it. 
Cannot stand musicals until I reluctantly was taken to see Phantom of the Opera.
Amazing.
Amazing.
And yet, strangely, I didn't really enjoy that one.