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spiderpig

(10,419 posts) Sat Apr 15, 2017, 09:33 PM Apr 2017

Am I the only person who can't stand musicals? [View all]

I've never been entertained by blah-blah-blah dialogue leading into...a song! Once they start singing, I start sleeping.

The incomparable Monty Python and the Holy Grail had goofy interludes where they broke into song, but they were self-knowing and wonderfully ridiculous, so it doesn't count.

Oddly, I enjoy opera - but they sing the whole thing and don't stop to talk a lot.

I don't like most westerns either, but there are a few that IMHO are outstanding: Silverado, Tombstone, The Big Country, and Butch Cassidy (kinda-sorta a western). Old western classics just don't do it for me.

Just off of 4 hours with tech trying to clean up our iPad which they told us was subject to 28,000 hack attempts yesterday. So I'm sulking.

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Am I the only person who can't stand musicals? [View all] spiderpig Apr 2017 OP

YES! elleng Apr 2017 #1

This is not an ad hominem attack spiderpig Apr 2017 #11

I'm no fan if musicals but enjoyed West Side Story because I loved Lint Head Apr 2017 #2

No, you're not. madaboutharry Apr 2017 #3

no you certainly are not rurallib Apr 2017 #4

I'm such a musical freak that when I discovered Bollywood, I thought I died and went to heaven. LeftInTX Apr 2017 #5

No, I don't like them either. The Velveteen Ocelot Apr 2017 #6

ah, so you dislike all of them, except the ones you like, i see. unblock Apr 2017 #7

"What in all of heaven could prompted her Mme. Defarge Apr 2017 #12

Actually (rolling up sleeves) I can't stand the singing in the first 4 your mentioned. spiderpig Apr 2017 #13

I've conducted a bunch of G&S and trust me there are LOOONG stretches of singing pangaia Apr 2017 #18

I don't remember. I must have been asleep! spiderpig Apr 2017 #21

LOLOLOLOLO! pangaia Apr 2017 #23

I remember doing a run of Patience in the 1970s. pangaia Apr 2017 #29

Fun times! spiderpig Apr 2017 #41

Oh that is a fantastic film and score. pangaia Apr 2017 #47

I spent a fortune on a VHS tape of Ran back in the day spiderpig Apr 2017 #51

Here is a Takemitsu piece for you.... pangaia Apr 2017 #56

I'm not a big fan of musicals, either. GWC58 Apr 2017 #77

I loved "Hair," but if course I'm an old hippie. nt tblue37 Apr 2017 #22

There is no such thing as an hold hippie. spiderpig Apr 2017 #43

Darn autocorrect! nt tblue37 Apr 2017 #44

I feel the same way, all musicals are not the same Rhiannon12866 Apr 2017 #81

No, you're not the only one. Buckeye_Democrat Apr 2017 #8

I don't know what your history is Mme. Defarge Apr 2017 #9

This will change your mind Lochloosa Apr 2017 #10

O. M. G.!! nt tblue37 Apr 2017 #24

The Simpsons nailed this years ago: Gidney N Cloyd Apr 2017 #25

Lol perfect. Lochloosa Apr 2017 #36

I despise them, too. Warpy Apr 2017 #14

No. No, you're not. rock Apr 2017 #15

I'm REALLY picky. If it takes itself too seriously, I'm out of there. Gidney N Cloyd Apr 2017 #16

I would never go to a musical. pangaia Apr 2017 #17

Take "Fiddler on the Roof" Warpy Apr 2017 #32

Opera, of course. That's an entirely different thing. pangaia Apr 2017 #33

No, I missed it, I was out buying drugs Warpy Apr 2017 #38

Hope things go better for you... pangaia Apr 2017 #45

I know what you mean about stagey stage plays adapted as stagey movies spiderpig Apr 2017 #49

"Amadeus" was a little different Warpy Apr 2017 #52

Me, too. I make two exceptions... longship Apr 2017 #19

Sorry, I can't wrap my head around that lordsummerisle Apr 2017 #20

I never could figure out how 2 kids raised by the same people in the same house spiderpig Apr 2017 #27

I can certainly see where someone would like musicals but not enjoy opera. pangaia Apr 2017 #34

Even "Man of La Mancha"? nt tblue37 Apr 2017 #26

There was no bigger Peter O'Toole fan than moi, but... spiderpig Apr 2017 #28

I saw Mandy Patinkin play Sancho Panza here at KU when tblue37 Apr 2017 #31

The first time I saw Mandy Patinkin was in Ragtime spiderpig Apr 2017 #37

I've both played and conducted Man of La Mancha and had a great time... pangaia Apr 2017 #42

Hee. spiderpig Apr 2017 #46

YUP Still have a pretty full head of hair at 73. pangaia Apr 2017 #48

No! jack69 Apr 2017 #30

Marlene Dietrich sings the closing love song from My Fair Lady... LuvLoogie Apr 2017 #35

And how could you not love this.?! LuvLoogie Apr 2017 #39

Okay. Last one. One of my favorite numbers from Glee... LuvLoogie Apr 2017 #40

Heathen!!!!! whistler162 Apr 2017 #50

I'm telling mo-om!!! spiderpig Apr 2017 #55

She will probably shake her head and whistler162 Apr 2017 #71

I love musicals. Binkie The Clown Apr 2017 #53

There are so many amazing musicals. From rodgers and hammerstein, lerner and lerner and loewe, to still_one Apr 2017 #54

i like moulan rouge & that is about it, ilike arias. not operas. pansypoo53219 Apr 2017 #57

Most of them but with many great exceptions. Duppers Apr 2017 #58

Call me crazy but I love them genxlib Apr 2017 #59

I love them, especially the ones from the 1950s and 60s. femmocrat Apr 2017 #60

I love them. Paladin Apr 2017 #61

As a genre, they don't appeal to me Orrex Apr 2017 #62

Not a fan... buuuuut.... uriel1972 Apr 2017 #63

No, I've always hated them. Even as a kid, I'd get so annoyed when things would be catbyte Apr 2017 #64

real people don't slay dragons, cast magic spells or use the Force, either NewJeffCT Apr 2017 #69

I'd be just as turned off if that action stopped & they started belting out a tune. catbyte Apr 2017 #72

amen JonLP24 Apr 2017 #65

But in Simpsons the Musical voteearlyvoteoften Apr 2017 #66

I liked Paint You Wagon that's about it nt doc03 Apr 2017 #67

I like some newer musicals NewJeffCT Apr 2017 #68

Did you see Rent at all? NewJeffCT Apr 2017 #70

South Pacific. irisblue Apr 2017 #73

Priceless. pressbox69 Apr 2017 #78

I hate them utterly. Insipid nonsense. nt Codeine Apr 2017 #74

I like plays in person. Laffy Kat Apr 2017 #75

You'd hate Bollywood war movies then. Kaleva Apr 2017 #76

I love musicals. pressbox69 Apr 2017 #79

I like good musicals... loved Chicago. demosincebirth Apr 2017 #80

There's only one musical that I will always love ailsagirl Apr 2017 #82

Is Chitty Chitty Bang Bang a musical? OriginalGeek Apr 2017 #83