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In reply to the discussion: Am I the only person who can't stand musicals? [View all]The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,829 posts)6. No, I don't like them either.
Most of the music is forgettable crap and the singers tend to sing in an unpleasantly harsh Ethel Merman-ish chest voice. Some of the older ones weren't bad - those of the My Fair Lady era - and West Side Story is brilliant. I love opera (especially Mozart), but modern musical theatre leaves me cold.
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I'm such a musical freak that when I discovered Bollywood, I thought I died and went to heaven.
LeftInTX
Apr 2017
#5
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 never could figure out how 2 kids raised by the same people in the same house
spiderpig
Apr 2017
#27
There are so many amazing musicals. From rodgers and hammerstein, lerner and lerner and loewe, to
still_one
Apr 2017
#54
No, I've always hated them. Even as a kid, I'd get so annoyed when things would be
catbyte
Apr 2017
#64
I'd be just as turned off if that action stopped & they started belting out a tune.
catbyte
Apr 2017
#72