[BwayJuvinile]

What are your favorite shows that you know they are not the best written shows. Almost like a guilty pleasure, but something you really dig.

This was inspired while i was listening to my ipod on shuffle a song from the musical "Big" came on. I actually really enjoyed listening to it, and then about 10 minutes later, another song came on. It made my day.

So my list includes
Big! The musical
Chess

[Luc]

Baby
HONK!
Seussical!: The Musical
Wicked

[Eponine93]

For me... not the show, but the music. I can really cut the music of "Spring Awakening" down to nothing. I think a lot of the music sounds very similar, and if I was the lyricist I would make a lot of nitpicky changes. Finally, from what I know of the plot, the music doesn't really move the plot along that much. However, despite the fact I can cut it up to shreds, I am constantly listening to the music. Even though I don't think it's technically very good, there's just this wonderful energy in it.

As for shows I adore that are truly guilty pleasures, I have to say for the longest time, I thought Footloose: The Musical could be tragic, deep and emotion-stirring.

[Mimi Marquez]

I too love Big. But I also have a sentimental attachment seeing as it was my first professional show and my last show I was in before going off to college. Some other ones are Seussical, Annie, The Full Monty, and (even though it's a movie) Grease 2.

[dwarves r very upsetting]

[BroadwayBaby0202]

I love Little Women and all of the music even though people say it isn't written well. I personally think it is a wonderful musical but is better as a play.

[christinadaae]

[Trevor]

Seussical isn't that good. But I like it.
High School Musical? Yeah I guess...

Honk takes the cake though.

[Luc]

[Matthew]

HONK and Seussical.
Mainly...my director told me...they're the same show, with different people adn animals.

[Trevor]

[Matthew]

Quite frankly, prolly one of the best roles in theatre.

[Trevor]

I wouldn't go that far. Funnest? Maybe. Best? Definately not.

I was also including the Cat in Honk in that last statement.

[Matthew]

True.
Funnest, perhaps.

The Cat in HONK! is always a homosexual to me.

[Jordan]

I'm not trying to start anything but Cats falls into that category for me.

[Salome]

I'd say

JCS
Time

[candymancan]

-High School Musical, just the music, the acting in the movie absolutely sucks! I haven't seen the actual play so I don't know about that.
-Wicked! I don't care what you say, it is spectacular to me! Although it is just plain fluff...
-Aida, I love the show and the music

[Cake_in_Song]

Phantom, of course. I know ALW sucks, and looks creepy, but I just keep watching his shows.

[Luc]

[happyguava]

Phantom. Not written particularly well but it's such good fun and has some great moments. Great story too - I loved the book. Not a fan of the movie though.

I also love Seussical but I wouldn't call it a guilty pleasure.

[Robinflamingo]

They're Playing Our Song
Sugar

[broadwayxdoll]

i played ugly in honk!!!!!!! <333 love that show. it was my first ever



i love the coe music




but the thing is....i really think a "good" musical is all really a matter of opinion

[Trevor]

BwayJuv...

check your PMs.

[LesWickedPhantom]

Aida... saw it on Broadway when I was 14. I didn't know any better, but I absolutely adored it. I still listen to the music all the time, and it makes me happy.

[Laura]

Wicked. Enough said.

I agree with most of the posts people write about wicked discussing the shallow-ness of it and about how it's all about spectacle and it's completely diney-fied - they couldn't be more right. but i really do enjoy it and there are some very relevant and menaingful messages in it for me and i think that's what matters.

[Sweeney Hyde]

Jekyll and Hyde

It is a show that can be so corny, yet I think it would be a blast to actually do it. Yes, there are some really mediocre lyrics, but I think it is entertaining.

[Marcellus]

Whoop-Up (Charlap and Gimbel, 1958)

[MissMusic]

Wicked, because it is the musical that got me into musicals.
I know its fluff, and no substance really, but I enjoyed it.
I loved the lines because they made me laugh histerically.
I loved the music... dont know why, but did.

PS. I used "What Is This Feeling" with my friend, one as G(a)linda, one as Elphaba, and EVERYONE loved it. It was for a talent show with basically NO ONE who knows anything about musicals, so they all loved it, said we were going to win, etc.

We didnt make top three, didnt get to hear any other any other placings.
2 of the top three were from our rival dance studio, whih one of the judges was from. That studio talks bad about us and everything, and just HATES us. So its no wonder we didnt get top three.


Sorry i got off topic lol.

[what_the_heck013]

There's nothing "wrong" with any of my favorite musicals. To me, there is no such thing as "wrong" or "right" in art.

To quote the Man in the Chair, "I know it's not a perfect show... but it does what a musical is supposed to do, it takes you to another world, and it gives you a little tune to carry with you in your head for when you're feeling blue, you know?"

[wicked_diva]

I don't consider any of these bad musicals, but I guess other people do. (Though I had no clue people thought Seussical was bad!)

Wedding Singer
Honk
Seussical (which I love!!!)

And Little Women is so not a bad musical!

[dantheman]

I really like the Lion King. It's one I could see over and over again.

[ChrisFitzpatrick]

Seussical is absolutely amazing, in my opinion. I did it back in 2005 and really didn't like it, but after listening to it again - amazing. The horns section in Biggest Blame Fool is ahh! I have to do this show again.

[BEaSTARandSINGlove]

Footloose is my guilty pleasure It's just plain fun.

[shakalakababy]

hmm, Jekyll & Hyde I guess. Some of the lyrics are really just ridiculous but the first time i saw it I loved it.

[my_work_my_name]

Fame - I just find it inexplicably compelling!

[pish123c]

Grease
and
Wicked


They're just so damn happy and catchy!

[Da_Dark_Dude]

Jekyll and Hyde
Dance of the Vampires
Phantom of the Opera
Wicked

[Holly]

Definitely Seussical. I also have a song from Legally Blonde which I'm really digging but shh, don't tell anyone...

[bwayluvor31]

Phantom of the Opera
Wicked
Aida (damn Elton John!)

and I would say Jekyll and Hyde, but I don't think it's a bad musical!

[arctic_orange]

R&H's Cinderella (I just think the music is so lovely)
Jekyll and Hyde, because of the music and the fact that it was my first "real" show.

[MrsJamieWellerstein]

^It bothers me to see Cinderella in the same category as Jekyll and Hyde. Cinderella did everything the original fairytale did and did it well. It's not a deep, moving, meaningful show, but it is everything it intended to be. I ramble, sorry

Anyhow.

I don't feel guilt over any of the shows I like, really (unless I'm forgetting something, which is entirely possible). Closest I get is an undying love for the 2005 revival of Sweet Charity. I know it wasn't good. I know Christina Applegate was okay at best. But I loved it. Denis O'Hare, people! Denis O'Hare!
I also like one song from Chess (I Know Him So Well) and two from Wicked (Popular and What Is This Feeling). That's about as far as I can think of.


*EDIT*
OH! The Baker's Wife! I like that one! It kinda sucks!

[wicked_diva]

[Salome]