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Apart from The Blues Brothers, the mind boggles.

Opera and Ballet, as well. What the f*** are they all about?

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hate hate hate them....cannot get my head round people that talk one minute and then burst into song as if that's a really normal, cool thing even, to do...madness

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oh i agree...i hate them in general, though i did like les miserables it has to be said...and the film grease...

MM, xx

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i thought Mamma Mia was excellent......

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How can anyone not like 'West Side Story' and 'Blood Brothers'.......

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easy, cos there are'nt stuck in a time warp...

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Step to the right

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Let's do it again.............

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You don't like musicals??

How can you resist Clint Eastwood singing "I Talk To The Trees"? :blink:

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Would anyone class The Commitments as a musical? But have to agree, generally musicals a right crock of s.hite.

Apart from Oliver.

Love The Blues Brothers,fantastic sound track, as is The Commitments.

My step daughter is somewhat obsessed withy Beyonce - you know,teenage girls have their role models and all that - forced me to sit through Dream Girls.Never have I heard so many songs in one film - it really did do my head in.

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musicals I'll grant you, not my cup of tea. Opera however is one of mans great artistic achievments...ballet, lovely music, men in tights nah, ballerinas however :)

How can anyone possibly not like opera.......the mind boggles :confused:


(ok ok so musicals are modern opera and opera was/is musicals, blah blah, yet to hear/see a good "musical" though)

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Why does every opera include some bloke (who's recently been dumped by his girlfriend) reading out loud a letter from his mum?

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cos its opera, the same girlfriend tends to die of consumptions as well ;)


think eastenders circa the past, same crap stories but a much better way of telling them

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So why start the thread? Mr.Inconsistency strikes again!

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Little Shop of Horrors?
Sweeney Todd?
The Rocky Horror Picture Show?

Pleb!

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i was joking, but you wouldnt know what that is ,of course

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Oh god cant stand opera or ballet, but musicals are fab, west side story, rocky horror show, grease

Saw Jersey Boys a few months back, fab!

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out of interest what is it that people dislike about opera and ballet?

personally i cant be arsed with the dancing so that severely diminishes ballet for me same same for a lot of musicals. also not taken by most musicals music, miss saigon was ok but thats only cos half the cast were in lingerie for the duration :D

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oh miss saigon was fab, loved that. Joseph another fav of mine.

Ballet, like the dancing, cant stand the music.

Operas, makes me wont to nod off.

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I love them..... watched the Donny Osmand made for tv version of Joseph about ten times a couple of weeks ago........

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I used to be in lurve with Donny...

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Soryy, you had no chance. he was in lurve with Marie.

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I wouldn't be surprised...weird family

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He doesn't look to bad in Joseph - shirtless with hair extensions.....still got the teeth though.

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oh thanks but no thanks...I'm over him now

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OMG I just LOVE Moulin Rouge - one of the best movies ever . . . Bugsy is a great kids movie too.

The first film I ever saw at the cinema was The Sound of Music (showing my age now!) and it was also the first time I ever went on a train. FWIW:)

N

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So's Marie.

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:confused:

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Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, he wears a loincloth and hair extensions for most of the show.....very un-Donny.

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Oh, I thought you meant he swapped sides from Marie and was .....


never mind!

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Me and The Girlies love ballet - Swan Lake is beautiful and even the all male version is fantastic! I remember my great aunt taking me to the premiere of the film version the Beatix Potter ballet in London and I was quite entranced. She also took me to see The Black & White Minstral Show, which is probably banned forever and looked upon with horror as the epitomy of political incorrectness :lol:

Opera is wonderful - Carmen is fab.

And I love a good musicals Westside Story, Chicago, Caberet, Oliver, Joseph, Jesus Christ Superstar, Moulin Rouge, Evita, Lion King, Billy Liar, South Pacific, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Oaklahoma

Bit worried about the Little One's choice musical viewing at the moment - High School Musical and Hair with the really 'rude song' as she puts it!:ohmy:

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I reckon part of it is some kind of inverse snobbery and part a lack of understanding. To a generation brought up with pop music, opera takes a while to 'get'.

Like any musical genre though, you don't have to like it all. I am not a huge Wagner fan for example, but like Puccini and Verdi. Same with ballet. The classics are OK, but I love modern ballet.

I like many classic musicals like Singing in the Rain, Wizard of Oz, Fiddler on the Roof, but Moulin Rouge was unbearable (IMO).


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I like many classic musicals like Singing in the Rain, Wizard of Oz, Fiddler on the Roof, but Moulin Rouge was unbearable (IMO).


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I think Moulin Rouge is a bit like Marmite.

N

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I always thought the Teletubbies songs were brilliant.

Some day they will be viewed as classics in the same light as Nesan Dorma.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuiynIn-g9s

:thumbsup::thumbsup:

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we flew home to see Queen the Musical, it was fantastic, would love to see it again.

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Loved Oliver as a kid. Still know all the words to the songs. Thought Annie was a bit pathetic.

Also throughly enjoyed Phantom of the Opera.

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I like all three, although being a bit of a pleb I like musicals the most.

I was obsessed by Phantom as a teen; everyone else listed to NKOTB.
I listened to Michael Crawford.

I think ballet is amazing; the sheer athleticism of it astounds me.

I can barely turn a dodgy pirouette, so hats off to them I say!

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you start the most bloody stupidest threads man....

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thats why I'm glad I'm not indian, a lass I worked with was 'I'll take you to a bollywood film, honest you'll LOVE it',

I was 'erm no I'm not going to that, no way'.

And I have seen bits of some, bloody rubbish, people jumping out from behind trees and singing all the time. Musicals are shit.

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ah there you go, rocky horror wasn't so bad, I love the blues brothers, but yeah, generally hate the rest, especially old ones that used to be on on a sunday afternoon.

'I'm going to wash that man right out of my hair' etc - aye right, go on then, bugger off love....