I hate musicals.

[IronWing]

Gaston! Gaston!

 

[WT]

My wife's family forced me to watch 'Sound of Music' a few years back ... I have a clear disdain for anything that involves singing and dancing in a show (Cop Rock !! UGHHH) but I actually manged to make it through ... what ... all 4 hours of it unscathed. Julie Andrews can just flat out belt out a tune.

Recently, I watched 'De-Lovely', a life and times of Cole Porter movie featuring Kevin Kline and Ashley Judd, and found that to be an excellent flick, altho technically I could not call it a musical. Before the movie had even ended I had ordered an Ella Fitzgerald double disk set of Cole Porter songs - cannot wait to give that a listen.

 

[ViRGE]

Anybody who doesn't like The Producers is a harmonically deficient human being.

Now on the other hand I can understand disliking The Sound of Music. It can get a bit grating...

 

[SP33Demon]

Then you hate stories.

 

[BoberFett]

I dislike the stage in general. And movie musicals can be pretty awful. But there are a some I like. Moulin Rouge is excellent, and if you can consider it a musical O Brother Where Art Thou is highly entertaining. And I do like watching an old Sinatra/Crosby/Kelly/Astaire movie now and then like Anchors Aweigh or Guys and Dolls. There has to be something unique about a musical for me to be able to sit through it. I refuse to watch any musical which takes itself too seriously, and a lot of them just seem so stuffy and dull.