Share your unpopular opinions here!

Of course they do   I wish someone would tackle a big revival of Starmania - it was the first French "spectacle" really but has become quite forgotten over Notre Dame de Paris and those of that period. "S.O.S. d'un terrien en detresse" is still one of my all-time favorites.  Le Petit Prince was lovely, too.

I think this one may be quite a popular opinion! I just don't get it either.

I think the word may be "cathartic"!

YES! Yes yes yes yes yes.

(Yes)

Audiences are responsible for more negative feelings in a theatre than all the actors/writers/directors than I've seen put together.

Negative reviews are worthless in isolation, positive reviews in isolation can, however, be very useful.

Jerry Herman never wrote a good musical theatre score, only good songs that make for poor drama.

George Bernard Shaw never wrote a good play, not even Pygmalion or Saint Joan.

European theatre is years ahead of British theatre, we're only just catching up (and that gap may soon stop closing).

Their merits are squashed by gross windbaggery.

Cathartic... Is that like a laxative?

Cabaret (given the right production) is a fantastic stage show - and the film is simply awful. It rips the heart out of the show and stomps on it.

They should close Wicked ASAP

And replace it, ASAP with Michael Jackson's Thriller.

Ooooh I love this thread! Saying what you think with no comeback!

I don't like Phantom. I found it very boring, quite tired and bland. I really cannot believe people sit through this tens of times.

I've seen a performance given by the genie in Aladdin in the US, James Monroe Iglehart, I found him lacking energy and flash and I was very unimpressed with how he ran out of breath at the end. I know he is larger, to me it doesn't matter, whatever size you are, you have to be up to the job of singing and dancing. 

The soundtrack to Hamilton does nothing for me, neither does the subject matter. I don't understand the hype.

Harry Potter, well, I think it's just another way to milk that cash cow. I'm a fan of the books, but everything else is too much for me and the films are awful. To further milk that cow they have split it into two separate days, so the fans have to pay twice for the privileged. I sometimes feel quite sorry for die-hard Potter fans who feel they have to lap up every single morsel. To me they are being taken for a bit of a ride.
A pet peeve of mine with this is people not giving the actual credit to the people who actually wrote the play, Jack Thorne and John Tiffany. This is their work with some input from JK Rowing. She didn't write it at all, but her name is put to it. She gave a freedom to the actual writers to do what they wanted within her world. They seem to have been pushed aside by most fans.

I greatly respect your opinions on this forum, mallardo, and enjoy reading your posts... With this in mind, I feel I have perhaps missed something in Wicked. Something I should be appreciating, but didn't get. (I saw it soon after it opened in London, after reading all the hype. I remember it was sparkly. There was no Defying Gravity moment for me, alas, that night (something to do with the cherry picker???) and so it all felt a bit flat. Literally. Apart from that I was hoping to fall in love with it. I even bought the book, but didn't enjoy that either. (I have never been tempted to return for fear I should feel like everyone else's grandfather in the audience. I think you know what I'm getting at. I'm afraid this kind of audience leave me cold.)

So... I set you a challenge: educate me and convert me!