Let’s gets real. Truth hurts!

Ha! My bad. I omitted the word 'longer'.

Dear Evan Hansen is a terrible show, with largely boring songs (1 or 2 excluded). It’s only been successful because of the brilliant performers playing Evan.

I think the queens from Six should’ve won the supporting actress Olivier over Rachel Tucker & Patti LuPone (even though they were both amazing).

Despite how good Hamilton is, In The Heights should be regarded as LMM’s best musical.

Most ALW shows are unimaginative and dull.

- As much as I really enjoyed Six, the live singing of the cast I saw was at times, really bad

- Company was massively overrated

- Adrienne Warren was robbed the Olivier award

- Ashley Roberts was a really endearing Dawn

- No, certain West End performers shouldn’t be cast in EVERYTHING just because theatre snobs say so

- Carrie Hope Fletcher is unfairly maligned by some and is super talented and doesn’t get enough credit for it

Hamilton is a very mediocre show, a mishmash of styles and moments and musical cliche's. Headflips on last chords, characters coming out of nowhere singing 1 song, incoherent songs and scenes. Very uninspiring songs (some songs are all on 1 note). It's like a parody. A show like RENT is 100 times better in that regard.

Ramin Karimloo can't sing. He moos, lows and wails in straight hysterical tones above the actual note. He butchers songs to the point where not 1 note is on key and he creates completely new melodies. Totally unacceptable.

John Owen Jones is underrated. His is a master of the craft with a golden voice and ability to act through sung notes. Everything he does is mesmerizing and touches me. The essence of this art.

The show Dear Evan Hansen should not be allowed. It gives off the message that using the victim role to get what you want is acceptable which is a terrible message for young people.

I think that casting deliberately on race is racist and so is deliberately putting poc in every project of at least 2. We should start thinking in human. This is not the right way to do that.

Musicalfilms could be the best thing in the world in the right hands. Usually, they become disasters.

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YASSS!

Its not even a musical. I don’t think it should be classed as one. There’s no story and no acting. 

Absolutely.
I mean, I do think the idea is pretty cool.

However, the execution (no pun intended) is just appalling and redefines the meaning of cringey pop trash.

yes can we not have the casting/race discussion again on this thread please. Dave25 most of us know your views on this, you’ve repeated them ad infinitum in numerous threads in the past and you already know that most people here entirely disagree with you. 
If you really must have the discussion again start a dedicated thread but be aware that the mods will be all over it and as soon as it descends into arguing and name calling, which is 99% certain, it will be closed. 

I much preferred Six at the Edinburgh Fringe and on it’s 1st UK Tour. When I eventually got to see it in the West End and on it’s 2nd UK Tour some of the magic of the previous production had been lost.

Everybody’s Talking About Jamie is not a very good show, mainly due to the spectacularly unmemorable songs

Phantom is still the most visually impressive show on the West End and generally hasn’t aged poorly at all

If you want another nap, try Sound of Music.

I really like Chess too. Personally I think things go a bit awry book-wise in Act 2; the show tries too hard to make it seem as though too many characters are playing an 'intricate game', when the key plot points are actually pretty straightforward. It makes no sense for the USSR to enlist Freddie to convince Anatoly to do anything, he would have no pull with Anatoly. But this is getting into separate thread territory I guess.


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'Next to Normal' is nothing special, and its ending does not work.