Let’s gets real. Truth hurts!

Musicals written for the stage seldom adapt well for cinema. Hollywood ruins almost every musical it gets its hands on.

Idina Menzel is only good in the recording studio and generally disappoints live.

Ivo van Hove is a gimmicky commercialist director who thinks he's an avant-garde auteur.

She’s got a potty mouth too! 

Agree with this. I love their shows live but can't get through them on a screen and I'm not sure why.

To be fair CFA isn’t about the music. It’s the feeling, the story & the stagecraft of it all. The music is nice but by no means the be all and end all.

I can't stand Patti lu Pone as a singer. She totally ruins the Les Mis original London cast recording for me, and is the worst Fantine I've had the misfortune to hear. I cringe listening to her and try to avoid having to do so. Can't understand the acclaim she gets but I'm used to having unpopular opinions.

The ‘Truth Hurts’ thread title doesn’t extend to making personal attacks on performers. I’m not saying we’ve got to that point with CHF… yet but I can see where this is going. Keep it light please. Eye rolling comments about CHF’s online presence are probably more suited to the Performers and Creatives thread. Comments about her acting/singing ability are suited to the relevant show thread. But personal insults about any performer (such as “she is mean”) are not allowed as our rules clearly say. 
Thank you 

Most of the score for 'Matilda' is a bit of a bore for an adult to listen to.

Apologies to my fellow ladies, but the Narrator's songs in 'Joseph' somehow sit more comfortably in a man's vocal range.

I know! I first listened to a version with a female Narrator, and then later came across an album with Peter Reeves. It was honestly so much more enjoyable for me, though I'm not usually one to say "Give that role back to the men!".

It definitely does sit more comfortably in a man’s range, but I think it’s actually much more exciting to hear it belted by a female. Plus the show needs an exciting and dynamic female lead vocal to counterbalance all of the male vocal sections.

Jamaal Westman had the charisma of a net curtain in Hamilton, How he got the part and an Olivier Award is baffling.

Once Jon Robyns has exhausted every male role in Les Mis, perhaps he could try some of the female ones? Find a new show already.

Although it is the only notable song in ‘Matilda’, I could never work out a narrative reason for ‘When I Grow Up’ to exist in the show.

And on the subject of Tim Minchin, Groundhog Day took a brilliant movie and reduced it to a vulgar, charmless pile-up, again with only one decent song (Seeing You). Andy Karl had no warmth whatsoever which didn’t help. Presumably he was cast solely for the hubristic transfer to Broadway, but there were so many British performers who could have made the show infinitely better. The 20min long sequence sequence with the Karl on the revolve while another character contemplated suicide ( which may have also included the resuscitation of a tramp with frostbite) was one of the worst things I have ever seen in my 40yrs of theatre going.