Most offensive Broadway Musicals?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:i am offended not by any specific show, but more generally by all of the singing and dancing going on. It feels like every time something interesting is about to happen, the whole cast breaks into a song and dance.

Why can’t the actors just speak calmly and clearly to express their feelings, preferably from a seated or otherwise fixed position? It would also take a lot less time, the show could be cut down to 20 min, no need for an intermission.

Also the costumes are distracting, couldn’t they just ask the actors to wear their street clothes?

Please tell me you've seen Something Rotten and if you haven't you absolutely must!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Broadway Musicals seem so wholesome.

The only people who think this aren't very familiar with musicals.

Also, the answer is Carousel. Why do we keep reviving this awful show?

Np- because it has some of the best music ever written for the stage.

[Anonymous]

Avenue Q is probably the most offensive to me. I know that some people iike their treatment of bigotry, but I find it offensive as it seems to try to make it acceptable to be bigoted.

But there are many outdated period pieces that are pretty offensive because they are anachronistic and offense base on modern standards. Shows like Damn Yankees, Pajama Game, Flower Drum Song are out of touch (although FDS 2002 revival is better, it is still pretty racially offensive).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:i am offended not by any specific show, but more generally by all of the singing and dancing going on. It feels like every time something interesting is about to happen, the whole cast breaks into a song and dance.

Why can’t the actors just speak calmly and clearly to express their feelings, preferably from a seated or otherwise fixed position? It would also take a lot less time, the show could be cut down to 20 min, no need for an intermission.

Also the costumes are distracting, couldn’t they just ask the actors to wear their street clothes?

+1,000,000

[Anonymous]

Cats is offensively bad. The other musicals are equally as offensive as books etc. from their eras.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I've been a season subscriber for about 20 years. BOM is the only one I've ever been totally offended by.

Book of Mormon is one of my favorite musicals. The lyrics are clever, musical composition interesting, and characterization hysterical.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Broadway Musicals seem so wholesome.

The only people who think this aren't very familiar with musicals.

Also, the answer is Carousel. Why do we keep reviving this awful show?

Np- because it has some of the best music ever written for the stage.

Then, maybe just a show featuring the music and leaving off the acting which is just okay.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Producers. Nothing funny about Hitler.

Tell that to Chaplin.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Miss Saigon was pretty damned offensive

Why? It's historically fairly accurate and is basically the same story as Madame Butterfly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Producers. Nothing funny about Hitler.

The Producers itself is not itself offensive. It's the play within the play of Springtime for Hitler that's offensive by design. The plot of The Producers hinges on the main characters producing a show that's so offensive it will be a surefire flop.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Broadway Musicals seem so wholesome.

The only people who think this aren't very familiar with musicals.

Also, the answer is Carousel. Why do we keep reviving this awful show?

Np- because it has some of the best music ever written for the stage.

Then, maybe just a show featuring the music and leaving off the acting which is just okay.

I have never seen a production of this show without ugly-crying at the end, even local theater. It was the first movie I ever cried at as a child. A show can have awful characters while itself being a work of art.

[Anonymous]

Book of Mormon is hilarious. Now, for some reason Sweeney Todd really creeped me out and I couldn't get into it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I've been a season subscriber for about 20 years. BOM is the only one I've ever been totally offended by.

Same.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Avenue Q is probably the most offensive to me. I know that some people iike their treatment of bigotry, but I find it offensive as it seems to try to make it acceptable to be bigoted.

But there are many outdated period pieces that are pretty offensive because they are anachronistic and offense base on modern standards. Shows like Damn Yankees, Pajama Game, Flower Drum Song are out of touch (although FDS 2002 revival is better, it is still pretty racially offensive).

Really? I'm one who really hates Book of Morman, but thought Avenue Q was brilliant.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Producers. Nothing funny about Hitler.

The Producers itself is not itself offensive. It's the play within the play of Springtime for Hitler that's offensive by design. The plot of The Producers hinges on the main characters producing a show that's so offensive it will be a surefire flop.

+1 Thank you for pointing this out to the rather benighted PP to whom you're responding.

Some people just do not get satire, or the brilliant, biting satire that is "Springtime for Hitler." Mel Brooks said, when rabbis wrote to him with concerns about a satirical take on Hitler: "I said: Listen, get on a soapbox with Hitler, you're gonna lose — he was a great orator. But if you can make fun of him, if you can have people laugh at him, you win."