HATE: Wildcard.....Musicals

I cannot stand musicals, you name it, I hate it. Cats: hate, Rent: hate, West Side Story: hate, South Pacific: hate, Grease: hate, Guys and Dolls: hate, Les Mis: hate, [Insert any other musical title]: hate.

In fact there are maybe two I don't hate, but I cannot say with certainty because I have not seem them: Monty Python's Holy Grail and Mel Brooks' The Producers. Mainly because they are so funny and were originally movies it would take an idiot to wreck them. But believe Broadway could find a away and easily.

See my irrational hatred for musicals stems from my minute ability to act. In high school I was in several plays (lead roles), voted best actor out of 2,000 people, and even received a $15,000 scholarship to act at the college I first attended. So sure I wasn't much of an actor but kind of knew what was going on. That coupled with my love for the movies allows me to think (even if it isn't true) that I can tell what is good acting (Gwyneth Paltrow) and what is bad acting (Ben Affleck).

So this brings me back to musicals--THEY ARE FILLED WITH BAD ACTORS. Usually what happens is the singing voice is picked over their ability to act. Thus causing the musical to be complete crap because now you have singers trying to act. This upsets beyond nothing else. How can you have something on stage where there is a story being told, and have no actors on that stage? It is ridiculous. I singled out The Producers and Monty Python because in their original casting they actually had actors rather than singers playing the parts. Sure the singing may not be the greatest but what detracts more from the story a person who you can't follow or believe because their acting is so bad, or someone who might be off pitch or key occasionally? I thought so.

I think there should be a boycott on any musical or play putting singing voice above acting ability when casting. That being said in one of my insomnia filled nights I looked up an old classmate from high school who I haven't heard from ever. He is apparently pretty big in the Dallas musical/opera scene. I would go to his musical, but that doesn't mean I wouldn't HATE it.