What are your theatrical guilty pleasures?

[Wickedlover56]

Posted: 7/12/14 at 9:09pm

What shows (plays and musicals) are your guilty pleasures? Mine are:
Legally Blonde
Shrek
Thoroughly Modern Millie
Xanadu
Sister Act
Kinky Boots
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Wonderland
Bonnie and Clyde
9 to 5

Updated On: 7/12/14 at 09:09 PM

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 7/12/14 at 9:11pm

Wildhorn shows.

[little_sally]

Posted: 7/12/14 at 9:34pm

Taboo
All Shook Up
Rocky
A Tale of Two Cities

[HighFlyingAdored97]

Posted: 7/12/14 at 9:45pm

I'm probably the only person who enjoyed Breakfast at Tiffany's last year.
I also LOVE Mary Poppins.

[brdway411]

Posted: 7/12/14 at 9:52pm

Hairspray
Bring It On


Updated On: 7/13/14 at 09:52 PM

[Sally Durant Plummer]

Posted: 7/12/14 at 10:13pm

The original Carrie - I have more "recordings" of it than I care to admit.

[Mr. Nowack]

Posted: 7/12/14 at 10:14pm

MAMMA MIA for sure.

[Scarlet Leigh]

Posted: 7/12/14 at 10:21pm

The Wedding Singer
Dance of the Vampires
Anything and everything by Wildhorn

I just can't look away from them but lord do I know how bad they all are. Love them.

[chewy5000]

Posted: 7/12/14 at 10:23pm

Starlight Express

[JayG 2]

Posted: 7/12/14 at 10:24pm

Rockabye Hamlet
King of Hearts
Henry Sweet Henry

[Hackasaurus_Rex]

Posted: 7/12/14 at 10:29pm

This says everything I feel about "guilty pleasures."

http://www.esquire.com/features/chuck-klostermans-america/ESQ1104-NOV_AMERICA
Updated On: 7/12/14 at 10:29 PM

[mjohnson2]

Posted: 7/12/14 at 10:59pm

SISTER ACT
BRING IT ON (not really that guilty, but others think I should be)
CURTAINS

[MarkBearSF]

Posted: 7/12/14 at 11:16pm

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Catch Me if You Can

[Charley Kringas Inc]

Posted: 7/13/14 at 12:11am

Definitely Carrie, though I don't know if such a good score can be considered a guilty pleasure. I guess the guilty part is that I (belatedly) love the original production. I mean, it just looked so darn COOL, the whole show was like minimalist pop art giallo.

Also, the new Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is pretty terrible, but I love the Augustus Gloop songs and I don't know how ashamed I feel about that. They're fun, idk.

[JBroadway]

Posted: 7/13/14 at 2:41am

One of my biggest is the Lord of the Rings musical. I haven't seen it, and I've heard the book was a disaster. But I'll be damned if that score isn't breathtaking.

I would also put Annie and Bring it On in there, as well as Soul Doctor (I know, I know. I'm the only one)

[ajh]

Posted: 7/13/14 at 5:17am

I would definitely say Bring It On. I loved every minute of it and even play the CD a lot. Mainly when my flatmate is out.

[deltatee]

Posted: 7/13/14 at 9:59am

Legally Blonde and Mamma Mia

[MVintheheartland]

Posted: 7/13/14 at 10:42am

Rock of Ages. (not the movie)

[KC91WFU]

Posted: 7/13/14 at 10:46am

Lysistrata Jones
Big Fish
Big River

[macnyc]

Posted: 7/13/14 at 10:47am

Heathers the Musical

[Polka Dot2]

Posted: 7/13/14 at 12:22pm

Jekyll and Hyde
Legally Blonde (though there are a few things I have issues with)
Heathers

I was explaining to someone the other day why I consider Heathers to be a guilty pleasure. My friend asked me if it's bad. I said, "No it's really good! Very well done. But I don't feel like it is a life-changing, influential musical." I will admit though, that I've been listening to the album non-stop for the last week :)

Posted: 7/13/14 at 12:50pm

Catch Me If You Can
Shrek
Shenendoah
On the 20th Century

[Jamie Pierce]

Posted: 7/13/14 at 1:42pm

The recent ON A CLEAR DAY and PROMISES, PROMISES revivals

[songanddanceman2]

Posted: 7/13/14 at 2:14pm

I would not really call some of these guilty pleasures, Legally Blonde won the Olivier Award for Best Musical, Heathers is great, Bonnie and Clyde is a pretty decent show etc

Guilty pleasures would be bad shows you love like Good Vibrations or Dracula

[broadwayfan1995]

Posted: 7/13/14 at 2:18pm

Wicked and Les Miserables