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I agree about Lend Me A Tenor. I loved that show. Sadly not many other people did.

I wouldn't shed a single tear if either (or both) closed for good. It really baffles me why Les Mis is still so popular, especially amongst young audiences.

Haven't seen Viva Forever, but I thoroughly enjoyed I Can't Sing for what it was. Yes, it had its flaws, but IMO, it deserved a much longer run.

I can't bare the sight of pretentious men bobbing up and down to the finale.  Make me angry every year.

Apart from that, I enjoy the last night.

Loved "Notre Dame De Paris". Hate "Into the Heights" so absolutely no interest in "Hamilton".

Sondheim is hit and miss for me. I do appreciate his clever lyrics in some shows, but sometimes he gets too pretentious for his own good. As for Into The Woods, the first act is good enough but the second drags on forever. Though the only show of his I genuinely loathed was Company simply because its message - you can't be single, you MUST find a woman, only coupledom brings happiness - feels incredibly dated. In fact, I feel it was already dated in the 70s when the show was first conceived but today it's simply unbearable.

Other unpopular opinions? I've voiced mine before - I can't stand the racist sexist nonsense that is Miss Saigon and while I wouldn't go as far as to say I couldn't be friends with anyone who likes the show, I do admittedly struggle to accept people's uncritical love for it.

Also: I love the French "spectacles" for what they are - a completely different and often somewhat baffling form of musical theatre with nonetheless great songs, amazing choreography and often fabulous sets. Robin des Bois blew me away and I can't wait for the Notre Dame de Paris-Revival in Paris this autumn.

Anita: I didn't like "In the Heights" either and found it rather insipid and bland, but Hamilton is a wholly different kettle of fish.

What makes Stephen Sondheim so very special to me is that his musicals are basically theatre. It seems to me that many musicals are more opera-rooted than actually dramatic. Operas tend to touch emotion via music and singing: beautiful voices, and grandiloquent songs. Theatre does it through words, words that capture human dilemma, and that's how its dramatic tension comes about.

Even in a supposedly fairy tale setting, like Into the Woods, Sondheim’s songs explore the duality and darkness of the human soul: it's a story about desire, wishes, and ambitions, and how we sell ourselves and put our beliefs aside to reach them, and how we cope with our failings when we realise we have been less than we feel we ought to have been. And how we have regrets, and make up excuses for ourselves. It's all very human, and Sondheim express all that with uncommon verbal dexterity and, in my view, great musical pathos.

His songs powerfully emphasise the drama at play, the inventive lyrics meaningfully reveal much about the characters' motivations and internal working. Personally, I find the music glorious (I'm Still Here, Losing My Mind, Being Alive, Good Thing Going). What really amazes me, though, it’s the absolutely exquisite amalgamation of music and lyrics. How these two elements wonderful feed and help each other to create the perfect songs that so admirably and perfectly serve the narrative. Take a song about the anger and spitefulness resulting from years of an unhappy relationship, like Could I Leave You in “Follies”, and feel how the psychologically perceptive lyrics suit the music, and beautifully bitter music suit the lyrics, and how both wonderfully suit the story being told, explaining its acerbic characters and the actions they take.

In my view, if there is one body of work created in the 20th/21st century that I am sure will be considered a classic in the future, it is Sondheim’s artistic output.

I'm with anita on Into the Heights. I do not want to hear anything more about Hamilton. (Apologies, Hamilton Addict!)

I loathed Pacific Overtures at ENO years ago. I do not want to hear of one more production of Sweeney Todd or Into the Woods for some time yet. (Apologies, Stephen Sondheim.)

I agree that Les Mis and Phantom should close for a bit. Come back in a couple of years time and we'll throw a party... (I can't remember which Mod Michael said that, the The one or the other one...)

Harry Potter, piss off to Warner Bros studios and don't take up space in a Lovely West End Theatre.

(I LOVE your avatar missbabs. I tried to have one of our Vicky but the file was TOO BIG! )

I'm with you on this.  When our local theatre release their new season programme, there is always a slight relief when there isn't much I want to see. 

My unpopular opinion - I really didn't like Kevin Spacey's Richard III.

(But then remembering the number of people who walked out the night I went, maybe I'm not alone)

I thought the James plays were terrible.