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I like the music just fine, not the movies.  

There are people who don't like college football also.

I like the music just fine, not the movies. 

There are people who don't like college football also.

not quite the same thing

if you dont like college football it doesnt matter if you see it in person or on TV

what you are saying (I think) is that you liked the stage version but when they made a movie from it all of a sudden you didnt like it and while I agree being at the actual play brings something you cant get from just watching a movie it still is surprising that you dont enjoy any musical made into a movie

what you are saying (I think) is that you liked the stage version but when they made a movie from it all of a sudden you didnt like it and while I agree being at the actual play brings something you cant get from just watching a movie it still is surprising that you dont enjoy any musical made into a movie

I don't like any movies that are musicals.  I can abide a few.  I wouldn't like a stage production of them either.  I never have liked some "play" where folks start singing for no apparent reason.  At least in SOM it was sort of part of the story.

I don't think I've ever seen SOM all the way through.  I played the music on the piano back in the day.

I just cant like any taco that has a picture of it posted on the internet

This is one benefit Ive got on you two

Both my wife and I are UT grads

so we are either happy or sad together

My wife and I are both A&M grads.  She could care less about the football team.  I could tell her we won the national championship and she would shrug her shoulders.  

I've only seen about the first hour of Hamilton.  I think it's ~ 3 hrs or so?  I didn't so much intentionally stop watching as much as it was late and I fell asleep, and then we failed to ever get back to it.  

I don't often like watching musicals, but I often enjoy them well enough in person.  I found that in watching 1/3 Hamilton on Disney, or whatever it was, I liked the music pretty well.  I found the lyrics clever and the music mostly enjoyable.  Either I didn't get far enough or I wasn't paying attention....I don't remember being turned off by socio-political commentary.  As a (very) amateur historian, I can tell you that the Hamilton musical is not at all accurate....in fact the real Alexander Hamilton was a terrible singer 

One of my nieces is a theater geek and she loves it.  She's also super-woke.  I probably always thought I'd consider it suspect if I really dug into it based on that alone.  

I like the original Sound Of Music okay on film.  And I once watched Tyler Perry's Madea goes to jail--a video recording of a stage play--and I recall really liking it.  A few years later I saw the movie and I didn't like it at all.  To be fair, there were marked differences, and not just the fact that the stage play is a musical and the movie is not.  The movie was just kinda...there.  In the stage play, Perry stopped to get almost anti-woke with the audience a few times, I probably liked that.  And I liked the live band that was playing the music the stage actors sang to.  

I've only seen about the first hour of Hamilton.  I think it's ~ 3 hrs or so?  I didn't so much intentionally stop watching as much as it was late and I fell asleep, and then we failed to ever get back to it. 

I don't often like watching musicals, but I often enjoy them well enough in person.  I found that in watching 1/3 Hamilton on Disney, or whatever it was, I liked the music pretty well.  I found the lyrics clever and the music mostly enjoyable.  Either I didn't get far enough or I wasn't paying attention....I don't remember being turned off by socio-political commentary.  As a (very) amateur historian, I can tell you that the Hamilton musical is not at all accurate....in fact the real Alexander Hamilton was a terrible singer

One of my nieces is a theater geek and she loves it.  She's also super-woke.  I probably always thought I'd consider it suspect if I really dug into it based on that alone. 

I like the original Sound Of Music okay on film.  And I once watched Tyler Perry's Madea goes to jail--a video recording of a stage play--and I recall really liking it.  A few years later I saw the movie and I didn't like it at all.  To be fair, there were marked differences, and not just the fact that the stage play is a musical and the movie is not.  The movie was just kinda...there.  In the stage play, Perry stopped to get almost anti-woke with the audience a few times, I probably liked that.  And I liked the live band that was playing the music the stage actors sang to. 

Lin Manuel Miranda cast himself as Hamilton. He's actually the weakest part of the whole ensemble! =P

I likewise don't usually dig musicals. I'm not much of a singer (although I'm hoping to land a part in "Ring of Fire" this week), and enjoy letting my music breathe to the point where I don't care to tie it to action onstage.

Theater productions have several lives. They obviously hit the "big time" stages first. Once they get past whatever contract is there, they get released to tour and travel. Eventually, they get released to the local producers. I'm bracing myself for every high school wanting to try it on.

"Tommy" is a self indulgent Townshend vanity project. It's got some fantastically awesome hits in it! No doubt! The story and acting, though, is unwatchable (well, there's Ann Margaret, so not unwatchable).