When I say I hate Broadway musicals, I am of course referring to 'My Fair Lady' and 'The King and I'--

But I could have been thinking of 'Kismet' or 'The Sound of Music' or 'State Fair' or, well, the rest of repulsive genre. But 'My Fair Lady' still probably tops the list of gawd-awfulness. What painfully unamusing silliness. What stupid music.

Of course, exceptions have to be made: for Sweeney Todd and Rocky Horror (the movie) and lots of wonderful songs by George Gershwin and Cole Porter; not to mention Kurt Weil. But they fuck-all and forever did it to us with Flower Drum Song.