Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Unnecessarily Pretentious

Well, with musicals and operas I am prepared to brave any amount of darkness and unhummability. I love Sweeney Todd, Les Miserables, and Assassins. However, this struck me as just bad. The songs are unnecesarrily dark (at a party they all sound like they've bathed in the blood of children), the storyline hardly exists (the show looked like a stage version of the selections). The lyrics are just the same line or verse over and over, and the music is always the same melody, yet rising in pitch perpetually. The only character that is even close to well-developed is the priest. The only song that isn't completely inhuman sounding is "Live For The One I Love", but it doesn't match the rest of the score and seems as if they just had Jim Steinman graph a song of his on at the last minute. I loved the singing and acting and set, but the play itself is horrible. I would rather be strangled by my own intestines than watch this or listen to it.