Your Favorite Musicals

[donjuan]

Ok, Let's see what musicals people like nowadays.  You can select up to 3 votes, and you can change your votes.  I havent listed too many musicals, but if you have favorites I haven't included, post them and I will add the options.  You can then change your votes and vote for your favorites that werent there originally.  Savvy?

Why am I doing this?  Well, I like musicals, but I don't know too many, or which ones are good.. so help me out here!  Please list more that I can add.

btw, my favorites are Phantom of the Opera, Chicago, and Moulin Rouge. ....until you suggest new ones for me to see...   then i guess well see... 

Thanx,
donjuan

[chopiabin]

What about - - - -  tick..tick..BOOM, Company, Into the Woods, Aida, Assassins, Sunday in the Park with George, Pippin, etc.?

[donjuan]

What about - - - -  tick..tick..BOOM, Company, Into the Woods, Aida, Assassins, Sunday in the Park with George, Pippin, etc.?

thanks!
Ummm.. I cant seem to find anything on msn with any musical called Assassins, or tick..tick..BOOM, but Ill put them up anyway... Ill have to look into those

[thalbergmad]

My favourite is not on there.

7 brides for 7 brothers.

[pianistimo]

yeah.  mine's not on here either.  'kismet' with borodin's music.  singing bellydancers.  and, what's the one that stars roy rogers?  i think that one is my favorite.

ps thalbergmad, i like that one, too.  i've watched it over and over.  'oklahoma' isn't bad either.  tend to favor the 'oldies.'

[chopiabin]

tick..tick..Boom is a musical by the same guy who did RENT, Jonathan Larson. Assassins is by Stephen Sondheim.

Also check out : The Last Five Years, Sweeney Todd, Batboy, Parade, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, ummmm....I know there are more I can't think of.

[brewtality]

Definitely the Sound of Music.

[nolan]

Wicked! (Stephen Schwartz)
The Last Five Years -or- Songs for a New World (Jason Robert Brown)
RENT -or- Tick...tick...BOOM! (Jonathan Larson)

[allthumbs]

Rogers and Hammerstein's 'Sound of Music', Gilbert and Sullivan's 'Pirates of Penzance' are two that immediately come to mind. Good memories...

I played bass trombone in our high school's senior pit orchestra for those musicals.

For the other two years, we did Rogers and Hammerstein's 'Oklahoma' and Gilbert and Sullivan's 'HMS Pinafore'

We had a 120 piece 'audition only' full orchestra with a 500 seat auditorium and pit to perform in. That was in the late 1960's.

The best memory of high school was the music program that gave me the opportunity to experience those performances.

Sadly, in Canada at least, those opportunties seem to be lost.....

Where are the financial resources to promote these wonderful opportunities for high school students to present these awesome works to the public?


Cheers

allthumbs

[quantum]

Where's Mamma Mia!?  Please add to list.

Anyways:
Jesus Christ Superstar
Sound of Music
Phantom
Little Shop of Horrors

[arensky]

Hedwig and the Angry Inch

This was very good, a good balance of humour and real dark stuff.

My favorite musicals are my own! Apart from my own musicals (there are 2) my favorite was already on the list..."How to Suceed in Business Without Really Trying" .  The other one I picked was "Company" . Where's "West Side Story"? Objectively it might be the best ever written...LOL the movie was on the othe night, and I could do the entire dialouge off their cues...I have participated in over 60 performances of this piece, as Musical Director, Assistant Musical Director/Rehearsal Pianist/Pit Pianist and Lieutenant  Schrank (twice; he is hardly ever onstage when there is music, except for the very end and a scene change, both in Act II. In both of these instances the actors playing Bernardo and Riff, who are killed at the end of Act I, were talented pianists who could handl the piano parts (it's hard stuff, more like Bartok than your typical Broadway "boom-chik" spewage...).

[donjuan]

Where's "West Side Story"? Objectively it might be the best ever written...LOL the movie was on the othe night, and I could do the entire dialouge off their cues...I have participated in over 60 performances of this piece, as Musical Director, Assistant Musical Director/Rehearsal Pianist/Pit Pianist and Lieutenant  Schrank (twice; he is hardly ever onstage when there is music, except for the very end and a scene change, both in Act II. In both of these instances the actors playing Bernardo and Riff, who are killed at the end of Act I, were talented pianists who could handl the piano parts (it's hard stuff, more like Bartok than your typical Broadway "boom-chik" spewage...).

Yes! Of course!  How could I forget?  Well, thank you, it's on there now.

Wow...sure wish I had some experience on stage like that!

[sharon_f]

Don't forget Carousel, Brigadoon, Fantastiks, A Little Night Music, South Pacific and Passion.

[arensky]

Hey! I forgot to vote for "Company" ! 

[Jacey1973]

My favourite is West Side Story (wasn't Bernstein a fantastic composer?), secondly The Sound of Music - i adore singing along to it!

I'm not a huge fan of Lloyd Webber, his musicals are very samey - i think perhaps his earler ones (e.g Jesus Christ Superstar) are better musically. Cats and Joseph are soooo boring, i can't think of going to see anything worse.

[donjuan]

I'm not a huge fan of Lloyd Webber, his musicals are very samey - i think perhaps his earler ones (e.g Jesus Christ Superstar) are better musically. Cats and Joseph are soooo boring, i can't think of going to see anything worse.

true true..

Webber has good ideas, but he doesnt have too many of them.  As a result, he writes one or two decent tunes and flogs them to death for the whole musical.  (thinking of phantom of the opera, btw)

[Stolzing]

The two I probably like the most are two you don't have up there:  Singing in the Rain & Wizard of Oz.

[princessdecadence]

Can't believe it's only got one vote so far - Singing In The Rain - love the movie starring Gene Kelly as well.

[abe]

Am I blind, or did you leave out Les Miserables?

Last I heard, that was the most performed and most popular musical in the world (or was it Cats? can't remember).

[gorbee natcase]

Am I blind, or did you leave out Les Miserables?

Last I heard, that was the most performed and most popular musical in the world (or was it Cats? can't remember).

No you are not blind and it is brilliant I have seen it twice

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[donjuan]

Am I blind, or did you leave out Les Miserables?

me so dumb... yah now its on there

[Tash]

42nd street!! where is it donjuan?!! funny how my fave musicals are the ones we've done at school- love the sound of music and the wizard of oz SO the best!!

[donjuan]

42nd street!!

never saw it... Heard it was really good though!
By the way, I thought up some more:

Grease

Cry Baby (I hate this movie, but if you like that 1950's nostalgia stuff.. or if you girls love drooling over Johnny Depp...)

High Society (for you Grace Kelly fans)