What is your favourite musical?
On stage or screen, London, Broadway, touring etc
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Into the Woods. I will not accept any other suggestions.
Les, you are wrong. The correct answer is clearly Hair!
:)
@Mr_M I adore Fiddler on the Roof!
The Wall (Pink Floyd)
…who let all of this rif-raff in to the room?
@Likeradar : I seriously hope you are being facetious. shudder
Phantom of the Opera! Love love love it
@Les… no. I lurve Hair. Sad but true.
Hair and Cats . . . . It’s a tossup.
Maybe not my all time favorite, but I saw Jersey Boys on Saturday. What an amazing show!!!!!!
I liked the We Will Rock You show, (featuring the music of Queen) even more. I was sad when they closed it.
Across the Universe, hands down.
My Fair Lady. My favorite line is “COME ON DOVER! MOVE YOUR BLOOMIN’ ARSE!”
And who can forget Professor Higgins calling Eliza a heartless guttersnipe? PRICELESS!
Singin’ In The Rain for film and Chicago or Sweeney Todd for stage.
Wicked definitely ranks high on my list. So does RENT and Across the Universe. As far as the classics go i’d say Phantom of the Opera.
@Les: <3
Into the Woods, it was the first one I was in.
A Chorus Line, it was the first I ever saw, I was I think seven or eight.
Cats, the second I ever saw.
The Phantom of the Opera, the third.
Wicked, for the whimsy.
Stomp, for the funnies.
Rocky Horror Show, because, duh.
Two by Two, Danny Kaye was a bona fide genius. He gets forgotten too often.
RENT, the first I ever saw on Broadway. Followed within a few days by Cabaret starring Molly Ringwald as Sally Bowles.
I could not choose between these, all Broadway is love for me. And there are so many, many, more.
@adreamofautumn ; I forgot about Wicked! One of the greatest shows ever!! LURVE!
Guys and Dolls.
I played Lt. Brannigan in high school.
I’m going to vote Starlight Express, because it’s about trains and all the performers wear roller skates. How many musicals sport that combo?
Are you trying to make me blush again?
Looks like you already are. ;)
I’m not a big musical buff, but on film I enjoy Grease, Westside Story and Chicago. I like the first half of Phantom, but the second half is boring. I did see Wicked, but I think I liked the staging more than the show or music.
It’s a tough choice, but my all-time favorite is Guys and Dolls (both the stage and movie versions). Songs for a New World is a close second, followed by (in no particular order) Into the Woods, Pippin, Godspell, Crazy for You, Avenue Q, Fiddler, Company, Once on this Island, and pretty much every other musical I’ve ever seen or worked on.
I’m sort of a musical fanatic – there are very few that I really don’t like – The Sound of Music and South Pacific are the only ones I can think of off the top of my head…
Chicago for sure! I’m also a fan of Avenue Q. I just LOVE musicals! They’re so great!
I’ve been in both Singin’ in the Rain and Annie at my high school.
@Judi We Will Rock You is awesome, I think Killer Queen would be my dream role!
@jmah I recently saw a STUNNING production of Evita. The woman playing her made Madonna look like an amateur!
@syz Avenue Q is next on my list to see!
@sdeutsch I love musicals too but I really disliked Grease, Saturday Night Fever and Singing in the Rain. To be honest they bored me to tears.
@Leanne1986 my advice…( before the mods come in to tell you the same thing) is to try and condense all those quips into one quip. You can still direct all the comments to the others in one quip. Not trying to pick on you, just didn’t know if you knew you could do that. :)
@adreamofautumn thanks for the advice. I was aware that you could do that but the reason why I don’t is because I usually get bored if someone writes too much in one big paragraph (small attention span) and so I like to break things up for other people so they can read what is relevant to them without having to go through what isn’t. However, if the mods here don’t like that then I will bear that in mind and I thank you for pointing it out to me.
The Music Man. Harold Hill is one of the coolest, slickest con men of all time.
Once On This Island is my absolute favorite, but I also like:
A Chorus Line
Jesus Christ Superstar (only because I was in a production of it)
Fiddler on the Roof
Cabaret
Gypsy
Sweeny Todd
The Secret Garden
Avenue Q
Spamalot
Kiss Me Kate
La Cage aux Folles
Damn Yankees
Tommy
Sweet Charity
High Society
42nd Street
Hair
Into the Woods
Chicago
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Annie Get Your Gun
Hairspray
West Side Story
The Music Man
(and I know I’m missing some…)
I am not a fan of:
Phantom of the Opera
Rent
Wicked
Annie
Mary Poppins
Cats
I’d have to say Phantom of the Opera.
It will have to be live, and in british.
Another great one to catch on stage is Paint Your Wagon. Forget the crappy film version. The only part of the movie that resembles the stage production is the opening scene.
I can’t believe I forgot Oklahoma.
Ah! How did I forget Jesus Christ Superstar?!
Based just on the plays that I have seen in London, I thought Billy Elliott was good, but the music was better in other Wicked. Hired Man was also really good, but the play was small, cheaper, and not as well produced; it was still very good though.
@adreamofautumn did you refer to phantom of the opera as a classic?! amazing.
i really like “the last five years” and “parade” by jason robert brown, “guys and dolls”, “singin’ in the rain” (film), “avenue q”, and most of sondheim’s work. my current favourite is “title of show”
i hear really good things about “spring awakening”... and will see it next week!
@seenmaker: Oh man, I forgot Company, Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and Assassins!
I also accidentally left out The Producers. Whoops!
From the first time that I saw Les Miserables, I knew that it was by far my favorite musical.
I recently saw The Phantom of the Opera at Her Majesty’s Theatre and I thought it was incredible! The music gave me goosebumps.
@LondonChatterBox If you enjoyed Phantom I recommend you see Love Never Dies which is Lloyd Webbers sequel to Phantom. It has closed in London now but it was recorded for DVD which is coming out in March. Here’s(Blu-ray%20DVD)%20Double%20Play-38316 the trailer!
Not sure what happened when I copied and pasted the link but it still works!
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