Favorite musicals

PopTodd · **Posted:** Tue Sep 26, 2006 11:27 am

Yeah, it seems like kinda a faggy topic, but there are some pretty good musicals out there.

Fiddler On the Roof comes to mind. Great music. Excellent story that isn't your typical smiley-face song-and-dance, but still has plenty of moments that make you smile.

Just saw this recently and it pretty much blew me away.

Z · **Joined:** Sat Oct 23, 2004 1:38 pm **Posts:** 7979

the king & i. of course, i never saw this onstage and can only go by the soundtrack and the yul brynner/deborah kerr movie, but it's pretty much my favorite musical. yul owns that role, as he should after playing it for so long.

alongwaltz. · **Posted:** Tue Sep 26, 2006 11:42 am

I haven't seen Fiddler since grade eight music class but I enjoyed it.

I like:
Sound Of Music
Dancer In The Dark
Hedwig And The Angry Inch
Cannibal! The Musical
Mary Poppins

and any of the Disney animated films

Sketch · **Posted:** Tue Sep 26, 2006 11:45 am

Jerry Springer: The Opera
Les Miserables
Avenue Q (yet to see it)
Guys & Dolls
Chicago (stage > movie)
Phantom of the Opera

HaqDiesel · **Posted:** Tue Sep 26, 2006 11:47 am

Apart from Hedwig and Avenue Q, they all pretty much make me nauseous.

red · **Joined:** Fri Jun 17, 2005 5:34 am **Posts:** 5009

HaqDiesel Wrote:

they all pretty much make me nauseous.

Yes.

I didn't hate Chicago (the movie, at least) and I don't hate Guys and Dolls, but I can only take those in small doses.

Musicals, theatre and improv are all lost on me.

jewels santana · **Joined:** Thu Nov 04, 2004 2:36 pm **Posts:** 10198

South Park - bigger louder & uncut

Hegel · **Posted:** Tue Sep 26, 2006 12:34 pm

Les Miserables is pretty damn good. Other than that, nothing has really ever stood out to me.

Of all the renditions of and new forms of Les Miserables, the musical has always been the best next to the book. The movies have been horrific.

andyfest · **Posted:** Tue Sep 26, 2006 12:56 pm

I find that musicals generally have a good story that's ruined by waaaaaaaaay too much singing. If they were just plays, I'd love them.

Prince of Darkness · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 11:41 am **Posts:** 11048

All of you reprobates would love Sweeney Todd: the Demon Barber of Fleet Street, and you would probably dig Assassins too. C'mon, Stephen Sondheim is even the co-president of the Depeche Mode Fan Club. Of course his musicals are the indie rock equivalent of theater.

Oh, and you'd probably dig Into the Woods. 1st act takes a bunch of fairytales and the 2nd act is what happens after happily ever after, and only 4 characters survive. Everyone else is pretty much brutally killed.

RIYL: TVOTR, Televison, West Side Story, Can, Orange Juice, The Beatles, and Talking Heads.

Cotton · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 6:12 pm **Posts:** 17155

definitely have to be in the mood for them, but when I am there are some fucking great ones.

I guess that Gilbert & Sullivan are technically considered Operas, but I still consider almost all of their work to be nothing short of genius.
Red Zone Cuba: The Musical
Jesus Christ Superstar
The Music Man

Prince of Darkness Wrote:

All of you reprobates would love Sweeney Todd: the Demon Barber of Fleet Street, and you would probably dig Assassins too.

agreed.

thisotherkingdom · **Posted:** Tue Sep 26, 2006 1:20 pm

I like Into the Woods, RENT and Guys & Dolls.

Senator LooGAR · **Posted:** Tue Sep 26, 2006 1:26 pm

Well, being that when I was a young kid, my older sister pretty much shaped our TV watching, I still have Sound of Music and West Side Story memorized.

Charli · **Posted:** Tue Sep 26, 2006 1:32 pm

Cabaret is my absolute favorite.

Then of course Chicago(hated the movie version, saw it on Broadway and loved it).

West Side Story
Gypsy
Sound of Music
Grease
Phantom of the Opera

pollysix · **Joined:** Tue Oct 26, 2004 2:56 am **Posts:** 5174

Not much of a fan, although the idea does seem to be growing on me...

"High Society", mainly because it's all written by my patron saint Cole Porter.

I guess there's parts of Sound of Music that I like.

Dancer in the Dark is completely amazing, obviously.

Cotton · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 6:12 pm **Posts:** 17155

question: is Dancer in the Dark technically a musical?

rogneeb · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:07 pm **Posts:** 12618

when i was a kid i liked THe Music Man. now - pretty much nothing...maybe Hedwig.

mcaputo · **Posted:** Tue Sep 26, 2006 2:24 pm

the redworm Wrote:

question: is Dancer in the Dark technically a musical?

Yes or no it packs a f**king wallop.

The Mayor of Simpleton · **Posted:** Tue Sep 26, 2006 2:40 pm

Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory - I can't believe no one mentioned this yet.

The Producers - really had no hope for this but saw it when it came to Tempe and thought it was hilarious. Haven't seen the movie, however.

Aside from that, can't stand the genre.

Dalen · **Posted:** Tue Sep 26, 2006 2:46 pm

Sketch · **Posted:** Tue Sep 26, 2006 2:47 pm

The Mayor of Simpleton Wrote:

Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory - I can't believe no one mentioned this yet.

The Producers - really had no hope for this but saw it when it came to Tempe and thought it was hilarious. Haven't seen the movie, however.

Two great calls.

fuse · **Posted:** Tue Sep 26, 2006 2:57 pm

I can dig the songcraft of say a Rodgers and Hammerstein musical and a lot of the stuff from that era. But I prefer not to actually watch it.

And for me "rock" and "musical" should never be in the same sentence. Not good for either.

puma · **Posted:** Tue Sep 26, 2006 2:59 pm

the only one i've ever seen live was les mis... and i enjoyed that.

but my #1 pick would be hedwig.

shmoo · **Posted:** Tue Sep 26, 2006 3:20 pm

Guys & Dolls
West Side Story
Into The Woods
42nd Street

I'm forgetting a ton.

Andrew Lloyd Weber can bite me.

paladisiac · **Posted:** Tue Sep 26, 2006 4:30 pm

most already mentioned:

Sound of Music
Grease
Chicago
Willy Wonka

one not:

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