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SO, what is your favorite musical or opera, this list is by no means ehaustive, since i have very few spaces...i am torn between Phantom of the Opera and Les Miserables, I think Opera Pulls it out though, music is so powerful and enchanting, i have seen all the ones i list on stage, and Opera has the best stage play of anything i have seen.

I saw Grease once...... in Czechian :(

I don't like musicals, other than We Will Rock You and Rocky Horror. :p

ok poll up
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Does Tommy count?

I chose other... I love Beauty and The Beast. :D

Rent!

Does Tommy count?

But of course!

Les mis.

South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut.

I have a tie between Rent and Wicked...Wicked was brilliant though. Everyone should go see it, even though Idina is not in it anymore.

Opera: either Madame Butterfly or Don Giovanni
Operetta: Anything by G&S. :) But especially Pirates or Mikado.
Musicals: either Hair or Jesus Christ, Superstar

Does Tommy count?


Hell yeah, it better count!

THE MUSIC MAN!!! w00t w00t!

I never saw any of those.
but i saw something called chess a couple of weeks ago and it kicked ass.
so 'other'

BTW it's not just about chess, it's actually a pretty complex collection of true stories from the cold war that happenned around a chess tournament. the game is just a story-telling medium.

I don't like musicals, other than We Will Rock You and Rocky Horror. :p

RHPS only if you're not a virgin... ;)

shoot, i voted Les Mis for sentimental reasons cos i was gonna be in the school's reproduction of it and i was in the casting from sept-feb but i left for S. africa just before the perfrmances...all that hard work for nowt.

otherwise i would've chosen Rocky Horror... :p

I have not seen it yet but
Spamalot !!
It got 12 director's desk nominations

We are knights of the round table
we dance whenever we are able,
we do routines
chorus scenes
and footwork impeccable
we dine well here in camelot
we eat ham and jam and spam a lot

ohh serious musicals ?
chicago then

OPERAS: Der Freischutz by Carl Maria von Weber; Die Zauberflote by Mozart.

SMALL MUSICALS: Little Shop of Horrors; Urinetown; The Fantasticks.

BIG MUSICALS: City Of Angels; The Music Man; The 1940s Radio Hour; Something's Afoot.

Mamma Mia, sounded dumb, but I ended up loving it!

Buffy the Vampire Slayer - "Once More With Feeling"

I'm partial to Cannibal: The Musical myself. "Let's build a snowman!..." :D

I hate musicals. All that singing and dancing and frolicking :mad:

i loved the phantom of the opera. the play. i saw it in london with basically all it's original main cast. twas fantastic.the movie is too but can't compare it to the play. i also quite liked the jerry springer musical. very funny.

Phantom first....
If you're including operas...the original recording of Evita, before it went on stage.
Thirdly, Les Mis.

Starlight Express and Bombay Dreams tied on runner up.

I would say Turandot or Madame Butterfly, as they both get respect from me. but even 100+ years after the fact, I still believe that Des Ring Der Nibelung is the best yet--in the music+stage performance genre, anyway.

I don't think it's really fair to compare musicals and opera though. Mainly, opera tends to have music as a much more fundamental element of the overall experience (recitative, more complex ensemble, orchestra commentary, etc.) than musicals which depend more on play-like, spoken dialogue to carry the plot from point a to point b, with little to no music outside of featured songs. I think they have the same root, the bonding of music and the stage, but I don't think it's fair to either musicals or opera to group the two together.

If I had to pick a Musical I'd probably pick Les Miserables or Fiddler on The Roof.

OPERAS: Der Freischutz by Carl Maria von Weber; Die Zauberflote by Mozart.

SMALL MUSICALS: Little Shop of Horrors; Urinetown; The Fantasticks.

BIG MUSICALS: City Of Angels; The Music Man; The 1940s Radio Hour; Something's Afoot.

Finally, someone said Little Shop of Horrors. You can't overlook that one. It's too much fun. I'll also throw in Camelot and Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (gotta love the sidestep)

We Will Rock You.

Les Mis if I have to decide, but I also love Cats...=;}hey and what about Miss Saigon ? it was also great...and have you seen any of the french musicals like Notre Dame de Paris or Romeo et Juilette ? =;>

Der Ring Des Nibelungen

What about WICKED, or Rent?

Of those two, I'd have to go with WICKED though..Seussical is pretty sweet too. West Side Story has always been my personal favorite.

I have a tie between Rent and Wicked...Wicked was brilliant though. Everyone should go see it, even though Idina is not in it anymore.

Thank you, thank you. Saw it in Chicago last weekend. Amazing.

http://www.footlightsgallery.com/imagelg/chess.jpg

One night in Bangkok...

i voted les mis because i like conforming with polls, but id acctually say cabaret over all. I mean, come on, anything that can have a mass Hitler youth sing along without any one laughing in the audience has to be good. Plus the M.C. dude (forgotten his name) has the greatest laugh in the world...shame the love story bit was terrible...

Opera: Les Mis (yes, it is technically an opera)
tremedously huge musical: Phantom
Not so huge: Little shop of horrors (especially when done off of the movie script)


Not my favorite:
Oliver (I had to play in a pit for it. Most mindnumbingly dull bassparts ever written)
Bye Bye birdie
Music Man

You guessed it, pit on all of them. The second two aren't bad, I just hold a grudge. If I ever have to deal with Oliver again I will shoot myself in the head.

I am frequenter of the Opera, though i still appreciate the Musical Theatre.

My Favorite Operas 1-10 (That i have seen) are.

1.The Flying Dutchman
2.Faust
3.Carmen
4.Twighlight of the Gods
5.Tannhauser
6.Porgy and Bess
7.The Magic Flute
8.The Valkyrie
9.Madame Butterfly
10. Regina

Les Miserables is by far my favorite musical
followed by West side story, The Phantom of the Opera, Hairspray, and then the Producers.

Definitely Phantom of the Opera.

Andrew Lloyd Webber is a genius.

From the list I'd choose Phantom of the Opera.

Otherwise - Grease (lost count of the number of times I've seen it at the theatre :s), Rocky Horror, Chicago, and Copacabana.

I can't choose a favorite, but I definitely know that South Pacific is my least favorite. That may be due to the fact that I was in the pit orchestra for my high school's production of it and the actors kept fucking up and I had to play some annoying trumpet parts over and over and the theater director was a bitch and would give us like a five minute break for food if she remembered to and I like run on sentences.

I love the concept of musicals though. It's like "I'm angry - let's sing!" If people did this in real life I would never be able to get anything done what with all the laughing I'd be doing.

I hate Opera.

"Rocky Horror Picture Show" by Richard O'Brien

"Cannibal: The Musical" by Trey Parker and Matt Stone

Andrew Lloyd Webber sucks donkey ass, by the way.

I hate Opera.

You can't simply disregard a Genre as diverse as Opera, you would have to experience each shade, from Classical, and Wagnerian, to Contemporary and Jazz age. Opera is one of the most complex and refined of the Arts, something to form an opinion of only once you have experienced all of it's tastes and flavors.

Musicals are gay.

Gay! Gay! Gay!

Musicals are gay.

Gay! Gay! Gay!

No, a man having sex with another man is gay.

No, a man having sex with another man is gay.

If they're singing it's a musical and it's GAY!

If they're singing it's a musical and it's GAY!

Wait, there's a musical called GAY! ? Is this what you are trying to say?! Oh my!

Wait, there's a musical called GAY! ? Is this what you are trying to say?! Oh my!

If there is it has got to be gay because it's a musical.

If there is it has got to be gay because it's a musical.
Well I suppose this explains my strange urge to fondle other men after I see a musical.

Well I suppose this explains my strange urge to fondle other men after I see a musical.


You get that too? Wow.

As far as opera, I hate wagnarian...but I am a sucker for the ABC's (Aida, La Boheime, and Carmen, the 3 most performed)

musicals...Into the Woods but its a bitch to do well...Cabaret...Batboy...Rent

Not a big fan of ALW, but I did more or less enjoy phantom.

the best is definatly Ragtime. Amazing music, and a good script(*gasp*, a musical with good lines?!)

I prefer straight plays (no, not gay vs. straight, but straight as in not musical) Marat/Sade (full title is The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton under the Direction of The Marquis de Sade) is amazing, as is zoo story and Laramie Project.

the best is definatly Ragtime. Amazing music, and a good script(*gasp*, a musical with good lines?!)

I love that book and I love the soundtrack for the musical. I've yet to get to see it, though. :(

RENT!!! Admittedly I haven't seen it, but then again of the shows on your list I've only seen Les Mis, Phantom and Cats, and only Les Mis was live. Though Les Mis would be a close second for me. Rent just has some really awesome music and a wonderful message. Gah, I must see it!

No day but today!