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What are your favorite ones and which ones are on your "to see" list?

My absolute favorite is "Phantom of the Opera." It is the perfect show and Andrew Lloyd Webber's masterpiece.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAiFxOYvhDc
Say you'll share with me one love, one lifetime. Need me, save me from my solitude. Say you'll want me with you here beside you. Anywhere you go let me go too, Christine, that's all I ask of *pulls mask off*

Down once more to the dungeon of my black despair! Down we plunge to the prison of my mind! Down that path unto darkness deep as hell!!!"
The camera did a poor job capturing their voices, but Michael Crawford and Sarah Brightman are simply amazing in their roles. I wish I could've seen them live. I did still get to see a good cast when I saw Phantom.

Other good ones I've seen are
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Cats
The Producers

My to see list
Avenue Q: I own the soundtrack and it cracks me up every time.
Wicked: I missed a chance to see this one and regret it. I've heard great thinhgs about it
By Jeeves: Unfortanely, I believe this one is only in England still.

I haven't ever been to Broadway, nor do I know if any of my favorite musicals spent any time there. :(

I really like Roger's and Hammerstein's Cinderella, especially one of the made for TV versions (the one with Ginger Rogers, not the one with Brandy(tm))

I like just about anything with Julie Andrews (even her version of Cinderella is better than Brandy's(tm))

I do have the soundtrack to Phantom of the Opera........it's great music.

i don't like musicals.

I haven't ever been to Broadway, nor do I know if any of my favorite musicals spent any time there. :(

Same here.

*shudders involuntarily at anything by Andrew Lloyd Webber*

There are few musicals I actually enjoy listening to the songs from, I've not had the chance to go see many, infact the only ones I've seen in full may be the ones I've played in the orchestra for school productions. I find many to be so cliched and predictable to the extent its dull and even annoying. Good ones would be West Side Story, Les Miserables, Crazy for You, perhaps Singing in the Rain, and I'm not sure if you could call G&S ones 'musicals'.

I'll have to agree with the phantom of the opera vote, i was brilliant on stage! The way teh chandelier fell down was just so dramatic!

But les misarables is also brilliant (tho i am jsut biased cause i sang it in pruage cathedral. "All alone, pretending he's beside me. All alone, i walk with him till morning...". Love that song.)

Gilbert and sulivan do count tho! Im quite fond of iolanthe, but they are all funny.

Goodness, there are so many ... in no particular order after South Pacific:

South Pacific, of course, probably #1
Oklahoma
Wicked
Ragtime
Grease
West Side Story
My Fair Lady

I'll probably think of more later.

"The Mirror"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMfiv-4o5lM

This is one of the greatest effects on stage. I love it.

I'll have to agree with the phantom of the opera vote, i was brilliant on stage! The way teh chandelier fell down was just so dramatic!

But les misarables is also brilliant (tho i am jsut biased cause i sang it in pruage cathedral. "All alone, pretending he's beside me. All alone, i walk with him till morning...". Love that song.)

Gilbert and sulivan do count tho! Im quite fond of iolanthe, but they are all funny.

I've heard good things about Les Miserables. I should add that to my "to see" list.

I've seen a production of "HMS Pinafore." While the music is great in that musical, I saw a poor cast. I should try to see that one again.

I've heard good things about Les Miserables. I should add that to my "to see" list.

I've seen a production of "HMS Pinafore." While the music is great in that musical, I saw a poor cast. I should try to see that one again.

Almost all of the Gilbert and Sullivan operettas are great, but yeah, a decent cast is a must.

Grease

Eww, that's perhaps the worst of the lot.

Gilbert and sulivan do count tho! Im quite fond of iolanthe, but they are all funny.

I suppose they are related more to musicals than classical opera, despite being called 'operetta', although really, all of them come under the term opera and are just separate categories inside it of different musical styles.

G&S 4tw. Anything of theirs beats anything by Sir Andy any day. The technical staging of his productions is generally more interesting than the content.

Has anyone heard of the beggars opera? Thats one damn good show. (again imbiased tho)

i've never seen a stage musical that i liked. film musicals i have enjoyed though, i like the producers, moulin rouge and there's another that i've forgotten just now. and one of my favourite films ever is the blues brothers but i'm not sure if that could strictly be said to be a musical.

cats and joseph made me want to kill myself.

Don't know about Broadway, but we have Spamalot over here at the West End, which I wouldn't mind, and me wife wants to go see Oliver(again) and I wonder if Buddy is still around?

i've never seen a stage musical that i liked. film musicals i have enjoyed though, i like the producers, moulin rouge and there's another that i've forgotten just now. and one of my favourite films ever is the blues brothers but i'm not sure if that could strictly be said to be a musical.

cats and joseph made me want to kill myself.


Yeah and of course Southpark The Movie, and Little Shop of Horrors, and lets not forget the Rocky Horror Picture Show!:eek:

Don't know about Broadway, but we have Spamalot over here at the West End, which I wouldn't mind, and me wife wants to go see Oliver(again) and I wonder if Buddy is still around?

Spamalot counts as Broadway

Aside from Phantom, I hate all webber shows. they're painful. Esp. Cats.

favorite is Ragtime. One of the few musicals that actually has a great script (on par with most straight plays)
Into The Woods
need to see Wicked
Rocky Horror
Aida was decent

But yeah, I'll take a straight play over musicals any day. Tale Of The Allergists Wife was pretty great...saw that one on Broadway a few years back

Anything by Sondheim is wonderful. Sweeney Todd and Into the Woods are probably my favorites of his works. I never hear them without marvelling at how absurdly brilliant Sondheim is.

Andrew Lloyd Webber is...fluffy, mostly. Evita is fairly unquestionably his best work, though Phantom of the Opera has its moments of excellence. Joseph is fun, provided you accept it as the fluffy little piece of silliness it is. Cats and Starlight Express are fairly awful.

I generally can't stand Rodgers & Hammerstein. They have a few good songs, but the characters in all their shows appear to be made of cardboard.

As for other shows, Man of la Mancha and Ragtime are favorites; Little Shop of Horrors is a guilty pleasure, as is Pippin, which I suspect I mostly like because it's a terrifically fun show to perform in. Beauty and the Beast is an even more guilty pleasure (hey, everyone's got to be nice to their inner Disney princess now and then). Les Miserables is good, though I always think it feels rushed (hard to avoid, when packing a 1500-page novel into a couple of hours). Chicago is fun, and I very much enjoyed the movie version. Candide is far too underrated, though I admit it's probably inferior overall to the more popular West Side Story.

:)

My friend and I are either going to make Star Wars or Star Trek into a musical. He's casted as Darth Vader or Ryker. I get lame roles but oh well.

My friend and I are either going to make Star Wars or Star Trek into a musical. He's casted as Darth Vader or Ryker. I get lame roles but oh well.

You may be setting a new record for "activity least conducive to attracting women." :p

(Of course, I'm speaking purely stereotypically here.)

You may be setting a new record for "activity least conducive to attracting women." :p

(Of course, I'm speaking purely stereotypically here.)

I'm a woman. Wow, number six.

I don't know if either are broadway, but my two favorite musicals of all time are "Cabaret" and "Billy Elliot".

And "The Producers"

Yeah and of course Southpark The Movie, and Little Shop of Horrors, and lets not forget the Rocky Horror Picture Show!:eek:

i like southpark, that was brilliant :D. not a huge fan of rocky horror though, never really 'got' it. my friends from back home all love it though, but then they love the whole burlesque thing which i'm only just beginning to appreciate, and i'm not very good at liking things 'ironically' or because they are tacky. haven't seen little shop of horrors although i think i've heard of it.

I'm a woman. Wow, number six.

Heh. Well, I hope you don't end up having to sing and dance in a metal bikini, then. :)

Heh. Well, I hope you don't end up having to sing and dance in a metal bikini, then. :)

Ew, me neither. That's a scary picture.

Anything by Sondheim is wonderful. Sweeney Todd and Into the Woods are probably my favorites of his works. I never hear them without marvelling at how absurdly brilliant Sondheim is.



I love Sonheim musicals. The key signitures, sighs, can be crazy but that makes the music fun to sing... or play. I love Sweeny Todd, Cabaret and, like you, like Into the Woods but I am biased because I was in that.

What are your favorite ones and which ones are on your "to see" list?

My absolute favorite is "Phantom of the Opera." It is the perfect show and Andrew Lloyd Webber's masterpiece.

Yup.

Without a doubt, the best musical ever about a burn victim that rapes an opera singer. -- Tina Fey.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOufvPgvEGM
Masquerade, paper faces on parade. Masquerade, hide your face so the world will never find you.

Those lyrics actually do have great significance with the story. There's a reason the monkey music box plays the music to that song.