What are your favorite musicals?
Do you have a favorite musical stage show? A favorite movie musical? Or a favorite song from a show?
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diggI don't know what those seven brothers for seven brides did to me when I was young, but Oklahoma and the like make my skin crawl - perhaps it was all those bad high school renditions I saw. Actually pretty much hate all musicals except Godspeel - and taht was because I saw it when I was 10 and the nice performers threw something out in the audience that I caught.
Deborah
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maybe this time..
for the first time..
maybe this time .. he'll stay.....
lady peaceful .. lady happy..
that's what i long to be..
well all the odds are..
they're in my favor ..
something's bound to begin..
maybe this time..
for the first time..
maybe this time .. he'll stay....
cause.. you know.. eVerybody loves a caBeret!..
ooooh.. that felt good .. ;)
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I'm not surprised that this talented community of aspiring radio hosts has an appreciation for musical theatre... it's a driving force in my life. I love that sense of enhanced reality that the music adds. One of my favorites happens to be one that I wrote: http://www.davidresnick.us/memoriesofanonjewishchildhood2/ - You might enjoy checking it out. PS - I've really enjoyed reading ALL the insightful, discerning, and encouraging comments on the myriad of topics on this site. This is quite a group!
You could get radio airplay ;-D
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Sounds hilarious. That would be a HIT on the North Shore.
"Give me chastity and continence, but not yet."
- Saint Augustine (354-430)
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That's a wonderful note and comment! This is a pretty awesome place, with many very interesting people...
Jimmy
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...I do believe that West Side Story represents the apotheosis of American creative genius in the 20th Century. Between Bernstein, Sondhiem, Laurents, Robbins and arranger Sid Ramin (among others), you had the greatest talents in their fields collaborating to synthesize a towering and complete artistic moment: popular, populist, and staggeringly good. All that and Chita Rivera, too!
Do I listen to it as much I as I listen to, say, A Chorus Line, Annie, Runaways or The Wiz? No. But when I do, I'm reminded of why the US seemed to dominate pop-culture for so many years.
PS - For other references to shows and songs like these, please check out my entry!
Considering that the idea came from the amazing choreographer, and the dances are what make the gang fights real, it is the ultimate Jerome Robbins show IMHO.
Never heard of Runaways. In the same vein as The Me Nobody Knows?
The musical is a true American art form. We deserve to hear and know more about it.
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Song Of Singapore
Little Me
Set Your Imagination To FUN!
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Little Me? I'd love to get my hands on a copy of that original cast album (Sid Caesar!) or a reissue CD, or heck just a set of MP3s.
I'd never heard of Song of Singapore. Thanks for the tip, I love swing music.
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Ragtime is true bliss
A Little Night Music too
That is my haiku
That was so dumb of me, I must be completely exhausted. I worked a bat mitzvah tonight. A woman had two cosmopolitains and started yelling that her food was cold. Yesterday at the bar mitzvah the kids lit their place cards on fire.
"Give me chastity and continence, but not yet."
- Saint Augustine (354-430)
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Late nights strain the mind
Other posts blur together
Help! Stuck in haiku!
Set their place cards on fire? Drunk on cosmos?
Uh, can I have what she's having?
(love the 'tiara' by the way!)
Ragtime was the highlight of our first trip to NYC. A Little Night Music is simply wonderful... I keep wondering if my little girl is going to take the "Ordinary Mothers" part of "Glamorous Life" to heart :-(
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I forgot Sweeny Todd
Here is a cosmo for you
Extrordinary
I'm sure you are NOT an "ordinary mother."
I can't wait to see "The Color Purple." Does that have an exclamation point at the end? Most musicals do!
If there was a musical about my life, it would be called, "Yikes!"
"Give me chastity and continence, but not yet."
- Saint Augustine (354-430)
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Act 1 is great, and about half of Act 2. (My main quibble is that Mister should get a rip-roarin' blues song in Act 2) Have a wonderful time!
Sweeney ... My dream is to do all of Angela Lansbury's roles, including Mrs. Lovett.
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I wish I could afford to see it The Color Purple... :(
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I do appreciate you thinking of me, Janean. :)
I'll keep that in mind this month (extra payday w/5 weeks).
ETA: They have discount Wait Wait tix for $14.05!!! Damn...
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Annie
Little Shop of Horrors
Grease
AND all time favorite Porgy and Bess
"If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform a million realities."
---Maya Angelou
Porgy and Bess in the same breath as Little Shop of Horrors ;-D Truly a woman of taste.
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The Wiz...
Now that is THE musical
Rainbow by Stephanie Mills...Wow!
"If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform a million realities."
---Maya Angelou
The movie just gave it a bad rep.
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Diana Ross played Dorothy in the movie...
I think that explains everything.
No, the stage production is definitely the HIT I think and the real singers and performers gave it what the screen could not...with exception of Nipsy Russell and even Michael...they laid it down!
"If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform a million realities."
---Maya Angelou
What a worderful world in which we live.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGoRo-nPLOM
Steve
It falls to the enlightened, and the intelligent and the sane to take responsibility for the deluded or doltish or insane.
"Far from the otaku I love"?
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which took half an hour to read, finish to start. (With time out to read posters' bios.)
Musicals are so often sentimental and goofy. I love 'em. I've sat in orchestra pits and played dozens of shows; hundreds of performances; mostly community theaters. Many of my favorite shows have been mentioned. One that I didn't see was "Will Rogers Follies."
One of my favorite movie musicals is "Flower Drum Song."
I love the 'new' trend to put the orchestra onstage in some way, such as the bandstand for Chicago. I was going to include Annie Get Your Gun but I just realized I was on the front far side of the stage when it came to town, so I had a clear view of the musicians arranged in a tier on the wings. Touring shows use mainly local musicians for non-specialized instruments (one neat exception was the wind player for The Lion King.) So I get a kick out of seeing friends and aquaintances up on the stage. :-)
I know, sometimes we actors/singers have blamed the pit for our screwups. "They went so FAST!" "Can't the drummer be quieter? He's drowning me out!" Then there's the infamous dropping of a half verse or coming in two beats early.... Thank you to pit players everywhere!
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You did all that? Wow I'm very impressed...I don't have that kind of patience. Thanks!
Speechguy
I can't believe I've entered!
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All depends on the day and week asked. One I would not mind seeing again is Company--- (shows you my age) --music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim.
Last year I was exposed to the Producers and Wicked.
Side note --we carry a show called “Broadway’s Biggest Hits” every Sunday morning
... so it doesn't necessarily show your age ;-)
Yeah, of course you have BBH, you live in CT! ;-P
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