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Nancy
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08-01-2000

Friday, July 09, 2004 - 8:00 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
As I just returned from seeing the musical beauty and the beast and am planning a trip to nyc in october, i figured i'd ask this:

a. what is your favorite musical(either you've seen live or your favorite movie musical.?

b. what is your favorite song from a musical?

Nancy
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08-01-2000

Friday, July 09, 2004 - 8:02 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
for me

a) i have two camelot and west side story.

b) song would have to be edelweis from sound of music and somewhere from west side story

Rupertbear
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09-19-2003

Friday, July 09, 2004 - 8:16 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I love My Fair Lady & also Seven Brides Fore Seven Brothers, Nancy.

Granted, they are movies but I enjoy them nonetheless.

My favourite song from MFL is I Could Have Danced All Night...a close second is Wouldn't It Be Loverly.

The other...no favourite.

Twiggyish
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08-14-2000

Friday, July 09, 2004 - 8:45 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I LOVE The Sound of Music!

There's also.. Fiddler on the Roof, South Pacific, Oklahoma, Showboat, My Fair Lady..the list goes on...

Songs.. I'll have to say Sunrise, Sunset from Fiddler on the Roof and Edelweiss from Sound of Music.


Texannie
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07-16-2001

Friday, July 09, 2004 - 8:50 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
We have had season tickets to the Broadway series since shortly after we got married and growing up we always had season tickets. I love live musical theater so this will be hard.....

For me favorite songs go with the performance,
seeing Michael Crawford sing "Music of the Night", Jennifer Holliday singing "And I am telling you", "Seasons of Love" from Rent.....knocked my socks off. I still sob like a baby when I hear "Walk On" from Carrousel.

Chorus Line (cause that was me! LOL) Lion King, Aida, Phantom of the Opera, Miss Saigon, Sound of Music, 42nd Street, so many....LOL

Tishala
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08-01-2000

Friday, July 09, 2004 - 9:00 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I have a few.

On Stage: Company. West Side Story. Gypsy. Sunday in the Park With George. [I'm an unapologetic Sondheim fan!] Showboat. Carousel [even though I prefer Rogers and Hart to Rogers and Hammerstein]. Kiss Me Kate.

On Film: Judy Garland's Star is Born and Meet Me In St. Louis. Gigi. West Side Story. Chicago. Wizard of Oz. Most of Funny Girl.

Songs: Too many. So I own the entire 16 CD Ella Fitzgerald Songbook collection, which has everything except Sondheim on it I could want to hear. And best of all, it's musicals without Andrew Lloyd Webber!

Landi
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07-29-2002

Friday, July 09, 2004 - 9:06 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
A: Guys and Dolls, Annie, Funny Girl, Gypsy, Phantom of the Opera, Les Miserables

B: ANY SONG from Guys and Dolls, Tomorrow from Annie


Nancy
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08-01-2000

Friday, July 09, 2004 - 9:29 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
love guys and dolls--especially 'a person could develop a cold' lol :-)

Nancy
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08-01-2000

Friday, July 09, 2004 - 9:30 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
p.s. when i go to nyc i'm going to see mama mia and the producers but also thinking maybe rent and fiddler

Texannie
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07-16-2001

Friday, July 09, 2004 - 9:35 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Nancy, we sure to wear your feather boa to Mama Mia!! What a fun show!!!

Reiki
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08-12-2000

Friday, July 09, 2004 - 9:37 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
All of them.

Recently - Wicked. It has given me a whole new view of the wicked witch of the west and I will never watch the wizard of oz the same again.

Jesus Christ Super Star - I saw the movie first and have seen it performed on stage twice - once with Ted Neeley and Carl Anderson in the anniversary tour. I know more about the passion of Christ from this movie than from any other source. Judas got a bum rap.

Man of La Mancha - I saw it once in college with a Community Theatre group. My soon to have been then boyfriend was in it. I saw it again recently in New York with my good friend Marm.

Camelot - Got to see Richard Harris do this play on tour. I also got to see my nephew play Pelinore in his high school production and it brought tears to my eyes he was so good.

The King and I - never saw Yul in the play but loved him in the movie and he has given me a life long attraction to bald headed men.

Les Miserable - I really liked the PBS special version best, but I have seen it 3 times on Broadway and it was always good.

Gypsy, Guys and Dolls, Joseph and the Techicolor Dreamcoat, Wonderful Town, Caberet, Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, The Producers, How to Succeed in Business, On the Town, Sweet Charity,

Godspell, Oklahoma, and Grease - other plays my nephew was in.

Forgot two - Into the Woods and Sunday in the Park with George.

And my next favorite is the next one that I see.

I like all the songs best.


Ladytex
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09-27-2001

Friday, July 09, 2004 - 10:14 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Tough question! some of my favorites were: West Side Story, Chicago, Fantastiks, Oklahoma, Chorus Line, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, and I know I'm leaving some out

I like all the songs.

Carrie92
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09-15-2003

Friday, July 09, 2004 - 10:35 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I'm with Landi - Guys and Dolls and all the songs from Guys and Dolls.

(Marlon Brando was such a studmuffin in the movie version!)

Also like South Pacific and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Oh, and Wizard of Oz and Grease of course.

Teachmichigan
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07-22-2001

Friday, July 09, 2004 - 10:36 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Hmmm...can't say there are very many that are NOT my favorites!! LOL

Overall effect: Lion King. For whatever reason, this show gave me chills even more the second time around. Absolutely incredible.

Emotional effect: Bawled like a baby through Les Miserables

Fun music: Tie between Chicago and Guys and Dolls

Favorite Classic: Camelot. Hands down. Love King Arthur (but favorite song is Pelly's Seven Deadly Sins)

Favorite Contemporary: Ragtime (does that actually qualify?? LOL)

Now, I must qualify the above with the fact that I have never had the privilege of going to Broadway. We've seen many, many shows in Toronto and through local theaters / touring groups, but many of my opinions are based on performing in the musicals as a pianist.

The only musical that I would be happy NEVER to see again is Cinderella. "A Lovely Night" is only bearable through three months of rehearsal and performances if you make up naughty words for the tune each and every night! (Although, putting a remote controlled fart machine under Prince Charming's garden bench was rather amusing too! The other director and I never laughed so hard in our lives!!)

Weinermr
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08-18-2001

Friday, July 09, 2004 - 10:54 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I love many of the musicals listed above.

My favorite right at this moment is The Music Man. Robert Preston was perfect. I love the opening song Rock Island (But he doesn't know the territory!!!) and Marian the Librarian the best!

Nancy
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08-01-2000

Saturday, July 10, 2004 - 3:29 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
weiner my brother played the bass clarinet in the hs band and played it in the band for the musicals-he loved marion the librarian simply becuase his bass clarinet was featured heavily--LOL :-)

Schoolmarm
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02-18-2001

Saturday, July 10, 2004 - 4:11 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Hands down.....WICKED! Second place "The Producers" another one that I want to see again that is currently on Broadway is "Caroline or Change". The revival of "Fiddler on the Roof" is also excellent.

Favorites shows to be in....Guys and Dolls and Music Man

Favorite songs: Cellblock Tango from Chicago and "What is this feeling" (Loathing) and "Popular" from Wicked

Nancy....go check out my travel thread, and if you want advice on how to get cheap tickets, let me know!

Ginger1218
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08-31-2001

Saturday, July 10, 2004 - 6:24 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
My all time absolute favorite is West Side Story, I love love love that
My top others (and I love musicals better than any type of show or movie)
Sound of Music, Gypsy, Bye Bye Birdie, Grease, Chicago, Annie
I love all the songs

Mocha
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08-12-2001

Saturday, July 10, 2004 - 6:32 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Godspell, Jesus Christ Superstar, A Chorus Line, Purlie, Hair, Bye Bye Birdie, Grease, West Side Story, and The Wiz.

Ophiliasgrandma
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09-04-2001

Saturday, July 10, 2004 - 8:54 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Gee, I didn't see anybody name my fave, 'How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying'.

'The Brotherhood Of Man' song and dance from it is way up there on my favorite show tune list.

Also, just about every song from Les Miz.

Nancy
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08-01-2000

Saturday, July 10, 2004 - 9:55 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
ophilia my brother performed in how to and loved the brother of man--

this is the brotherhood of man the benevelant
brotherhood of man...

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Saturday, July 10, 2004 - 10:12 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Oh wow.. I don't get to many musicals any more.. I loved the energy of I'm getting my act together and taking it on the road but that would be dated now.

I've seen Les Mis at least three times.

Favorite song from that is On My Own, which isn't even in the British or French soundtracks. I loved the French soundtrack.

I haven't seen Lion King, but I know I'd love that.. the Lion King parade was my favorite thing at Disneyland back in my season pass years.

and I'm going to Mamma Mia in Vegas with Zmom, Pcakes and Lkunkel and wildly looking forward to that!! For some reason the song Thank You For the Music can almost bring me to tears..

Sanfranjoshfan
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09-17-2000

Saturday, July 10, 2004 - 10:30 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I never enjoyed any musicals at all until I saw Cabaret in 1971 or so...loved it and still do. All the numbers are great.

Bigd
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09-13-2001

Saturday, July 10, 2004 - 10:38 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat with Cats a close second.

Legalboxer
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11-17-2003

Saturday, July 10, 2004 - 10:54 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Favorite Musical? HA! Anyone that knows me, knows it is impossible for me to pick less then EVERY ONE as my favorite J

But I will just throw out some that come to mind right away:

West Side Story (movie, stage, local, whatever, it is ALWAYS wonderful)
King and I (I will never tire of Yul, etc etc etc)
Carousel
Sound of Music
South Pacific
Oklahoma
(about the only Rodgers and Hammerstein musical that wouldn’t make the list is State Fair, but I still like it)
On the Town (that is one of the top 10 opening scenes of all time)
My Fair Lady
Annie Get Your Gun
RENT is a fabulous musical –one of the best modern ones
Jekyll and Hyde – I wish everyone could have seen it with the original cast!
Mary Poppins (cant beat the dance on the roof tops)
Annie
Oliver!
Chicago was actually a great musical on film and stage
Can we count every Disney animated feature? Just kidding – although they are good musicals. J
Fiddler on the Roof
Holiday Inn
Music Man
Hello Dolly
Wizard of oz
SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN – between Gene’s charm and dancing and Donald doing that hilarious couch, wall scene, it is just so so so good
Grease

As for songs….. again not fair but

My top three are Soliloquy from Carousel, This Is the Moment from Jekyll and Hyde, and every song in West Side Story …

Plus any time I hear any other song it moves to the top of the list.. such as
One Song, Glory (RENT)
If I were a Rich Man (Fiddler on the Roof)
Tradition (Fiddler on the Roof)
We Got Trouble (Music Man) (along with Gary Indiana, wells Fargo Wagon, etc)
Chim Chim Cher-ee, (mary poppins) (along with Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious)
All of sound of music – and I do mean ALL of it –
O what a beautiful morning (Oklahoma)
Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah (song of the south)
Tomorrow (Annie)
Somewhere over the rainbow
You’re the one that I want (Grease)
You’ll never walk alone (carousel)
White Christmas (Holiday Inn)
Razzle dazzle (Richard gere was just great in the movie) and Mr Cellophane (Joel Grey was great on broadway, not that John C reilley wasn’t just as good too)
Food Glorious Food (Oliver)
Before the Parade Passes By (Hello Dolly)
ANYTHING YOU CAN DO" (Annie get your Gun) (plus there’s no business like show business, and you cant get a man with a gun)