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Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Saturday, July 10, 2004 - 11:59 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Love Beauty and the Beast and movie it's Singin in the Rain.

Favorite song from a musical is The Music of The Night from Phantom of the Opera.

Jedisan
Member

01-11-2002

Saturday, July 10, 2004 - 1:14 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Posters have covered all my faves, but one...

"Pump Boys and DInettes"

I saw this twenty four times here in Chicago back in the lte 80's. I was smitten with the lead role (who incidentally left the show to make it big in LA. I found out when I moved to Nashville that he did make it as a country/folk singer. His name is Jim Lauderdale)
I hear that this show actually stills plays in Branson, MO.
Terrific show - you will tap your feet, adn maybe even shed a tear - the music is great!
(Trivia note: This original musical was created, in part, by the actress Debra Monk - she played Andy Sipowicz' nanny in the early days of NYPD Blue - She played one of the two lead female roles in the original broadway PB&D)
Back in the 80's I would get to see shows for free if I volunteered to usher. I still know every inch of the Apollo theater here in Chgo.
I wonder if they still do that?
So - if you are ever in Branson, check this show out. It is a rollicking good time!


Schoolmarm
Member

02-18-2001

Saturday, July 10, 2004 - 2:46 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Now, where were all y'all four days ago when I was looking for someone to actually GO to Broadway with me....

Nancy, please let me know when you are going in October. I have a couple of committments already, but would love to meet with you. Reiki and Ginger are also Broadway broads!

You know, I really like the "Corner of the Sky" song from Pippin....great piano part!


Current Broadway shows:
(I'm doing this from memory--ok, I peeked at the listing halfway through typing this)

Aida (haven't seen it...it's closing in September, I believe),

42nd street (closing in January..or Sept...one is Aida the other is for 42nd street, currently starring Shirley Jones and her son, Patrick Cassidy), Spy and I saw this last year....it is truly a PRODUCTION! <Marm taps feet>

Assassins (closing July 18th or so)

Avenue Q...muppets with hormones! Hard to get
tickets.

Beauty and the Beast , on the TKTS line

Bombay Dreams, surprisingly good and on the TKTS line

Boy from Oz hard to get tickets...Hugh is worth a million

Caroline or Change....FANTASTIC!!! and on the TKTS line

Chicago...currently starring Paige Davis (Trading spaces) the orchestra takes up practically the whole stage..on the TKTS line

Dracula...starts at the end of the month

Fiddler on the Roof...ABSOLUTELY fantastic, on the TKTS line. this is one not to miss! Molina is a super Tevya.

Hairspray...haven't seen it. sells out. THey have a lottery for back row seats.

Little Shop of Horrors, starring Joey Fontaine haven't seen it...I know that Ginger wanted to see it, maybe she has seen it by now.

Mamma Mia...you will have to tell me how it is...sells out!

Movin' Out...Billy Joel songs haven't seen it

Rent....well, most people like it (I don't like the book, don't like the opera La Boheme that is based on the same book) I will see it when my student who keeps getting called back for it lands a role.

The Frogs...starring Nathan Lane and Chris Kattan, limited run, and I think that it will be closed by the time you go. The previews are sold out right now and I couldn't get in.

The Lion King...haven't seen it, and it sells out on Broadway (lots of tourists go to this in BIG tour buses!)

The Phantom of the Opera...another standard, but has holes in the book so big you could drive a semi through them. Andrew Lloyd Webber is NOT my favorite....he only gives you one good "hummer" per show (this is the song like "Memory" from Cats that people associate with the show and hum as they are leaving)

The Producers....Funny, funny show. Now that Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick have left, it's back on the TKTS line and is fairly easy to get tickets.

Wicked....YOU MUST SEE THIS SHOW!!! And thank you, Reiki, for allerting me to it. It is FABULOUS! However, the original cast is disappating. I think that in October Joel Gray will still be the Wizard, and I think that Elphaba will still be Idina Menzel...the other roles are rotating.

Wonderful Town...saw this with Ginger and Reiki, and Donna Murphy was fabulous. The Congo number is priceless.

There are some really great plays on Broadway right now...Sly Fox (Dreyfus, Eric Stoltz, Bronson Pinchot, Rene Auberjonis, Peter Scolari) Golda's Balcony...the actress is FANTASTIC!, I am my own wife...Jefferson Mays is great, It's closing in December? He's taking it to Chicago in January and I will see it there.

And that's what's ON Broadway right now!

<Marm sings "On Broadway">


Nancy
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08-01-2000

Saturday, July 10, 2004 - 3:10 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
marm i am going from october 4th thru the 9th*home on the 9th. i have tickets for tuesday(producers) and wed matinee for mama mia but nothing else yet..may wait til i get there--i will be seeing aida here at my local theater in sept.. :-)

for all my love of musicals this will be the first time(i hope!) i actually get to see it right on broadway(since my last attempt had such awful result in sept of 2001)

Texannie
Member

07-16-2001

Saturday, July 10, 2004 - 4:00 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Marm, how could I forget Pippin??!!! That show started my love affair with Ben Vereen. What a great cast. John Rubenstein, Irene Ryan, a young Ann Reinking. My very first ever NY broadway show was the summer Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, Promises, Promises.
I was very fortunate that the theater group I danced with would take the kids every year at Thanksgiving when I was in high school. We would stay in a dump but would see matinee, evening, matinee, evening the whole time.
I also agree with you about Andrew. When he is on, he is fantastic. We walked out of Aspects of Love. Never cared much for those dancing cats either.

Reiki
Member

08-12-2000

Saturday, July 10, 2004 - 4:29 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
RE Wicked: Idina Menzel is there until January 2005 at least. Joel Grey was supposed to be also, but has been ill so there is talk of a permanent replacement - George Hern, who did Sweeney Todd for PBS, and won Tonys for La Cage aux Folles and Sunset Boulevard.

Kristen Chenoweth and Norbert Leo Butz (love his name) are done as of July 18 and I think it will be hard to get any tickets from now until then.

Jennifer Laura Thompson who was in Urinetown will be the new Galinda. Joey McIntyre (of New Kids on the Block fame) will be the new Fiyero.

The understudy for Idina is right now is Eden Espinoza and from what I hear she is very good. Some people like her more than Idina which I personally find hard to imagine. Eden is leaving herself to do the new musical Brooklyn that opens October 21 with previews staring September 23. This might be a new musical to check out.

ALSO NEW THIS FALL:

DRACULA, THE MUSICAL
Belasco Theatre
First Preview: July 26
Opening: Aug. 16
Director: Des McAnuff
Choreographer: Mindy Cooper
Cast: Tom Hewitt, Melissa Errico
The Frank Wildhorn-Christopher Hampton-Don Black musical about Bram Stoker's vampire count.

You can check out the NY theatre happenings at Playbill.com. If you sign up the their mailing list they often send discount ticket codes.

Reiki
Member

08-12-2000

Saturday, July 10, 2004 - 4:46 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Re: Lloyd-Weber - he was much better when Tim Rice was writing the songs. Joseph, Jesus Christ Super Star. There is one stand out song from Aspects - Love Changes Everything, but only with Michael Ball singing it.

Every time somebody adds a musical to the list I nod my head and say oh yeah, forgot that one. Pippin has some great moments. I remember seeing it on TV once with Ben Vereen and the guy who was on Greatest American Hero. Another I forgot until just now is Sweeney Todd - again I saw it on PBS with Angela Landsbury and George Hearn. I think it was this broadcast of a later concert version where I first discovered that Neil Patrick Harris (Doogie Hauser) had a great voice.

Add a Chorus Line to my list. Fosse was great. I just read that the Sweet Charity (with Christina Applegate) coming to Broadway next year will not use his choereography - darn it.

And MARM - here is one I will definintely be seeing next year - possibly while in previews

SPAM-ALOT. Monty Python's Holy Grail as a musical starring Tim Curry as King Arthur and co-starring Hank Azaria and David Hyde Pierce. I can't wait for this one!!!

Tishala
Member

08-01-2000

Saturday, July 10, 2004 - 4:59 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Yeah Sweeny Todd is great. I couldn't add it to my list because I already had so many Sondheim musicals on there. I saw the first run of Assassins and that was great, too. I'd love to see the current one, but I'm too far from NY.

I agree about ALW post-Rice. Don't forget that Evita was ALW during the Rice years, too. And that is a fairly good musical...but ALW with or without Rice has never risen to the level of greatness, IMHO. I'd rather see a musical that takes a few chances. So maybe Jesus Christ Superstar fits the bill, but even Evita doesn't, I guess.

Faerygdds
Member

08-29-2000

Saturday, July 10, 2004 - 5:03 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I'm another musical fanatic! I could no sooner pick a favorite star in the heavens than I could a favorite musical. BUT...

I prefer the works of Andrew LLoyd Weber to say Rogers and Hammerstein. Phantom, Evita, Jesus Christ Superstar, Starlight Express... Cats... all of them!

Not to say I don't love the others, but no one makes me feel quite like Weber!

Oh.. and ditto to Seasons of Love from Rent! I LOVE that musical!

Ladytex
Member

09-27-2001

Saturday, July 10, 2004 - 5:20 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
dang, guess I'm the only one that loved Fantastiks

Reiki
Member

08-12-2000

Saturday, July 10, 2004 - 5:55 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
When I was nine my bestfriends father was a minister and they had the Origical London Cast Album of Jesus Christ Superstar including the entire libretto in book form and we sat and listened to that album over and over. It took me a while to learn all the words and my father would get concerned when I walked around the house shouting "Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ" at the top of my lungs. Since then I can pretty much sing the entire libretto from start to finish, but with my voice you really don't want me to.

Schoolmarm
Member

02-18-2001

Saturday, July 10, 2004 - 7:00 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
And how could I have left off the "Rocky Horror Show"

<Marm sings "Let's do the Time Warp again!>

OK, I"M THERE for Spam-alot!!! Dang, that's a cast!

my favorite broadway websites:

www.theatermania.com
lists show openings and closings on front page. lots of info

www.playbill.com
*Go here for news and rush/Standing room policies

(Ginger's fav for discount codes is.....)www.broadwaybox.com

www.entertainment-link.com (go here to get show listings under "broadway" and then go to "as tkts" to see what was on the TKTS line for the whole week

www.allthatchat.com is a bulletin board about broadway. it is part of www.talkinbroadway.com

Hope the links are helpful. The Times Square visitors bureau has the TDF "two-fer" coupons at the main desk. Ask and they are yours.

NEVER pay full price!! (well, unless you are DYING to see a certain show.....)

Reiki
Member

08-12-2000

Saturday, July 10, 2004 - 7:23 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
My favorite broadway message board is Broadwayworld.com >> http://www.broadwayworld.com/index.cfm

One of their semi-regular posters is Marc Shaiman one of the men behind Hairspray. They always know what's going on over there.

Kristylovesbb
Member

09-14-2000

Sunday, July 11, 2004 - 10:09 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Cats and Moulin Rouge

Biloxibelle
Member

12-21-2001

Sunday, July 11, 2004 - 12:35 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I love the live theater

Mame
South Pacific
Gypsy


Ginger1218
Member

08-31-2001

Sunday, July 11, 2004 - 1:41 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
You know Marm --- I just adore you. LOL
I really do, and I can't wait to see you in Mystic. KISSSSSS

Ginger1218
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08-31-2001

Sunday, July 11, 2004 - 1:45 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
omg forgot the King and I

Bandit
Member

07-29-2001

Monday, July 12, 2004 - 8:02 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
The Music Man!!!!!!

It's the best. Matter of fact, I watched it yesterday!

Reiki
Member

08-12-2000

Monday, July 12, 2004 - 8:32 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
When I'm at work in the summer when the office is quiet (I work for school administration and staff is minimal during the summer) I listen to Broadway showtunes online through AccuRadio.

Here is a link to their Broadway selection: http://www.accubroadway.com/

PS Marm - "What is this feeling" just came on!

Goddessatlaw
Member

07-19-2002

Monday, July 12, 2004 - 8:39 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I guess I'm a traditional Rogers and Hammerstein girl, but I've heard various productions of their musicals all my life and it's hard to remember what I liked most about them when I was first introduced to them. Of theirs, "The Sound of Music." Of Lerner and Loew, "Camelot." Mama Rose is, IMO, the greatest part written for a female lead, so "Gypsy" is up there. I love the film version of "King and I" because of his Yul-ness. But my favorite film musical is "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers." Second favorite film musical is "West Side Story."

Urgrace
Member

08-19-2000

Tuesday, July 13, 2004 - 1:18 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
You all make me so jealous. I've only been to one stage production musical. Seeing The Producers with Matthew Broderick and Nathan Lane would be tops!

Of the movie musicals my favorite is a real classic called Lady for a Day. I also loved White Christmas-Bing Crosby, Pollyanna-Haley Mills, Unsinkable Molly Brown-Debbie Reynolds, Fiddler on the Roof, Gypsy-Ethel Merman, West Side Story-Natalie Wood (not)singing I Feel Pretty, Blue Hawaii-Elvis & Grease-John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John. There were parts of Chicago I didn't like, but others that I loved.



Whoami
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08-03-2001

Tuesday, July 13, 2004 - 4:55 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Man, its hard to pick a favorite. I grew up on The Sound Of Music, Camelot, Carousel, Oklahoma, My Fair Lady, South Pacific, Oliver, West Side Story, Unsinkable Molly Brown, and Fiddler on the Roof (to name a few). I could probably still sing most of the songs in each of those. OK, maybe I should say I know the words to most of them. Singing ability is another subject.

Probably the one that stirs deep emotions in me more than any of them though is Fiddler. I have always been fascinated with culture and tradition. So, the song Tradition just stirs something deep in my soul, and I'm not even Jewish. Actually, I have long admired the Jewish faith for the history and tradition in their culture.

Fiddler, for its history, the changing times, a family torn in struggling desperately to hang on to tradition but still survive the changing times, and being torn from their homes. Every song in this show moves me with the message it conveys. From the power of Tradition, to the final strains of Anatevka, as the villagers leave their home for the last time. It makes me cry every time I hear it, cause these kinds of losses were real, not just a movie.



Whoami
Member

08-03-2001

Tuesday, July 13, 2004 - 5:33 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Well, after reading over the posts here, I have to nod my head in agreement to:

Wizard of Oz
Mary Poppins
King and I
Music Man
(again, to name a few!)

How could I have forgotten Mary Poppins? That was just a classic, from Dick Van (name gets red-dotted here) dancing with the penguins, to Step In Time on the rooftops. Definetely my favorite show for choreography.

Oh yea, and as long as I'm thinking of classic animation mixed with live people, how about Song Of the South? I've never seen it in full myself. But I've seen snips of it. And IIRC, it was the first movie to mix animation with live actors.

<wanders off to bed singing>:

Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, zip-a-dee-ay
My, oh my what a wonderful day!
Plenty of sunshine heading my way
Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, zip-a-dee-ay

Mister Bluebird on my shoulder
It's the truth, it's actch'll
Ev'rything is satisfactch'll
Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, zip-a-dee-ay
Wonderful feeling, wonderful day!




Lostintheglades
Member

07-10-2000

Tuesday, July 13, 2004 - 7:27 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
The Fantastics
Oliver
Le Mis

I love all musicles...but these were my favs..oh...are we talking all musicals? Because I really liked Chitty Chitty Bang Bang too....


Legalboxer
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11-17-2003

Tuesday, July 13, 2004 - 4:30 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Whoami - lol i knew we were related