musicals?

[universalstorm22]

so...whos a fan of musicals? haha. and which ones?

[dan89]

Musicals :D OK so I love movie musicals like Grease, Chicago & Hairspray and a few plays as well, but it's something I keep on the down-low lol.

[Strider]

I've only seen a few but I'm a fan of Dr Horrible's Sing-Along Blog and Scrubs the Musical. I saw the movie version of Rent and liked it too. Haven't seen any Broadway or non-movie musicals though.

[Elfstone]

Well I LOVE avenue Q!!!!!!! (if you were gay is sooo funny)

lets see....

Chicago on broadway sucked monkey-butt, but its a good movie,
A CHORUS LINE on broadway was AMAZING
I was in Bye Bye Birdie, and thats a decent show, kinda cute.
I saw a production of Anything Goes that was good...

Uhmm as for movies:

Across the Universe,
Sweeney Todd,
Hairspray,
Chicago,
Dr Horrible's Sing-A-Long Blog,
Scrubs: My Musical (season six)
uhmm the classic Disney movies of course!
lets see....

Im sure theres more though... but personally I prefer plays and regular movies most of the time.

[Oboeplayer91]

I love musicals! My favorites would have to be Singing in the Rain, My Fair Lady, Phantom of the Opera and Hairspray is cool, too. The majority of musicals I like, I can't think of one that I've seen that I've hated.

[JamesRH]

Okay, well lets see, there is

Tommy (The Movie was good too)
The Producers (Though the original movie was better)

and so many more I can't think of right now.

[FatMike]

Ugh...
Thats all your gonna get from me :p
Cannot stand them.

[jaybear]

I have always loved musicals... and very few have been the ones in which I didn't find at least something to like. I know, some of the old chestnuts are pretty jaded now, but there's still the individual work of the performers to watch and enjoy. And some of the newer musicals are so refreshing in their innovative content. But perhaps as a lover of show music, I am a bit prejudiced!

For several years, my theatre subscription series seemed to present nothing but turgid, dreary dramas that either put me to sleep in my seat or left me so down that I would be wondering why I even bothered to go to the show. But now, apparently in response to public demand, they are giving us far more musicals - and very impressive productions of them, too. Yes, I know that everybody has different tastes as to the type of theatre that they prefer. But especially considering the cost of show tickets these days, I personally would far rather come out of a show singing a good tune than leave the theatre totally bummed out by some depressing psychological drama.

[Elfstone]

well jaybear, I've always argued tragedies are amazing in that they make you see all sides of life in new ways. Take the good with the bad, as it were. Where yes a happy ending is great...life isnt always that way. And that is why The Great Gatsby is one of my fav novels...

I really like the music in Avenue Q, and you can tell which songs in Scrubs were written by the Avenue Q writers.

Also I LOVE the music in Chicago! Oh my its so amazing!!!!

[xxxxx]

Not a massive musical fan, but there's certainly a few good ones out there.
Phantom of the Opera, Les Miserables, Sweeney Todd and Jesus Christ Superstar to name but a few.

[universalstorm22]

lol. i have to say that mine are probably rent, wicked, chicago, and hairspray. i love theatre and musicals and all that. haha. hence, why i asked lol.

[dankcub420]

Rocky Horror is a good one. Tim Curry makes a good transvestite. Magenta gave me a lap dance last time I went to see it preformed.

Little Shop of Horrors is great, but I can't stand the filmed versions anymore. Not after I saw it preformed live.

There are a few others I like, but for the most part I'm really not that big a fan of musicals.

Ohhh, the South Park movie was good, and that counts as a musical.

[jaybear]

I've always argued tragedies are amazing in that they make you see all sides of life in new ways. Take the good with the bad, as it were. Where yes a happy ending is great...life isn't always that way. And that is why The Great Gatsby is one of my fav novels...

I quite agree that tragedies are important to appreciating life's downs as well as its ups... and some of them are amongst the best pieces of theatre ever produced. And I also share your love of Gatsby as a novel. I was more railing against stage shows that delve deeply into the psyches of seemingly disturbed individuals... and while that is fine in book form, it's just not to my very personal taste to watch it on stage.

Nobody (least of all me) says that all theatre should have a happy ending. Life isn't usually that way, so why should every show end happily? Les Miz and Phantom and Evita are anything but happy but at least you can come out with some good music ringing in your head after the show.

[instantstar1010]

haha I love all musicals! chorus line. Rent (my fav), little shop, phantom, hairspray, gah theres soo many!

[pauline_lacey]

Little Shop of Horrors it has got to be.

Although there is a British musical called 'Blood Brothers' that is pretty good!!!

[ColdFire26]

OMG broadway geek here, love being in them too!

Too bad for my gut....most shows.... :(

[jb17kx]

Ah, Little Shop of Horrors... we performed that back in July. Great little show.

We're actually getting ready to produce Hot Mikado in about May next year, as well. Should be good :D

[Raain]

Haha, this thread was made for me right? Right now I'm obsessed with Legally Blonde, Aida, Little Shop of Horrors, and the Last Five Years

[instantstar1010]

i was just listening to little shop last night lol. i also like cats, legally blonde, gah there was on i just had in my head! what was it... oh yes chicago and ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW gah! i wish i could be in them but our school only does one every two years. and all the good ones are too inappropriate lol. im mostly in plays.

[Al. Truistic]

I'm really not a play person....at all ^^;;; .



Now if someone asked "Who is your favorite romantic composer" I would be all over that almost instantaneously. <__< >__>

[atwa]

Yeah I have to agree with Mike, I cannot stand most musicals. The only kind I can tolerate and actually do enjoy are rock-operas like The Wall, Tommy, Quadrophenia, and you could even count Led Zeppelin's "The Song remains the same".

[cswag]

im kinda a theatre nerd so im the wardrobe manager of or musical that we havn't picked yet so yah

[jb17kx]

Ah, I love going to a school with a good drama programme.

We put on a musical every year in an external theatre, and then occasionally a boutique musical at school. Last year we did Pippin and Little Shop that way.

[candylover]

In The Heights Is The Shiz

[Happenstance]

Love love love love love Sweeney Todd.

And I'm amused at seeing Dr. Horrible on here, but it is an amazing production, and I belong to a semi-professional theatre group that is seriously considering staging it next year.

[bigbellyfatluver]

Personally, I like Les Miserables, Jesus Christ Superstar, West Side Story, Pajama Game, and way too many more to list here.

[nicegutx6]

idk if im a fan i just always go with my friend sam to see mama mia whenever its near us. i like abba a little and the ost is one of the main playlists on my ipod so just that one really...

[ukfa]

Can't say I'm a fan of musicals...I mean it has to do something spectacular to make me like it.

I'd have to say Blood Brothers stands out above all the others mind you...I stay far away from things like Grease too *shudders*

[Fat samurai]

Here we go....

Musical/Plays that I love that I've been in:

Anything Goes
The Wiz
To Kill A Mockingbird
Bye Bye Birdie
Soup Du Jour
Nunsensations- LONG LONG STORY...
Parade
Hairspray-All State RULEZ
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever

Musicals/Plays that I like that I haven't been in

Les Miserables
Fiddler On The Roof
Pippin
Legally Blonde
West Side Story
Rent
Miss Saigon
Evita

[lolx117]

I've only seen "Starlight Express" in London and "Chicago" in Copenhagen. Enjoyed both very much =)

[JamesRH]

I want to see Jersey Boys! Also, I am excited, Spamalot is coming back to town in January. I just loving living in a city with great shows all the time!

[Freecell5671]

Can't stand them.

[EngagingTheIdle]

When it comes to musicals I typically enjoy Sondheim's "Into the Woods" also J R Brown has his ol' "New World" which hits some soft spots.

:-)

[fatso]

I love:
-The Producers(both on broadway and the movies)
-Oklahoma
-The Music Man
-42nd Street
-Otello(cus, well it was the first)

-Rent, was ok but 1. I prefer more traditional musicals and 2. I just wasn't a big fan of the premise, oh well. It was still worth watching.

I want to go see Avenue Q and Young Frankenstein live :).

Ummh, I'm sure there are other ones I like/love and others I want to see.

[Elfstone]

-Rent, was ok but 1. I prefer more traditional musicals and 2. I just wasn't a big fan of the premise, oh well. It was still worth watching.

I want to go see Avenue Q and Young Frankenstein live :).


See, I like musicals with less traditional style music... I'm not a huge fan of stereotypical "showtune" type of music...

Avenue Q is fantastic live! I highly reccomend it. Yes there's lots of profanity and such but it actually has great messages too, "Everyone's a Little Bit Racist" for example is a great song...and is very true: "Ethnic jokes might be uncouth, but you laugh because they're based on truth"

[wantmore123]

i like pecs specially plump ones

[Thammarastza]

I'm not a fan of musicals... I''m more into the rock opera (like the musical Jesus Christ Superstar)

[FLGainer90]

I'm not really into them that much. Dr. Horrible is my favorite. My school is putting on one that I'm the comic relief in, so that's fun. I did A Midsummer Night's Dream last semester (I know it's not a musical, but somebody put up plays) and played Lysander. It's lots of fun and, since my school is pretty small, most of my friends do the plays either as actors or tech. But back to the original topic, I tend to pick only a few songs from a musical and really enjoy them.

[bleu]

I like some musicals. Nothing too artsy, I'm afraid. Just the usuals: Shock Treatment, Yentle, 8 femmes, My Fair Lady, The Sound of Music, Hair, etc.

dancer in the dark :)

it will blow your mind away.

If by "blow your mind away" you mean "leave you desolate and cotemplating suicide" then yes, I agree. I love that Peter Stormare finally plays a nice character in it, though. He's so dreamy.

[Diagonal]

They're gay as ****.

[Sprinkles]

I've only seen three myself: Phantom of the Opera, The Color Purple, and The 25th Annual Spelling Bee.

The Phantom of the Opera...is a unique experience. I'd definately reccomend it. The Color Purple was...good, I guess, but not quite my cup of tea.

But Spelling Bee was pretty awesome, I'd have to say. Very funny. I saw it with my graduating class in high school, and even the non-artsy times thought it was pretty amazing. =)

[atwa]

I've only seen three myself: Phantom of the Opera, The Color Purple, and The 25th Annual Spelling Bee.

The Phantom of the Opera...is a unique experience. I'd definately reccomend it. The Color Purple was...good, I guess, but not quite my cup of tea.

But Spelling Bee was pretty awesome, I'd have to say. Very funny. I saw it with my graduating class in high school, and even the non-artsy times thought it was pretty amazing. =)

I take it back, 25th Annual Spelling Bee was really funny but that's the first Broadway musical I've seen that I wasn't groaning at the whole way through. Most of the time I sneak away from the people I'm with and go out for a cigarette lol.

[BigguyStephen]

i love musicals

Wicked
Hair
Phantom
Le Mizerable
Mamma Mia! (Movie Version)
Sweeney Todd
Chicago

[JeffandV]

I've liked most musicals that i have seen (movie or stage). There's only a handful that I've either had no interest in, or completely hated.

[LoveBigBellies]

I love Sweeney Todd, Evita, Gypsy, and most recently, Cabaret.

[airliner]

I've played in some, but quitted since i got older and the others all younger.

[huskeybelly]

Big drama addict. Just did Cats the musical actually XD I'm a performer, but I love "Wicked", "The Little Mermaid", "Beauty and the Beast", "Sweeney Todd", or "Spring Awakening" and "Avenue Q" are good comedy's x3

[randomguy363636]

I love musicals; my favorites are Sweeney Todd, Les Mis, Putnum County, and Mary Poppins.

I am planning on writing a musical this summer.

[fatty1000]

Musicals are amazing. The last one I saw was Spring Awakening, and it was just about the best musical I've ever seen.

[Elfstone]

Musicals are amazing. The last one I saw was Spring Awakening, and it was just about the best musical I've ever seen.

I need to see that, the music is amazing!!! I LOVE the song "my junk"


"Well, you’ll have to excuse me, I know it’s so off.
I love when you do stuff that’s rude and so wrong.

I go up to my room, turn the stereo on…
Shoot up some you and the you is some song!"

[counterbook]

"Team America"- amazing parody, even better musical

[FatDave]

Ugh...
Thats all your gonna get from me :p
Cannot stand them.

^^^agree^^^

[big123456789]

i like grease!