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usivius...honey, we've already established that Moulin Rouge doesn't actually count as a real musical, k?
8O what the--!

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How is Moulin Rouge not a musical? It has music. People break out spontaneously into song. It uses already existing music like some of the movie musicals of old. And it has an original song or two. Sure seems like a musical to me. Just because you might not like it doesn't mean it isn't one.

With that said, my list is:
Pippin
JC Superstar
Bat Boy the Musical
Hedwig & the Angry Inch
Singing in the Rain
Avenue Q (although I've only ever heard the soundtrack, and never seen it)
Rocky Horror (which should probably be further up in the list)
Moulin Rouge
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OMGs, Pippin!!
I forgot about Pippin.
Fabulous.
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Cagliostro wrote:How is Moulin Rouge not a musical? It has music. People break out spontaneously into song. It uses already existing music like some of the movie musicals of old. And it has an original song or two. Sure seems like a musical to me. Just because you might not like it doesn't mean it isn't one.
Cag...i'm teasing Usivius.

and yeah...can't believe i forgot Rocky Horror!!! 8O

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So......what does it say about me that I like Rocky Horror and Hedwig? And I really started to question my sexuality when I couldn't bring myself to take Hedwig out of the CD player for over a month after I got it. Was it just that the music is that good, or was there something in me stirring? Something I'd willingly admit to if it just made itself more obvious. And if boobies weren't just so damn nice (sorry ladies, but it had to be said).

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Pheh.

You're just a sensitive guy Cag. Heterosexual, but sensitive.
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I was around 12 when The Rocky Horror Picture Show entered my life. I was young enough and open-minded enough to appreciate Rocky Horror for what it was: a strange, funny and sad story told through terrific songs. I hadn't yet built up the kind of adult puritanical prejudice that would view something like Rocky Horror as morally and sexually threatening. FranknFurter was a cool guy, but I certainly wasn't thinking that, hey, I should be a transvestite, too. He was just an interesting character in an interesting story.

What my 12-year old mind found pretty funny was when Riff Raff at the end takes charge and croons: "Franknfurter, it's all over/your mission is a failure, your lifestyle's too extreme..."

I mean, arresting/executing someone because their lifestyle was too "extreme?" How silly! :lol:

Then, of course, I grew up and looked around more closely...people persecuted for their lifestyles...jailed for having alternative points of view. Hmmm...welcome to the real world, Neo.
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Edge is right, Little Shop of Horrors was awesome.
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Avatar wrote:Edge is right, Little Shop of Horrors was awesome.
I chopped him up, but I didn't kill him!
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Is the Original any good? I love the Rick Moranis remake, and rented the original once, but, didn't have the opportunity to watch it.
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*bump*

In the movie Fiddler on the Roof, does anyone know what the russian lyrics are when the non-jewish dancer are singing in the song To Life! ?

I want to sing this, but I can't figure it out from listening, and I can't find them anywhere.
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Balon wrote:*bump*

In the movie Fiddler on the Roof, does anyone know what the russian lyrics are when the non-jewish dancer are singing in the song To Life! ?

I want to sing this, but I can't figure it out from listening, and I can't find them anywhere.
Try this:

www.allthelyrics.com/lyrics/fiddler_on_ ... 76253.html
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Heaven bless you both, to your health and may we live

together in peace!

May you both be favored with the future of your choice,

May you live to see a thousand reasons to rejoice!
This is what I keep finding. These are the english part of the lyrics, but the guy who's singing is also speaking Russian spliced in.
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I don't know if it does you any good, but you can translate it into Russian on that site.

Probably not... I can't read it, let alone pronounce or sing it! :)
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Balon wrote:*bump*

In the movie Fiddler on the Roof, does anyone know what the russian lyrics are when the non-jewish dancer are singing in the song To Life! ?

I want to sing this, but I can't figure it out from listening, and I can't find them anywhere.
Does this help, Balon?

answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071021201020AAsdZNd
Transliterated to Roman characters:

Zhavasha z'darovia

Zha va sha z'darovia!
Heaven bless you both, nazdrovia!
To your health and may we live together in peace!

Zhavasha z'darovia roughly translates as " congratulations", and nazdrovia roughly translates as "to your health".

Both are traditional Russian toasts.

The beauty of the moment, apart from that wonderful high G, is that the Cossacks, traditional oppressors of the Shtetl Jews, are reaching out in fellowship(and drunkenness) to the happiness of another human being.

The fact that it is Fyedka who sings this is made significant later on.

Oy! is it ever.
...Fiddler on the Roof?...c'mon...ask the yidden... ;)
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YES! Sweet. Thanks!
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I didn't even know I liked musicals until several years ago when I realized that "musical" didn't mean some kind of German Opera.
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These are mine and I thank my kids for many of them:

Sound of Music
Mary Poppins
1776 (which my Mother and Brother used to enjoy just listening to the album)
Yankee Doodle Dandy

I love the Jesus Christ Superstar Broadway soundtrack.
The movie they made later is an abomination though!

Singing in the Rain
Grease
Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
A Year Without a Santa Claus

I know I'm missing a few more that I always stop and watch if it's on TV.
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Lucimay wrote:
and yeah...can't believe i forgot Rocky Horror!!! 8O

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I totally agree! I was pretty much brought up with that film and Hair. Love them both! :D
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Do any of suppose that when he did Frankenfurter, he ever dreamed he would one day play King Arthur on Broadway? :lol:

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...or frolicking with Muppets.

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