Musicals

[Nathan]

Sometimes I think musicals have the most moving songs ever.

My school's putting on the play "Jesus Christ Superstar" and I've got a CD of all the songs to listen to so I'll know them when I have to sing them and there's a particular song "Heaven on their minds" that I found I really liked. It's a great musical too, if you ever get the chance you should go and see it.

[[Syl]]

I can't think of any musicals I really liked, and few I could tolerate.

[Fist and Faith]

OK then, that'd be No for Syl.

I'm a pretty decent fan of musicals. I don't really know JCS, but Godspell is a lot of fun. "Day by Day" and "It's All for the Best" are particularly good.

Most of the music in West Side Story is excellent. My favorite musical.

A few other favorites are Brigadoon (even if it's just a musical, without Gene Kelly. He and Fred Astaire are gods.), Camelot, Les Mis, and Aspects of Love. I'd love to see more, but I don't even rent movies all that often, much less actually go to Broadway.

Annie Get Your Gun was surprisingly good. But I was so thrilled when I read the playbill beforehand, and saw that F Troop's Cpl. Agarn was in it, that I'd have enjoyed anything!

[dlbpharmd]

I'm a huge fan of some musicals, particularly Les Mis and Phantom of the Opera (check out my thread on the new movie in Flicks!)

I also liked Joseph, Funny Girl, Evita, the Sound of Music, etc, but could not tolerate South Pacific.

[Nathan]

If anyone wants to listen to Heaven on their minds just give it a click.

[Fist and Faith]

I also liked Joseph, Funny Girl, Evita, the Sound of Music, etc, but could not tolerate South Pacific.

Are you mad?? Where else is the most absolute of all Truths expressed as perfectly as
There is nothing you can name
That is anything like a dame.

[theDespiser]

as far as plays go, i dont really go for plays much...I saw Phantom of the Opera and it was really good, had a great time...and ive seen A Christmas Carol on stage before..it was really good...but for the most part, plays dont really interest me...

as far as movies go, theres a few i like...the Sound of Music, Wizard of Oz, Holiday Inn....for some reason thats all i can think of at the moment...

[dennisrwood]

saw Damn Yankees with Tony Randall, it was excellent.

have the soundtrack for Hair and Hedwig.

[dlbpharmd]

Are you mad?? Where else is the most absolute of all Truths expressed as perfectly as
There is nothing you can name
That is anything like a dame.

Fist, my friend, we are both disciples of the same theology. I simply find my absolute Truth through a different path. As the great Waylon Jennings once sang:

The only two things in life that make it worth livin'
Is guitars tuned good
And firm feelin' women.

[danlo]

I, generally, can't stand musicals but the fact that y'all have left out My Fair Lady is atrocious! Tsk, tsk! JCS, Sound of Music, West Side Story and Brando's wonderfully horrid singing in Guys and Dolls are very good too. I'm also partial to Top Hat, On the Town and another little known classic called Singing in the Rain

[dlbpharmd]

You're right, I like My Fair Lady too.

[duchess of malfi]

I love to go see musicals. Les Mis, Rent, The Producers, and Phantom of the Opera are all favorites of mine. But while I love them on stage, I'm usually not as fond of them on film...

One play that I've never been able to see, but that I think has particularly lovely songs is South Pacific:

Some enchanted evening
You may see a stranger,
you may see a stranger
Across a crowded room
And somehow you know,
You know even then
That somewhere you'll see her
Again and again.

Some enchanted evening
Someone may be laughin',
You may hear her laughin'
Across a crowded room
And night after night,
As strange as it seems
The sound of her laughter
Will sing in your dreams.

Who can explain it?
Who can tell you why?
Fools give you reasons,
Wise men never try.

Some enchanted evening
When you find your true love,
When you feel her call you
Across a crowded room,
Then fly to her side,
And make her your own
For all through your life you
May dream all alone.

Once you have found her,
Never let her go.
Once you have found her,
Never let her go!

[drew]

My two favorite musicals:
Little shop of horrors.
The Rocky Horror picture show

[onewyteduck]

I also liked Joseph, Funny Girl, Evita, the Sound of Music, etc, but could not tolerate South Pacific.

Are you mad?? Where else is the most absolute of all Truths expressed as perfectly as
There is nothing you can name
That is anything like a dame.

And the times in my life I'd be thinking, "I'm gonna' wash that man right out of my hair"

[Fist and Faith]

dlb, I know absolutely nothing about Waylon, but that's clearly something I need to rectify!!!!

And the times in my life I'd be thinking, "I'm gonna' wash that man right out of my hair"

Does this mean you're a woman? I pick right up on the little clues, eh?

[onewyteduck]

dlb, I know absolutely nothing about Waylon, but that's clearly something I need to rectify!!!!

And the times in my life I'd be thinking, "I'm gonna' wash that man right out of my hair"

Does this mean you're a woman? I pick right up on the little clues, eh?

Wow! You ARE sharp!

[Cheval]

...have the soundtrack for Hair...

One of my Must-Hear musicals.
The music is very good and the underlying theme/lyrics to most songs are hilarious.
(got the Original Broadway Cast soundtrack, though the movie version I thought was better)

[Lorelei]

What about "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown"?

[Cail]

I know a lot of musicals, but the only one I really, really like is 1776.

[dlbpharmd]

What about "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown"?

I sat through a particularly horrible live version of this when I still lived in Memphis, although I will say that it was the actors themselves that made it so bad.