not sure if this is the correct forum

[collinsrent]

i work night crew, which allows me to listen to music while i work. i enjoy musicals such as rent, jesus christ superstar, les mis, phantom of the opera, and such. i was wondering if you had any suggestions besides the ones listed?

[TexasTowelie]

1. Welcome to DU!

A decent list. One that I would add to the list since I have a bit of a hippie streak in me (even though I was born in 1965) is Hair.

You might also peruse through the Music Appreciation Group since the "musical genre" might fit into that corner of DU. The Lounge and V&M forums also occasionally have musicals, but due to the number of posts within that forum it will be more difficult to identify any of the selections there.

I hope to see you around since I'm on the night crew of the long term unemployed who adapted to nocturnal hours when I was providing health care to my father. I also hate being awake during daylight hours due to the heat in Texas during the summer.

Again, welcome to DU. I think you'll like it here.

[collinsrent]

2. thanks

what is hair about? ive heard the name, but nothing else. im 27 btw so that might explain it.

[TexasTowelie]

5. Hair

was a protest musical against the Vietnam War and a question of the moral values during the time of hippiedom. It involved a young man that moved from the country into the city where people were burning their draft cards, the man being drafted and the group of friends he made mourn the deaths of people that were killed in the war. Several of the songs were recorded by other groups such as Aquarius by The Fifth Dimension and Hair by The Cowsills.

I've included four of the videos from the 1979 movie. The first video is from the beginning and sets the tone for the rest of the film. I actually saw it performed at my alma mater (Southwestern University in 2004) in a theater in the round setting. They held true to the story except for excluding the nude scene (!) and it was pretty hilarious.

There are about 30 songs on the soundtrack and it includes other songs like Donna/Hashish, Hare Krishna, L.B.J., Sodomy, Black Guys, White Guys. The original production appeared on Broadway in 1968.

[collinsrent]

6. thanks

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you were in college in 04?

i was still in high school.

were pretty close in age.

[collinsrent]

10. have you heard of

Across the Universe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Across_the_Universe_(film)

[TexasTowelie]

11. Yes,

I've listened to virtually everything that the Beatles put out and have most of their music in my CD collection. You might want to pick up some Moody Blues if you like rock with a orchestrated twist to it--the London Symphony Orchestra was the backup. I recommend the "Days of Future Past" album as a starting point.

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

3. Hair is a musical that came out during the 1960s about hippies.

There are some decent songs in it: The title song, Hair

The Age of Aquarius, Let the Sunshine In, ,

and so on. I like the original Broadway cast album. There was a decent film of the musical.

[collinsrent]

4. thanks ill look into it

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[TexasTowelie]

7. Thanks for posting.

The musical I saw at my alma mater held pretty true to the music in the Broadway production. I went with a friend of mine who was only 19 at the time and one the girls came out into the audience to try and get him to come up front to dance as they closed the show (he is a handsome guy, had long hair at the time and I could understand why the girl asked him), but he was reluctant to join.

I also became friends with the guy playing keyboards and one of the actors since they were members of the fraternity that I sometimes hung out with. Those were some good memories.

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

8. Another musical, and one which actually ties into classical music, is Candide

It came out in the 1950s, with some of Leonard Bernstein's best music. The overture has become a classical standard, especially with the New York Philharmonic (where Bernstein was principal conductor for many years).

The overture is at

Candide itself is not so successful, although it's not really Bernstein's fault. The first act is brilliant, but neither Bernstein nor his librettists (which included Stephen Sondheim, Lillian Hellman and Dorothy Parker among others) ever got the second act to work. Incidentally, all the bits from the operetta quoted in the overture are from the first act.

[collinsrent]

9. thanks