What's your favorite musical?

[Dragonbreathp9d]

Mine's The Last 5 Years by Jason Robert Brown.






Note: Operas like Les Miserables and The Phantom of the Opera do count

Note 2: If you dont know the difference, an opera is only singing, a musical has some normal dialouge

[skygazer]

1. The Phantom of the Opera isn't an opera

There is dialogue throughout it.

[Dragonbreathp9d]

2. nope, it is all sung

[skygazer]

5. I have the libretto sitting right next to me

I assure you there is dialogue throughout. It is a musical, not an opera.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

50. Not that I want to be confused for a guy who knows stuff about operas.

But there are plenty of operas out there with spoken dialogue. Singspiels, the Magic Flute for instance, have spoken dialogue between the music.

[jobycom]

14. I've never seen it, but Wikipedia describes it as a "musical."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Phantom_of_the_Opera_%281986_musical%29

And IMDB has a section for "memorable quotes" from the movie... :shrug:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0293508/quotes

[racaulk]

3. I think Chicago and Evita are my favorites.

Although Cabaret is a close third... :)

[Tyler Durden]

4. The Music Man, My Fair Lady, Candide, Sweeny Todd.

In that order.

[racaulk]

6. Oh, I forgot about My Fair Lady!

I like that one too! :)

"Just you wait, 'enry 'iggins, just you wait!"

[Tyler Durden]

12. I could "sing" the Professor Higgins role right now.

I grew up on that, and the Music Man. Their broadway soundtrack albums were my first records.

Shoot, I forgot South Pacific.

[Guava Jelly]

7. Guys and dolls

[BrotherBuzz]

21. Damn you, I now have an earworm!

I got the horse right here
The name is Paul Revere
And here's a guy that says that the weather's clear
Can do, can do, this guy says the horse can do
If he says the horse can do, can do, can do.

[Guava Jelly]

22. fugue of the tinhorns

:thumbsup:

Luck be a lady tonight :D

[tonkatoy57]

43. I'll second that nomination

I don't even like musicals and I love Guys and Dolls.

I'd suggest the 1992 revival cast recording with Faith Prince and Nathan Lane on RCA Victor. It's a great recording with good balance between the orchestra and singers. And the orchestra is fantastic. Whoever the lead trumpet player is has chops to burn.

Now I have, I've Never Been in Love Before and Sit Down You're Rockin' the Boat going through my head. Oh well, there are worse earworms to have.

[BrotherBuzz]

47. My vinyl copy is a Decca original cast album, and still sounds great even though it's mono

Sky Masterson is played by Alan Alda's father, Robert Alda.

[jobycom]

8. Moulin Rouge. I don't like musicals, but I liked that one.

Although, it took me two viewings to be sure. After the first viewing, I couldn't decide whether I liked or hated it. :)

[TheProphetess]

30. It took me two viewings to decide I liked it, too

I was ambivalent after the first viewing but have loved it ever since. :toast:

[Joe Fields]

9. Paint Your Wagon, of course.

Nobody sings like Lee Marvin.

[SteppingRazor]

10. Can I vote none of the above?

I particularly loathe the usual American-style musical, fantasy pieces in which people suddenly break out into song and choreographed dances.

That said, have you seen the new Irish movie "Once"? It's about a street musician and the girl he loves. It's filled with musical numbers, but only when they actually make sense in the script (e.g. when the guy is performing on the street corner). I can appreciate musicals like that.

[Richardo]

11. It's West Side Story for me...

Bernstein's music is brilliant and 'Somewhere' is among the most beautiful melodies ever written.

[Blue_In_AK]

51. Me, too.

I must have seen the movie six or seven times at the theater when it first came out and nearly played the grooves off my album. I was just coming up on 15 -- a story of forbidden young love really appealed to my romantic sensibilities. And I love the music.

[BrotherBuzz]

13. Oklahoma!

[Seashell Eyes]

15. Cabaret , definitely

I also like The King and I, Les Miserables, Guys and Dolls, Crazy for you, and Fiddler on the Roof. Any musical that is moving, not cheesy, and makes me wish that people would break out into song and dance in real life is a good musical.

[LynneSin]

Mine would have to be the one that I named my cat after

Evita

[Forkboy]

16. The South Park movie.

Seriously. :)

[Seashell Eyes]

17. Yes! I forgot about that one. What would Brian Boitano do?

:D

[Squatch]

18. In this order: Hair -> Miss Saigon -> Sunset Blvd -> Mama Mia

I also saw Defending the Caveman with Michael Chicklis, but I thought it was horrible.

[1gobluedem]

19. Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

My all time fave.

[philosophie_en_rose]

20. Man of La Mancha

Cabaret, Spring Awakening, and Hairspray are also favorites.

[AllegroRondo]

23. Candide. Leonard Bernstein's best work

although his Mass is a close second.

[Tyler Durden]

36. Have a DVD of the New York concert performance...

Kirsten Chenowith and Patti Lupone.

[bbernardini]

24. West Side Story, Music Man, Bat Boy...

Probably in that order.

[RushIsRot]

25. Oklahoma!

[MissMillie]

26. Fiddler on the Roof and Man of LaMancha

but I do like Evita too

[terrya]

27. Favorite stage musical: West Side Story

Favorite Film Musical: The Bandwagon

[racaulk]

28. The Rocky Horror Picture Show!

How could I forget that one! :P

[stuntcat]

52. Right On, Rocky Horror :headbang:

That picture's swEeEt!:loveya:

[mitchum]

29. "Cabaret" and "Damn Yankees"

[ceile]

31. Jesus Christ Superstar, The Music Man, Easter Parade

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers is right up there, too.

[TheProphetess]

32. Phantom of the Opera is my favorite

The emotion of the phantom is incredible!

[bertha katzenengel]

33. Tie: Rent and Ragtime n/t

[applegrove]

34. Hair

[Richard Steele]

35. TIE: Hedwig and the Angry Inch/The Blues Brothers.

[fudge stripe cookays]

37. Kiss Me Kate.

Can't go wrong mixing Shakespeare and Cole Porter! :D

[Aristus]

38. 1776.

Adams: Well, it doesn't matter; I'll not be in the history books anyway. Only you. 'Franklin did this, and Franklin did that, and Franklin did some other damned thing...'Franklin smote the ground and out sprang George Washington. Fully grown and on his horse. Franklin then electrified him with his miraculous lightning rod, and together, the three of them, Franklin, Washington and the horse, conducted the entire revolution by themselves...'

Franklin: (pause)...I like it!

[trackfan]

39. Man of La Mancha

[nykiera]

40. Les Miz

[Tikki]

41. South Pacific and Carnival and Carousel.......n/t

[redqueen]

42. LOTS!

Nightmare before Christmas

Rocky Horror Picture Show

Jesus Christ Superstar

Brigadoon

The King and I

Singin in the Rain

Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

Little Shop of Horrors

Annie

An American in Paris

Gigi

Shall We Dance?

Showboat

Hedwig and the Angry Inch


I could go on and on... LOVE musicals! :)

[grasswire]

44. Victor Victoria

No contest. It's my favorite movie, too.

But I also love "Music Man" and "Man of La Mancha" (saw that in the first run at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion with Jose Ferrar many years ago) and "Funny Face" -- Audrey's song/dance sequence called "On How To Be Lovely" blows me away every time I see it -- and then there are the operettas! "Showboat" and "Mikado" and so many more. My mother really did me a favor by taking me along to so many live musical performances, as I have not only all those memories but also all that music in my head.

Link to Audrey Hepburn's gloriously whimsical rendition of Gershwin and Gershwin's "On How To Be Lovely."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02x1lvGuHa8

[stuntcat]

54. ooooo

I've loved Victor Victoria so long, the movie I mean, I used to watch it every time it was on when we first got HBO.

[Va Lefty]

45. Grease

[femmocrat]

46. My Fair Lady and Gypsy

[CatholicEdHead]

48. Fiddler on the Roof, My Fair Lady, and Music Man come at the top

[Roon]

49. The sound of music

with Rocky Horror following in a close second.

[lost-in-nj]

53. Carousel

with Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
coming in a close second...



lost

[trof]

55. I guess "Guys and Dolls" is my fave.

[WinkyDink]

57. LOVE it!! "I got the horse right here, ...."!

[trof]

68. "His name is Paul Revere...Can do! Can do!"...yeah

[grasswire]

56. Producers 2005

That counts as a musical, too. Nathan is dynamite in that part.

[idgiehkt]

58. The Sound of Music

Liesl was my first crush. I hope that counts, if movies count and not just plays.

[deadparrot]

59. Ragtime. nt

[The empressof all]

60. Into the Woods and Wicked

Of Course West Side Story is the ultimate classic.

[Burma Jones]

61. Recently, Spamalot and Urinetown

Oldies: Candide and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

West Side Story too......

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

62. My Fair Lady & Camelot

My Fair Lady is my favorite movie, much less musical.

[ghostsofgiants]

63. The American Astronaut.

[MorningGlow]

64. Oooh dangerous question

Pippin (see sig)
Les Miz
Ain't Misbehavin'
Grease
They're Playing Our Song
My Fair Lady

more, I'm sure...

[Lyric]

65. Rent

There's only us, there's only this
Forget regret, or life is yours to miss
No other road, no other way
No day but today

[Paladin]

66. "Kiss Me Kate" (n/t)

[Calliope]

67. Sunday in the Park with George

Company, Last 5 Years, West Side Story, My Fair Lady, Sweeney Todd, 110 in the Shade, American in Paris, Follies, A Little Night Music, Camelot, The Fantasticks

[raccoon]

69. Guess I'd have to say Carousel, though there are many other good ones

out there. Camelot, Oklahoma, Pajama Game, Damn Yankees.