Your Favorite Musical...- Page 3

[PennyLou]

Posted: 3/29/04 at 10:01am

Hairspray, even when I get older and move on to other shows Hairspray will always have a place in my heart because it is the first show I went really crazy about and saw more then once and things. It's also the show that kind of got me my freedom to go to NYC by myself, with out my parents and stuff so that's a bonus.

[Sheri]

Posted: 3/29/04 at 11:35am

VERY hard to pick just one since there are so many that I love, but if I had to pick just one it'd probably be -

1776

[robbiej]

Posted: 3/29/04 at 12:15pm

I can't believe I'm the third person to list 1776 as their favorite.

[TheGirlinTheFrock]

Posted: 3/29/04 at 2:02pm

RENT

This is after long.. looooooooong consideration. It was the first show i completely fell in love with. I knew the cast album by heart before I ever saw it (which was just recently). I was worried that I would not like the current cast because the OBC was RENT for me. I saw it and i was blown away! It confirmed for me that its my all time favorite show. Also there is not one "Star" of the show. There are bigger parts than others but i could not pick a "lead" if i had to choose.

[Princess MimiChica]

Posted: 3/29/04 at 2:05pm

hmm, lemme think about this long and hard...

RENT. No question =) Every other show is just second-rate

[robbiej]

Posted: 3/29/04 at 2:09pm

You're right, Mimichica.

CAROUSEL just sucks!

[scooter38432]

Posted: 3/30/04 at 12:59pm

SWEENEY TODD is the best musical yet written. No question.

CAROUSEL sucks? Hardly.

[robbiej]

Posted: 3/30/04 at 1:02pm

Sorry, scooter!

I was being just a tad sarcastic!

[Zola Q. LaPlaya]

Posted: 3/30/04 at 1:16pm

In the 1970s before all the drugs set in, I would have said Sweeney Todd.

Now, I say affirmatively, Falsettoland.

-ZQLP

[broadwaystarlett]

Posted: 3/30/04 at 2:12pm

Favorite ever... holds my record for longest personal favourite at over a year and a half... The Last Five Years. It's just absoluetely beautiful and a testament to the human condition.

[scooter38432]

Posted: 3/30/04 at 2:44pm

Phew! Thanks robbiej...

I was a little scared by that one!

[Shawk]

Posted: 3/30/04 at 4:32pm

I'd have to say Les Miz.

Other shows I enjoyed immensely (as in enough to travel to/seek out) being 1776, Urinetown and La Boheme.

[Rentaholic2]

Posted: 3/30/04 at 5:29pm

EXACTLY what TheGirlintheFrock said....except I have still yet to actually see RENT. And even the next time it does come my way, I WILL NOT settle for seats that are not top notch. not gonna happen. Any other show, they just need to be decent...RENT, when the day finally comes, I want to be dead center, staring up, so close that I am in the show.

So I guess I'm saying RENT!~!:)

Posted: 3/30/04 at 5:34pm

I have ripped several chunks of hair out of my head to answer this...

Rent.
It hurts to say that though.

[bially082]

Posted: 3/30/04 at 5:38pm

I think it might me Wicked. But that could honestly be because I just saw it. Before Wicked I went through a long line of musicals that were my "favorite." I have to say that all totaled I think the best musical and my favorite has got to be Damn Yankees. I fell in love with it the moment I first saw it over ten years ago and it is the only one that has never grown old for me.

[Rentaholic2]

Posted: 3/30/04 at 5:51pm

Damn Yankees...really? Huh. interesting choice. But, hey, no one has mentioned it yet...you're definately original!

[HotTicket]

Posted: 3/30/04 at 6:22pm

Funny Girl

[NYCbabe3789]

Posted: 3/30/04 at 6:35pm

After a LOT of consideration.......I'd have to say WICKED. I know it got mixed reviews and many people think it's overrated, but I fell in love with it the first time I saw it and it is the only show that stirs up so much emotion in me and still has not grown old after my many viewings.

I know we're only supposed to mention one, so I feel very naughty, but I just had to mention that LES MIZ will always have a special place in my heart, as the music I was raised listening to and my first Broadway show.

Yes, RENT is very good too.

[katie_pa_tatie2]

Posted: 3/30/04 at 6:41pm

without a doubt Rent!

[ElphabaJCB]

Posted: 3/30/04 at 7:34pm

Wicked

[emonkeygirl]

Posted: 3/31/04 at 7:45am

Assassins.
Who do I have to kill to play Squeaky Fromme?
...I mean...ummm...nevermind...heehee!

[joeyjoe]

Posted: 3/31/04 at 8:26am

Sweeney Todd

[Hank]

Posted: 3/31/04 at 9:56am

Thoroughly Modern Millie.

My top 5 lists changes all the time, but Millie is allways up there as number one.

[HOUFlip04]

Posted: 4/1/04 at 8:18pm

42nd Street (original). It's also fun to perform - one of the best enselmble shows.

[rock00]

Posted: 4/1/04 at 11:06pm

I gotta say Les Mis here. It's the first musical I ever saw and I fell in love with it right then and there. I like to think I still would have found theater (and realizing how much I enjoy acting and singing), but that show changed my life. I still know it word for word. Great music, great characters, goose-bump inducing Act One Finale, great finale. Damn, now I want to see the show again... :)