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Best title of a musical
#50re: Best title of a musical
Posted: 5/30/06 at 7:09pm
Once Upon a Mattress!!
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#51re: Best title of a musical
Posted: 5/30/06 at 7:16pm
Naked Boys Singing
Tick, tick. . . BOOM!
"Without Jews, fags, and gypsies, there is no theatre!"
~Mel Brooks, To be or not to be
#52re: Best title of a musical
Posted: 5/30/06 at 7:23pmThe 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."
To Kill A Mockingbird
To Kill A Mockingbird
#53re: Best title of a musical
Posted: 5/30/06 at 7:58pm
Sunday in the Park with George.
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas.
Keep your morals, I don't have time. Keep your lovers, I'm changing mine!
-The Likes of Us
Sant
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/12/04
#54re: Best title of a musical
Posted: 5/30/06 at 8:04pm
Don't know which is THE best but here goes:
A CHORUS LINE
CATS
THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA
THE KING AND I
#55re: Best title of a musical
Posted: 5/30/06 at 9:36pmOh yes. How could I forget about Once Upon a Mattress. Is it just me, or does anyone else think that title sounds a little too risque for a show based on The Princess and the Pea?
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#56re: Best title of a musical
Posted: 5/30/06 at 9:49pmOn A Clear Day is a much better title than the original title "I Picked A Daisy"
Poster Emeritus
#57re: Best title of a musical
Posted: 5/30/06 at 9:52pm
Well...I dont know a WHOLE bunch of musicals/plays...but my fave are:
1. A Chorus Line - Dont know...just always appealed to me
2. An Overpraised Season - Small one act most ppl have probably never heard of...but it's deep and by the end of the play you get its real meaning
3. Company - Had no idea why it was named Company until like the 3rd listen through lol :P
That's pretty much it :)
alterego
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/5/03
#58re: Best title of a musical
Posted: 5/30/06 at 10:00pmThese titles are all great but none of them hold a candle to La, La, Lucille or Yes, Yes, Yvette. These are real titles!
#59re: Best title of a musical
Posted: 5/30/06 at 10:37pmCaroline, Or Change is a bitch to say because then everyone wnats to know what is changing in Carolina.
BSoBW2: I punched Sondheim in the face after I saw Wicked and said, "Why couldn't you write like that!?"
One Song Glory
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/12/05
#60re: Best title of a musical
Posted: 5/30/06 at 10:47pmI've always had a fondness for [title of show]
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icantbelive
Featured Actor Joined: 5/5/06
#61re: Best title of a musical
Posted: 5/30/06 at 10:48pmParade, it is what it's kind of about and than it's not, but it is, it makes you think. Last line and first song in show has to do with title as well, Great Title
jdixon69
Understudy Joined: 1/9/04
jimnysf
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/10/05
#63re: Best title of a musical
Posted: 5/30/06 at 11:00pm
"Got Tu Go Disco"
Another Minskoff Theatre flop that only ran for 8 performances back in 1979.
http://www.theatredb.com/QShow.php?sid=s0186
"The Light in The Piazza" makes me think of Mike Piazza!
"I've lost everything! Luis, Marty, my baby with Chris, Chris himself, James. All I ever wanted was love." --Sheridan Crane "Passions"
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"Housework is like bad sex. Every time I do it, I swear I'll never do it again til the next time company comes."--"Lulu"
from "Can't Stop The Music"
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#64re: Best title of a musical
Posted: 5/30/06 at 11:43pm
"High Spirits." It caught my attention the first time I heard it. Such a good show.
Also, I know it's not a musical, but I like "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"
"I believe that art does not exist only to entertain, but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, to engage in a constant search for the truth."
- Barbra Streisand
Dirty Rotten Scoundrel
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/26/05
#65re: Best title of a musical
Posted: 5/30/06 at 11:46pmI don't understand how titles such as "Cats" and "Avenue Q" are somehow thought provoking or really good and different. Cats is about cats and Avenue Q is where they live. Ah yes, profound as well.
Fabrizio2
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/20/06
#66re: Best title of a musical
Posted: 5/30/06 at 11:49pm
I think that
Sunday in the Park With George
The Drowsy Chaperone
Are good titles for musicals.
As for plays I think that a lot of Shakespeare's titles are clever
Twelfth Night
As You Like it
jetteson
Swing Joined: 5/30/06
#67I'm Somewhat Joking, But I'm Not...In A Way
Posted: 5/31/06 at 12:37am
"Carrie:The Musical!"
Only based on the fact that "Carrie" in general is so cultish and enigmatic anybody with a right mind would give the title a second look, if not to laugh at it!
ZONEACE
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/10/05
#69I'm Somewhat Joking, But I'm Not...In A Way
Posted: 5/31/06 at 2:11am
Caroline, or Change
Merrily we Roll Along
Those two are both great.
when ducks grow thumbs then maybe my opinion will change.
Chrysanthemum62001
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/14/04
#70I'm Somewhat Joking, But I'm Not...In A Way
Posted: 5/31/06 at 2:15am
Urinetown
"What a mystery this world. One day you love them and the next day you want to kill them a thousand times over." The Masked Bandit in THE FALL
#71I'm Somewhat Joking, But I'm Not...In A Way
Posted: 5/31/06 at 2:37am
Here are my picks:
THE SOUND OF MUSIC
SUBWAYS ARE FOR SLEEPING
HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING
Not a musical, but CHILDREN OF A LESSER GOD has always been one of my favorite titles.
Salve, Regina, Mater misericordiae
Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra
Salve, Salve Regina
Ad te clamamus exsules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
O clemens O pia
Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra
Salve, Salve Regina
Ad te clamamus exsules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
O clemens O pia
#72I'm Somewhat Joking, But I'm Not...In A Way
Posted: 5/31/06 at 2:40amIt's amazing they waited all the way until 1962 to do a show called "DO, RE, MI."
http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=972787#3631451
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http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=954344#3428699
#73I'm Somewhat Joking, But I'm Not...In A Way
Posted: 5/31/06 at 3:47am
Do I Hear A Waltz
Lucky Stiff
Seussical the Musical
Spamalot
#74I'm Somewhat Joking, But I'm Not...In A Way
Posted: 5/31/06 at 8:16am
WHISTLE DOWN THE WIND is an intersting title although I have no idea what the hell it means.
As for plays, I also like THE LION IN WINTER.
Salve, Regina, Mater misericordiae
Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra
Salve, Salve Regina
Ad te clamamus exsules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
O clemens O pia
Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra
Salve, Salve Regina
Ad te clamamus exsules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
O clemens O pia
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