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Favorite Musical - (1 rule. It can't be WICKED)
Shilo_Bway
Chorus Member Joined: 6/28/05
#126re: Favorite Musical - (1 rule. It can't be WICKED)
Posted: 4/4/06 at 9:39pm
hmmmm...no Wicked huh?
Hairspray or Les Miserables!
#127re: Favorite Musical - (1 rule. It can't be WICKED)
Posted: 4/4/06 at 9:45pmLes Miserables with Sweeney Todd as a close second
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"Shut up! It's been 29 years!!!" --the incomparable Patti LuPone in her MUCH DESERVED Tony acceptance speech for Gypsy.
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"Shut up! It's been 29 years!!!" --the incomparable Patti LuPone in her MUCH DESERVED Tony acceptance speech for Gypsy.
Kitzy's Avatar du Jour: Kitzy as Little Red Ridinghood in her college's production of "Into the Woods"
zaneyb3000
Featured Actor Joined: 11/14/04
#128re: Favorite Musical - (1 rule. It can't be WICKED)
Posted: 4/4/06 at 9:52pmWell, RENT was what got me into Broadway in the first place... since then, I've come to enjoy Sweeney Todd quite a bit.
#129re: Favorite Musical - (1 rule. It can't be WICKED)
Posted: 4/4/06 at 9:53pmBombay Dreams and Rent.
"People have their opinions and that doesn't mean that their opinions are wrong or right. I just take it with a grain of salt because opinions are like as*holes, everyone has one".
-Felicia Finley-
#130re: Favorite Musical - (1 rule. It can't be WICKED)
Posted: 4/4/06 at 9:54pmDirty Rotten Scoundrels or A Chorus Line.
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broadwayprincess
Swing Joined: 4/4/06
#131re: Favorite Musical - (1 rule. It can't be WICKED)
Posted: 4/4/06 at 11:52pm
Jersey Boys ....100%
I also love Andrew Lippas "John & Jen"
bestnurse
Chorus Member Joined: 6/4/05
#132re: Favorite Musical - (1 rule. It can't be WICKED)
Posted: 4/5/06 at 12:00amI loved Nine but Evita is my favorite. Hope they bring it back soon.
#133re: Favorite Musical - (1 rule. It can't be WICKED)
Posted: 4/5/06 at 12:12amGypsy with Into The Woods at a close second.
#134re: Favorite Musical - (1 rule. It can't be WICKED)
Posted: 4/5/06 at 12:22am
I ADORE West Side Story!
Cabaret would probably be a close second.
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#135re: Favorite Musical - (1 rule. It can't be WICKED)
Posted: 4/5/06 at 12:35am
The funniest is "Guys and Dolls."
The best is "Gypsy."
But for me, my favorite is "On Your Toes." I was stuck in traffic on the 101 freeway in Los Angeles when a show about Broadway musicals on NPR began playing "Slaughter on 10th Avenue" which I vaguely remembered from having seen the revival in 1986. It just touched my soul (the slow pas de deux in the center). Listen to this show sometime. Listen to this amazing music. It has something amazing from every food group and the tunes are freaking haunting. It's so easy to listen to the score and close your eyes and visualize Ray Bolger and Tamara Geve and Helen Broderick (yes, Brodrick Crawford's mom) onstage at The Imperial, before an audience dressed in evening dress and slipping out for a drink at Sardi's during intermission and then off to The Savoy to see Dwight Fiske and his songs at the piano or dance the night away at The Plaza. This show just perfectly captures that amazing era between 1933 and 1941 SO wonderfully.
And the jokes are so modern. A woman sining "I was made, on lemonade, the heart is quicker than the eye." Hilarious.
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King Stevos
Broadway Star Joined: 5/15/03
#136re: Favorite Musical - (1 rule. It can't be WICKED)
Posted: 4/5/06 at 1:04amURINETOWN. Best show I have ever seen, Most fun I've had working on a show too.
"IF I TRY THERE MAY BE A CHANCE / WE COULD LOVE WITH OUR EYES CLOSED/ WITH OUR EYES CLOSED WE COULD CHANGE THE WORLD!"- Stephen Dwight
King Stevos
Broadway Star Joined: 5/15/03
#137re: Favorite Musical - (1 rule. It can't be WICKED)
Posted: 4/5/06 at 1:04amStupid Double clicks....
"IF I TRY THERE MAY BE A CHANCE / WE COULD LOVE WITH OUR EYES CLOSED/ WITH OUR EYES CLOSED WE COULD CHANGE THE WORLD!"- Stephen Dwight
Updated On: 4/5/06 at 01:04 AM
Thesbijean
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/9/04
#138re: Favorite Musical - (1 rule. It can't be WICKED)
Posted: 4/5/06 at 1:23am
TIE
City of Angels AND A Little Night Music
Updated On: 4/5/06 at 01:23 AM
Urban
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/27/05
#139re: Favorite Musical - (1 rule. It can't be WICKED)
Posted: 4/5/06 at 7:46am
Since asked.
'Ragtime' with 'Gypsy' sometimes overtaking depending on my mood.
#140re: Favorite Musical - (1 rule. It can't be WICKED)
Posted: 4/5/06 at 8:04am
If someone put a gun to my head and made me choose between Sweeney Todd, My Fair Lady, and The Last Five Years, I think I'd go with My Fair Lady. It's just so wonderfully perfect with the contrasting characters and their journeys and the MUSIC! *dies*
Okay, I'm shutting up now.
AdamBritten
Understudy Joined: 4/5/06
#141re: Favorite Musical - (1 rule. It can't be WICKED)
Posted: 4/5/06 at 3:56pm
Hmmmm - I'll have to go with Avenue Q - even though I haven't seen it yet, I JUST LOVE IT!
My favorite one that I have seen is probably The Lion King
You gotta run the race to win the prize!
#142re: Favorite Musical - (1 rule. It can't be WICKED)
Posted: 4/5/06 at 4:04pmGuys and Dolls. I really think it's the perfect musical, as many have said.
#143re: Favorite Musical - (1 rule. It can't be WICKED)
Posted: 4/5/06 at 4:08pmJesus Christ Superstar
"One day, is that enough for you, one day he went dumb, one day I went blind, one day we'll go deaf, one day we were born, one day we shall die, the same day, the same second, is that enough for you? They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more." --Waiting for Godot
#144re: Favorite Musical - (1 rule. It can't be WICKED)
Posted: 4/5/06 at 5:57pmA toss-up between Sweeney Todd and Into the Woods.
#145re: Favorite Musical - (1 rule. It can't be WICKED)
Posted: 4/5/06 at 7:03pmCabaret hands down.
elphieisperky
Broadway Star Joined: 2/21/05
#146re: Favorite Musical - (1 rule. It can't be WICKED)
Posted: 4/5/06 at 7:32pm
Okay, I'll be the one to stand up here. Why not Wicked? We all have our own opinions, and mine is that Wicked and RENT are my favorite shows, is that a problem? I certainly hope not.
Aaaaaaanyway. RENT is an extremely close second, with DRS as a third. Oh, you only asked for 1? Sorry, it's hard to pick!
#147re: Favorite Musical - (1 rule. It can't be WICKED)
Posted: 4/5/06 at 7:42pmI agree that people should be allowed to pick Wicked if they want to. Is it a rule that musical fans have to dislike Wicked? Anyway right now I have to say Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. In my opinion it is everything a musical should be.
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#148re: Favorite Musical - (1 rule. It can't be WICKED)
Posted: 4/5/06 at 8:45pmToo many to choose but Wicked is not in the running
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#149re: Favorite Musical - (1 rule. It can't be WICKED)
Posted: 4/5/06 at 8:48pmDirty Rotten Scoundrels and Jersey Boys
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