Favorite show ever
Favorite show ever
Joined: 12/31/69
MarkCohen
Broadway Star Joined: 12/19/04
#1re: Favorite show ever
Posted: 12/23/04 at 4:03pm
RENT is my all time favourite, because it was my first obsession. Sweeney Todd is a very very close second.
#2re: Favorite show ever
Posted: 12/23/04 at 4:04pmRENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"At the opening night party, they had clowns on stilts, jugglers, a chocolate fountain, popcorn, hot dogs. [My son] looked at me like I had been holding back. Like, 'This is what you do?' I had to tell him, 'No, no, darling. Opening nights don't usually look like this.' It's usually a dark bar with a bottle of vodka." ?Chitty Chitty Bang Bang's Jan Maxwell
plus i proudly share the title of the shortest member over the age of 10 with wickedrentq!
CaMi MiAmI
Chorus Member Joined: 8/7/04
#3re: Favorite show ever
Posted: 12/23/04 at 4:04pmhmm that's interesting, actually I had the best time when I saw it. Anyways mine is Gypsy.
#4re: Favorite show ever
Posted: 12/23/04 at 4:04pm
aaah that's too hard
well I've only seen BATB, so that I guess
but if we're deciding things that we HAVEN'T seen..RENT, TTB, TMM, The Frogs, YAGMCB, Amour, The Lion King, BATB, Annie, West Side Story, and many many more....
I have too many favorite
"It's a great feeling of power to be naked in front of people. We're happy to watch actual incredible graphic violence and gore, but as soon as somebody's naked it seems like the public goes a bit bananas about the whole thing."
SuddenlyMara
Swing Joined: 12/23/04
#5re: Favorite show ever
Posted: 12/23/04 at 4:06pmThe Lion King was simply phenomenal, as was Miss Saigon. And RENT was really quite good. I was rather dissapointed with Cats, though. Updated On: 12/23/04 at 04:06 PM
#6re: Favorite show ever
Posted: 12/23/04 at 4:09pm
Well, since I have not seen too many shows, I will take this question as:
"Favorite Cast Recording Ever"
and with that question, I have a few.
Porgy and Bess
Oklahoma
West Side Story
RENT
POTO
"They're eating her and then they're going to eat me. OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!!!!" -Troll 2
#7re: Favorite show ever
Posted: 12/23/04 at 4:09pmYou just can't help but worry for someone whose favorite show is a collection of ABBA songs.
"One no longer loves one's insight enough once one communicates it."
The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
#8re: Favorite show ever
Posted: 12/23/04 at 4:10pmI used to have the BIGGEST obsession with ABBA...of course this was before I discovered the wonderful Broadway obsession that will never ever leave me
"It's a great feeling of power to be naked in front of people. We're happy to watch actual incredible graphic violence and gore, but as soon as somebody's naked it seems like the public goes a bit bananas about the whole thing."
#9re: Favorite show ever
Posted: 12/23/04 at 4:10pm
Not in any order:
Jekyll and Hyde(my friend and mentor's first big show)
Scarlet Pimpernel(look left)
Joseph...Dreamcoat(the first show I memorized for no reason)
Les Miz(my first EPIC musical)
Assassins(the first show that really made me think)
David walked into the valley
With a stone clutched in his hand
He was only a boy
But he knew someone must take a stand
There will always be a valley
Always mountains one must scale
There will always be perilous waters
Which someone must sail
-Into the Fire
Scarlet Pimpernel
#10re: Favorite show ever
Posted: 12/23/04 at 5:00pmthough it was only off-broadway, nothing can ever beat the last 5 years! i just love it so much. other shows come close, but L5Y is the only show that i will never get sick of.
#11re: Favorite show ever
Posted: 12/23/04 at 5:05pm
Priest, you read my mind.
I don't have ONE favorite show, but there are a few shows that I consider nearly perfect in every single aspect. They are:
Gypsy
The Sound of Music
Rent
Sunday in the Park with George
Into the Woods
Nine
West Side Story
Shows I think are perfectly written, but don't love:
South Pacific
Carousel
The Music Man
Sweeney Todd
Pacific Overtures
Shows I absolutely LOVE that are poorly written:
Taboo
The Life
Steel Pier
Shenendoah
"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy."
-Charlie Manson
#12re: Favorite show ever
Posted: 12/23/04 at 5:11pm
favorite shows:
taboo
assassins
into the woods
hair
caroline or change
recordings i love
the life
sweet smell of success
king of hearts
boys from syracuse
closer to heaven
"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed
#13re: Favorite show ever
Posted: 12/23/04 at 5:12pm
Ew, I'm so indecisive...
tick, tick... BOOM!
RENT
Sweeney Todd
Taboo
Les Miserables
Mamma Mia... kill me NOW.
"The stage is where I live and come alive and act out all the things that go on in my life. It's not just what I do for a living, it's my shrink and my love affair. No one in my life has ever or ever will kiss me on the mouth like this lover called my relationship with my performance."
#14re: Favorite show ever
Posted: 12/23/04 at 5:15pm
Urinetown.
However, my first two obsessions were Miss Saigon and Scarlet Pimpernel.
#15re: Favorite show ever
Posted: 12/23/04 at 5:17pm
RENT
JCS
TTB
AIDA
Taboo
Pippin
Godspell
Zanna, Don't!
I have my books and my poetry to protect me...
maybethistime
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/3/04
#16re: Favorite show ever
Posted: 12/23/04 at 5:56pmcould never decide(although it's easy to rule out quite a few **cough**MAMMA MIA**cough**)
#17re: Favorite show ever
Posted: 12/23/04 at 6:01pmhairspray and rent...but rent is lightyears alway from hairspray
"gimme a bottle of bourbon and half a chicken and i'll conquer the world!"
Swiftynifty15
Broadway Star Joined: 9/18/04
#18re: Favorite show ever
Posted: 12/23/04 at 6:06pmGrease is an awesome show but I can't pick favorites.
#19re: Favorite show ever
Posted: 12/23/04 at 6:07pmooh i love Zanna, Don't!!!
"It's a great feeling of power to be naked in front of people. We're happy to watch actual incredible graphic violence and gore, but as soon as somebody's naked it seems like the public goes a bit bananas about the whole thing."
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#20re: Favorite show ever
Posted: 12/23/04 at 6:11pm
Annie (yes, the songs get stuck in your head, but it's a classic: NYC setting, early 1900's, what more do you want? well, there are a few things, but it's an awesome one nonetheless)
and
Les Miserables is stunning.
#21re: Favorite show ever
Posted: 12/23/04 at 6:12pmRocky Horror!
"The theater is my life. I live it. I breathe it. I fondle it till it falls asleep." Jack (Will And Grace)
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#22re: Favorite show ever
Posted: 12/23/04 at 7:03pmMiss Saigon
NIL MAGNUM NISI BONUM "No greatness without goodness."
RENThead, enLIGHist, Ozalot, Grobanite, Ringer, Pickwick LW, Wicked, Lost, American Dreams, West Wing
Lea S. Hugh J. Adam P. Idina M. Matt M. Taye D.
#23re: Favorite show ever
Posted: 12/23/04 at 7:08pmOh I completely forgot ANNIE! People dismiss it so quickly because it's now cliche, but it's cliche now for a reason - it's an amazing show!
"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy."
-Charlie Manson
#24re: Favorite show ever
Posted: 12/23/04 at 7:10pm
Yeah, I'm a loser.
AIDA
... followed very closely by Rent, Cabaret and Oklahoma! in that order.
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