Most Unique Musical You've Ever Seen?
Most Unique Musical You've Ever Seen?
Cruel_Sandwich
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/30/05
#0Most Unique Musical You've Ever Seen?
Posted: 10/13/05 at 11:25pm
Which would you say? The kind where you just step back and say...WOW! I've NEVER seen anything like that!
Hedwig for me.
#1re: Most Unique Musical You've Ever Seen?
Posted: 10/13/05 at 11:26pmi thought rent was pretty unique when i saw it the first time.
#2re: Most Unique Musical You've Ever Seen?
Posted: 10/13/05 at 11:31pmI will be the first to say IN MY LIFE. oh yes!
ZONEACE
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/10/05
#3re: Most Unique Musical You've Ever Seen?
Posted: 10/14/05 at 12:07amIll be the second to say In My Life.
when ducks grow thumbs then maybe my opinion will change.
broadwaystar2b
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/28/04
#4re: Most Unique Musical You've Ever Seen?
Posted: 10/14/05 at 12:22am
Cats
Laugh all you want but it was my first Broadway show and ultimately seeing it changed the course of my entire life
defying_gravity2
Broadway Star Joined: 9/4/05
#5re: Most Unique Musical You've Ever Seen?
Posted: 10/14/05 at 12:32amI totally agree about RENT. Considering was was out when RENT opened, it is unique. I thought Side Show was pretty uniqe as well.
Pillowpants. 'Nuff said.
#6re: Most Unique Musical You've Ever Seen?
Posted: 10/14/05 at 12:34am
The Lion King.
Do I think it's the best musical ever? Not at all.
But, there was so much in that show that was unique and innovating, that made me go "wow".
#7re: Most Unique Musical You've Ever Seen?
Posted: 10/14/05 at 12:35amDon't yell at me...but I'm going with Taboo.
"Nothing's lost forever. In this world, there is a kind of painful progress. Longing for what we've left behind, and dreaming ahead." -Tony Kushner's Angels in America
#8re: Most Unique Musical You've Ever Seen?
Posted: 10/14/05 at 12:45amI second Taboo. Wow just...wow
#9re: Most Unique Musical You've Ever Seen?
Posted: 10/14/05 at 12:45amI second Taboo. Wow just...wow
#10re: Most Unique Musical You've Ever Seen?
Posted: 10/14/05 at 7:33am
I'll respond by saying...
SHOCKHEADED PETER.
That was such an amazing show. (Ducks from things thrown by SP haters.) True, the opening scene with the emcee really could've been cut down, but the show was excellent from there on in. That was off broadway, though, but it was still the strangest, wierdest and most funniest musical I ever saw.
MARGARET: "Clara, stop that. That's illegal." - The Light in the Piazza
"I'm not in Bambi and I'm not blonde!" - Idina Menzel
"I'm not in Bambi and I'm not blonde!" - Idina Menzel
#11re: Most Unique Musical You've Ever Seen?
Posted: 10/14/05 at 7:53amHedwig and The Angry Inch... I trudged all over through the snow to find the thing... was scared out of my mind descending into that rat-trap basement to see it... and then had my mind blown by the show.
His gentle companion: Ha! If they only knew.
-Chess ************************* I've seen plays that were more exciting than this. Honest to God... PLAYS. -Homer at the zoo.
#12re: Most Unique Musical You've Ever Seen?
Posted: 10/14/05 at 8:36am"Whistle Down the Wind" - it also had the biggest set I think I have ever seen, It was - Overwhelming.
"It is bad enough that people are dying of AIDS, but no one should die of ignorance." -
Elizabeth Taylor
bare_nakedlady
Broadway Star Joined: 5/9/05
#13re: Most Unique Musical You've Ever Seen?
Posted: 10/14/05 at 9:46am
Sorry, but you said unique...
BKLYN
"It's like children's theatre for 40-year old gay people!" - XANADU THE MUSICAL
#14re: Most Unique Musical You've Ever Seen?
Posted: 10/14/05 at 9:52amI'd say Caroline, Or Change...but I saw a really weird show called Squonk (sp?) several years ago that was way weirder than that, but it more of a "special event" than a musical.
peach
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/29/05
#15re: Most Unique Musical You've Ever Seen?
Posted: 10/14/05 at 9:54am
I'm going with Hedwig here.
Although, I have to agree about CATS. For it's time, it was extremely unique.
#16re: Most Unique Musical You've Ever Seen?
Posted: 10/14/05 at 9:55amI have to go with TOMMY. That just sticks out in my mind even years later. The story is bizzare in itself and the stage rocked. WOW!
"Theater is not only the meeting place of all the arts, but the return of art to life." -- Oscar Wilde
#17re: Most Unique Musical You've Ever Seen?
Posted: 10/14/05 at 10:15ambroadwaystar2b--- I'm with you on "Cats." A completely unique concept and show.
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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Sant
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/12/04
#19re: Most Unique Musical You've Ever Seen?
Posted: 10/14/05 at 10:18amInto the Woods
Ah well, that's life
#20re: Most Unique Musical You've Ever Seen?
Posted: 10/14/05 at 12:02pmDe La Guarda. Most unique and exciting theatrical experience I have ever witnessed. It should still be running.
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
defying_gravity2
Broadway Star Joined: 9/4/05
#21re: Most Unique Musical You've Ever Seen?
Posted: 10/15/05 at 3:06amI think BKLYN was unique as well. I guess I agree about Cats, too.
Pillowpants. 'Nuff said.
#22re: Most Unique Musical You've Ever Seen?
Posted: 10/15/05 at 3:25am
The new Sweeney production is pretty darn unique! IMO
(I only just figured out what IMO meant and really wanted to use it)
"That Sondheim kid has a big future."-Nathan Lane
Chrysanthemum62001
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/14/04
#23re: Most Unique Musical You've Ever Seen?
Posted: 10/15/05 at 3:52am
I'm gonna go with Starlight Express. Roller skates?! Yes, roller skates.
And the new Sweeney. Just becuase it's so different from anything I've ever seen.
"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
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
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