Your Favorite Love Story Musical
Your Favorite Love Story Musical
#0Your Favorite Love Story Musical
Posted: 4/20/06 at 5:04pm
omg mine has to be AIDA
Others:
Man of La Mancha
West Side Story
Subways are for Sleeping (just wondering, has anybody heard of it?)
Does anyone have any that they just adore?
Pretty is what changes. What the eye arranges is what is beautiful.
#1re: Your Favorite Love Story Musical
Posted: 4/20/06 at 5:14pm
Bat Boy 
"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
popular_elphie
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/3/05
#3re: Your Favorite Love Story Musical
Posted: 4/20/06 at 5:22pmSpamalot. It ended with a gay wedding. :)
Herbie: "Honey, Don't you know there's a depression?"
Rose: "Of Course I know, I Watch Fox News"
-(modified)Gypsy
Broadway Schedule
December 5th- Hamilton, On Your Feet
December 19th- Noises Off, Edith Piaf Concert at Town Hall
Rose: "Of Course I know, I Watch Fox News"
-(modified)Gypsy
Broadway Schedule
December 5th- Hamilton, On Your Feet
December 19th- Noises Off, Edith Piaf Concert at Town Hall
mrslovett7
Leading Actor Joined: 3/18/06
#4re: Your Favorite Love Story Musical
Posted: 4/20/06 at 5:26pmPhantom of the Opera and Light in the Piazza
~H*
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-Michael Cerveris
#5re: Your Favorite Love Story Musical
Posted: 4/20/06 at 5:29pm
For any musical to be one of my favorites, it has to have a lot more going on that a love story...
I do like Subways are For Sleeping, but not for the love story- more for Phyllis Newman's character and her songs, especially "Shoo-In".
I guess if it's musicals where the most significant throughline has to do with romantic love, my favorite would be Last 5 Years.
[title of show] on Broadway. it's time. believe.
kate2
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/6/05
peggyandvelma
Broadway Star Joined: 9/4/05
#7re: Your Favorite Love Story Musical
Posted: 4/20/06 at 5:54pmBeauty and the Beast for the sheer timeless romance. Probably moreso the film than the show, though. Just beautiful.
No one is alone.
#8re: Your Favorite Love Story Musical
Posted: 4/20/06 at 5:59pmAspects of Love
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
#9re: Your Favorite Love Story Musical
Posted: 4/20/06 at 6:12pmSubways are for Sleeping is one of my favorite guilty pleasures recordings. The score by Jule Styne is top notch and by listening to it alone you would wonder why the show was a flop. The problem was in the book and in the plot --which were both weak. The audiences never bought into the weak main storyline (the Sydney Chaplin and Carol Lawrence characters), but adored the supporting comic storyline (the Orson Bean and Phyllis Newman characters) --which there wasn't enough of. Also the main storyline was a little too unbelievable --why would a successful journalist give up her career to live on the streets of NYC? There were also major chemistry problems between Chaplin and Lawrence, who didn't enjoy working together and evidently it came across in their performances. The show still ran for almost a year thanks mostly to the publicity caused by David Merrick's infamous newspaper stunt. Phyllis Newman also won a Tony for her performance beating out Barbra Streisand from I Can Get it For You Wholesale.
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Updated On: 4/20/06 at 06:12 PM
#10re: Your Favorite Love Story Musical
Posted: 4/20/06 at 6:14pm
Spamalot- lol
I really should have thought of Light in the Piazza.
Also, the Broadway version of Cinderella, Pal Joey, and Guys and Dolls (sorry, just love Frank Sinatra...yeah, I know he wasn't in cinderella!)
But I am still obsessed with Aida and it is my top pick!
Pretty is what changes. What the eye arranges is what is beautiful.
tz0o
Leading Actor Joined: 11/10/05
#11re: Your Favorite Love Story Musical
Posted: 4/20/06 at 6:39pm
Oh, so many.
The Phantom of the Opera
South Pacific (I've only listened to the music, unfortunately, though)
The Fantasticks
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#12re: Your Favorite Love Story Musical
Posted: 4/20/06 at 6:41pm
Too many
The Last 5 Years
West Side Story
Bye Bye Birdie (does it count?)
The Light In The Piazza
The Fantasticks
#13re: Your Favorite Love Story Musical
Posted: 4/20/06 at 6:43pmLast 5 Years is my favorite by far
JemimaPearl
Understudy Joined: 5/12/05
#14re: Your Favorite Love Story Musical
Posted: 4/20/06 at 6:43pmPhantom of the Opera and Aida
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FoscasBohemianDream
Broadway Star Joined: 1/20/06
#15re: Your Favorite Love Story Musical
Posted: 4/20/06 at 6:43pm
1-Passion
2-Sunday In The Park With George (there's a significant love story at the center of the show)
3-The King and I
musicaltheater1
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/19/05
#16re: Your Favorite Love Story Musical
Posted: 4/20/06 at 9:31pm
Miss Saigon!
"I love acting. It is so much more real than life." Oscar Wilde
"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music." Aldous Huxley
"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music." Aldous Huxley
#17re: Your Favorite Love Story Musical
Posted: 4/20/06 at 9:35pm
The Last 5 Years
Hairspray 
"Are you sorry for civilization? I am sorry for it too." ~Coast of Utopia: Shipwreck
#19re: Your Favorite Love Story Musical
Posted: 4/20/06 at 10:03pm
West Side Story
The Beautiful Game
VIVA! THE EMERALD TEAM!
MOTHER MARY'S IRISH SONS.
VIVA! THE BOYS IN GREEN!
SHOUT FOR IRELAND'S YOUNGEST GUNS
GREEN IS THE COLOUR
SOCCER THE GAME.
SCORE!
A THOUSAND MORE FOR
THE BOYS IN GREEN.
THE EMERALD TEAM;
PLAYING FOR IRELAND, PLAYING FOR IRELAND!
It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story...
AGATHA CHRISTIE, Life magazine, May 14, 1956
#20re: Your Favorite Love Story Musical
Posted: 4/20/06 at 10:09pmlast 5 years. love it.
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#21re: Your Favorite Love Story Musical
Posted: 4/20/06 at 10:11pm
The Phantom of the Opera
The Last 5 Years
Beauty and the Beast
Aida
#22re: Your Favorite Love Story Musical
Posted: 4/20/06 at 10:11pmRent
Go ask Alice
When she's ten feet tall
ashley0139
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/3/05
#23re: Your Favorite Love Story Musical
Posted: 4/20/06 at 10:15pmLast 5 Years was my first thought. Also gotta love Aida.
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#24re: Your Favorite Love Story Musical
Posted: 4/20/06 at 10:23pm
Beauty and the Beast
Is there really any musical that is not a love story to some extent?
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