Moment when you first got into musicals?
Moment when you first got into musicals?
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#0Moment when you first got into musicals?
Posted: 7/14/05 at 10:40pmI was hooked when I first listened to RENT. It was completely unlike any musical that I had heard up to that point. And I thought to myself, "Holy ****....there's got to be more that are just as awesome as this...". And lucky for me, there was.
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Posted: 7/14/05 at 10:46pmEl Grande "W". One thing led to another, from there, really. I think this was around January...when I first listened to it. A friend brought it in our art class to listen to and being a classically trained instrumentalist (not a vocalist) I really fell in love with the melodies and dissonance. And just the sheer catchiness. Very different from the music I was currently listening to.
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Posted: 7/14/05 at 10:47pm
I saw The King and I revival when I was 7
I've been hooked ever since
"No two shows are alike in the making. Each show is a living
piece of your life in a small unreal world with its own character
and integrity; its own new set of memorable experiences and
incredible happenings. You begin to love and adapt to its strangeness.
Dreams harden into substance. Values come into focus. You wish
it would never end. The dream world vanishes like mist before a
rising sun; part of you vanishes with it. And back you land in the
real world with a thud- fogged, uneasy, jittery, difficult to get
along with. There is only one cure. A new show. A new, small
unreal world; new visions, experiences, incredible happenings.
Again you love it, adapt to it, wish it would never end.
But end it does. Another part of you vanishes.
That's show business."-Anonymous
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Posted: 7/14/05 at 10:47pmI gradually became more and more interested as the years passed by. When I was 3, my mother would tke me to shows and I would cry. However, when I turned 6 I started to like the shows more and more. By the time I was 12, I wanted to see shows once a month.
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Posted: 7/14/05 at 10:53pmMy parents are pretty big Broadway fans, so they always had recordings playing when I was really little. When I was 3, I started doing theatre, so I learned a lot more past JCS and Guys & Dolls (my parent's favorites). When I was 11, I got really hooked on RENT. That really "got me into" musicals. I became a Broadway addict, opposed to the Broadway fan that I was for the first 11 years of my life.
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Posted: 7/14/05 at 10:54pm
To be honest, from the moment I was born. I remember from an early age my mother and I twirling around to The King and I, West Side Story, Gypsy, Kiss Me Kate, Oklahoma!, the Sound of Music, etc - and then as I got older to Evita, Follies, Barnum, and A Little Night Music.
The addiction has never stopped! 
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Posted: 7/15/05 at 3:24am
I was watching Will Rogers Follies in 1992, Dee Hoty had just finished belting "No Man Left for me", then Keith Carradine comes on stage, with chorus girls dressed as jewels (sapphires, pearls, topaz, etc) and the costumes astounded me.
I was hooked.
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Posted: 7/15/05 at 3:39amR&H Cinderella (1965) I saw it on PBS many years ago and I was hooked to Musical Theater.
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Posted: 7/15/05 at 3:40am
When I was 10 or 11 my cousins took me to see Rocky Horror Show. I've been hooked ever since.
Well..actually..when I was maybe 4, I was quite obesessed with Les Mis, and I'd run around the house singing Master of the House.
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Posted: 7/15/05 at 3:50amWatching Sound of Music the movie then seeing it on stage when I was still a little pup.
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Posted: 7/15/05 at 5:10amI grew up in a very theatre-oriented family. We always played records and tapes of musicals, so from a very early age, maybe four, I got into musicals. I think the old MGM musicals I used to watch as a child influenced it too.
"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."
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