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#26

re: 5 favorite shows (either you have seen or not)

Posted: 1/8/06 at 11:41pm

Les Miserables
The Last 5 Years
Ragtime
Beauty and the Beast
tick, tick... BOOM!

I don't know if I can even count RENT among my favorites anymore...

"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."

#27

re: 5 favorite shows (either you have seen or not)

Posted: 1/9/06 at 12:36am

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Wicked
Thoroughly Modern Millie
Ragtime
Show Boat

#28

re: 5 favorite shows (either you have seen or not)

Posted: 1/9/06 at 6:23am

CAROUSEL (is this not the most beautiful score, ever???)
GYPSY (Broadway at its best)
CABARET (original vers or revisal..both are Excellent!)
SWEENEY TODD (Sondheim tops Sondheim!)
LES MIZ (always an emotional rollar coaster)

Here are some you will NEVER see anywhere near my top five: SUNSET BLVD (THE worst musical to win a Tony - only because it had no competition!); LION KING (great opening then it fizzles); WICKED (an uneven but allright show, but too many here keep proclaiming it "the best show ever" even though many of them have never seen anything else!); any Jukebox show (so needless on Broadway. Let them play Vegas where they belong.); and any ALW show not written in collaboration with Tim Rice. (Sorry Andrew..you write pretty tunes, but you are a lousy producer, a terrible judge of talent and horrible at producing cast albums!)

Cast albums are NOT "soundtracks."
Live theatre does not use a "soundtrack." If it did, it wouldn't be live theatre!

I host a weekly one-hour radio program featuring cast album selections as well as songs by cabaret, jazz and theatre artists. The program, FRONT ROW CENTRE is heard Sundays 9 to 10 am and also Saturdays from 8 to 9 am (eastern times) on www.proudfm.com

#29

re: 5 favorite shows (either you have seen or not)

Posted: 1/9/06 at 7:44am

1) Hello Dolly
2) Sweeney Todd
3) Candide
4) Jane Eyre
5) Ragtime

Edith 'Little Edie' Bouvier Beale: Do you think my costume looked all right for Brooks? I think he was a little amazed.

#30

re: 5 favorite shows (either you have seen or not)

Posted: 1/9/06 at 8:50am

Right now, I can only name the top four in no particular order: Wicked, The Producers, Avenue Q, Spamalot. But I think the fifth spot might go to Rent.

"Ev'ry-buddy wants ta get into de act!" - Jimmy Durante "Breathe from your hoo-hoo." -Kristin Chenoweth

#31

re: 5 favorite shows (either you have seen or not)

Posted: 1/9/06 at 8:56am

In no real order:
My Fair Lady
The Last 5 Years
Sweeney Todd
The Light in the Piazza
West Side Story
Urinetown

Oh. What? That was six? Hmm, I guess I didn't pass first grade math AFTER all.

artistic dominion

#32

re: 5 favorite shows (either you have seen or not)

Posted: 1/9/06 at 9:37am

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
My One and Only
Sweeney Todd
Sweet Charity
The Boy From Oz

#33

re: 5 favorite shows (either you have seen or not)

Posted: 1/9/06 at 9:39am

Caroline, or Change
Uncle Vanya (at BAM w/ Simon Russell Beale & Helen McCrory)
True West (w/ John C. Reilly & Philip Seymour Hoffman)
A View from the Bridge (w/ Anthony LaPaglia & Allison Janney)
Sweeney Todd (current Revival)

These are just productions that I've seen. If you are talking about my favorite musicals of all time (whether I've seen them or not, they are as follows:

Caroline, or Change
Sunday in the Park with George
Sweeney Todd
A Little Night Music
Floyd Collins / The Wild Party (LaChiusa)

Updated On: 1/9/06 at 09:39 AM

#34

re: 5 favorite shows (either you have seen or not)

Posted: 1/9/06 at 8:01pm

easy:

rent
wicked
bklyn
dirty rotten scoundrels
hairspray

and like a 1000000000 othersss

#35

re: 5 favorite shows (either you have seen or not)

Posted: 1/9/06 at 8:01pm

easy:

rent
wicked
bklyn
dirty rotten scoundrels
hairspray

and like a 1000000000 othersss

#36

re: 5 favorite shows (either you have seen or not)

Posted: 1/9/06 at 8:13pm

The Last 5 Years
Rent
tick, tick...BOOM!
Parade
Wicked

#37

re: 5 favorite shows (either you have seen or not)

Posted: 1/9/06 at 8:17pm

In order:

1. Sweeney Todd
2. A Chorus Line
3. Rent
4. Chicago
5. Avenue Q

I am a firm believer in serendipity- all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose was all along.

#38

re: 5 favorite shows (either you have seen or not)

Posted: 1/9/06 at 8:23pm

In no order, both musicals and straight plays:

Doubt
Into The Woods
The Last 5 Years
RENT
See What I Wanna See

#39

re: 5 favorite shows (either you have seen or not)

Posted: 1/9/06 at 8:25pm

Hairspray
Bye Bye Birdie
Wicked
RENT
Les Miserable

"If There's One Thing to Learn it's You Just Can't Go Wrong If You Follow Your Heart, and End With A Song"

#40

re: 5 favorite shows (either you have seen or not)

Posted: 1/9/06 at 8:26pm

In no order...

Les Miserables (Duh.)
The Last 5 Years
Sweeney Todd
Ragtime
Assassins

What the puck?!

#41

re: 5 favorite shows (either you have seen or not)

Posted: 1/9/06 at 8:31pm

FINIAN'S RAINBOW - Issues of Racism and Capitalism explored with a leprechaun and a classic score! HEAVEN!

FOLLIES - Musical theatre language dramatically used to explore the themes of time, perception, regrets and survival.

GYPSY - One of musical theatre greatest characters.

CAROUSEL - to qoute PASSION "every moment bursts with feeling"

SMILE - satiric, biting, mean and VERY telling of the mentality of American (I won't say specifically what part of the population) culture.

#42

re: 5 favorite shows (either you have seen or not)

Posted: 1/9/06 at 8:36pm

Difficult...difficult...

1. The Last 5 Years
2. RENT
3. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
4. Parade
5. **tie** - tick, tick...BOOM!/Bare/Les Miserables

TOO DIFFICULT GAH. lol.

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