5 favorite shows (either you have seen or not)
#25re: 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...
#26re: 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
#27re: 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
#28re: 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
jasobres
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/9/05
#29re: 5 favorite shows (either you have seen or not)
Posted: 1/9/06 at 8:50amRight 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.
#30re: 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.
#31re: 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
hen88
Understudy Joined: 11/30/05
#32re: 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
xolyddleoneeox
Swing Joined: 9/19/05
#33re: 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
xolyddleoneeox
Swing Joined: 9/19/05
#34re: 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
30/90 Playout
Stand-by Joined: 10/7/05
#35re: 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
#36re: 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
#37re: 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
stylinbohemian
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/24/05
#38re: 5 favorite shows (either you have seen or not)
Posted: 1/9/06 at 8:25pm
Hairspray
Bye Bye Birdie
Wicked
RENT
Les Miserable
gavrochegirl
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/16/05
#39re: 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
#40re: 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.
#41re: 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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