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#1

A little feedback please

Posted: 3/11/05 at 9:53am

Hey everybody! I'm doing a history project on The golden age of Broadway vs. today, and I was wondering if I could get some feedback from you.
Just have two questions:

What is your favorite musical of the golden Age?

What is your favorite musical of today?
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#2

re: A little feedback please

Posted: 3/11/05 at 9:59am

I'm afraid that you will find it hard to get people on this board to tell you what their favorite musical of the golden age was since probably over 90% of the people who post on this board were most likely born after the 70s and a lot of them were born during the 90s. I suggest looking at "Broadway The American Musical" series as a source. Good luck with your project.
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#3

re: A little feedback please

Posted: 3/11/05 at 10:07am

Favourite Musical of the Golden Age: Gypsy or West side Story

Favourite Musical of the Sondheim Age: Sweeney Todd or Sunday in the Park With George

Favourite Musical from the 90's: Assassins, Passion or Parade.

Favourite Musical of this Millenium: The Last Five Years or Avenue Q
#4

re: A little feedback please

Posted: 3/11/05 at 12:24pm

What is your favorite musical of the golden Age?
West Side Story

What is your favorite musical of today?
City of Angels
or, if that isn't recent enough, Ragtime
#5

re: A little feedback please

Posted: 3/11/05 at 12:35pm

Golden Age: My Fair Lady
Today: Les Miserables or Ragtime (depending on how for back you consider "today")
#6

re: A little feedback please

Posted: 3/11/05 at 12:40pm

Favorite Musical of the Golden Age-The Music Man

Favorite Musical from Today-Wicked!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

BTW pab, just because some of us were not alive in the 50s doesn't mean that we don't have a favorite musical from that era. Revivals help and so do movie musicals from that time. We have favorites and just because we weren't alive then doesn't prohibit us from knowing what we like. (I'm sorry if I sound annoying and mean but I hate it when people tell me that just because of my age, I can't know something.)
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#7

re: A little feedback please

Posted: 3/11/05 at 1:25pm

A revival and an original production are different in my opinion. If this is in fact a HISTORY project about the differences in productions then and now, a number of things would have to be taken into account like the fact that no mics were used in some of those original productions, for one, and there would be other elements to focus on as well.

Seeing that she did say it was a HISTORY project I assumed that she was asking people who had seen productions during that time when they originally played. If the question is just about all musical productions, sure, anyone can talk about a revivals because they are always taking place. It then seems to me less of a HISTORY project but that's just how I read the original post.

bwaybaby891, I think that your skin is just a little too thin. I am FULLY aware that because some of you were not alive in the 50s doesn't mean that you don't have a favorite musical from that era. DUH! You should maybe try to not over analyze everything at such a young age. After all it's only a HISTORY project.
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#8

re: A little feedback please

Posted: 3/11/05 at 5:17pm

Favourites from the "golden age": SHOW BOAT, PORGY & BESS, OKLAHOMA!, CAROUSEL, KISS ME KATE, THE KING AND I, GUYS & DOLLS, MY FAIR LADY, GYPSY, CABARET

Favourites 1970+: COMPANY, CHORUS LINE, CHICAGO, SWEENEY TODD, EVITA, SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE, LES MIZ, CITY OF ANGELS, GRAND HOTEL, RAGTIME

Age should certainly not be a factor in one's knowledge of musicals from before they were born. There are scripts, cast albums (for most musicals since OKLAHOMA!) and movie versions of varying fidelity. There are, however, some who do not know the older shows because they haven't had a chance to discover them as yet.

If you don't know any of the shows listed above, check your library for cast recordings and scripts. All of the above are well worth exploring.

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

#9

re: A little feedback please

Posted: 3/11/05 at 5:23pm

Well, I'm only 13 so I never got to see any of the original productions of Golden Age musicals. However, I have seen student productions and revivals, so I'll give you the best answer I can.
FAVORITE MUSICAL OF THE GOLDEN AGE
Pal Joey, My Fair Lady, Cabaret, Kiss Me Kate
FAVORITE MUSICAL OF TODAY
Rent, Urinetown, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Into the Woods
#10

re: A little feedback please

Posted: 3/11/05 at 5:25pm

GOLDEN AGE:
Pal Joey, Guys and Dolls, Hair (60s... i guess not really golden age but w/e)
LAST 5 YEARS:
Taboo, Amour, Caroline or Change, Parade
"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
#11

re: A little feedback please

Posted: 3/11/05 at 5:28pm

GOLDEN AGE: Of Thee I Sing, Show Boat, Gypsy
1970-99: EVERYTHING SONDHEIM WROTE IN THIS PERIOD, Falsettos, Parade, Side Show, A New Brain
2000-PRESENT: Caroline or Change, Amour, A Man of No Importance, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

Updated On: 3/11/05 at 05:28 PM

#12

re: A little feedback please

Posted: 3/11/05 at 5:32pm

"golden age" MY FAIR LADY

today A CHORUS LINE
"Blow out the candles Robert and make a wish. Want something, want SOMETHING."
#13

re: A little feedback please

Posted: 3/11/05 at 5:33pm

Golden Age: GYPSY, THE MUSIC MAN, THE SOUND OF MUSIC, THE KING AND I, CAROUSEL, HAIR and BRIGADOON.

70's-90's: All Sondheim, RENT, PARADE.

2000's: CAROLINE OR CHANGE, TABOO, DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS
"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy." -Charlie Manson
#14

re: A little feedback please

Posted: 3/11/05 at 5:57pm

i don't like to name favorites, but instructive for you paper might be...

GOLDEN AGE: Guys and Dolls
RECENT: The Producers
Will: They don't give out awards for helping people be gay... unless you count the Tonys. "I guarantee that we'll have tough times. I guarantee that at some point one or both of us will want to get out. But I also guarantee that if I don't ask you to be mine, I'll regret it for the rest of my life..."
#17

re: A little feedback please

Posted: 3/11/05 at 7:11pm

then: Kiss Me Kate, Show bOAT, tHE kING AND I

now: Into the Woods, Ms. Saigon, The Producers
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#18

re: A little feedback please

Posted: 3/11/05 at 9:41pm

Golden Age: West Side Story
Now: Rent or Urinetown
A little swash, a bit of buckle - you'll love it more than bread.
#19

re: A little feedback please

Posted: 3/11/05 at 9:43pm

Golden Age: Cabaret (if that counts)
Now: Avenue Q and RENT
And the other thing about the Phantom Lady was, Bert, she realized, in the city that never sleeps... What did she realize, Kitten? That all the songs she'd listened to, all the love songs, that they were only songs. What's wrong with that? Nothing, if you don't believe in them. But she did, you see. She believed in enchanted evenings, and she believed that a small cloud passed overhead and cried down on a flower bed, and she even believed there was breakfast to be had... Where? On Pluto. The mysterious, icy wastes of Pluto.
#20

re: A little feedback please

Posted: 3/11/05 at 9:45pm

Golden Age: Carnival, West Side Story, Carousel, Anything Goes.

Now: Parade, Wicked, Avenue Q, Hairspray, Big River

In no particular order, of course.
"Do you know what pledge time is, Andrew"? said the PBS Executive. "Yes", Lloyd Webber replied. "My 50th birthday special must be one program that gets done a lot." "No", mused the man from PBS heedlessy. "Not so much. Our Stephen Sondheim Carnegie Hall concert. That's a big one." Spoons, forks and knives seemed suddenly to suspend their motion in horror, all around the table.
#22

re: A little feedback please

Posted: 3/11/05 at 10:00pm

Golden: Sound of Music, My Fair Lady, The King and I, Thoroughly Modern Millie(original film, obviously...), Mary Poppins - anything with Julie in re: A little feedback please

Today: Wicked, Hairspray, The Boy From Oz, Disney films (they count as musicals, right?)
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#24

re: A little feedback please

Posted: 3/11/05 at 10:10pm

Golden Age: MY FAIR LADY with Julie Andrews

And presently: my absolute favorite is MISS SAIGON
NIL MAGNUM NISI BONUM "No greatness without goodness."

RENThead, enLIGHist, Ozalot, Grobanite, Ringer, Pickwick LW, Wicked, Lost, American Dreams, West Wing
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#25

re: A little feedback please

Posted: 3/11/05 at 10:47pm

Golden Age: Oklahoma!
Now: Parade and Urinetown

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