Admit it--you know nothing about ____ show — Page 2

lol- Chrysan. I agree. How can you go through life without Sweeney? *freaks out*

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the only thing I know about taboo is that a queen wrote it and a dyke produced it.

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Hey, we can incorporate straight plays into this, too. So...what's Doubt about again??

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Sweeney Todd (except for the Jersey Girl bits as well)
Caroline, or Change
Miss Saigon

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Wicked




No, just kidding.

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Miss Saigon
Taboo
South Pacific

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Follies
A Little Night Music
South Pacific
Pippin
Secret Garden

there are lots more

"What's with all the Sondheim mentions? Come on people! Listen to the master! That said:

~Light in the Piazza
~Gypsy
~Ragtime"

Katurian, Sondheim wrote lyrics to Gypsy...you made a Sondheim mention to! :-P

Wild Party
Threepenny Opera
BARE
Thoroughly Modern Millie(I know there's tap dancing...)
Caroline or Change the only thing I know is that there's a featured clarinet...I wish I saw it!

Here are some more older ones I could think of that I've actually heard of but don't know anything about:

Porgy and Bess
Girl Crazy
Pal Joey
Very little about On The Town and Wonderful Town

Umm there's lots more I could think of...Call Me Mister, How Now Dow Jones, No No Nanette, Paint Your Wagon, On A Clear Day You Could See Forever, but I suppose technically on that level all our lists could be infinite as no one knows every show and I'm getting tired so I'll stop there.

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Updated On: 2/6/06 at 12:12 AM

Many of the Sondheim shows that have been listed on this thread (and others that haven't) are available on DVD (Sweeney Todd, Sunday in the Park with George, Passion, Into the Woods...) You MUST see these shows, even if you decide you don't like them. Stephen Sondheim is an institution in musical theater, and it's almost a crime to not be aquainted with his best work.

Anyway, on to the thread: I know NOTHING about Woman in White, apart from the fact that there's some kind of mystery that involves ghosts. I see Andrew Lloyd Webber is connected to a show, and I lose any interest I may have in seeing it. (The abundance of negative reviews for this particular musical doesn't help matters)

I will be shot for sure, but I know practically nothing about The Music Man, except for the first few lines of "Til There Was You", and that I know from the 1st Beatles' Anthology. Sad, right? But I will give up The Music Man to know Follies better any day.

Well, the Sondheim vidoes is how I know Into The Woods(later saw the revival) and Sweeney(ditto). I tried watching Sunday in the Park...3 times in fact...and I really tried...but all 3 times I couldn't last 20 minutes before falling asleep! People told me after the first and second time it's so good I have to watch it full out, I prob watched it when I was really tired, etc but it's happened 3 times. Oh well.

In response to the before you were born thing, I'm one of those people that has a lot of difficulty listening to cast recordings of shows I've never seen or know nothing about. I suggest renting/borrowing the movies. Of course some are better than others, and usually the cast does not compare to that of Bway, but it at least gives you enough insight to know about a show. Through their movies I have discovered Grease, Sound of Music, King and I, Oklahoma, Carousel, Camelot, Oliver!, Annie, Brigadoon, My Fair Lady, A Chorus Line(pretty bad), Bye Bye Birdie, Guys and Dolls, Little Shop of Horrors, Hair, Evita, Showboat, Kiss Me Kate, Finian's Rainbow, a little of Man of La Mancha(the movie seemed so bad a bit in I had to turn it off the TV), and also recorded shows like Jekyll & Hyde, Joseph..., Jesus Christ Superstar, Sweeney, Into the Woods, and a host of others, mainly movies. The qualities of a lot differ but you at least understand most of the show, no matter how different it is from the stage play and learn most of the songs.

Not that smart---LOOVE your icon! I played pit for the Music Man, that's how I know it--IMO you're not missing that much, there's others I'd shoot you for first, don't worry

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Updated On: 2/6/06 at 10:28 AM

Well for Sondheim how about starting with COMPANY (you have seen a bit of it in the BROADWAY doc.) In fact, use that doc as your guide of key shows to begin with for all authors:

SHOW BOAT*
GIRL CRAZY
OF THEE I SING
PORGY AND BESS*
PAL JOEY*
OKLAHOMA!*
ON THE TOWN*
CAROUSEL*
ANNIE GET YOUR GUN*
KISS ME KATE*
GUYS AND DOLLS*
MY FAIR LADY*
SOUND OF MUSIC*
WEST SIDE STORY*
FIDDLER*
CABARET*
HAIR*
COMPANY
A CHORUS LINE*
CHICAGO*
SWEENEY TODD*
42ND STREET*
LES MIZ
SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE*
LA CAGE AUX FOLLES
RENT*
HAIRSPRAY

All of these have full recordings and scripts and there are movies or videos of the ones marked *.

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