Best "Feel Good" Musicals

#1

Best "Feel Good" Musicals

Posted: 12/20/08 at 2:07am

Two that spring to mind are the OBCR of Mame and Sunday in the Park with George. Mame is so vital and thrilling from beginning to end and i often play it when i am feeling gloomy. Sunday in the Park with George, in general, is so redeeming in many different ways. What are your feel-good musicals?

#2

re: Best 'Feel Good' Musicals

Posted: 12/20/08 at 2:26am

Wow, I would definitely not pick Sunday as a feel-good musical! Sure, the music is gorgeous, but it's so upsetting. You get closure in the end and it's beautiful and all of that, but goodness there's so much meddling and fighting and lack of connection... It's the opposite of feel-good to me.

~Steven

#3

re: Best 'Feel Good' Musicals

Posted: 12/20/08 at 2:32am

Probably going to get some flack for this first one.

- The Wedding Singer

- Xanadu

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#4

re: Best 'Feel Good' Musicals

Posted: 12/20/08 at 2:37am

Bye Bye Birdie

#5

re: Best 'Feel Good' Musicals

Posted: 12/20/08 at 2:39am

I happen to love listening to The Wedding Singer. Fun recording. I also really enjoy The Full Monty.

~Steven

#6

re: Best 'Feel Good' Musicals

Posted: 12/20/08 at 2:41am

Hello, Dolly! Put On Your Sunday Clothes makes me so damn happy.

Hairspray

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#7

re: Best 'Feel Good' Musicals

Posted: 12/20/08 at 2:46am

I bet it would be Wall-E's pick too, Kad!

~Steven

#8

re: Best 'Feel Good' Musicals

Posted: 12/20/08 at 2:51am

Well, from the ones I've seen, I'd say that HAIRSPRAY, XANADU and MAMMA MIA, definitely made me feel good and happy !!!

#9

re: Best 'Feel Good' Musicals

Posted: 12/20/08 at 3:10am

Responding to HeyMrMusic, i feel that way about SiTPWG because of the disconnection and pain in the first and beginning of the second acts proceeded by the ultimate healing of the entire "Move On" scene. it just resonates with me on so many different levels. "Beautiful" also makes one appreciate and realize the beauty of the things and people around as well as inside oneself. i guess it is more of a provocative feel-good musical for me, though i can see where you are coming from. it definitely runs the gamut of emotions!

#10

re: Best 'Feel Good' Musicals

Posted: 12/20/08 at 3:16am

SUBWAYS ARE FOR SLEEPING. Love it. Makes me feel good.

And BLYTHE SPIRIT.

#11

re: Best 'Feel Good' Musicals

Posted: 12/20/08 at 3:33am

Fair enough, follies85. Any musical could potentially be a feel-good musical. I mean, if I were in a lousy mood and listened to the OBCR of Sweeney I'd probably feel better, especially if the volume were turned all the way up! :)

~Steven

#12

re: Best 'Feel Good' Musicals

Posted: 12/20/08 at 3:56am

Hairspray. I love that it's a silly, feelgood musical that happens to have an important message.

#13

re: Best 'Feel Good' Musicals

Posted: 12/20/08 at 4:41am

The Wedding Singer, Xanadu, Hairspray, and Jersey Boys are my "go-to" OBCR's---if I'm feeling down they almost always cheer me up, and if I'm in a good mood they're fun for rocking out!

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#14

re: Best 'Feel Good' Musicals

Posted: 12/20/08 at 8:26am

mmmm yes indeed Hairspray <3

#15

re: Best 'Feel Good' Musicals

Posted: 12/20/08 at 8:26am

Xanadu!

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#16

re: Best 'Feel Good' Musicals

Posted: 12/20/08 at 9:06am

mamma mia
hairspray
Wedding singer

and
your a Good man charlie brown

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#17

re: Best 'Feel Good' Musicals

Posted: 12/20/08 at 9:07am

You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown
Seussical
The Wedding Singer

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#18

re: Best 'Feel Good' Musicals

Posted: 12/20/08 at 9:15am

Definitely Hairspray, and I would add The Drowsy Chaperone.

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#19

re: Best 'Feel Good' Musicals

Posted: 12/20/08 at 10:16am

Great American Trailer Park Musical - whether I felt good because of the musical or I felt good because I laughed my ass off - I'm not sure - but I still felt good -

Legally Blonde -

Xanadu -

#20

re: Best 'Feel Good' Musicals

Posted: 12/20/08 at 10:24am

HELLO, DOLLY!
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#21

re: Best 'Feel Good' Musicals

Posted: 12/20/08 at 10:36am

The Sound of Music, Hairspray, and Mamma Mia!

#22

re: Best 'Feel Good' Musicals

Posted: 12/20/08 at 11:20am

Oh sure, Sunday in the Park is a feel good musical in a slit-your-wrist kind of way. But to each their own. Absolutely brilliant, but definitely not one of my feel goods.

Curtains, on the other hand, never fails to make me smile no matter what kind of mood I'm in. Definitely a feel good musical.

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#23

re: Best 'Feel Good' Musicals

Posted: 12/20/08 at 11:20am

I hadn't thought of Sunday as a feel-good musical, but then I let the last songs in Act 2 run through my head and they left me feeling uplifted and happy, so I guess it's one for me too.

Spamalot's Always Look on the Bright Side of Life curtain call has the same effect on me.

And She Loves Me always makes me happy, but especially at this time of year.

#24

re: Best 'Feel Good' Musicals

Posted: 12/20/08 at 12:35pm

"I bet it would be Wall-E's pick too, Kad! "


To be completely honest, it wasn't until I saw Wall-E that I came to appreciate the show a lot more.

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#25

re: Best 'Feel Good' Musicals

Posted: 12/20/08 at 12:56pm

Haha, I always listen to "A Little Priest" when I'm in a bad mood. I wonder if that says something about me.

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