Best Musicals Not Many People Have Heard Of... — Page 3

Jane Eyre

James Joyce's the Dead
Chess

I second many of the shows already mentioned (Working, Violet, Closer than Ever, Spitfire Grill, Chess, Lucky Stiff, Brownstone), let me add

110 in the Shade
Amour (LOVE this music!)
The Apple Tree
Baby
Bat Boy
Big (I love Maltby & Shire)
Blood Brothers
City of Angels
Hedwig & the Angry Inch
I Love my Wife
Is There Life After High School (I also love Craig Carnelia's work)
Matador
Merrily We Roll Along (possibly my 2nd favorite Sondheim)
A New Brain
She Loves Me
Song of Singapore
Songs for a New World
They're Playing Our Song (very 70s, but fun)
The Witches of Eastwick

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MINNIE'S BOYS is a great show! "Mama A Rainbow" makes me get misty eyed every single time.

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WONDERBOY you're right about M.B. My favourite laugh in the show is YOU REMIND ME OF YOU! Pity Shelley couldn't keep up the vocals!

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I LOVE the song "Mama, A Rainbow" from Minnie's Boys. I heard it on a compilation, and loved it so much that I tracked down the whole album, but alas nothing in the score comes close to that song (though if you don't have a copy of that song SOMEWHERE in your collection, you are missing out!)

Another case of this happening was with the song "Nothing More to Look Forward To" from Kwamina. Gorgeous song -- the rest of the CD isn't bad, certainly, but doesn't live up to that song for me.

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I LOVE BABY. I played Nick once, and would love to play the role again. I like the show Smile. Disneyland gives me chills and I love the song the girls sing with the candles. And someone mentioned Yours, Anne. What a great a moving show. A theatre group I worked with did the show twice and I love it! The finale is so beautiful. We did it as sort of an educational theatre. We invited schools that were reading the Diary of Anne Frank to the show, and they go to see another version, and I think they got more out of it.