Best Musicals Not Many People Have Heard Of...- Page 3
Best Musicals Not Many People Have Heard Of...
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#50re: Best Musicals Not Many People Have Heard Of...
Posted: 8/12/05 at 1:33pmThe Golden Apple, The Golden Apple, and....oh, yes THE GOLDEN APPLE!
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
~ Muhammad Ali
unnaturallygreen
Swing Joined: 11/27/04
kitkatgirl
Swing Joined: 8/9/05
#52re: Best Musicals Not Many People Have Heard Of...
Posted: 8/12/05 at 2:42pmAnother vote for Violet. Wonderful show with beautiful music.
sanda
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/10/04
#53re: Best Musicals Not Many People Have Heard Of...
Posted: 8/12/05 at 2:45pm
James Joyce's the Dead
Chess
#54re: Best Musicals Not Many People Have Heard Of...
Posted: 8/12/05 at 3:01pmI am one of the few that really enjoyed LEGS DIAMOND. Great songs and performances but the book needed work.
"For me, THEATRE is an anticipation, an artistic rush, an emotional banquet, a jubilant appreciation, and an exit hopeful of clearer thought and better worlds."
~ an anonymous traveler with Robert Burns
#55re: Best Musicals Not Many People Have Heard Of...
Posted: 8/12/05 at 3:05pm
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
"Singing is the lowest form of communication" - Homer
#56re: Best Musicals Not Many People Have Heard Of...
Posted: 8/12/05 at 3:06pmMINNIE'S BOYS is a definite for revival!! And what about DEAR WORLD???? Love them both!
"Your eyes..... they shine like the pants on my blue serge suit"
#57re: Best Musicals Not Many People Have Heard Of...
Posted: 8/12/05 at 3:08pmMINNIE'S BOYS is a great show! "Mama A Rainbow" makes me get misty eyed every single time.
"For me, THEATRE is an anticipation, an artistic rush, an emotional banquet, a jubilant appreciation, and an exit hopeful of clearer thought and better worlds."
~ an anonymous traveler with Robert Burns
#58re: Best Musicals Not Many People Have Heard Of...
Posted: 8/12/05 at 3:09pmSONGS FOR A NEW WORLD has a gorgeous score.
#59re: Best Musicals Not Many People Have Heard Of...
Posted: 8/12/05 at 3:11pmWONDERBOY 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!
"Your eyes..... they shine like the pants on my blue serge suit"
#60re: Best Musicals Not Many People Have Heard Of...
Posted: 8/12/05 at 3:18pmTintypes, Honk!, Just So
#61re: Best Musicals Not Many People Have Heard Of...
Posted: 8/12/05 at 3:46pm
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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aegeusrocks
Featured Actor Joined: 3/20/05
Joelbeans
Stand-by Joined: 5/9/05
#63re: Best Musicals Not Many People Have Heard Of...
Posted: 8/13/05 at 8:40amI 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.
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