Best title of a musical- Page 3

[overthemoon419]

re: Best title of a musical#50

Posted: 5/30/06 at 7:09pm

Once Upon a Mattress!!

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"It's not for sissies, contrary to popular belief." - Tommy Tune, on musical theatre.

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[babygiraffeboots]

re: Best title of a musical#51

Posted: 5/30/06 at 7:16pm

Naked Boys Singing
Tick, tick. . . BOOM!

"Without Jews, fags, and gypsies, there is no theatre!" ~Mel Brooks, To be or not to be

[WickedGeek28]

re: Best title of a musical#52

Posted: 5/30/06 at 7:23pm

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."
To Kill A Mockingbird

[ALWrules]

re: Best title of a musical#53

Posted: 5/30/06 at 7:58pm

Sunday in the Park with George.
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas.

Keep your morals, I don't have time. Keep your lovers, I'm changing mine! -The Likes of Us

[Sant]

re: Best title of a musical#54

Posted: 5/30/06 at 8:04pm

Don't know which is THE best but here goes:

A CHORUS LINE

CATS

THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA

THE KING AND I

[ILoveMyDictionary]

re: Best title of a musical#55

Posted: 5/30/06 at 9:36pm

Oh yes. How could I forget about Once Upon a Mattress. Is it just me, or does anyone else think that title sounds a little too risque for a show based on The Princess and the Pea?

[Mr Roxy]

re: Best title of a musical#56

Posted: 5/30/06 at 9:49pm

On A Clear Day is a much better title than the original title "I Picked A Daisy"

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[wackjack132]

re: Best title of a musical#57

Posted: 5/30/06 at 9:52pm

Well...I dont know a WHOLE bunch of musicals/plays...but my fave are:
1. A Chorus Line - Dont know...just always appealed to me
2. An Overpraised Season - Small one act most ppl have probably never heard of...but it's deep and by the end of the play you get its real meaning
3. Company - Had no idea why it was named Company until like the 3rd listen through lol :P


That's pretty much it :)

[alterego]

re: Best title of a musical#58

Posted: 5/30/06 at 10:00pm

These titles are all great but none of them hold a candle to La, La, Lucille or Yes, Yes, Yvette. These are real titles!

[Sumofallthings]

re: Best title of a musical#59

Posted: 5/30/06 at 10:37pm

Caroline, Or Change is a bitch to say because then everyone wnats to know what is changing in Carolina.

BSoBW2: I punched Sondheim in the face after I saw Wicked and said, "Why couldn't you write like that!?"

[One Song Glory]

re: Best title of a musical#60

Posted: 5/30/06 at 10:47pm

I've always had a fondness for [title of show]

I'm not a gay stereotype. I'm a coincidence.

[icantbelive]

re: Best title of a musical#61

Posted: 5/30/06 at 10:48pm

Parade, it is what it's kind of about and than it's not, but it is, it makes you think. Last line and first song in show has to do with title as well, Great Title

[jdixon69]

re: Best title of a musical#62

Posted: 5/30/06 at 10:54pm

Hellzapoppin

[jimnysf]

re: Best title of a musical#63

Posted: 5/30/06 at 11:00pm

"Got Tu Go Disco"

Another Minskoff Theatre flop that only ran for 8 performances back in 1979.

http://www.theatredb.com/QShow.php?sid=s0186

"The Light in The Piazza" makes me think of Mike Piazza!

"I've lost everything! Luis, Marty, my baby with Chris, Chris himself, James. All I ever wanted was love." --Sheridan Crane "Passions" ------- "Housework is like bad sex. Every time I do it, I swear I'll never do it again til the next time company comes."--"Lulu" from "Can't Stop The Music" ----- "When the right doors didn't open for him, he went through the wrong ones" - "Sweet Bird of Youth" ------------ --------- "Passions" is uncancelled! See NBC.com for more info.

[bwayboi4life42]

re: Best title of a musical#64

Posted: 5/30/06 at 11:43pm

"High Spirits." It caught my attention the first time I heard it. Such a good show.

Also, I know it's not a musical, but I like "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"

"I believe that art does not exist only to entertain, but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, to engage in a constant search for the truth." - Barbra Streisand

[Dirty Rotten Scoundrel]

re: Best title of a musical#65

Posted: 5/30/06 at 11:46pm

I don't understand how titles such as "Cats" and "Avenue Q" are somehow thought provoking or really good and different. Cats is about cats and Avenue Q is where they live. Ah yes, profound as well.

[Fabrizio2]

re: Best title of a musical#66

Posted: 5/30/06 at 11:49pm

I think that

Sunday in the Park With George
The Drowsy Chaperone

Are good titles for musicals.

As for plays I think that a lot of Shakespeare's titles are clever

Twelfth Night
As You Like it

[jetteson]

I'm Somewhat Joking, But I'm Not...In A Way#67

Posted: 5/31/06 at 12:37am

"Carrie:The Musical!"

Only based on the fact that "Carrie" in general is so cultish and enigmatic anybody with a right mind would give the title a second look, if not to laugh at it!

[WhenURScrap]

I'm Somewhat Joking, But I'm Not...In A Way#68

Posted: 5/31/06 at 1:57am

Urinetown...

[ZONEACE]

I'm Somewhat Joking, But I'm Not...In A Way#69

Posted: 5/31/06 at 2:11am

Caroline, or Change

Merrily we Roll Along

Those two are both great.

when ducks grow thumbs then maybe my opinion will change.

[Chrysanthemum62001]

I'm Somewhat Joking, But I'm Not...In A Way#70

Posted: 5/31/06 at 2:15am

Urinetown

"What a mystery this world. One day you love them and the next day you want to kill them a thousand times over." The Masked Bandit in THE FALL

[StageManager2]

I'm Somewhat Joking, But I'm Not...In A Way#71

Posted: 5/31/06 at 2:37am

Here are my picks:

THE SOUND OF MUSIC

SUBWAYS ARE FOR SLEEPING

HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING

Not a musical, but CHILDREN OF A LESSER GOD has always been one of my favorite titles.

Salve, Regina, Mater misericordiae
Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra
Salve, Salve Regina
Ad te clamamus exsules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
O clemens O pia

[allofmylife]

I'm Somewhat Joking, But I'm Not...In A Way#72

Posted: 5/31/06 at 2:40am

It's amazing they waited all the way until 1962 to do a show called "DO, RE, MI."

http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=972787#3631451 http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=963561#3533883 http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=955158#3440952 http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=954269#3427915 http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=955012#3441622 http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=954344#3428699

[that opera diva]

I'm Somewhat Joking, But I'm Not...In A Way#73

Posted: 5/31/06 at 3:47am

Do I Hear A Waltz
Lucky Stiff
Seussical the Musical
Spamalot

[StageManager2]

I'm Somewhat Joking, But I'm Not...In A Way#74

Posted: 5/31/06 at 8:16am

WHISTLE DOWN THE WIND is an intersting title although I have no idea what the hell it means.

As for plays, I also like THE LION IN WINTER.

Salve, Regina, Mater misericordiae
Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra
Salve, Salve Regina
Ad te clamamus exsules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
O clemens O pia