Buffy: Once More With Feeling...

I saw it I think I actually have it on tape. I thought "once more with feeling" was a fun episode. I even have the CD my mom got it for me last Christmas.

I don't know if I would really want to see her on a Broadway stage. I just see her more as a TV star but ya never know.

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SMG hated doing the singing for the show. She said that she wanted someone else to do her singing while she mouthed, but changed her mind when she realized Buffy's season 6 arc was going to be laid out in that episode.

I personally love the music, and not just because I'm a crazy fan. Emma Caulfield and Amber Benson really missed their musical calling. And of course Anthony Head kicked ass vocally as he always does. Now if only Angel could do a musical....le sigh.

What, like networks have a house style of acting and editing?

Even though Buffy moved to UPN.

Did it then adopt the 'UPN Style?'

The last couple years on UPN were the series worst, but that was b/c of producer Marti Noxon's advancement and Joss Whedon's disinterest. Other than that, the show was one of the best written and acted on TV in my opinion.

Well, as a "Crazy fan" of buffy, I suppose I'm a little biased...But I had to comment on this thread. First of all... as for the WB shows being crap. Yes, most are. BUT, Buffy had some of the most compelling and witty dialogue I have ever seen... and I am a tv junkie! The acting was incredible, and the stories were very moving. As for UPN airing the worst two seasons... I have to disagree. Season six was just incredible.

The musical was a television phenomenon that didn't get the credit it deserved. Although some of the music was mediocre, it was the meaning of the entire episode that hit home for me. It was about how music can bring out our deepest and most secret passions. It took so many different genres of musical theater and brought them into one show. It was extremely clever. For fans of the show, it was a giant transition for many of the characters, and some of the songs played on the underlying themes of the entire series. Themes of finding who you are and who you want to be in this crazy world of ours. Musical Blashphemy or WB Crap? I think not.

I wasn't a big Buffy fan, but i loved that episode. A year or two back the Yale Cabaret theater here in CT presented it as a stage musical and it was even better than the episode in my opinion. I think it would make a great off-broadway show.

Actually, Anthony Stewart Head already has a solo cd out, entitled Music for Elvators. and it's fantastic! James Marsters has quite a few recordings as well. He is in a band called Ghost of the Robot or something like that, and they are very successful around LA. Head has been doing musicals in England for years. So for people to say that these actors are intalented muscally is ridiculous.

As fir the comment about 7th Heaven... I totally agree! The casting on that show is terrible. It's really gone down the tubes.

is she really as big of a bitch as they say?

i think anthony head and james marsters have the most potential out of any of the BTVS actors. I wouldn't pay to see SMG sing. she was definitely the weakest one there.

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I, also, am a HUGE Buffy fan, and I love that ep, but I do not think it would work as a stage show. It's a middle episode of the 6th season--you have to really know the characters to understand it, otherwise a lot of the stuff--especially 'I'll Never Tell' doesn't make any sense.

But how *incredibly* hot is James Marsters when he sings?!?! UGH! Siiiigh...

I thought I'd bump this pretty old thread since all the talk about the 7th Heaven musical...I think this is an example of what can happen when this concept actually works...even though most of the cast can't sing, it's a great episode that pokes fun at musicals, and makes sense within the episode, and proves that Joss Whedon is AMAZINGLY talented!

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"Would you say it was more of a breakaway pop hit or a book number?" haha...i wonder if alyson hannigan (willow) really put her foot down on not singing or what because she barely sings in ANYTHING! I was kind of dissappointed in James Marster's songs, but he was dead sexy so who cares! Yeah, Amber was probably the best singer of the girls, but that wasn't really my favorite song either

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