Favorite Musical - (1 rule. It can't be WICKED)- Page 6

[keatonbynumbers]

re: Favorite Musical - (1 rule. It can't be WICKED)#125

Posted: 4/4/06 at 9:30pm

Parade.

[Shilo_Bway]

re: Favorite Musical - (1 rule. It can't be WICKED)#126

Posted: 4/4/06 at 9:39pm

hmmmm...no Wicked huh?
Hairspray or Les Miserables!

[Kitzarina]

re: Favorite Musical - (1 rule. It can't be WICKED)#127

Posted: 4/4/06 at 9:45pm

Les Miserables with Sweeney Todd as a close second

"You're the worst thing to happen to musical theatre since Andrew Lloyd Webber!" --Family Guy

"Shut up! It's been 29 years!!!" --the incomparable Patti LuPone in her MUCH DESERVED Tony acceptance speech for Gypsy.

Kitzy's Avatar du Jour: Kitzy as Little Red Ridinghood in her college's production of "Into the Woods"

[zaneyb3000]

re: Favorite Musical - (1 rule. It can't be WICKED)#128

Posted: 4/4/06 at 9:52pm

Well, RENT was what got me into Broadway in the first place... since then, I've come to enjoy Sweeney Todd quite a bit.

[muscle23ftl]

re: Favorite Musical - (1 rule. It can't be WICKED)#129

Posted: 4/4/06 at 9:53pm

Bombay Dreams and Rent.

"People have their opinions and that doesn't mean that their opinions are wrong or right. I just take it with a grain of salt because opinions are like as*holes, everyone has one". -Felicia Finley-

[Musical_nerd]

re: Favorite Musical - (1 rule. It can't be WICKED)#130

Posted: 4/4/06 at 9:54pm

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels or A Chorus Line.

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[broadwayprincess]

re: Favorite Musical - (1 rule. It can't be WICKED)#131

Posted: 4/4/06 at 11:52pm

Jersey Boys ....100%

I also love Andrew Lippas "John & Jen"

[bestnurse]

re: Favorite Musical - (1 rule. It can't be WICKED)#132

Posted: 4/5/06 at 12:00am

I loved Nine but Evita is my favorite. Hope they bring it back soon.

[rosekwbp]

re: Favorite Musical - (1 rule. It can't be WICKED)#133

Posted: 4/5/06 at 12:12am

Gypsy with Into The Woods at a close second.

[TheActr97J]

re: Favorite Musical - (1 rule. It can't be WICKED)#134

Posted: 4/5/06 at 12:22am

I ADORE West Side Story!

Cabaret would probably be a close second.

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[allofmylife]

re: Favorite Musical - (1 rule. It can't be WICKED)#135

Posted: 4/5/06 at 12:35am

The funniest is "Guys and Dolls."

The best is "Gypsy."

But for me, my favorite is "On Your Toes." I was stuck in traffic on the 101 freeway in Los Angeles when a show about Broadway musicals on NPR began playing "Slaughter on 10th Avenue" which I vaguely remembered from having seen the revival in 1986. It just touched my soul (the slow pas de deux in the center). Listen to this show sometime. Listen to this amazing music. It has something amazing from every food group and the tunes are freaking haunting. It's so easy to listen to the score and close your eyes and visualize Ray Bolger and Tamara Geve and Helen Broderick (yes, Brodrick Crawford's mom) onstage at The Imperial, before an audience dressed in evening dress and slipping out for a drink at Sardi's during intermission and then off to The Savoy to see Dwight Fiske and his songs at the piano or dance the night away at The Plaza. This show just perfectly captures that amazing era between 1933 and 1941 SO wonderfully.

And the jokes are so modern. A woman sining "I was made, on lemonade, the heart is quicker than the eye." Hilarious.

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

[King Stevos]

re: Favorite Musical - (1 rule. It can't be WICKED)#136

Posted: 4/5/06 at 1:04am

URINETOWN. Best show I have ever seen, Most fun I've had working on a show too.

"IF I TRY THERE MAY BE A CHANCE / WE COULD LOVE WITH OUR EYES CLOSED/ WITH OUR EYES CLOSED WE COULD CHANGE THE WORLD!"- Stephen Dwight

[King Stevos]

re: Favorite Musical - (1 rule. It can't be WICKED)#137

Posted: 4/5/06 at 1:04am

Stupid Double clicks....

"IF I TRY THERE MAY BE A CHANCE / WE COULD LOVE WITH OUR EYES CLOSED/ WITH OUR EYES CLOSED WE COULD CHANGE THE WORLD!"- Stephen Dwight

Updated On: 4/5/06 at 01:04 AM

[Thesbijean]

re: Favorite Musical - (1 rule. It can't be WICKED)#138

Posted: 4/5/06 at 1:23am

TIE

City of Angels AND A Little Night Music
Updated On: 4/5/06 at 01:23 AM

[Urban]

re: Favorite Musical - (1 rule. It can't be WICKED)#139

Posted: 4/5/06 at 7:46am

Since asked.

'Ragtime' with 'Gypsy' sometimes overtaking depending on my mood.

[freeadmission]

re: Favorite Musical - (1 rule. It can't be WICKED)#140

Posted: 4/5/06 at 8:04am

If someone put a gun to my head and made me choose between Sweeney Todd, My Fair Lady, and The Last Five Years, I think I'd go with My Fair Lady. It's just so wonderfully perfect with the contrasting characters and their journeys and the MUSIC! *dies*

Okay, I'm shutting up now.

artistic dominion

[AdamBritten]

re: Favorite Musical - (1 rule. It can't be WICKED)#141

Posted: 4/5/06 at 3:56pm

Hmmmm - I'll have to go with Avenue Q - even though I haven't seen it yet, I JUST LOVE IT!

My favorite one that I have seen is probably The Lion King

You gotta run the race to win the prize!

[justagirl2]

re: Favorite Musical - (1 rule. It can't be WICKED)#142

Posted: 4/5/06 at 4:04pm

Guys and Dolls. I really think it's the perfect musical, as many have said.

[noloversfool]

re: Favorite Musical - (1 rule. It can't be WICKED)#143

Posted: 4/5/06 at 4:08pm

Jesus Christ Superstar

"One day, is that enough for you, one day he went dumb, one day I went blind, one day we'll go deaf, one day we were born, one day we shall die, the same day, the same second, is that enough for you? They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more." --Waiting for Godot

[VonTussleGirl]

re: Favorite Musical - (1 rule. It can't be WICKED)#144

Posted: 4/5/06 at 5:57pm

A toss-up between Sweeney Todd and Into the Woods.

[ze emcee]

re: Favorite Musical - (1 rule. It can't be WICKED)#145

Posted: 4/5/06 at 7:03pm

Cabaret hands down.

[elphieisperky]

re: Favorite Musical - (1 rule. It can't be WICKED)#146

Posted: 4/5/06 at 7:32pm

Okay, I'll be the one to stand up here. Why not Wicked? We all have our own opinions, and mine is that Wicked and RENT are my favorite shows, is that a problem? I certainly hope not.

Aaaaaaanyway. RENT is an extremely close second, with DRS as a third. Oh, you only asked for 1? Sorry, it's hard to pick!

[greeneyed_one]

re: Favorite Musical - (1 rule. It can't be WICKED)#147

Posted: 4/5/06 at 7:42pm

I agree that people should be allowed to pick Wicked if they want to. Is it a rule that musical fans have to dislike Wicked? Anyway right now I have to say Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. In my opinion it is everything a musical should be.

[Mr Roxy]

re: Favorite Musical - (1 rule. It can't be WICKED)#148

Posted: 4/5/06 at 8:45pm

Too many to choose but Wicked is not in the running

Poster Emeritus

[Elphaba984]

re: Favorite Musical - (1 rule. It can't be WICKED)#149

Posted: 4/5/06 at 8:48pm

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and Jersey Boys

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