Favorite Musicals?

[Sherbear8081]

Posted: 9/7/14 at 11:21am

I love musicals and I was wondering what your favorite musical(s) are? What are your opinions about other musicals?

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 9/7/14 at 11:48am

BKLYN is my favorite musical. I have so many opinions about it.

[ljay889]

Posted: 9/7/14 at 11:50am

glory days

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 9/7/14 at 11:51am

I have opinions on that one!

[nightnic001]

Posted: 9/7/14 at 12:05pm

My favorite musicals are Next to Normal, Hedwig, and Newsies.

[JPeterman]

Posted: 9/7/14 at 12:16pm

1. Les Mis
2. Sound Of Music
3. Guys And Dolls
4. My Fair Lady
5. Gentleman's Guide To Love And Murder
6. Phantom Of The Opera
7. Grease
8. Lion King
9. Miss Saigon
10.West Side Story



















Updated On: 9/12/14 at 12:16 PM

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 9/7/14 at 12:18pm

What are your opinions on #1, #3 & #2?

[JRybka]

Posted: 9/7/14 at 12:53pm

Ragtime is my favroite show ever. The score the grandness the love the laughter. I have always thought this was one of most amazing show ever.
Other then that I have to say that I love....
Side Show
Chess
Once on this Island
Blood Brothers
Wicked
and Chicago.

[mjohnson2]

Posted: 9/7/14 at 2:03pm

LEGS DIAMOND
KELLY
VIA GALACTICA

[Renthead1980]

Posted: 9/7/14 at 2:19pm

Rent
Wicked
Phantom

[Musical Master]

Posted: 9/7/14 at 2:30pm

THE KING AND I- Great songs, characters, book, and great designs make this my perfect musical and my first favorite until I die.

INTO THE WOODS- A great deconstruction of fairy tales, has one of the best books in any of Sondheim's musicals, wonderful ending, and interesting characters make this a great musical. No wonder why Rob Marshall is directing the upcoming film version.

FOLLIES- Yeah the book is flawed as hell, but from the 1971 footage of the original production (thanks to our PalJoey), it has the chance to almost be a perfect one.

OKLAHOMA!- Wonderful book, lovely score and songs, neat characters and a wonderful ballet puts this in my top 5.

So many other favorites in my mind, hopefully more to come in the future.

[Elfuhbuh]

Posted: 9/7/14 at 2:48pm

Phantom of the Opera, Tanz der Vampire, Elisabeth, Les Miserables, Jekyll & Hyde, Next to Normal, Wicked, My Fair Lady, recently If/Then...

My list gets very long when I go on.

[HighFlyingAdored97]

Posted: 9/7/14 at 2:53pm

My favorites are Into the Woods, Matilda, Guys and Dolls, Gypsy, Next to Normal, Cabaret, Sweeney Todd, A Little Night Music, Phantom.

[DigificWriter]

Posted: 9/7/14 at 3:49pm

Just for the sake of simplicity, I'm limiting this to things that I've seen:
1. Jekyll & Hyde (I LOVE the OBC of this show, and finally had an opportunity to see it done locally a few years ago [I live in Utah])
2. Les Miserables (I've seen this show at least 3 times at Utah's most prominent local theater, the Capitol in downtown Salt Lake City, and first fell in love with it after one of my sisters chose "Castle on a Cloud" as a performance number for several singing competitions/events when we were younger)
Beauty and the Beast (I had the opportunity to see the OBC perform at the Shubert Theater in 1995 while my family was on a vacation to Disneyland, and absolutely fell in love with the story even more than I already was)



Updated On: 9/7/14 at 03:49 PM

[ethan231h]

Posted: 9/7/14 at 3:52pm

In the Heights, Pippin (Revival), Catch Me if you Can, If/Then, Matilda, HAIR (revival), Cabaret (revival)

[#1CarrieFan]

Posted: 9/7/14 at 4:03pm

I think I have found my doppelganger, and it's JRybka! I would add to that list, ANY and ALL SONDHEIM shows, most vehemently act one of Sunday in the Park with George. Never have I experienced such a total audience response to the final number of act one. I still recall the patron sitting next to me at the Booth grabbing my hand as we both openly wept. Still sends shivers down my spine thinking of it. Perfect in every single way.

[mjohnson2]

Posted: 9/7/14 at 4:49pm

Really, #1CarrieFan, any and all Sondheim shows? Even THE FROGS? Even PACIFIC OVERTURES? Even PASSION? Even ANYONE CAN WHISTLE? Even EVENING PRIMROSE? Even GETTING AWAY WITH MURDER?

Updated On: 9/7/14 at 04:49 PM

[musicaljen]

Posted: 9/7/14 at 4:58pm

The Sound of Music, Les Mis & Phantom of the Opera will always have a special place in my heart. No matter the number of times I watch them I never tire of their
beautiful score.

[DigificWriter]

Posted: 9/8/14 at 12:51am

I know I said I was limiting this solely to stuff I'd seen, but I just can't help myself, so I'm now going to mention some of my favorite musicals that I HAVEN'T seen, but that are my favorites based solely on their librettos/scores:
American Idiot (Tom Kitt took the already-awesome music of Green Day and not only made it BETTER, but also made it relevant in a completely new and different way, while Michael Meyer and Billie Joe took the bare-bones story told by the original American Idiot album and expanded it to create a modern-day hero's allegory)
Newsies (I've never seen the original Newsies film, but fell in love with the songs from this musical the very first time I heard them, particularly "Something to Believe", which is brilliantly sung by Jeremy Jordan and Kara Lindsey)

[#1CarrieFan]

Posted: 9/14/14 at 4:02pm

mjohnson2 Touche!!! You called me out and I stand corrected on several of your points. I never have seen The Frogs. I agree on Pacific Overtures. My partner and I loved Passion to the utmost. I listen frequently to both the OBC and the Carnegie Hall recordings of Anyone Can Whistle. Evening Primrose is a toss-up for me. Getting Away with Murder, although yes you're right, was a dreadful show, still has one of the best posters in my collection. What are your thoughts on Roadshow?

[mjohnson2]

Posted: 9/14/14 at 4:09pm

Like most of Sondheim's shows, ROAD SHOW should have been a play from the beginning and would have been pretty good if it was, and the music just seems to detract from the show.

Updated On: 9/14/14 at 04:09 PM

[yankeefan7]

Posted: 9/14/14 at 4:52pm

Next to Normal
Matilda
City of Angels
Rent
Spring Awakening
Hairspray
Les Miserables

[Consistency]

Posted: 9/14/14 at 6:55pm

mjohnson - That's crazy talk. In the case of Sondheim's weakest shows - which include most of the ones you named - the music is pretty much the ONLY thing that makes them worthwhile. The lyrics bring a depth and humanity that simply isn't present in the dead on arrival books. With the possible exceptions of "The Frogs" and "Road Show," even his weakest shows have at least five or six extraordinary songs. "Anyone Can Whistle," for example, is a complete mess of a show - but the score is a gem that has held up beautifully.

Also - "Pacific Overtures" is almost a masterpiece.

(On the other hand, the less said about "Getting Away with Murder" the better...)

[Consistency]

Posted: 9/14/14 at 7:03pm

Anyways, here's my (somewhat generic) list of favorite musicals in no particular order (with the caveats that my favorites are constantly changing and that there are still lots of "greats" that I have never seen):

Sweeney Todd
Kiss Me Kate
Ragtime
A Little Night Music
Big River
West Side Story
Floyd Collins
Mame
On the Town
Sweet Charity

[mjohnson2]

Posted: 9/14/14 at 7:12pm

ANYONE CAN WHISTLE certainly does not have a gorgeous score. In fact, it has one of the ugliest I've ever heard. I mentioned this before to GalvestonPS, but I think that the subject could be quite a good absurdist play, but their insistence to turn it into a musical is what hindered it. The same goes for PACIFIC OVERTURES, SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE, SATURDAY NIGHT, ROAD SHOW, INTO THE WOODS, SWEENEY TODD, and ASSASSINS.