Favorite Not-so-Famous Musicals??- Page 2
Favorite Not-so-Famous Musicals??
GypsyRoseLee
Broadway Star Joined: 7/5/04
#25re: Favorite Not-so-Famous Musicals??
Posted: 5/10/05 at 3:20pmBat Boy!
"This is what I trained to do, and this is what I love about theater. What I love about being an actress is being able to really look into myself and understand another human being. And out my own self, to shape and form and fashion a real human being--and to present that in such a way that people see something of themselves or their own understanding in that human being."
--Phylicia Rashad
File1218
Swing Joined: 5/9/05
#27re: Favorite Not-so-Famous Musicals??
Posted: 5/10/05 at 5:18pm
These are my favorite flop/unpopular/forgotten scores:
Goldilocks
Forever Plaid
Romance/Romance
I Love My Wife
Two Gentlemen of Verona
The Canterbury Tales
All American
Rags
Jane Eyre
The Most Happy Fella
Fiorello!
Flahooley
Flora, the Red Menace
Big
The Magic Show
Barnum
Do Re Mi
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
Carrie
Big River
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Mack and Mabel
A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine
Paint Your Wagon
Li'l Abner
Good News!
Half a Sixpence
How Now Dow Jones
It's a Bird...It's a Plane...It's Superman!
Legs Diamond
Lucky Stiff
Metropolis
Moby Dick
On the Twentieth Century
Once On This Island
Kwamina
The Rothschilds
Shenandoah
The Scarlet Pimpernel
The Secret Garden
Subways are for Sleeping
Top Banana
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Violet
Walking Happy
The Witches of Eastwick
Zorba
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
#28re: Favorite Not-so-Famous Musicals??
Posted: 5/10/05 at 5:23pm
Wildcat -- I lost just absolutely adore PROMENADE. That OCR has recently become one of my favorites, right up there with IN TROUSERS and A NEW BRAIN.
Other rare musicals that I love are NICK & NORA, THE RINK, DANCE A LITTLE CLOSER, and GRIND.
stylinbohemian
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/24/05
#29re: Favorite Not-so-Famous Musicals??
Posted: 5/10/05 at 5:27pm
By Jeeves!
Two Gentlemen of Verona rocks my socks off!
#30re: Favorite Not-so-Famous Musicals??
Posted: 5/10/05 at 5:27pmwell tick tick boom and last five years.
"At the opening night party, they had clowns on stilts, jugglers, a chocolate fountain, popcorn, hot dogs. [My son] looked at me like I had been holding back. Like, 'This is what you do?' I had to tell him, 'No, no, darling. Opening nights don't usually look like this.' It's usually a dark bar with a bottle of vodka." ?Chitty Chitty Bang Bang's Jan Maxwell
plus i proudly share the title of the shortest member over the age of 10 with wickedrentq!
Joshua488
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/29/04
#31re: Favorite Not-so-Famous Musicals??
Posted: 5/10/05 at 5:30pm
Here's one that I doubt any of you have heard of:
Rebels
Book by John Allen, William Squier and Mana Allen
Music by Jeffrey Lodin
Lyrics by William Squier and John Allen
This musical has had a few readings/workshops in NYC (first one was back in 1993) and then had its world premiere in Illinois in 2001. A much-revised version had its premiere in Connecticut in 2004, which I was an understudy/ensemble member in. The score is just so superb and the ten- to fifteen-minute opening number is breathtaking. Look for this fantastic musical in NYC in the near future.
For more information, go to http://www.lodinandsquier.com.
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#32re: Favorite Not-so-Famous Musicals??
Posted: 5/10/05 at 7:55pm
Mack & Mabel
Jimmy
Superman
Inner City
Dracula
Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public
Poster Emeritus
#33re: Favorite Not-so-Famous Musicals??
Posted: 5/10/05 at 8:16pmBig News!
BSoBW2: I punched Sondheim in the face after I saw Wicked and said, "Why couldn't you write like that!?"
#34re: Favorite Not-so-Famous Musicals??
Posted: 5/10/05 at 8:28pmI love tick tick boom!
"You drank a charm to kill John Proctor's wife! You drank a charm to kill Goody Proctor!" - Betty Parris to Abigail Williams in Arthur Miller's The Crucible
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