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Favourite Obscure Musical(s)?
re: Favourite Obscure Musical(s)?#25
Posted: 9/29/06 at 4:42pm
Oh how could I forget about Sherry? I love Carol Burnette, Bernadette Peters, and Tommy Tune in the studio cast recording.
Does Seesaw count as obscure? If it does it must be my all-time favorite obscure musical, nothing like Michelle Lee singing "Nobody Does It Like Me" or the tour de force "I'm Way Ahead."
re: Favourite Obscure Musical(s)?#26
Posted: 9/29/06 at 8:15pm
Bright Lights, Big City
re: Favourite Obscure Musical(s)?#28
Posted: 10/1/06 at 11:42amRunaways.
Stand-by Joined: 5/14/06
re: Favourite Obscure Musical(s)?#29
Posted: 10/1/06 at 1:08pm
Heartbeats
King of Hearts
Floyd Collins... not exactly obscure nowadays, but far more obscure than it should be!
re: Favourite Obscure Musical(s)?#30
Posted: 10/2/06 at 8:09amLa Cava - I had low expectations, expecting just to be a Les Mis rip-off, but ended up really enjoying it! Though apparently composer Lawrence O'Keefe doesn't even mention it in his Playbill bio...
Broadway Star Joined: 7/14/06
re: Favourite Obscure Musical(s)?#31
Posted: 10/4/06 at 9:31am
As far as cast recordings:
Jennie with Mary Martin
The Rothschilds
What I have seen (I don't know if you can call them obscure, just probably outside everyones top 100):
Purlie
Menopause: the musical
George M
re: Favourite Obscure Musical(s)?#32
Posted: 10/4/06 at 10:44am
"I Sing"
"Weird Romance"
"3hree"
re: Favourite Obscure Musical(s)?#33
Posted: 10/4/06 at 11:05am
The Rothschilds was obscure???
my pick is Bajour even though it's kind of a flop. i still would love to see it executed if just for the dancing alone.
Stand-by Joined: 3/20/06
re: Favourite Obscure Musical(s)?#35
Posted: 10/4/06 at 11:19am
Well, going way back, FLAHOOLEY!
It's got some great songs, marked the Broadway debut of Barbara Cook, featured Amy Camus (who preferred top spell her name backwards as Yma Sumac..why, I'll never know!) who has a thrilling and unusual voice.... and it closed after just 40 performances and has never been revived. A wonderful cast album (and its out on DRG - give it a listen. It's early high fidelity mono but not sounding like antique 78 RPM records.)
Cast albums are NOT "soundtracks."
Live theatre does not use a "soundtrack." If it did, it wouldn't be live theatre!
I host a weekly one-hour radio program featuring cast album selections as well as songs by cabaret, jazz and theatre artists. The program, FRONT ROW CENTRE is heard Sundays 9 to 10 am and also Saturdays from 8 to 9 am (eastern times) on www.proudfm.com
re: Favourite Obscure Musical(s)?#36
Posted: 10/4/06 at 12:04pm
REEFER MADNESS!
It should be given another chance off-broadway. It opened like...5 days after 9/11! It closed almost 2 to 3 months later! That's not right.
Broadway Star Joined: 7/14/06
The Rothschilds#37
Posted: 10/4/06 at 1:38pm
I realize that it ran for 1.5 yrs and had Hal Linden, but I've never heard it being done by a theater group or high school and don't know of anyone who has the cast album. I think you would have to be old enough and going to broadway shows in the early 70s to know it. I mentioned it to a woman who had been doing the costume designs for local high school productions for 25 years and she had never heard of it.
Or you can just call us out of the loop in the midwest.
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