Favourite Obscure Musical(s)?- Page 2

[FoscasBohemianDream]

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."

[Mattbrain]

Posted: 9/29/06 at 8:15pm

Bright Lights, Big City

[riv]

Posted: 9/30/06 at 4:41pm

Juno.

[OtherDaryl]

Posted: 10/1/06 at 11:42am

Runaways.

[CompletlyNakedStatue]

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!

[Eastwickian]

Posted: 10/2/06 at 8:09am

La 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...

[ErinDillyFan]

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

[Pippin]

Posted: 10/4/06 at 10:44am

"I Sing"
"Weird Romance"
"3hree"

[folkyboy]

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.

[DryMartini]

Posted: 10/4/06 at 11:17am

Birds of Paradise.

[frontrowcentre2]

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.)

[NathanLaneStalker]

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.

[ErinDillyFan]

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.

[folkyboy]

Posted: 10/4/06 at 1:46pm

hmm perchance that means it's time for a revival! :)