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Funniest Musical?
#25re: Funniest Musical?
Posted: 7/1/06 at 10:29pmWell, the role of Rani in Bombay Dreams is hilarious, she is over the top bitchy and has a few funny lines that worked very well for the audience every time i've seen it.
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NathanLaneStalker
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/06
#26re: Funniest Musical?
Posted: 7/1/06 at 10:31pmYeah she was good! I really hate that show with a burning passion! lol! I don`t really like Webber. I like Cats and Joseph but that`s it!
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IMissNYC
Stand-by Joined: 1/7/06
#27re: Funniest Musical?
Posted: 7/1/06 at 10:38pm
I remember my brother and I laughing so hard at FALSETTOS that we had tears falling down our cheeks during the first act of that show.
I give second and third places to SPELLING BEE and CITY OF ANGELS.
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#28re: Funniest Musical?
Posted: 7/1/06 at 10:42pmDefinitely THE PRODUCERS. It is side-splittingly funny. I've seen it a couple of times, plus the film a few times, and I just keep laughing and laughing.
gavrochegirl
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/16/05
#29re: Funniest Musical?
Posted: 7/1/06 at 10:49pm
I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change!
Avenue Q
Drowsy Chaperone
What the puck?!
wickedrentq
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/6/04
#30re: Funniest Musical?
Posted: 7/1/06 at 11:30pm
While Dirty Rotten Scoundrels may not be the funniest musical I've ever seen (though it's up there), it stands on its own as the one show I can go back to over and over and each time I laugh just as much as I did the first time I saw it.
Other funny ones are Avenue Q, Spelling Bee, Forbidden Broadway: SVU, Producers, Musical of Musicals: The Musical, and The Audience.
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#31re: Funniest Musical?
Posted: 7/1/06 at 11:41pmI guess I'm the only one that thinks My Fair Lady is funny? The Julie Andrews Cockney gets me every time.
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Marguerite Chauvelin
Broadway Star Joined: 7/19/05
#32re: Funniest Musical?
Posted: 7/1/06 at 11:45pm
Definitely Spamalot and DRS, Hairspray was hilarious too.
If Percy Blakeney were in Les Mis....
Percy: Sink me! If it isn't Javvurt!
Javert: Zsah-vair, it's pronounced Zsah-vair.
Pecry: But it's spelled J-A-V-E-R-T Javvurt.
Javert: Repeat after me Zsah...Zsah....
Percy: Oh! Zsa-Zsa! Like the Gabor sister! Well I personally have always prefered Eva.
Javert: (Looks for gun)
Percy: Sink me! If it isn't Javvurt!
Javert: Zsah-vair, it's pronounced Zsah-vair.
Pecry: But it's spelled J-A-V-E-R-T Javvurt.
Javert: Repeat after me Zsah...Zsah....
Percy: Oh! Zsa-Zsa! Like the Gabor sister! Well I personally have always prefered Eva.
Javert: (Looks for gun)
TonyaFanatic
Broadway Star Joined: 12/29/04
#33re: Funniest Musical?
Posted: 7/2/06 at 5:09amspamalot, but with sara.
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#34re: Funniest Musical?
Posted: 7/2/06 at 8:09am
*BUMP*
These are great!
What about some more smaller or unknown ones?
#35re: Funniest Musical?
Posted: 7/2/06 at 8:31am
DROWSY CHAPERONE!!! woooooot
and in my life i was laughing the whole time, but that was a it's so bad it's funny kinda thing lol
alterego
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/5/03
#37re: Funniest Musical?
Posted: 7/2/06 at 8:43am
IN MY LIFE, hands down. :)
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luvtheatre11
Understudy Joined: 1/3/06
#38re: Funniest Musical?
Posted: 7/2/06 at 9:21amSpamalot, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Drowsy Chaperone, all had me roaring..
#39re: Funniest Musical?
Posted: 7/2/06 at 9:45amThe Producers is hands down my favorite comedic musical.
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#40re: Funniest Musical?
Posted: 7/2/06 at 9:54am
For me Spelling Bee. I laugh so hard my sides hurt everytime I see that show.
Other ones are
Drowsy Chaperone
and The Producers.
#41re: Funniest Musical?
Posted: 7/2/06 at 10:21am
Nunsense.
I was laughing so hard I was crying. That would have been a better straight play, really. The music isn't memorable at all, but it's so funny!!!
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Corine2
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/14/03
#42re: Funniest Musical?
Posted: 7/2/06 at 10:43am
My favorite:
1. Forbidden Broadway- Because it makes fun of all I love and adore. And Michael West is back. I have to see the new version.
2. Avenue Q
3. Hairspray
4. Spamalot 
5. The Producers
6. Spelling Bee (And now that Foa is joining the cast, I might be changing lotteries) HEH.
Updated On: 7/2/06 at 10:43 AM
#43re: Funniest Musical?
Posted: 7/2/06 at 10:51am
City of Angels
Altar Boyz
A New Brain
Avenue Q
The Pirates of Penzance
Falsettos
Sant
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/12/04
#45re: Funniest Musical?
Posted: 7/2/06 at 2:04pmThe Great American Trailor Park Musical
"People that excel in the arts understand that the journey is the reward...the result an added bonus. Every day I act or train is a blessing and a dream come true. If Broadway beckons so be it. I have a personal definition of success that is unshakable by a possibly unobtainable goal." -HamletWasBipolar
#46re: Funniest Musical?
Posted: 7/2/06 at 3:55pm
Lesser known? Last year, my school performed a production of "Sugar" (edited of course) during February. I can't figure out why this musical version of "Some Like it Hot", starring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, and Jack Lemmon, wasn't a hit on Broadway. I played cross-dressing Jerry/Daphne. And nothing flooded my heart with bliss like the rollicking cascading waterfalls of uproarious laughter rushing from the aisles. I honestly don't think, at this point, that a funnier show is available in a school setting.
...And so, there I was at the stage door for "Equus". The enthused avalanche of "Harry Potter" fans was literally pushing me into the barricades. As I was thrust face-first into Daniel Radcliffe's hat, I suddenly felt the thumb of a lanky gentleman behind me pressing firmly into my back. It was then that I realized that both of his hands had Playbills, and that both arms were outstretched in front of me...
Updated On: 7/3/06 at 03:55 PM
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Broadway Star Joined: 6/14/05
jam_man
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/25/05
#48re: Funniest Musical?
Posted: 7/2/06 at 4:04pm
Without question, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, with distant compatition from The Producers, How to Succued in Business Without Really Trying, Spamalot, and a good production of Guys & Dolls.
As for lesser known shows, The Mystery of Edwin Drood is quite funny, and very fun to do AND watch.
EDIT: And A Chorus Line can be pretty funny, too.
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Updated On: 7/2/06 at 04:04 PM
"The man who wishes he had written Phantom of the Opera!" - SueleenGay
GO CARDINALS!!!
#49re: Funniest Musical?
Posted: 7/2/06 at 4:12pm
Oh, yeah, rufussars, I forgot about Sugar.
For those of you who don't know. Sugar is the musical version of Some Like it Hot. It's hilarious!!!
"I believe that art does not exist only to entertain, but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, to engage in a constant search for the truth."
- Barbra Streisand
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