Funniest Musical?
#75re: Funniest Musical?
Posted: 3/15/07 at 5:39pm
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#76re: Funniest Musical?
Posted: 3/15/07 at 7:54pmWithout question, it's A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
#77re: Funniest Musical?
Posted: 3/15/07 at 8:03pmSpelling Bee and Drowsy are definitely hilarious.
It was awesome. - theaterkid1015
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#78re: Funniest Musical?
Posted: 3/15/07 at 8:15pm
No one has mentioned this, so i don't know, maybe the productions wa s crap, but having only read the book and heard the music, "Debbie Does Dallas" made me laugh pretty hard.
"Anything Goes" always makes me laugh. And "A Year With Frog and Toad" is funny for entirely different reasons...
#80re: Funniest Musical?
Posted: 3/15/07 at 8:26pm
THE PRODUCERS as one of the funniest musicals? Sure, maybe in its prime; however, THE PRODUCERS that I saw on February 24th had me just about sleeping (this is coming from a person who is a huge fan of the cast recording, and yes, I do enjoy the movie).
I think that AVENUE Q is consistently funny, with our without the original Broadway cast. DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS was a show that had me constantly laughing, but I felt it lost some of its "oomf" once the last of the original cast had left.
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#81re: Funniest Musical?
Posted: 3/15/07 at 9:26pmUrinetown, The Drowsy Chaperone, Avenue Q, and Bye Bye Birdie. The last one, I think, is especially hysterical, and would only have been even better if I had seen it (or, even, lived) back in that generation.
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#83re: Funniest Musical?
Posted: 3/15/07 at 9:34pm
Urinetown!!!
Spelling bee is insane as well
and godspell when its done well
#84re: Funniest Musical?
Posted: 3/15/07 at 9:45pm
A funny thing happened on the way to the forum
Urinetown
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
The Gondoliers (not really a musical, I know...)
#85re: Funniest Musical?
Posted: 3/15/07 at 11:20pm
-Jerry Springer the Opera (I actually had trouble breathing I was laughing so hard.)
-A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
-Evil Dead
-Avenue Q
#86re: Funniest Musical?
Posted: 3/15/07 at 11:47pm
Avenue Q.... Spelling Bee...Altar Boyz (watching Mark is a show in it's own).
or the all white Once on This Island they did in my town.
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Broadway Star Joined: 7/24/06
#87re: Funniest Musical?
Posted: 3/15/07 at 11:56pm
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#88re: Funniest Musical?
Posted: 3/16/07 at 12:50amHands down I laughed my ass off at Urinetown. I have never laughed so hard at show. My friend with me had to tell me to be quiet
#89re: Funniest Musical?
Posted: 3/16/07 at 5:37amI don't know if this is "lesser known," but I was in a lot of musicals back in the day... and nothing got as much laughs as "Sugar Babies." Of course helped that we had a killer cast, including the director of the Broadway production... but I have NEVER before or since heard an audience laugh that hard. And I've never had to hold for a laugh like that (over a minute in one blackout scene!). I thought those joke were kinda old and corny, but if the cast is perfect and can put them over, you'd better hope the audience is wearing Depends.
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