Musicals with singing ghosts — Page 2

#26

Musicals with singing ghosts

Posted: 5/28/12 at 11:30pm

I am surprised that the thread got this far without anyone mentioning the most obvious answer. Ghost The Musical. There are several ghosts that sing in that show.

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#27

Musicals with singing ghosts

Posted: 5/28/12 at 11:36pm

It's in the OP, winston.

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#28

Musicals with singing ghosts

Posted: 5/28/12 at 11:39pm

And we can't forget Smash, when Katherine McPhee sings that show stopping song at the end, because no one would clap for a musical where Marilyn Monroe just dies at the end. Absurd!

#29

Musicals with singing ghosts

Posted: 5/28/12 at 11:41pm

I don't count Teen Angel in Grease and Clarence in It's a Wonderful Life as "ghosts". Angels and ghosts are two very different entities.

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#30

Musicals with singing ghosts

Posted: 5/28/12 at 11:54pm

It may be important to remember the different musical versions of The Christmas Carol (listed in the OP).

Two that come to my mind are Ebenezer and Scrooge (two separate titles).

To be cheeky, the Opera Ghost is a big part of Phantom of the Opera.

#31

Musicals with singing ghosts

Posted: 5/29/12 at 12:38am

Don't forget Angel in RENT.

#32

Musicals with singing ghosts

Posted: 5/29/12 at 1:03am

Technically it's an operetta, but...

G&S's Ruddigore.

*Edit: Well they are cursed paintings, so I'm not sure if they are dead or just cursed.

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#33

Musicals with singing ghosts

Posted: 5/29/12 at 1:23am

Thuy in Miss Saigon... or is that a dream??

oh and Les Mis has some ghosts!

in INTO THE WOODS... is the Mysterious Man a ghost in Act 2 or did he fake his death in Act 1...

#34

Musicals with singing ghosts

Posted: 5/29/12 at 1:36am

Some people say: NO. The Phantom is known as "Erik," people. He ain't NO ghost.

Scary thing is, they really mean it.

Some people think that in the finale of Les Mis, a bunch of ghosts appear in Valjean's room to sing randomly "buh-bye!" Yeah, the staging is meant to be taken literally and it isn't a scene typical of the kinds of places musical theatre can take us and the messages it can relay to us in unique ways. Nope. It literally is Fantine, Eponine, and random ghosts appearing in his room to sing "Goodbye!"

Funny.

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#35

Musicals with singing ghosts

Posted: 5/29/12 at 1:40am

Some people also think I was being serious when I said Phantom had a ghost since it had Opera Ghost.

Oh, those some people.

#36

Musicals with singing ghosts

Posted: 5/29/12 at 1:43am

Dude, I wasn't referring to your post at all. In fact, I hadn't even seen it until I read your response.

At the remote possibility you weren't actually responding to me...meh!

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#37

Musicals with singing ghosts

Posted: 5/29/12 at 1:51am

"Cinderella's Mother is a ghost"

Everyone who's ever been alive inside a tree begs to differ.

#38

Musicals with singing ghosts

Posted: 5/29/12 at 8:36am

"I don't consider the characters in Follies or in Grey Gardens to be ghosts. I consider them to be shadows of the past, for want of a better term. I consider a ghost to be the spirit of a deceased person which is, for some reason, stuck in this world."

That was exactly my reason for putting it in the questionable column. The characters have to be dead to be ghosts. But, these threads always lead to gray areas, so I took the lead and started to define what I thought were those areas.

#39

Musicals with singing ghosts

Posted: 5/29/12 at 9:31am

In RUDIGORE, the portraiots that come to life are the ancestors that died from the family curse.

The gimmick of portraits coming to life was lifted by the creators of ME AND MY GIRL.

#40

Musicals with singing ghosts

Posted: 5/29/12 at 10:56am

My Oh My, from the Les Mis libretto:


"[Fantine's spirit appears to Valjean.]

Fantine
M'sieur, I bless your name
M'sieur, lay down your burden
You raised my child in love
And you will be with God.

Valjean (interjecting)
I am ready, Fantine
At the end of my days
She's the best of my life.

[Marius and Cosette rush into the room, but they do not see Fantine.]"

Yes, it's a theatrical device, but trick was dead, and now she's back and singing. Ergo, ghost.


ETA: Joe Gilis in the prologue of "Sunset Boulevard."

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#41

Musicals with singing ghosts

Posted: 5/29/12 at 12:45pm

Emily in "Lavender Girl" - one of the mini-musicals in "3hree".

There have been musical versions of "The Canterbury Ghost" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow". In the latter it depends on whether the horseman is depicted as a ghost or as Brom Bones in disguise. I saw one youth theatre version where the opening prologue was sung by a chorus of Sleepy Hollow ghosts.

There is also the stage version of "Spoon River Anthology" which does have a few optional songs.

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#42

Musicals with singing ghosts

Posted: 5/29/12 at 7:41pm

Hello??? CAROUSEL?????????

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#43

Musicals with singing ghosts

Posted: 5/29/12 at 7:48pm

Hello??? page one of this very thread!!!!!!!!

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#44

Musicals with singing ghosts

Posted: 5/29/12 at 7:49pm

But, that's a whole 'nother page someone has to read! Wah!

#45

Musicals with singing ghosts

Posted: 5/29/12 at 7:54pm

Point noted. I missed CAROUSEL on the first page. And the Courier in 1776 is no ghost. Significantly, while the ghosts of the mother and grandmother "speak" in ALLEGRO, they don't sing. And what of the disembodied villagers of BRIGADOON? Ghosts- or just asleep?

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Updated On: 5/29/12 at 07:54 PM