Musicals you loved immediately

TOo many to list but a few fav's:

Passion
Sweeney Todd
Company
The Wild Party (LaChiusa)
Parade

Like BobbyBuddy, too many to list. But here are some highlights:
Sweeney Todd
Jekyll & Hyde
Spamalot
Kiss of the Spider Woman
Man of LaMancha
The Boy From Oz
Godspell
Passion

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Avenue Q
Wicked
Hairspray
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Chicago

lots more, but if i continued i would bore people- if i havent already.

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Ragtime. My sister gave me the original concept recording for Christmas the year it came out, because she had heard some of it and thought it was something I would like. I loved it at once, then got the complete Bway recording, saw bits and pieces on TV (Tonys, etc.). When I finally got to see a production of the show, I was literally in tears by the end of the 10-minute opening, I was so thrilled.

I have to put in a plug for Avenue Q, too: I knew very little about it when I first heard a couple of songs, but that was enough to sell me on the cast album, and once I had the cast album, I was a die-hard Q-Tip (and believe it or not, I was a fan of the show in general before The Big Crush really set in). When the day comes that I finally get to see Q on stage, I'll be thrilled at that, too.

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I'm afraid I have to say Phantom...it was just so catchy at the time, you know?

Avenue Q
Sweet Charity
Jekyll & Hyde
Chicago

Phantom of the Opera
Sunset Boulevard
Wicked
Hairspray
Avenue Q
Company
Into The Woods
Sweet Charity
Gypsy
My Fair Lady
Mary Poppins


Mary P x

Wicked
Rent
Brooklyn
Boy from Oz
Phantom of The Opera- Movie
Producers
Bye Bye Birdie

ehem...

POTO
RENT
Wicked
Sweeney Todd
Company
West Side Story
Little Shop of Horrors
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Miss Saigon
The Scarlett Pimpernell
Children of Eden
Jekyll & Hyde
Titanic
Side Show
Jesus Chirst Superstar

Rent
Into the Woods
Wicked
You're a Good Man Charie Brown
Thoroughly Modern Millie
Cabaret

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Rent
Wicked
Phantom
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Thoroughly Modern Millie
Hairspray
Cabaret
Chicago

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Will Rogers Follies
Scarlet Pimpernel
Irving Berlin's White Christmas

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RAGTIME (those soul-stirring harmonies at the end of the opening, where about five hundred people seem to be singing)

FOOTLOOSE (same thing, but in midsong, and in a much cheesier way--"Tonight I gotta cut loose!/Footloose!/Kick off mah Sunday shoes!")

LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS (the irresistable soul-swing of the title number)

HAIRSPRAY I used to live in Baltimore, and just seeing the title of the opening number made me smile and know I'd love this show forever.

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