All Shook Up Hairspray Rent Wicked Movin' Out Forbidden Broadway 42nd Street too many...
--Alex--
"They're singing, "Happy Birthday"
You just wanna lay down and cry
Not just another birthday, it's 30/90
Why can't you stay 29
Hell, you still feel like you're 22
Turn 30 in 1990
Bang! You're dead, what can you do?"
--TTB
Some that I cannot believe that i forgot (damn my Teflon-coated brain!)
Wicked (sorry to some of you, but I like it) Liars & Legends (anyone know if there is a full recording of this? I've heard the tape that comes with the perusal copy and I would love to find the whole thing) City of Angels Finnian's Rainbow Grand Hotel The Rocky Horror Show (How COULD I have forgotten this oen?) Starlight Express Cabaret Jesus Christ Superstar
On a side note- movie soundtracks I bought imeediately after seeing the film for the first time- Brain Candy, Dracula 2000, Willy Wonka.
Yep, I'm officially a wierdo. But then I knwo that. ANyone who reads Medes at age 11 and is still obsessed with playing the title role 20 years later has to be a little bent....
Carpe Noctem, y'all
"We are all misfits, I guess, in the theatre. Otherwise we wouldn't be here." ~Michael Kandel, "Ogre"
-Godspell -Pippin -Wicked -Last 5 Years -The Phantom Of The Opera -Starmites -Assassins -Elisabeth -Rent -Tick Tick Boom -Batboy -The Beautiful Game -A New Brain -She Loves Me -Seussical _Once On This Island -The Magic Show
Just few minutes after I listened those cd I loved immediately! Others musicals that I loved after several time are:
-The Baker's wife -Merrilly We Roll Along -Company -Anyone Can Whistle -Sweeney Tood -Kiss of The Spider Woman -Chicago -Nine -Lucky Stiff -Ragtime -Mozart -Songs For a New World
there are so many! Man of La Mancha Sweeney Todd Company Sunday In The Park... Parade The Light in The Piazza Passion
just to name a few.
"I don't really get the ending,all i can go with is when after several months,Judith saw Pat sang,and later she kissed him on the toilet,after that the story back to where Pat went down from the stage after he'd sung,and he went to the italian lady.I just don't get it,what Judith exatcly meant when he kissed Pat that she had seen,and did Pat end up together with The Italian Lady?Please help me,thank u very much!"
Quote from someone on IMDB in reference to a movie he/she didn't understand. Such grammar!
On the Town The Music Man West Side Story Cabaret Company A Little Night Music Sweeney Todd A Chorus Line Chicago Falsettos Floyd Collins A New Brain Jersey Boys (I saw it in La Jolla)
There are many more that I didn't love immediately, it took a few listenings and viewings for me to really understand "Follies" or "Passion".
Yes, we do need a third vampire musical.--Little Sally, Gypsy of the Year 2005.
OK, this could take a while ... I've been seeing shows since I was 6 years old. So bear with me for the next 25 years ...
Annie (Forrest Theatre, Philly, 1980) They're Playing Our Song (Forrest Theatre, Philly, 1981) Evita (Forrest Theatre, Philly, 1982) Peter Pan (Academy of Music, Philly, 1982, 2005) 42nd Street (My first Broadway show, Majestic Theatre, 1987) The Phantom of the Opera (Majestic Theatre, 1989) Aspects of Love (Broadhurst Theatre, 1990) Miss Saigon (Broadway Theatre, 1991) Gypsy (Marquis Theatre, 1991, Shubert Theatre, 2003) Man of La Mancha (Marquis Theatre, 1992, Martin Beck 2004) Blood Brothers (Music Box Theatre, 1993) Joseph (Minskoff Theatre, 1993) Carousel (LCT, 1994) Sunset Blvd. (Minskoff Theatre, 1994 - I saw it 7 times) Titanic (Lunt-Fontanne, 1997) The Life (Barrymore Theatre, 1997) Side Show (Richard Rodgers Theatre, 1997) Ragtime (Ford Center, 199 Cabaret (Henry Miller Theatre, 199 The Dead (Playwright's Horizon, 1999) Parade (LCT, 1999 - I saw the last day) The Rocky Horror Show (Circle in the Square, 2000) The Spitfire Grill (The Duke Theatre, 2001) Mamma Mia (Winter Garden, 2001) By Jeeves (Helen Hayes Theatre, 2001) Thoroughly Modern Millie (Marquis Theatre, 2002) Hairspray (Neil Simon Theatre, 2003) The Great American Trailer Park Musical (Dodger Stages, 2005) The Woman in White (Marquis Theatre, 2005) Sweeney Todd (Eugene O'Neill Theatre, 2005)
I'm sure I'm missing some. I can't think straight. The list of shows I flippin' hated is a whole other issue! Where to begin?!? Not to mention all the wonderful regional productions and even some wonderful community theatre productions. There's just no way to stop the madness! And I'd have it no other way.
Rent - grabbed the cd in new orleans and fell in love
Hair - the first musical I ever heard. My parents had it on vinyl and I would play it on my cousin's strawberry shortcake record player. Then I bought the OBC cd and I finally saw it last month at my university.
Ragtime - saw it on Rosie, fell in love and almost died in the mezzanine of the Orpheum Theatre in Memphis when I saw it in 9th grade
Songs for a New World - heard Audra's "stars and the moon" rendition and bought the original cast cd.
Last Five Years - downloaded a song by mistake when looking for songs from songs for a new world, thought for a year that it was part of it just not on the cd... then came to my senses and sought out the truth. I was highly impressed.
The Producers-I got the soundtrack and listened to it and loved it and then saw the show in Boston. It was my first Broadway show!(Broadway in Boston actually, but whatever :)My first Broadway show in NYC was The Lion King!) Avenue Q Rent You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown
I guess I'm showing my age here, but only a few shows I knew IMMEDIATELY...: A Chorus Line, Sweeney Todd, The Mystery of Edwin Drood and Rent. All for different reasons, but I'll share one... A Chorus Line was the first show I saw where I could relate to every single minute of the show (and I'm not an actor or dancer) and it actually got me to come out to my parents.