Musicals you loved immediately- Page 3

[bwayfreakgua]

Posted: 11/15/05 at 4:18pm

Avenue Q
Sweeney Todd
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

[iheartcheyenne123]

Posted: 11/15/05 at 4:23pm

All Shook Up
Hairspray
Rent
Wicked
Movin' Out
Forbidden Broadway
42nd Street
too many...

[Piazzaslight]

Posted: 11/15/05 at 6:11pm

Phantom of the Opera
Les Miserables

[TheatreSlave]

Posted: 12/1/05 at 1:31am

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

[gabybon]

Posted: 12/1/05 at 6:23am

-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

[redhotinnyc2]

Posted: 12/1/05 at 7:35am

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.

[RENThead414]

Posted: 12/1/05 at 10:43am

RENT, Wicked, Avenue Q, I love you you're perfect now change, into the woods

[YankeeGal#24]

Posted: 12/1/05 at 10:55am

A Chorus Line
42nd Street
The Producers
Hairspray

[tthomas76]

Posted: 12/1/05 at 11:05am

Chicago
Millie
Gypsy
Wicked
Hairspray
A Chorus Line

[jasobres]

Posted: 12/1/05 at 11:16am

Avenue Q
The Producers
Wicked
Spamalot

[Born2cthelightsofbway]

Posted: 12/1/05 at 12:14pm

Avenue Q
Wicked
Phantom
Beauty and the Beast

[Macavity]

Posted: 12/1/05 at 12:19pm

Chicago
Rent
The Phantom of the opera
Aida
Avenue Q
Cats

[Danielm]

Posted: 12/1/05 at 1:39pm

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".

[Ourtime992]

Posted: 12/1/05 at 1:44pm

FLOYD COLLINS

changed my whole view of music the second I heard "The Call."

[PottstownTeacher]

Posted: 12/1/05 at 2:46pm

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.

[AuditioningWaitress]

Posted: 12/1/05 at 2:50pm

ANNIE...THE SOUND OF MUSIC...FALSETTOS...THE SECRET GARDEN...LES MISERABLES...The list goes on and on...

[catstagestud]

Posted: 12/1/05 at 2:54pm

Aida
Evita
Sweeney Todd
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Beauty and the Beast
The Lion King
A New Brain
SideShow
Fiddler
John and Jen
Jekyll and Hyde
YAGMCB

etc. etc.

Cheers,

C.

[Mr. Jamie Wilinstien]

Posted: 12/1/05 at 3:55pm

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.

[LuvBroadwayHugs]

Posted: 12/1/05 at 4:10pm

Very few, actually. Most shows had to grow on me but there are these:

Tick, Tick...Boom!
The Boy From Oz
The Rocky Horror Show
Jersey Boys

Updated On: 12/1/05 at 04:10 PM

[Broadwaygirl22]

Posted: 12/1/05 at 4:53pm

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

[sweeneyfan]

Posted: 12/1/05 at 5:29pm

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.

[AspectsofLoveLover]

Posted: 12/1/05 at 5:34pm

Miss Saigon
Aspects of Love

[AJ--Law]

Posted: 12/1/05 at 5:37pm

42nd Street
Wicked
Chicago
La Cage

[sweetestsiren]

Posted: 12/1/05 at 8:14pm

Phantom of the Opera
Rent
Ragtime

[Unknown User]

Posted: 12/1/05 at 8:26pm

Follies
Dreamgirls
Chicago
The Rink
Caroline, or Change