Scary Musicals — Page 2

"Good Vibrations! lol-no just kidding"

I second that but I'm being serious. Scared the living sh** out of me.

You have to understand what really scares me--horror movies such as the Ring don't scare me at all, I laugh, but a television movie about an abusive teenage relationship where the boyfriend kills the girlfriend--terrifying.

This in mind, I think Cabaret hast to be up there as the scariest. The simple fact of how Hal Prince described it in Broadway the American Musical, where people are, terrible things could happen. That's scary.

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I watched "Sweeney Todd" by myself one night at my house and it sorta scared me cause of the music and Sweeney himself(George Hearns)...yeah I guess its kinda scary.

"The Little Shop of Horrors" used to scary me awhole lot when I was younger...that one did it for me.

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Little Shop did scary me too especially the verison were everyone dies.

Sweeney Todd gets my vote, too. Fascinating like a train wreck, a brilliantly bent score, but creepy as they come. Eerie & odd.
I may be nuts (and there are LOTS of people who'll swear to it) but I found the part in Pippin, where he's contemplating suicide as a grand, extraordinary gesture, then offers the torch to the audience, scary. I was always scared that some nut in the audience might take him up on it. I think I'd be afraid to do that scene today. Love the score to that show, though.

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I saw the original Jekyll and Hyde when I was young, and it scared the crap out of me. The murders were much more violent, especially Lucy's. Her white dress and white bed sheets were just covered in blood by the end. Other than that, I can't really think of any other shows that are "scary."

Updated On: 5/30/05 at 04:59 PM

urban, Ich auch

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No one thinks Phantom was scary? It scared me to death when I was eight! I wouldn't walk up the stairs alone!!

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WHen I was 11 or so and younger, what used to scare me most was anything supernatural. So yeah, as a 6 or 7 year old the Dream in Fiddler scared me, and Little Shop terrified me (it showed at a 7 year old's birthday party and I remember I had to go into the other room with the birthday kid's mom once Seymour started chopping up Mushnick--actually I think the dentist stuff scared me more than the plant...)

For me, Sweeney is more spooky or creepy (an unnerving) than full on scary, but I didn't hear it till I was 11 (I do remember on record, the whole final part--like Mrs Lovett trying to lure Toby out did really creep me out.) The Prince production on DVD wasn't all that scary, I thought, but just a yer or two later I saw the National THeatre production in London (the one with Julia McKenzie and Denis Quilley that was recorded for BBC radio) and I did find that production "jump out of your seat" scary--it was done so intimately with people literally popping up right beside you, etc. Lots of fun.

Otherwise I guess I can think of musicals that unnerved me--like Assassins. Though I saw Phantom when I was 10, it didn't scare me, maybe only a few parts slightly like the reveal of the body hanging from the noose.

Howabout Dracula the Musical or Lestat? Or any vampire musical? :P

Not going to lie, CATS scares me a bit.

Sweeney Todd is an obvious one as well.

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Oh, yeah, I do find Phantom of the Opera scary in some ways. Just the overture and the hanging during the ballet.
Ever since I was little, one of my biggest fears has been someone dying during a show. (and throwing up on stage but that's a different story).

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Mary Poppins.......terrified she would fall down and crush me to death as she did her fly-by at the end.

So Relieved it closed! I've been sleeping better since then!

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Updated On: 3/21/13 at 09:44 PM

Well the theme itself isn't scary but the music, costumes and the way that it's staged is VERY creepy. In the recent Broadway revival they were all wearing black and it was all really dark except for some sort of light the actors were holding. Easily one of my favorites moments in the show.