"The stage is where I live and come alive and act out all the things that go on in my life. It's not just what I do for a living, it's my shrink and my love affair. No one in my life has ever or ever will kiss me on the mouth like this lover called my relationship with my performance."
*gets prepared to be killed* As a disclaimer, I've only been exposed to Broadway for about 5 years, but still it's no excuse...but almost everything except Rent, Les Miz, Phantom, the rest of Cats, the Disney musicals, Hello Dolly, and Joseph. I also watched the original film version of the Producers but I don't think that can count.
Start the criticism.
"During this performance, please feel free to let your cell phones and pagers ring willy-nilly. However, do remember that there are heavily-armed knights on stage and you might well be dragged up and impaled."
(Pre-curtain announcement at the new Broadway musical Monty Python's Spamalot)
"The stage is where I live and come alive and act out all the things that go on in my life. It's not just what I do for a living, it's my shrink and my love affair. No one in my life has ever or ever will kiss me on the mouth like this lover called my relationship with my performance."
south pacific sweeny todd les mis cats phantom camelot every Loesser ('cept Guys and Dolls) hello dolly
... the list goes on and on!
"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed
Broadway Diva... all three of those are amazing. I highly recommend you spend a few hours at Virgin one day listening to them. They really are great. I just VERY recently got hooked on all three!
"What a mystery this world. One day you love them and the next day you want to kill them a thousand times over." The Masked Bandit in THE FALL
I'm with BroadwayDiva. I've only heard one or two songs from each.
"The stage is where I live and come alive and act out all the things that go on in my life. It's not just what I do for a living, it's my shrink and my love affair. No one in my life has ever or ever will kiss me on the mouth like this lover called my relationship with my performance."
Quick question, do film versions count? Because I have seen like Victor/Victoria, and My Fair Lady, and, of course, Chicago in that format. Just not the stage versions. (only ask because I have seen the full list of songs in Chicago and a lot got cut out from the film.)
"During this performance, please feel free to let your cell phones and pagers ring willy-nilly. However, do remember that there are heavily-armed knights on stage and you might well be dragged up and impaled."
(Pre-curtain announcement at the new Broadway musical Monty Python's Spamalot)
I havn't heard a lot of Sondheim's score. The only full ones ive heard are Sunday in the Park with George and Assassins.
"Chicago is it's own incredible theater town right there smack down in the middle of the heartland. What a great city! I can see why Oprah likes to live there!" - Dee Hoty :-D
Priest is gonna kill me, but... Sunday in the Park With George. I never even gave it a thought until I saw the bits of it on Broadway: The American Musical. Now, it's on my wish list...
"Noah, someday we'll talk again. But there's things we'll never say. That sorrow deep inside you. It inside me, too. And it never go away. You be okay. You'll learn how to lose things..."
Hedwig, Rocky Horror, most of Fiddler on the Roof, Sweeny Todd, Hairspray, And I bought the recording of Assassins bu haven't gotten around to listening to it yet... Also the only show I've seen live is the tour of Little Shop of Horrors. Haha how pathetic is that?
Here in this cold white room tied up to these machines, it's hard to imagine life as it used to be. Laughing, screaming, tumbling queen... Like the most amazing light show you've ever seen. Whirling, swirling, never blue... How could you go and die? What a selfish thing to do...
RIP Jason
disclaimer- i've heard at least one song from most listed below into the woods gypsy sweeney todd mame les mis phantom of the opera dreamgirls
"Grease," the fourth revival of the season, is the worst show in the history of theater and represents an unparalleled assault on Western civilization and its values. - Michael Reidel