Shows where you know the script from start to finish

#1

Shows where you know the script from start to finish

Posted: 2/13/06 at 6:29pm

Are there any shows that you are so obsessed you know the whole song/dialogue from start to finish?

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Updated On: 2/13/06 at 06:29 PM

#2

re: Shows where you know the script from start to finish

Posted: 2/13/06 at 6:32pm

Guys and Dolls
The Producers

#3

re: Shows where you know the script from start to finish

Posted: 2/13/06 at 6:33pm

not that I could recite from memory, but LOTS I know the whole CD of while playing with no problem

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#4

re: Shows where you know the script from start to finish

Posted: 2/13/06 at 6:36pm

Almost Sweeney Todd.

And the off Broadway production of Anything Goes. But only because I'm in a production.

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#5

re: Shows where you know the script from start to finish

Posted: 2/13/06 at 6:37pm

None

#6

re: Shows where you know the script from start to finish

Posted: 2/13/06 at 6:37pm

I agree jasonf. I can play the whole CD of either Rent or Wicked and I can sing along to all the parts. It's a little sad, but I'm really obsessed!

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#7

re: Shows where you know the script from start to finish

Posted: 2/13/06 at 6:38pm

Any of the shows I worked sets for are pretty much in my brain forever whether I want them to be or not: Oklahoma!, King & I, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, South Pacific.

Outside of that, Les Miz, Urinetown and Big River, probably.

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#8

re: Shows where you know the script from start to finish

Posted: 2/13/06 at 6:41pm

I could do wicked

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#9

re: Shows where you know the script from start to finish

Posted: 2/13/06 at 6:42pm

I could possibly do all of Gypsy.

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#10

re: Shows where you know the script from start to finish

Posted: 2/13/06 at 6:44pm

RENT, and Les Miz

I could sing along through the AIDA CD and EVITA though.

#11

re: Shows where you know the script from start to finish

Posted: 2/13/06 at 7:09pm

Maybe Passion. I don't have the time to listen to music as compulsively as I used to.
Years ago, I knew every word of Evita, but that's not the case anymore.

#12

re: Shows where you know the script from start to finish

Posted: 2/13/06 at 7:11pm

Full show: None

Full CD: Aida, Chicago, Crazy For You, I Love you you're perfect now change, les mis, king and I, parade, Fiddler, Phantom, Rent, Wicked, The Last Five years, Hairspray, spamalot, Millie, Rocky Horror

#13

re: Shows where you know the script from start to finish

Posted: 2/13/06 at 7:17pm

Cinderella (school show)...

I could possibly do Rent or Jekyll and Hyde, but definitely all of Gypsy.

#14

re: Shows where you know the script from start to finish

Posted: 2/13/06 at 7:36pm

Full CD: Avenue Q, Chicago, Kiss Me Kate (I'm in it right now), Little Shop of Horrors, RENT, The Last Five Years, Tick Tick BOOM!, Wicked

This is kind of embarassing..

Updated On: 6/8/06 at 07:36 PM

#15

re: Shows where you know the script from start to finish

Posted: 2/13/06 at 7:41pm

Full show: Rent, Wicked, All Shook Up, Spelling Bee, Les Miz, Hairspray.

CDs, don't get me started.

Updated On: 2/13/06 at 07:41 PM

#16

re: Shows where you know the script from start to finish

Posted: 2/13/06 at 7:41pm

Gypsy

#17

re: Shows where you know the script from start to finish

Posted: 2/13/06 at 7:42pm

Bat Boy the Musical

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#18

re: Shows where you know the script from start to finish

Posted: 2/13/06 at 7:44pm

All Shook Up is the only one where I know everyone's parts. I can name every OBC member and their character, do choreography...I miss that show a lot.

I used to be able to do Wicked, but not so much now.

Full CDs: Altar Boyz, All Shook Up, L5Y, Jersey Boys, Avenue Q, BKLYN, Hairspray, Wicked, The Light in the Piazza (I don't understand the Italian, but can pronounce it), Assassins, RENT, and Spelling Bee.

Updated On: 2/13/06 at 07:44 PM

#19

re: Shows where you know the script from start to finish

Posted: 2/13/06 at 7:47pm

The Producers
Avenue Q
Rent
Urinetown
Dreamgirls
POTO
Wicked

#20

re: Shows where you know the script from start to finish

Posted: 2/13/06 at 7:48pm

I could repeat every last word of Phantom of the Opera.

I could do all the lyrics for quite a few shows, but Phantom is the only one where I know the full script verbatim.

#21

re: Shows where you know the script from start to finish

Posted: 2/13/06 at 7:53pm

Full Show- Wicked, All Shook Up

CDs- Hairspray, DRS, Wicked, All Shook Up.

#22

re: Shows where you know the script from start to finish

Posted: 2/13/06 at 7:55pm

All of Sweeney...down pat.

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#23

re: Shows where you know the script from start to finish

Posted: 2/13/06 at 7:55pm

Wicked.

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#24

re: Shows where you know the script from start to finish

Posted: 2/13/06 at 8:02pm

Rent and Urinetown.

As far as plays go, The Pillowman and Angels in America: Millennium Approaches.

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#25

re: Shows where you know the script from start to finish

Posted: 2/13/06 at 8:31pm

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (well perhaps I wouldn't be able to get through a couple of changed lines, but that's it). Also Rent I'm pretty sure.

And b/c of participating in shows, I know Once On This Island(my first pit, my sis was stage manager, I read her script all the time), Fame: the Musical (I asst. stage managed myself) and West Side Story(adore it, have played in the pits twice, so I've heard the show done straight through more than 10 times.

I knew Harvey for a while, but we did that show 10th grade, so it's prob been too many years for me to fully remember.

Liotte, was expecting you to have quite a few

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Updated On: 2/13/06 at 08:31 PM