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#51

What is the most obscure but brilliant musical you love?

Posted: 4/16/10 at 10:09pm

Not really obscure, but I suspect most people here don't know the score: Jerry Springer the Opera.
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
#53

What is the most obscure but brilliant musical you love?

Posted: 4/16/10 at 11:44pm

I am humbled by the obscure knowledge of you all!!!!
If we're not having fun, then why are we doing it? These are DISCUSSION boards, not mutual admiration boards. Discussion only occurs when we are willing to hear what others are thinking, regardless of whether it is alignment to our own thoughts.
#55

What is the most obscure but brilliant musical you love?

Posted: 4/17/10 at 1:02am

I second Gavin with Lolita, My Love- (well of course I would. He's my flop buddy along with myshikobit xD) then probably Prettybelle. But Lolita most certainly is the first prize winner. I pray we get a staged reading for Loli, or an Encores production- (if we're *really* lucky, a limited run Off-Broadway...) because it truly deserves to be staged. It is just so brilliant. It needs fixing, no doubt, but nothing that can't be fixed, truly.

A lot of these I've heard selections from but don't know in its entirety (Weird Romance) and I'd like to add that I think Smile will be revived eventually. Give it a little bit more time.

OP-It really what classifies as "obscure". I know you made a citation saying "impressing people by your theatre knowledge"- but what KINDS of people? Theatre/artsy-fartsy people or just regulars? I know it sounds like a dumb question; but while I don't think many theatre people would find Urinetown, LOTR: The Musical (US Theatre people, that is...) or Carrie: The Musical to be obscure, but you'd be surprised as to how oblivious people can be. ^^

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#57

What is the most obscure but brilliant musical you love?

Posted: 4/17/10 at 10:56am

INNER CITY - loved the show, loved the score.

From the UK, two of my all-time favorites on stage, two of my most-played CDs:

WINDY CITY - musical adaptation of The Front Page

THE CARD - This is the show where I "discovered" several of my favorite musical theater performers: Jim Dale, Marti Webb, and Millicent Martin. Toss in Joan Hickson and Eleanor Bron, and you've got one of the strongest casts I've ever seen in a musical.
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#58

What is the most obscure but brilliant musical you love?

Posted: 4/17/10 at 11:01am

The Roar of the Greasepaint – The Smell of the Crowd

I've never seen it, but my parents used to play it among their hundred OBCR recordings when I was a kid ..which probably explains a lot, best gone into another time :)

Updated On: 4/17/10 at 11:01 AM

#60

What is the most obscure but brilliant musical you love?

Posted: 4/17/10 at 11:20am

I second Mr. Matt's listing of GOLDILOCKS--1958. Elaine Stritch was at her bitchiest best in this musical with a lovely score.

THE ROAR OF THE GREASEPAINT, THE SMELL OF THE CROWD--1965. I thought this to be a very fine show with a great score and liked it infinitely more than its precursor, STOP THE WORLD, I WANT TO GET OFF, with the quirky Anthony Newley in both shows.

THE GIRL WHO CAME TO SUPPER--1963, co-starring a truly radiant Florence Henderson with a wonderful legit voice. Although it was far from great, it had its moments. For me the highlight was "The Coronation Chorale" in which Henderson, surrounded by Royals at the Coronation of an English monarch, contrasts her utter delight of being present with the droll boredom of the Royals. It was brilliantly staged by Joe Layton. Another highlight was Tessie O'Shea doing an English Music Hall medley. She brought the house down, at the end of Act One.
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#61

What is the most obscure but brilliant musical you love?

Posted: 4/17/10 at 1:04pm

Would Ahrens and Flaherty's "A Man of No Importance" be classified as obscure? I didn't love it from the CD but I sure did after seeing it in London last year.
Faced with these Loreleis, what man can moralize!
#62

What is the most obscure but brilliant musical you love?

Posted: 4/17/10 at 1:52pm

To Twinbelters

I totally forgot about Rockabye Hamlet. I saw it & it was an absolute great experience. I would kill for a CD of the complete score. I do have a consilation prize & that is a sound recording taken during a live performance. Whenever my computer decides to cooperate, I have to transfer it to CD. I also have the 10 track LP

I had an interesting experience awhile back concerning Hamlet. During intermission at Song Of Singapore,I struck up a conversation with someone seated at the bar. Turns out he was a musician who was in the Hamlet orchestra. I told him I has the tape of it & he begged me for a copy. Since he was in the orchestra of Singapore, I dropped off a copy the following week. He sent me a nice postcard thanking me & summing up his feelings on Hamlet: "As General Patton said - A criminal waste of fine infantry".
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#63

What is the most obscure but brilliant musical you love?

Posted: 4/17/10 at 2:40pm

Ah "Rockabye" What is the most obscure but brilliant musical you love? My class was reading the actual Hamlet... and so of course I just had to bring in Rockabye Hamlet. The looks on their faces... What is the most obscure but brilliant musical you love?

My favorites are "Prettybelle", "Bernarda Alba", "Lolita, My Love", "Caligula" and "Thou Shalt Not" (I'm inexplicably attracted to the score! Really, everything by LaChuisa should be better known. He's the greatest composer of his generation of MT. Innovation is key, and he's one of the few modern MT composers who knows it.
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#66

What is the most obscure but brilliant musical you love?

Posted: 4/17/10 at 3:06pm

Giant!!!!!!
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#67

What is the most obscure but brilliant musical you love?

Posted: 4/17/10 at 3:09pm

Oh, and Kad, I LOVE Jerry Springer: The Opera!
Butters, go buy World of Warcraft, install it on your computer, and join the online sensation before we all murder you. --Cartman: South Park ATTENTION FANS: I will be played by James Barbour in the upcoming musical, "BroadwayWorld: The Musical."
#71

What is the most obscure but brilliant musical you love?

Posted: 4/17/10 at 8:08pm

Mine's so obscure I can never find any reference to it. It was a musical that I think was called "Gold Diggers of 1635" and was a Moliere based tap dancing musical in period costumes. I saw it at a dinner theatre about 35 years ago and it was very, very funny and fun.

Speaking of that, I've always loved The Amorous Flea, based on Moliere's School for Wives.

#72

What is the most obscure but brilliant musical you love?

Posted: 4/17/10 at 8:36pm

THE STUDENT GYPSY (1963) Music & Lyrics by Rick Besoyan
with wonderful performances by Eileen Brennan, Allen Case, Shannon Bolin, Dom DeLuise & Mitzie Welch.
"I long-ago realized that this country is a nation of morons, when it comes to knowledge of anything outside, or beyond, pop culture." Steve Slezak
#73

What is the most obscure but brilliant musical you love?

Posted: 4/17/10 at 8:58pm

"Jerry Springer was dreadful, as was Marilyn. No accounting for people's tastes."

I forgot this board was home to the arbiters of taste.

I will defend Jerry Springer till my dying day- and I know a lot of people will be on my side.
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."

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