nickel, I adore the movie- hate the musical though.
Updated - [Mamma Mia jumped up on the list in the past day, jeez.]
Cats XI Phantom of the Opera XV Grease XVI Oklahoma VIII Rent VIII Wicked VII The Fantasticks VII High School Musical VII The Lion King VI BKLYN VI Mamma Mia VI The Music Man V Brigadoon V Annie V Seussical V Les Miserables V Follies IV Cry-Baby IV 1776 IV Movin' Out IV Godspell IV Footloose III Thou Shalt Not III The Producers III Tarzan III South Pacific III The Little Mermaid III Avenue Q III Joseph III Carousel III Good Vibrations III Xanadu III Wonderful Town II Fosse II Hairspray II Bye Bye Birdie II Sunset Boulevard II Camelot II Sweeney Todd II A Catered Affair II Kismet II Starlight Express II Jesus Christ Superstar II Passion II Spring Awakening II 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee II The Sound of Music II Fame II High Fidelity II The Pirate Queen II Glory Days II Chicago II I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change I Oliver I Back to the 80's I Lucky Stiff I Working I Mimi le Duck I The Scarlet Pimpernel I The Mystery of Edwin Drood I Jersey Boys I A Chorus Line I Light in the Piazza I Nick and Nora I La Cage Aux Follies I Dr. Dolittle I Jelly's Last Jam I Into the Woods I My Fair Lady I Flower Drum Song I Miss Saigon I Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat I Honk I Passing Strange I Bring in Da Noise I They’re Playing Our Song I Aida I We Will Rock You I Notre Dame de Paris I Blame it on the Movies I Annie Get Your Gun I The Wedding Singer I Gypsy I Café Crown I Do Black Patent Shoes Really Reflect Up? I Sweet Smell of Success I NunCrackers I Starmites I The Boy Friend I Whistle Down the Wind I The Ark I Young Frankenstein I All Shook Up I Hot Feet I Spamalot I The Color Purple I I Love A Piano I Lennon I The Hunchback of Notre Dame I Dance of the Vampires I Legs Diamond I Shogun the Musical I Lestat I Kismet I Meet me in St. Louis I Ain’t broadway Grand I Frankie I Curtains I Smokey Joe’s Café I Swinging on a star I Titanic I My favorite year I Copacabana I 70 Girls 70 I The Last Five Years I House of Flowers I Naked Boys Singing I Cinderella I Company I Sunday in the Park with George I Children of Men I The Knife I The Look of Love I Carnival I Evita I Ring of Fire I Lil abner I
"You have two kinds of shows on Broadway – revivals and the same kind of musicals over and over again, all spectacles. You get your tickets for The Lion King a year in advance, and essentially a family... pass on to their children the idea that that's what the theater is – a spectacular musical you see once a year, a stage version of a movie. It has nothing to do with theater at all. It has to do with seeing what is familiar.... I don't think the theatre will die per se, but it's never going to be what it was.... It's a tourist attraction." Stephen Sondheim
A Chorus Line: I loved it up until that guys huge monologue and then I wanted to sleep. I would like it better if I could watch it up till then, fast forward, and then continue watching.
Any one remember An Almost Unholy Picture with Kevin Bacon at the American Airlines Theater. It was absolutely horrible. It made no sense and it was all done on a darkened stage.
"Life is not measured by the number
of breaths we take, but by moments
that take our breath away."
"Life isn't about how to survive the storm,
but how to dance in the rain."
"It means nothing to come and sit in a theater night after night and immerse yourself in fantasy, only then to walk out the door and be unchanged in reality. This show will live on in our hearts. But where it truly must survive is in our actions, our compassion and our generousity of spirit towards one another." - Adam Pascal on the closing of RENT
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