What's your favorite show with sailors?
What's your favorite show with sailors?
Anthony12
Understudy Joined: 1/4/15
#1What's your favorite show with sailors?
Posted: 5/15/15 at 7:23pm
I don't have one but it seems to be a common theme. What is your favorite?
#2What's your favorite show with sailors?
Posted: 5/15/15 at 7:25pm
Unfortunately, I've never had the experience of seeing a show together with sailors.
"Noel [Coward] and I were in Paris once. Adjoining rooms, of course. One night, I felt mischievous, so I knocked on Noel's door, and he asked, 'Who is it?' I lowered my voice and said 'Hotel detective. Have you got a gentleman in your room?' He answered, 'Just a minute, I'll ask him.'" (Beatrice Lillie)
#2What's your favorite show with sailors?
Posted: 5/15/15 at 7:25pm
On The Town
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Actriz2
Stand-by Joined: 3/5/15
Mr Smith
Featured Actor Joined: 3/16/15
#5What's your favorite show with sailors?
Posted: 5/15/15 at 8:02pm
Sailor Moon
....but the world goes 'round
#6What's your favorite show with sailors?
Posted: 5/15/15 at 8:41pm
If a single sailor counts, I'd say Sweeney Todd.
#8What's your favorite show with sailors?
Posted: 5/15/15 at 10:14pm
"Anything you do, let it it come from you--then it will be new."
Sunday in the Park with George
#9What's your favorite show with sailors?
Posted: 5/15/15 at 10:24pm
Follies!
Keeping BroadwayWorld Illustrated
#10What's your favorite show with sailors?
Posted: 5/15/15 at 11:28pm
Any bathhouse during Fleet Week
#11What's your favorite show with sailors?
Posted: 5/15/15 at 11:48pm
South Pacific and On the Town were the first two that came to mind and it's hard to pick one over the other.
mc1227
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/29/07
#13What's your favorite show with sailors?
Posted: 5/16/15 at 12:30am
Wonderful Town
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chewy5000
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/1/09
#14What's your favorite show with sailors?
Posted: 5/16/15 at 12:39am
Pacific Overtures. Or maybe Titanic?
#15What's your favorite show with sailors?
Posted: 5/16/15 at 3:02am
Did they ever do a stage musical version of "Some Like it Hot"? Not only was the movie itself funny, but Joe E. Brown as the sailor was absolutely hilarious.
The thing that I find interesting about shows with sailors is that most of them are frothy comedies, except for South Pacific.
Audrey, the Phantom Phanatic, who nonetheless would rather be Jean Valjean, who knew how to make lemonade out of lemons.
#16What's your favorite show with sailors?
Posted: 5/16/15 at 7:23am
"Did they ever do a stage musical version of "Some Like it Hot"? Not only was the movie itself funny, but Joe E. Brown as the sailor was absolutely hilarious.
The thing that I find interesting about shows with sailors is that most of them are frothy comedies, except for South Pacific."
Yes, Jule Styne (music) and Bob Merrill (lyrics) adapted the film as SUGAR in 1971 or so. But I wouldn't call the Joe E. Brown role (Cyril Ritchard in the musical) a "sailor". He's a millionaire with his own boat, so I think he's more of "yachtsman".
henrikegerman
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/29/05
#20What's your favorite show with sailors?
Posted: 5/16/15 at 11:04am
Favorite: Sweeney Todd or the Essgee Pinafore.
Least favorite: Daddy's Boy.
Fantod
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/3/14
theatreguy12
Broadway Star Joined: 4/20/15
#22What's your favorite show with sailors?
Posted: 5/16/15 at 12:49pm
It was Anything Goes.
Now that I've seen On the Town…it's, well, On the Town.
Fan123
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/30/08
#23What's your favorite show with sailors?
Posted: 5/16/15 at 7:02pm
AHLiebross, a random tidbit if you're interested: Pasek and Paul have said they wanted 'Dogfight' to be sort of the anti-'On The Town', and for the opening number to be a twisted take on frothy sailor fun; they talk about it a little at 1:09 of this video.
To actually answer the thread question, probably 'Anything Goes' or, yes, 'On The Town'. I also listen to 'Walk Like A Sailor' from 'Ankles Aweigh' a fair bit :)
#24What's your favorite show with sailors?
Posted: 5/16/15 at 7:06pm
Ankles Aweigh
Marie: Don't be in such a hurry about that pretty little chippy in Frisco.
Tony: Eh, she's a no chip!
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