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Yeah, well, if you're such a big Broadway fan, answer me this!
Type_A_Tiff
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/25/04
#25re: Yeah, well, if you're such a big Broadway fan, answer me this!
Posted: 7/20/04 at 10:01pm
I think you're right, BBE. :)
I *want* to like it though! Honestly I do! Am I abornomal? And I think Lea Salonga is really amazing.
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sean martin
Broadway Star Joined: 7/4/04
#26re: Yeah, well, if you're such a big Broadway fan, answer me this!
Posted: 7/20/04 at 10:01pm
>> My point is that it doesn't matter what show it was, I don't know
He didnt have a first, per se. Shows back then were written by teams of composers and lyricists, just as screenplays nowadays are attributed to one writer but actually handled by a half dozen or more. Kern's first would have been contributions to revues like the George White Scandals; Sunny was to come about a decade later.
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#27re: Yeah, well, if you're such a big Broadway fan, answer me this!
Posted: 7/20/04 at 10:04pmSWEENEY TODD is the ultimate musical. If not quintessential - ultimate. It doesn't get any better than that. In the same way that opera companies still produce operas like La Boheme that were written hundreds and hundreds of years ago by composers we still, today, consider to be the masters of the art - SWEENEY TODD will still be put on by theatre and opera companies alike hundreds and hundreds of years from now...
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Broadway Legend Joined: 3/28/04
#28re: Yeah, well, if you're such a big Broadway fan, answer me this!
Posted: 7/20/04 at 10:05pm
West Side Story
A love story, big group numbers, and a real world conflict
#29re: Yeah, well, if you're such a big Broadway fan, answer me this!
Posted: 7/20/04 at 10:07pm
Most Masterful---Sweeney Todd
Best Written-----Sweeney Todd
Most Entertaining-----Sweeney Todd
Best Music/Lyrics----Sweeney Todd
But, heaven and Sondheim forgive me...
Qunitessential----Gypsy
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Broadway Legend Joined: 7/15/04
#30re: Yeah, well, if you're such a big Broadway fan, answer me this!
Posted: 7/20/04 at 10:08pmBroadway was a wasteland last year? It was a wasteland for 50 years untill JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR came out!! But when the 80s rolled aorund and we got STARLIGHT EXPRESS and the 90s with THE WHO'S TOMMY and RENT Broadway exploaded to life!! IT's the Circle of Life and it moves us all and B'way!!
#31re: Yeah, well, if you're such a big Broadway fan, answer me this!
Posted: 7/20/04 at 10:08pmYAY PRIEST!!!
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#32re: Yeah, well, if you're such a big Broadway fan, answer me this!
Posted: 7/20/04 at 10:09pmI've always felt that someone needs to do WEST SIDE STORY with rough harsh choreography instead of ballet. The ballet to me has always been so laughable. Especially the movie. It's hilarious! It needs to be rough dance. Violent. Even scary. The ballet thing never served the piece correctly in my opinion....
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Broadway Star Joined: 9/21/03
#33re: Yeah, well, if you're such a big Broadway fan, answer me this!
Posted: 7/20/04 at 10:09pmGypsy!
#34re: Yeah, well, if you're such a big Broadway fan, answer me this!
Posted: 7/20/04 at 10:11pm
Gypsy
West Side Story
A Chorus Line
and 42nd Street...........I don't have an explanation, but these are four shows that immediately come to mind when one thinks of broadway, if theya re not a HUGE fan and don't many other shows
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Mamie
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/26/04
#35re: Yeah, well, if you're such a big Broadway fan, answer me this!
Posted: 7/20/04 at 10:36pmFor me it would be Phantom. Sets, costumes, beautiful melodic music, romance, comedy, tragedy, everything except one biggy - dance. Every major Broadway musical I can think of seems to have lacked at least one element. Usually all of the other parts were so good that the one missing component didn't hurt the show. In fact, I'm going all the way back to "Showboat" to come up with one that seemed to have everything.
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Broadway Legend Joined: 7/12/04
#36re: Yeah, well, if you're such a big Broadway fan, answer me this!
Posted: 7/20/04 at 10:40pmWest Side Story
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Broadway Legend Joined: 7/12/04
#37re: Yeah, well, if you're such a big Broadway fan, answer me this!
Posted: 7/20/04 at 10:44pmFor me, it's Les Miz.
#38re: Yeah, well, if you're such a big Broadway fan, answer me this!
Posted: 7/20/04 at 10:47pmMamie - GYPSY isn't missing anything. That's why it's the quintessential.
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#39re: Yeah, well, if you're such a big Broadway fan, answer me this!
Posted: 7/20/04 at 10:49pmA Chorus Line
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Mamie
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/26/04
#40re: Yeah, well, if you're such a big Broadway fan, answer me this!
Posted: 7/20/04 at 10:50pmYeah - you're right. I'd thought about that but to be honest, Bernadette was such a powerhouse in that show that I have a hard time remembering that anyone else was in it!
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Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/04
#41re: Yeah, well, if you're such a big Broadway fan, answer me this!
Posted: 7/20/04 at 11:03pmchicago plain and simple
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Featured Actor Joined: 6/17/04
#42re: Yeah, well, if you're such a big Broadway fan, answer me this!
Posted: 7/20/04 at 11:42pm
Oklahoma!
How is there a debate?
Is is the classic!
The first show to use music, song, AND dance as ways of futhering a storyline.
#43re: Yeah, well, if you're such a big Broadway fan, answer me this!
Posted: 7/21/04 at 12:28amThe Phantom of the Opera. It's just such an amazing show. I love it!!
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Broadway Legend Joined: 5/8/04
#44re: Yeah, well, if you're such a big Broadway fan, answer me this!
Posted: 7/21/04 at 12:31am
Sticktopriest - "But, heaven and Sondheim forgive me... Qunitessential----Gypsy"
I am sure Steve will forgive you as he had quite a bit to do with Gypsy as well, LOL!
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Broadway Legend Joined: 5/14/03
#45re: Yeah, well, if you're such a big Broadway fan, answer me this!
Posted: 7/21/04 at 12:32amA Chorus Line
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Corine2
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/14/03
#46re: Yeah, well, if you're such a big Broadway fan, answer me this!
Posted: 7/21/04 at 12:32am
1. A Chorus Line tied with Dreamgirls!
2. Pippin
3. Hair
4. Gypsy
5. The Wiz (Come on and ease on down the road)
Updated On: 7/21/04 at 12:32 AM
#47re: Yeah, well, if you're such a big Broadway fan, answer me this!
Posted: 7/21/04 at 12:49amI've always thought Les Mis and A Chorus Line. Updated On: 7/21/04 at 12:49 AM
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