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#26

re: 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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#27

re: 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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#28

re: Yeah, well, if you're such a big Broadway fan, answer me this!

Posted: 7/20/04 at 10:04pm

SWEENEY 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...
#30

re: 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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#31

re: Yeah, well, if you're such a big Broadway fan, answer me this!

Posted: 7/20/04 at 10:08pm

Broadway 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!!
#33

re: Yeah, well, if you're such a big Broadway fan, answer me this!

Posted: 7/20/04 at 10:09pm

I'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....
#35

re: 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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#36

re: Yeah, well, if you're such a big Broadway fan, answer me this!

Posted: 7/20/04 at 10:36pm

For 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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#41

re: Yeah, well, if you're such a big Broadway fan, answer me this!

Posted: 7/20/04 at 10:50pm

Yeah - 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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#42

re: Yeah, well, if you're such a big Broadway fan, answer me this!

Posted: 7/20/04 at 11:03pm

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#45

re: 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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