Your Favorite Love Story Musical

[sofiestar93]

Your Favorite Love Story Musical#0

Posted: 4/20/06 at 5:04pm

omg mine has to be AIDA

Others:
Man of La Mancha
West Side Story
Subways are for Sleeping (just wondering, has anybody heard of it?)

Does anyone have any that they just adore?

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[Caroline-Q-or-TBoo]

re: Your Favorite Love Story Musical#1

Posted: 4/20/06 at 5:14pm

Bat Boy

"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed

[popular_elphie]

re: Your Favorite Love Story Musical#2

Posted: 4/20/06 at 5:19pm

The Last Five Years.

[bundy5000]

re: Your Favorite Love Story Musical#3

Posted: 4/20/06 at 5:22pm

Spamalot. It ended with a gay wedding. :)

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[mrslovett7]

re: Your Favorite Love Story Musical#4

Posted: 4/20/06 at 5:26pm

Phantom of the Opera and Light in the Piazza

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[InfiniteTheaterFrenzy]

re: Your Favorite Love Story Musical#5

Posted: 4/20/06 at 5:29pm

For any musical to be one of my favorites, it has to have a lot more going on that a love story...
I do like Subways are For Sleeping, but not for the love story- more for Phyllis Newman's character and her songs, especially "Shoo-In".
I guess if it's musicals where the most significant throughline has to do with romantic love, my favorite would be Last 5 Years.

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[kate2]

re: Your Favorite Love Story Musical#6

Posted: 4/20/06 at 5:30pm

AIDA

[peggyandvelma]

re: Your Favorite Love Story Musical#7

Posted: 4/20/06 at 5:54pm

Beauty and the Beast for the sheer timeless romance. Probably moreso the film than the show, though. Just beautiful.

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[Mister Matt]

re: Your Favorite Love Story Musical#8

Posted: 4/20/06 at 5:59pm

Aspects of Love

"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian

[Enjolras77]

re: Your Favorite Love Story Musical#9

Posted: 4/20/06 at 6:12pm

Subways are for Sleeping is one of my favorite guilty pleasures recordings. The score by Jule Styne is top notch and by listening to it alone you would wonder why the show was a flop. The problem was in the book and in the plot --which were both weak. The audiences never bought into the weak main storyline (the Sydney Chaplin and Carol Lawrence characters), but adored the supporting comic storyline (the Orson Bean and Phyllis Newman characters) --which there wasn't enough of. Also the main storyline was a little too unbelievable --why would a successful journalist give up her career to live on the streets of NYC? There were also major chemistry problems between Chaplin and Lawrence, who didn't enjoy working together and evidently it came across in their performances. The show still ran for almost a year thanks mostly to the publicity caused by David Merrick's infamous newspaper stunt. Phyllis Newman also won a Tony for her performance beating out Barbra Streisand from I Can Get it For You Wholesale.

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Updated On: 4/20/06 at 06:12 PM

[sofiestar93]

re: Your Favorite Love Story Musical#10

Posted: 4/20/06 at 6:14pm

Spamalot- lol

I really should have thought of Light in the Piazza.

Also, the Broadway version of Cinderella, Pal Joey, and Guys and Dolls (sorry, just love Frank Sinatra...yeah, I know he wasn't in cinderella!)

But I am still obsessed with Aida and it is my top pick!

Pretty is what changes. What the eye arranges is what is beautiful.

[tz0o]

re: Your Favorite Love Story Musical#11

Posted: 4/20/06 at 6:39pm

Oh, so many.

The Phantom of the Opera
South Pacific (I've only listened to the music, unfortunately, though)
The Fantasticks

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[neomystyk29]

re: Your Favorite Love Story Musical#12

Posted: 4/20/06 at 6:41pm

Too many

The Last 5 Years
West Side Story
Bye Bye Birdie (does it count?)
The Light In The Piazza
The Fantasticks

[caitiesus1522]

re: Your Favorite Love Story Musical#13

Posted: 4/20/06 at 6:43pm

Last 5 Years is my favorite by far

[JemimaPearl]

re: Your Favorite Love Story Musical#14

Posted: 4/20/06 at 6:43pm

Phantom of the Opera and Aida

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[FoscasBohemianDream]

re: Your Favorite Love Story Musical#15

Posted: 4/20/06 at 6:43pm

1-Passion
2-Sunday In The Park With George (there's a significant love story at the center of the show)
3-The King and I

[musicaltheater1]

re: Your Favorite Love Story Musical#16

Posted: 4/20/06 at 9:31pm

Miss Saigon!

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[Katurian2]

re: Your Favorite Love Story Musical#17

Posted: 4/20/06 at 9:35pm

The Last 5 Years

Hairspray

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[zoomzoom]

re: Your Favorite Love Story Musical#18

Posted: 4/20/06 at 9:40pm

Miss Saigon and The Last 5 Years.

[Elphaba]

re: Your Favorite Love Story Musical#19

Posted: 4/20/06 at 10:03pm

West Side Story
The Beautiful Game


VIVA! THE EMERALD TEAM!
MOTHER MARY'S IRISH SONS.
VIVA! THE BOYS IN GREEN!
SHOUT FOR IRELAND'S YOUNGEST GUNS

GREEN IS THE COLOUR
SOCCER THE GAME.

SCORE!
A THOUSAND MORE FOR

THE BOYS IN GREEN.
THE EMERALD TEAM;

PLAYING FOR IRELAND, PLAYING FOR IRELAND!

It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story... AGATHA CHRISTIE, Life magazine, May 14, 1956

[Dre2387]

re: Your Favorite Love Story Musical#20

Posted: 4/20/06 at 10:09pm

last 5 years. love it.

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[wickedfreak]

re: Your Favorite Love Story Musical#21

Posted: 4/20/06 at 10:11pm

The Phantom of the Opera
The Last 5 Years
Beauty and the Beast
Aida

[Renthead#1]

re: Your Favorite Love Story Musical#22

Posted: 4/20/06 at 10:11pm

Rent

Go ask Alice When she's ten feet tall

[ashley0139]

re: Your Favorite Love Story Musical#23

Posted: 4/20/06 at 10:15pm

Last 5 Years was my first thought. Also gotta love Aida.

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[Holly Therese]

re: Your Favorite Love Story Musical#24

Posted: 4/20/06 at 10:23pm

Beauty and the Beast


Is there really any musical that is not a love story to some extent?

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