Your MOST BELOVED musical

[emmadny]

Posted: 1/19/08 at 9:53pm

Let's go¡
Say it

[Pascal/Menzel/Bundy]

Posted: 1/19/08 at 9:59pm

I know that this is the last thing anyone wants to hear right now since these boards are already flooded with posts about it, but my most beloved musical is Rent. It probably always will be. It got me into theatre and to this day it is the only musical that has ever truly changed me. I've been affected by others, but not enough to last. It is because I love it so much that I'm okay with it closing. Sure it's sad, but I would rather there be no Rent on Broadway than a horrible one. It's time and life goes on (see my sig). I'll always have the OBCR...

[BobbyBubby]

Posted: 1/19/08 at 10:08pm

Bye Bye Birdie

[george95]

Posted: 1/19/08 at 10:08pm

Duh, THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA
It hits so many of my likes:

-80's nostalgia
-Hauntings/ghosts
-Love story
-Deep, rich color
-Respecting the past (i.e. keeping the show in its originally 1988 form--no tinkering with it)
-Paris, my favorite international city
-lots of stunning visuals
-classice New York experience
-and so much more

[antiandrewx]

Posted: 1/19/08 at 10:09pm

Sweeney Todd

[COOOOLkid]

Posted: 1/19/08 at 10:10pm

Ragtime or A Chorus Line

[coolkid11776]

Posted: 1/19/08 at 10:11pm

Rent
It's the first show I saw on broadway that truely meant something to me. It truely got me intrested in theater and gives off a very strong and poweful message. I'm so sad it's closing(or so they say is is I've heard rumors of an extension to 8-24 which I hope is true). Something tells me those rumors aren't true those which makes me really sad. I don't want this amazing show to leave us

[dancingthrulife04]

Posted: 1/19/08 at 10:13pm

A Chorus Line

[george95]

Posted: 1/19/08 at 10:15pm

I'm telling you the RENT producers need to just pour some money into some cutting-edge advertising, do some sort of crazy casting call, and keep this show going because it is just too important to too many people to end on Broadway. Adam Pascal convinced me to give up on RENT with his blog entry but these people on this thread just renewed my RENT love. long live RENT

[emmadny]

Posted: 1/19/08 at 10:17pm

My turn:

Phantom of the opera
Aida
Lion King
Wicked......

But the most wonderful show is BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (my avatar)

[deadparrot]

Posted: 1/19/08 at 10:17pm

Gotta be 1776...it's the musical that made me fall in love with musicals.

[wonderfulwizard11]

Posted: 1/19/08 at 10:27pm

Got to be Sweeney Todd. It's one of my favorite musicals, my first Sondheim musical, and really got me into musicals hardcore. I fell in love with it at 11, and four years later, I still love it. Every time listening to the OBCR is like talking to an old friend.

[CouldaWouldaShoulda]

Posted: 1/19/08 at 10:33pm

Sweeney Todd. It is just so chilling and an utter hoot all at the same time. And some of the best lyrics in my mind.

Updated On: 1/19/08 at 10:33 PM

[OnTheAisle]

Posted: 1/19/08 at 10:39pm

Of all time? Gotta be Sweeney Todd, with the original cast... of the past ten years - Ragtime...

[Cape Twirl of Doom]

Posted: 1/19/08 at 11:06pm

Phantom of the Opera.

I know it's the cool thing to do on this board to bash it, but it was the first show that really sparked my love of Broadway. I had seen the occasional show in the past, but it was maybe 1-2 every year. When I saw PHANTOM, I just fell in love with every aspect of it. I had the perfect seats, third row center, which I got for my mom for the both of us as a Mother's Day present. We both absolutely loved the show. I have now seen the show around 14 or 15 times, so it will always hold a place in my heart, but since then I have seen about 75 other musicals & plays that I probably never would have gone to see had I not walked into the Majestic that May day.

[pc1145N2]

Posted: 1/19/08 at 11:20pm

I'd have to say Evita. It's the first live show I ever saw and I've loved it ever since.

[gypsy4]

Posted: 1/19/08 at 11:20pm

beauty and the beast, and My fair Lady

Updated On: 1/19/08 at 11:20 PM

[sondheimgeek]

Posted: 1/19/08 at 11:24pm

Merrily We Roll Along, and Gypsy.

Gypsy is absolutely perfect in every way.

Merrily We Roll Along is well, even with it's flaws, it's amazing. Beautiful and thrilling score, and amazing book potential.

[Dancin Thru Life]

Posted: 1/19/08 at 11:25pm

West Side Story.

[crzyray]

Posted: 1/19/08 at 11:29pm

there are a million posts on these message boards that are the same as this one but... i'll answer it anyways

Bare (bare a pop opera)... It changed my life in soooooooo many ways, and for that i'm thankful! I've been a fan since 04 and stillllll love it today... listen to the studio album and all my bootlegs all the time! Saw it chicago and NJ (loved them)... Still watch my bootleg quite often.

[george95]

Posted: 1/19/08 at 11:32pm

So now we can never again talk about our most beloved musicals? We have to do a search before we make any new posts about anything? If you dont want to deal with a post, then dont read it.

[bwaylvsong]

Posted: 1/20/08 at 12:17am

Kiss Me, Kate

I saw it at the age of ten, right after I started singing, and it made me start to think about pursuing a career in singing, despite my extreme shyness when I was doing anything other than singing.

[AnnaK<3LMIP]

Posted: 1/20/08 at 12:36am

INTO THE WOODS

I saw it when I was a kid,and I was already slightly into musicals thanks to my mother's taste in music. But I saw Into the Woods, and I was so blown away. I was caught up in the music and the costumes and the story. I've always loved reading, so as a young kid, I had a bizarre and huge imagination, and Into the Woods inspired me so much. To this day, it's my dream to be in Into the Woods and I love it still. Especially now that I don't have my mother anymore, I have a really deep connection of love with that show. I just can't get over it. It solves everything for me. I'm a person who gets easily stressed,and I don't deal with stress well, and especially now, I'm in my junior year of high school, so my anxiety is high 100 percent of the time. Into the Woods calms me down so much, and it's the one reason I can always turn to when explaining how amazing a musical is and how much it can touch you.

Whew.

[Elphaba]

Posted: 1/20/08 at 2:55am

1. Brigadoon
2. Into the Woods
3. The Beautiful Game

IN that order

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

Posted: 1/20/08 at 2:57am

Definitely FOLLIES, not the musical I consider the most brilliant, the most fascinating, or the best. Yet it is certainly my MOST BELOVED musical.