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[iluvtheatertrash]

re: favorite not-so-well-known musical#75

Posted: 12/25/04 at 8:14am

'john & jen' all the way.

"I know now that theatre saved my life." - Susan Stroman

[Mr Roxy]

re: favorite not-so-well-known musical#76

Posted: 12/25/04 at 10:16am

To iluvtheatertrash

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Updated On: 12/25/04 at 10:16 AM

[misterchoi]

re: favorite not-so-well-known musical#77

Posted: 12/25/04 at 10:22am

The Fix, Madison Avenue, Songs from the Capeman, Elegies: A song cycle, myths and hymns, a man of no importance, violet

"Yesterday is done. See the pretty countryside. Merrily we roll along, roll along- catching at dreams."- Merrily we roll along "The living was the prize, the ending's not the story."- Elegies, a song cycle

Updated On: 12/25/04 at 10:22 AM

[QuiteSo]

re: favorite not-so-well-known musical#78

Posted: 12/26/04 at 12:46am

Triumph of Love. It's not overly-wonderful, but it's really cute and not well known.

Merrily we roll along, roll along...

[nodaybuttoday4]

re: favorite not-so-well-known musical#79

Posted: 12/27/04 at 7:45pm

Bat Boy.

Alright, so maybe I'm pushing Bat Boy integration just a tad too much.

[Mr Roxy]

re: favorite not-so-well-known musical#80

Posted: 12/27/04 at 7:47pm

Thanks I luvtheatertrash

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[me101]

re: favorite not-so-well-known musical#81

Posted: 12/27/04 at 7:50pm

Side Show has some very lovely music, but I've never seen the show

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[Daniel3]

re: favorite not-so-well-known musical#82

Posted: 12/27/04 at 7:54pm

the best ones I know are Warner's MOSES (which is stunning) and MOTHERLAND which is a sort of sci-fi (but not cheesy) Revolutionary musicthat inspired the Matrix im sure

[rKrispyt]

re: favorite not-so-well-known musical#83

Posted: 12/27/04 at 7:58pm

I gotta go with Violet on this one.

I'll concur with Myths and Hymns, BatBoy, Jon & Jen, Mystery of Edwin Drood and Side Show as well.

Does Piece count? :)

If I show you the darkness I hold inside, will you bring me to light?

[rockfenris2005]

re: favorite not-so-well-known musical#84

Posted: 12/28/04 at 8:26pm

the best ones I know are Warner's MOSES (which is stunning) and MOTHERLAND which is a sort of sci-fi (but not cheesy) Revolutionary musicthat inspired the Matrix im sure


Yes. I have bits and pieces of these. They are absolutely stunning. I wanted to stage an Australian production with my company, Radical Wizardry. I feel (personally) some of the greatest lost musicals are Black and Barry's Alice in Wonderland and Fox and Steinman's The Confidence Man - which is a very melodic, majestic Brechtian musical in the style of Show Boat and Threepenny Opera. I'd strongly recommend it. Also: anything by Steinman (i.e. a musical version of Wagner's Rhinegold, lol) and anything by Warner - absolutely sensational! His stuff is like a cross between Steinman and Gore (the guy who wrote the Fame song and Carrie). It's camp and gothic and gorgeous :)

Who can explain it, who can tell you why? Fools give you reasons, wise men never try -South Pacific

Updated On: 12/28/04 at 08:26 PM

[actress_06]

re: favorite not-so-well-known musical#85

Posted: 12/28/04 at 9:07pm

Personals!

"Better...Better than What?" -Jo March (Little Women the Musical) "NYC...Up there (In Lights) I'll be." -Star to be (Annie)

[felineofavenueb]

re: favorite not-so-well-known musical#86

Posted: 12/28/04 at 11:29pm

Bat Boy, though it occurs to me after reading all this that it is pretty well known. Also Starting Here, Starting Now.

[KateMusic]

re: favorite not-so-well-known musical#87

Posted: 12/29/04 at 12:02am

Last Five Years
Merrily We Roll Along
The Secret Garden

Some people analyze every detail/ Some people stall when they can't see the trail/ Some people freeze out of fear that they'll fail/ But I keep rollin' on/ Some people can't get success with their art/ Some people never feel love in their heart/ Some people can't tell the two things apart/ But I keep rollin' on

[GypsyRoseLee]

re: favorite not-so-well-known musical#88

Posted: 12/29/04 at 12:26am

Hedwig and the Angry Inch!! I saw it here in DC...it was so touching.

"This is what I trained to do, and this is what I love about theater. What I love about being an actress is being able to really look into myself and understand another human being. And out my own self, to shape and form and fashion a real human being--and to present that in such a way that people see something of themselves or their own understanding in that human being." --Phylicia Rashad

[QtKt]

re: favorite not-so-well-known musical#89

Posted: 12/29/04 at 12:28am

I absolutely ADORE Zanna, Don't!
oh, and Sideshow.... great music...

[Twilight]

re: favorite not-so-well-known musical#90

Posted: 12/29/04 at 1:57am

I adore Zombie Prom! I know it's rather cheesy and whatnot, but I love it, I really do.

I can't control my destiny. I trust my soul my only goal is just to be

[LiTtLeDaNcEr729]

re: favorite not-so-well-known musical#91

Posted: 12/29/04 at 2:31am

This thread made me feel really dumb...even though I have over 200 Broadway CDs...I haven't heard of half of these- and I couldn't think of any not-so-well known shows (besides some of the things people are saying like Parade, Side Show,Zanna Don't...and some others)

Jeez...I really need to get some of this stuff.

Meanwhile...I'm singing a song from Romance, Romance and I love it...so if that counts for anything...

[Corine2]

re: favorite not-so-well-known musical#92

Posted: 12/29/04 at 2:36am

I have many.
The Last Five Years
Listen To My Heart- Songs of David Friedman
Zanna Don't- (Tim got a Drama Desk nomination so it is well known but i loved it)
Secret's Every Smart Traveller Should Know
Violet- Gorgeous score. Want to see a full production.

[mollyllom]

re: favorite not-so-well-known musical#93

Posted: 12/29/04 at 2:51am

ooh how cool! I'm doing Blithe Spirit right now (Mrs Bradman) and I didn't know there was a musical. Awesome.

http://www.freeiPods.com/?r=13865158 please =D

[mollyllom]

re: favorite not-so-well-known musical#94

Posted: 12/29/04 at 3:01am

<3you shivi
I second that

http://www.freeiPods.com/?r=13865158 please =D

[whimsical]

re: favorite not-so-well-known musical#95

Posted: 12/29/04 at 3:53am

These are all on different levels of popularity, but I love:

Violet
Fiorello
Little by Little (a guilty pleasure)
and
my Greenwillow cast recording (haven't seen the show)

[edfu]

re: favorite not-so-well-known musical#96

Posted: 12/29/04 at 4:14am

THE GRASS HARP--indisputably and forever. Just wonderful. And with Barbara Cook, Karen Morrow, and Carol Brice--who could ask for more? Oh, maybe the cutie Russ Thacker. Eternal thanks to the great Claibe Richardson and Kenward Elmslie for writing this stupendous score.

[wildcat]

re: favorite not-so-well-known musical#97

Posted: 12/29/04 at 10:40am

I saw a cute little production of GRASS HARP in L.A. some years back starring Susan Watson (Bye Bye Birdie) and Candy Brown (Pippin). Susan Watson still looked sixteen.

[citylights]

re: favorite not-so-well-known musical#98

Posted: 12/29/04 at 11:33pm

I can't figure out how well-known Hedwig and the Angry Inch is. I saw a production in Cambridge, MA this fall and then I learned that a whole lot of people are fans of it. If it is obscure, though, it's my fave.

jarred03, All In The Timing is AWESOME-- I was in "Philip Glass..." this summer.

[Unknown User]

re: favorite not-so-well-known musical#99

Posted: 12/29/04 at 11:51pm

My Favorite Year