favorite not-so-well-known musical
iluvtheatertrash
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/9/04
#75re: favorite not-so-well-known musical
Posted: 12/25/04 at 8:14am'john & jen' all the way.
#76re: favorite not-so-well-known musical
Posted: 12/25/04 at 10:16am
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misterchoi
Stand-by Joined: 9/5/04
#77re: favorite not-so-well-known musical
Posted: 12/25/04 at 10:22amThe Fix, Madison Avenue, Songs from the Capeman, Elegies: A song cycle, myths and hymns, a man of no importance, violet
#78re: favorite not-so-well-known musical
Posted: 12/26/04 at 12:46amTriumph of Love. It's not overly-wonderful, but it's really cute and not well known.
nodaybuttoday4
Chorus Member Joined: 12/27/04
#79re: favorite not-so-well-known musical
Posted: 12/27/04 at 7:45pm
Bat Boy.
Alright, so maybe I'm pushing Bat Boy integration just a tad too much.
#80re: favorite not-so-well-known musical
Posted: 12/27/04 at 7:47pmThanks I luvtheatertrash
#81re: favorite not-so-well-known musical
Posted: 12/27/04 at 7:50pmSide Show has some very lovely music, but I've never seen the show
Daniel3
Chorus Member Joined: 12/27/04
#82re: favorite not-so-well-known musical
Posted: 12/27/04 at 7:54pmthe 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
#83re: favorite not-so-well-known musical
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? :)
rockfenris2005
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#84re: favorite not-so-well-known musical
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 :)
#85re: favorite not-so-well-known musical
Posted: 12/28/04 at 9:07pmPersonals!
#86re: favorite not-so-well-known musical
Posted: 12/28/04 at 11:29pmBat Boy, though it occurs to me after reading all this that it is pretty well known. Also Starting Here, Starting Now.
#87re: favorite not-so-well-known musical
Posted: 12/29/04 at 12:02am
Last Five Years
Merrily We Roll Along
The Secret Garden
#88re: favorite not-so-well-known musical
Posted: 12/29/04 at 12:26amHedwig and the Angry Inch!! I saw it here in DC...it was so touching.
#89re: favorite not-so-well-known musical
Posted: 12/29/04 at 12:28am
I absolutely ADORE Zanna, Don't!
oh, and Sideshow.... great music...
#90re: favorite not-so-well-known musical
Posted: 12/29/04 at 1:57amI adore Zombie Prom! I know it's rather cheesy and whatnot, but I love it, I really do.
#91re: favorite not-so-well-known musical
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...
#92re: favorite not-so-well-known musical
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.
#93re: favorite not-so-well-known musical
Posted: 12/29/04 at 2:51amooh how cool! I'm doing Blithe Spirit right now (Mrs Bradman) and I didn't know there was a musical. Awesome.
#94re: favorite not-so-well-known musical
Posted: 12/29/04 at 3:01am
<3you shivi
I second that
whimsical
Stand-by Joined: 5/30/04
#95re: favorite not-so-well-known musical
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
Swing Joined: 12/24/03
#96re: favorite not-so-well-known musical
Posted: 12/29/04 at 4:14amTHE 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.
#97re: favorite not-so-well-known musical
Posted: 12/29/04 at 10:40amI 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
Stand-by Joined: 11/24/03
#98re: favorite not-so-well-known musical
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.
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