Musicals

[cnamon]

I watched Sweet Charity on Friday night.  I love that movie.

I think I am secretly a gay man trapped in a woman's body...I love musicals.  What are your favorites?

[ignom]

Musicals are the worst form of entertainment known to man, except for Grease. Summer lovin'...

[BigDun]

Musicals are the worst form of entertainment known to man.

[Alice]

Newsies (Yeah that's right, I said it...)
Little Shop
Singing in the Rain
Once More With Feeling (Yup, I said that too...)
Sweeny Todd
Guys and Dolls
Chicago

...yeah, I'm stopping now.

[DownSouth]

ugh

[BigDun]

Ok, I'll give Little Shop Of Horrors a break. I would also like to see Spamalot and Avenue Q.

[ignom]

Newsies (Yeah that's right, I said it...)
Little Shop
Singing in the Rain
Once More With Feeling (Yup, I said that too...)
Sweeny Todd
Guys and Dolls
Chicago

...yeah, I'm stopping now.

Is Little Shop the one with horrors?

I've never seen Once More With Feeling.

I'll give you Singing in the Rain, I liked that one.

I didn't like Guys and Dolls, but it had a great cast.

[ignom]

Ok, I'll give Little Shop Of Horrors a break. I would also like to see Spamalot and Avenue Q.

Are we including Broadway now? I want to see Avenue Q.

[Youphoric]

[Beefy]

[ignom]

I'm sure I'm alone here, but I've never been able to sit through Rocky Horror.

I'm sorry Youph.

[ignom]

I thought My Fair Lady was dreadful, and I adore Audrey Hepburn.

[Youphoric]

I'm sure I'm alone here, but I've never been able to sit through Rocky Horror.

I'm sorry Youph.

Don't be sorry, it's not your fault you're unhip.

[Beefy]

I thought My Fair Lady was dreadful, and I adore Audrey Hepburn.

It has some of the most strikingly designed sets ever used in a film, IMO.  And the music is great.

[Alice]

If we're including theatre, my list will be huge.

[Gamplayerx]

I like musicals.

[Beefy]

I like pie.

Me too!

[ignom]

I haven't seen a theatre musical since I was in HS and saw Phantom and Miss Saigon in Manhattan.

I still curse myself for not going to see Rent when i lived in NYC.

[cnamon]

I have never been to a broadway musical.  I want to do that so badly.  I really would like to see Phantom of the Opera...not to sure about Sweet Charity...I am pretty sure Christina Applegate can muck it up.

I think I may go see a show at the Warner Theater sometime this summer.

[Alice]

I still curse myself for not going to see Rent when i lived in NYC.

People count a lot.  People die of AIDS.

That's all you really missed.

[Beefy]

I am pretty sure Christina Applegate can muck it up.

The review I read in Variety said she's the best part of the show.

[cnamon]

I am pretty sure Christina Applegate can muck it up.

The review I read in Variety said she's the best part of the show.

I just really can't get past Kelly Bundy.

I am so torn.

[ignom]

Christina Applegate was hot ten years ago.

[Dry then Catch]

i really enjoyed the Scarlett Pimpernel!  What a foppish cad

[Jessie]

[ignom]

You make my irises burn with hatred.

[Jessie]

You make my irises burn with hatred.

Hahaha!

One day, we WILL watch The Sound of Music together.

You'll be singing about all of your favorite things before you know it, and you'll sing so long, farewell... before you go to sleep every night.

[ignom]

raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens...

[Jessie]

raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens...

See!!  It's already started and we haven't even watched it yet.

You'll love me forever for introducing you to the wonder that is The Sound of Music!

[Youphoric]

raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens...

That's the song a character in another musical sings right before said character dies.

[Dry then Catch]

isnt that the musical where the murder she wrote hag flies around on a futon or some shit

[Jessie]

isnt that the musical where the murder she wrote hag flies around on a futon or some shit

Bedknobs and Broomsticks?

Love it!

[ignom]

I only know the raindrops on roses from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

[Bennyhana]

Our Vibrations are getting nasty.  But why?  Is there no communication in this thread?

Listen to me.  I want you to have all the background.  This is a very ominious assignment with overtones of extreme personal danger. 

In some circles, a live musical is a far, far better thing than the world series, the superbowl, and the lower oakland roller derby, alll rolled into one...


Anyway, I tend not to like newer musicals.  I like Guys and Dolls, My fair Lady, Oliver!, and Pippin.  Most of the other ones I've done, I didn't like as much.

[cnamon]

I am a fan of older musicals, too.

West Side Story, Singin' in the Rain, and An American in Paris are among my favorites.

[OBB]

I like a few musicals -

Fiddler on the Roof
Grease (because the songs are catchy)
and I saw Wicked a few weeks ago, and I liked that too.

[meredith]

I'm sure I'm alone here, but I've never been able to sit through Rocky Horror.

I'm sorry Youph.

Were you just watching it on TV, or did you go to one of the more interactive shows?

[Gamplayerx]

I'm sure I'm alone here, but I've never been able to sit through Rocky Horror.

I'm sorry Youph.

Were you just watching it on TV, or did you go to one of the more interactive shows?

When I was in high school, we used to go to see Rocky Horror in Georgetown almost every weekend.  Or at least we told our parents we were going to see Rocky Horror almost every weekend - it was a midnight show, so got around that pesky midnight curfew.

[Jessie]

I've tried to watch Rocky Horror, too, but I just don't get it.

I don't like Grease either.

[ursus]

I have never been to a broadway musical. I want to do that so badly. I really would like to see Phantom of the Opera...not to sure about Sweet Charity...I am pretty sure Christina Applegate can muck it up.

I think I may go see a show at the Warner Theater sometime this summer.

An acquaintance of mine was playing trombone in the pit during the run in Chicago. He said she was pretty good at the acting/singing/dancing thing. No word on whether the show will get to New York.

My short list:
Westside Story

Coolest
Music
Ever


Most fun to play too...

"Guys and Dolls" is a decent book...

[nishi]

sweeny todd is the only musical for me.

[A Man:]
Attend the tale of Sweeney Todd
His skin was pale and his eye was odd
He shaved the faces of gentlemen
Who never thereafter were heard of again.

  He trod a path that few have trod.
  Did Sweeney Todd.
  The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.

[Another Man:]
He kept a shop in London town
Of fancy clients and good renown.
And what if none of their souls was saved?
They went to their maker impeccably shaved

  By Sweeney,
  By Sweeney Todd.
  The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.

[Company, variously:]
  Swing your razor wide, Sweeney!
  Hold it to the skies!
  Freely flows the blood of those
  Who moralize!

His needs were few, his room was bare.
A lavabo and a fancy chair.
A mug of suds and a leather strop,
An apron a towel a pail and a mop.

  For neatness he deserved a nod,
  Did Sweeney Todd,
  The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.

Inconspicuous Sweeney was,
Quick and quiet and clean 'e was.
Back of his smile, under his word,
Sweeney heard music that nobody heard.

Sweeney pondered and Sweeney planned
Like a perfect machine 'e planned.
Sweeney was smooth, Sweeney was subtle,
Sweeney would blink and rats would scuttle.

Sweeney was smooth, Sweeney was subtle,
Sweeney would blink and rats would scuttle.
Inconspicuous Sweeney was,
Quick and quiet and clean 'e was.

  Like a perfect machine 'e was,
  Was Sweeney!
  Sweeney!
  Sweeeeeeneeeeey!

[Todd appears from the grave]
[Todd and Company:]
Attend the tale of Sweeney Todd.
He served a dark and a vengeful god.

[Todd:]
What happened then - well that's the play,
And he wouldn't want us to give it away,
Not Sweeney.

[Company:]
Not Sweeney Todd
The Demon Barber of Fleet Street!

when i saw sweeney todd on its first tour after it opened in new york, the blood from the throat slittings arced out 11 or 12 rows into the audience.

[Alice]

sweeny todd is the only musical for me.

You and I are going to get along just fine. 

[nishi]

sweeny todd is the only musical for me.

You and I are going to get along just fine. 

what we really need around here is a sweeney todd emoticon.....

[Alice]

sweeny todd is the only musical for me.

You and I are going to get along just fine. 

what we really need around here is a sweeney todd emoticon.....

[Number 6]

Sweeny Todd is a great musical

as are

Incredibly Strange Creatures Whoe Ceased Living and Became Mixed Up Zombies....the first horror musical....and quite possibly the best name for a movie ever

Phantom of the Paridise....if anything for the scene when the rtock band plays and starts hacking limbs off of the audience

Cannibal The Musical.....sheer genuis

Mary Poppins....mfirst boyhood crush....because she is like me....practically perfect in every way

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.....painted midgets....need i say more?

[Jessie]

Sweeny Todd is a great musical

as are

Incredibly Strange Creatures Whoe Ceased Living and Became Mixed Up Zombies....the first horror musical....and quite possibly the best name for a movie ever

Phantom of the Paridise....if anything for the scene when the rtock band plays and starts hacking limbs off of the audience

Cannibal The Musical.....sheer genuis

Mary Poppins....mfirst boyhood crush....because she is like me....practically perfect in every way

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.....painted midgets....need i say more?

[Jessie]

Sweeny Todd is a great musical

as are

Incredibly Strange Creatures Whoe Ceased Living and Became Mixed Up Zombies....the first horror musical....and quite possibly the best name for a movie ever

Phantom of the Paridise....if anything for the scene when the rtock band plays and starts hacking limbs off of the audience

Cannibal The Musical.....sheer genuis

Mary Poppins....mfirst boyhood crush....because she is like me....practically perfect in every way

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.....painted midgets....need i say more?

Not only did I fuck up the quote, I posted it completely unchanged!!!

That said, how did we miss Wonka??

[Gamplayerx]

Sweeny Todd is a great musical

as are

Incredibly Strange Creatures Whoe Ceased Living and Became Mixed Up Zombies....the first horror musical....and quite possibly the best name for a movie ever

Phantom of the Paridise....if anything for the scene when the rtock band plays and starts hacking limbs off of the audience

Cannibal The Musical.....sheer genuis

Mary Poppins....mfirst boyhood crush....because she is like me....practically perfect in every way

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.....painted midgets....need i say more?

Not only did I fuck up the quote, I posted it completely unchanged!!!

That said, how did we miss Wonka??

I saw some stupid entertainment show last night about Wonka.  Depp looks very strange with those teeth.

[dazie]

Mary Poppins....mfirst boyhood crush....because she is like me....practically perfect in every way

You must have watched a different Mary Poppins than I did...   

I'm going with West Side Story and An American in Paris.

Except the leads in the movie WSS are SOOOO LAME.  Honestly- Natalie Wood?  Pfft.   

[Number 6]

Juilie Andrews was hot in that....and just the character of Mary Poppins

[BigDun]

We saw Buffy the Vampire Slayer season 6, episode "Once Again With Feeling" for the first time last night. We had to play it twice. Wow, just wow.

[Alice]

We saw Buffy the Vampire Slayer season 6, episode "Once Again With Feeling" for the first time last night. We had to play it twice. Wow, just wow.

I love that episode.