The staging of it is so simple and beautiful, if I'm having a bad day, it'll send me into tears every time.
That being said, 'Telly' has my flat out fav line of any musical of the past few years: "All I know I learned from telly/the bigger the telly the smarter the man/You can tell from my big telly/just what a clever fellow I am."
I worship you, Tim Minchin.
"Are you sorry for civilization? I am sorry for it too." ~Coast of Utopia: Shipwreck
I don't have the recording, but when I saw it, the one number that stood out above and beyond the rest was the children's 'A to Zed' number, with the blocks? That was done brilliantly. What's that one called?
"Naughty," "When I Grow Up," and "Quiet" were my inital favorites. With repeated listenings "My House" (especially with the counterpoint with the Father/Escapologist) and "The School Song" have really moved up there as well. I love the underlying reciting of the A-B-Cs in the second half of "The School Song" hitting a word or similar sound with each letter.