Your Favorite Musical- Page 3
Your Favorite Musical
#50re: Your Favorite Musical
Posted: 6/29/08 at 2:37pmI still need to see a lot more, but Avenue Q remains my favourite.
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#51re: Your Favorite Musical
Posted: 6/29/08 at 2:39pmSunday in the Park with George, without a doubt.
"He found something that he wanted, had always wanted and always would want— not to be admired, as he had feared; not to be loved, as he had made himself believe; but to be necessary to people, to be indispensable."
-F. Scott Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise
#52re: Your Favorite Musical
Posted: 6/29/08 at 2:43pm
A Little Night Music
Carrie
Chicago
Company
Dear World
Evita
Gypsy
Into the Woods
Merrily We Roll Along
Pal Joey
Passion
Pippin
Prettybelle
Rebecca
Rent
Sweeney Todd
The Goodbye Girl
The Producers
Thou Shalt Not
Wicked
"There are only two worthwhile things to leave behind when we depart this world of ours: children and art."
-Sunday In The Park With George
#53re: Your Favorite Musical
Posted: 6/29/08 at 2:44pm
Wicked is still very close to my heart because it what caused me to start listening to other musicals. I just wondered what else was out there. I still love it.
I also love: West Side Story, Sweeney Todd, Phantom of the Opera, Guys and Dolls, Chicago, A Chorus Line, Singin' in the Rain (I've only seen the movie, but I love it!), Rent, Spring Awakening, and many others
#54re: Your Favorite Musical
Posted: 6/29/08 at 3:44pm
I think discovering your favourite musical must be a lot like falling in love. Back in the day, if someone had asked me to narrow it down, I'd've wrapped my head in my arms and wailed "I CAN'T CHOOSE OOOOOOOOONE!" then reeled off a big list. Then I moved onto saying "well, I love loads, but the one I'm really into right now is...". But THEN I discovered this one musical, and fell in love, and it's my absolute favourite. I don't have to sit and think about it, I don't change my mind, I have one favourite musical and I feel so secure in my answer. Once I found my one, I knew I genuinely had a favourite musical and never really had before. XD
'Floyd Collins'. And may everyone who has yet to find their One find something that speaks to them as deeply as 'Floyd Collins' speaks to me. :)
Updated On: 6/29/08 at 03:44 PM
fanpires
Stand-by Joined: 6/25/08
#56re: Your Favorite Musical
Posted: 6/29/08 at 4:09pm
A Chorus Line is my all time favorite.
Other favorites:
Company
In the Heights
Sunday In the Park with George
Cabaret
Guys and Dolls
The choice may have been mistaken, The choosing was not... "Every day has the potential to be the greatest day of your life." - Lin-Manuel Miranda
#57re: Your Favorite Musical
Posted: 6/29/08 at 4:24pm
I will do this in order
In The Heights- It has great music and a simple story. The entire production is just incredible. Dancing, lighting, sets, everything.
Rent- Rent was my first Broadway show (that I remember) and it will always be near the top for me. It will always be very close to me because it got me into Broadway. I love it no matter what.
Jersey Boys- I love it, everything about it. Sunday In The Park With George- it was wonderful, so now it's tied
Gypsy
This is not in order now:
A Chorus Line
Drowsy Chaperone
Spelling Bee
Legally Blonde
Lion King
Spring Awakening
A LIttle Night Music
and Many more, I have loved everything I've seen except Oklahoma! and Little Mermaid
Ryan4
Stand-by Joined: 4/13/08
#59re: Your Favorite Musical
Posted: 6/29/08 at 4:42pm
For me, nothing beats Les Miserables. So many fantastic songs, so many memorable characters, such a profound story. Elegantly adapted from its source material. It's glorious.
Shout-outs to Show Boat, West Side Story, Gypsy, Fiddler on the Roof, Cabaret, Company, Sweeney Todd, Into the Woods, Ragtime, Spring Awakening.
#60re: Your Favorite Musical
Posted: 6/29/08 at 5:08pm
I don't have any *one* favorite, but at the top of my list are Guys & Dolls, My Fair Lady, and the Sound of Music. I also have a fondness for Avenue Q, Spamalot, and Les Miserables.
#61re: Your Favorite Musical
Posted: 6/29/08 at 5:23pmthree-way tie: Bare, Spring Awakening, Rent
"You have two kinds of shows on Broadway – revivals and the same kind of musicals over and over again, all spectacles. You get your tickets for The Lion King a year in advance, and essentially a family... pass on to their children the idea that that's what the theater is – a spectacular musical you see once a year, a stage version of a movie. It has nothing to do with theater at all. It has to do with seeing what is familiar.... I don't think the theatre will die per se, but it's never going to be what it was.... It's a tourist attraction." Stephen Sondheim
#62re: Your Favorite Musical
Posted: 6/29/08 at 5:25pm
I agree completely with you Weez!
People always ask me, "What's you favorite musical?" and I am always like: There are too many!!!! I can't choose just one.
And then I also used your second approach as well. "I like a lot, but my favorite at the moment is this."
But now, I have "fallen in love"!
SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE
Gary Indiana
Stand-by Joined: 6/18/08
#63re: Your Favorite Musical
Posted: 6/29/08 at 7:33pmI know most people would disagree with me, but my all time favorite is The Scarlet Pimpernel (the original version).
Stand-by Joined: 12/31/69
gypsy4
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/14/07
#65re: Your Favorite Musical
Posted: 6/29/08 at 9:42pm
Wicked
My Fair Lady
Into The Woods
Peter Pan
Hairspray
DreamGirls
Chicago
The Wiz
Cabaret
Mama Mia
Oklahoma
Mary Poppins
The Producers
Crazy For You
Annie
Annie Get Your Gun
Avenue q
South Pacific
Fiddler on The Roof
Grease
Bye Bye Birdie
Seussical
and that's not all.
#66re: Your Favorite Musical
Posted: 6/29/08 at 11:36pmI have a lot of favorites, but I would definetly go with RENT!
"Robin De Jesus has issues"~ JANET DACAL
"Yeah, and that's putting it lightly"~ ANDREA BURNS
"If you watched CBS on June 15th , I was nominated for a Tony... And I was in Camp"~ ROBIN DE JESUS
"...but I ^&#$@*% made you believe I was Italian!"~MATTHEW MORRISON
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jordangirl
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/1/06
#68re: Your Favorite Musical
Posted: 6/30/08 at 5:26amTie between Side Show and Sunday In The Park With George.
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#69re: Your Favorite Musical
Posted: 6/30/08 at 8:31am
Little Shop of Horrors
Avenue Q
Sweeney Todd
RENT
Spring Awakening
:)
#70re: Your Favorite Musical
Posted: 6/30/08 at 8:57am
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Les Miz
Mary Poppins
Legally Blonde
Gypsy
SweetSoprano
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#71re: Your Favorite Musical
Posted: 6/30/08 at 10:03am
It's a tie:
Gypsy, In The Heights, The Fantasticks, Aida and A Chorus Line.
You're that little girl with her wings unfurled, flying again.
Back in your backyard dancing...I found a way back to then. - [title of show]
#72re: Your Favorite Musical
Posted: 6/30/08 at 4:02pmSunday in the Park with George. It was the first musical I saw as an adult, and though I've seen many musicals since then it will always hold a special place in my heart.
#73re: Your Favorite Musical
Posted: 6/30/08 at 4:15pm
I have sooo may favorites! here are my top 10
- Beauty and the Beast
- Spamalot
- Young Frankenstein
- Avenue Q
- Hairspary
- Cry Baby
- Curtains
- Legally Blonde
- Grease
- Wicked
- It is not Broadway but, Next to Normal
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StageFan2
Broadway Star Joined: 4/8/07
#74re: Your Favorite Musical
Posted: 6/30/08 at 4:33pm
CURTAINS is my most recent favorite.
Others in no particular order include;
The King and I
Caberet
Chicago
Grey Gardens
42nd Street
Camalot
The Music Man
Fiddler on the Roof
My Fair Lady
Tenants of 3R
Pippin
The Most Happy Fella
Jekyll & Hyde
Annie
Girl Crazy
Guys and Dolls
