Musicals you loved immediately
Musicals you loved immediately
ashley0139
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/3/05
#0Musicals you loved immediately
Posted: 11/14/05 at 6:54pm
In response to the "Musicals you hated at first but then liked" thread, what musicals have you listened to one time and automatically knew it would become one of your all time favorites?
Mine:
Les Miserables
Miss Saigon
(I love schÖnberg and boublil!)
"This table, he is over one hundred years old. If I could, I would take an old gramophone needle and run it along the surface of the wood. To hear the music of the voices. All that was said." - Doug Wright, I Am My Own Wife
#1re: Musicals you loved immediately
Posted: 11/14/05 at 6:55pm
TOo many to list but a few fav's:
Passion
Sweeney Todd
Company
The Wild Party (LaChiusa)
Parade
theatrebabe
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/22/05
#2re: Musicals you loved immediately
Posted: 11/14/05 at 6:58pmI've had a lot. But the one in most recent momery was DRS. I saw the video clip on here and became obsessed. It drove me crazy because I only knew little snippets from songs. So the next chance I had, I went out and bought the recording. I love it!
"While some feel it is a film related question, I seem to think it may be a 'I am thinking of losing my winkie' sort of question."
-cheezedoodle
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TheatreSlave
Understudy Joined: 11/3/05
#3re: Musicals you loved immediately
Posted: 11/14/05 at 7:03pm
Like BobbyBuddy, too many to list. But here are some highlights:
Sweeney Todd
Jekyll & Hyde
Spamalot
Kiss of the Spider Woman
Man of LaMancha
The Boy From Oz
Godspell
Passion
"We are all misfits, I guess, in the theatre. Otherwise we wouldn't be here." ~Michael Kandel, "Ogre"
Born2cthelightsofbway
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/30/04
#4re: Musicals you loved immediately
Posted: 11/14/05 at 7:15pm
Wicked
Avenue Q
Phantom
Beauty and the Beast
Spelling Bee
"You alone can make my song take flight, it's over now, the Music of the Night!!!!!"
#5re: Musicals you loved immediately
Posted: 11/14/05 at 7:26pm
Avenue Q
Wicked
Hairspray
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Chicago
lots more, but if i continued i would bore people- if i havent already.
Bob Martin Online
Beergoggles
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/30/05
#6re: Musicals you loved immediately
Posted: 11/14/05 at 7:32pm
Miss Saigon
Blood Brothers
Spend Spend Spend
Phantom
Jesus Loves You... Everybody else thinks you're an idiot!
Therese
Broadway Star Joined: 1/2/05
#7re: Musicals you loved immediately
Posted: 11/14/05 at 7:32pm
Ragtime. My sister gave me the original concept recording for Christmas the year it came out, because she had heard some of it and thought it was something I would like. I loved it at once, then got the complete Bway recording, saw bits and pieces on TV (Tonys, etc.). When I finally got to see a production of the show, I was literally in tears by the end of the 10-minute opening, I was so thrilled.
I have to put in a plug for Avenue Q, too: I knew very little about it when I first heard a couple of songs, but that was enough to sell me on the cast album, and once I had the cast album, I was a die-hard Q-Tip (and believe it or not, I was a fan of the show in general before The Big Crush really set in). When the day comes that I finally get to see Q on stage, I'll be thrilled at that, too.
"In my own little corner..."
#8re: Musicals you loved immediately
Posted: 11/14/05 at 7:35pm
POTO
Spelling Bee
Avenue Q
Spamalot
Beauty and the Beast
Forbiden Broadway (all of them)
EDIT: ALSO Jekyll And Hyde
Updated On: 11/14/05 at 07:35 PM
#9re: Musicals you loved immediately
Posted: 11/14/05 at 7:35pm
I'm afraid I have to say Phantom...it was just so catchy at the time, you know?
Avenue Q
Sweet Charity
Jekyll & Hyde
Chicago
gavrochegirl
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/16/05
#10re: Musicals you loved immediately
Posted: 11/14/05 at 7:40pmLes Miz and Spelling Bee.
What the puck?!
Practically Perfect
Leading Actor Joined: 3/10/05
#11re: Musicals you loved immediately
Posted: 11/14/05 at 7:44pm
Phantom of the Opera
Sunset Boulevard
Wicked
Hairspray
Avenue Q
Company
Into The Woods
Sweet Charity
Gypsy
My Fair Lady
Mary Poppins
Mary P x
heaja123
Understudy Joined: 5/9/05
Understudy Joined: 12/31/69
#13re: Musicals you loved immediately
Posted: 11/14/05 at 7:47pm
Wicked
Rent
Brooklyn
Boy from Oz
Phantom of The Opera- Movie
Producers
Bye Bye Birdie
popular_elphie
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/3/05
#14re: Musicals you loved immediately
Posted: 11/14/05 at 7:54pm
Hairspray - loved every second of it.
All Shook Up
The Light in the Piazza
#15re: Musicals you loved immediately
Posted: 11/14/05 at 7:55pm
ehem...
POTO
RENT
Wicked
Sweeney Todd
Company
West Side Story
Little Shop of Horrors
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Miss Saigon
The Scarlett Pimpernell
Children of Eden
Jekyll & Hyde
Titanic
Side Show
Jesus Chirst Superstar
Jayar
Chorus Member Joined: 5/6/05
#16re: Musicals you loved immediately
Posted: 11/14/05 at 7:56pm
Oh dear loads but the ones that jump out are:
She Loves Me
The Light In The Piazza
Dear World
Sunset Boulevard
Carrie (first song I heard was "Eve was Weak" so I was hooked!}
Witches of Eastwick
Cats
Chess
Dreamgirls
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Sorry, could go on and on!!
#17re: Musicals you loved immediately
Posted: 11/14/05 at 7:57pm
Rent
Into the Woods
Wicked
You're a Good Man Charie Brown
Thoroughly Modern Millie
Cabaret
Taylor the latte boy,
Bring me java, bring me joy!
Taylor the latte boy,
I love him, I love him, I love him
#18re: Musicals you loved immediately
Posted: 11/14/05 at 8:18pm
Spelling Bee
Last 5 Years
Joseph...Dreamcoat
Les Miserables
Rent
YAGMCB
#19re: Musicals you loved immediately
Posted: 11/14/05 at 8:20pm
Rent
Wicked
Phantom
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Thoroughly Modern Millie
Hairspray
Cabaret
Chicago
"I wish the stage were as narrow as the wire of a tightrope dancer, so that no incompetent would dare step upon it." Goethe
Up In Lost
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/05
#20re: Musicals you loved immediately
Posted: 11/14/05 at 8:26pmHairspray.
Well, I'm glad he got away with it.
#21re: Musicals you loved immediately
Posted: 11/14/05 at 8:26pm
Will Rogers Follies
Scarlet Pimpernel
Irving Berlin's White Christmas
"My dreams, watching me said, one to the other...this life has let us down."
#22re: Musicals you loved immediately
Posted: 11/14/05 at 9:03pm
Little Women
Spelling Bee
The Last Five Years
"You know who I think is sexy? Robbie Hart."
"You think the 'Time to Make the Donuts' guy is sexy."
roquat
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/25/05
#23re: Musicals you loved immediately
Posted: 11/14/05 at 9:12pm
RAGTIME (those soul-stirring harmonies at the end of the opening, where about five hundred people seem to be singing)
FOOTLOOSE (same thing, but in midsong, and in a much cheesier way--"Tonight I gotta cut loose!/Footloose!/Kick off mah Sunday shoes!")
LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS (the irresistable soul-swing of the title number)
HAIRSPRAY I used to live in Baltimore, and just seeing the title of the opening number made me smile and know I'd love this show forever.
I ask in all honesty/What would life be?/Without a song and a dance, what are we?/So I say "Thank you for the music/For giving it to me."
bwayondabrain
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/05
