Musicals

[Tarol]

Musicals are a great combination of singing, dancing, and acting... and it's all live! What are some of your favorite musicals? What are some you've seen live? What musical song do you normally have stuck in your head?

*by musicals, I mean theatrical musicals (Broadways), not movies*

[Dom]

Mm'kay, here are the musicals/stage shows I've seen in person. I've color-coded them, YES I HAVE!

Green for ones I loved.
Yellow for ones I liked.
Red for ones I disliked.

*Favorites* are asterisked.

On Broadway

*The Phantom of the Opera*
Zarkana / Cirque du Soleil
Memphis (off-Broadway in New York)

U.S. Tours

*The Phantom of the Opera*
*Les Miserables*
*Cats*
The Thorn
Floorplay
Wicked
Dirty Dancing

Local Productions

Sonrise (church production)
Scrooge! The Carol with an Attitude (megachurch production)
Beauty and the Beast (high school production)
*Phantom* (dinner theater)
The Thorn (megachurch production)
White Christmas (huge city theater that runs all the U.S. tours)

Dom

[Tarol]

You didn't like Beauty and the Beast? I like it. Some of the added songs are really great. However, if it was a highschool production... the quality might have been really bad. o___o

I've seen (none live...):

-Sound of Music (movie version, and I also saw the version with Carrie Underwood)
-Oliver! (movie version)
-Fiddler on the Roof (Highscool production)
-Shrek the Musical (started my interest in musicals)
-Seussical the Musical (my favorite musical)
-Wicked
-Newsies
-Beauty and the Beast (the musical)
-Phantom of the Opera

I enjoyed all of these except Phantom... I'd like to see Thoroughly Modern Millie and maybe Next to Normal.

[Bethany Shepard]

This is literally my new favorite thread. Thank you for creating it, Ox. These are the ones I've watched:

Love
Like
Hate
** Grew up on

~Modern~

-The Scarlet Pimpernel
-Jekyll and Hyde
-The Phantom of the Opera**
-Love Never Dies (Phantom #2)
-Thoroughly Modern Millie
-Wicked
-Newsies
-Beauty and the Beast (Broadway)**
-Seussical the Musical
-Shrek the Musical
-Into The Woods
-Sweeney Todd
-Mary Poppins
-Cats**
-The Wiz
-Guys and Dolls
-Matilda the Musical
-Elf the Musical
-Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark
-Pippin
-Grease**
-Aladdin (Broadway)**
-Parade
-Les Miserables**
-Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat**
-Jesus Christ Superstar
-Next To Normal
-Spring Awakening
-The Secret Garden
-Civil War
-The Little Mermaid (Broadway)**
-The Little Women (Broadway)
-The Little Princess

~Classic~

-Hello, Dolly!**
-Sound of Music**
-Seven Brides for Seven Brothers**
-Annie**
-Annie, Get Your Gun**
-Fiddler on the Roof**
-My Fair Lady**
-Oklahoma!**
-South Pacific**
-The Music Man**
-Funny Girl**
-The King and I**
-Kiss Me, Kate**
-Finian's Rainbow
-Show Boat**
-Carousel**

I know there's more, I just can't think of them.

[Tarol]

This is literally my new favorite thread. Thank you for creating it, Ox.

SHOCK! Bethy's favorite thread is the one on musicals. It was actually Dom's idea, she just made me make it.

-Seussical the Musical *hate*
-The Phantom of the Opera *love*

-Seussical the Musical (my favorite musical)
-Phantom of the Opera ...I enjoyed all of these except Phantom...

It's a wonder we are still friends.

I know it's been asked before, but what are some of your favorite people on Broadway?

For actors/actresses: Jeremy Jordan, Terrance Mann, Kara Lindsay, and Sutton Foster.

Alan Menken is, of course, an amazing composer, and Stephen Shwartz is alright... I don't know enough musicals to have a real opinion on lyricists and librettists and other writers.

Oh! And I just remembered I saw a highschool production of Fiddler on the Roof. It was pretty good.

[Bethany Shepard]

It's a wonder we are still friends.

I know! But I try to look past issues and focus on your plus's.


I LOVE Seirra Boggess. She is queen.

Also, Ramin Karimloo. His version of, "Til I Hear You Sing" is perfection.

[Pound Foolish]

You hate My Fair Lady!? But Beth, I didn't know that was possible. I've never heard those words in the same sentence. Seriously, if I needed to pick one to be elaborated on, that one, please.

[Bethany Shepard]

I don't as much hate it as I am sick of it. My family loves it, so we listen to it far too frequently. However, I do love Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrison.

[Doll]

Anyone else currently obsessed with Hamilton (like me)?

If you haven't listened to it, you should, but a caution, there is some language.

[Bethany Shepard]

OH, add that to my list! It's SOOOO good!

Also, Count of Monte Cristo. It's SOOO brilliant!

[Tarol]

Probably no one cares but I am really excited right now.

NEWSIES IS GETTING FILMED!!!

Most of the original Broadway cast is getting back together this September to perform Newsies on stage, and it's going to be filmed and released as a movie sometime next year!

Newsies is really a great musical (it's by Alan Menken so no duh) and I'm really glad Kara Lindsay (who was recently Glinda in Wicked) and Jeremy Jordan (Supergirl etc.) are coming back to play the two main characters. I'm really excited for the movie to come out... ESPECIALLY, since it just might mean Broadways are finally going to start being recorded and released as movies. (but probably not)

[Bethany Shepard]

WHAT!? PRAISE! I'm so excited! *sets date on calendar*

[Jo March]

Sound of Music, Fiddler on the Roof(is like my favorite movie ever), seven brides for seven brothers, annie(local production), tom sawyer(local production). they were all very good!

[Connie G.]

So album 62 is going to have a musical in it? o.O

http://www.whitsendblog.org/2016/08/aria-curzon/

[Doll]

So album 62 is going to have a musical in it? o.O

http://www.whitsendblog.org/2016/08/aria-curzon/

I heard that it was a musical somewhere else too, I think somewhere on facebook related to Shona, but I can't find it now.

[Bethany Shepard]

This is literally my new favorite thread. Thank you for creating it, Ox. These are the ones I've watched:

Love
Like
Hate
** Grew up on

~Modern~

-The Scarlet Pimpernel
-Jekyll and Hyde
-The Phantom of the Opera**
-Love Never Dies (Phantom #2)
-Thoroughly Modern Millie
-Wicked
-Newsies
-Beauty and the Beast (Broadway)**
-Seussical the Musical
-Shrek the Musical
-Into The Woods
-Sweeney Todd
-Mary Poppins
-Cats**
-The Wiz
-Guys and Dolls
-Matilda the Musical
-Elf the Musical
-Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark
-Pippin
-Grease**
-Aladdin (Broadway)**
-Parade
-Les Miserables**
-Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat**
-Jesus Christ Superstar
-Next To Normal
-Spring Awakening
-The Secret Garden
-Civil War
-The Little Mermaid (Broadway)**
-The Little Women (Broadway)
-The Little Princess

~Classic~

-Hello, Dolly!**
-Sound of Music**
-Seven Brides for Seven Brothers**
-Annie**
-Annie, Get Your Gun**
-Fiddler on the Roof**
-My Fair Lady**
-Oklahoma!**
-South Pacific**
-The Music Man**
-Funny Girl**
-The King and I**
-Kiss Me, Kate**
-Finian's Rainbow
-Show Boat**
-Carousel**

I know there's more, I just can't think of them.

To add to my list:
-The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Broadway)
-Sugar
-Tarzan The Musical
-Matilda

[PennyBassett]

Ok! Has anyone listened to Dear Evan Hansen yet? Fantastic soundtrack. Amazing story. Definitely worth listening to. I would look up the plot line ahead of time because it would be difficult to figure out the storyline just while listening. But I think it's really good! Very original and inspiring. (Now I really want to see it! )

[Tarol]

IT'S OUT THIS WEEK. Newsies is in select movie theaters on February 16, 18, 22. I am so excited for this, and hoping to see it tomorrow maybe. =0 This better come out digitally too though.

[odyjohn]

My favourite musical is Chicago - it's so amazing that I can't even find the words to describe it! preview. Nice work! How long do you already play in DB?

__________
nyaste

[Bethany Shepard]

IT'S OUT THIS WEEK. Newsies is in select movie theaters on February 16, 18, 22. I am so excited for this, and hoping to see it tomorrow maybe. =0 This better come out digitally too though.

I didn't have time to see it, but they are, because of popular demand, playing it again March 4th!!