Favourite musical?

tSubh Dearg

My absolute favourite musical is currently on at the moment. Camelot is just fantastic.

How can you not love a show that gives you songs like:

The Lusty Month of May

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cg4YrOlAkds

Take me To the Fair

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wijIn4xQ8jw

and of course the title song
Camelot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCtselIX4yg

emeraldstar

^^^ Yeah I saw that was on but can't watch it coz I have to do an essay. This makes me sad

Dave!

Jesus Christ Superstar

Dragan

Reefer Madness. It was the Rocky Horror but when i saw Refer Madness the Musical i was blown away.

The Master

It would have to be Evita for me
Jesus Christ Superstar a close second

CHICO FUENTES

Evita : With Banderas as Che. Brilliant.

Also Starring LeVar Burton

So many classics to choose from, but I love;

West Side Story
Cannibal: The Musical (For it's hilarity)
The Lion King
Once More With Feeling - Buffy: The Musical
Rocky Horror Picture Show

and love the music in Rent, but the story's a bit f**ked up.

fonpokno

CaptainNegative wrote: »

So many classics to choose from, but I love;

West Side Story
Cannibal: The Musical (For it's hilarity)
The Lion King
Once More With Feeling - Buffy: The Musical
Rocky Horror Picture Show

and love the music in Rent, but the story's a bit f**ked up.

That Buffy episode was the best ever! God it was just brilliant. I've never enjoyed Buffy so much...

businesswizard

Phantom of the Opera

businesswizard

Beauty and the Beast is also great.

mizzzy

the sound of music...

annie...

the music man...

oaklahoma..

me and my girl...

the phantom of the opera..

south pacific!

what a hard qs...so many to choose from!

athtrasna

• Billy Elliott
• Follies
• Sweeney Todd
• Sunday in the Park with George
• The Hired Man
• Moby Dick

the list goes on and on!

fonpokno

I've always been uncertain about Annie...

The music is grand for the most part but the characters annoy me. Especially annie herself and the horrible little children that play her. They make me want to gouge my own eyes out.

"Jaaassst thinking abaaaaat tyomorraaaawwwww...."

Horrid creatures.

Doozie

I cant believe I just saw this forum!
Les Miserables all the way....
Colm Wilkenson is da man.:cool:

Agent Smith

my fair lady anyone?

fonpokno

Fantastic musical good sir! Sang I Could Have Danced All Night for my Junior cert back in the day.

Ooh and I was in Dundrum last week and some shop was playing On The Street Where You Live. Had me in a good mood for the rest of the day!

Agent Smith

Forgot about bugsey Malone!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1FgpBxXho4

Toto Wolfcastle

Agent Smith wrote: »

my fair lady anyone?

Love it, watch it every Christmas.

Dublinstiofán

Does nobody like Les Miserables? I think thats my favourite still.

Phantom of the Opera was very good as was Blood Brothers in the Gaiety this year.

Don't really watch any on Film. Didn't really know that there were many available. Anybody got an opinion on the best ones on Film?

JohnK

Dublinstiofán wrote: »

Does nobody like Les Miserables?

*cough*

JohnK wrote: »

But to keep on topic my favourite would have to be Les Mis or Billy Elliot - I fluctuate between the two quite a lot.

Its an amazing show but alas fast approaching two years since I've seen it Really have to rectify that.

Sirtoyou

Paint Your Wagon hasn't got a mention with its classic songs 'Wandrin Star','They call the wind Mariah' 'I talk to the tree's' etc.
Plus the hilarity of the plot and Clint Eastwood,Jean Seberg and Lee Marvin in the leads must make it a classic.
Others that spring to mind are
Guys and Dolls
Fiddler on the Roof
Phantom
Blood Brothers
The Little Mermaid (the reggae crab sebastian cracks me up)
Sweeney Todd
Hello Dolly
The Jungle Book

holden c

In The Heights, running in broadway at the moment is probably up there. It's modern stuff, so don't be expecting no white christmas, but it's serious stuff, rap and latino dancing and a finish to make a grown man cry.
Les Mis is Les Mis though!!!

angelIRL

For me, it has to be Sweeney Todd, with Angela Landsbury & Len Cariou OR even Patti LuPone & Georg Hearn! The music from that is superb! It's such a great piece!

...the demon barber of Fleet....... Street!

Wicked is also one of my favourites as well. I have seen the show in London twice (Idina Menzel & then Kerry Ellis) and Stuttgart - I really liked the German version of it.

I saw Chess in Concert back in May 2008, which I thought was amazing. Kerry Ellis has such an amazing voice! For me, it was Josh Groban singing "Anthem" and Kerry singing "Someone Else's Story" stole the show! Josh's CD has "Anthem" that was recorded at the concert in May.

dramabob

So many choices!

On Broadway, I've seen:

The Lion King (3 times)
Chicago (twice)
Wicked (twice)
RENT (twice)
Hairspray (3 times)
Phantom (twice)
Sweet Charity (2005 revival)
Dr. Sex
The Producers
Avenue Q
Cabaret (with Molly Ringwald!)
Stomp (not strictly a musical, but brilliant)
Spamalot
Spring Awakening

...and on the West End:

Les Miserables
Billy Elliot (both on the same day, oh what a day...)

It's hard to pick a fave, but I'd have to say RENT.

Woop!

athtrasna

dramabob wrote: »

So many choices!

On Broadway, I've seen:

The Lion King (3 times)
Chicago (twice)
Wicked (twice)
RENT (twice)
Hairspray (3 times)
Phantom (twice)
Sweet Charity (2005 revival)
Dr. Sex
The Producers
Avenue Q
Cabaret (with Molly Ringwald!)
Stomp (not strictly a musical, but brilliant)
Spamalot
Spring Awakening

...and on the West End:

Les Miserables
Billy Elliot (both on the same day, oh what a day...)

It's hard to pick a fave, but I'd have to say RENT.

Woop!

Right then if we're comparing musicals - mixing up London, Broadway, Dublin (professional shows only), Chicago, Vegas and LA I've seen....

Wicked 9 times
Billy Elliott 4 times
Blood Brothers 4 times
Phantom 2 times
Avenue Q 2 times
Miss Saigon 2 times
Rent 2 times
Spamalot 2 times
Company 1 time
Evita 2 times
Les Miserables 1 time
Mama Mia 1 time
Me and My Girl 1 time
Aspects of Love 1 time
Sunset Boulevard 1 time
Jesus Christ Superstar 1 time
The Producers 1 time
Singing in the Rain 1 time
The Full Monty 1 time
Porgy & Bess 1 time
Joseph 1 time
Starlight Express 1 time
Little Shop of Horrors 1 time
Sunday in the Park With George 1 time
Guys & Dolls 1 time (Ewan McGregor - yummy!)
Stomp 1 time
Lion King half a time (I slept through the other half)!!

hmmm....I think I've missed some that I've seen in London but I guess that's a good start

dramabob

Wow.

I bow to your superiority (flippin 'eck!)

:P

athtrasna

dramabob wrote: »

Wow.

I bow to your superiority (flippin 'eck!)

:P

Why thank you!! Doubt I'll be adding too many more for a while given the recessionary times and all that but not a bad innings so far, and about 80% of it in last 3 years!

MoveOn

Anybody checked out the musical version of 'Lord of the Rings' yet? I avoided this for a long time thinking it would be just terrible, overblown, dancing hobbits etc etc - all the awful things we think of when we imagine musicals. Didn't know what to expect.

What I certainly WASN'T expecting when I finally stumbled accross some excerpts from it on YouTube was to hear music that knocked me sideways in a way that no musical has since I accidentally switched on the TV just as 'Sweeney Todd' was starting a number of years ago and ended up rooted to my seat for the next 2 hours or so. 'LotR', quite simply, blew me away. Now, I haven't seen it but the recording is overwhelming. And I also like it because it leaves my imagination free to return to my own visions of the book (which I read many years ago) rather than seeing the whole thing on a screen in front of me.

I'm sure people are curious now to have a sample. Fear not, here you go (dunno how to embed, sorry, so it's the old-fashioned click-on-the-link method)...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbF88CUeyYQ

Btw musical fans, my Screen Name is a song from one of my other favourite musicals, but wouldn't be one of your more well-known ones - anyone wanna take a stab at what it is and potentially make an instant friend for life?

athtrasna

Move On is from Sunday in the Park With George of course! The London production was amazing!

As for LOTR I wasn't tempted myself but friends who went said while it was spectacular it didn't feel like a musical more like a Cirque du Soleil show. It's closed in London now and given the massive staging costs I can't see it touring.

BobTheBeat

How did I miss this gem of a forum

Wicked (Seen it twice in London, Once in New York) and Phantom of the Opera are my favourite stage productions (of the comparatively few I have seen ) with Seven Brides for Seven Brothers and Oliver being my favourite films.

My dream is to play in the pit orchestra for one of the big shows in the west end!someday...