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I just want to be on Broadway [Musicals Thread]
Bedigunz
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I love musicals. Who doesn't?
I just bought Book of Mormon tickets for Chicago in January and became inspired to start a thread.
So what shows have you seen/loved/hated/heard about?
Loves: my favorite show I've seen in the states is Wicked, but I saw Mamma Mia in London and holy shit that was surprisingly good (then again I even enjoyed the movie in a non-ironic way). Oh and Avenue Q was goddamn hilarious
Hates: I just did not like West Side Story. I apologize to anyone who loved it
Heard about: I heard Bring it On the musical was shockingly good and well produced. Has anyone seen it? Also I've heard from the news that Book of Mormon was awesome but has anyone here seen it?
Finally, feel free to post your favorite songs from shows. That's half the fun of broadway, right?
I just bought Book of Mormon tickets for Chicago in January and became inspired to start a thread.
So what shows have you seen/loved/hated/heard about?
Loves: my favorite show I've seen in the states is Wicked, but I saw Mamma Mia in London and holy shit that was surprisingly good (then again I even enjoyed the movie in a non-ironic way). Oh and Avenue Q was goddamn hilarious
Hates: I just did not like West Side Story. I apologize to anyone who loved it
Heard about: I heard Bring it On the musical was shockingly good and well produced. Has anyone seen it? Also I've heard from the news that Book of Mormon was awesome but has anyone here seen it?
Finally, feel free to post your favorite songs from shows. That's half the fun of broadway, right?
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I don't get to the theater as much as I would like to. I'd like to see Book of Mormon, but my lady doesn't seem super interested in it.
Watched the Phantom of the Opera 25th Anniversary DVD again last night. So god damn good it's not even right.
edit: as far as hated musicals, nothing can surpass The Sound of Music.
I have seen:
Spamalot
Miss Saigon
Phantom (twice)
Beauty and the Beast
Little Shop of Horrors (college production)
I would like to see Wicked, Addams, Evil Dead, Lion King.
I have also been to a couple of ballets.
If Phantom ever rolls through, I'll sell my car for front row tickets.
I was front row center for Mary Poppins. Being that up close and personal is amazing.
I am a philistine, aren't I
Ave Q is the best.
Wanna see Wicked at some point, and some friends really loved Spring Awakening so I'd like to check that out sometime.
I have the DVD with George Hearn and Angela Lansbury. The character can eat a gigantic dick for being completely awful, but Lansbury is a great Mrs. Lovett.
Also, this is awesome. So fucking awesome:
HOLY SHIT I REMEMBER THAT SHOW.
The mouse's name was Muffy, which is my sister's name.
We taunted her relentlessly for it
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I've seen and been in a bunch, my favorite is probably assassins, it's so bizarrely fascinating and different. Very underappreciated. Least favorite is west side. It's just dumb, about dumb people doing dumb things dumbly.
Mister Cellophane is such a good number.
Then we watched the movie or something after the final test and HOLY SHIT THIS IS AWESOME I NEED TO READ THIS NOW.
I confessed to the teacher that I never read it during the assigned time but wanted to read it after watching the movie. I got like a C- on the final test but she let me write an essay after I read it on my own time that would make up for the test. It was pretty rad of her.
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I saw it the first time when I was 15, I think. I was a pretty big musical theater kid, but I could only really listen to soundtracks since the Orpheum theater didn't get much traffic and when it did I usually couldn't attend for some reason.
It was on tour in Memphis, and I begged my mom to get tickets/go see it with me, and she was like ughhhhh ok fine at least you don't want to go get blitzed on Beale Street or something.
So we went and then at "Bring him home," I looked over and my mom was straight up balling. And then the finale also made her cry, and when we walked out she was like
THANK YOU FOR MAKING ME COME THIS WAS THE BEST SHOW EVER AHHHHHHHHH
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On Broadway
Cats
Beauty and the Beast 2x (once on a school trip)
The Lion King
The Producers
Hairspray
Wicked
Catch Me If You Can
Next to Normal
Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark
Off Broadway
Rent
Avenue Q
I enjoyed Avenue Q a lot but I think Producers was my favorite, even though it wasn't the original cast.
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Other than that, I've seen The Producers, The Lion King, Annie, Spamalot, and probably more I can't remember. But Spring Awakening remains my absolutely favorite.
We've seen: Billy Elliott, In the Heights, Spring Awakening, Spamalot, Avenue Q, Wicked, and Rent. And we went to the theater to see the NPH Company revival.
I know every word a few others (Les Mis, Ragtime, Book of Mormon), but haven't been able to see them live yet.
Maybe we just saw a bum cast or saw it on an off night, but we both left Spring Awakening really turned off. I couldn't remember any songs and thought the whole thing was really boring. I thought the same thing about Spamalot, which stank because I love the movie. But it was just very, "Yep, that's the line from the movie. Yep, there's the next one."
Avenue Q is probably my first love, though I expect Book of Mormon to take its place once it tours our way.
We had to give away our Les Mis tickets last month. We got pregnant (yay) right after we bought them and 20 weeks of pregnancy sick later, my wife is asleep most nights before the second act would have even started.
I heard this traveling production is rad, though. Listening to the 10th anniversary show now. Thanks thread!
no she is an OG
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I could talk about how awesome Wicked was when I saw it, but thats like saying water is wet.
But regarding the shows I have performed in or put on are:
* Grease
* Guys & Dolls
* A Midsummer Night's Dream
* Stop Kiss
* The Crucible
* The Curious Savage
* The Diary of Anne Frank
* The Geek
* The Wizard of Oz
Beyond that I have seen:
* Arsenic and Old Lace
* Secret Garden
* Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
* The Adventures of Don Quixote
* Urinetown
Durham, NC.
Also I'm not sure they should've ended with a rousing Always Look on the Bright Side of Life sing-a-long. It'd be more in the spirit of Python if the cast started singing a rousing musical encore....and then the stage collapsed and everyone died. Or something.
They were probably thinking a great deal of liquid blood would not only be terribly hard to clean during the scene transition but also offer danger to any of the actors on stage.
Avenue Q
Book of Mormon
Whatever Robert Lopez works on next
I've seen this musical more times then I can count which is bizzare because it's awful.
I love a lot of the music from Les Mis as it's truly excellent stuff but the one production I saw of it was straight up terrible. I swear they were having an over-acting contest backstage; Valjean threw himself to the floor in misery four times with 10 minutes.
I want to like Wicked as well but they fucking butchered that book to appeal to the horse brained masses more. And I love that book.
From the sounds of it Evil Dead: The Musical primarily hits its audience members with the blood. It also doesn't seem, from what I can gather, feature many location changes.
So...
I saw a touring production of Les Miz the other month, it was wonderful except the guy playing Valjean wasn't very good - didn't put nearly enough emotion into "Who Am I?"...after the show I found out he was the understudy. Poor understudies, they never get to act, and when they do everyone's like "oh no not the understudy".
Before the show we gave our extra ticket to a high school student who needed a ticket free of charge. He was very happy about this. He ran to tell his mother with his arms out like an airplane and a giant grin on his face.