Who likes musicals?

Other than me and Chikygrl13? :D

If so, which ones have you seen live, and what is your all-time favorite?

The last musical I saw live was "Chicago" in New York City, which was awesome. Before that, I've seen "The Phantom of the Opera", "Les Miserables", and "Into the Woods" (Stephen Sondheim). I've been meaning to see "Rent: The Movie" over the holidays and never did.

Hard to pick an all-time favorite but I'll have to say "The Sound of Music"! Christopher Plummer is soooooooooo hot in that. :D I also like all the oldies like "South Pacific" and "My Fair Lady".

Hubby's favorite musical is "The Phantom of the Opera", but he actually thinks that's an opera (because it has "opera" in the title). Oh lordy! :rolleyes:

Between Toronto and NYC... I have seen... Beauty and the Beast, Sunset Boulevard, Ragtime, Phantom, Swing, 42nd Street, Rent, Les Miserables, The Music Man, Chicago... and a few others i can not think of right now... I love Rent. I may see the movie tonight at the 1.50 theater but I have to work tomorrow...

I always wanted to see Lion King but never got to it. The boyfriend does NOT like musicals... but my dad loves them so I grew up watching them.

i grew up with them.... old ones....


and i'm, making girl child watch them too.

Never got into musicals too much which is odd because I love music and I love theatre . . .:confused:

But I'm going to see Wicked in April and I can't wait!!!

Musicals? Blech... no.

Rock Opera's? HELL YEAH!

Jesus Christ Superstar

Hair

That kind of stuff is awesome. Especially Jesus Christ Superstar. Seen it on stage, own the LP, but I gotta say... the movie kicks ass! What's the buzz, tell me what's happenin', what's the buzz, tell me what's happenin', what's the buzz.... tell me what's happenin'

And just listen to Queen... no need for a movie (ROFLAO), just LISTEN. Bohemian Rapsody!!! Woooo... *rocks out*
~phos

oh God! What have I seen??? More like what HAVEN'T I seen?!?!?!

This year, so far I've seen Mamma Mia (going AGAIN next Sunday with other friends!) and Avenue Q

Last year? I saw

The Woman in White
The Producers
Rent (3rd time)
Wicked
Phantom of the Opera (saw it in Amsterdam and in Paris!)
Cats (getting old!)
Full Monty
Aida
Fossy
Chicago
Saturday Night Fever
Fame
Les Miserables (actually got to see this in Paris this year!!!)
Spamalot
Riverdance (saw this in Dublin!)

in the past:
Annie
Annie Get Your Gun
Sound of Music
Peter Pan
Flower Drum Song
Oliver
Starlight Express
Jesus Christ Superstar
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Evita
Aspects of Love
Tell Me on a Sunday
Sunday in the Park with George
West Side Story
Assasins
Caberet
Camalot
Lion King
Beauty and the Beast
Chess
Lord of the Dance
Fiddler on the Roof
Guys and Dolls
Moving Out
The Fantasticks
Sunset Boulevard
1776
Footlose
The Pajama Game
Thourghly Modern Millie
Urinetown
Tommy
By Jeeves
Whistle Down the Wind
Kiss Me Kate
Anything Goes
Pal Joey
Little Shop of Horrors
Rocky Horror Show
Ragtime
42nd Street
My Fair Lady
I love you, you're perfect, now change
Music Man
Into The Woods
A Little Night Music
Miss Siagon


and lots lots more that i can't think of right now!!
I've been going to the theater since I was knee high to a grasshopper!!

Holy moly Batman, Chikygrl13 puts us all too shame! :D

yes, I have the musical tastes of a gay man!

Wow...I totally can't compete with that!!!

In NYC I saw "The Lion King" which I totally loved. *grin*
(I'm a huge Disney freak)

I've seen Chicago, Phantom of the Opera, Little Shop of Horrors.

I wanna see Hairspray, Rent, Aida, and SOOO many others.

I love live theater.

Nadine.

Damn! Add both Hairspray and Hair to my previous list.
I'm serious you name it, I've probably seen it at least once!
I once saw Les Miserables 4 times in a 3 day period!
And the fact that when I was kid my Dad lived in New York and was married to a music teacher really bulked up the list!

But! Knowing that not everyone likes musicals or the theater I give my short list of absolutly MUST SEES! It's a survey of the great shows from the past 50 Years.
Anything Goes
Sound of Music
Les Miserables
Rent
Mamma Mia!

My ABSOLUTE FAVS:
Les Miserables
Rent
Wicked
Avenue Q

Oh apparently Dr. Doolittle is comming to LA! I must get tickets!!
(I didn't even know there was a musical on Dr. Doolittle!)
I REALLY REALLY REALLY want to see The Beautiful Game (Andrew Lloyd Webber, it's about North Ireland in the 60s GREAT music, but had left the West End before I got there this summer and I don't think there are any plans to bring it to the US)

Oh! and the Boy From Oz!!
saw that last year in London!

yeah, Riverdance counts
I wonder if I should add a preformance I saw in Tralee, Ireland this summer.
It was traditional Irish folk theater. Lots of singing, in GALIC which I love!! and lots of Riverdancing!!!

Lets see...

Live:
Cats
Joseph and his Technicolor Dreamcoat
West Side Story

Movies:
Evita
Phantom of the Opera (my fave!)
Chicago (Great music!)

Was in (middle school - high school):
The Music Man
PJ Game
Valveteen Rabbit the musical (summer theater)
Winna the Pooh the musical (summer theater)
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Cinderella (Rogers and Hem-a-stine..spelling?)
Oklahoma

Saw Evita on live on stage back when. Had two friends who played in the orchestra for the original broadway production of Jesus Christ Superstar. Loved the Producers, and most of the old musicals: Oklahoma, Sound of Music etc.

My Sweetie is in the theater business so he’s has gotten me hooked on anything theater. The most recent musical I’ve seen was Phantom of the Opera (great movie – loved the visual aspect). Sweetie has also been in a couple of musical; I actually thought he was gay the first time I meet him.

yeah I never really liked Ciurque du Solie

I love musicals. I've seen a lot of them live so it might be hard to remember them all:

Phantom of the Opera (x5)
Les Mis
Miss Saigon
Scarlet Pimpernel
Me & My Girl (several times)
Cats
Jesus Christ Superstar (several times)
Bye Bye Birdie
Once Upon a Mattress
Working
Brigadoon
The Rocky Horror Show
Evita (a few times at least)
Gypsy
Into the Woods
Oklahoma!
A Little Night Music
Music Man
Oliver

I've also been in the pit orchestra for Once Upon a Mattress, Fiddler on the Roof, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Big River, and Brigadoon; done tech work for Working; and been in Guys & Dolls.

There's probably more, but I can't remember right now.

My absolute favourite is Phantom of the Opera - besides seeing it 5 times, I own several bootleg recordings of it (including a 1985 recording of the pre-released first act in Sydmonton that is NOTHING like the musical we all know), 10 recordings (including ones in German, Dutch, Japanese, Spanish, and French), run a message board for it, as well as a major community on livejournal. And no. I did NOT like the movie. I hated it. ;)

Other favourites are Scarlet Pimpernel and a little-known one called A New Brain.

~Crysania

Go see a REAL Cirque Du Soleil show!!!

I was an usher for Varekai (one of the traveling shows) when it came to Austin for a few months...I got to see the show about 40 times! :D

It's an amazing show. Also I'd recommend "La Nouba" It's the show that stays at Walt Disney World.

I love Cirque! *grin*

Nadine.

I love musicals. I loved King and I. I also loved Sound of the Music. I also loved Theif of Baghdad. There are a few more.

I love musicals. I loved King and I. I also loved Sound of the Music. I also loved Theif of Baghdad. There are a few more.

OMG a straight man who loves musicals!!!!

Quick, ladies, snag him so he doesn't run away!!!!! :D

OMG a straight man who loves musicals!!!!

Quick, ladies, snag him so he doesn't run away!!!!! :D

:D

I noticed most of the kids who love watching action/violent movies have not really seen much violence in real life. People who have seen some real life violence do not like seeing it on the movie screen. It brings a nasty feeling to ones mind and leaves you feeling uneasy.

I like musicals and comedy. They take me to the dream world where there are no tears and sorrow and the ending is always good. :)

:D

I noticed most of the kids who love watching action/violent movies have not really seen much violence in real life. People who have seen some real life violence do not like seeing it on the movie screen. It brings a nasty feeling to ones mind and leaves you feeling uneasy.

I like musicals and comedy. They take me to the dream world where there are no tears and sorrow and the ending is always good. :)

Very excellent points. Although I do think there are some young people who are exposed to violence in their homes and also in movies and video games. Many children who live with domestic violence, perpetrated against their mothers by husbands or boyfriends, do not have adequate supervision when it comes to the movies they watch or the video games they play. They really do become desensitized to the violence.

Those of us who have never witnessed that kind of abuse can't really relate to what goes on in a child's mind.

There is definitely something to be said for entertainment that allows us to escape from our everyday lives, see something funny and happy, and see things turn out well. For some people real life doesn't always have a happy ending.

i've seen mama mia, thoroughly modern millie and mystere (cirque du soleil).

i really want to see spamalot!! i was so bummed because i couldn't make it to ny on wednesday. they were going for the guinness record for world's largest coconut orchestra, and everyone was going to clop their coconuts along to "always look on the bright side of life"...sigh....

Very excellent points. Although I do think there are some young people who are exposed to violence in their homes and also in movies and video games. Many children who live with domestic violence, perpetrated against their mothers by husbands or boyfriends, do not have adequate supervision when it comes to the movies they watch or the video games they play. They really do become desensitized to the violence.

Those of us who have never witnessed that kind of abuse can't really relate to what goes on in a child's mind.

There is definitely something to be said for entertainment that allows us to escape from our everyday lives, see something funny and happy, and see things turn out well. For some people real life doesn't always have a happy ending.

Your post made me think. There are two sides to kids who like violent movies.

Face One: Kids who have never seen violence and as such they find it entertaining. To them it is some sort of action game, without any emotional side effects. They simply do not understand what violence is.

Face Two: Kids who have seen it too much at homes & schools and as a result they have become desensitized to violence.

Your post made me think. There are two sides to kids who like violent movies.

Face One: Kids who have never seen violence and as such they find it entertaining. To them it is some sort of action game, without any emotional side effects. They simply do not understand what violence is.

Face Two: Kids who have seen it too much at homes & schools and as a result they have become desensitized to violence.

Exactly....either way it's very bad.

I once saw "Sound of Music" with Richard Chamberlain in NYC in the 90's. Sat in first row orchestra -- so close the eye contact with those famous people was almost uncomfortable. But, it made all the difference in the world because it was like being personally involved in the performance. I wish I had the money to pay for seats like that all the time (but then again, isn't that why God made credit cards?)

Zakem is a nice name. What does it mean?

May be we could trade, if you tell me what Zakem means then I would tell you what Flanker means.

Deal??????????? :D

I have seen over thirty.
Musical freak right here.
I've even sat front row at Phantom :)

I have never seen a live musical. That does sound fun though.

the king and I was on TMC last night LATE.... oh i love that movie....