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02-09-2002, 01:56 AM
Cochrane

musicals

my favorites:
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Into the Woods
The Pirates of Penzance
Man of La Mancha
Amahl and the Night Visitors
The Phantom of the Opera
yours?
02-09-2002, 03:18 AM
REG

HEADLINE: MANLY MEN LOVES MUSICALS!!!

Now, how can I answer this without feeling emasculated? :cool:

Godspell
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Jesus Christ Superstar
Rent

And in the future:

Star Trek - The Musical (For once, I want to hear Roddenberry's lyric to the original main theme being sung).
02-09-2002, 04:04 AM
Phantom

Just about anything by Lloyd-Webber (Phantom :D, Cats,etc.)
Camelot
Does Sound of Music count?
02-09-2002, 07:55 AM
Doktor Evil

-The Mikado
-HMS Pinafore
-Pirates of Penzance (see my sig)
-Sunset Boulevard
-Evita
-Starlight Express

Notre-Dame-de-Paris sucks major ***
02-09-2002, 09:03 AM
Michael Barratt

Hrm... Rent, Chess, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat... Those'd probably be the top three. But I also quite enjoyed Les Miserables, Phantom of the Opera, and many many others. :)

As far as individual songs go, "Pity the Child" still makes me flinch, (waaaay too close to home), "Would you Light my Candle?" makes me smile, and the "On My Own," just floors me. :)

Of course, being queer, I don't really have to maintain a "Manly Man" facade ;) :) !

The Doc
02-09-2002, 11:03 AM
silverthorn

Bearing in mind I've only ever been able to sit through two musicals the one's i'd have to pick are:
Cats: One word springs to mind, "Eh?."
Oklahoma: In my defense I was watching the version that was on TV recently with Hugh "Wolverine" Jackman in it.
02-09-2002, 11:04 AM
Kronok

Tommy

The Wall

...'Nuf said
02-09-2002, 12:48 PM
Sarge

The Sound of Music and The Man of La Mancha are my favorites; I have both the soundtracks on CD. Oklahoma, My Fair Lady, and West Side Story are pretty good.

Our local arts college did Dreamcoat just a couple of months ago. They put on a creditable performance. I'd forgotten how much fun it is to see a live performance of a play.
02-09-2002, 01:06 PM
Anarchy Bob

Does the Buffy musical count? :)
02-09-2002, 01:57 PM
Hugh Casey

Dark & Gloomy

Sweeney Todd.:D
02-09-2002, 06:05 PM
Robbert Raets

West Side Story.
02-10-2002, 02:17 AM
Cochrane

Yeeks! I forgot Sound of Music and Westside Story!
02-10-2002, 04:01 AM
Sho-sa Kurita

Quote:

Originally posted by Michael Barratt
As far as individual songs go, "Pity the Child" still makes me flinch

Yeah Michael. The song's not close to home for me, but its definitely a flincher. BTW, For those of you who don't know, it's from CHESS. A trivia note from CHESS and Jesus Christ Superstar -- Lead man Murray Head is the older brother of Anthony Stewart Head (Giles) of Buffy fame. How 'bout that for showing my geekiness?

Some of my favorites?

Cabaret
The King and I
Camelot
My Fair Lady
Cats (yeah,yeah...)

And there's tons of other great stuff I'm sure I'm forgetting.

-- Daniel
02-10-2002, 06:27 AM
Greg Smith

I love musicals

My favourites include:

Cats
Chess
Evita
Les Mis
Miss Saigon (who says you can't land a helicopter on a theatre stage :) )
The Xena musical episode
Starlight Express

And honourable mentions to:
Metropolis
Time
02-11-2002, 12:08 AM
Musashi X

The Anti-Musicals

1) Dancer in the Dark
2) Buffy - Once More With Feeling
3) The Rocky Horror Picture Show
02-11-2002, 12:05 PM
Karg

Re: HEADLINE: MANLY MEN LOVES MUSICALS!!!

Quote:

Originally posted by REG

And in the future:

Star Trek - The Musical (For once, I want to hear Roddenberry's lyric to the original main theme being sung).

Don't Laugh, At one point for the 25th anniversery there was serious talk about making Star Trek the broadway show. Thank god it died:o

Karg
02-11-2002, 12:22 PM
Sarge

Hey, we forgot The Drew Carey Show

It's a five o'clock world when the whistle blows
No one owns a piece of my time
And there's a five o'clock me inside my clothes
Thinking that the world looks fine
02-11-2002, 04:30 PM
REG

Re: Re: HEADLINE: MANLY MEN LOVES MUSICALS!!!

Quote:

Originally posted by Karg
Don't Laugh, At one point for the 25th anniversery there was serious talk about making Star Trek the broadway show. Thank god it died:o

Karg

Who's laughing? :cool:
02-11-2002, 07:02 PM
Michael Barratt

Well damn! I can't believe I forgot "Miss Saigan." That damned musical had me absolutely weeping. I bawled like a child! Didn't help that the man beside me was a 'Nam vet, and he turned to me half way through the musical, just before the intermission, and said that he couldn't breathe, and needed to get out. I helped him out of the theatre, spoke with him for about five or ten minutes during the intermission. He couldn't watch the rest of the muscial, and had to go home. His eyes were absolutely haunted in the way the word is supposed to mean. After that, I spent the whole musical thinking about him while I watched, and just cried my eyes out. :(

The Doc
02-11-2002, 07:05 PM
AslanC

South Park: The Movie :)
02-11-2002, 10:05 PM
Robbert Raets

Nuts.....:rolleyes:
02-12-2002, 12:03 PM
Greg Smith

And not forgetting Moulin Rouge. Jim Broadbent singing 'Like a Virgin' is a classic :D

Has anybody seen Chicago? Is it any good?
02-13-2002, 04:59 PM
silverthorn

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Quote by me (oddly enough):

Bearing in mind I've only ever been able to sit through two musicals the one's i'd have to pick are:
Cats: One word springs to mind, "Eh?."
Oklahoma: In my defense I was watching the version that was on TV recently with Hugh "Wolverine" Jackman in it.
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I may have seen another musical recently.
Labyrinth: The players whose house I go to on a Friday was watching this when I walked in and she made me sit through it all. I think it posiibly passes as a musical for the following reasons:

1) There's a lot of singing (and frequently dancing) in it.
2) It's got David Bowie (a singer) in it.
3) It's at least as brain-f*ckingly odd as "Cats".

I have two questions concerning this (frightningly watchable) movie.

1) Is the Jennifer Connoly in Labyrinth the same woman who's playing the love interest in the Hulk movie.
2) Is the Gates McFadden who is to blame for the choreography on Labyrinth the same woman who plays Doctor Crusher.
02-14-2002, 12:26 AM
Sho-sa Kurita

Quote:

Originally posted by silverthorn
1) Is the Jennifer Connoly in Labyrinth the same woman who's playing the love interest in the Hulk movie.
2) Is the Gates McFadden who is to blame for the choreography on Labyrinth the same woman who plays Doctor Crusher.

Yes on both counts. That's right, Dr. Crusher was a muppeteer, :) and Jennifer Connelly also plays Russell Crowe's wife in "A Beautiful Mind."

-- Daniel
02-14-2002, 10:19 AM
Ineti

I can't believe no one has mentioned my most favorite musical...

1776.

The original version, not the newer version with Brent Spiner.
02-15-2002, 09:38 AM
Eric R.

While I can only chose from those which I have seen (either on stage or Movie) but he goes and not in order:

Oh What a Lovely War - "One Staff officer jumped right over that other staff officers back."
1776 - "For Gods Sake John Sit Down"
Barnum - "theres a Sucker born every minute"
Rockey Horror Picture Show - "Lets do the time warp again"
King and I "Shall we Dance"
etc... etc... and etc..
02-15-2002, 09:46 AM
AslanC

One more...

"Oh Brother Where Art Thou?"

Great movie, with some good songs :)

Labryinth is a great one too BTW :)
02-17-2002, 03:05 PM
silverthorn

The only problem with Labyrinth is that I can't get that sodding song that David Bowie sings at the end out of my head. That and I find myself whistling the first few bars of the opening title song when I'm not thinking.

Sodding David sodding Bowie.
02-21-2002, 10:19 AM
Phade

Fave Musicals eh?

I'd have to say my faves are:

Aida -just awesome!
Fiddler on the Roof
Phantom of the Opera
Rocky Horror Pucture Show
Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (the one with Dolly!!)

Those that I have seen those are my faves, and going to get to see th following this summer: Some Like it Hot, Wizard of Oz, 42nd Street, Joseph and the Amazing Tecnicolour Dreamcoat, and Les Miserables :) (wonderful things season tickets...)

Quote:

Originally posted by Michael Barratt

Of course, being queer, I don't really have to maintain a "Manly Man" facade ;) :) !

The Doc [/B]

And hear! hear! Doc, I totally agree with that! :D ,not that we aren't manly afterall :p :D

Safe journeys,
Lt. Cmdr Phade
=/\=
02-21-2002, 02:22 PM
Perrryyy

The Pirate Movie (with Christy McNichols)
Sgt Pepper (with the Bee Gees)
RHPS
My Fair Lady
The King and I
South Pacific
Best Little Whorehouse ;)
1776

I agree with Greg Smith. The Xena musical was great (and a riot!)

IIRC, McFadden also played a secretary in the movie. I didn't realize she was responsible for the choreography!
02-24-2002, 03:06 PM
silverthorn

How could I forget the Xena musical. After hearing about Kevin Smith dying, I put the CD of "the Bitter Suite" in the CD player and suddenly realised, after a few years of avoiding playing it just how damn good it is (after you skip track one and most of track two and get to the actual musical). It also has one of my all time favourite lines ever in it (just after Xena scewers Gabrielle).

"Nothing more need be said.
Ding-Dong, the bitch is dead."
02-27-2002, 02:39 PM
Gaunt_Man

Chess (can't go wrong with Björn&Benny AND Andrew Lloyd Webber, but mostly because of the song "Anthem" and these lyrics:

Long before nations' lines were drawn
When no flags flew when no armies stood
My land was born
[...]
Let Man's petty nations tear themselves apart
My land's only borders lie
Around my heart)

Jesus Christ Superstar

The Producers