musicals

[Karg]

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

Karg

[Sarge]

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

[REG]

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

Karg

Who's laughing?

[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

[AslanC]

South Park: The Movie

[Robbert Raets]

Nuts.....

[Greg Smith]

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

Has anybody seen Chicago? Is it any good?

[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.

[Sho-sa Kurita]

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

[Ineti]

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

1776.

The original version, not the newer version with Brent Spiner.

[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..

[AslanC]

One more...

"Oh Brother Where Art Thou?"

Great movie, with some good songs

Labryinth is a great one too BTW

[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.

[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...)

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! ,not that we aren't manly afterall

Safe journeys,
Lt. Cmdr Phade
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[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!