whats your favorite musical?

[cronoserge (imported)]

rent is number 1 at the moment, and Jesus Christ superstar is second. tied with second is le miserables, third is phantom.

[tugon (imported)]

I am playing the soundtrack of my first and oldest favorites "A Chorus Line". When I saw it live tears flowed and that was before becoming a eunuch. For modern musicals I love "Wicked" and "In The Heights". Saw "Jesus Christ Superstar" so many years ago Jesus had to be played by a teenager. Seriously it was a first and the early protests were quite fun. Love "Les Miserables" and also the movie. Of course I love anything French. "Phantom" was okay but not a top fave. "Miss Saigon" was like watching the news but still entertaining. "Dreamgirls" was my first musical I saw on Broadway. 9th row center was a great experience for my early twenties and my first time in Manhattan. "La Cage aux Folles" was another great musical. What a great time. Hated "Cats" and still wish I had that time and money back. Enough for now.

[Dave (imported)]

For a long time there were three - "Man of LaMancha," "Hello Dolly" (I saw Carol Channing as Dolly), and the original PIPPIN (that was Ben Vereen).

However, lately it has become the more musically and rhythmically challenging music - Sweeny Todd.

I like the stage production "Phantom of the Opera" and the various productions of "Les Miserables" very much but it's the music I like and not the staging.

In the past month, thanks to the rather fun music and multiple singers, INTO THE WOODS has become a minor obsession. Like FIGARO's septet on acid.

I saw the 1971 production (in concert, no stage, with symphony orchestra) of "Jesus Christ, Superstar" and that performance is still my favorite. No pink Herod on a half shell or glitzy be-sequined dancers.

And very interestingly, I saw an early production of GODSPELL on campus in 1970 because the composer is an alumni of mine. It never achieved the fame of SUPERSTAR, sadly.

I really don't want to see HEDWIG (but I must admit its appearance on the last TONY aWARDS was fun) and I don't want to see RENT (not all that rock music blasting my ears) but they hold some warmth in my (rotten and hard) heart. Even the new ALADDIN, thanks to the excerpt on the TONY awards, is a grand stage production but who cares about the story. I'm more music than play, sometimes, most times.

I will never watch NIXON IN CHINA or EINSTEIN ON THE BEACH or DEATH OF KLINGHOFER - - please, just spare me those ordeals.

[Riverwind (imported)]

I am not sure a have a favorite, I do have several in film form that I love like Singing in the Rain, I loved CATS, 1776, My Fair Lady, Oliver, Paint your Wagon just to watch the leads who could not sing, The Music Man, Cabaret, Hair, just to name a few, Just about anything from Andrew Lloyd Webber and S. Sondheim, I like the old musicals from the 40's and 50's and 60's more come to mind, to long to list.

River

[tugon (imported)]

I am not sure a have a favorite, I do have several in film form that I love like Singing in the Rain, I loved CATS, 1776, My Fair Lady, Oliver, Paint your Wagon just to watch the leads who could not sing, The Music Man, Cabaret, Hair, just to name a few, Just about anything from Andrew Lloyd Webber and S. Sondheim, I like the old musicals from the 40's and 50's and 60's more come to mind, to long to list.

River

I love many of the ones you mention but alas have only seen them in movie form. Love "Paint Your Wagon". "My Fair Lady" is watched every time it is on TV. I love Sondheim.

[cheetaking243 (imported)]

In terms of seeing them on stage, no musical will ever top "Les Miserables" in my book. I get chills every time I've seen it, without fail.

In terms of movie musicals, "The Sound of Music" is my favorite. I've loved Julie Andrews as Maria since I was like 3 years old, was singing along to the soundtrack all through my childhood, and that movie still just never gets old.

[Paolo]

I can't stand musicals.

I can remember being a little kid and seeing "Sound of Music," and saying "I hope the Germans catch her and shoot her."

One of the more memorable whippin's I got.

[Dave (imported)]

I can't stand musicals.

I can remember being a little kid and seeing "Sound of Music," and saying "I hope the Germans catch her and shoot her."

One of the more memorable whippin's I got.

Then I guess the high drama of TOSCA and the glorious story of the "Ring of the Nibelung" is out of the question for you?

[JesusA (imported)]

I can't stand musicals.

I can remember being a little kid and seeing "Sound of Music," and saying "I hope the Germans catch her and shoot her."

I think we need to get Paolo out to San Francisco to attend a showing of The Sound of Music at the Castro Theatre. Three-quarters of the audience comes in costume - at least half of them as a gender other than that they were assigned at birth. The show on the screen is mostly a distraction from the REAL show and sound of music in the audience.

Which character do you think Paolo ought to portray?

[Ernie of Maine (imported)]

I like the movie Thr King And I:)Ernie