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Guest Elizabeth K

As a spin-off of both the topic on inspirational songs and on favorite movies - this idea came up. I am not sure it has universal interest here as many younger people will say, "wha???"

Here goes;

Favorite Braodway or Movie Musical - and what songs?

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Guest Christy.dancer
As a spin-off of both the topic on inspirational songs and on favorite movies - this idea came up. I am not sure it has universal interest here as many younger people will say, "wha???"

Here goes;

Favorite Braodway or Movie Musical - and what songs?

Well, this'll sound odd, coming from the pacific northwest, but Mom is addicted to NYC, so we go a couple of times a year and always get to take in a play or two. I've seen a bunch of the big broadway musicals, and saw Young Frankenstein when it debut'd here in Seattle a couple of years ago on its trial run before Broadway.

My current absolute favorite is Avenue Q, which is wonderful. I thought I was going to die during "Everyone's a Little Bit Racist."

I saw Spring Awakening. I still have bad dreams about that. I hear it's cancelled now (that whole wave of recession-based Broadway meltdown). It's a pretty strong play, and I can't imagine it being staged by a high school or small-town theater. I was surprised Mom took me to it (I was 15 at the time).

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Well you finally got around to this, I was about to think that you'd forgotten and start it up my own self!

I have several, but I willstart out with the very first musical that really caught my attention.

The Music Man - you are all shocked, I know! Who would have thoguht? Everybody!

I even met Robert Preston (Professor Harold Hill) once - one of the greatest speaking voices anywhere.

The songs are "Seventy Six Trombones", "Trouble", "Till There Was You" (my jazz band plays a really cool arrangement of that one), "Good Night MY Someone" and "Madam Librarian" There were others, but these are my favorites.

My favorite song from the movie has shifted as I have grown from "Trouble" to my current favorite, "Good NIght My Someone", it is a beautiful love song to the love that you have yet to meet - enough explaination?

This was a milestone in Musical Theater the first musical ever written to an original story that was written by the composer - Meredith Wilson wrote it all.

Find the Movie with Robert Preston and Shirley Jones and pay close attention to the little songs by the quaret and all of the women's songs.

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Definitely West Side Store.#1

But I keep thinking Oliver!

because of the song Consider yourself At Home. Every time I post in the Intro Forum that song goes through my mind.

Also Sound Of Music...because when I went Deer Hunting,i always sang Doe a Deer a female Deer.

Real macho deer hunting and Rogers and Hammerstein...how Androgynous can you get :D

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I've only every seen one musical, but I love it. Jesus Christ Superstar, and i saw it sometimes in 2008, with the original Jesus. My favorite songs are Trail before Pilate, Heaven on Their Minds, Temple, and Damned for All Time (don't know if the censors will change that last one).

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I've only every seen one musical, but I love it. Jesus Christ Superstar, and i saw it sometimes in 2008, with the original Jesus. My favorite songs are Trail before Pilate, Heaven on Their Minds, Temple, and Damned for All Time (don't know if the censors will change that last one).

That must have been something to see!

Why didn't I hear more about that?

I know what you meant, the first actor that played the role, but my way would have guaranteed Standing Room Only!

South Pacific, Rogers and Hammerstein setting of Mitchner's book with my favorite songs, Bali Ha'i, Happy Talk, I'm In Love With A Wonderful Guy and Some Enchanted Evening - my gosh I am An incurable romantic!

Also the song You Must Be Carefully Taught To Hate!

Love ya,

Sally

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Guest Jackson

Sally, I can't believe you like The Music Man.

Actually I was in it when I was in junior high which explains why I don't like it. However, I was in Anything Goes in high school and that was great. It was a lot of fun.

My favorite, absolute favorite movie musical of all time was the last one of the 20th century.....(drum roll please).... South Park: The Movie!

Oh yeah. "Kyle's mom is a big fat b**ch" and "Blame Canada". Do y'all know that at the Tony Awards Robin Williams actually sang "Blame Canada"?

Sorry. Please forgive me. Actually I really like a lot of the songs in Anything Goes, but I can't remember a lot of the songs anymore.

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Sally, I can't believe you like The Music Man.

Actually I was in it when I was in junior high which explains why I don't like it. However, I was in Anything Goes in high school and that was great. It was a lot of fun.

My favorite, absolute favorite movie musical of all time was the last one of the 20th century.....(drum roll please).... South Park: The Movie!

Oh yeah. "Kyle's mom is a big fat b**ch" and "Blame Canada". Do y'all know that at the Tony Awards Robin Williams actually sang "Blame Canada"?

Sorry. Please forgive me. Actually I really like a lot of the songs in Anything Goes, but I can't remember a lot of the songs anymore.

OK Jackson, I am going to have to take Offense to the songs from South Park - as you know I consider myself to be Zabrak's Momma Sally and first he is Canadian and second his name is actually Kyle, so what did you just call me?

I played trumpet for a Junior College production of the Music Man but the orchestra didn't have to go to rehearsals until the last week.

I'll take this time to list musicals that I have played for in the pit and one on stage:

The Music Man

West Side Story

Mame

A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum (I was teaching at the Junior College that was doing the production and when the student who was playing the first trumpet book got sick, I was called in to sight read the performance - no pressure all musicals are written in very odd keys and strange notation with every group cutting different sections - they look like NYC street maps.)

Merrily We Roll Along

The Three Penny Opera (A musical that is so depressing that after the first performance Kurt Wiell and Bertold Brecht were required to add a new ending number - Happy Endings where all of the 'dead' cast members, icluding our hero, Mack the Knife - that's where it's from -who had just been hug get up and sing the happy ending?)

Chicago (This is one where the band was on stage and notes in the music rather than saying play behind soft chorus said Ala Louis Armstrong - I loved that one!)

OK, but be careful from now on Jackson,

Momma Sally is not a b***h - can't really refute the big fat for the moment,

Sally

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That must have been something to see!

Why didn't I hear more about that?

I know what you meant, the first actor that played the role, but my way would have guaranteed Standing Room Only!

Haha, I realized that error after i posted. yeah, I meant the original singer, which was AWEOSME, but the original Jesus ...holy moly (no pun intended)! :lol:

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Guest Jackson

But Sally, I wasn't talking about you. I was talking about Kyle Broflofski's mom. Her first name escapes me for the moment.

Okay, I'll be a good boy.

Actually, when I was at the high school that I graduated at, I didn't get a speaking part in the musical we did. I was so mad at the drama director 'cause I tried to do everything for that woman. I bailed out and was in orchestra for that. For some reason I cannot remember what musical that was. But the music had a lot of jazz in it. Maybe someday I'll remember.

Anyway, Sally, you know I love you and you're my heroine when it comes to playing trumpet. (We don't even have an angel emoticon. How cruel is that?)

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Guest Elizabeth K

My turn I guess - these are in rough order - favorite on top

(1) Oklahoma!

(2) Fiddler on the Roof

(3) Grease - Grease 2 (classics!)

(4) Fantasia (does this count? My favorite animation of all time)

(5) Westside Story (ahhh.... all great songs - Maria - I Feel Pretty)

(6) Cats (Memory - worth listing just for that!)

(7) Paint Your Wagon (They call the Wind Mariah - I was Born Under a Wandering Star - No Name City - to name a few)

(8) Beauty and the Beast (Title song)

(9) My Fair Lady (about seven classics in that)

(10) Moulon Rouge (About all of it - mainly like Evita they sing their lines - has a great main song)

(11) Little Shop of Horrors (Movie - not the play -The Jersey accent is a killer - Feed me Seymore!)

(12) Jesus Christ - Superstar! (I Don't Know How to Love Him - and the titlesong stay in your mind forever)

(13) Wiz (spectacular adaptation)

(14) Barber of Fleet Street (New one - simply super dark)

(15) Man of LaMancha (To dream the Impossible Dream - Dulcinea)

(16) Rocky Horror Picture Show (obviously - Doing the Timewarp - outstanding!)

(17) An American in Paris (fantastic 60's jazz and dancing)

(18) Camelot (regal - no pun intended - If Ever I Would Leave You - Camelot!)

(19) Evita ( I know - tedious - but a killer main song "Don't Cry for me Argentina..")

(20) Footloose (all of it)

(21) Mary Poppins - Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - all of Julie Andrews work with D*ck van D*ke - ahhhh - a sap for the sentimental I suppose

(22) Phantom of the Opera - wow

oops - Sound of Music - near the top somewhere

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Just another bit of triva from the most trivial person here! (That didn't come out right!)

Anybody know who wrote Chitty Chitty Bang Bang?

He was more famous for his other books and he was a cousin of British actor Christopher Lee, Who played a vilian in one of the movies.

Give up?

It was Ian Flemming - author of all of those great spy novels, British Intelligence, liscenced to kill, what was his name?

Oh, I remember it was Bond, James Bond!

Back on topic, doesn't anybody else like Les Miserables?

Love ya,

Sally

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Guest Elizabeth K
Just another bit of triva from the most trivial person here! (That didn't come out right!)

Anybody know who wrote Chitty Chitty Bang Bang?

He was more famous for his other books and he was a cousin of British actor Christopher Lee, Who played a vilian in one of the movies.

Give up?

It was Ian Flemming - author of all of those great spy novels, British Intelligence, liscenced to kill, what was his name?

Oh, I remember it was Bond, James Bond!

Back on topic, doesn't anybody else like Les Miserables?

Love ya,

Sally

A miseable show! No seriously , many remember the theme and the prologue but for the life of me I can't remember an individual song that echos through my head after the show (or movie actually). Perhaps that is the problem.

Liz

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A miseable show! No seriously , many remember the theme and the prologue but for the life of me I can't remember an individual song that echos through my head after the show (or movie actually). Perhaps that is the problem.

Liz

The only one I remember is the one the little girl sings, I think it is called, Castles in the Air or something like that - the big number at the baracade never really seemd to get going, but I saw it with one of the best leads that I have ever seen and at the time he was the understudy!

Probably why I liked it!

I never saw Jeckel and Hyde, but two years before its production I met Linda Edder , the wife of the composer and the first to sing the female lead on Broadway and she sang "When Someone Like You" to the group of us there that night, not more than 80 people having a B-B-Q dinner at a convention in Dallas!

Sally

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Guest Cody_T

I just got back from seeing RENT, with Anthony Rapp and Adam Pascal (originals) at the pantages theatre in LA...

wow. It was amazing.

So I'd have to say that's my favorite musical as of right now. I really need to see the movie.

I'm also in love with Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, but I haven't seen it live. (closest I got was the NPH broadway version... although I love NPH) I have the movie soundtrack memorized, and of course, it's Johnny Depp. Still, I really want to see it performed on stage.

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Guest mia 1

Guys and Dolls..loosly based on the Damon Runyon short stories about life on Broadway, music by Jerry Loesser and the script by Abe Burrows and directed by the inimitable George Kaufman. who also directed and help write the films by the FOUR MARX BROTHERS songs such as I've Never Been In Love Before...my favorite There Ain't Nothing Like A Dame...oh I could go on and on,,,my recommendation pick up a copy of Damon Runyon's short stories at the library or at your local book store...sit back and be prepared to laugh and cry.....Mia

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Mia,

Sorry, but the queen of trivia is here and Nothing like a dame is from South Pacific, but Guys and Dolls is great!

Good old reliable Nathan,

The Eyes of a Woman in Love, Luck be a Lady! (both sung by Marlin Brando in the movie)

I've got the horse right here.

Sit Down you're rocking the boat!

Takin a chance on love

Here's Brando doing Luck be a lady

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVlQXvrWC_A

Here is Frank Sinatra (years later) singing his version, our band does this - guess who gets the screaming trumpet line half way through.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APUG9moaEiM...feature=related

Good choice, Mia

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Guest Irielle

If I were to pick one it would probably be The Rocky Horror Show and the song would be Fanfare/Don't Dream It, Be It. The ultimate TG musical/movie.

And now I"m going to cheat here. I'm not into musicals nearly as much as I am into opera. Can I inject opera in here?

My favorite opera probably ever is Goetterdaemmerung by Wagner and my favorite part is Siegfried's Tot. Siegfried is betrayed and stabbed in the back. This is after three previous operas in the Ring Cycle and about 14 hours of opera over four days. Someone, I can't remember who, said, "In opera, when someone is stabbed, instead of dying they sing". Well, Siegfried sings and then his funeral music comes and it is some of the best ever written. Heroic, regal, and it represents the death and destruction of the old world and harkens towards a world reborn.

And at the end of this opera - yes! - the fat lady sings!!! :lol:

Then it's over.

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If I were to pick one it would probably be The Rocky Horror Show and the song would be Fanfare/Don't Dream It, Be It. The ultimate TG musical/movie.

And now I"m going to cheat here. I'm not into musicals nearly as much as I am into opera. Can I inject opera in here?

My favorite opera probably ever is Goetterdaemmerung by Wagner and my favorite part is Siegfried's Tot. Siegfried is betrayed and stabbed in the back. This is after three previous operas in the Ring Cycle and about 14 hours of opera over four days. Someone, I can't remember who, said, "In opera, when someone is stabbed, instead of dying they sing".

I believe that was Victer Borge, the Great Dane!

Well, Siegfried sings and then his funeral music comes and it is some of the best ever written. Heroic, regal, and it represents the death and destruction of the old world and harkens towards a world reborn.

My favorite music is in this one your choice is great and leads into his funeral music - awsome!

And at the end of this opera - yes! - the fat lady sings!!! :lol:

How can anyone fail to appreciate an opera (or series of operas) with a scene entitled 'the immolation of Brunhilda'!

Then it's over.

Oh yes,

Sally has played a number of Operas too.

How does Mimi, a woman dying of consumption (Tuberculosis) in La Boheme manage the breathe support for that aria? No wonder she died right then!

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Guest Laura1977

West Side Story

The Labyrinth (David Bowie is soooo hot)

Phantom of the Opera

Rocky Horror Picture Show

The Sound of Music

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Mia,

Sorry, but the queen of trivia is here and Nothing like a dame is from South Pacific, but Guys and Dolls is great!

Good old reliable Nathan,

The Eyes of a Woman in Love, Luck be a Lady! (both sung by Marlin Brando in the movie)

I've got the horse right here.

Sit Down you're rocking the boat!

Takin a chance on love

I can't tell you how many times I've heard clips of Luck be a Lady and Sit Down you're rocking the boat in the last two weeks. The local theatre guild or someone is putting this on in the local area. I hear the advert on the radio a million times a day.

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