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Any Musical Theater Lovers Here?
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Any Musical Theater Lovers Here?
Well, I'll make it short. I love musical theater. It's basically one of those things that keeps me going, and I hope to make it a profession one day. I'm just curious if anyone else here likes musicals, and if so, what are some of your favorites? I know I'm a pretty rare breed...

My top ones (right now)
Dear Evan Hansen
Hamilton
Seussical
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My Favorite Year

- Will, the dude with a rocket launcher
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RE: Any Musical Theater Lovers Here?
The classics:

Fiddler on The Roof

Guys and Dolls

Finnian's Rainbow (the film was a disaster)

42nd Street

Camelot

Sweet Charity

Paint Your Wagon

Man of la Mancha

Several others, but the above are my go-tos.

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RE: Any Musical Theater Lovers Here?
Hmm I'm not a musical theater lover but I do greatly appreciate the soundtracks to some musicals. My favorites are Fiddler on the Roof, Guys and Dolls, and Godspell (in that order, I think). I'll also always have a special place in my heart for Hair; that original soundtrack got me through high school.
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RE: Any Musical Theater Lovers Here?
Mostly classics as well, though I'm a fan of of the more recent Wicked, as well.

My Fair Lady
Man of La Mancha
Fiddler on the Roof
Phantom of the Opera
Jesus Christ, Superstar. Yeah, I know, but it's quite irreverent.
Evita
The King and I
Leslie Miserable
Camelot
Tons more I'm sure I'm forgetting, but I own the soundtrack to these, and a few of the movie versions as well. I've seen most in live as well.

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RE: Any Musical Theater Lovers Here?
I liked seeing Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat at the high school in Brattleboro, VT in the mid-90's. Great fun, but it's not an art form I've really sought out. Great Gatsby will be done in ballet form here in San Diego in April '17. a musical form would seem to be a good thing, too.
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RE: Any Musical Theater Lovers Here?
Les Miserables and Oliver!

Both great musicals.
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RE: Any Musical Theater Lovers Here?
I've got quite a few, and here are some sorted by category:

(Not counting: Musical films whose Broadway incarnations I am unfamiliar with, so Beauty and the Beast et al are not here)


Favorite Musicals I've seen live:
  • Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson
  • Book of Mormon
  • Cabaret
  • Chicago
  • Full Monty
  • Gentlemen's Guide to Love and Murder
  • How to Succeed in Music Without Really Trying
  • Little Night Music
  • Little Shop of Horror
  • Spamalot
  • Sunday in the Park With George
  • Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Favorite Musicals I've seen in film but not live:
  • Avenue Q (From an audience recording I once downloaded online)
  • Company
  • Gypsy
  • Hairspray
  • Hedwig and the Angry Inch
  • H.M.S. Pinafore
  • Into the Woods (both the Broadway video and the 2014 film)
  • King and I
  • Les Miserables
  • Mikado
  • Music Man
  • My Fair Lady
  • Oklahoma (Had such an impression on me that I once wrote a story reviewing a booklength "fanfic" that basically devolves into a full-fledged war between Judd and Curly and characters from several other musicals, with one scene where Judd's side fucks a bear)'
  • On the Town
  • Pirates of Penzance
  • Rent
  • Rocky Horror Picture Show
  • 1776
  • Sound of Music
  • West Side Story
Favorite Musicals I only know from the cast recordings:
  • Assassins
  • Fantasticks (Yes, I've seen the film, but it does its source material such injustice I don't even count it)
  • Hamilton
  • Matilda
  • Once
  • Promises, Promises
  • Spring Awakening
  • Visit
For the record, this list does not include musicals I A) know only from films that had to be radically retooled to become theater pieces [and not the other way around], B) I haven't seen or heard in donkeys' years and thus are less fresh in my mind than the others, C) I haven't seen or heard at all, D) Honestly don't like that much in comparison with the others.
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RE: Any Musical Theater Lovers Here?
I don't like the usual Musical theater stuff, but Chicago was nice.
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