Any Musical Theater Lovers Here?

[camlov2019]

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

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

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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[TheRealJoeFish]

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.

[Aroura]

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.

I want to take my daughter to see Cats sometime.

[c172]

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.

[Redoubtable]

Les Miserables and Oliver!

Both great musicals.

[Rev. Rye]

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.

[Alex K]

I don't like the usual Musical theater stuff, but Chicago was nice.