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> Musicals..., which do you love........and loathe?
Ed the Tread.
post Feb 25 2009, 01:21 PM
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I dislike all musicals. I can't watch them, I cant listen to them. I feel like the king in Monty Pythons "Search for the holy grail" who's Son keeps bursting into song. Much to his Dads dislike.

However, pay me to play in one and that a different matter. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)
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post Feb 25 2009, 09:00 PM
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QUOTE(Ed the Tread. @ Feb 25 2009, 01:21 PM) *

I dislike all musicals. I can't watch them, I cant listen to them. I feel like the king in Monty Pythons "Search for the holy grail" who's Son keeps bursting into song. Much to his Dads dislike.

However, pay me to play in one and that a different matter. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)

That's ok - each to his own (my family, on the other hand, know that if they start quoting from Monty Python, it's only a matter of time until I explode or, even worse, start singing from musicals (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) )
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post Feb 25 2009, 09:43 PM
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I really don't know where to start - there's so many!! And quite a few that I have the soundtrack to and know quite well but haven't actually seen, including Wicked, Rent and a few others...
My current favourite of the ones I've seen though is Titanic, completely reduced me to tears most of the way through and I thought was just brilliant. It really should be done on the West End!!
Something I've been meaning to look in to is Jason Robert Brown's stuff - a girl at college sang See I'm Smiling from The Last Five Years at a competition (and won it) and it was breathtaking, she was amazing and I really liked the song (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)
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post Feb 25 2009, 10:31 PM
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It's funny, Lucky - I think I was the one who recommended Jekyll and Hyde to you - it's fantastic. At the time, I didn't like Wicked much, but on YOUR recommendation (albeit tacit), checked it out more and ended up flying to London to see it - now it's love! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wub.gif)


I think it was, yes! Wow, that's so cool. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif) Haha, obvious we have similar taste in musical theatre! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

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Something I've been meaning to look in to is Jason Robert Brown's stuff - a girl at college sang See I'm Smiling from The Last Five Years at a competition (and won it) and it was breathtaking, she was amazing and I really liked the song (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)


My flatmate recommended Jason Robert Brown to me - I could only find Songs For a New World - but it's amazing! I love him! I especially love Stars and the Moon, and Christmas Lullaby. I had to not go out for a couple of weeks because I really needed to buy the sheet music straight away. (That was the thinking anyway... but I still went out, and just went over budget... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wacko.gif) )
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post Feb 25 2009, 10:52 PM
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post Feb 25 2009, 11:54 PM
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Favourites:
West Side Story
Phantom of the Opera

Loathes:
Grease (am I in a minority of one?)


I don't like Grease. Some of the songs are catchy but the plot makes me want to bash my head against a brick wall.
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post Feb 26 2009, 09:38 AM
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Loathes:
Grease (am I in a minority of one?)


No!

Grease is most certainly NOT the word...
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post Feb 26 2009, 12:58 PM
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I don't like Grease. Some of the songs are catchy but the plot makes me want to bash my head against a brick wall.

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That pretty much sums it up! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)
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post Feb 26 2009, 01:01 PM
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Phantom of the opera, although i would class that as an opera, as i dont think there is anything spoken in it. The music is brilliant, especially the overture.
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post Feb 26 2009, 01:31 PM
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Phantom of the opera, although i would class that as an opera, as i dont think there is anything spoken in it. The music is brilliant, especially the overture.

It's not an opera it's a piece of rubbish (IMG:style_emoticons/default/dry.gif)
(apologies to hc and all other fans)
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post Feb 26 2009, 05:20 PM
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My all time favorite has to be Les Miserables. I absolutely love the music. It is so powerful with all the chorus but is also so beautiful. I find the songs are absolutely perfect. There isn't a note I would add or retrieve to make them sound more beautiful.
It's the only musical I've seem more than once (actually 4 times!!! and going for a 5th time for a friend's b'day in a couple of months!! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) )

Others I enjoyed are Singing in the Rain, Chicago (which I probably would have enjoyed more if the person sitting behind me hadn't been asleep and snoring very loudly (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) ), Phantom of the Opera, Cats.

I haven't seen any I hated.
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post Feb 27 2009, 12:05 AM
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I love musicals. There are so many brilliant ones. It is often the dancing as much as the music that makes them:

Singing in the rain (film version)
Shall we Dance
Top Hat
Gigi
Guys and Dolls
A Star is Born
Meet me in St Louis
Me and My Girl
Chicago
Calamity Jane
Showboat
West Side Story
Cabaret
High Society
Anything Goes
White Christmas
Bitter sweet
The Jazz singer
Brigadoon
Sweet Charity
Kiss Me Kate
Half a Sixpence
The Cotton Club
An American in Paris
Porgy and Bess
A Little Night Music
Lullaby of Broadway


... I could go on all night
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post Feb 27 2009, 12:07 AM
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The only musical I openly dislike is High School Musical. Probably because the drama department tried to make me sing C5's and above all way through a song when I'm practically a tenor nowadays.
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post Feb 27 2009, 10:33 AM
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Singing in the rain (film version)

Is there a stage version now? The film was the original, conceived, according to Adolph Green and Betty Comden, by Arthur Freed, by then a Hollywood producer, who had written the lyrics for a number of songs by Nacio Herb Brown, and wanted to improve his income from their royalties. Considered just as songs, most of the musical numbers are rather mediocre, with very simple and rather static harmonies, but in the film, with beautiful orchestral arrangements, competent acting, outstanding dancing and an excellent plot, they make a satisfactory component of one of the best musical films ever.
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A Little Night Music

I tried to watch the film once, but the acting compared so poorly with the original Bergman film ("Smiles of a Summer Night") that I managed only about 20 minutes. I don't find Sondheim's music attractive; his lyrics are uniformly good, and IMO his best work is in West Side Story.
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High Society

This got such poor revues in comparison with its original, "The Philadelphia Story", that I haven't tried to see it.
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West Side Story

OTOH, this has music and lyrics of a quality to stand up beside its original inspiration.
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post Feb 27 2009, 10:49 AM
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Singing in the rain (film version)

Is there a stage version now?
I saw a stage version at Leeds Playhouse a few years ago. It was brilliant fun (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) For the "rain" song, they did actually have a channel of water at the front of the stage which the actor jumped in and out of, soaking everybody in the front few rows (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif) The kids thought it was brilliant, not sure I would have been pleased but fortunately I was sitting further back!
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