Favorite Musicals, Theatre and/or Opera

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Well, this is sort of like the other questions but I'd also like to know what some of your favorite musicals are. They can musicals or opera of any kind and place. Animated or live action etc. As long as they have been filmed and they have a fair amount singing in them. I'm also interested to see what people have seen. I might post mine later.

I think of myself as someone who does not like musicals and yet there are a number of films that I really like that would be considered musicals.

"Hair" by Milos Foreman
"The Forbidden Zone" by Richard Elfman
"The American Astronaut" by Cory McAbee
"All That Jazz" by Bob Fosse
"Sweeny Todd" and "Company" by Stephen Sondheim
"Lenningrad Cowboys Go America" by Aki Kaurismaki (ok, not really a musical, but still...)
"Alien!" By Ridley Scott
"Topsy Turvy" by Mike Leigh (again, not really a musical, but sorta)
"Oh Lucky Man" (also not a musical, but it has musical interludes)

I don't know anything about Opera. My favourite musicals are:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjKI7Q-yb-c[/youtube]

Chicago was pretty good as well...

I've never understood the appeal of Rocky Horror Picture Show. The music is bad, and I have no idea what the subtext is.

Favorite Opera: Aida

Favorite Musical on Broadway: Cats, Lion King, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Rent (not necessarily in that order).

Favorite Musical Movie (my absolute favorite genre of movies): The Sound of Music, Mary Poppins, Chitty-Chitty, Bang-Bang, Rent, Chicago, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Hair, Little Shop of Horrors, Sister Act I, Bedknobs & Broomsticks (I know I'm forgettin' some).

Coen Brothers movies like O' Brother, where Art Thou?, and Inside Llewellyn Davis.

Favorite musical is 'Paint Your Wagon', with 'Fiddler on the Roof' a very close second. As for my favorite opera it takes a lot to beat Bizet's 'The Pearl Fishers'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-rDRa-5h4s

Handel's Rinaldo!!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNp-NtWyMZA[/youtube]

Cats
Mary Poppins
The Sound of Music
Rock of Ages
Annie
The Lion King
Little Shop of Horrors
Rocky Horror Show

How could I forget Little Shop Of Horrors, and Rocky Horror Picture Show?!?!

sweeney todd is, without a doubt, my favorite, but i also like:
little shop of horrors
rocky horror
basically all disney movies (though the villain songs are my favorite)
footloose
pitch perfect
mary poppins
and im sure there are others that i just cant think of right now

Verdi--Rigoletto
Verdi--La traviata
Verdi--Otello
Donizetti--L'Elisir d'Amore (anyone here think that Nemorino may have been an aspie?)
Puccini--La Boheme
Puccini--Madama Butterfly
Puccini--Gianni Schicci
Puccini--Turandot
Poulenc--Dialogues des Carmelites
Kern--Showboat
Gershwin--Porgy and Bess
Rogers and Hammerstein (most of their output)
Bernstein--West Side Story (and it's a b*tch to play, especially when one doesn't play jazz)
Sondheim--A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd, Merrily We Roll Along

And quite a few more that I don't have time to mention.

Turandot, music by Giacomo Puccini.

Take it away, Luciano!
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOfC9LfR3PI[/youtube]

VINCERA!! !!

I loved Les Contes d' Hoffmann and Carmen as a child. I was obsessed with them, practically. I developed a fascination with the 18th century, especially clothes, from Hoffmann. Also Gilbert and Sullivan, especially the Pirates of Penzance. There was a movie of it made in the 70s with some guy--Rex something--who was supposed to be some kind of heartthrob, and Linda Ronstadt.