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Tomorrow is the opening night of my school's production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat and I have a supporting role. I am really excited and absolutely love performing it! Does anyone else here love musical theater (either performing or watching)? I'm also a big fan of watching musicals.

My favorite musicals are Sweeney Todd (Tim Burton version), The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Repo! The Genetic Opera.

Sweeney Todd...the stage production with George Hearn as Sweeney and Angela Lansbury as Mrs. Lovett.


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Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog


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I was in LOVE with the musical "Phantom of the Opera" by Andrew Lloyd Weber. I could start singing entire songs (unfortunately off-key and without being able to reach the high notes ).

I liked the stage play better than the movie - but I thought that Emmy Rossum was well cast and I liked the bit where the old, run down opera house suddenly restores to its former glory in the film.

I also liked the musical Rent. I did not necessarily like all the songs - but I really liked "Seasons of Love"

Finally - West Side Story was great. My mum had the original movie soundtrack and I played it over and over again!!

I like musicals. My favorite is "Wicked." "Spamelot" was hilarious. I've seen the 1980s movie version of "Little Shop of Horrors" a few times. "The Wizard of Oz" and "Grease" are long-time favorites. Plus some of the ones already mentioned.

i really would have loved to have been able to see mickey rooney and ann miller in "sugarbabies" when it was on the great white way several decades back.

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Cannibal: The Musical!





Has anyone seen or heard anything from their new musical, Book of Mormon?

Good luck! Musicals were my life in high school. Being a member of the orchestra was my way of getting respect and feeling like a productive member of the student body. I remember Joseph. I played violin for that musical in high school. Ragtime was my other favorite. I was on keys, which was fun because I got to make funky sound effects. I would listen to the soundtrack right after school, and I would repeat it ad nauseum until I would discover it's midnight and I didn't do any homework for tomorrow I used to do that with all my high school pit projects. That obsession made me a good concertmaster because I knew the music, but my grades suffered.

I also saw Wicked as much as my wallet would allow. I could identify with being "green" and I also have a wheelchair-bound sister. The musical is my fantasized biography.

Do movie musicals count? If so, then I would say that my favorite movie musicals are most Disney movies, The Wizard of Oz, The Sound of Music, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, and Mary Poppins.

some other faves-

man of la mancha [broadway version with richard kiley]
the wiz
how to succeed in business without really trying
of thee i sing
girl crazy
bye bye birdie
hair

and my all-time fave, Xanadu!

Wicked is one of my two favourites (I also identify with Elphaba). If anyone is familiar with the various actresses my favourites in it are Kerry Ellis and Stephanie J Block as Elphaba, and Dianne Pilkington as Glinda.

I also love a musical called Chess (two of the songs from it were fairly big hits in the 80s: One Night in Bangkok, and I Know Him So Well) written by Tim Rice, Bjorn Ulvaeus, and Benny Anderson. It's about the Cold War, played out in microcosm through the World Chess Finals. Elaine Paige played the female lead in the original production and I'd do anything to be able to go back in time to see her in it. And it's going to be coming to Toronto this Fall! I hope I'll be able to go see it!

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Played in pit orchestra for these. The music was fun to play.

what instrument?

Trombone.

Haha I also play trombone!

I love musicals. I've seen stage productions of Hairspray, Wicked, and Mamma Mia. As for movies my favorites are the Producers, Little Shop of Horrors, and the Wizard of Oz. Sadly I've only seen part of Sweeny Todd. I love to just listen to the music sometimes. My all time fovorite though has to be Wicked. I wish I could have seen Idina Menzel and Kristen Chenoweth perform together.

Good Luck with yoyr play. My school recently did a musical too. It wasn't a real one though, just something my drama teacher wrote and we song normal songs like telephone by Lady Gaga and One Hand, One Heart from West Side Story along with a few other songs. But it was fun and everyone did a good job.