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Posted: 7/23/2013 6:57:25 PM EDT

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Let's get page 2 started.

A benefit of growing up in Joisey, I saw some excellent musicals on B'way:

Les Miserables (original cast)
Phantom of the Opera
Wicked (original cast)
A Chorus Line

Posted: 7/23/2013 7:01:50 PM EDT

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A benefit of growing up in Joisey, I saw some excellent musicals on B'way:

Les Miserables (original cast)
Phantom of the Opera
Wicked (original cast)
A Chorus Line

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I think I saw every show that was on broadway between 96 and 2000...... LIRR to the city was EASY

Posted: 7/23/2013 7:02:23 PM EDT

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Lots of great musicals.

Don't forget

Posted: 7/23/2013 7:14:49 PM EDT

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Passing Strange
Spring Awakening
In the Heights
Hair
Book of Mormon

And yes, The Blues Brothers counts as two

Posted: 7/23/2013 7:27:31 PM EDT

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What, no South Pacific?

Posted: 7/23/2013 7:37:04 PM EDT

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If you're worried about musicals turning you gay, just watch Sweeny Todd. You'll get good music and a dozen on-screen murders. If only John Webster had lived to see it.

ETA: Oh, and rape and cannibalism.

Posted: 7/23/2013 7:37:32 PM EDT

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Favorite musical: The Sound of Music/Wicked/Phantom of the Opera
Favorite songs: Les Miserables

Posted: 7/24/2013 3:27:48 AM EDT

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The original Music Man is excellent, The redo was absolutely pathetic. Broderick couldn't sing if he had a bayonet to his back. Preston owned that role.

Shirley Jones was SMOKIN hot when they filmed that.

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The only musical I can stand is "The Music Man". It's funny and the music is actually good. . .

The original Music Man is excellent, The redo was absolutely pathetic. Broderick couldn't sing if he had a bayonet to his back. Preston owned that role.

Shirley Jones was SMOKIN hot when they filmed that.

and several months pregnant.

Posted: 7/24/2013 3:29:41 AM EDT

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Gene Kelly was the man. Er, no homo.

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i was 37 when i saw singing in the rain for the first time. i don't think i could have appreciated it when i was younger. those guys were amazing. not just the singing but all the dancing and moves they had. the shape those .

Gene Kelly was the man. Er, no homo.

you know he was sick as a dog with a fever dangerously high while filming the Singing in the Rain bit..

big fan of Mr Kelly, He really changed, hell nearly created the American Musical we know today and a real mans man kind of guy and very straight...

yes, I'm a closeted Musical Fan..can't work with 1000s of gay waiters and maître d's for 40 years and not learn appreciation of the craft..
music man
man of la mancha
Chicago
singing in the rain

and all the greats that were in them..far too many to list and the old 40's and 50's movies like white Christmas will make me sit down for 2 hours.
Chef

Posted: 7/24/2013 3:42:53 AM EDT

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Most of the ones already mentioned, Phantom, West Side, Grease, Blue Brothers.....but Fiddler on the Roof probably tops my list.

eta: Xanadu

and... The Muppet Movie.

Posted: 7/24/2013 4:15:21 AM EDT

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Most of the ones already mentioned, Phantom, West Side, Grease, Blue Brothers.....but Fiddler on the Roof probably tops my list.

eta: Xanadu

and... The Muppet Movie.

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Man, Fiddler on the Roof scared the hell out of me when I was very young. That nightmare scene in the graveyard. It was gratuitous anyway because Tevye was not even recounting a real dream but just one he made up as an excuse to call off an engagement. Manipulative bastard.

It must have been in the theater, too, larger than life.

I've heard the album many times but I just realized that in all this time I've never watched the movie again or even one clip. Certainly not the nightmare scene. Until just a few minutes ago.

Thanks GD. Perhaps now the healing can begin. Here it is, if you think you can handle it.

Posted: 7/24/2013 4:25:30 AM EDT

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At ~1:15 when Olivia Newton-John does that thing with her lip.....

Posted: 7/24/2013 5:44:24 AM EDT

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Along with
Grease
My Fair Lady.

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Posted: 7/24/2013 5:55:39 AM EDT

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Does the original "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" count?

Posted: 7/24/2013 5:57:46 AM EDT

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Jesus Christ Superstar!

Love it!

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Posted: 7/24/2013 6:08:57 AM EDT

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Actually, OP, what you used as your example of a musical is an operetta...

An older theatric form than the musical....Some folks refer to it as light opera.

Posted: 7/24/2013 6:14:53 AM EDT

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I enjoy musicals.

My Fair Lady is hilarious.

Posted: 7/24/2013 6:20:18 AM EDT

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You're reading it arse bandit

Rock of Ages is fun

Posted: 7/24/2013 6:24:51 AM EDT

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As an amateur actor, I judge a man's sexuality by the musicals he likes/has appeared in.

Some of you really need to leave Narnia and announce your intentions.

Posted: 7/24/2013 6:43:39 AM EDT

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I just can't believe that Hannibal the Cannibal has not been mentioned.

All the Muppet Movies.

No love for Newsies?

Posted: 7/24/2013 7:15:10 AM EDT

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Actually, OP, what you used as your example of a musical is an operetta...

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An older theatric form than the musical....Some folks refer to it as light opera.

So would something like Sweeny Todd count more like an operetta since it's mostly just people standing there and singing with no dancing? I never thought about the distinction until I talked to a guy who was trying to make a career doing shows like that, whereas before I'd always thought of it as everything being either a play (nobody sings unless it's part of the plot) or a musical (everyone breaks into song and dance at the drop of a hat).

ETA: I mean a distinction within relatively modern shows that people think of as Broadway shows. Not opera, Vaudeville, etc.

Posted: 7/24/2013 7:18:29 AM EDT

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Big fan of musicals here. I have at least 20 on DVD including 'Lil Abner, which a lot of people do not know was made into a musical, and a good one too.

My favorite musical actor is of course, Stubby Kaye (on the right in the video). This song is perfect. It shows the way they saw the government even back in the late 50's.

Guys and dolls and West Side Story are my favorites

...........and yes, The Blues Brothers is classified as a musical!

Posted: 7/24/2013 7:20:49 AM EDT

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Yeah, another childhood trauma. All I remember from that is the scene with "See my skin I'm a mass of blood, see my legs I can hardly walk..."

Oh, and the ending was no picnic.

Posted: 7/24/2013 7:23:30 AM EDT

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Big fan of musicals here. I have at least 20 on DVD including 'Lil Abner, which a lot of people do not know was made into a musical, and a good one too.

My favorite musical actor is of course, Stubby Kaye

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwqPBlSxb-0

Guys and dolls and West Side Story are my favorites

...........and yes, The Blues Brothers is classified as a musical!

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You got me thinking and yep, there's a musical of Titus Andronicus. I can feel my toes tapping already.

Posted: 7/24/2013 7:26:57 AM EDT

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Rock of Ages was pretty good.

Posted: 7/24/2013 7:27:49 AM EDT

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"By the way, my name's Herman...and I hate musicals"

Ten points to whoever IDs the reference without Google.

Posted: 7/24/2013 7:27:59 AM EDT

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this is as close to a musical as i can get.

Posted: 7/24/2013 7:29:15 AM EDT

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I almost, almost, went to college to do stage construction and/or lighting design.

Did it in HS and had a lot of fun. What was also amusing was for my junior year we did "Joseph" (I did lighting) and I was the only person who'd actually seen it on stage.

One of my spotlight guys did decide to dance along with one of the numbers and ended up kicking his marked up script off the balcony and into the audience.

Posted: 7/24/2013 7:32:14 AM EDT

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And to actually contribute, my GF introduced me to old-school musicals. As others have mentioned, Gene Kelly movies.

Those guys could dance. The physical condition they had to be in for them to keep goign they way they did, it is rather impressive.

White Christmas is also another good one. Danny Kaye can dance like a mofo. Vera-Ellen had some legs on her

I actually don't mind an old school musical. And if Willy Wonka counts, then count me in.

Posted: 7/24/2013 8:09:48 PM EDT

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Musicals gave way to violence. I'lll list my favorites and some other good ones. Singing in the Rain, An American in Paris, On the Town, Meet Me in St.Louis, Wizard of Oz, Willy Wonka and the Chocalate factory, West Side Story, Gigi, My Fair Lady, Fiddler on the Roof, Grease, Guys and Dolls, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, The Sound of Music, Oklahoma, The King and I, Les Girls, The Producers, Ziefeld Follies, Yankee Doodle Dandy, Easter Parade, The Gay Divorcee and Sweeny Todd.

Posted: 7/24/2013 8:13:45 PM EDT

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Excellent movie.

I'm partial to Singin' in the Rain (Donald O'Connor at his best). Chicago is IMHO the best of the newer musicals.

The Producers (ORIGINAL), Willy Wonka (ORIGINAL) and Rocky Horror were all great too.

Posted: 7/24/2013 8:24:01 PM EDT

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Fred and Ginger...

Oh, Busby...

Oh, and Yankee Doodle Dandy!

Posted: 7/24/2013 8:27:35 PM EDT

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Buffy....

Once More With Feeling...

All songs written by Joss Wheadon.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVEp-mJqJb4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpfV2fst8Hs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLS4LKwcur0

Joss did this after doing a silent film called Hush a couple of seasons prior.

Posted: 7/24/2013 8:45:43 PM EDT

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Excellent movie.

I'm partial to Singin' in the Rain (Donald O'Connor at his best). Chicago is IMHO the best of the newer musicals.

The Producers (ORIGINAL), Willy Wonka (ORIGINAL) and Rocky Horror were all great too.

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Excellent movie.

I'm partial to Singin' in the Rain (Donald O'Connor at his best). Chicago is IMHO the best of the newer musicals.

The Producers (ORIGINAL), Willy Wonka (ORIGINAL) and Rocky Horror were all great too.

The Producers wasn't a musical till Mel Brooks did the play. It was a comedy about a musical!

Then they made a play musical about making a musical, then they made a movie musical about making a musical... Kinda a show-within-a-show trifecta.

Posted: 7/24/2013 8:52:04 PM EDT

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What did y'all think of The Artist? I think it captured the essence of films from the late 30's and 40's mostly, and even though it isn't a musical persay, I feel it is the closest thing since the That's Entertainment II. I really hope we can see a film that can hold it's own to the great musical films of the 30's and 40's, or even the Rogers and Hammerstein epic musicals of the 60's.

Oh, and this is always good for a lighthearted romp.

Posted: 7/24/2013 8:58:30 PM EDT

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Oklahoma (naturally)

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I generally like most musicals but Oklahoma! was Awfulhoma! All the songs except for the title one were crap, and the plot was retarded.

Annie Get Your Gun was also pretty bad.

Those two musicals are examples of subject matter that I should enjoy...being turned into garbage.

Posted: 7/24/2013 8:59:29 PM EDT

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Hope my Man Card is not in jeopardy, but really enjoy Camelot and Man of La Mancha (Sophia Loren had a great rack

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Man of La Mancha ROCKED!

ETA- Not sure if they count or just haven't been mentioned yet- Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and Mary Poppins. Fantastic childhood films that I still enjoy at age 30+.

Posted: 7/24/2013 9:00:53 PM EDT

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The most contemptible form of "entertainment" known to man.

Posted: 7/24/2013 9:01:05 PM EDT

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The gay is strong in this thread

Would you care to explain that stupid comment???

Well, a lot of musicals had Dick Van Dyke in them, didn't they?

Posted: 7/24/2013 10:28:53 PM EDT

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Oh really?

Posted: 7/24/2013 10:59:21 PM EDT

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I'm sorry, but Rock of Ages kicked serious ass.

I really enjoyed that movie and TC really played the part well.

Posted: 7/24/2013 11:21:26 PM EDT

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Posted: 7/24/2013 11:26:52 PM EDT

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I'm sorry, but Rock of Ages kicked serious ass.

I really enjoyed that movie and TC really played the part well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50TEM8OPFcY

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No....

Posted: 7/24/2013 11:26:57 PM EDT

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Posted: 7/25/2013 4:58:53 AM EDT

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My favorite musical is Team America - does it count?

Posted: 7/25/2013 5:33:28 AM EDT

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If I were having a conversation with someone, and they suddenly broke out into song, I'd want to punch them in the throat. That feeling transfers to the "art form" even more powerfully.

If I develop time travel, I'm going to find the playwright that said, "No wait. Instead of speaking the next lines of dialogue, let's have him sing a song about what he's going to do," and beat him to death with a playbill.