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Oh, I meant to add that I know what you mean about Disney's "Family Band." Seems like there's something missing, though it still seems like a great film. I haven't seen it since I was a kid though, so I can't make a fair judgement.

And, while I LOVE Moulin Rouge, I can't say Rent appeals to me that much, though I haven't seen it.

Ok, so as far as movie musicals I absolutely love moulin rouge and chicago. Rent is my favorite overall, but the movie can't even hold a candle (ah, that is such a horrible non-intended pun) to the stage version. So I don't get all defensive when people say the movie is bad. I think the movie is good, but it could've been trememdously better. So my advice would be if anyone has an opportunity to see a live production, go for it! the stage experience really brings another dimension to it that is just not able to be captured on film.

As for stage musicals I have seen:
(national tours, because unfortunatley live in seattle, haven't made it to NY yet.)

-Les Miserables (twice)
-Phantom of the Opera
-Annie
-Movin' out
-Rent
-Little shop of Horrors
-Peter Pan
-Lion King
-Miss Saigon
-Sweeney Todd
-Grease
-Princesses (broadway bound)
-The Wedding Singer
-Chicago
-Dirty Rotten Scondrels
-Wicked

Coming up this month:

-Company
-Sweet Charity w/ Molly Ringwald (sooo excited!!)


Company and Sweeney aren't tours though, the 5th ave. in Seattle has slowly been producing one Sondheim show per season. Company looks promising, plus it has Broadway's Hugh Panaro.

Wonderlicious wrote:

Escapay wrote:I remember a former UD'er who said there was a difference between theatre fans. First, there was the "legitimate" fans who enjoyed theatre before "Beauty and the Beast" and "Wicked" emerged, then the "Beauty and the Beast" and/or "Wicked" fans who *consider* themselves all-around theatre fans just because one musical opened their eyes to the rest of the theatre world.

Was that somebody who shared his forum name with that of an animated prince with a redhead girlfriend, by any chance?

You know me too well, Joe!

Wonderlicious wrote:

Escapay wrote:From MGM:
<snip>
-My Fair Lady - Audrey just *shines* as Eliza and this was one of the first DVDs I ever got as a gift.

Erm, dude, but that happens to be a Warner Brothers picture, not an MGM one.

Eh, so I assigned it to the wrong studio. Was just glancing at the WB section of my DVDs and remembered that a lot of musicals in there were MGM pics distributed by WB, and forgot about MFL.

Escapay

I'm going to see a local production of "tick tick boom" tonight, I love the music from this show so I'm looking forward to it.

On the whole, I prefer stage musicals to movie musicals, but there are some great ones in each medium.

My favorite movie musicals:

Mary Poppins
Chicago
The Sound of Music

My favorite stage musicals:

Phantom of the Opera
Aida
Guys and Dolls

I don't have extensive experience with musicals, but I can appreciate when a production is done well.

I love musicals as well. Some of the ones I have seen are:

On broadway (in New York City)
Rent
The Producers

Off Broadway (elsewhere...)
The Lion King
Beauty and the Beast
Fiddler On The Roof

Movies I have seen and loved
Annie
Chicago
Moulin Rouge
The Phantom of the Opera

I absolutely LOVE Rent and have since the first day I saw it. I saw it in NYC on my 19th birthday (what an awesome birthday). The soundtrack is in my car at all times, and I listen to it frequently and sing it in my head all the time. The music is just so great and catchy, I love it. I also love the Chicago movie and soundtrack. All That Jazz performed by Catherine Zeta-Jones is absolutely amazing!! As for the Disney movies, my love for these goes without saying.

Also, if we have any actors here (like myself) what musicals have you been in?

I was in:

Annie--Mrs. Pugh
Pippin--Couch Potato
Footloose--Council President
Annie Warbucks--Chorus
The King and I--Royal Wife (and I got to scream for Tuptim when she died!)

i was also in a play called "celebrate life" and i was random parts in that. we were moreso assigned lines than parts.

Shows:
Avenue Q
Chicago
Chorus Line, A
Dreamgirls
Jersey Boys
Light in the Piazza, The
Rent
Wicked

Films:
Chicago (2002)
Grease (1978)
Moulin Rouge! (2001)
The Phantom of the Opera (2004)
Rent (2005)

*tlm

I have been in:

Guys & Dolls - Nathan Detriot
Alice in Wonderland - The Cheshire Cat
The Trail of the Big, Bad Wolf - Hogney Dangerfield (the 3 pigs lawyer)

And I expect to be possibly doing Little Women soon, although that's not set in stone.

And this spring, I'm going to see Wicked on Broadway!

Bumping this up so it can be merged with the new thread.

Escapay

I don't want to be a Microbiologist anymore, I just want to sing... and dance!!!

And here's another I forgot: "Xanadu!" Anyone seen that trippy flick? It's very dated and weird, ha, but I like their take on being an artist. It really hit home for me. Plus, at times I really find Olivia Newton John attractive, and most of this movie is a very good example. Also, this movie has Gene Kelly! Woohoo!

--- slave2moonlight


I have Xanadu on DVD and I remember reading, while the movie bombed, the soundtrack album went Gold.
I loved the music from the Electric Light Orchestra in that movie.

Wow - I'm having Deja-Deja Vu (a triple helping of it).


Anyway... I seem to remember saying somewhere that I'm not a big musicals fan. I like anything alternative. Satirical, dark, edgy. So, my favorite 3 are pretty obviously - The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Little Shop of Horrors, and Cannibal: The Musical (made by the South Park creators, Trey & Matt).

But technically, I also really like The Wizard of Oz, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, and Yellow Submarine (what I've seen of it - I own it on VHS, I really should watch it again). And there are a few musical moments in Grease that aren't completely terrible.

Oh yeah - and of course, Disney animated musicals. And a couple of their non-animated.

But I've seen so many that I just plain can't stand. Well, I watch to make fun of them. But they literally are so insane, logically, that they're too damn weird. Especially - West Side Story and Oklahoma. Tough city street kids and down-home country farm boys really strike me as the musical theater types! The main characters in a musical will just walk down the street talking, the music starts to change keys/notes or something, and then...

Everyone ignoring them suddenly pay attention to them, they stop doing what they're doing, SMILE vacantly, snap their fingers, bob up and down like baffoons, sing along or in the background, dance along like weirdos... Then when someone stops singing, all is back to "normal."

That is weird. It's like science fiction - only... it's not scientific. It's music fiction / musical fiction. And it sort of strikes me as insipid, contrived, brainless entertainment where we're supposed to follow a story and watch people dance professionally at the same time. And for me, that only sort of works if it's animated or the story itself is a fairy tale. I don't have a very well-honed sense of suspension of disbelief when I'm watching live-action musicals following a fundamentally realistic storyline.

I LOVE MUSICALS! I can't sing or dance so I will never be able to act in one, but I love watching them, and wouldn't mind directing one eventually.

Musicals I've seen (not including films)

Beauty and the Beast (Broadway)
Mary Poppins- twice (London)
The Woman in White- twice (London)
The Producers (London)
Blood Brothers (London)
Evita (Atlanta-Theatre of the Stars)
My Fair Lady (Atlanta-TotS)
Guys and Dolls (London)
Billy Elliott (London)
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (London)

Tom Cloudkicker wrote:And here's another I forgot: "Xanadu!" Anyone seen that trippy flick? It's very dated and weird, ha, but I like their take on being an artist. It really hit home for me. Plus, at times I really find Olivia Newton John attractive, and most of this movie is a very good example. Also, this movie has Gene Kelly! Woohoo!

--- slave2moonlight


I have Xanadu on DVD and I remember reading, while the movie bombed, the soundtrack album went Gold.
I loved the music from the Electric Light Orchestra in that movie.

Its an odd film, but at the same time, not as strange as I would've hoped after finally watching it. I've been really addicted to the soundtrack recently though.

I love musicals (primarily movie musicals for me as well; I haven't seen many live productions). I love movies and I love music... why not combine them? I will try to make a Top 10 list, but it will be done off the top of my head and is not definitive (I'm also not going to rank them and am leaving out animated movies just to make it easier):

The Wizard of Oz
The Sound of Music
Newsies
Pete's Dragon
Mary Poppins (film & stage)
Bedknobs & Broomsticks
The Producers
Little Shop of Horrors
Wicked
Sister Act
Sister Act 2
Sweeney Todd
My Fair Lady
Grease
Seven Brides For Seven Brothers
Into the Woods
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Annie
On the Record
Avenue Q
Chicago
The Color Purple
High School Musical
Hocus Pocus
Peter Pan

...okay, so much for the Top 10 thing. Obviously, some of those are based on the soundtrack alone and I'm sure there are more I'm leaving out.

Musicals I've seen live (local productions):
Sweeney Todd (two different productions)
Into the Woods
...I think that's all, besides the WDW/DL shows.

I was involved with some productions in elementary, middle, and high school. If I could sing at all, I would enjoy doing it more.

Next semester I'm hoping to see "Evita", "Godspell", "High School Musical", "Jesus Christ Superstar", and "Grease".

Musicals I do not like (though some of the songs are good):

Rent
West Side Story

Wonderlicious wrote:(I'm sorry West Side Story lovers, but I just don't like it, and don't even think about shoving your opinion of it down my throat )

A-men!

-Aaron

I saw musicals of:
-Mamma Mia (Sacramento)
-Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (London)
-The Lion King (San Francisco)

I also saw movie versions of (on TV or DVD):
-Chicago
-The Wizard of Oz
-The Sound of Music
-Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

I haven't seen any musicals, but my cousin melissa, her friend jessica and I (and sometimes my friend Jessica) love learning songs and dances and than performing them for anyone who will watch, we usually perform three or four times a year especially at Christmas, Halloween and usually one in the Spring and another in Summer, we start at the beginning of each season and practise until a preset date, we've gotten pretty good with the singing, and our dance moves are coming along fairly good as well. We've mastered the song and dance We're All In This Together from High School Musical. We love doing Disney songs since they're always easy and fast to learn that way we can spend more time on other areas of our "Concerts" like dance routines. However this Christmas we're doing a really special one becasue this will be the first time we've ever performed since our Grampa died way back in Feb. and he was like a Grampa to our friends so we are hoping to make this our best performance ever. If anyone has any ideas at all please feel free to let me know

AwallaceUNC wrote:Sister Act

One of my all-time favorite movies. I forgot that it technically qualifies as a musical.

Lazario wrote:

AwallaceUNC wrote:Sister Act

One of my all-time favorite movies. I forgot that it technically qualifies as a musical.

In fact, it's going to be a Broadway Stage Musical.