<p>Thought it would be fun to talk about our favorite musicals and/or plays. Whether you've seen it or done it or both, please explain why you liked it!</p>
<p>Mine:</p>
<p>SEEN THEM:
Wedding Singer
Spring Awakening
Crazy for You</p>
<p>DONE THEM
Kiss Me, Kate
Cabaret
Children of Eden</p>
<p>My all time favorite is The Little Priince(play)...amazing...I did it and sobbed daily!</p>
<p>COMPANY!!!!!!!!!!</p>
<p>I am a bit of a Sondheim Snob...I will admit this... I like, anything Sondheim, nothing Webber.</p>
<p>right now my top three are </p>
<p>the last five years
pippin
assassins</p>
<p>I love the last five years, hope to do it soon
and my love of pippin really depends on the LP</p>
<p>light in the piazza...most beautiful music ever, and clara is a dream role
secret garden...played martha, beautiful music, sob everytime
american plan...amazing amazing play...lili is another dream role, love the crazy girls
gotta say...really love les mis, cliche, but so true</p>
<p>So funny that you say Les Miz. My D just finished Les Miz with a local theatre company here in CA and before she was in the production it was not among my favorite shows, but after watching it many times over the 3 week run I really do like it! I guess it will be my new guilty pleasure musical!</p>
<p>I cried everytime Eponine died (my D) as well as when Fantine, Gavroche and Jean Valjean died!</p>
<p>Sunday in the Park with George
&
A Little Night Music</p>
<p>You guys might get more traffic on this thread if you moved it over to the musical theater section. :)</p>
<p>Company!!!
Wild Party
Sunday in the Park
Into the Woods</p>
<p>Favorites top to bottom</p>
<p>Seen - Broadway Shows:<br>
Phantom of the Opera
Wicked
Lion King
My Fair Lady
Disney High School Musical </p>
<p>In:<br>
Les Miserables, Cosette Also my all time Favorite! Always cried in last seen saying goodby to my father - Jean Valjean
The Music Man, Marian
Sound of Music, Maria
Grease, Sandy
High School Musical, Sharpay
Babette, Beauty and the Beast</p>
<p>Sunday in the Park with Jorge
Hello, Dolly! (dear god I love this)
Thoroughly Modern Millie
Little Shop
The Little Mermaid (<3)
Into the Woods
Urinetown
Les Mis
Wicked!!!
Chicago (I love the movie exponentially more than the live production though)</p>
<p>and those are my favorites… for this week.</p>
<p>I’m shocked no one’s mentioned RENT yet. It got me into musicals and where I am today :)</p>
<p>My favorites are a bit different, since they’re from a techie’s point of view:
Seen:
Wicked (flying scene - stunning. And costumes & set are amazing).
Lion King (Costumes. Need I say more?)
The Last Five Years (cleverly staged imo. And personal favorite)
Mary Poppins (the end scene is great. It’s amazing how they do it in every theatre for the tour!)
Les Miz (Just for the suicide scene, which stunned me the first time I saw it. Not much of a fan of the actual musical though.)
Phantom of the Opera (chandelier anyone?)</p>
<p>Done:
Hands down my favorite play is Bang Bang, You’re Dead. Heart-wrenching, and I teared up every night backstage. Also easy as heck to crew.
Favorite musical was Beauty & the Beast. Backstage was pure insanity and awesomeness :)</p>
<p>^ I think most of the MT aficionados in my age group pretty well burned out on RENT awhile back. I enjoyed seeing the tour, but never understood all the hoopla that had kids playing the cast recording over and over and over and over and over … The same kids were usually into ‘Wicked,’ too. ‘Spring Awakening’ seems to have taken their place. I really did like the music for that one the first ten gazillion times I heard it.</p>
<p>Let’s see … Just for the music - meaning I own the CDs and would allow them to be played in my car - I like …</p>
<p>Tommy (Original album and film versions. NOT the Broadway cast recording.)
Jesus Christ Superstar (The original London recording)
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Hair
Pippin</p>
<p>Others I’ve seen done in various venues and loved as a whole, but repeated listenings to the cast recordings would get on my nerves …</p>
<p>West Side Story ( How can you be human and not love that one?)
Cabaret
The Producers
A Little Night Music
The Sound of Music
Jane Eyre</p>
<p>I’ll cut you if you play …</p>
<p>Phantom of the Opera
Miss Saigon (Hated the tour)
Wicked</p>
<p>Meh … You’d need to have attended a Superbowl party when someone you know was playing in the game only to have the host turn the sound down on the TV in favor of Seth Rudetsky’s Broadway Channel on Satellite radio and then have 3/4 of the people there crowded around the piano drunkenly belting out showtunes at the climax of the game to understand my feelings about cast recordings … I guess that might be Heaven for some, though … LOL</p>
<p>YAY “A Little Night Music!”</p>
<p>…but what about “Company?”</p>
<p>Another vote for “A Little Night Music”!</p>
<p>ALSO, The Light in the Piazza - - perfection!! I wish it never closed!</p>