You favourite musical
 

Mine would be Blues brothers or rocky horror. Whats yours and why?

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hmmm rocky horror is a hard one to beat, i'm a girly girl though....it has to be grease :D

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What kind of musical? Broadway or adapted for TV ...... Oh I'll answer both

Broadway ...... Miss Saigon with a close 2nd being West Side Story.

TV musical ...... Chicago, because Richard Gere is in it :D

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Moulin Rouge is very good.Great songs,surreal settings,great cast & very colourful.

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Chicago. I adore it.

I was lucky enough to go to the first night of this current West End production of it, with Ruthie Henshall, the divine Ute Lemper, and Nigel Planner. I saw it three more times with different casts, each time wonderfully sexy.

I recommended it to my old boss, to take his wife for her birthday, and they hated it. Philistines!

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Theres too many to mention....
Love Chicago. The Producers is hilarious (Peter Kay is in the version thats coming to Manchester, playing Roger DeBris. I can't wait to see that!!) The Lion King, Joseph, Cats, Le Mis.......

I really could go on. Love all musicals.

(Oooh! Me & My Girl, coz i've been in it.)

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Tommy!!! simple as.

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Quadrophenia.

It's not typically a musical.

But I don't care.

Quadrophenia.

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My favourite is 'Fiddler on the Roof' .. love every song, particularly 'Sunrise, Sunset' and the all the libretto that goes with it. Like 'Phantom' too, but not the music, just for the spectical, which is what it is really .. unless you have millions of pounds to spend on staging and effects, forget it !

Ok .. 'Grease' is great too and 'Little Shop of Horrors' .. great fun.

Would go and watch any professional musical now (produced in the U.K. of course, 'cause we do it best) as the talent amongst the performers is absolutely outstanding. X-Factor/Pop Star wannabee's go and watch some of these performers .. you might learn plenty.

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My 6th form put on that show last week!

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I've got a lot of favorites (performed in a lot of them, too!)

Guys and Dolls
The Music Man
Showboat
Kiss Me Kate
The Light in the Piazza
Peter Pan
Man of La Mancha
City of Angels

Also love G&S - my "niece" (actually, my best friend's daughter) just was cast as Elsie in an upcoming production of Yeoman of the Guard in New York City. With a bit of luck, she will make a career in opera.

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Speaking of musicals, anyone have recommendations for which ones I should se in London?

Already saw The Producers, Mary Poppins, Blood Brothers, Les Miz, Avenue Q and Phantom of the Opera.

Thanks much for any advice!

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7 Brides For 7 Brothers
i love gilbert and sullivan too...

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Seen both the move and the stage version. A college acquaintance, David-James Carroll, originated the role of Adam on Broadway. Thanks for the suggestion, grannyclaret!

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sound of music
rocky horror show
grease
oh in fact prob most of them :)

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There is a new Lloyd Weber production of the Sound of Music.

It's star, Connie Fisher, who won the Maria role as part of a television reality programme. Much to everyone's amazement the critics have lavished praise on her and the production.

Tickets are like gold dust, but it might be worth trying for returns.

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Me too.:)

I saw Jane Horrocks and Alan Cummings in a Sam Mendes production of Cabaret. Fantastic.

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Your very welcome Billcat :alright:

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Thanks for all the suggestions.

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I enjoyed the Moggy thing, but I'm a little backward with musicals so it's hard to comment. Maybe I should get out more....:)

Oh, I also remember the Rocky Horror thing, but I gobbled my Bounty before the curtain went up.

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Carousel......I just love the story and the songs are lovely, melodic and full of emotion.....I know it's an old one......and maybe I'm getting soft in my old age...but it always leaves me with a lump in my throat.

I saw Chicago in Melbourne...paid a fortune for tickets as it was in it's last week of showing there......and HATED it.

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my vote for best live show goes to either 'Mama Mia' or the Donny Osmond thing ' Joseph and amazing technicolor dreamcoat' ,

Not sure if this counts as a musical since there is no singing just great dancing was 'Tango Argentina'

the absolute worst live musical ever was a pre Broadway run a couple of years ago of 'Some like it Hot' with a 70 odd year old Tony Curtis, the theatre emptied out at half time, the few of us who went back only returned to see if it could get any worse ....it did .

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Top Hat
Oklahoma
Carousel
South Pacific
Singing in the Rain
Showboat
An American in Paris
My Fair Lady
All that Jazz
Cabaret
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
The Sound of Music
West Side Story
Amadeus
Les Miserables
Cats
Phantom of the Opera

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starlight express

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i liked funny girl too.....

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best movie musical ...Dolly Parton and Burt Reynolds "Best Little Whorehouse in Texas"

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has anyone mentioned......oliver?

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Good Morning Starshine, dont think so flashy but i,ll go with that.:)

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A wee bit of frank sinatra for you all http://www.animatronics.org/strangers/org/strangers.htm






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