Favourite Musical
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South Pacific is great and dealt with some really controversial issues at the time such as inter-racial sex and bigotry. The movie is a little spoiled by the director's experimentation with coloured filters - but there's some really great songs in there.
The movie of Oklahoma was actually mostly filmed in Arizona.
The movie of Oklahoma was actually mostly filmed in Arizona.
I think the most impressive musical I've seen live has to be Cats in terms of singing (1st time I saw it I was lucky enough to hear Marti Webb*sing Grizabella - she's the real deal on the actor-singer front!) and the dancing and the set itself are just astonishing!
*sorry couldn't find her singing anything from Cats so ignore Cliff
on this duet from Phantom - she knocks spots off Elaine Paige and Sarah Brightman every time!
*sorry couldn't find her singing anything from Cats so ignore Cliff
on this duet from Phantom - she knocks spots off Elaine Paige and Sarah Brightman every time! 
I hate musicals (sorry everyone...). I mean, I don't see the point of, you know, the story going on, people talking about something, and than suddenly, someone starts singing about how bad he feels about something, or how happy he is... and everybody acts as if this was normal. I mean, you could suspect a bit of schizofrenie there, someone walking down the street and singing things like "I wanna wake up in a city that doesn't sleep..."
The best musical has to Paint your wagon. A western musical with Clint Eastwood
You can hear him sing here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzVM6Q4Y ... =1&index=2
You can hear him sing here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzVM6Q4Y ... =1&index=2
I was bored one evening and on a whim went to the local theatre to see 'The Pirates of Penzance' staged by a local amateur operatic society. I was pleasantly surprised as I had never watched Gilbert & Sullivan before, or realized just how risqué and anti-establishment they were (for their time). I thoroughly enjoyed myself. :twisted:
I saw Pirates in the West End with OLIVER TOBIAS as the Pirate King
The man can sing and smoulder at the same time as well as buckling his swash - in time to the music! Phwoooar! :twisted:
I definitely, definitely would - even if I had to choose between him and Johnny Depp (just a pretend pirate by comparison)
The rest of it was dire (Pamela Stephenson was in it and whoever told her she could sing deserves shooting... )
I definitely, definitely would - even if I had to choose between him and Johnny Depp (just a pretend pirate by comparison)
The rest of it was dire (Pamela Stephenson was in it and whoever told her she could sing deserves shooting...
)
Jan Van Quirm said:
I think the most impressive musical I've seen live has to be Cats in terms of singing (1st time I saw it I was lucky enough to hear Marti Webb*sing Grizabella - she's the real deal on the actor-singer front!) and the dancing and the set itself are just astonishing!
*sorry couldn't find her singing anything from Cats so ignore Cliff on this duet from Phantom - she knocks spots off Elaine Paige and Sarah Brightman every time!
*sorry couldn't find her singing anything from Cats so ignore Cliff
on this duet from Phantom - she knocks spots off Elaine Paige and Sarah Brightman every time!
Tonyblack said:
South Pacific is great and dealt with some really controversial issues at the time such as inter-racial sex and bigotry. The movie is a little spoiled by the director's experimentation with coloured filters - but there's some really great songs in there.
The movie of Oklahoma was actually mostly filmed in Arizona.
The movie of Oklahoma was actually mostly filmed in Arizona.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cGS4fkv ... re=related
Thing with Cats is that it really doesn't matter too much who's in it really as they're all so well made up and in some ways the singing's less important than the dancing (I love the observation of the choreography and some of the dancers stay 'in character' even when they're just sitting around ). It would have been really great if Wayne Sleep could have been in it when it was touring at the Theatre Royal in Plymouth wouldn't it? But then I think that his brother was the longest serving dancer in the New London show (Mister Mistofolees) and he may have done the touring version too - not sure of that though
). It would have been really great if Wayne Sleep could have been in it when it was touring at the Theatre Royal in Plymouth wouldn't it? But then I think that his brother was the longest serving dancer in the New London show (Mister Mistofolees) and he may have done the touring version too - not sure of that though
Jan Van Quirm said:
Thing with Cats is that it really doesn't matter too much who's in it really as they're all so well made up and in some ways the singing's less important than the dancing (I love the observation of the choreography and some of the dancers stay 'in character' even when they're just sitting around ). It would have been really great if Wayne Sleep could have been in it when it was touring at the Theatre Royal in Plymouth wouldn't it? But then I think that his brother was the longest serving dancer in the New London show (Mister Mistofolees) and he may have done the touring version too - not sure of that though
). It would have been really great if Wayne Sleep could have been in it when it was touring at the Theatre Royal in Plymouth wouldn't it? But then I think that his brother was the longest serving dancer in the New London show (Mister Mistofolees) and he may have done the touring version too - not sure of that though
Brian Blessed was in it for a time too, but I don't think he was in the Plymouth showings, though I could be wrong.
We did see Brian Conley's car, he has a very distinct personal number plate,
but he wasn't in it.