Favourite Musical
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I can't help it - he's really gorgeous and pouty! 
Sadly I was in the middle of an appeal with the Benefits agency when that was playing in Plymouth so I didn't go. Brian Blessed was in it when it first opened and played Old Deuteronomy and Bustopher Jones - he's another actor with a fantastic voice, but sadly I've only heard recordings which isn't quite the same.
Marti Webb singing Memory was the first time I had the hair standing out on the back of my neck with the passion she sang that - truly superb. I cried buckets!
Tiffany said:
Did you see it there as well, Jan? We sometimes see cast members of whatever show is on in Plymouth too, but if I had seen any of the Cats cast, I certainly wouldn't have recognised them.
Marti Webb singing Memory was the first time I had the hair standing out on the back of my neck with the passion she sang that - truly superb. I cried buckets!
I do enjoy musicals, but these are the type of movie musicals. I always wanted to experience a live musical comedy because I think it would be an experience I want. I found myself drawn to all types of musicals in the film industry because of my daughter and when I was a child my mother would watch them.
films such as:
Mary Poppins
Oklahoma
films such as:
Mary Poppins
Oklahoma
Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. Stephen Sondheim's deepest, darkest, most subversive work.
Even Tim Burton's horrible, vacuous, blood-spattered film version couldn't wreck the beauty of the music, although it totally dumbed-down the meaning of the work itself. Look for the 1990s video version with George Hearn and Angela Landsbury if you want to see how it should be staged.
J-I-B
Even Tim Burton's horrible, vacuous, blood-spattered film version couldn't wreck the beauty of the music, although it totally dumbed-down the meaning of the work itself. Look for the 1990s video version with George Hearn and Angela Landsbury if you want to see how it should be staged.
J-I-B
Chicago/Caberet - Kander & Ebb with Bob Fosse choreography is just brilliant, also La Cage Aux Folles, saw that in London & loved it.
That said, I also love the old-style musicals of stage and screen; Fred & Ginger movies, High Society, Kismet, etc., and G&S.
I used to do a bit of am-dram musicals and even got to reprise the same role in The Boyfriend after ten years (that's when i decided it was probably time to quit!) and at the time I listened to/watched a ton of musicals and liked everything from Offenbach to Lloyd-Webber & Cameron Macintosh.
But please, please, never make me go near Carousel or South Pathetic...yeugggghhh!
That said, I also love the old-style musicals of stage and screen; Fred & Ginger movies, High Society, Kismet, etc., and G&S.
I used to do a bit of am-dram musicals and even got to reprise the same role in The Boyfriend after ten years (that's when i decided it was probably time to quit!) and at the time I listened to/watched a ton of musicals and liked everything from Offenbach to Lloyd-Webber & Cameron Macintosh.
But please, please, never make me go near Carousel or South Pathetic...yeugggghhh!
Not to sound like I'm tooting my own horn (which is rusty, broke and has a bird nest in it) but i'm quite fond of my own royalty free musical comedy stageplay called 'The Tavern & The Storyteller' I wrote for my kids high school in 2005 & they produced it in 2007 (http://home.comcast.net/~castle.walls/tavern/index.html).
This was also a fortunate things as an audience member told me that it reminded her of TP. I said thank you (i didn't know who she was talking about) and some time later picked up 'The Color Of Magic'...
I have all T's books now (and the dvds of 'Color' and Hogfather) and wish he would write a new one each week!
-Jim
This was also a fortunate things as an audience member told me that it reminded her of TP. I said thank you (i didn't know who she was talking about) and some time later picked up 'The Color Of Magic'...
I have all T's books now (and the dvds of 'Color' and Hogfather) and wish he would write a new one each week!
-Jim
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Oh, and did I mention Les Misérables
We did this at uni in my third year when I was doing Music. Unfortunately I am a dire actor, but a good singer, so I only got to be in theoff-stage choir - lol!
I do like other musicals too, but at this thread is entitled "Favourite Musical" it has to be Les Misérables - I have seen it 8 times live in London, seen a local youth musical theatre group do the school production - surprisingly well actually, and seen the 10th anniversary concert DVD. My dh bought me the O2 25th anniversary concert DVD but I haven't finished it yet.
I have the normal CD and the complete symphonic version.
I'm a bit of a nut.
Oh, and did I mention Les Misérables
The Mad Collector said:
It has to be Chess, I bought the album when it first came out well before the musical was ever staged and it's coming to Birmingham soon
I do like other musicals too, but at this thread is entitled "Favourite Musical" it has to be Les Misérables - I have seen it 8 times live in London, seen a local youth musical theatre group do the school production - surprisingly well actually, and seen the 10th anniversary concert DVD. My dh bought me the O2 25th anniversary concert DVD but I haven't finished it yet.
I have the normal CD and the complete symphonic version.
I'm a bit of a nut.
