Any Broadway fans out there?

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Postby BishounenStalker » Sat May 24, 2003 1:21 pm

Fave musicals anyone (if any)? Or any that you've seen on stage?

Seen: Riverdance, Les Misérables

Favorites (including the above two): Phantom of the Opera, Rent, Cats, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Carousel, Porgy and Bess, Showboat, Chicago, West Side Story, Pirates of Penzance, Miss Saigon, I Love My Wife and a bunch of others

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Postby Ai no Gackt » Sat May 24, 2003 2:38 pm

I love Phantom, Cats, Le Mis, although the only one of these I've seen is Cats. I have the cds for each of them. I love the music. I like most musicals execept for the Sound of Music-I hate that Movie!!! I love going to the theater although I haven't really been as much as I'd like to(been spending too much money on anime, manga and at cons, oh well)
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Postby yuppa » Sat May 24, 2003 3:36 pm

Does the Rocky horror picture show count? I have seen that once. It was pretty cool.Audience Participation is cool. :)
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Postby Ai no Gackt » Sat May 24, 2003 5:41 pm

I don't know if it counts or not yuppa, but it is pretty awesome.
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Postby SarahtheBoring » Sun May 25, 2003 1:41 am

Sort of. :)

My favorites are Sweeney Todd and Chess, because I'm a masochist, I guess. :shock: (Chess = about six or eight awesome songs - "No Contest" and "Anthem" kick my ass - and a very depressing story that is anachronistic no matter how you stage it, pretty much.)

I've seen...geez, what HAVE I seen. I had season tickets to a local musical theater production house group of people thing for about 3 years, so. Um. lalala. Off the top of my head... Buckets of old ones, like South Pacific, Oklahoma, Crazy for You, Guys and Dolls, 1776, blah blah blah. (Though I did kinda like Damn Yankees. It's ... different.)

Rent, though for the life of me I can't remember one entire song from it. Friend of mine dragged me there when I was in NYC, because it was the only one he was into and one that I wasn't into. Uh...both Phantoms (ALW and Yeston/Kopit); I was way, way into that book when I was in early high school, so. Evita, Chess o'course, Little Shop a couple of times, Hair (it's cute, nowadays), uh...Blood Brothers, didn't like that one much, Falsettoland... Most of the ones I've seen are the older ones, unless I just suppress the memory of the new ones.

Somehow, I have never seen Les Mis or Cats.... :shock:
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Postby (NERD Studios) Arturo » Sun May 25, 2003 3:11 pm

Let's see......... I've seen Cats and Les Miserables here at the Dallas theater and I saw Annie Get Your Gun on Broadway. All of those were definately awesome.

I've got Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat on VHS. It also owns me.

I really wish I could see more stuff, but I'm excessively busy during the summer and during the school year I live to far away from any decent theaters. :cry:
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Postby Sanosuke6988 » Sun May 25, 2003 6:37 pm

I'm afraid all those pale in comparison to the greatest musical of all time. That's right, Urinetown. I havent' seen it, but my cousin has the soundtrack. It's basically about a town with a water drougt, and since you are required by law to use a toilet, they charge you money to use them. Sounds stupid, but if you listen you'll like it.
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Postby dokool » Thu May 29, 2003 5:12 pm

Seen: Cats, the Scarlet Pimpernel, Ragtime, Aida, Kiss Me Kate, Mamma Mia

Been In: The King and I, Can-Can, Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

I liked all the ones I've seen, but there's always a special place for the ones I've acted in.

those Canaan days... we used to know... where have they gone... where diiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii- (all brothers inhale) -iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiid they go...

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Postby BishounenStalker » Thu May 29, 2003 5:21 pm

En bien, raise your berets
Toooooooooo
Those Caaaaaanaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan
Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaays!
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Postby Lone Wolf » Thu May 29, 2003 5:24 pm

I saw Mamma Mia on Broadway when I went up to New York. That was a good musical!
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Postby iserlohn » Thu May 29, 2003 7:02 pm

I'm a huge theatre geek, have a bunch of official CDs as well as a good stack of audio and video bootlegs (handy when shows get retooled or close...). Some of my favorite shows are Hedwig and the Angry Inch (stage version), Cabaret (new version), Forbidden Broadway (all incarnations), The Who's Tommy, Hairspray, and Linie 1 (a German musical that I've never seen but have most of the songs from...anyone in Germany want to make me a copy of the movie or pick up the script in Berlin for me?).

Some shows that I've only gotten to see on bootleg but would love to see in person:
Ragtime, tick, tick...BOOM! (would rather see as a concert but whatever)

Shows I've seen the most times live:
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (7 times)
RENT (4 times)

Shows I've got the most recordings of:
Joseph (I lost count, but I've got all the major US productions legit recordings, the swedish and hungarian editions (still need the German) as well as at least 15 bootlegs...Deborah Gibson is KILLER as the narrator)
RENT (US and German legit, stack o bootlegs both audio and video)

Shows I'd like to be in most:
Man of La Mancha (the Barber)
The Who's Tommy (Cousin Kevin)
Hairspray (Corny)
RENT (Mark)
Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Hedwig)

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Postby dokool » Fri May 30, 2003 11:06 am

BishounenStalker wrote:En bien, raise your berets
Toooooooooo
Those Caaaaaanaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan
Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaays!


Hehehe. That song was the show-stopper for us. The applause we got...

I was a brother, but I also doubled as Potiphar. Had hottie egyptian slave girls doing my nails and giving me a shoulder massage onstage... those were the days. Then I caught Joseph with Ms. Potiphar. I think during the first show as I'm dragging him off of this 10-foot-tall platform to the stage, his loincloth falls off... was v. bad.
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Postby iserlohn » Sat May 31, 2003 10:49 am

I always found Those Canaan Days quite annoying, especially in the newer versions of the show where it's been padded to twice its original length. Hell, most of the show's been padded, just look at Song of the King (originally sung through once, sung through twice in full during the 1991-1996 productions, and still sung through 1.5 times during the 99-2001 tours.)

The little dance after One More Angel is more tolerable, but it doesn't change the fact that I've only seen *ONE* production where the guy playing Reuben did it right (as in hit every note, all the emotions, etc.)

re: my favorite song in Joseph, it's either the prologue or Pharoah Story. Same tune, different words, and usually the best part of the show if the narrator's on (and hearing it sung by the Little Mermaid is definately cool.) Strange as it seems...
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