Best musical of all time?

[POed_Ex_Repub]

Poll question: Best musical of all time?

[saltpoint]

1. A Chorus Line

Strong second choice: Promises, Promises

[Tom Kitten]

2. Singing in the Rain...

Hands down classic...

I've always loved The Music Man too...

[SideshowScott]

3. What? No The Wall, Singing in the Rain, Wizard of Oz, Stop Making Sence?

Or An American in Paris, The Music Man, A Hard Days Night, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Bugsy Malone Just to name a few..Um since I know so much about Musicals does this make me gay? Just wondering

[tigerbeat]

41. stop making sense is brilliant....

....just not sure it qualifies. performance art is more like it. and yes, hedwig is fantastic. i listen to that CD habitually.

[Bronco69]

4. I was always kind of partial to

The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. :-)

[OhioStateProgressive]

5. "Jesus Christ Superstar"(nt)

[VelmaD]

22. Totally agree

Singing Jesus ROCKS!

[CRK7376]

6. Die hard, always

will be a huge fan of Sound of Music...

Absolutely loathe Wizard of Oz...Scared the heck out of me as a kid and I still will not watch that damn movie with the flying monkees...Must be Shrubs relatives.....

[ComerPerro]

8. Oh. I thought you were talking about

Die Hard, the Musical......

LOL

[dbt]

7. Yellow Submarine!!

Especially the Eleanor Rigby part.

:loveya:
dbt

[ComerPerro]

9. I like Joseph

And the AMAZING Techincolor Dreamcoat...

But that's just me

[terrya]

10. "The Bandwagon"

A perfect score, great story, great chemistry between Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse, great cast.

The best musical of all time.

Terry

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

11. Other: MUSICALS SUCK

People are dialoguing about their lives or whatever, and suddenly, EVERYBODY SINGS! People come out of nowhere and start dancing in formation.

My enlightened, very thought-out opinion about this style is: :puke:

[terrya]

13. You have to suspend disbelief when watching a musical...

True, of course. For instance, when I was going to high school, people didn't break out into song and dance ala "Grease".

But musicals are, at least to me, a legitimate art form in and of themselves. And entertaining as well.

[Norbert]

12. Oklahoma

O.K.

[Limbought]

14. Les Misérables

Phantom would be on my list, too.

[nykiera]

43. Les Miz

I think I own almost all the musical versions put out. :)

[mac56]

15. "The King and I"

"My Fair Lady"
"The Music Man"
"Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat"
"Five Guys Named Moe"
"Oh! Streetcar" from "The Simpsons"
"Springtime For Hitler" from "The Producers"


p.s. - I loathe The Sound Of Music from the bottom of my being.

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

16. 42nd Street!!!!! (the 1933 movie)

I love most musicals but this one's my all-time favorite. Dick Powell, Ruby Keeler and Ginger Rogers singin' and dancin'....Busby Berkeley choreography....a sharp, funny script...and girls, girls, girls!


"You're going out a youngster, but you've got to come back a star!"

[Bonhomme Richard]

17. Camelot

with Robert Goulet. Loved That Musical.

[Aristus]

18. 1776

Franklin: "Treason is a charge invented by the winners as an excuse for hanging the losers."

Adams: "Well I have more things to do than simply stand here and listen to you quote yourself!"

Franklin: "No, that was a NEW one!"

[Jokerman]

19. "The Music Man"

Robert Preston is awsome!

[Az]

20. Sweeney Todd!

Come on! Demon Barber? Canibalism? Insane Asylums? Try the preist? Best damned musical ever!

[Cheswick2.0]

35. I loved Sweeny Todd when I did it

I would love to now direct a cast of 40 or so people in that show. However everyone does the Teeny Todd version these days. They use a cast of 12 and it is not the same!

Most difficult song in the show from a chorus member perspective... City on Fire. Most fun had to be "God That's Good".

[Az]

36. Managed to catch a couple of proper Todd's

But most are unfortunately Teeny Todds. Its always fun to catch it with an audience that is not familiar with the story. Intermission is so fun. All the mutterings about canibalism and pies.

[MissMillie]

21. Evita

Say it on Broadway, 1981. It was amazing.

[ronnykmarshall]

27. I hear ya Miss Millie!

[XNASA]

23. 'Guys and Dolls'

I'm a sucker for Jean Simmons.

[chiburb]

24. Man of LaMancha...n/t

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[GreenPartyVoter]

25. Fiddler and Chicago are way up there on my rewatch list

[ronnykmarshall]

26. Evita!

[Insider]

28. West Side Story!

outstanding play and film

[Red State Rebel]

29. Easter Parade, Singing in the Rain, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

[Mobius]

30. The Wall - Pink Floyd

geez...

[Cheswick2.0]

31. I have been in so many and seen so many and loved so many

I don't think I could pick one. I love everything by Sondheim. I loved doing Assasins.
Sweeny Todd and Superstar were brilliant experiences. Man of La Mancha had be crying every performance but then so did Two By Two.
Something's Afoot was more fun in rehersal and performance than should be allowed in a job you get paid for.

If I had to pick one that symbolized the perfect American Musical form and for absolute audience and cast delightful fun, lovely melody, classic story and great costumes, I would choose The Music Man. But ask me next week and I will probably give a different answer.

[grannylib]

32. Rocky Horror Picture Show! "It's just a jump to the left...."

[Az]

37. Well technically thats one of the worst musicals

But a riot to attend. Spent a good deal of my youth going to that show. Do not watch the video. It really is a horrid little movie.

[kaiden]

33. Ragtime. Ragtime. Ragtime.

n/t

[bbernardini]

34. WSS, followed closely by...

The Music Man
Cannibal
South Park
Up Against It
Honk!
Little Shop Of Horrors

[elfwitch]

38. Chicago

And I've seen many musicals.

[bif]

39. South Pacific

[tigerbeat]

40. CHESS

this is my all-time favorite musical. for those of you who may not know it: it's by Tim Rice and the two guys from ABBA (Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus) and is the source of that 1980's song "one night in bangkok". it's about the cold war and the stupidity of nationalism, the music is huge, almost religous in its scope while still incorporating the pop influences of its day.

what's also great about it is there are about 6 different versions out there. afficionados can mix and match their favorite scenes/songs/characters and come up with their own version.

what's especially great about it is i just finished directing a version of it here in LA.

[Ganja Ninja]

42. I always liked The Little Shop of Horrors from the Broadway play.