Best Musical You've Seen/Heard

[PayneTrayne]

Dr Horrible's Sing Along Blog, REPO! The Genetic Opera, and Across the Universe for the new scale of musicals.

Les Miserables for the old hat of musicals, Javier's Suicide in particular.

 

[Rusman]

Repo! The Genetic Opera and Rocky Horror, two greatest musicals ever. Also We Will Rock You if you can get hold of it.

 

[Aurora219]

Phantom of the Opera.

Went to see it for my girlfriend's father's birthday up in London.

Truly fantastic.

 

[Billion Backs]

Repo: The Genetic Opera is pretty good. I like Sweeney Todd, too.

And of course, Rocky Horror Picture Show. I treasure it =p

 

[kinggingerman]

War of the worlds. Its just a fantastic musical and i highly recomend it

 

['Aredor]

I'm assuming you mean movie-versions, so here goes

- My Fair Lady with Rex Harrison is just great

- Man of La Mancha with Peter O'Toole, can't go wrong with Sir Peter

- Jesus Christ Superstar is bearable, the only one of Webber's to be

- Hair is great if you're into the hippie culture, but Milos Forman's version is very lackluster

- and yes, you could go for Disney: Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, Aristocats, Jungle Book

 

[VulakAerr]

Behold, ladies and gentleman, the majesty that is Blood Brothers!


Failing that, close calls go to Avenue Q and Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog. Got some other favourites, but they're my top three.

You have some FINE taste, sir! I haven't yet seen Avenue Q but the other 2 are in my top 5. Others I love are Hairspray (be aware that it will almost FORCE you to be happy, so if you're not in the mood for that kind of thing, steer clear), The Lion King (absolutely majestic) and Aida. Aida's production isn't my favourite, but the voices and the music are great. Worth a look at the Broadway OST.

Blood Brothers is my favourite though. Seen it 11 times and counting...

Edit: Now listening to Tell Me It's Not True from your YouTube link and tearing up. Thanks a lot for that!

 

[foxlovingfreak]

You allready metioned Sweeny Todd (my personal favorite) I rembere seeing another one I liked That I think was called 1776 that was prety good. The only other ones I can recomend of the various amntied disney movies out there and the South Park Movie (Which I noticed that not a whole lot of pepole relazie is a musical)

 

[Greenshoes]

I cant say that I Have seen too many, but Spam-a-lot was very good

 

[Divine Miss Bee]

watch clue: the musical, the rocky horror picture show (in a theater ONLY), and hedwig and the angry inch.

if you're looking for movie musicals, that is. if you're good for stage, go see the mystery of edwin drood, wicked, the addams family, the pirates of penzance (warning: operetta), and/or cosi fan tutte (opera! the best opera out there).

(this is all if you like a bit of darkness, a bit of comedy, and to be a better person in the long run.)

 

[Maltyz]

Yo, what was dat one where it was like a high school or sum shit but then it was like a musical? Sum funky shit!

 

[Deofuta]

I cant believe no one has said this yet, but I think Fiddler on the Roof is definitely my favorite musical ever. I still have to see Wicked though, it looks quite good.

 

[dommyuk]

War of the worlds. Its just a fantastic musical and i highly recomend it

You read my mind.

Avenue Q and the Nightmare before Christmas are also god-like.

 

[Sronpop]

In Theater - Blood Brother, like a few years ago, no idea who was in it, but the mother character was really really good, that's all I remember.

In a Movie - South Park obviously It kinda wins by default though since I can't remember any others that I have seen, unless you want to count A Clockwork Orange(singing in the rain)

On an Album - Ziltoid The Omniscient! Yeeeeeeeeeessssss.

 

[jrcillian]

Assassins
Into the Woods
Sunday in the Park with George
Company
Merrily we Roll Along

Stephen Sondheim is the far superior choice here...leave the cut and paste musical writer, Sir Andrew, alone and go along to a more complex sound...plus Blood Brothers is good...

Oh and The Last Five Years

 

[Miffmoff]

Priscilla Queen of the Desert. Its brilliant and camp as hell

 

[Sanquinius96]

Dr horrible's sing along blog by Joss Whedon. Tis fracking awesome.

I second that

 

[Deviluk]

Heard: The Producers
Seen: Lord of the Rings

 

[MBergman]

Across the Universe did some great things with those Beatles songs!