Whats your favourite Musical?

[manaman]

Ahh, you picked mine! Well second favorite:

Across the Universe.

You have got to be kidding me.
Sorry, but I find the film's plot dull, bland and confusing, and the musical numbers are not well played out.

I intensely dislike the vast majority of musicales, I also like movies, I do not often like theater. There are only a handful I find interesting, and I am willing to bet our opinions on the ones I like and the ones I do not like will not converge, at least not often.

So sorry I do not share the same opinions as you, but in this case it doesn't really matter except to justify a elitist opinion of art.

 

[Chamale]

South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut.

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As for stage musicals... well... I have never seen one. I kicked myself for being broke when Evil Dead: The Musical played Calgary.

I was there... Twice... My first time was the night the lights overheated and started exploding, so we were turned away. When we could actually watch it, it was great.

My favourite musical is definitely South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut. But if a girlfriend or boss or grandparent wants to know, I'll say Chicago. I like Chicago, but it's no South Park.

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[NotSoNimble]

Jesus Christ Superstar.

Tho, without the original cast, it just isn't the same.

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[Fishtie]

Musical is the lowest form of theater, a bastardization of opera that chokes the beauty out of the form

Wow what a snob.

If you don't see any beauty in musicals you take theater way too seriously.

Anyway. Here's my favorite

I was in a kid's version of it (i.e. 1st act), and I LOVED it. Problem was I wasn't very good which is embarrassing looking back, but I did have fun.

Noooo! I have been beaten to the punch!

Of course almost anything by Sondheim is brilliant. Another example? Company

As for something different? Well, I'm a Man Of La Mancha fan as well.

 

[The Salty Vulcan]

Musical is the lowest form of theater, a bastardization of opera that chokes the beauty out of the form (although I admit I love Avenue Q).

My favorite musical theatrical performance is a good opera company performing The Barber of Seville.

Or, if your as immature as I am, this guy.
Seriously. I could watch that guy ALL day.

For me though:

SWEENEY TODD!!! or also known as The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Best Musical I've Seen In Years!!

Oooh. Another good one. Actually, this brings to mind a question: Just HOW many Horror Musicals are there anyway? I can only think of three, all of which found their way onto this thread.

Tim Burton's: The Nightmare before Christmas...if that counts.

Oh it counts. Y'know what. Why don't we include the Disney Musicals as well.

 

[Vkmies]

Rocky horror picture show or Little shop of horrors.

Probably Little shop of horrors thou... AWESOME!

 

[TheDrunkNinja]

1776. It has Mr. Feeny from Boy Meets World singing.

 

[Harlemura]

I know it's already been said, but The Nightmare Before Christmas.
Musicals aren't really my thing, and this is one of the few I've seen that isn't overflowing with symbolism and interpretation that I find really boring.

 

[Keava]

Torn between Cabaret

Spoiler: Cabaret - Willkommen

And The Threepenny Opera

Spoiler: Louis Armstrong - Mack The Knife

 

[LemonMelon]

I enjoyed Chicago. I thought it was charming.

 

[SimuLord]

Musical is the lowest form of theater, a bastardization of opera that chokes the beauty out of the form

Wow what a snob.

If you don't see any beauty in musicals you take theater way too seriously.

If preferring the orchestration and masterful craftsmanship of opera over prolefeed like musicals makes me a snob, then pass the Snob Sauce.

No it's your dismissals that musicals have no beauty, are merely bastardizations of high culture and that they are prolefeed that makes you a snob.

Nice attempted straw man though.

Just pass the Snob Sauce.

To each his own, I guess.

 

[TheDrunkNinja]

Musical is the lowest form of theater, a bastardization of opera that chokes the beauty out of the form

Wow what a snob.

If you don't see any beauty in musicals you take theater way too seriously.

If preferring the orchestration and masterful craftsmanship of opera over prolefeed like musicals makes me a snob, then pass the Snob Sauce.

I've seen a lot of musicals in my time. Those that I favor have always enraptured me with incredible musical scores, written with such witty and clever lyrics with choreography that perfectly weaves the narrative together as well as any on-stage presentation I've seen. If musicals are ugly bastardizations of art, then to you, the current media that Hollywood pukes out tenfold everyday are the lowest form of scum that has ever desecrated the earth. Doubtful that you have any faith left in humanity's culture with that erring dismissal.

 

[Mr. Elemenopee]

I would probably have to say that the Evil Dead Musical is probably my favorite just because it's pretty funny. I still want to see it live though.

 

[SimuLord]

Musical is the lowest form of theater, a bastardization of opera that chokes the beauty out of the form

Wow what a snob.

If you don't see any beauty in musicals you take theater way too seriously.

If preferring the orchestration and masterful craftsmanship of opera over prolefeed like musicals makes me a snob, then pass the Snob Sauce.

I've seen a lot of musicals in my time. Those that I favor have always enraptured me with incredible musical scores, written with such witty and clever lyrics with choreography that perfectly weaves the narrative together as well as any on-stage presentation I've seen. If musicals are ugly bastardizations of art, then to you, the current media that Hollywood pukes out tenfold everyday are the lowest form of scum that has ever desecrated the earth. Doubtful that you have any faith left in humanity's culture with that erring dismissal.

Bingo. I believe that culture has been dead since 1914, with the corpse blown up to ensure it could never be revived in the 1940s. Mankind peaked in the 19th century, reached our apex with Beethoven's Ninth, had a great run through Brahms and Schubert and Strauss and even Wagner, but somewhere in the trenches the very best of humanity...well, something happened in there. And it wasn't pretty. And then the bombs fell on London and the Iron Curtain fell on Eastern Europe and America fell on the world and that was it.

Maybe if the scum tide of marketing and commercialism ever recedes there might be hope...that ray of light at the bottom of Pandora's box. But I don't hold out hope for humanity. I prefer instead to cocoon myself in the glory days of when mankind could reach for great heights without someone demanding that the shrinks forcefeed him happy pills like a foie gras goose.

 

[The Salty Vulcan]

Musical is the lowest form of theater, a bastardization of opera that chokes the beauty out of the form

Wow what a snob.

If you don't see any beauty in musicals you take theater way too seriously.

If preferring the orchestration and masterful craftsmanship of opera over prolefeed like musicals makes me a snob, then pass the Snob Sauce.

I've seen a lot of musicals in my time. Those that I favor have always enraptured me with incredible musical scores, written with such witty and clever lyrics with choreography that perfectly weaves the narrative together as well as any on-stage presentation I've seen. If musicals are ugly bastardizations of art, then to you, the current media that Hollywood pukes out tenfold everyday are the lowest form of scum that has ever desecrated the earth. Doubtful that you have any faith left in humanity's culture with that erring dismissal.

Bingo. I believe that culture has been dead on a stone slab since World War One. Mankind peaked in the 19th century, reached our apex with Beethoven's Ninth, had a great run through Brahms and Schubert and Strauss and even Wagner, but somewhere in the trenches the very best of humanity...well, something happened in there. And it wasn't pretty. And then the bombs fell on London and the Iron Curtain fell on Eastern Europe and America fell on the world and that was it.

Maybe if the scum tide of marketing and commercialism ever recedes there might be hope...that ray of light at the bottom of Pandora's box. But I don't hold out hope for humanity. I prefer instead to cocoon myself in the glory days of when mankind could reach for great heights without someone demanding that the shrinks forcefeed him happy pills like a foie gras goose.

...My brother
*gives Simulord a hug*

 

[SimuLord]

Musical is the lowest form of theater, a bastardization of opera that chokes the beauty out of the form

Wow what a snob.

If you don't see any beauty in musicals you take theater way too seriously.

If preferring the orchestration and masterful craftsmanship of opera over prolefeed like musicals makes me a snob, then pass the Snob Sauce.

I've seen a lot of musicals in my time. Those that I favor have always enraptured me with incredible musical scores, written with such witty and clever lyrics with choreography that perfectly weaves the narrative together as well as any on-stage presentation I've seen. If musicals are ugly bastardizations of art, then to you, the current media that Hollywood pukes out tenfold everyday are the lowest form of scum that has ever desecrated the earth. Doubtful that you have any faith left in humanity's culture with that erring dismissal.

Bingo. I believe that culture has been dead on a stone slab since World War One. Mankind peaked in the 19th century, reached our apex with Beethoven's Ninth, had a great run through Brahms and Schubert and Strauss and even Wagner, but somewhere in the trenches the very best of humanity...well, something happened in there. And it wasn't pretty. And then the bombs fell on London and the Iron Curtain fell on Eastern Europe and America fell on the world and that was it.

Maybe if the scum tide of marketing and commercialism ever recedes there might be hope...that ray of light at the bottom of Pandora's box. But I don't hold out hope for humanity. I prefer instead to cocoon myself in the glory days of when mankind could reach for great heights without someone demanding that the shrinks forcefeed him happy pills like a foie gras goose.

...My brother
*gives Simulord a hug*

And here I thought I was going to break my own record for Most People Pissed Off At A Poster In A Thread Without Anyone Defending Them. (set during one or the other of my patented "Roger Ebert Is Still Right" rants, probably involving Heavy Rain.)

It's not that you prefer opera it's your attitude that musicals will never amount to much.

You'll hear me passionately say that games are art before you'll ever hear me say something nice about musicals as a form. Lowest form of art, the musical.

 

[Deathkingo]

I have to go with "Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog". That counts, right? RIGHT!?

 

[Sacman]

It's a tie between...

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