What are your favourite musicals and why?

Wed, 12 Sept 2001, 10:20 pm

Hi all,

Now just what is your favourite musical/s and why ? I hope to get a great response from this one! (if i get any that is)

My all time favourites list include Les Miserables (of course!), also the King and I, Oliver, My Fair Lady. There are more of course but I don't want to go into too many right now.

I'll talk about why I adore these musicals when i get some kind of feedback on the topic.

The Review Master

RE: What are your favourite musicals and why?

Thu, 13 Sept 2001, 08:04 pm

Amanda Chesterton

Les Mis is and always will be my favorite - as those in the cast of the Regal Les Mis will tell you I can (and regularly do) sing every bar of it. It was the first major musical I ever saw, and it was the show which decided me on this profession (good? bad??) at the age of eleven.

Other musicals which I love (but have less of a personal and emotional connection with) include: Falsettos (always makes me cry), Guys and Dolls (IMO the musical with consistently the best music and lyrics throughout - there isn't one song I skip through when listening on the CD player), Jesus Christ Superstar (like Lloyd-Webber or not, this musical is genius), Funny Girl (the first musical I dressed up and lip synched to in my livingroom when I was 5), Blood Brothers (/really/ makes me cry), and Babes in Arms (the greatest musical from one of the greatest musical collaborations ever - Rogers and Hart).

Other honorable mentions include King and I (have to have a Rodgers and Hammerstein in there somewhere), A Chorus Line (and I'm not just saying this to impress Old Mill!:-), Cabaret/Chicago/The World Goes Round (contains all the greatest hits of another legendary collaboration, Kander & Ebb) and Hair (I got a helluva crush on the lead in the '92 national touring production).

My contributions,
Amanda Chesterton

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What are your favourite musicals and why?— The Review Master12 Sept 2001

RE: What are your favourite musicals and why?— Walter Plinge13 Sept 2001
RE: What are your favourite musicals and why?— Amanda Chesterton13 Sept 2001
- RE: What are your favourite musicals and why?— Amanda14 Sept 2001
  - RE: What are your favourite musicals and why?— Walter Plinge15 Sept 2001
    - RE: What are your favourite musicals and why?— Amanda15 Sept 2001
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        RE: What are your favourite musicals and why?— Walter Plinge16 Sept 2001
- RE: What are your favourite musicals and why?— Walter Plinge15 Sept 2001
  - RE: What are your favourite musicals and why?— crgwllms16 Sept 2001
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        RE: Paris— crgwllms16 Sept 2001
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        RE: The Little Mermaid— crgwllms16 Sept 2001
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        RE: The Little Mermaid— The Review Master16 Sept 2001
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        RE: The Little Mermaid— crgwllms17 Sept 2001
    - RE: What are your favourite musicals and why?— Walter Plinge25 Oct 2005
- RE: What are your favourite musicals and why?— Walter Plinge23 Sept 2001
RE: What are your favourite musicals and why?— The Review Master15 Sept 2001
- My two cents— Rebecca17 Sept 2001
  - magical mystical musicals— Walter Plinge20 Sept 2001
    - RE: magical mystical musicals— The Review Master20 Sept 2001
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        RE: magical mystical musicals— crgwllms23 Sept 2001
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        RE: magical mystical musicals— The Review Master23 Sept 2001
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        RE: magical mystical musicals— crgwllms23 Sept 2001
- RE: What are your favourite musicals and why?— Amanda Chesterton17 Sept 2001
  - RE: What are your favourite musicals and why?— Eliot McCann17 Sept 2001
    - RE: What are your favourite musicals and why?— Amanda17 Sept 2001
    - RE: What are your favourite musicals and why?— Walter Plinge26 Sept 2001
  - Alain Boublil— The Review Master20 Sept 2001
    - RE: Alain Boublil— Hammo20 Sept 2001
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        RE: Alain Boublil— Eliot McCann21 Sept 2001
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        Justin's mine— The Review Master21 Sept 2001
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        RE: Justin's mine— Hammo22 Sept 2001
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        RE: Justin's mine— Walter Plinge22 Sept 2001
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        RE: Justin's mine— Amanda22 Sept 2001
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        RE: Justin's mine— Hammo22 Sept 2001
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        Les Mis Master?— The Review Master21 Sept 2001
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        RE: Les Mis Master?— crgwllms23 Sept 2001
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        Re: Peanuts?— Eliot McCann23 Sept 2001
RE: What are your favourite musicals and why?— MuSiCaLs_FaN17 Sept 2001
- RE: What are your favourite musicals and why?— Walter Plinge21 Sept 2001

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