Favorite Musicals?

marleylikeair

Bside's thread made me think we also need a musicals thread! What are some of your favorite musicals, and what songs do you love most from them?

Here are a few of mine:

The Sound of Music - "Edelweiss," "Do, Re, Mi," "Sixteen Going on Seventeen"

Mary Poppins - "Spoonful of Sugar," "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious"

OKLAHOMA! - "People Will Say We're In Love" duet, "Out of My Dreams," "Lonely Room"

My Fair Lady - "I'm Getting Married in the Morning," "I Could Have Danced All Night," "Without You"

Lady in the Dark - "My Ship" and "the Saga of Jenny" (Okay, I've never seen this show, but those songs rule)

Brigadoon - "Almost Like Being in Love"

Silk Stockings - all of them, can't pick one   If you haven't seen this, rent it! Cyd Charisse + Fred Astaire + fantastic score, dancing, and costumes = SWOON.

Victor/Victoria - "Le Jazz Hot," "Crazy World." I like the movie better than the show. Rent this, too!

I'll stop there for now. Now you guys go!

Edited: to make the list easier to read.

deburnin

Beauty and the Beast: Home and Change in Me

Les Miserables: Stars, On my Own

Wicked: For Good

Rent: I'll Cover You

Phantom of the Opera: Think of Me, Music of the Night, and title song

There are a lot more, but I'll leave it at that.

Elle1036

A Very Potter Musical:  Get Back to Hogwarts, To Dance Again



Ok, confession:  I'm not big into musicals.  I like them when I see them, but I don't seek them out, so I really don't have much to contribute.  I'm a big fan of Phantom, but Deburnin already mentioned that one.

deburnin

ZOMYGOSH! I AVPM!!

Blue & White

Rent: I'll Cover You, One Song Glory, Your Eyes, Out Tonight

Mamma Mia: Honey Honey, Thank You for the Music

Phantom: Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again

Jesus Christ Superstar: I Don't Know How to Love You

Oliver!: Where is Love?

Annie: Maybe

Grease: I've Got Chills, Hopelessly Devoted to You

Hairspray: Good Morning Baltimore, Come So Far, Without Love, I Can Hear the Bells

Etc.

I could go on forever....

Elle1036

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[QUOTE]ZOMYGOSH! I <3 AVPM!! :)
Posted by deburnin[/QUOTE]

Meeee tooooo

calindi

Les Miserables: One Day More, Who Am I?, Master of the House, Do You Hear the People Sing?

Wicked: Dancing Through Life, Defying Gravity

Oliver!: You've Got to Pick a Pocket or Two, I'd Do Anything

Fiddler on the Roof: Tradition, If I Were a Rich Man

Wrkn925

West Side Story

Annie- 'Little Girls" (I think, I loved singing that.

desertsun

Oh my gosh, I love Les Mis, Miss Saigon, Rent, Chicago, Phantom. I couldn't pick just a few.

I wish so hard that I had a good voice!

marleylikeair

OH MAN. Wrkn, how could I have forgotten to include West Side Story?! That score is one of the most incredible things in the world to me. I can't really pick fave songs, but would have to go with "Maria" and "Tonight" if I had to.

I'm also slapping myself upside the head for forgetting to include Fiddler, Cate. I love "If I were a Rich Man" and "Anatevka."

B&W, Grease is good, too. I like "Sandy" and "Greased Lightning" a lot.

Desert--Chicago rules, too. "Funny Honey" is one of my faves, along with "Nowadays" and of course "All That Jazz."

deburnin

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[QUOTE]Oh my gosh, I love Les Mis, Miss Saigon, Rent, Chicago, Phantom. I couldn't pick just a few. :) I wish so hard that I had a good voice!
Posted by desertsun[/QUOTE]

<div><div style="background-color:initial;background-image:none;background-attachment:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:#1f1f1f;font:normal normal normal 11px/14px Arial, sans-serif;text-align:left;line-height:normal;"><font face="Arial" size="3" class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-size:12px;" class="Apple-style-span">Aw man, how did I forget Miss Saigon? <3 me some Lea Salonga. I wish my voice sounded like hers.</span></font></div></div><div style="background-color:initial;background-image:none;background-attachment:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:#1f1f1f;font:normal normal normal 11px/14px Arial, sans-serif;text-align:left;line-height:normal;"><font face="Arial" size="3" class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-size:12px;" class="Apple-style-span">
</span></font></div><div style="background-color:initial;background-image:none;background-attachment:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:#1f1f1f;font:normal normal normal 11px/14px Arial, sans-serif;text-align:left;line-height:normal;"><font face="Arial" size="3" class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-size:12px;" class="Apple-style-span">ETA: <strong>Cabaret:</strong> Wilkommen (especially the Alan Cumming version. Hot)</span></font></div>

leia1979

Wicked: Defying Gravity, Popular, What is this Feeling (aka Loathing) and For Good

Beauty and the Beast: Home, Human Again, and If I Can't Love Her (one of my favorites to play on piano)

Jekyll & Hyde: Good n Evil, Dangerous Game, In His Eyes, and Someone Like You

Rent: Seasons of Love, Take Me or Leave Me

Since no one else has mentioned Jekyll and Hyde, please check out the soundtrack. It's excellent (with Linda Eder as Lucy).

bsidebella

Marley what have you done?! This is going to be a long one...

Cabaret - "Two Ladies", "Wilkommen", "Mein Herr", "Money", "If You Could See Her"

Rent - "I'll Cover You", "Christmas Bells", "La Vie Boheme", "Take Me Or Leave Me"

A Chorus Line - "Sing!", "Dance: 10, Looks: 3", "What I Did For Love"

Sweeney Todd - "The Ballad of Sweeney Todd", "Worst Pies in London", "Johanna", "A Little Priest", "By the Sea", "City on Fire"

Annie - "Little Girls", "Thank You Herbert Hoover", "N.Y.C.", "Easy Street"

Ragtime - "Prologue", "Your Daddy's Son", "Wheels of a Dream", "The Night That Goldman Spoke At Union Square", "Atlantic City", "Make Them Hear You"

The Producers - "Keep it Gay", "That Face", "Springtime for Hitler", "I Want To Be a Producer", "When You've Got It, Flaunt It"

My Fair Lady - "Get Me to the Church on Time", "A Hymn to Him", ""The Servants' Chorus", "Just You Wait"

Funny Girl - "If a Girl Isn't Pretty", "His Love Makes Me Beautiful", "I am Woman, You Are Man", "Don't Rain on My Parade", "Sadie, Sadie"

....I think I got all of them?

desertsun

Leia, good call on Wicked!

Deburnin, agreed, love me some Lea. Her voice is incredible.

[Deleted User]

Brigadoon is my all time favorite musical - I actually got to see the stage show in London when I was 14 and fell in love with it then.

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers is a close second.

I can't just pick one song from either - they're all great.

desertsun

I can't believe we've all overlooked Gilbert and Sullivan! Pirates of Penzance is so silly and fun.

luvdncn90

Chicago!!- Jailhouse Tango is amazing.

Phonatom of the Opera- I can't just choose one song.

bsidebella

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[QUOTE]Chicago!!- Jailhouse Tango is amazing.
Posted by luvdncn90[/QUOTE]

It's "Cell Block Tango"...jsyk

luvdncn90

Same thing! hahah I totally blanked the name because I haven't seen it in forever.  I think I am going to make BF watch the movie with me tonight since we live to far away from the city to go to a show.

redheadtmk

The only musical that I love that was mentioned but w/o a song is  Seven Brides for Seven Brothers...   my favorite song is Bless her Beautiful Hide. not sure that is the correct title, but it is the first song of the movie.

PaigeMcC

You want me to just pick a few? TORTURE!!

Rent - La Vie Boheme, No Day but Today, Out Tonight & Seasons of Love

Aida - Everystory is a Love Story, Written in the Stars

Guys and Dolls - Sit down You're Rockin' the Boat

West Side Story  - Somewhere, A Boy Like That

Across the Universse (yes I know it was a movie, but it was a MUSICAL) - All of it.  Lurves me some Beatles.

marleylikeair

Leia--I don't know Jekyll & Hyde that well, but I used to work on the song "Once Upon a Dream" in voice lessons. Very pretty.

Bside--I agree with almost all of yours! (I'm just not a Rent fan.)

Paige--Music Man is fun, too! Saw it on Broadway a couple years ago, and "Sit Down..." was really, really good. Also have to agree with "A Boy Like That" from WSS. Such a beautiful, emotionally charged, haunting duet. Girl power. I can't decide if I like having some of it in Spanish or not--don't know if you know, but the current B'way revival has a lot of vocal parts translated into Spanish.

GreenPepperBurger

Oh dear God. Here we go:

Annie - Pretty much every song.

Avenue Q - "It Sucks to Be Me (What Do You Do With a BA in English?)," "If You Were Gay," "There's a Fine, Fine Line"

Company - "Company," "You Can Drive a Person Crazy," "Another Hundred People," "Marry Me a Little," "Barcelona," "The Ladies Who Lunch," "Being Alive,"

Funny Girl (the film) - Pretty much every song.

Hair - "Aquarius," "Donna," "I've Got Life," "Hair," "Easy to Be Hard," "Frank Mills," "The Flesh Failures/Let the Sunshine In,"

Hairspray - "Good Morning, Baltimore," "Run and Tell That," "Without Love," "You Can't Stop the Beat,"

Little Shop of Horrors - "Suddenly, Seymour," "Somewhere That's Green"

Next to Normal - "Just Another Day," "You Don't Know/I Am the One," "Superboy and the Invisible Girl," "I'm Alive," "Wish I Were Here," "I Am the One (Reprise),"

Rent - "Rent," "Light My Candle," "One Song Glory," "Another Day," "La Vie Boheme," "What You Own,"

South Pacific - "Some Enchanted Evening," "I'm Gonna Wash That Man (Right Outta My Hair)," "I'm in Love with a Wonderful Guy," "Younger than Springtime,"

Spring Awakening - "Mama Who Bore Me," "The Word of Your Body," "The Dark I Know Well," "Touch Me," "Totally F*cked,"

Sweeney Todd - "The Ballad of Sweeney Todd," "The Worst Pies in London," "Johanna," "A Little Priest," "Kiss Me," "Nothing's Gonna Harm You (Not While I'm Around),"

Phew.

*edited for clarity

Peaseblossom55

I do community theater for fun and there are so many great musicals and songs out, especially Sondheim

I love almost anything from the sound of music

Tonight from west side story

Good Mornin' from Singin' In The Rain

Changed for Good from Wicked

I could go on for ages.....

I just opened with the musical Curtains this past weekend.

marleylikeair

GPB, nice choices! Next to Normal is such a powerful show, GAWD. And I'm so glad I saw it. But I can't say as I've ever walked out of the theatre humming the tunes. I'm not super impressed with the score, but I love the show anyway, and it's almost all signing. Isn't that weird? (I do like that part where the daughter sings about Mozart, though.)

Danser, cool. How'd it go? I start rehearsals for a production of Into the Woods in May. Sondheim is cool sometimes.

calindi

Gosh, how'd I forget South Pacific and Avenue Q and Chicago?  Some of my favorites!!!

Now I'm craving musicals... think BF will let me hijack the TV tonight to watch Chicago?

marleylikeair

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[QUOTE]Gosh, how'd I forget South Pacific and Avenue Q and Chicago?  Some of my favorites!!! <strong>Now I'm craving musicals... think BF will let me hijack the TV tonight to watch Chicago?</strong>
Posted by calindi[/QUOTE]

*like*

South Pacific! Man, I forgot to add that one, too. Some Enchanted Evening? Wash that Man Right Outta My Hair? Classic and irresistible. I wish I'd gone to see the revival at Lincoln Center. Gah.

ETA: Has he seen Chicago before? I don't think it's terribly un-guy-friendly.

Peaseblossom55

Marle-y we perform all 4 weekends in february it is such a fun show, and having a great time.  

Who are you playing in into the woods, another one of my favorites??

marleylikeair

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[QUOTE]Marle-y we perform all 4 weekends in february it is such a fun show, and having a great time.   Who are you playing in into the woods, another one of my favorites??
Posted by danser55[/QUOTE]

Dancing in the show and playing Snow White. :) Who are you in Curtains? (Not that I know the show well, I'll have to look it up!)

Peaseblossom55

I am playing Bambi in Curtains smaller part ensemble/supporting :-)