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Favorite Musical...

#123
The Wizard of Oz
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Teen Beach Movie
Little Shop of Horrors
Hairspray (the 2007 version; tough to get past Travolta as the mom, though)

If animated Disney movies count, I like several of them.
 
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Michedelic said:
West Side Story, because when you’re a Jet, you’re a Jet all the way…
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Ha! Ha! I loved WS as a Kid! I saw it on tv I was so fascinated, it worried my Dad! "Oh no My kid loves musicals!"
Upon 1st viewing, I thought Gangs used to have choreography(finger snapping):cool:;) when they "rumbled" Plus I loved the Jazzy Background Music! And Natalie Wood was easy on the eyes too!Now it seems ridiculous, but in the 80's I heard gangs in new York that used to have Break dance Battles:hyper:! mustve been only been Broadway Gangs!:roflmao::roflmao:
 
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Winton said:
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Midsommar, the musical?



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#129
BASSDROID said:
Ah yes, musicals. Seen a few but have played in the pit for more:

Favorites based on musical content:
Hair
Jesus Christ Superstar
From My Hometown

Favorites based on the overall quality of the production:
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Catch Me if You Can
42nd Street
Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat

Ones that got away:
Mama Mia- Was really looking forward to getting my Rutger Gunnarson on, but the scheduling didn't work out.

Wicked- Saw this one but did not got the call to play it. Would grab it in a minute if I did because the music is well...wicked!

Grease- Was just starting rehearsals for this when the pandemic hit. I had played bits and pieces before in a revue type setting, but never the whole show. This version did include the hits... You're the One That I Want, Grease is the Word, etc. The production is in limbo ATM, tentatively rescheduled to 2022.

Speaking of Singin in the Rain... I have often thought that A Clockwork Orange could make a very good musical in the right hands. I cannot stress "in the right hands" enough.
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I played one of the synth parts for Mama Mia, that was an interesting orchestra pit with four keyboards and no horns!
 
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#130
Yellow Bang66 said:
Ha! Ha! I loved WS as a Kid! I saw it on tv I was so fascinated, it worried my Dad! "Oh no My kid loves musicals!"
Upon 1st viewing, I thought Gangs used to have choreography(finger snapping):cool:;) when they "rumbled" Plus I loved the Jazzy Background Music! And Natalie Wood was easy on the eyes too!Now it seems ridiculous, but in the 80's I heard gangs in new York that used to have Break dance Battles:hyper:! mustve been only been Broadway Gangs!:roflmao::roflmao:
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Yeah, the nightmare of every manly man father, that his son might be “musical”. Even my dad, who was fairly tolerant, thought some of the gang dance routines were a bit ‘fruity’. But those scenes were very influential, choreographed violence ballet, in westerns for comedic effect sometimes, in James Bond films, in(as I pointed out)Clockwork Orange, and of course, in Michael Jackson’s Beat It video.
 
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WG Plum said:
I'm not religious at all, but Jesus Christ Superstar, OCR, is tops for me. Alan Spenner is a beast.
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Indeed, the very first album I ever bought with my own money, at about 16. I used to play electric organ back then, the walking pedals part (=bass line) on King Herod's Song were a blast to play. 40 years later I picked up the bass, and that's the first thing I tried to play. Learned a LOT from just that one song!
 
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