What is your all-time favourite stage or film musical?

[PartyPooper]

My favourite is "Oklahoma!"

I always feel better after watching this great American work of art. Always!

What about you? What's your favourite musical?

:D

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. Fiddler! Most watched musical in my home

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[demodonkey]

12. I was in a play with Leonard Frey (Motel in the movie)...

He was a wonderful actor & writer too; I learned a LOT from him in four short weeks.

[GreenPartyVoter]

15. Too cool! :^D

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[sundog]

2. Hedwig & the Angry Inch

[helnwhls]

20. how could I forget hedwig!

netflix had to threaten me to get me to send that flick back!

[RaleighNCDUer]

3. 7 Brides / 7 Bros.

with 'Singing in the Rain' a close 2nd.

[saracat]

4. Pippin, and Camelot

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

5. Les Miserables

[yorkiemommie1]

14. do you hear the people sing....

singing the song of angry men...

going to see it yet again next month.

[Occulus]

50. It is the music of a people/ Who will not be slaves again n/t

[Ladyhawk]

55. Me, too.

My dream is to play Fantine someday...sigh.

[Jack Schitt]

6. A Christmas Carol.

Stage. I love Christmas. What can I say?

[Nicole]

7. Oklahoma

I live here so I have to like that one, it's the law. :)

Close runner up is West Side Story.

[demodonkey]

8. Gypsy

It is so focused.

EVERY song and every word in it is about ONE thing -- AMBITION.

[countmyvote4real]

9. Cabaret (screen)

Honorable mentions:

Little Shop of Horrors (Stage and screen)
Evita (stage)
White Christmas (obviously screen)

[democracyindanger]

10. The King and I

My mom made me go on Yul Brenner's last tour. Took years to grow up and admit I liked it, but I eventually did.

[spatlese]

42. My vote is with King and I, too! n/t

[PartyPooper]

11. Also, I must admit that I love "The Sound of Music".

Julie Andrews is terrific. And, I'm a sucker for a good love story.

:-)

[Dookus]

13. Can't pick one

I love so many.

of the classics, I think "The King and I". I have a soft spot for it - saw Yul Brynner's last Broadway turn in it, and the movie is a long time favorite.

But Les Mis was probably the most beautiful show I've seen.

West Side Story has the best music - Bernstein and Sondheim!

Sorry, just can't choose one.

[non sociopath skin]

32. Me neither....

"Sweeney Todd" for sheer theatrical chutzpah
"The Music Man" (the first musical I actually saw on Broadway) for sheer hokum and positive memories
"Salad Days" and "Robert and Elizabeth" for potent English nostalgia
"Ragtime" for emotional power
"Oliver" for catchy tunes
"Meet Me In St Louis" for Judy Garland...

Better stop there, I guess...

The Skin

[SemiCharmedQuark]

16. Singing in the Rain is my favorite musical film

Now that's a freaking movie. I love how talented Debbie Reynolds, Gene Kelly and Donald O Connor are. Damn! Nowadays many actors can't even act, let alone sing and dance. I LOVE the costumes in The Lion King, and the sets, but the writing (the parts they added in to make it show length) is horrible. Ugh.

[Gyre]

17. "Oliver!"

The 1963 London stage musical by Lionel Bart w/ Clive Revill and Georgia Brown.

Gyre

[JSJ]

31. mine, too- 'oliver, oliver, never before has a boy wanted more'

[Brother Buzz]

18. Guys and Dolls

[gollygee]

45. Guys and Dolls for me too

Ewan McGregor is going to star in a stage version of G&D in London in the spring. My dream is to go to London to see it :)

[helnwhls]

19. Clang clang clang went the trolley

meet me in st. louis!

[blackcat77]

21. Stage would be JC Superstar

If it was done right, of course. That's a very easy play to get very wrong. Film would be The Wizard of Oz.

[jobycom]

22. Moulin Rouge, or Jungle Book

Who can not love an Oragutan in India singing "I wanna be like you hoo hoo!" to a little kid and a bear dressed like a female Oragutan, with coconuts?

Probably a swallow brought the coconuts to India...

[nytemare]

23. The Rocky Horror Picture Show

oh, and Sound of Music. LOL.

[yellowdogintexas]

24. Victor/Victoria in our house

Definitely our favorite, with Singin in the Rain a very close second

[nytemare]

28. How could I forget Victor/Victoria!

ok, Rocky Horror, Sound of Music, and Victor Victoria!

[DianeG5385]

25. Oklahoma is up in my top five but my favorite is

The Sound of Music.

[DianeG5385]

26. A close second,almost a tie is...

West Side Story..
bah dee up..

[the Princess]

27. 2 - South Pacific and Gypsy

[DianeG5385]

29. Sound of Music and West Side Story tie

.

[Kire]

30. Into the Woods?

I don't know, I haven't seen that many musicals.

[China_cat]

33. Cats

Followed closely by Phantom of the Opera

[Be Brave]

34. Miss Saigon

Love the libretto:

You are sunlight and I moon,
Joined by the gods of fortune.
Midnight and high noon,
Sharing one joy.
We have been blessed, you and I.

[Cheswick2.0]

48. There is a video of the making of Miss Saigon that you might enjoy

You can get it at Amazon. I have it and enjoy it.
I saw the show on broadway and one thing I did not like is that there were no real star turns such as Javert in Les Miz, which I prefer as a piece of theatre. But he music is beautiful and the tape of the making is fun since it shows the search for the main female character and Lea Solonga is the obvious choice.

[Be Brave]

51. Thanks for the tip!

I agree that the music is beautiful. Lea Salonga was definitely a great match to the role.

[jdots]

35. the 3rd. man...........very strange

I like the older normal ? ones real old " Flying down to Rio "
"Sun Valley Serinade " " Pajama Game" they used to show these great things on t.v. before they came up with infomercials

[thesemodernsocks]

36. I'm not the biggest fan of musicals but..

I am quite partial to Demy's The Umbrellas of Cherbourg.

[motely36]

37. Right now

I'm on a Urinetown kick. But my favorite all time musical is probably Sweeny Todd. But it's so hard to choose

[Cheswick2.0]

43. City on fire, rats in the grass............

damn sondheim lyrics were a bitch to learn. He is a favorite composer of performers because he is such a challenge.

[chiburb]

38. 2: "Man of LaMancha" & "West Side Story" n/t

[CO Liberal]

39. Tie: "Bye-Bye, Byrdie" and "Once Upon a Mattress"

This is the DU member still known as CO Liberal.

[Lavender Brown]

40. Top Hat

with Fred and Ginger.

[Aiptasia]

41. Hedwig wins hands down

Hear me George Bush?

You can't bring me down!!!

[Bertha Venation]

44. RAGTIME

It was the first I'd ever seen and I cried almost all the way through it. I was overwhelmed by the experience.

[Dora]

46. Tie btwn Hedwig and the Sound of Music

I must have something for those German Austrian types.

[Cheswick2.0]

47. The Music Man is the perfect American musical

and a hell of a lot of fun to be in.
But I could never chose one musical as my favorite. Les Miserables is brilliant and possibly the best I have seen on Broadway. However other shows have a special place on my list for very different reasons.
I love King and I and Carousel. Some of the most gloriously beautiful stories and melodies/duets ever written for actor/singers.

I love Sondheim for the challenge and the intellectual brilliance of his writing. I have been in 5 of his musicals and would do another anytime. Did you know that Into the Woods is all about dysfunctional parenting and human psychology?

There are some musical farces which are an absolute delight to see or perform, such as little Mary Sunshine and Something's Afoot. Something's Afoot is the most fun I have ever had on stage.

Chorus line was the ultimate musical for stage actors. They are telling your story and it hit home pretty hard... though the show itself is destined to be dated in a way some period pieces will never be.

Then some musicals are burnt into my head because of certain performers who were in them or the choreography of certain masters of the craft. Ben Vereen made Pippin and Fosse did the same for anything he ever choreographed such as Sweet Charity or Chicago.

[terrya]

49. The Bandwagon. eom

[FeelinGarfunkelly]

52. Sound of Music!

'you can't marry someone when you're.....in love with someone else...can you?'

oh, Captain von Trapp, you melt me every frigging time with that line!

[jackelope72]

53. Ragtime, Little Shop of Horrors, Starlight Express

Also liked Hedwig, and both the film and stage versions of Chicago. Plus, I am an unabashed lover of Moulin Rouge.

[tanyev]

Pippin

Gotta find my corner of the sky.

[calico1]

54. Love "The King and I"

but last year I saw "42nd Street" on Broadway and it was wonderful. I just wanted to tap dance and kick up my heels. But good thing I didn't cause I would have hurt myself!

[Mrs. Venation]

56. Film -- West Side Story

I love the music, the dancing, everything about that film.

Stage -- A Chorus Line. I could see it again and again, and it would always move me.

Opera -- A tie between Salome, Aida and The Magic Flute.

For a hillbilly, I have fairly eclectic musical taste.

[CBHagman]

57. Lately, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers.

That's on film, of course, and that's lately.

As a kid, I was obsessed with my parents' albums of Broadway musicals, with the occasional film soundtrack thrown in: Fiddler on the Roof (my favorite in high school), Man of La Mancha, Camelot, Mary Poppins, The King and I, The Music Man, South Pacific, Carousel, Oliver! For reasons I don't quite understand, they never seemed to buy any Frank Loesser shows.

As far as films go, I have a soft spot for Gigi, The Wizard of Oz, Singin' in the Rain, and of course the Robert Preston/Shirley Jones version of The Music Man.

And I like the 1992 album of Guys and Dolls with Nathan Lane and Faith Prince.