Favourite musicals

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Re: Favourite musicals

Post by BospalomasClaret » Sun Feb 28, 2021 1:35 pm

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Thoroughly Modern Millie with Julie Andrew's, not the best but a good song

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Re: Favourite musicals

Post by Middle-agedClaret » Sun Feb 28, 2021 5:06 pm

Saw Les Miserables on Broadway a few years ago - wonderful performance of my favourite musical.
I saw an excellent production of Guys and Dolls at Salisbury Playhouse around the same time. It showed that you don’t need to go to the West End or Broadway for first class musicals. The young ensemble class were so versatile and talented - singing, dancing and playing a variety of instruments. Other favourites are Pandora’s Box, Cabaret and Evita.

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Re: Favourite musicals

Post by karatekid » Sun Feb 28, 2021 7:18 pm

dermotdermot wrote:
Fri Feb 26, 2021 11:04 pm
Guys and Dolls. To see Marlon Brando singing and dancing is something else.
The Horror :o

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Re: Favourite musicals

Post by Bosscat » Sun Feb 28, 2021 7:23 pm

dermotdermot wrote:
Fri Feb 26, 2021 11:04 pm
Guys and Dolls. To see Marlon Brando singing and dancing is something else.
Yeah but when he went to the fridge and got the butter out ... oh hang on different movie 🤭

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Re: Favourite musicals

Post by casualclaret » Sun Feb 28, 2021 7:29 pm

Wile E Coyote wrote:
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someone mentioned We will rock you..........that is a hideous bag of sick, truly plague like in its production. obviously a fan of top gear. maybe some of the older musicals were okay, but the modern variants are hideous. anything loyd webber had a hand in is pigswill. the miserable one is just repulsive claptrap for the middle class pests, odious slop.
You sound like a right barrel of laughs!

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Re: Favourite musicals

Post by bfcjg » Sun Feb 28, 2021 8:39 pm

Saw Bat out of hell a few years ago it was brilliant but it helps if you like the songs, of the classics I like Phantom of the opera.

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Re: Favourite musicals

Post by Silkyskills1 » Mon Mar 01, 2021 11:16 am

lakedistrictclaret wrote:
Sat Feb 27, 2021 9:14 pm
Already mentioned are West Side Story, Carousel and The Wizard Of Oz, all brilliant.

Also, Les Parapluies De Cherbourg, in French. Unusual in that every line in the film is sung. It's superb.
If every line is sung then that makes it an opera doesn't it?

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Re: Favourite musicals

Post by lakedistrictclaret » Mon Mar 01, 2021 1:30 pm

Silkyskills1 wrote:
Mon Mar 01, 2021 11:16 am
If every line is sung then that makes it an opera doesn't it?
Grand Opera, in fact!

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Re: Favourite musicals

Post by Silkyskills1 » Mon Mar 01, 2021 3:35 pm

lakedistrictclaret wrote:
Mon Mar 01, 2021 1:30 pm
Grand Opera, in fact!
That depends on the theme.

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Re: Favourite musicals

Post by KateR » Mon Mar 01, 2021 10:24 pm

Evita

Book of Mormon, best live show I've ever seen

Madame Butterfly at Vienna Opera House, made me cry

Cabaret, thoroughly enjoyed

Motown Story I didn't enjoy although a big fan of the music

Thriller, I actually enjoyed better than Motown story and I'm not a fan of MJ.

Recently enjoyed the Freddy Mercury story film, not so much Rocketman although it was just ok.

I really enjoyed the Blues Brothers but not really a musical I suppose

Another film I thought was great/funny at the time, Coast to Coast, Lenny Hendry, not really a "musical" although it was definitely about music

A Star is Born, the original one for me.
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Re: Favourite musicals

Post by Bosscat » Mon Mar 01, 2021 10:32 pm

KateR wrote:
Mon Mar 01, 2021 10:24 pm
Evita

I really enjoyed the Blues Brothers

Another film I thought was great/funny at the time, Coast to Coast, Lenny Hendry, not really a "musical" although it was definitely about music

A Star is Born, the original one for me.
The original wasn't a musical was it 🤔
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Re: Favourite musicals

Post by KateR » Mon Mar 01, 2021 10:35 pm

Bosscat wrote:
Mon Mar 01, 2021 10:32 pm
The original wasn't a musical was it 🤔

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you got me, so the one with Barbara S rather than Lady Gaga

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Re: Favourite musicals

Post by Bosscat » Mon Mar 01, 2021 10:45 pm

KateR wrote:
Mon Mar 01, 2021 10:35 pm
you got me, so the one with Barbara S rather than Lady Gaga
Barbra Streisand was (I think) the 3rd film Kate 🤭 There was a 2nd one with Judy Garland and James Mason

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Re: Favourite musicals

Post by KateR » Mon Mar 01, 2021 10:56 pm

:)
definitely before my time I think but must admit, I never really watched musicals when younger, probably an acquired taste although I have vague recollections of Calamity Jane (Doris Day I think) singing on top of a stagecoach, that my parents were watching on TV, but that's all I can remember from that.

I think the only musical I actually went to when young, was Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, on an early date I believe, so everything was wonderful in those days lol
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Re: Favourite musicals

Post by Bosscat » Mon Mar 01, 2021 11:09 pm

My 1st memory of a musical was West Side Story on TV...

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