What is your favorite musical

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I loved the Shrek soundtrack with the best version of Hallelujah, Guardians of the Galaxy and the Blues Brothers. I also love the Awakenings soundtrack.

I’ve always wondered about the one that got away…the original soundtrack to Cry Baby from The Cramps.
 
I heard of it it’s odd.
But I would ask your priest and be careful
 
Addendum per Damn Yankees:. In the stage play there was a wonderful song "A Man Doesn’t Know (what he’s got until he loses it) which I think gets played the other way too … “A Woman Doesn’t Know …”.

In its place the movie had Shannon Bolin (the abandoned wife who still loves and believes in her straying middle aged husband) sing “There’s Somethin’ 'bout an Empty Chair … (… that makes me feel afraid when he’s not sitting there …)”.

Very unusual for Hollywood or Broadway to present a longing love between a husband and wife … let alone a middle aged couple … and I especially like hearing a wife to husband love song.

HIS song, “Goodbye Old Girl” – where he doesn’t QUITE completely abandon his wife, but jilts her in favor of living out his baseball fantasy (and, uh, potentially selling his soul to the devil) is also great for a song about messed up priorities. 😉

The stage presentation also had a humorous semi-bawdy locker room talk song … “And then he thought about the GAME” which was changed into an instrumental March that accompanied the opening credits. < Good move movie IMO.
 
I will tell you that one of my favorite musicals is NOT the Jerome Robbins Broadway show. Saw it last night at the Muny and was disappointed. I realized I don’t like compilation shows. I enjoyed the Fiddler and West Side Story sections but the rest was meh. Oh well. Still loved my night at the Muny - we were lucky in that it was a cool night after a storm went through.
 
greenqueen said:
Let’s branch off a bit here since I mentioned soundtracks in my post above.

Have any favorites? I like a lot of soundtracks from films, but I have a tendency to have a favorite in the composer, John Barry. He did the music for Out of Africa and Dances With Wolves, just to name a couple.
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The Color Purple 💜 💜 💜

Oh goodness, that music was wonderful!
 
Soundtrack favorites:

Ryan’s Daughter
The Prince of Tides
Just about anything by Henry Mancini, especially Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Who is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?
Quadrophenia
The Bad and the Beautiful (posted above already)
Gettysburg
Saturday Night Fever
The Magic Garden of Stanley Sweetheart
Welcome to LA
 
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greenqueen said:
Let’s branch off a bit here since I mentioned soundtracks in my post above.

Have any favorites?
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John Williams is the man!


Of the newer composers, I like Michael Giacchino. Love his work on the Incredibles movies, as well as the newer Star Trek movies.
 
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christofirst said:
My son enjoyed The Book of Mormon. I didn’t see it. I don’t think he’s a big fan of musicals, so it is probably his favorite.
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I saw TBOM and found it enjoyable, but a bit overhyped. The writers describe it as an atheist’s love letter to religion. As you might guess, it pokes fun at religion a fair amount. One of the show stoppers, “I Believe”, rips on some of the crazier things in the Mormon faith (“I believe in 1979 God changed his mind about black people”). It is easy to imagine such lines aimed at Catholicism.

I think many folks on these boards would have a hard time with the show because of this. If you are secure in your faith and can take some ribbing about it, then it’s probably worth seeing. If you can’t, don’t. The Mormons tend to be able to take such things in stride; that was one of the reasons the creators made the show about Mormons versus some other denomination.
 
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Sound track lovers: I think you will find this orchestra playing the theme song from The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly just fascinating! The voice effects are wonderful.
 
Phantom of the Opera
Les Miserables
My Fair Lady
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
West Side Story
The Music Man
 
We liked it, but I’ve seen it before and we went in expecting a variety show. We didn’t get to see past Fiddler though. My 2yo was acting up!
 
Chicago
West Side Story
Fiddler on the Roof
Wicked
Porgy and Bess
Les Mis
Heard a lot about Hamilton but haven’t yet had the chance to see or hear it.
 
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It’s hard to pick, but my two favorites would be
🌼 State Fair - The original 1945 version
🌼 In The Good Old Summertime - with Van Johnson and Judy Garland 1949

I also love
🌼 Mary Poppins
🌼 Brigadoon
🌼 The Sound of Music
🌼 Singin’ In The Rain
🌼 Music Man
🌼 Fiddler on the Roof
🌼 My Fair Lady
🌼 South Pacific
 
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Tis_Bearself said:
Soundtrack favorites:

Ryan’s Daughter
The Prince of Tides
Just about anything by Henry Mancini, especially Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Who is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?
Quadrophenia
The Bad and the Beautiful (posted above already)
Gettysburg
Saturday Night Fever
The Magic Garden of Stanley Sweetheart
Welcome to LA
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If we’re talking soundtracks, Saturday Night Fever is fantastic, as is The Blues Brothers, but I can’t go past the lush gorgeous Ennio Morricone score of “The Mission”
 
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LilyM said:
Heard a lot about Hamilton but haven’t yet had the chance to see or hear it.
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Here’s a clip that really gives a good idea of what “Hamilton” is like. The quality isn’t great (someone recorded their television), sorry. In the opening, the man on the right is Washington; the man on the left is Hamilton. I love the line Washington sings here:

“You have no control who lives, who dies, who tells your story.”
 
My all-time favorite is Chess. It had a short, disastrous run on Broadway in 1988 and is finally being revived there this year. It’s a collaboration of Tim Rice and the guys from ABBA. Most people have never heard of it, but still know its hit song One Night in Bangkok:


The whole soundtrack is just amazing, well, if you like ABBA, that is 🙂
 
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I too love Murray Head and “One Night in Bangkok” but every time I read something about “Chess”, they’d changed the plot a bunch of times every time they revived it. Also, I got the impression that one of the main points of the show was to portray the US character in a negative light, which made me put it in the same category as Yu-Gi-Oh! and Bandit Keith. Bobby Fischer is hardly your average American man anyway.
 
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