Musical Theater Meme

[filkertom]

Nicked from drzarron.

You say you LOVE Musical Theater/Broadway? Let’s see how much. Next to each show put one of the following.

* (X) If you know of the show
* (CD) If you own/listen to the CD
* (HEARD) Someone played you the music/CD
* (SEEN) If you have SEEN the show (Professional, Community Theater, etc)
* ("Your Part") If you have been in it (put your particular part.
* (VIDEO) if you have a version of it on VIDEO (Tape, DVD, TiVO)
Leave it BLANK if none of the options apply ...

I'm amending it slightly: VIDEO if I've watched a film or video version of it but don't own it, OWN if I own a video version of it.

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1776: X VIDEO
42nd Street: X
A Chorus Line: X
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: X OWN
A Little Night Music: X
All Shook Up: X
Allegro:
Altar Boyz:
Annie Get Your Gun: X
Annie: X SEEN VIDEO
Anything Goes: X
Aspects of Love: X
Assassins: X CD
Avenue Q: X CD
Barnum: X
Beauty and the Beast: X CD SEEN OWN (yes, I know the Broadway is different from the animated)
Big: X
Blast:
Bombay Dreams:
Brigadoon: X SEEN
Bye Bye Birdie: X
Cabaret: X VIDEO
Camelot: X SEEN
Carousel: X
Cats: X CD VIDEO
Chess: X CD SEEN
Chicago: X OWN
Children of Eden:
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang: X OWN
Cinderella: X
Company: X
Contact:
Damn Yankees: X
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels: X
Dreamgirls: X
Evita: X CD
Fame: X
Fiddler on the Roof: X SEEN OWN
Flora the Red Menace:
Flower Drum Song: X
Follies: X
Footloose: X
Forbidden Broadway: X
Fosse: X
Grease: X CD SEEN
Guys and Dolls: X VIDEO
Gypsy: X
Hair: X VIDEO
Hairspray: X
Hedwig and the Angry Inch:
Hello Dolly: X VIDEO
High Society:
How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying: X VIDEO
I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change: X
In My Life:
Into the Woods : X CD SEEN
Irene:
Jekyll and Hyde: X OWN
Jersey Boys:
Jesus Christ Superstar: X SEEN
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat: X CD
Kiss Me Kate: X
Kiss of the Spiderwoman: X
La Boheme: X
La Cage Aux Folles: X
Les Miserables: X
Lestat: X
Little Shop of Horrors: X CD OWN
Loot:
Mame: X VIDEO
Mamma Mia: X
Man of La Mancha: X SEEN
Miss Saigon: X SEEN
Movin’ Out: X
My Fair Lady: X VIDEO
Nine:
No, No Nanette: X
Nunsense: X
Oklahoma: X OWN
Oliver!: X VIDEO
On a Clear Day You Can See Forever: X VIDEO
On the Town:
Once Upon a Mattress: X VIDEO
Parade:
Peter Pan: X
Pippin: X SEEN OWN
Pirates of Penzance: X SEEN CD OWN
Ragtime: X
Rent: X
Ring of Fire:
Riverdance: X
Rocky Horror Show: X CD SEEN OWN
Ruthless!:
Saturday Night Fever:
Seussical: X
Showboat: X
Smokey Joe’s Cafe:
South Pacific: X VIDEO
Spamalot: X CD
Stomp:
Sunday in the Park With George: X
Sunset Blvd: X
Sweeney Todd: X CD SEEN OWN
Sweet Charity: X
Sweet Smell of Success:
Swing!:
Taboo:
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee:
The Baker’s Wife :
The Boy From Oz: X
The Color Purple:
The Fantasticks: X
The Full Monty: X
The King and I: X VIDEO
The Light in the Piazza:
The Lion King: X SEEN OWN
The Most Happy Fella: X
The Music Man: X CD SEEN OWN
The Pajama Game: X
The Phantom of the Opera: X CD SEEN OWN
The Producers: X CD
The Scarlet Pimpernel: X
The Secret Garden: X
The Sound of Music: X VIDEO
The Threepenny Opera: X SEEN
The Who’s Tommy: X CD VIDEO
The Wild Party:
The Wiz: X VIDEO
The Wizard of Oz: X OWN
The Woman in White:
Thoroughly Modern Millie: X
Tick Tick Boom:
Titanic:
Triumph of Love:
Urinetown: X
Victor/Victoria: X
West Side Story: X CD SEEN OWN
Wicked: X CD
Wonderful Town:
Working: X
You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown: X SEEN

Comments

hopping on the bragging soapbox

[aylinn.livejournal.com]

I beat you, I think. See my LJ.

But then I grew up on Long Island (hence access to Broadway)

I also have a Mother who worked in community theatre for 40 years AND I have a Father who was a teacher for 35 & supervised every HS production they did. And dragged us to them. And that her parents' annual christmas present to her was the BEST PLAYS of 'XX compilations?

Have I ever mentioned that my mom was in a production with Brian Dennehy? Not to mention Peter David, the writer? And that her parents' annual christmas present to her was the BEST PLAYS of 'XX compilations?

Or that my dad went to & taught at Hicksville Senior High? (Billy Joel's old school) See the album notes of Storm Front for why that's important. (Half the kids in my Dad's AP class were out to go record.)

<grins, ducks & runs VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVery Fast>

[ericcoleman]

Wow did you remind me about the cool stuff I saw on Broadway (and elsewhere) when I was a kid. This was fun

[daundelyon.livejournal.com]

I was surprised at how many of the obscure ones I recognized, and then I remembered my voice teacher's taste in music. I sang stuff from a lot of these shows, even though I was never in them.

[selenesue.livejournal.com]

I have to say X to all of them because of the nature of my job, an entertainment news event listing which has listed the openings of all of the above.

There are a few curious omissions in my humble opinion. No "Rocky Horror Show"? Not "Rocky Horror Picture Show" if we are talking strictly stage, of course.

[tibicina.livejournal.com]

Rocky Horror Show was up there (though not Rocky Horror Picture Show, but I was counting that as the movie version.)

Actual omissions:

Kismet
City of Angels
Lots of stuff by Sondheim (Pacific Overtures, Bounce, Passion, Merrily We Roll Along, etc.)
Godspell
Once On This Island
Do I Hear a Waltz?
Aida

I'm pretty sure I could find more if given a couple hours with my CD collection.

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Oh, some lovely (or at least esoteric) stuff isn't there:

Weird Romance
Metropolis
Moby Dick
All the other G&S besides Penzance
Singin' In The Rain
The Goodbye Girl
any of several versions of Dracula

[tibicina.livejournal.com]

I'd noticed the lack of G&S, but I figured that was just because other than Penzance they don't generally get broadway revivals for whatever reason. Actually, I'd forgotten that they'd listed Penzance and I was willing to count G&S as 'Light Opera'.

I got to see one of the versions of Dracula at the La Jolla Playhouse. I really liked it and wanted the cast album (which sadly didn't exist yet)... but I think it may be one of the shows which has since kind of vanished into obcurity.

[trdsf.livejournal.com]

I never cared too much for musical theater. I was taken to see Jesus Christ Superstar in 1973, when I was nine (or maybe I just turned ten). My little brother (seven at the time) fell asleep during it, despite the incredible volume. :)
The one that I really want to see the most I'm not likely to get to see, since it has been rendered politically obsolete: Chess.
The rest... I've only seen in high school productions of varying levels of skill.

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

JCS is a lousy musical to take kids that age to. And I admit that, while I love many of the individual songs, the whole show kinda leaves me cold (and, before anybody thinks it's because of my religious beliefs, my love of Godspell is deep and abiding). JCS is a more challenging show.

I've seen Chess. No production has been as good as the original album, which is one of my very favorites, but I'd like to find a way to do it.

If I may be so bold as to suggest a few DVDs which may give you an idea of why some of us like musicals so much, you might want to try West Side Story, The Music Man (absolutely the Robert Preston version), The King and I (Yul Brynner version), Little Shop of Horrors w/Rick Moranis, either version of Sweeney Todd with George Hearn, Chicago, and/or Godspell. Also, if you liked Disney's animated Beauty and the Beast, we all thought at the time it would be an excellent stage musical, and it turned out we were right -- the additional songs written for it range from solid to amazing. And I actually like the Broadway Lion King soundtrack a lot more than the original movie's.

[trdsf.livejournal.com]

I 'got' JCS, even at that age, and 'Day By Day' made its way from Godspell to our parish's Saturday folk mass--and likewise, I still appreciate certain religious music even though I've long since left Catholicism. Actually, I've always loved all-out gospel choirs. :)

There is a very hard to find VHS of music videos made from some of the songs from 'Chess' with the original performers. And while I love the hell out of Elaine Page, she dances worse than I do. :)

I'm not a total philistine. Sweeney Todd and Chicago completely blew my mind. But the musical Little Shop left me flat, as did Music Man, outside of 'You Got Trouble' (okay, maybe I am a philistine). I was recently lent the CD of 'Spamalot' and would relieve myself of a spare body part to go see it.

(mind ... melting ... over ... 'Dirty Harry Krishna' on the radio...oog.)

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

I don't listen to -- or watch -- Elaine Page for the dancing. B-P

[video-savant.livejournal.com]

I have to X most of them, having been a pit musician for bunches of years. (Anybody wanna buy a Bb Bass Sax?)

Also missing from the list are Anthony Newley/Leslie Bricusse (sp?). The first show I ever played for was "The Roar of the Greasepaint, the Smell of the Crowd," with 'Who Can I Turn To (When Nobody Needs Me)' and 'Feeling Good.' About five years later I did "Stop the World--I Want to Get Off," with 'What Kind of Fool am I?" All I really remember about that production was it was the first time I played onstage, and for some reason, for 'Typische Deutsche' the director put the girls in Nazi uniforms and on roller skates.