Favorite Musicals, That you love/hate, have been in/want to be in |
 Jan 23 2009, 12:25 AM
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Kibble Boy/Girl at the Magical Menagerie Posts: 293 Joined: 12:20pm March 17, 2006 Location: Utah, USA  |
QUOTE(Silver_Dragoness @ Jan 12 2009, 04:30 PM)  I just remembered another one... I'm not sure if it counts as a musical perse, but it's been on broadway so I'm going to count it. Riverdance. I absolutely love it, I've never seen it in person, but I have the Radio City Music Hall Two Disc special edition DVD with Jean Butler and Colin Dunne (I LOVE HIM!) and... yeah... there's just something about the sound of the tapping that can really help me get through a bad day (I ripped the dvd and put it on my iPod  )I now have another one that kind of goes along with this, again -- not a musical perse, but it was a show (however brief), but it's Colin Dunne and Jean Butler's Dancing on Dangerous Ground. A few weeks ago I was digging more into what Colin and Jean had been up to since Riverdance and came across this, I've already watched the DVD several times. It's a shame that the debts amassed in London prevented them from continuing with the show. As I understand it the DVD is a recorded performance from the end of the London run - already they were planning improvements to the show for when it premiered in New York - it's a shame that 'they' (whoever 'they' were, as I understand Colin wasn't happy about them recording a London performance either) didn't wait and record a New York performance instead - I would've been interested to see it with the changes that they made and on the larger Radio City Music Hall stage. -------------------- **Silver Dragoness**
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Jan 23 2009, 10:30 AM
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Eeylops Owl Cage Cleaner Posts: 231 Joined: 10:18am October 9, 2008 Location: Canada  |
I've just had to do a book report on the play Man of La Mancha and then she got me to watch the movie made from the play and I absolutely loved it!
I had heard of the story of Don Quixote before but never knew about Man of La Mancha. I think I may even watch it again tonight even if they made Aldonza better looking than I thought she would've been lol. --------------------   |
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Jan 23 2009, 10:53 AM
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Kibble Boy/Girl at the Magical Menagerie Posts: 272 Joined: 11:47am January 2, 2009 Location: At Hogwarts by day, on Broadway by night... |
I'm seeing RENT next saturday, Legally Blonde in April, and Phantom of the Opera in July!!!!
Squeal!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! -------------------- Harry looked around; there was Ginny running toward him; she had a hard, blazing look in her face as she threw her arms around him. And without thinking, without planning it, without worrying about the fact that fifty people were watching, Harry kissed her.
-HBP pg. 533 |
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 Jan 23 2009, 11:08 AM
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Disgruntled House-Elf at The Leaky Cauldron Posts: 414 Joined: 12:02pm August 5, 2006 Location: Warner Robins GA USA |
My parents brought me up on musicals, and quite a few of the shows mentioned I happen to like very much.Among my absolute favorites are Fiddler on the Roof, Cats, Evita (some of the songs)Man of La Mancha , My Fair Lady, Oklahoma! to mention a few. As long as the music is good I always enjoy popping a CD into my bedroom stereo or car player and listening to my favorite songs
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Jan 25 2009, 11:36 AM
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Professional Diagon Alley Window Shopper Posts: 63 Joined: 8:54pm January 23, 2009 Location: Pulling a prank on Peeves!  |
I absolutely love Wicked! Legally Blonde is so cute and so is Mamma Mia! I also saw the Lion King on broadway when I was like five, but I don't relly remeber it, as well as Peter Pan. I was in Peter Pan and the Lion King in elementary school. Last year, when I was TWELVE I was in the Will Rogers' Follies. Nobody in the cast had ever heard of it. This year, we are doin Plain and Fancy. It's about Amish people. From the fifties. The cast is made up of twelve and thirteen year olds. They are pretty good musicals though...
--------------------  Ah, music! A magic beyond all we do here! ~ Albus Dumbledore |
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Feb 7 2009, 12:16 AM
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Buying a Half-Kneazle Posts: 544 Joined: 11:12am October 24, 2007 Location: Who knows? One thing's for certain...I've got a book with me! |
Sweeney Todd, Phantom of the Opera, The Secret Garden, and Jane Eyre are probably my favorite musicals. Especially the first two--I like really dark musicals, as I'm sure you can tell.
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Nov 7 2009, 11:59 AM
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Perusing the Magical Menagerie Posts: 81 Joined: 7:16pm December 27, 2008 Location: Among the bookshelves at Flourish and Blotts |
scrape...shovel...brush dirt off...just digging up this thread again.
I'd just like to add another to my list of favourite musicals. On Thursday I went to see Billy Elliot in London's West End and it was absolutely brilliant!  It just blew me away, the performances were excellent and there was amazing dancing and set pieces. It made me laugh and cry and the boy who played the title role of Billy (it was Fox Jackson-Keen when I went) was simply mesmerising.  I have rarely felt this emotionally affected or moved by a stage musical since I saw Phantom of the Opera (although Blood Brothers and Lion King did come close).
-------------------- To be nobody but myself -- in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else -- means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting. -E.E. Cummings, poet (1894-1962)
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