Musicals

[Mouse...]

I got up at 5:30 in the morning to get Wicked tickets today, #14 in line. :) I'm excited for it, I love the music. I tend to really like 'big' musicals like Les Miz, Miss Saigon and Phantom of the Opera but generally I just love musical theatre. Camelot is a good one too, a little boring sometimes but it has some great moments.

[Possuumm]

A great, and new musical.... Spring Awakening...is amazing....just not too appropriate for campers....

[Smudge]

These are musicals which I have seen on stage:

Hello Dolly - seen it with campers and really enjoyed it.

Les Mis - great music, fab staging

Starlight express - preformers on roller blades i love it.

Cats - all the performers are dressed as cats and they actually come off the stage.

South pacific - seen on stage with campers - enjoyed it.

Singing in the rain - again saw it with campers and enjoyed it.

Phantom of the Opera - enjoyed the stage production (would have enjoyed it more if i had had a better seat)

Evita - seen it on stage just before the madonna film came out - it was good and prefer the stage version.

Whistle down the Wind - it has some really catchy songs and I find myself singing them randomly (just like i do with camp songs)

Fame - the stage version is very different fromt the film.

Musicals I have seen on film:

phantom, evita, cats, fame

Also

Grease, Jesus Christ Supper Star, Godspell, Sound of Music, Fiddler on the Roof, West Side Stroy, little shop of horrors.

They have also turned beauty and the Beast and the lion king into musicals.

As you can tell I a huge musical fan.

[laurathistle]

I have seen a few musicals: Grease, Joseph, Jesus Christ Super Star, Les Mis, Annie get your Gun, Oliver!, Annie and Jerry Springer the Opera, if that counts

[these.city.lights]

im not really a musical person but i did see the producers, but it was the movie version. was alright, i just dont like the way they break into song every 2 minutes, its just not my cuppa tea.






I bloody love a cuppa tea.

[Angel_Jenny]

I havnt seen alot of musicals on stage but I have watched alot on film:

The Sound of Music
South Pacific
The King and I
Oklahoma
Carousel
7 Brides for 7 Brothers
Show Boat
Annie get your gun
Annie (orphan)
Oliver
Greace 1 and 2
My Fair Lady
Half a sixpence
Chicago
West Side Story
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Cats
Singing in the rain
Fame
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

I love my disney films lol and I would say most of them are musicals in a way!! :)
Would you count Bugsy Malone and Moulin Rouge as musicals? I seen them too!

[Possuumm]

In the last year year, I've seen: Grease, Phantom of the Opera (4th time total), Once Upon a Mattress, Cinderella, Bye Bye Birdie, Pippin, West Side Story, The Amazing Adventures of Average Man and Normal Boy, Guys and Dolls (Twice this year), RENT, Wicked, Edward ScissorHands (it was a ballet actually)..and a few more I can't remember..... I see a lot of shows....

[annknee]

I m a huge musical an,, but I tend to o most of my musical watching by film.

I have seen two musicals in real life Les Mis in Germany (yes in German) on the School Exchange, and Wicked, my friends took me for my birthday with the "original" (and by that they meant Idina Menzel) cast

As I am such a musical fan, I have developed a way to combine musicals and drinking, with friends obviously not with campers!! People dress up as a character (asigned before hand). Whenever the characeters name is mentioned they take a sip of a prepared punch (usually made of cider an fizzy wine etc) Each character also has a "big line" e.g for the Witch in the Wizard of Oz it would be "ill get you and your little hand too" they havea big drink which is usually made of dregs from every spirit we have in the house!

I am sure this is not CA, but it could be adapted!, my mother, who is an ex-Guider has been trying to adapt this for ages, but it just doesnt seem as fun with shot of lemonade!!!

[Mama P]

There are so may cheesy and good musicals to watch. Try... Music Man, Once Upon a Mattress, Oklahoma, Footloose, 42nd Street, Chicago.

[phcamp]

The penultimate campy (not our camp though) raunchy twisted musical turned movie musical:

Rocky Horror Picture Show (meatloaf's done!)

[Angel_Jenny]

I Went and saw WICKED when I came back from America which is a great Musical :D!!

[laurathistle]

I saw Alter Boyz in New York and Mama Mia in Vegas this summer.

[clarabelle1985]

Oh my goodness why i have i never got invovled with the musical talk before now.
I went to see joseph in Edinburgh at christmas it was good but not as good as some versions i have seen of it before, two of the guys of the tv show any dream will do were in it - dont know if the have this programme in the usa its basically american idol for musicals were people addition to be the lead in the west end version of the musical in frount of andrew lyod webber and public vote as well every week on tv. I felt the musical was became very focused on what had happened on the tv show - the way songs were performed and the audience interation with them. Also i thought the guy playing joseph was the best he was a runner up on the show and although a very good singer i felt he wasnt great at expressing emotions.
also has anyone else noticed that jospeh is a really shsort musical prob only 50minutes long they ended up repaeting a lot of songs at end and doing a half hour encoure jsut to make it longer.

I love the music from wicked my gymnastics club did it last year as a routine- i want to go see it on stage but from videos ive seen the broadway version looks much better than the west end version anyone have any thoughts on this.

My first year in america i saw beuty and the beast on broaway it was so amzing i still ahve not worked out how the chip character worked.
The next year i went to see chicago which is great i love that the ocastra is encorperated into the performance.

Wizard of oz will always hold a special place in my heart - the junior dispaly team( age5-11) at the gymnastics i help run won the british cahmpionships with it this year i loved that routine.

Was wondering about camps that put muciscals where they lie with performance rights i know in the uk for gymnastics you cannot use any music from andrew lyod webber, cirque du solie and disney - very annoying i want to do a whistle down the wind routine and cant

wow major rant here guys - sorry

[QueenMary]

Bye Bye Birdie is fun and quirky, Hairspray is FABULOUS bur skip Mamma Mia--Chicago is great. Grease, my all time favorite. Musicals are best seen in the theatre- try your local high school!