Favorite Musicals

fishbowlfreshman
Sat, 09 May 2009 01:46:09 +0000

^ I think most of the MT aficionados in my age group pretty well burned out on RENT awhile back. I enjoyed seeing the tour, but never understood all the hoopla that had kids playing the cast recording over and over and over and over and over … The same kids were usually into ‘Wicked,’ too. ‘Spring Awakening’ seems to have taken their place. I really did like the music for that one the first ten gazillion times I heard it.

Let’s see … Just for the music - meaning I own the CDs and would allow them to be played in my car - I like …

Tommy (Original album and film versions. NOT the Broadway cast recording.)
Jesus Christ Superstar (The original London recording)
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Hair
Pippin

Others I’ve seen done in various venues and loved as a whole, but repeated listenings to the cast recordings would get on my nerves …

West Side Story ( How can you be human and not love that one?)
Cabaret
The Producers
A Little Night Music
The Sound of Music
Jane Eyre

I’ll cut you if you play …

Phantom of the Opera
Miss Saigon (Hated the tour)
Wicked

Meh … You’d need to have attended a Superbowl party when someone you know was playing in the game only to have the host turn the sound down on the TV in favor of Seth Rudetsky’s Broadway Channel on Satellite radio and then have 3/4 of the people there crowded around the piano drunkenly belting out showtunes at the climax of the game to understand my feelings about cast recordings … I guess that might be Heaven for some, though … LOL