I'm not a musical girl. I like them fine. I like to see them live and even as movies but I am not, as some of my readers probably are, an aficionado. You know, I just looked up aficionado because I was afraid I'd misspelled it but I got it right the first time. Unless Google is also wrong, of course. The OED is at my mom's house.
Now, I could talk about adventures with the OED. But I will write about musicals instead.
I'm going to say "10 musicals I've seen and enjoyed" instead of "10 favorite musicals" because seriously, I'm going to be a bumpkin here. And in no particular order.
1. Holiday Inn. The family tradition is that my grandmother saw this right before her first husband went off to the war (where he was killed) and so nobody ever sang "White Christmas" after that. I love stories like this. The superstition and memory and weird rules. So I didn't see this until adulthood and thoroughly enjoyed it.
2. Sweet Charity. My sister's high school put this one on. She wasn't the lead (she'd been the lead in that really hard play earlier in the year, what was it...Arthur Miller's All My Sons), but she was one of the other dancers. Fun.
3. Mary Poppins. I loved the version that came to St. Louis recently. I took the girls.
4. I know this isn't the same thing at all, but can I just put The Muppet Movie here? The original one, from my childhood.
5. Jesus Christ Superstar. This soundtrack? It was the soundtrack of my sophomore year of college. Who knows why.
6. Music Man. I never saw this until after Sophia came along. Sophia loves musicals.
7. Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. Absolutely. Ludicrous.
8. The Producers. What was that about ludicrous?
9. Chicago. Mostly because I use the line "and all that jazz" more than I should.
10. Meet Me in St. Louis. Of course.
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Some of those are high on my list, too. You're right about Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, and I love it! I'm also a fan of Singing in the Rain. (Of course, I have a shelf full of old movies -- musicals and otherswise.)
I'm impressed you've come up with ten. I've never heard of some of these.
Of the ones I've seen, my absolute favourite was the Queen musical, We Will Rock You, written by Ben Elton. Hilarious, and great music.
And actually, Mama Mia was very good (and funny) too. But I couldn't stand the movie.
And of course, JC Superstar.
And we can't forget the Rocky Horror Picture Show, can we? (especially not when it was written by a kiwi)
you've missed our 3 family favorites: sound of music, fiddler on the roof, and Joseph and the amazing technicolor dream coat. I put the latter on w/a 5th grade cast and it was excellent. We all love fiddler even if it makes us cry.
Aw, man, have you never seen West Side Story? At the Muny? I get chills just typing it. You really need to put that on your bucket list.
I love Joseph; I have never seen Fiddler, Mama Mia, or the Queen musical. I don't get out much. West Side Story and Sound of Music...they would be close, maybe on a list like this, remember, it's "10 musicals I saw and liked." Rocky Horror always reminds me of my husband's ex, who used to go to the theater and play the role of Janet up in front of the screen....
Of course the original Muppet Movie counts.
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