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[andrewducker]

[Poll #1649552]

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[autopope.livejournal.com]

Doctor Strangelove would make an awesome musical, once CGI lipsync develops enough (and if they can rediscover/re-shoot Kubrick's planned final scene, with the inter-service custard pie fight in the war room).

[bart-calendar.livejournal.com]

Rome Girl spent most of her childhood as one of the original Annie orphans.

[alextfish.livejournal.com]

For a long time Phantom of the Opera was my favourite musical. Then we happened to make it to the Scarlet Pimpernel, and just... wow. Delightful twisty plot (I'm informed it's fairly close to the book but with one or two twists added), pleasingly extravagant costumes, and the songs! Evocative, heart-gripping tunes, with intricately crafted lyrics and rhymes. The only downside is that most of the best bits are before the interval; the most notable songs in the second half are reprises or revisits of ones from the first half.

If anyone likes musicals and has any tolerance at all for period adventure, the prototypical secret-identity story has been adapted into the best musical I've ever seen.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

I voted "Musicals: Bad" because it's a binary choice so I figured I'd go with "on average" and then round.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Also: I love how, so far, there's both no duplicates in Best Ever *and* no "best ever" that matches any of the poll choices.

[seph-hazard.livejournal.com]

I love Cabaret so much that there are not words adequate to express my feelings for it. It changed my personality the first time I saw it and I know every line and I can't bring myself to click through to see who said it was bad, just in case they're friends of mine and I can never speak to them again...

[khbrown.livejournal.com]

Check out the 1970s British sex comedy Adventures of a Private Eye for a very good Liza Minelli impersonation.

[nmg.livejournal.com]

Good poll, but really needs reasons. I want to know *why* autopope thinks that Annie is good.

(for the record, Oklahoma is the best musical evah solely due to Pore Jud is Daid)

[ashfae.livejournal.com]

(for the record, Oklahoma is the best musical evah solely due to Pore Jud is Daid)

Gaaah, I think it's the worst musical ever for the same reason!! Oh well, different strokes and all that...

[sttatus-quo.livejournal.com]

I rated Annie good also. Mostly because I saw it in New York on it's original run with Andrea Mcardle singing it. That was 1977. I also saw Fiddler that same year in stage production.

I love musical theatre which translates to a love of musicals on screen for the most part. "The Lion King" didn't make that jump, though. I hated the state production.

[ashfae.livejournal.com]

More accurately my response to Annie and Fiddler is "Meh". And to Cabaret and Mamma Mia it's "Haven't seen it."

[marrog.livejournal.com]

Fiddler? 'Meh'? Really?

And the idea that Rent OR Hedwig stands up against the greats... It's a funny world we live in where people manage to hold these ideas in their heads, *grin*.

[luckylove.livejournal.com]

I couldn't stand Fiddler on the Roof but certain circumstances may have turned a "Meh" into "hate." It was about four years ago and was my Dad's last night in the UK. He'd come over for a conference and took a few days leave so we could spend some time together. I think we manageed three days. Anyway, it was the last night and my aunt suddenly announces that we're going to see some musical about some people neither I nor my Dad had any interest in. We wanted to spend the evening chatting and possibly watching a comedy. Not being sat in uncomfortable seats being bored stiff and having to nudge my Dad every 10 minutes when his snoring got too loud. What a waste of a night. Everyone else raved about it but I thought it was shit. I hated the story, and I hated the music.

Mamma Mia gets hate too but then I think Abba songs are sacred and shouldn't be covered by anyone so of course I'm going to hate it.

[supergee.livejournal.com]

Too new for me. The great ones were Guys & Dolls and Li'l Abner.

[marrog.livejournal.com]

Oh I love Guys & Dolls!

And My Fair Lady, and Singin' in the Rain, and South Pacific, and Oliver, and and and...

[laplor.livejournal.com]

Oh dear! I forgot about Cannibal the Musical.

[fyrie.livejournal.com]

Most of those musicals, I'm fairly Meh about, but give me European, and I'm there with bells on :) Especially stuff like Tanz der Vampire - based on a cult 70s spoof vampire film with music by Steinman.

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

I understand why you don't like to have middle options in general but do you have to have seen every musical in the list to vote?

[andrewducker]

Just don't click on either option for the ones you haven't seen - that's what I do.

[marrog.livejournal.com]

For the record, although I stand by West Side Story, Oliver! is the show where (in the film version certainly and even in the stage version with several more songs) every single song is so memorable that, seeing it a few times, you can immediately remember any one of them. Charmless though it may be in some respects, it's nonetheless one of the greatest musicals ever written.

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

My Fair Lady. Even the secondary character filler songs are ace.

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

The best musicals are the ones with exclamation marks at the end of the title. In fact, any word with an exclamation mark at the end is an excellent musical AUTOMATICALLY.

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

Elephant!

[dapperscavenger.livejournal.com]

Haven't seen Cabaret or Mama Mia.

What about Student Prince or Seven brides for seven brothers? I enjoyed those a lot.

[andrewducker]

I enjoyed Mama Mia a lot. Cabaret is good, but unusual. You might enjoy it a lot :->

[ashfae.livejournal.com]

Out of curiosity, why did you pick these musicals? There are so *many*...is there a reason you're asking about these?

[andrewducker]

These particular ones? Not really - I was discussing musicals with a friend, and thought I'd see what people's opinions were. They mentioned Annie (that I hadn't seen) and I threw in a few that I had.

[blearyboy.livejournal.com]

How about Team America: World Police?

[andrewducker]

Definitely a musical. The third one by Parker/Stone (following Cannibal and South Park).

[khbrown.livejournal.com]

Where do Bollywood films fit in this? Are they by default also musicals, or are they a separate category?

[andrewducker]

Good question - when I think of musicals I tend to think of movies where the music pushes the plot forward, which probably includes at least some Bollywood movies. But I'm not an expert.

[elmyra.livejournal.com]

You have committed the cardinal sin. It's the Rocky Horror Show. :-)

[andrewducker]

I hadn't actually realised the play and film had different names! Thanks!

[0olong.livejournal.com]

I was going to vote Musicals: Good but then I realised I've only seen one of the ones you listed, so I feel underqualified to judge.