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).
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.
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...
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.
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*.
*shrug* I dislike the music from Fiddler. I also dislike the excessive stereotyping. It just doesn't appeal to me. C'est la vie.
I love Rent and Hedwig, though it could be argued that they're more rock opera than musical. Can't help it, bias. =) Really if I had to choose...probably I'd go with West Side Story, because the orchestration in that one is amazing. But I don't enjoy listening to it as often.
Hmm, the cliches falling all over each other to hit me on the head were a little annoying, also boring. But mostly, as said, I don't care for most of the music.
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.
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.
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.
See, I love My Fair Lady too and nearly went for it, but neither it nor Oliver! are quite as good as West Side Story even though I love them more, and Andy asked for the best, not my favourite.
It could be argued that so does MFL given what a prick Professor Higgins is. But I just *love* the music, it cracks me up. "Damn damn damn damn damn...I've grown accustomed to her face!" never fails to make me helpless with laughter.
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.
Yes that is where I took it from - I worked in the Storage & Dining department at IKEA many many many years ago and was trying to think up a LJ username one quiet Thursday night.
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.
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.
One of the earliest issues with the musical film was whether the song and dance numbers were interruptions of the narrative or developed it. In an integrated musical they are part of the narrative, in a non-integrated musical they are not.
But this doesn't necessarily work with Bollywood because of different aesthetic traditions - e.g. the rasa rather than mimesis.
For once doing film studies actually comes in useful!
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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.
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(for the record, Oklahoma is the best musical evah solely due to Pore Jud is Daid)
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Gaaah, I think it's the worst musical ever for the same reason!! Oh well, different strokes and all that...
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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.
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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*.
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I love Rent and Hedwig, though it could be argued that they're more rock opera than musical. Can't help it, bias. =) Really if I had to choose...probably I'd go with West Side Story, because the orchestration in that one is amazing. But I don't enjoy listening to it as often.
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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.
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And My Fair Lady, and Singin' in the Rain, and South Pacific, and Oliver, and and and...
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Yes that is where I took it from - I worked in the Storage & Dining department at IKEA many many many years ago and was trying to think up a LJ username one quiet Thursday night.
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What about Student Prince or Seven brides for seven brothers? I enjoyed those a lot.
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But this doesn't necessarily work with Bollywood because of different aesthetic traditions - e.g. the rasa rather than mimesis.
For once doing film studies actually comes in useful!
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