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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.

[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...

[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]

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

[supergee.livejournal.com]

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

[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?

[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]

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.

[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.

[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?

[blearyboy.livejournal.com]

How about Team America: World Police?

[khbrown.livejournal.com]

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

[elmyra.livejournal.com]

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

[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.