Thread: How did you discover your favorite musical?

Fiddler on the Roof - The one show that turns me into a slobbering cry baby! Brace yourselves for a whole lotta ugly comin' at you from a neverending parade of stupid.

I thought the stage version was very good, but the movie is so different it hardly seems fair to compare them. ------- Take that, space coyote!

"... and how did you like CHICAGO on staged compared to film? ... both enjoyable in my book .. saw it on stage first." See if I had to pick, if I absolutely HAD to pick, I would actually take the film. As an actor myself I do appreciate Brechtian approaches to theatre, but it's not really how I like my theatre, I prefer to be emotionally engaged with the characters rather than alienated from them and hit over the head...

I'll start. Sorry if it's a little long. When I was a little kid, I loved to watch TV. I loved Disney, THE WIZARD OF OZ, etc. My favorite Disney movie was CINDERELLA. One day, when I was about three or four, I was looking for something to watch. I opened the video cupboard to look, and one tape caught my eye. It was called: CINDERELLA. This CINDERELLA, however, looked different. The box was purple, and it had a giant picture of a...

I saw a stage production of Carousel when I was a teenager and eagerly sought out the movie version when it was broadcast on tv. This was long before tape and disc. At some point, however, I heard Jerome Kern's score for Show Boat and fell in love with it. I have the Complete Showboat (1929, 1936, 1947) on laser disc and keep hoping it will eventually be released on dvd or blu ray. I also saw the latest Broadway version in the late...

These message boards, ironically enough! There was a thread on here years ago asking people to choose which musical theatre song described their lives at the moment, and person after person kept saying "Still Hurting" from The Last Five Years. So I bought the CD and only listened to that song for a long time, until I became sick of it and started to listen to the rest of it. Well worth my while, for sure! So if you commented...

I always say that my favorite musical is Les Miserables . If that's the case, my cousin heard that I was starting to like Broadway musicals, so she gave me the cd and told me to listen to it. I kept putting it off; finally, one year while wrapping Christmas presents, I put the CD in for background music. I was horrified. I don't believe that I made it through the entire show; I finished wrapping quickly and got that the heck out of...

hmmm I don't really have anything interesting like that. My favorite musical is probably "Girl Crazy" with the music by the Gershwin Brothers. I discovered it when I checked out a CD of the 90s reconstructed version with Lorna Luft. Listened to it practically every day for months. Did I not love him, Cooch? MY OWN FLESH I DIDN'T LOVE BETTER!!! But he had to say 'Nooooooooo'

I went to see an A Level Performing Arts piece at my college, one of the songs they used was "Money, money" from Cabaret and it was performed amazingly, I had the song stuck in my head for the rest of the day. When I got home I googled the lyrics and this came up: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkRIbUT6u7Q It had only been uploaded about a month ago then and I fell in love, I went to Amazon to buy the dvd and it was amazingly...

Cabaret. i first saw the movie, then went to see a professionally staged production in Vancouver. I simply fell in love. I had never been affected so much by theatre as i was that night. For me it's the perfect synergy of dance, book and song in a show. Revenge is a dish best served cold.