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Are you obsessed with a particular musical?

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Invasionofthegutsnatchers · 26/12/2021 19:20

I am, totally. I love Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. It has many layers of family significance for us. If I'm bored, depressed or stressed I will always listen to the soundtrack and feel better. I've seen it do many times in done many theatres, performed in ut, been the director as a teacher, watched my dad direct it when he was a teacher. Nothing else comes close!

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stressedy · 26/12/2021 22:00

sound of music
beauty and the beast

Exhausteddog · 26/12/2021 22:04

I saw Anything Goes at the barbican in September and it was amazing. Just watched on TV tonight as well.
But I also love some songs from phantom and les miserables but I didn't enjoy the whole show of les mis.

Storminamu · 26/12/2021 22:04

The children have been obsessed with musicals in succession - Annie, Matilda, Book of Mormon, Hamilton.

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Umbongoumbongo999 · 26/12/2021 22:05

I love the detail of Hamilton and agree with a PP that you notice something new every time you watch it. I have seen it in the West End but would love to see it on Broadway. I have the soundtrack on my regular playlists and enjoyed the book Hamilton The Revolution and the Hamilcast to learn more about the design, the songwriting, the choreography etc.

I am taking my dds to see Six this year. DD2 is OBSESSED so we are excited to go

Midlander88 · 26/12/2021 22:05

Oh my God yeah! Shock Treatment, the ultra 80s musical Richard O'brien wrote after Rocky Horror.

The songs in it are just so funny and catchy!

DontKnowWhatToThink7 · 26/12/2021 22:08

Rocky horror picture show

Same. I love it.

InaccurateDream · 26/12/2021 22:08

As a kid I loved Annie. At uni I was obsessed with Rent. Discovered Hamilton a few years back. Then this year loved Tick, tick book on Netflix, about Jonathan Larson who created Rent and died on its opening night, and that sent me back to Rent again (also Andrew Garfield is amazing in tick tick boom!)

StoopitAutocarrot · 26/12/2021 22:08

Hamilton! I’m still aggrieved that I didn’t get tickets for it ( anywhere!) for my milestone birthday this year.

Ginandplatonic · 26/12/2021 22:09

Does everyone have to be obsessed these days? Is no one simply fond of anything any more?

Do you understand that hyperbole is a rhetorical device? Language would be rather uninspiring if everyone always used bland, lukewarm words.

Anyway, I love lots of musicals but if I had to pick one it would probably be Les Mis. My son’s musical theatre group performed it recently and I was involved in the production, so watched every rehearsal and every show from backstage. I’d still go to see a professional production if one came to town tomorrow. And still go through all the emotions it evokes, which is pretty amazing when I think about it.

pink1173 · 26/12/2021 22:10

Obsessed with Rent, Hamilton, West side story, Everybody’s talking about Jamie and &Juliet. I listen to them all over and over. Love a musical!

Comefromaway · 26/12/2021 22:11

As a teen I was obsessed with Miss Saigon.

I’ve seen a lot of musicals since then and the absolute best thing I’ve ever seen is Come From Away.

Ds meanwhile is totally obsessed with The Book of Mormon & Dd with Songs for a New World.

Comefromaway · 26/12/2021 22:12

And I don’t use the word obsessed lightly. My family are all autistic.

PermanentTemporary · 26/12/2021 22:12

Company. I found the version on YouTube with Raul Esparza and Barbara Walsh and I absolutely love it.

I still go back to Seth Rudetsky deconstructing songs from the musicals from a music director's pov on YouTube. Absolutely love them, especially the early ones which are so detailed and full of passion. Lots of fun too.

Comefromaway · 26/12/2021 22:13

@InaccurateDream

As a kid I loved Annie. At uni I was obsessed with Rent. Discovered Hamilton a few years back. Then this year loved Tick, tick book on Netflix, about Jonathan Larson who created Rent and died on its opening night, and that sent me back to Rent again (also Andrew Garfield is amazing in tick tick boom!)
I watched it this afternoon. Wow! And I can’t believe all the people in it, Bernadette Peters AND Chita Rivera for goodness sake.
Gazelda · 26/12/2021 22:23

I'm deliberately holding off watching Hamilton on Disney+ until I've seen it on stage. I want to be captivated by the live experience first. I've not got tickets yet though, I need to find someone who is as excited as me, but who hasn't seen it before.

My absolute favourite is Les Mis. Many others have had me transfixed, but none evoke such strong emotion as Les Mis.

GlittercheeksOakleaf · 26/12/2021 22:24

Starlight Express was my first real musical and will always be special to me. Also love Joseph, Whistle down the Wind and Cats by Lloyd Webber. My Fair lady, sound of music and Annie are great too. Recently, Strictly Ballroom (original Leeds playhouse version, not the London one) and Matilda were amazing, Sunshine on Leith fun too. We've got tickets for Six in April and I'm super excited for that too!

Just10moreminutesplease · 26/12/2021 22:26

Are we related? My family loves Joseph too!

CheesyChipsOnWembleyWay · 26/12/2021 22:32

Newsies for me. Movie version first and foremost. It's inspiring.

Six is bloody good too though, can't wait to see it again.

Comefromaway · 26/12/2021 22:34

@CheesyChipsOnWembleyWay

Newsies for me. Movie version first and foremost. It's inspiring.

Six is bloody good too though, can't wait to see it again.

Sorry, I really can’t agree about the movie version. I saw the Broadway version in the cinema and wow, the dancing. And the moment in Once and For All when everything moves forward. Spine tingling.
doodlejump1980 · 26/12/2021 22:34

Top singalong in the car for long journeys, has to be OST from Hairspray, Chorus Line or Joseph. Can not get enough of Avenue Q. Genius!!

Snowisfalling33 · 26/12/2021 22:36

I love a good musical!
I've seen Les Mis 15 times and even appeared in one production of it at a west end theatre. So that's my all time favourite.
I've recently discovered Prom and absolutely love it. I can't find anybody who shares the love or has even seen it though!

GorgonzolaSouffle · 26/12/2021 22:37

Les Miserables

Seen it 22 times.

I sang my way through the concert on TV yesterday and cried like I always do.

Comefromaway · 26/12/2021 22:38

@Snowisfalling33

I love a good musical! I've seen Les Mis 15 times and even appeared in one production of it at a west end theatre. So that's my all time favourite. I've recently discovered Prom and absolutely love it. I can't find anybody who shares the love or has even seen it though!
Dd has watched a bootleg of The Prom. She loves it.
HarrisMcCoo · 26/12/2021 22:40

South Pacific will always be my favourite. Happy Talk.

downtonupton · 26/12/2021 22:40

controversial but I loathe Lloyd Webber and didnt like Hamilton, Lion King, Wicked or Prince of Egypt.

I absolutely love almost to the point of obsession CABARET but specifically the Alan Cumming version (the whole thing is available on YouTube from when it was shown on telly )

I went to see the new version in London with Eddie Redmayne in November was great - also saw a version with Will Young, James Drefyuss and Anna Maxwell-Martin, and back in the 80s a version with Toyah and Wayne Sleep). Dont really like the film version as they took out two of the best characters and some of the best songs.

Other musicals I like are Matilda, Book of Mormon, Billy Elliot, Bat Out of Hell - have seen others I have enjoyed but wouldn't bother to go back t like Kinky Boots, Everybody's Talking About Jamie, Grease, 9-5, Heathers