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General Discussion => General Discussion Boards => Lifestyle and Entertainment => Topic started by: ProtonStar on November 06, 2011, 06:40:02 pm
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To be honest, I really love musicals. I find musical soundtracks so much more relaxing to listen to than mainstream music. So I was just wondering, does anyone here like musicals? Does anyone else think that they are really relaxing to listen to? Oh and by the way, my favourite musicals are Doctor Zhivago and Next to Normal which dominate my iPod 'most played' :D
FYI, I swear I am a straight male who was brought up by a mother who took me to every single musical that came to Melbourne, whether or not I wanted to go :P
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I am so disappointed in the lack of responses :(
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Used to love musicals because I played the music for them in high school a lot, not so much now, I just don't have the chance to listen to them much! The last few I did were Into the Woods, The Producers (omg love it so much), Seussical, and Mikado
LOL @ your mother. If I ever have kids I'm dragging them to every musical, opera and concert I can xD
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I approve of this. I'm a straight male who PERFORMS in musical theatre. ...yeah...
Also, my favourite musical of all time is Chess, which puts me in about 0.0001% of the musical theatre population. :p
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Haha I've resigned to the fact that I'm not the best singer, so I prefer to watch. Yeah ninwa the Producers is a fantastic musical, you're so lucky to be able to perform in it ;)
Funnily enough EZ, I understand completely where you're getting at! Last year Chess was one of my favourite musicals, even though pretty much nobody had heard of it. Myself and a couple of mates actually went to see Wesley College perform it, even though none of us actually knew anyone from the school :P
Myself and one of my mates still occasionally spontaneously burst out singing 'The Interview' from Chess when we get bored ;D
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Anthem is where it's at!
How could I leave her?
WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERE WOULD I STAAAAAAAART?
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Let man's petty nations tear themselves apart!
My land's only borders lie around my HEEEAAART!!
Anthony Warlow absolutely kills the song if you've ever heard him (in a good way of course) :P
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I saw half of a recording of a Chess performance before. It was pretty cool from what I saw of it, I never got to see the end half though :(
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Myself and one of my mates still occasionally spontaneously burst out singing 'The Interview' from Chess when we get bored ;D
you have kickarse friends
I'm still prone to burst out in snatches of "springtime for hitler"
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One day you must listen/watch it all laseredd! It is really good, but for some silly reason it was a failure as a musical... and yet Mamma Mia was a commercial success (funnily enough the male members of ABBA wrote Chess :P)
Haha I'm lucky enough to have many friends who love musicals!
Aaand now it's Springtime for Hitler and Germany!!!!
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Let man's petty nations tear themselves apart!
My land's only borders lie around my HEEEAAART!!
Anthony Warlow absolutely kills the song if you've ever heard him (in a good way of course) :P
I think my favourite version is Michael Ball, although having just heard Warlowe...
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A while back on this forum, (under a different account), I was bagged for having an avatar featuring Judy Garland from 'Meet me in St Louis'. (And I was a straight male last time I checked.)
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I love musicals more than anyone can imagine. Secret music theatre closet freak! I have so many Broadway songs on my iTunes, it's not funny, and whenever someone references something like being hungry, I can burst into a chorus of Feed Me (LSoH). There are so many witty and sweet and curious things in musicals! I wish I was a good singer so I could be in one =/ dancer, even! Hoping to perform in some productions post-high school :)
You know what's even better, though? I write/review shows for websites with fairly big readerships, so I get to go review musicals. BEST. THING. EVER. I got invited to an after party once, with Amanda Harrison and Christie Whelan. They were both so sweet. I basically sobbed the whole way home with joy. And acted like a complete fangirl. And threw a fit when I got seated next to Bert La Bonte and stuff. Look them up. They're amazing!
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^^Whoa! In awe!
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Ahaha as you should be EZ! =p SERIOUSLY BRAGGING HERE, BUT SITTING NEXT TO BERT LA BONTE. AND GARETH KEEGAN.
I cried. In my mind ;_; Because I saw them in Next to Normal - which is more rocky but seriously amazing and emotional and it won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2009 so, DO IT - and then I sat next to them in joy. It's the best gig ever.
Does anyone else sort of start sobbing towards the end of sad ballads they're singing? I get all choked up with emotion. Part of the reason I would make a fabulous diva.
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I met Max Gillies at his son's Bar Mitzvah ceremony (3 others were graduating, including my friend), but I didn't know who he was then
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LOVE Music theatre! Next to Normal, West Side Story, Into the Woods, Book of Mormon and Love Never Dies are all played again and again :D And Warlow is just amazing....
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LOVE Music theatre! Next to Normal, West Side Story, Into the Woods, Book of Mormon and Love Never Dies are all played again and again :D And Warlow is just amazing....
I've heard mixed reviews about "Love Never Dies". Apparently, the set is amazing but the plot is all twisted and weird. In Britain reviewers dubbed it, "Paint Never Dries"
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LOVE Music theatre! Next to Normal, West Side Story, Into the Woods, Book of Mormon and Love Never Dies are all played again and again :D And Warlow is just amazing....
I've heard mixed reviews about "Love Never Dies". Apparently, the set is amazing but the plot is all twisted and weird. In Britain reviewers dubbed it, "Paint Never Dries"
This! not sure if I want to see it D:
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I saw it - it was EXACTLY as Panicmode described. That, and the showstopper is the very first song. Fail.
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I saw it - it was EXACTLY as Panicmode described. That, and the showstopper is the very first song. Fail.
Thanks, don't think I'll end up seeing it now.
Have to say, my favourite musical is a fair toss up between Wicked and Les Miserables.
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I saw it - it was EXACTLY as Panicmode described. That, and the showstopper is the very first song. Fail.
The showstopper is the first song? I'm not really looking forward to it as much now ;_; I mean, the cast sounds decent, but.
What're you guys feelings on Cats?
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I love you guys so much ;D I didn't say in the original post, but I have two iPods, with one dedicated solely to musical songs (I have 1637 songs by the way :P)
What're you guys feelings on Cats?
I saw Cats when it was in Melbourne recently. I did really like it, but I thought it was overrated. Mind you, in all honesty I think all Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals are overrated, when there's amazing musicals like Next To Normal which very few people have heard of haha.
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I love you guys so much ;D I didn't say in the original post, but I have two iPods, with one dedicated solely to musical songs (I have 1637 songs by the way :P)
What're you guys feelings on Cats?
I saw Cats when it was in Melbourne recently. I did really like it, but I thought it was overrated. Mind you, in all honesty I think all Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals are overrated, when there's amazing musicals like Next To Normal which very few people have heard of haha.
NEXT TO NORMAL OHMYGOD SO MUCH LOVE ;_; Yeah, I'm not a big fan of Cats. I don't know about it being overrated, ahaha ease up he has some due right to that, but there are other amazing things out there. Next to Normal <3 That is actually stunning.
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I love you guys so much ;D I didn't say in the original post, but I have two iPods, with one dedicated solely to musical songs (I have 1637 songs by the way :P)
What're you guys feelings on Cats?
I saw Cats when it was in Melbourne recently. I did really like it, but I thought it was overrated. Mind you, in all honesty I think all Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals are overrated, when there's amazing musicals like Next To Normal which very few people have heard of haha.
NEXT TO NORMAL OHMYGOD SO MUCH LOVE ;_; Yeah, I'm not a big fan of Cats. I don't know about it being overrated, ahaha ease up he has some due right to that, but there are other amazing things out there. Next to Normal <3 That is actually stunning.
Haha I guess; I'm a tad outspoken when it comes to my opinion on matters related to musicals :P
Yes! Next to Normal is so brilliant! To be honest, I never got to see the Melbourne Theatre Company perform it, 'cause I only got into it JUST after they closed :( But I've listened to the soundtrack so many times... it's one of those musicals that I'll never get sick of (like Les Mis). 'I Am the One' is so so so so emotionally powerful IMO :)
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I love you guys so much ;D I didn't say in the original post, but I have two iPods, with one dedicated solely to musical songs (I have 1637 songs by the way :P)
What're you guys feelings on Cats?
I saw Cats when it was in Melbourne recently. I did really like it, but I thought it was overrated. Mind you, in all honesty I think all Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals are overrated, when there's amazing musicals like Next To Normal which very few people have heard of haha.
NEXT TO NORMAL OHMYGOD SO MUCH LOVE ;_; Yeah, I'm not a big fan of Cats. I don't know about it being overrated, ahaha ease up he has some due right to that, but there are other amazing things out there. Next to Normal <3 That is actually stunning.
Haha I guess; I'm a tad outspoken when it comes to my opinion on matters related to musicals :P
Yes! Next to Normal is so brilliant! To be honest, I never got to see the Melbourne Theatre Company perform it, 'cause I only got into it JUST after they closed :( But I've listened to the soundtrack so many times... it's one of those musicals that I'll never get sick of (like Les Mis). 'I Am the One' is so so so so emotionally powerful IMO :)
Shamelessly plugging amateurish work, but: http://www.liveguide.com.au/News_and_Reviews/8/36495/Reviewed_Next_To_Normal got free tickets to review it for that site.
But hey, another musical fan, hurrah! I did get to see MTC perform it, as you'll see in the review =p I'd heard about it coming to Melbourne and you have NO CLUE how excited I was. The one thing that bothered me was Kate Kendall as Diana, a little bit, but she eased her way into it vocally. I think she was sick the night I was in though. But oh my god, I am never going to get sick of N2N or Les Mis. I dislike the people who get bothered at some portrayals of Eponine as jerking around during 'A Little Fall of Rain'. I'm like, she's dying. She's going to react to the pain, if she can feel it.
But 'I Am The One', oh my god, I can't even. That scene is so incredibly powerful, depending upon the appearance of Gabe. Have you seen the Tony performance of it? Having him just sit there, and have him just be there in scenes is really interesting. And, plus, Aaron Tveit, Alice Ripley, J Spence, Jen Damiano. Could you be much happier? I just love how it unfolds.
IMHO MTC's production was well done, especially Bert La Bonte/Dr Fine, e.t.c. Christy Sullivan who played Natalie was stunning vocally, but her tonal quality was VERY different in the second act, which just threw me off completely. Their set is gorgeous though. Huge and close, and the cast manage really well so much so you wouldn't realise how few of them there really are.
'Maybe/Next to Normal' staged, without a doubt, gets me everytime. You have to see it live and in person next time Jarryd oh my god <33 So much. What others do you like?
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Shamelessly plugging amateurish work, but: http://www.liveguide.com.au/News_and_Reviews/8/36495/Reviewed_Next_To_Normal got free tickets to review it for that site.
But hey, another musical fan, hurrah! I did get to see MTC perform it, as you'll see in the review =p I'd heard about it coming to Melbourne and you have NO CLUE how excited I was. The one thing that bothered me was Kate Kendall as Diana, a little bit, but she eased her way into it vocally. I think she was sick the night I was in though. But oh my god, I am never going to get sick of N2N or Les Mis. I dislike the people who get bothered at some portrayals of Eponine as jerking around during 'A Little Fall of Rain'. I'm like, she's dying. She's going to react to the pain, if she can feel it.
But 'I Am The One', oh my god, I can't even. That scene is so incredibly powerful, depending upon the appearance of Gabe. Have you seen the Tony performance of it? Having him just sit there, and have him just be there in scenes is really interesting. And, plus, Aaron Tveit, Alice Ripley, J Spence, Jen Damiano. Could you be much happier? I just love how it unfolds.
IMHO MTC's production was well done, especially Bert La Bonte/Dr Fine, e.t.c. Christy Sullivan who played Natalie was stunning vocally, but her tonal quality was VERY different in the second act, which just threw me off completely. Their set is gorgeous though. Huge and close, and the cast manage really well so much so you wouldn't realise how few of them there really are.
'Maybe/Next to Normal' staged, without a doubt, gets me everytime. You have to see it live and in person next time Jarryd oh my god <33 So much. What others do you like?
Haha wow Vivj, I had a glance of your review; it was very sincere and well written :)
I totally agree with what you say about Eponine! Peoples' opinion on her different actors' characterisation seem to always be divided. Totally unrelated, but I actually read the ~1200 page novel of Les Mis in Year 10, which really opened my eyes to the way the characters were portrayed :)
Oh my, I really wish I could have seen Next To Normal! The Tony Award performance was what got me into it in the first place. It is so compelling; as you said, with Gabe's positioning within the scene.
I know, I am so desperate to see the musical! I could never appreciate it as much as you until I do! I can only imagine the raw emotional power of Maybe/Next to Normal, as I can only listen to it now...
I think this will be my next chance to see it though! http://www.theatrepeople.com.au/newsflash/wmtc-inc-announce-next-normal-2012
I will not pass it up for the world!
And other musicals I really love are Doctor Zhivago (which I saw on stage with Anthony Warlow), Jekyll and Hyde, In the Heights, Miss Saigon, Wicked and Martin Guerre. They're just a few I've grown to love :)
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Also, my favourite musical of all time is Chess, which puts me in about 0.0001% of the musical theatre population. :p
I saw half of a recording of a Chess performance before. It was pretty cool from what I saw of it, I never got to see the end half though :(
Sorry to revive an old thread, but you might be interested that Chess is coming to Melbourne in August.
http://www.artscentremelbourne.com.au/whats-on/event.aspx?id=3018
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Also, my favourite musical of all time is Chess, which puts me in about 0.0001% of the musical theatre population. :p
I saw half of a recording of a Chess performance before. It was pretty cool from what I saw of it, I never got to see the end half though :(
Sorry to revive an old thread, but you might be interested that Chess is coming to Melbourne in August.
http://www.artscentremelbourne.com.au/whats-on/event.aspx?id=3018
OH MY GOD I LOVE YOU
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Did anyone get around to watching the Tonys on Sunday? It's always hard to tell if you've only seen bootleg performances but I personally felt Newsies probably was a little hard done by, and Once a bit lucky.
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Late reply, but I did see the Tony's... and you're right, I thought Newsies was brilliant :O
Just letting you know I saw Chess two nights ago at the Exhibition Centre and it was bloody fantastic!
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I don't really know any musicals other than the ones that most people have heard of so don't shun me :-[ but I really, really love The Phantom of the Opera and Love Never Dies.
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Our recent school production was Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat. (I was in the band playing the awesome oboe solos :P)
Also, everybody should listen to Classic FM: at the moment they're playing Gene Kelly's music ( so much love for this man <3)
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Late reply, but I did see the Tony's... and you're right, I thought Newsies was brilliant :O
Just letting you know I saw Chess two nights ago at the Exhibition Centre and it was bloody fantastic!
I might be a little bit biased given that I've been a Newsies fan since I was 7 or 8 but I do wish it had taken best musical! Although it's hard to tell from bootlegs.
That's awesome, lucky! Any notable acting performances?
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Late reply, but I did see the Tony's... and you're right, I thought Newsies was brilliant :O
Just letting you know I saw Chess two nights ago at the Exhibition Centre and it was bloody fantastic!
I might be a little bit biased given that I've been a Newsies fan since I was 7 or 8 but I do wish it had taken best musical! Although it's hard to tell from bootlegs.
That's awesome, lucky! Any notable acting performances?
Haha fair enough! With the film with Christian Bale :P
Yeah I've only seen YouTube clips, but I thought they deserved it with the dancing alone! Plus, I wasn't really that impressed with the Once song that was performed at the Tony Awards in comparison.
Simon Gleeson played Anatoly (the Russian) and Anthem was absolutely brilliant (that was the end of Act One song). However, Martin Crewes who played Freddie (the American) sung a song called Pity the Child, which I've heard is perhaps one of the hardest male songs in any broadway musical. Him singing that song gave me the shivers it was that freaking good. But everyone one was good in that musical! Other than Dr Zhivago, I think Chess was one of the best musicals I've ever seen :P