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dick van dyke turns 100

yes mary poppins and sound of music legacy.: wizard of oz legacy.

I also like the songs from Hair.

There is something about their courage and righteousness behind the barricades that is appropriate to the time...

My children loved it when they were young and now my grandchildren do as well. Never gets old.

Robert Morse and Michele Lee are great, and it just has such a mid-60s vibe to it.

Love G&D

many times: South Pacific, Oklahoma, The Sound of Music, My Fair Lady, Mary Poppins, White Christmas, Paint Your Wagon. Have you ever gone to a movie theater showing where the words to the songs come on the screen and the audience can sing along? My daughters and I have gone to some of those. It is really fun! Life’s too short not to just break out into song once in awhile!😁❤️

The Sound of Music. Loved the experience.

The ballet scene is just


ETA: It's one of my go-to movies to cheer up.
For animated movies: Beauty and the Beast is a great musical as well.

up to being award the Gene Kelly Award for Musicals. It is very prestigious around here. Love, Beauty and the Beast.

I also love 'Showboat'!

(I have done two of them, but never got the chance to do Sweeney Todd. A big regret in my life. Well, one of them.)

None of it seems to be something anyone is interested in, but there it is.

about this!

All That Jazz??????

How wonderful. I played my whole life until I had to stop for health reasons.
I don't go to much at all anymore because it makes me cry, lol a big old blubber baby.
I do love to see my sons play.

Whenever I see some of these 'big name' types performing I just feel like a big hardened turd.

I also have the same thought. 'That should have been me.' Of course, now I cannot do it. I have all but lost my singing voice and, thanks to my fucked up body, I cannot really play much anymore either. Most of this came about because of my desire to never attempt anything as a performer again. That happened because I had finally given up any hope of ever having the life I wanted to have. Or even the life I should have had, or even a life with one accomplishment that pertains to what I wanted out of it.

It eats me alive every time. It was all I wanted.

I should have known that my curse would not let me succeed at anything.

one or two that I really like.

My favorites: Both these leading ladies CARRY these musicals!

My Fair Lady

Live theater is the best!

Guys & Dolls
My Fair Lady

If you haven't watched this, it's insane and glorious. Must see!

Don't miss 'Operation Get Behind the Darkies" or Satan's solo...

not only do the musical numbers fit right into the action, but it has Joel Gray as the Emcee! And in Fiddler on the Roof, not only does it have lovable Tevye (I have Five daughters!), but the dance scene where they are celebrating Lazar's engagement is the finest example of choreography I have ever seen.

It was incredible.

excellent choice.

about the Canadian town that took in thousands of people after 9/11. I wish everyone would see it.

play being made.

Apple and Prime should have it. It is so uplifting.

i.e., Sound of Music and West Side Story. But one I’ve only discovered in last ten years or so (and watched a handful of times since then) is Sunday In The Park With George. Sondheim. Based on Seurat and his work where he set up in a park and painted.

Plus, check out the two principals in the version I know best (sorry about the weird looking video):

Although I've really liked most of the musicals I've seen.

It moooves me. Still. Today.

And Phantom of the Opera

Favorite versions are the 1973 film version with Ted Neeley as JC and the recent TV version with John Legend as JC. The latter was a live broadcast which was pretty amazing, whole cast included. The only problem is that those songs get stuck in my head for months.

The album was a Christmas gift while a teenager from my wonderful aunt. She had not children and brought me up to musicals at a very young age. I remember us dancing to Mary Martin's version of the Play ---The Sound of Music and other Broadway musicals.

I love love love the Broadway album with Julie Andrews and Richard Burton... but I SAW Rirchard Harris play King Arthur in an Heinz Hall production in 1987. ABSOLUTELY wonderful! I still have the program.

listening to it.

the movie features two traveling minstrels, played by the real-life singers Nat King Cole and Stubby Kaye, who appear throughout the film as a "musical Greek chorus". They sing the film's theme song, "The Ballad of Cat Ballou," and other tunes, narrating and commenting on the events of the story in a semi-musical format.

And I grew up listening to classic Broadway and movie musical soundtracks and still listen to them.

But none as much as Godspell, both the original off-Broadway version and the movie version w/Victor Garber.

One of the biggest thrills of my life was meeting Victor Garber in person (when he was appearing in They're Playing Our Song in DC many years ago).

Christ Superstar. but I really enjoyed it.

I've seen that movie a gazillion times too though.

Which is also like a love letter to my city NYC. ❤️

Also have enjoyed West Side Story, Camelot, Mary Poppins, Sounds of Music.
And I did see The Who play Tommy at The Filmore East in 1969. W00000t!

But on at or near the top are:

West Side Story (the original)
Guys and Dolls
Kiss Me Kate
Victor Victoria


But there are so many more!

George, Gracie and Fred in "Damsel in Distress" 1937

The Rocky Horror Picture Show
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There's a light over at the Frankenstein place.

At the screen. It was an experience.

The Phantom of the Opera
West Side Story
Or Fiddler on the Roof.
My top three with honorable mention for The Fantanstcks, Brigadoon, and South Pacific

be mentioned more then once

Both with Barbara Cook and Shirley Jones.

My Fair Lady and South Pacific have to be up there. And, while it never got a lot of play at family gatherings, I must add Hair!

Into The Woods
Victor, Victoria
Singin' In The Rain
The Mikado (technically an operaetta but more like a musica comedy)

I can watch it and then find myself humming its tunes for days after.

I’ve recently realized in watching it recently, a couple of the songs are quite bawdy for the time. “I’m Just a Girl that Cain’t Say ‘No’’ and ‘Kansas City’ come to mind.

n/t

I thought I could come up with one but nope...I tried and got rid of them all. It is fun seeing what everyone thinks of them.

Maybe Fiddler because the wind parts were so so much fun. I miss those gigs.

The Music Man
Streets of Fire (okay, really a music-themed movie)
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (Bing Crosby movie)
Yellow Submarine