# The Daily Feud: Showtunes by Ellen Cherry \[Game Over\] **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [November 10, 2008, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-showtunes-by-ellen-cherry-game-over/472037 "2008-11-10T15:13:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-showtunes-by-ellen-cherry-game-over/472037/21 "2008-11-10T18:06:32Z")
1. My Favorite Things 2. Mama 3. Some Enchanted Evening 4. Ado Annie 5. Divine 6. 1776 7. Eliza Doolittle (My Fair Lady) 8. Carrie 9. Jesus Christ Superstar 10. Patti Lupone Notes: 5. And why wasn’t Harvey Fierstein a choice? 6 & 8. I’m assuming we’re talking stage musical rather than film, ruling out ‘Singing in the Rain’ and ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club,’ respectively 9. C’mon, he’s a superstar! ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-showtunes-by-ellen-cherry-game-over/472037/22 "2008-11-10T18:07:48Z")
1. My Favorite Things 2. Velma Kelly 3. Some Enchanted Evening 4. Curly McLain 5. Divine 6. Chicago 7. Gypsy Rose Lee 8. Cats 9. Jesus Christ Superstar 10. Patti Lupone ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-showtunes-by-ellen-cherry-game-over/472037/23 "2008-11-10T18:10:10Z")
I just couldn’t do enough of these, especially when you started to get to “favorites”. Guess I’ll have to sit this one out. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-showtunes-by-ellen-cherry-game-over/472037/24 "2008-11-10T18:31:02Z")
1. _My Favorite Things_ 2. Roxie Hart 3. _Some Enchanted Evening_ 4. Jud 5. Divine 6. _Oklahoma!_ 7. Nathan Detroit 8. _High School Musical_ 9. _Jesus Christ Superstar_ 10. Rita Moreno 11. inspiration for the knock-knock joke punchline “Sam and Janet Evening!” 12. Makes sense to name one already mentioned in this **Feud** 13. Can’t imagine a conch response for this question 14. Although the actual answer is surely some show so bad that I’ve never heard of it (though **twicks** and **swampy** , among others, might well know it) 15. Nitpick: since only two choices are offered, should be “the _better_ Jesus” 16. one of only nine performers to score the “show biz Grand Slam” of an Emmy, an Oscar, a Tony, and a Grammy ---
**Author:** ![gonzoron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a6a055/32.png) [@gonzoron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzoron)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-showtunes-by-ellen-cherry-game-over/472037/25 "2008-11-10T19:01:24Z")
1. Do, Re, Mi 2. The guy played by John C. Reilly in the movie. (he sings “Cellophane Man,” or something like that) 3. Wash that man right out of my hair 4. Slim 5. Divine 6. Les Miserables 7. Eponine 8. Cats 9. Jesus Christ Superstar 10. Nathan Lane 11. Wish I could remember his name. But he is made of cellophane, after all, so it’s kind of appropriate. Didn’t really love that musical anyway. 12. I have no idea if I’ve got the right musical. I hate that song, but it’s the only one I can think of. 13. Haven’t seen it in forever. Just made up a name and hoped. Lot of either/ors in this one. Scores should be higher than usual… ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-showtunes-by-ellen-cherry-game-over/472037/26 "2008-11-10T19:25:01Z")
I probably should have just said “name a …” instead of name your favorite. \ And I can’t believe I didn’t say My Favorite Things for my favorite Sound of Music song. THAT is what I was singing to myself when I decided to propose this as a Feud. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-showtunes-by-ellen-cherry-game-over/472037/27 "2008-11-10T19:27:47Z")
1. Climb Every Mountain 2. Amos 3. You’ve Got to be Carefully Taught 4. Ado Annie 5. Divine 6. 1776 7. John Adams 8. Cats 9. Godspell 10. Zero Mostel We played #3 at a gay rights rally in Topeka, when Phred Phelps was getting started with his picketing. Just as appropriate now. Zero Mostel, my #10 choice, was the first actor to win a Tony in two different catergories, dramatic and comic. ---
**Author:** ![tarragon918](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d26b3c/32.png) [@tarragon918](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tarragon918)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-showtunes-by-ellen-cherry-game-over/472037/28 "2008-11-10T19:39:44Z")
1. Name your favorite song from The Sound of Music. 2. Name your favorite Chicago character. 3. What’s your favorite song from South Pacific? 4. Who is your favorite character in Oklahoma? 5. John Travolta or Divine (Hairspray)? 6. What’s your favorite musical? 7. Who’s your favorite character (in a musical) of all time? 8. What’s the worst musical? 9. Which has the best Jesus: Godspell or Jesus Christ Superstar? 10. Name a Tony award winner from a musical (male or female.) 11. So long, farewell… 12. Roxy 13. Some Enchanted Evening 14. Ado Annie 15. Divine 6 West Side Story 16. Dorothy in Wizard of Oz 17. Pippin 18. Jesus Christ Superstar 19. Patty LuPone Great one! Hard, though. LOL ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-showtunes-by-ellen-cherry-game-over/472037/29 "2008-11-10T20:23:15Z")
> [@Ellen\_Cherry](#): > > I probably should have just said “name a …” instead of name your favorite. \\ I basically just went for what I thought would be most common AND things I liked. (I tend to assume that a zealous poster won’t go through my old posts and scream, “ **Freudian Slit** claims that Patti Lupone is her favorite Tony winner, but her 76th post on the board, she really said she liked Bebe Neuwirth the best!” Perhaps I’ve spoken too soon. :eek: ) And in some cases, I hadn’t seen the musical in question, so it wasn’t really about favorite, more about what I thought would be most common. ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Tonya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/4491bb/32.png) [@Queen\_Tonya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Tonya)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-showtunes-by-ellen-cherry-game-over/472037/30 "2008-11-10T20:31:51Z")
1. Edelweiss 2. Mama 3. There’s nothing like a dame 4. Ado Annie 5. Divine 6. Les Miserables 7. Rosie (mamma mia) 8. Rent 9. Godspell 10. Rita Moreno ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Tonya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/4491bb/32.png) [@Queen\_Tonya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Tonya)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-showtunes-by-ellen-cherry-game-over/472037/31 "2008-11-10T20:38:56Z")
I adore Rita Moreno, she’s an amazing talent. Since we share a last name, it always dismays me when I reference her for the spelling and people instead respond “Like Dan Marino?” ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-showtunes-by-ellen-cherry-game-over/472037/32 "2008-11-10T21:20:58Z")
1. Do-Re-Mi 2. Amos Hart 3. There Is Nothing Like a Dame 4. Ali Hakim 5. Divine 6. 1776 7. The Pirate King 8. Cats 9. Jesus Christ Superstar 10. Bernadette Peters ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-showtunes-by-ellen-cherry-game-over/472037/33 "2008-11-10T21:22:42Z")
Talk about a crapshoot… ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-showtunes-by-ellen-cherry-game-over/472037/34 "2008-11-10T21:58:05Z")
1. Do-Re-Mi 2. Roxie\* 3. A Wonderful Guy 4. Ado Annie 5. Divine\*\* 6. My Fair Lady 7. Eliza Doolittle 8. Carousel 9. Jesus Christ Superstar 10. Stephen Sondheim, Sweeney Todd\*\*\* \*I haven’t seen it, so I’m guessing based on the little I know. \*\*Haven’t seen this either. \*\*\*Holy mackerel, that’s a wide open category. ---
**Author:** ![This\_ll\_Do](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/this_ll_do/32/3023_2.png) [@This\_ll\_Do](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/This_ll_Do)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-showtunes-by-ellen-cherry-game-over/472037/35 "2008-11-10T22:45:24Z")
1. _Edelweiss_ 2. Mama Morton 3. _Some Enchanted Evening_ 4. Aunt Eller 5. Divine 6. _Phantom of the Opera_ 7. The Phantom 8. _Annie_ 9. _Jesus Christ Superstar_ 10. Michael Crawford 11. The play; emphatically not the movie. 12. See above. 13. Hate it. _Really_ hate it. \ ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2008, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-showtunes-by-ellen-cherry-game-over/472037/36 "2008-11-11T00:43:40Z")
1. Do-Re-Mi 2. Matron Mama Morton 3. I’m Gonna Wash That Man Right Outta My Hair 4. Aunt Eller 5. John Travolta 6. Spamalot 7. Rose (the mother in Gypsy) 8. [Rachael Lily Rosenbloom and Don’t You Ever Forget It](http://ibdb.com/production.php?id=1059) 9. Jesus Christ Superstar 10. Patti LuPone The answers to 6 & 7 change depending on my mood ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2008, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-showtunes-by-ellen-cherry-game-over/472037/37 "2008-11-11T01:09:29Z")
1. Climb Every Mountain 2. Mama Morton 3. Some Enchanted Evening 4. Aunt Eller 5. Divine 6. The Music Man 7. Professor Harold Hill 8. Cats 9. Godspell 10. Nathan Lane 11. and 7. If I had any kind of musical/acting talent at all this is _the musical_ I’d want to act in and _the role_ I’d want to play. 12. I don’t say this real often but… this musical just gets on my last gay nerve!😃 ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2008, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-showtunes-by-ellen-cherry-game-over/472037/38 "2008-11-11T01:23:06Z")
1. Edelweiss 2. Billy Flynn 3. Some Enchanted Evening 4. Curly McLain 5. John Travolta 6. Guys and Dolls 7. Sky Masterson 8. Rent 9. Godspell 10. Nathan Lane ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2008, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-showtunes-by-ellen-cherry-game-over/472037/39 "2008-11-11T01:29:34Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > 1. Cats > > 2. I don’t say this real often but… this musical just gets on my last gay nerve!😃 Oh, I wish I could change my answer. Cats was a bore. A loud bore. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2008, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-showtunes-by-ellen-cherry-game-over/472037/40 "2008-11-11T01:31:09Z")
I’m dooming myself by giving truthful answers, rather than those I think/hope will score points. 1. My Favorite Things 2. Billy Flynn 3. Some Enchanted Evening 4. Jud (everyone else in the show is too happy and Chipper) 5. Divine 6. Les Miserables 7. Tevye, from “Fiddler on the Roof” 8. Grease 9. Jesus Christ Superstar 10. Nathan Lane [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-showtunes-by-ellen-cherry-game-over/472037.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-showtunes-by-ellen-cherry-game-over/472037.md?page=3)