# What's your favorite musical? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 20, 2000, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-musical/14988 "2000-03-20T05:00:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![psycat90](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@psycat90](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psycat90)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2000, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-musical/14988/1 "2000-03-20T05:00:00Z")
Showtunes…Gotta love 'em. Obviously, some people just don’t like 'em. I’m listening to West Side Story’s soundtrack right now. This would probably be number one for me, with Grease a very close second. Followed by Evita, Man of La Mancha and Annie. I also really love alot of songs from Disney films. So, which ones would we most likely catch you singing along with? * * * I like it here-can I stay? And do you have a vacancy for a Back-scrubber? ---
**Author:** ![Demo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/demo/32/8472_2.png) [@Demo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Demo)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2000, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-musical/14988/2 "2000-03-20T05:32:00Z")
**Man of La Mancha** without question. Who couldn’t fall in love with Dulcinea? West Side Story is a close second for me even though I can relate more to Romeo and Juliet. Some of the other top tens: \*Jesus Christ Super Star \*The Sound of Music \*My Fair Lady * * * “Can’t this lousy rotten useless fucking lump of cosmic shit planet make up it’s fucking mind? It just makes me sick.” –Dr. Watson ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2000, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-musical/14988/3 "2000-03-20T05:43:00Z")
Brush up your Shakespeare. Start quoting him now. Brush up your Shakespeare, And the women you will wow… My new fave is Kiss Me, Kate. My dear brother took the whole family to see the Broadway revival as an Xmas present. I was truly ROTFLMAO…What a great show! ---
**Author:** ![saucy\_potato](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/edb3f5/32.png) [@saucy\_potato](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucy_potato)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2000, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-musical/14988/4 "2000-03-20T05:47:00Z")
I often have songs from ‘The Sound of Music’ running through my head. Julie Andrews has such a great voice… ---
**Author:** ![Padeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@Padeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Padeye)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2000, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-musical/14988/5 "2000-03-20T06:17:00Z")
Wilkomen, Bienvenue, Welcome Cabaret is one of the few things I actually like with Liza Minelli. ---
**Author:** ![CalifBoomer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f1d935/32.png) [@CalifBoomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalifBoomer)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2000, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-musical/14988/6 "2000-03-20T06:21:00Z")
1)My Fair Lady 2)Man of La Mancha 3)Evita ---
**Author:** ![Kallessa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7993a0/32.png) [@Kallessa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kallessa)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2000, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-musical/14988/7 "2000-03-20T06:24:00Z")
Camelot–saw it in college with Richard Burton. The movie is so-so, but the stage production can be great, and 'The Seven Deadly Virtues" is one of the best songs of all time. I’m also very fond of Les Miserables. I like the interweaving of voices and melodies. ---
**Author:** ![Pooch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/dbc845/32.png) [@Pooch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pooch)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2000, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-musical/14988/8 "2000-03-20T06:57:00Z")
Paint Your Wagon. Sing it, Clint!!! ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2000, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-musical/14988/9 "2000-03-20T07:19:00Z")
Wow, Pooch - no one I’ve ever met likes Paint Your Wagon! _Got a dream boy, got a song! Paint your wagon, and come along!_ My top ten list: [ul][li]Miss Saigon[/li][li]Rent[/li][li]Les Miserables[/li][li]Phantom[/li][li]Man of La Mancha[/li][li]Into The Woods[/li][li]Song and Dance[/li][li]Whistle Down The Wind[/li][li]Jeykll & Hyde[/li][li]Chess[/ul][/li] - Rick ---
**Author:** ![Joe\_Cool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecb155/32.png) [@Joe\_Cool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joe_Cool)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2000, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-musical/14988/10 "2000-03-20T07:30:00Z")
Sound of Music is probably my favorite. A close second is Prince of Egypt. I thought that was going to be cheesy, but it was really good. I seem to remember liking West Side Story, but the last time I saw it, Three Mile Island hadn’t melted down yet and I was in 5th grade, more or less…So I don’t remember it. I love the soundtrack from it though. ## Honorable Mention: South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut. 🙂 ## There are no dangerous weapons, Only dangerous men. Joe Cool ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2000, 8:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-musical/14988/11 "2000-03-20T08:28:00Z")
Yeah, yeah, yeah, but how many of you were _in_ Man of La Mancha?! I was a Muleteer, or as a cast member’s little sister calls us, the honry bastards. I love Man of La Mancha. I gotta go watch our tape. I’m doing Starmites now, and I guarantee you, if you see it, you **will** leave the theater singing the songs, cause they’re all so good. (“Banshees/We’re the Banshees/Malevolent ladies, the angels of Hades in leather and lace altogether we’ll face and disgrace their notor-ious race!”) Kiss me Kate is also a good one. I haven’t seen Rent, but the sounstrack is wonderful. * * * JMcC, San Francisco, [JJTM’s new page](http://fathom.org/jjtm/) If I were beaned with a fastball, fling my limp, lifeless body to first, cause, dammit, I earned it! ---
**Author:** ![Girlbysea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Girlbysea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Girlbysea)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2000, 9:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-musical/14988/12 "2000-03-20T09:20:00Z")
Miss Saigon… * * * * * * Girlbysea (AKA: ChiefScott’s GBS) ---
**Author:** ![Anti\_Pro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Anti\_Pro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anti_Pro)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2000, 9:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-musical/14988/13 "2000-03-20T09:25:00Z")
The Sound of Music is my all time favorite, but I really liked West Side Story and Paint Your Wagon. * * * Judy * * * “Erlich, the woman is a TURNIP!!” “I know, but my mom always told me to eat my vegetables!” ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2000, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-musical/14988/14 "2000-03-20T12:36:00Z")
“7 Brides for 7 Brothers” “Grease” I love the music of “Rent” but thought the play was a bit maudlin. Ditto for “Miss Saigon.” “Cats” makes me want to vomit up fur balls. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2000, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-musical/14988/15 "2000-03-20T12:39:00Z")
## _The Forbidden Zone_ starring Herve Villachiez and featuring Danny Elfman. “I must leave this planet, if only for an hour.” – Antoine de St. Exupéry Are you a turtle? ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2000, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-musical/14988/16 "2000-03-20T13:10:00Z")
I’m always humming tunes from Les Miz, Chess, and Guys & Dolls. Singing, “When you a see a Joe saving half of his dough, you can bet there’ll be mink in it for some doll.” ---
**Author:** ![phouka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c5a1d2/32.png) [@phouka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phouka)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2000, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-musical/14988/17 "2000-03-20T13:16:00Z")
Les Mis Phantom of the Opera Beauty and the Beast ---
**Author:** ![Bucky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Bucky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bucky)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2000, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-musical/14988/18 "2000-03-20T13:17:00Z")
“The Music Man” is pretty cool, although I’ve always wanted to do it with a black blues man as Harold Hill “invading” the lily-white town. I liked “Grease,” once upon a time. Then, I was in it. I now loathe “Grease” with the white hot passion of a thousand vats of hot cooking grease. (Ant that’s just the stageshow; the movie routinely violated anything good that was left in the original to make it a vehicle for two hacks.) Wait, this is favorites, not the Pit, so I’ll be nice. Music Man rocks! Robert Preston rules!!! Do movie musicals really count? Bucky * * * Oh, well. We can always make more killbots. ---
**Author:** ![SwimmingRiddles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@SwimmingRiddles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwimmingRiddles)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2000, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-musical/14988/19 "2000-03-20T13:37:00Z")
Top three that come to mind: Jesus Christ Superstar Rent Les Mis * * * DON PEDRO: Your silence most offends me, and to be merry best becomes you; for, out of question, you were born in a merry hour. BEATRICE: No, sure, my lord, my mother cried; but then there was a star danced, and under that was I born. -Much Ado About Nothing, Act II, Sc: i ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2000, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-musical/14988/20 "2000-03-20T14:01:00Z")
Florodora! “Tell me, pretty maiden, are there many more at home like you . . .” [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-musical/14988.md?page=2)