FabSwingers.com forum: Your favourite musical?

By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

This is a tough one for me, unlike my favourite film, as there are a number of musicals that I would gladly watch over and over again, such as The Sound of Music, Singing in the Rain, West Side Story, Kiss Me Kate, The King and I, My Fair Lady, Oliver, Oklahoma, Grease, etc. etc...

If I have to choose only one as a desert island disc for the genre, then it will have to be Singing in the Rain.

What is your favourite musical?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

phantom of the opera

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Cats

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By *weet DevilMan
over a year ago

dukinfield

so many favourites but for fun and brill story n songs

a funny thing happened on the way to the forum stephen sondeim at his best

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Grease rates highly on my list too.

There are several I haven't seen which I'd like to.

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By *empnbunkCouple
over a year ago

south coast

Would it be classwd as a musical if so mine would be pink floyds The Wall

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By *hole Lotta RosieWoman
over a year ago

Deviant City

Grease, Oliver and Mary Poppins

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Would it be classwd as a musical if so mine would be pink floyds The Wall

According to IMDB, it is classified as a musical.

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By *ittle_brat_evie!!Woman
over a year ago

evesham

fave that i have seen is joseph (mainly because i saw it with jason donovan in when i was a kid lol)

also like jesus christ superstar and love singing along to that in the car

there are tonnes i'd like to see....but no one will go with me

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I loved rent, blood brothers, chicago, shrek. Grease was good and so was star light express.

Really love the west end and looking forward to the new tour of superstar.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Chitty Chitty Bang bang and Moulan Rouge.

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By *enithWoman
over a year ago

closer than you think

Les Miserables is my fav

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By *ittle_brat_evie!!Woman
over a year ago

evesham

hedwig and the angry inch is the weirdest musical i have seen (on dvd)

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By *emo and HollyCouple
over a year ago

neath

West Side Story, without a doubt. The dancing is amazing and so is the music.

I like to be in America

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By *ittle_brat_evie!!Woman
over a year ago

evesham

"Les Miserables is my fav

oooohhh i want to see that, i only have the concert dvd's

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Can the South Park film be classed as a musical??

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By *atisfy janeWoman
over a year ago

Torquay

Jersey Boys.....

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Stomp was good too. Not technically a musical, but fantastic.

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By *abioMan
over a year ago

Newcastle and Gateshead

if we are talking classic... then oklahoma or south pacific...

if we are talking something with loads of music.... return to the forbidden planet

if we are talking something new... wicked or Avenue Q.....

p.s.... blues brothers?

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By *ittle_brat_evie!!Woman
over a year ago

evesham

aaaaarrrrrgggghhhh there's so many!!!!! lol

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Did I mention I'll be seeing Singing in the Rain on stage at the end of this month?

Can't wait!

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By *exy essex girlWoman
over a year ago

harlow

"Chitty Chitty Bang bang and Moulan Rouge."

And 7 brides for 7 brothers

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By *opsy RogersWoman
over a year ago

London

As a kid it was Godspell but my all time fave is Showboat. Old man river, I could have danced all night, I'm gonna wash that man right out of my hair.

Dammit! I now have an earworm.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Can the South Park film be classed as a musical??"

Blame Canada!

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By *ittle_brat_evie!!Woman
over a year ago

evesham

"As a kid it was Godspell but my all time fave is Showboat. Old man river, I could have danced all night, I'm gonna wash that man right out of my hair.

Dammit! I now have an earworm. "

i was in godspell at school

only the chorus though...was too shy to audition for a part

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Old: sound of music

New: avenue q

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Blues brothers and a more recent one Dreamgirls

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By *emo and HollyCouple
over a year ago

neath

"Les Miserables is my fav

oooohhh i want to see that, i only have the concert dvd's"

Le Mis is amazing, I saw it 5 times when I lived in London, treat yourself and go, it is truely amazing

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Bugsy Malone is another that I love.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

King and I

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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

I love all of those listed so far. My gut answer to this question is always West Side Story.

Followed by Sound of Music, Singin' in the Rain, Cabaret, Calamity Jane Spamalot and so many more.

I saw Avenue Q on Broadway and adored it so much I had to drag people to it when it came to London. I still laugh at the interval countdown... 5 night stands, 4 night stands... and Everybody is a little bit racist.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Fookin hate with a passion "sound of music" and julie andrews should have been shot.

the only musical worth any salt is les mis

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By *emmefataleWoman
over a year ago

dirtybigbadsgirlville

West side story

Grease

Oklahoma

Seven Brides for seven brothers

The sound of music ( nun thing)

Caberet

Holiday Inn

Gigi

Am Americian In Paris

My Fair Lady

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Blues Brothers

Rocky Horror Show

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By *ighly ProfessionalMan
over a year ago

peterborough

all great musicals you have said but what about Mama Mia ?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Chicago - seen it 3 times now

but also loved Sunset Boulevard

Off to see Cabaret at end of September with Will Young.

Looking forward to that.

It's touring before going on to The West End.

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By *emmefataleWoman
over a year ago

dirtybigbadsgirlville

"all great musicals you have said but what about Mama Mia ?"
here we go again

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By *opsy RogersWoman
over a year ago

London

Cabaret! Oh my days I forgot Cabaret!

"Devine decadence darling"

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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"Cabaret! Oh my days I forgot Cabaret!

"Devine decadence darling""

Cabaret has the ultimate MFF song - Diddly did did dee, two ladies...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I'm not a fan of musicals but Blood Brothers is fabulous.

Special mention for one line in a song from 'Seven Brides for Seven Brothers'. In a sad song, when they have been forced to sleep in the barn, one brother laments:

A man can't sleep,

When he has to sleep with sheep.

I burst out laughing but apparently it's not meant to be a funny line!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Ooh sooo many to choose from and all for different reasons. I went to see Oliver a couple of years ago and was blown away by the whole thing as the staging and cast were amazing, but then I love loads from the old black and white Deanna Durbin and Judy Garland musical films right up to the fairly recent ones like Mamma Mia and the Lion King.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Rocky horror

moulin rouge

chitty chitty

abba

west side story

sweeny todd

a few animated disney ones

I'd draw the line at buying any soundtracks as I'm not a music person in the slightest.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Gotta be grease! It was my life wen I was a teenager, I bought the album with my taty picking money! Oh wot memories x

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By *empnbunkCouple
over a year ago

south coast

"Would it be classwd as a musical if so mine would be pink floyds The Wall

According to IMDB, it is classified as a musical.

Ohh good well in that case i'll also add

The Who's Tommy

And

Quadrophenia...tho I think maybe borderline musical genre

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Easy. Evita, absolutely adore it!! Know the words to all the songs

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By *iamondsmiles.Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire

the one i like that hasnt already been said is the producers

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

'Repo!' is great fun

'Cannibal the Musical'

and 'Calamity Jane'

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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"the one i like that hasnt already been said is the producers"

How could I forget The Producers! Springtime for Hitler and Germany...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I just downloaded the soundtrack to my phone.

pity the kids are asleep I'll have to wait till tomorrow to make their ears bleed

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By *damandeve4funCouple
over a year ago

Glasgow

Little Shop of Horrors...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Has to be Seven Brides for Seven Brothers but then again is 'The Rocky Horror Show' a musical, certainly should be!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Rocky Horror, oh yes!

It's so dreamy, oh fantasy free me, so you can't see me, no, no, no, not at all. In another dimension with voyeuristic intention, well secluded, I see all...

I love love love Rocky Horror.

What have you done with Janet? Nothing. Why? Do you think I should?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Ok I admit some of these are only hanging on the edge of being genuine “Musicals “ but I like’em

Les Misérables (Stage)

Chitty-Chitty Bang-Bang ( movie)

Lion King (Stage)

Student Prince ( Movie)

My Fair Lady (Stage or Movie)

Wizard of OZ (Movie)

Willie Wonkers Chocolate Factory (Gene Wilder Movie)

Hard days night (Movie)

Help (Movie)

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