your favourite musicals

Sweeney Todd
My Fair Lady
West Side Story

I have a ton of Glass including Einstein - but I didn't know he'd collaborated with Ravi Shankar - will look it up, thanks!

In 2000 I saw Glass perform Koyaanisqatsi live in the Sydney Opera house (with the movie projected back stage). Stunning.

Hi Annis - I don't think it's a musical but when Rosborne posted the brilliant Koyaanisqatsi I had to chuck in the similarly themed (in movie terms) Baraka. How could I resist?

yep it is Izzie and I and kids are going to the last showing we are so looking forward to it

You have a great time, when she was about 14 my daughter was really, and I mean really, into it.

paint your Wagon http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJy91HfoUQY&feature=related
born under a wandering star

Here's a bakers dozen of my favorite movie musicals (in alphabetical order):

8 Women (2002)
Duck Soup (1933)
Dancer in the Dark (2000)
Everyone Says I Love You (1996)
Fiddler on the Roof (1971)
James and the Giant Peach (1996)
Labyrinth (1986)
Le Million (1931)
The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
The Saddest Music in the World (2003)
South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut (1999)
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007
Tangled (2010)

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whhAMSSexQ8&feature=related
Sweeney Todd of course!

my favourite musical has to be " Hello , Dolly ! " ( with phyllis diller ) .
we were in NYC for a week - staying in a fleabag hotel - well , not really - it was a sort of rooming house for retired third rate actors .
it must have been about 1969/70 over the easter holidays , when ehbeth was
11/12 years old .
roamed all over NYC - many shows where free or available for Twofers .
walked through central park at midnight -
coming back from the david susskind show to the hotel .

( later learned that the hotel was next to " Needle Park " -
of course , we had no idea )

a good time was had by all !

i can blame it on frommer's " new york on $ 5 a day " - worked out to a little more .

The south park movie, obviously

brigadoon for my nanna http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61MEKyAQSpg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61MEKyAQSpg

does popeye count as a musical?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Po2lG0hHFYY

don't see why not! Ha! good one RH! X

I suppose there should be an in memorium. RIP Robert Sherman, one of the greats.

I agree Izzythe push

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MnUrhptPSo&feature=related
Calamity Jane!!

Hair

This week I saw the Metropolitan Opera production of Satyagraha by Glass on pbs--quite interesting, I enjoyed it very much.
It was one of the operas that the Met broadcast live in movie theaters last fall, and the video of that broadcast is what was shown on pbs. So you might be able to find it on a station in your area if you like that sort of thing by Glass.

I'm a long time musical avoidant person. Seeing Fiddler in the front row as a guest of a friend just about killed me. Next only to the movie Satyricon for making me want to get up and run away. Of course, Satyricon wasn't a musical.

So, I am like Farmerman in that view, re song breaking up dialog. Still, I remember seeing the movie Oklahoma in LA the year it came out. I must have been in my early teens. The romance of it got to me. I saved my allowance to get the album. I didn't hate West Side Story the movie. I remember liking Evita when it came to LA. Well, at that one, I think our seats were further back.

More up my alley were the performances of the San Francisco Mime Troup at the Fox Venice, a movie theater taken over by these able folks for stage use. Most of their work, basically political, had musical sequences. We used to go to see Teatro Campesino performances and they may have also mixed in musical episodes..

I regret I have not checked out Philip Glass.
I'm sure I thought he was way too sophisticated for me, and I was probably right. But Hingehead makes me think I should just go listen.

Fighting all the way, I hated opera with an ignorant passion for many years. Then a guy I worked with came back from a vacation with a tape he made of the first three tenors concert in Rome and played it at a splendid volume and I lost all my attitude. Went to apologize to my boss for previously shutting his door when he played Renata Tebaldi.