1. Prelude and The Sound Of Music 2. Overture and Preludium (Dixit Dominus) 3. Morning Hymn and Alleluia 4. Maria 5. I Have Confidence 6. Sixteen Going On Seventeen 7. My Favorite Things 8. Do-Re-Mi 9. The Sound Of Music 10. The Lonely Goatherd 11. So Long, Farewell 12. Climb Ev'ry Mountain 13. Something Good 14. Processional and Maria 15. Edelweiss 16. Climb Ev'ry Mountain (Reprise)
If SoM is not the greatest musical of all time, what is?
― Mark (MarkR), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 16:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― lukey (Lukey G), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 16:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― jedidiah (jedidiah), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 16:39 (nineteen years ago) link
1. Overture [Instrumental] Listen Listen 2. Prologue Listen Listen 3. Jet Song - The Jets Listen Listen 4. Something's Coming - Jim Bryant Listen Listen 5. Dance at the Gym Listen Listen 6. Maria - Jim Bryant Listen Listen 7. America - George Chakiris Listen 8. Tonight {From West Side Story} - Jim Bryant Listen 9. Gee, Officer Krupke! - The Jets Listen 10. I Feel Pretty - Suzie Kaye Listen 11. One Hand, One Heart - Jim Bryant Listen 12. Quintet - Jim Bryant Listen 13. Rumble Listen 14. Somewhere - Jim Bryant Listen 15. Cool - The Jets Listen 16. Boy Like That/I Have a Love - Marni Nixon Listen 17. Finale - Natalie Wood Listen 18. End Credits [*]
― The Obligatory Sourpuss (Begs2Differ), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 16:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 16:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― jedidiah (jedidiah), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 16:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― Austin (Austin), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 16:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― stirmonster, Wednesday, 2 February 2005 16:46 (nineteen years ago) link
DAMN IT DAMN IT I AM SO STOOPIDz
― The Obligatory Sourpuss (Begs2Differ), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 16:47 (nineteen years ago) link
This actually reads more like the start of a prog album tracklisting.
3. Condemnation in D Flat4. OVATIO! A Movement.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 16:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Obligatory Sourpuss (Begs2Differ), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 16:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 16:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― stevie nixed (stevie nixed), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 16:55 (nineteen years ago) link
I'd likely vote for Carousel for R&H, Guys & Dolls among all Golden Age musicals.
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 17:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 17:19 (nineteen years ago) link
Indeedy - my vote would be for Anything Goes
― Robin Goad (rgoad), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 17:29 (nineteen years ago) link
I'm kind of kidding, but Jesus, "The Sound of Music" makes me vomit.
― es hurt (ddduncan), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 17:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Mad Puffin, Wednesday, 2 February 2005 17:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 2 February 2005 17:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― everything, Wednesday, 2 February 2005 18:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 18:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― Mark (MarkR), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 18:17 (nineteen years ago) link
8. Spoonful of Sugar - Julie Andrews14. Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious - Julie Andrews16. Stay Awake - Julie Andrews18. I Love to Laugh - Julie Andrews20. Feed the Birds (Tuppence a Bag) - Julie Andrews24. Chim Chim Cher-Ee/March Over the Rooftops - Julie Andrews25. Step in Time - Dick Van Dyke28. Let's Go Fly a Kite - Dave Tomlinson
Taking Sides: "Edelweiss" vs. "Feed the Birds"
― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 18:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― Austin (Austin), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 18:29 (nineteen years ago) link
I read "musical" as "stage musical," which thanks to Disney recycling "Poppins" has now become.
Rodgers & HART certainly were sophisticated.
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 18:32 (nineteen years ago) link
Yeah - The Sound Of Music isn't even the best drummer in the Beatles. Carousel all the way for me.
Widen it, and I'm a big fan of posho Slade-Reynolds. Salad Days and Free As Air.
― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 18:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 2 February 2005 18:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― everything, Wednesday, 2 February 2005 18:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― Bryan Moore (Bryan Moore), Thursday, 3 February 2005 00:11 (nineteen years ago) link
but i will also nominate dancer in the dark.
― reo, Thursday, 3 February 2005 00:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― reo, Thursday, 3 February 2005 00:17 (nineteen years ago) link
"Once More With Feeling" is the only great recent musical.
Cole Porter--d'oh! And American in Paris has great stuff.
Anything with fred Astaire is a great musical, even if there's no music.
― iang, Thursday, 3 February 2005 01:19 (nineteen years ago) link
and what, no votes for "Velvet Goldmine"??!??
― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 3 February 2005 01:23 (nineteen years ago) link
We just happened to watch "All That Jazz" the other night. Just amazing.
― iang, Thursday, 3 February 2005 01:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― reo, Thursday, 3 February 2005 05:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Thursday, 3 February 2005 08:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin, Thursday, 3 February 2005 09:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― John Fredland (jfredland), Thursday, 3 February 2005 10:22 (nineteen years ago) link
btw, The Lonely Goatherd and So Long, Farewell could be used on me for torture.
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 3 February 2005 17:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― Felonious Drunk (Felcher), Thursday, 3 February 2005 17:37 (nineteen years ago) link
If not, "Once More With Feeling" still wins by a landslide.
― iang, Thursday, 3 February 2005 17:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― walter kranz (walterkranz), Thursday, 3 February 2005 18:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― Austin (Austin), Thursday, 3 February 2005 19:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― irrigation can save your people, Thursday, 3 February 2005 19:02 (nineteen years ago) link
where's the Fosse love!?!? Cabaret...
I thought Fosse was "just" a choreographer (& director) - Kander & Ebb wrote the songs for Cabaret, right?
― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 3 February 2005 19:05 (nineteen years ago) link
I love Buffy and I can't stand that fucking episode. I second the "complete waste of time."
― walter kranz (walterkranz), Thursday, 3 February 2005 19:39 (nineteen years ago) link
Whedon's commentary track alone supplies a nice checklist of influences worth following. The song Tara sings to Willow is the best Kate Bush song in years, the counter-point multi-melodies are prime, the 30s screwball pastiche is a hoot--I don't get the love lack.
― iang, Thursday, 3 February 2005 23:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― Matt Chesnut, Friday, 4 February 2005 00:15 (nineteen years ago) link
The music sucks and none of the actors can sing except for Anthony Head. It came across as a really forced and self-indulgent chance for the wannabe singers in the cast to show off their "musical talent." Plot wise, it's not even a particularly interesting Buffy episode. But then I suppose I don't really love musicals. I love certain musicals that happen to have great music (much of the stuff mentioned in this thread), great dancing (Fred Astaire, Gene Kelley, Fosse), a great story (Sound of Music, Cabaret, anything with Nazis really), or any combination of the above. But I don't just "love musicals" in the unconditional manner that would be necessary to enjoy that Buffy episode.
― walter kranz (walterkranz), Friday, 4 February 2005 02:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Friday, 4 February 2005 02:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 4 February 2005 04:36 (nineteen years ago) link
I like Sound of Music, but there are better R&H works.
― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Friday, 4 February 2005 04:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Friday, 4 February 2005 04:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― walter kranz (walterkranz), Friday, 4 February 2005 04:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Friday, 4 February 2005 10:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― jedidiah (jedidiah), Friday, 4 February 2005 16:06 (nineteen years ago) link
Strikes against OMWF:
1) The singing is atrocious.2) The songwriting is nu-Broadway rock-opera hell.3) Did I mention the singing is atrocious?
My favorite musicals:
West Side StorySingin' In The RainCandideJoseph and the Amazing Techniocolor DreamcoatSouth Park: Bigger, Longer and UncutChicagoDamn YankeesThe Lion KingMy Fair Lady
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 4 February 2005 16:23 (nineteen years ago) link
can you imagine how hard it must have been for wealthy land owning austrian families in the 1930s? those poor von trapps.
― Mordy, Monday, 24 December 2012 02:24 (eleven years ago) link