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