Prove to me that pic related isn't the great musical of all time
Damn Yankees
Grease
Rocky Horror
all better
>>67296105
>Damn Yankee's better then JCSS
Its a fine show but don't lie anon
>>67296105
>Grease better than Jesus Christ Superstar
now I like Grease but come on
High School musical exists though
>>67296105
Rocky Horror is good but Frank N. Furter is no Judas Iscariot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_hlGtZalhs
The above is literally better than any song in Rocky Horror, and I fucking LOVE Rocky Horror.
>>67296203
He's one of the roles that I hope i'll eventually get the chance to play
>>67296255
Care to vocaroo a bit of him for us?
Who has seen the 2000 version of JCS? it's both amazing and terrible in many ways
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaOfBQ5uw6M
>>67296273
Sure just give me a bit to make it work right
>>67296273
http://vocaroo.com/i/s07UTTdr4gn5
Here you go, its not that great but thats what happens when you get a baritone to sing a tenor part
>>67296139
Grease had 100 percent more cameltoes. that's all.
>>67296015
Wicked
>>67296927
Hi mom
>>67296927
Fuck Wicked its such a shitty show
Hard choice.
I like Muppet Treasure Island (all songs were good, funny)
Sweeney Todd (JCS might beat it though)
Avenue Q overall
Phantom of the Opera
As usual in musical threads taking requests for musical uploads I'm at anout 1000 different shows right now
Already uploaded: pastebin.com/ehWCCpa1
>>67296984
Muppets Christmas Carol is actually one of my favorite christmas movies
>ywn be Roman
You're all fucking plebs
>>67296015
This Belongs here
RIP Andrew Lloyd Webber
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoVccXgAy6U
>>67296015
Looks like somebody didn't watch Tyler Perry's passion play last night
Wakko's Wish is the greatest desu
>Damn Yankees
>Grease
>Wicked
>Anything by Andrew Lloyd Webber
Jesus Christ, we need a theater board to weed out the plebs.
Pic related is the best example of a patrician musical, of which there are few.
>>67296203
>tfw he was from my home town
Probably the best human being to ever come from there
>>67296015
>Prove to me that pic related isn't the great musical of all time
Can't really argue against it, I love it and it's the best one I've seen, although I haven't seen a lot.
>>67296015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LI_Oe-jtgdI
>>67296015
singing in the rain
>>67296945
>>67296949
Shut the FUCK up and do your homework
>>67297654
>>67297331
>Picking something from Golden Age
>It not being Singin in the Rain
Come on anons
>>67297611
My mother fucking nigga, how excited are you about the dvd release
>>67297758
Explain why its good then
Les Mis is a timeless classic and has never been surpassed
>>67297018
>Man of La Mancha
Actually a very good show.
>Carrie the Musical
Absolute shit, but one or two songs are pretty catchy.
>Parade
One of the most underrated musicals in recent history. Incredible piano score.
>Miss Saigon
Literally the greatest musical of all time, not even gonna hide the fact that I'm the samefag who posted it
>Heathers
It fucking sucks, venues need to stop doing it
>>67297822
It's not the best of all time but it definitely deserves a mention so here's your reply. congrats
>>67296015
Alice Cooper as Herodes is top tier.
>>67297807
>Singin' in the Rain
more like the most overrated musical of all time. I'll take any of the Astaire/Rogers musicals over that piece of mediocrity
>not Rigoletto
*vanishes in a cloud of e-cig smoke*
>>67297807
>dvd release
What?? Of the 2014 version??
Fucking psyched. I was lucky enough to see it inL O N D O N2 months ago. Honestly just can't wait for it to come to New York
>>67297822
The book is great but I think it lost something in the theater adaptation.
There is no dispute. JCSS probably is the best rock opera of all time.
>>67297822
Les Mis is great and I respect it a lot for what its done but I wouldn't consider it the best over all, definetly top 5 though
>>67297845
Heathers is good though, its one of the only two good works those composers did including Legally Blonde
>>67297925
Yup it was announced recently, which is great since I love the show but it isn't Lea
>>67297925
Cameron Mackintosh said that the London revival was professionally recorded and will be released "in theaters." But he didn't say when, or if it would be internationally, or if there would be a DVD or streaming release.
>ctrl+f
>Hamilton
>0 results
Proud of you for once, /tv/.
>>67297930
it lost the lesbians
unforgivable
>>67296015
Urinetown.
How interested would you fags be in streaming some musicals and watching them together
>the original English Hunchback of Notre Dame cast will never bring the show to Broadway
why live
>>67298065
Are you a high school mom?
>>67298065
>high school theater tier shit
I hate my school for overhyping that shit. How embarrassed was I to pay $5 for it.both the teacher and the lead promoter were super stupid feminists. I mean the bad kind, not the actual "equality" kind
>>67298065
high school tier but good
>>67298069
sure
>>67298069
Sounds interesting, what do you got
>>67298135
Pretty sure it's just a high schooler.
>>67298069
Yes.
>>67298135
>>67298137
>>67298159
I've only seen it once and it was at a private college...
>>67298170
What I have downloaded is pic, youtube has some full shows which I can use
>>67296885
>>67296255
Trent Reznor played him in his high school
>>67298278
Interesting
>>67298200
This list is awesome
>Book of Mormon
>Cabaret
This, by the way, is better than JCS. Regardless if you talk about the film or the musical (quite different but both amazing)
>Jekyl and Hyde
Damn... I did like it, didn't know others knew about it
>Spamlot
>etc
Yea, those are great
>>67298204
Was about to post this myself. Quite good. Nice list of actors too
>>67298085
>watching adaptations of Disney movies
>>67298200
Alright since people are interested what are the first three that people want?
>tfw I like meme musicals better than "real" ones
I guess I'm just uncultured
>>67298338
This is a musical thread. We're all equal faggots here.
>>67298338
>Not liking Hunchback
What the fuck?
>>67298200
>Cabaret
Even though Liza was a terrible Sally, we can all agree that one thing this movie did very right was cut every song that didn't take place on the Cabaret stage, except maybe "Maybe This Time."
"I Don't Care Much" might be in my top 5 show tunes of all time
>>67298375
What the fuck is a meme musical
>>67296015
watch more movies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1rkzUIL8oc
>>67298434
Avenue Q
>>67298346
>Pippin
>Into the Woods
>JCSS
>>67298434
Rocky Horror Picture Show, Frozen
t. not him
>>67296294
Jesus at 45 s reacted basically how I did. Everything about this is wrong.
>>67298346
Book of Mormon
Jesus Christ
Rocky Horror
My picks.
What do you think about the revival with Alan Cumming? (the original revival, not the copycat revival they did last year)
>>67298444
fuck yeah nigga
>>67297931
Sorry, that title goes to Rent.
>>67298200
book of mormon
>>67297925
Did you get to see Jon Jon Briones? If so I'm jealous. I saw him back when he did the non-union US tour in 2005.
on that note, my god this man needs more work outside Miss Saigon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzpKjaZr4nc
>>67298399
>"I Don't Care Much" might be in my top 5 show tunes of all time
Yes. Actually, the theater version wasn't actually bad... I am a fan of the epilogue song... even with the totally OVERT Nazi shit
Honestly, I can't even hate on Liza anymore. She did... pretty good despite I expecting bad shit from her.
>>67298470
You're a big guyFOR NOW
>>67298444
That's more a movie about musicals than an actual musical.
>>67298470
>>67298477
None of these are meme musicals....
I don't think there ARE meme musiclas... No one watches musicals for god sakes. Even the pleb choices of Lion King are devoid of being meme culture.
>>67298444
a bit oudated. Needs to be updated.
>>67298511
Rent is in the same boat as Les Mis and Chicago, all great shows that did a lot for the art but not the best
>>67298560
>I don't think there ARE meme musicals...SEUSS!
saw Matilda recently. I heard horrid things about the tour so I was pleasantly shocked that it was damn great.
>>67298444
>>67298563
this should do it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LP864oBWxeM
>>67298560
Well which musical gets quoted to death? Which is massively overrated? We're talking among theater nerds here, not normal people
>>67298560
Anon I can tell you just by looking at what Musical recordings I found there are meme musicalsBronies the musical
>>67298521
Yup. Although I'll admit, I didn't initially dig his speak-singing style.
Eva stole the show for me. I like her singing voice more than Lea's.
![635500271054937408-537341094_20121028-Hoopla.RockyHorror.Englert.JustinTorner-30_original_uxga[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/lQivoVF.jpg "635500271054937408-537341094_20121028-Hoopla.RockyHorror.Englert.JustinTorner-30_original_uxga[1].jpg")
>>67298560
>RHPS
>not a meme musical
>>67296105
Shit list
Beauty and the Beast
Phantom of the Opera
Book of Mormon
Very Potter Musical
Upcoming Fight Club Musical scored by Trent Reznor
>>67298653
>including Very Potter Musical with professional musicals
yikes
>>67298585
WOW. YOU LITERALLY JUST RETURNED MY SUPPRESSED MEMORIES TO ME.
I actually SAW it. I totally TOTALLY forgot I saw it.I don't remember shit except finding it pretty goddamn awfulIt wasn't professional done though, by a theater group. a 'fairly big name' one though
I'll ask my sister what she thought, she might recall better
>>67296015
But I cant.
Its an easter tradition for me to watch it
>>67298666
it's funnier and more entertaining than shitstain pieces of garbage like Grease
Les Mis is also GOAT, Obviously
>>67298613
>Well which musical gets quoted to death?
Les Mis, Grease, Hamilton
>Which is massively overrated?
Grease, Hamilton, Cats
>>67298613
>>67298625
Theater nerds... That's pretty hard...
Honestly, the best known are actually DESERVING the titled, for the first time ever...
Les Miserables is an example. Very famous, a bit overrated, but I can't hate it
OH FUCK! I know:Moulin Rouge
That was easy actually.
JCS is Andrew Lloyd Webber's masterpiece, but it's still inferior to
>A Little Night Music
>West Side Story
>Hamilton
among a whole lot of others
>>67298670
Hahahahahah. Honestly, I pretended to hate that show for a long while, but some of it is so delightful and actually sounds great when done right. It really dances the line between heartfelt and cringey.
Definitely a meme musical, though.
>watching theater on your computer
ISHYGDDT
>>67298704
You forgot Wicked, Rent, and In the Heights
>>67298805
>Hamilton better then JCSS
Thats complete bullshit anon
>>67298613
Definitely Les Mis then. I had never seen the show but fucking theater kids ruined it for me
>>67298704
>Cats
I can't believe I forgot about that. Yea, that is a meme musical. I like some of the songs but fuck, man.
Rocky Horror is also meme but actually very good
Grease... is weird. It's well known and everyone can sing it but... it's not so ... in your face, like certain memes. There's nothign wrong with Grease, nor its popularity level.
Maybe part of the reason is when I want to convince people to do kareoke, they'll either do ABBA or Grease songs.
Nigga, are you walking in here and not even suggesting Into the Woods or 1776?
Get rekt, son, and the based Jesus musical is totes Godspell.I should know because I was Jesus in a production last year and played Jeffrey before. And it's one of the few ways that I've been able to hold onto my Catholic heritage after going fedora.
>>67298805
>inferior to
>Hamilton
the show has no good songs and is targeted at teenage girls who dont even like rap music. Its fucking disgusting.
>>67298842
It's not my fault I live in a godforsaken hellhole with no live shows
>>67298863
My department has made me fucking sick of Hamilton and how much they're sucking Lin's dick
>>67298896
Thats a little far, Dear Theodosa and Take a Break are excellent
>>67298842
I doubt most people do. I personally have never. I haven't seen too many professionally done, but I lived not too far from a high school that dumped their money in their theater shit. I fucking swear they were better than Broadway a few times... I saw so many live productions.
They might have done Amadeus better than the movie. They blasted Falco's Amadeus too. I don't recall if the movie does too. If not, the high school version won.
>a meme musical by the way. But it's very good so no hate.
Alright, who else agrees they kinda knocked it outta the park with this version
>>67298876
1776 shouldn't have beat Hair
>>67298936
my sister has been playing the soundtrack non stop and none of it has been enjoyable for a single moment
>tfw the full version of the Blacklick production of Les Miserables will never again see the light of day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5g_TMQtm9FI
>>67298864
Do you have dyslexia?
Not trying to be rude. I work in theater and for some reason you get a lot of dyslexics there, and they type like you. Just wondering.
>>67298521
ugh and him singing Stars
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9bn42GDyKM
my heart!
>>67298627
It's definitely not the usual engineer style. Have you see any other productions?
>>67298983
The tenth anniversary is the best version without question
>>67298969
Yes it should have. Edgy hippie shit can't be sick bantz. Go have your songs about fucking minorities and I'll continue to enjoy The Lees of Old Virginia instead.
>>67298856
JCS succeeds because Webber's loopy indulgences in this case come together in a way that's electrifying instead of enervating like in pretty much everything else he's done.
Hamilton succeeds because it's meticulously crafted and obsessed over by a proper genius rather than a frog faced brit hack who caught lightning in a bottle and then wasted the following decades on making sure everyone associated musical theater with tepid kitschy pop songs
>>67298973
I've done the same thing.
To my little brother, I am sorry.
>Everyone posting Hamilton
I literally never heard of this
>2015
Oh. Is it good?
>>67299040
Duh. Why choose the 25th with the meme cast? Though I do love Alfie. I'm biased though because I'm fond of opera and I love good crossover artists.
>>67299015
Nope. I'm very good at reading and writing. But not after 3 bottles of wine and while reading something as the same time. It's also 4 am where I am.
>"Nothing after 1980 is good"
>>67298876
Anyone who thinks Into The Woods is Sondheim's best is - oh you think Godspell is somehow better than JCS congratulations on being the purest sort of pleb.
>>67299040
Agreed 100%.
There has yet to be a "definitive" Valjean, but Colm comes the closest.
>>67299054
Look I will admit Webber phones it in and has made some real stinkers but Phantom is still great regardless over how much its been done
>>67299116
no real person says this
>>67298936
>Dear Theodosa and Take a Break are excellent
Take a Break really? Satisfied, Wait For It, Non-Stop, and Room Where It Happens are all objectively better
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrbCFR1FsZk
>>67299118
>muh opinions are better than yours
Oh great swami, what is the best Sondheim piece, then? Is it the one where he'll never measure up to Hammerstein or Bernstein?
>>67299190
I literally couldn't make it 5 seconds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Thsl50Fd3RA
Which is the best blooper, /tv/?
>>67299227
Hungarian Valjean and Mexican Enjolras by far
>>67299205
A Little Night Music you fucking peasant
Bernstein is GOAT tho
>not having Sutton Foster as your musicalfu
you've got 5 seconds to explain yourself
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYmjDSpGmtE
>>67299278
I can dig on that. Into the Woods just has a lot of meaning for me, personally. Constant depression and then giving up on being a professional singer will do that to you and the themes of togetherness and making best with what you got resonated with me strongly.
>>67299254
>not "They will come one and all! They will come when we caauuughuaauuhull"
Alright I uploaded JCSS, Book of Mormon, and Pippin we'll watch them tomorrow, so look out for a thread at 9pm EST
Nobody have posted this yet. Disappointment.
>>67296294
Holy shit that dude is old Joker in a musical
>Damn my soul if you must
>Let my body turn to dust
>Let it mingle with the ashes of the country
>Let them curse me to hell
>Leave it to history to tell
>What I did, I did well
>And I did it for my country.
>LET THEM CRYYYY DIIIIRTY TRAAAAAAITOR
>They will understand it later
when are we getting an assassins movie
>>67298957
I really enjoyed it, and saw it a few times in theaters, but it wasn't a knock out of the park in my opinion. They removed/altered some significant parts of the plot which neutered the characters and the message of the story.
One of the running themes of the show is to make certain that what you wish is what you want, and that you get your wish in the right way. Along the way they get their wishes, sometimes at the expense of others, and after they get their wish some of them do bad things--namely Red, who kills wolves, and Jack, who steals and murders.
By altering the characters and timeline, they made it so that the weight/impact of the characters getting their wishes, and what they did before/during/after the wishes, just isn't there. So instead of the Baker and the wife both being absolutely exhausted by the baby and being unhappy yet again, you just see the Baker being afraid to be a father. And so on for the other characters.
On that note: neutering Little Red and removing much of the Giantess' dialogue. Little Red and her grandmother go on wolf killing sprees, so she's eager for violence--until it involves someone she knows. And when the witch points out that she has killed countless wolves so how can she be so squeamish now, Red says 'it's not the same' and then we get that wonderful line: "Ask the wolf's mother."
They also cut the dialogue where the Giantess flat out says why she wants revenge on Jack: she treated him right but he stole from them repeatedly then murdered her husband. Jack is not an innocent. So the element of the Giantess being just as human as the rest of them is lost.
Also, they were so wrong for excluding "No More." The part where Corden's Baker just breaks down and they swell that musical is still really emotional but I think Corden could have done amazing with the actual song.
>>67299505
Some day anon...Someday
>>67299076
yes
>>67298957
The first act in the movie adaptation pretty good, but the second act is an interminable slog dedicated to making the material feel as boring and stagebound as possible.
>>67298006
I literally came in specifically to laugh at the HamiltardsEven though I'm one of them and the songs have been stuck in my head for weeks now
So uh, which /Spring Awakening/ here?
>>67298957
Was surprisingly and thankfully very fucking good, could have been better but I was expecting an absolute fucking disaster. Streep killed it as expected.
>>67299505
Fucking yes please God soon, terribly underrated show
/art/ WHEN?
>>67299635
Gonna see that in a couple of weeks with a buddy of mine, im psyched
>>67299505
Michael Cerveris kills it in that bit
He's the best Sweeney Todd imo, and Patti LuPone the best Mrs LovettI dont like Angela Lansbury's voice
>>67299076
It's a rap musical about the American Revolution.
That being said, yes, it's actually really well done. Made me care about two characters in history I wouldn't have given a shit about otherwise, those being Hamilton himself and Aaron Burr,Sir
Marquis de Lafayette's pretty cool too
>>67299635
what do you mean which Spring Awakening? anyway I love that show. I used to REALLY want a movie but I've changed my mind and don't think it would translate well to the screen. it works really good as a musical especially with the microphones being hidden in their clothes. nice charm.
What are some shows you love even though you know they're not great?
I love most of what Wildhorn puts out. I even liked that weird revival of Jekyll & Hyde with Constantine Maroulis and Deborah Cox.Constantine Maroulis was even a great actor during some scenes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JuIl-niwso
>>67299635
I've been hearing so much about this Assassins show. Guess I should give it a listen. Anything to get The Room Where It Happens out of my head.
>>67299784
I love Wildhorn too anon, but as far as shows I love that aren't great its got to be Love Never Dies
not even memeing
>>67299871
It's musical theater anon, no shit it's gay.
It's good shit though.
>>67299799
enjoy having this stuck in your head instead
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8omQpWati8&t=1m25s
>>67299784
jerry springer the opera. lots of shitty songs but I really dig several moments especially Satan as a whole.
I really love this particular song he does
https://youtu.be/zwNZ0PR_pMw?t=1h23m6s
so good. but yeah it's not the best show and some of the comedy just completely falls flat for me.
>>67299871
>implying we're not all women
>>67299335
She isn't Bernadette Peters
>>67299926
HE COME OUT STEW
AND HE SAID
QUICK AS THE NORTH WIND HE WAS
HE SAID
ARE YOU A SARDINE
>>67299918
I'mma just do what I did with Hamilton and listen up to about the midway point tonight, maybe more.
>>67299932
I got a Y chromosome and I'm straight as an arrow. We can all love theater.
I don't know about the greatest musical of all time but Ian Gillan IS God!
>>67299975
wrong
>>67299932
Women can be gay too ya know
>>67299966
stop making musical threads they're all fucking degenerate
musical theater isn't just a fag art, it's also a historically jewish art. it's jewish corruption of true opera like wagner, take this shit back to tumblr
>>67300092
Opera is super duper gay, mate
>>67300092
>it's jewish corruption of true opera like wagner
False, actually, musicals started out as "plays with songs" and didn't begin incorporating operatic elements until much later.
>>67300092
make a list of all the things that you are going to do to stop us besides cry like the little bitch you are
>>67299370
>9pm
>EST
thank god i'm a useless alcoholic who is always awake.
It's on insta-synch or where?
>>67299420
One person did, but I agree, it should have more attention
>>67300149
cytube but I have to link it through instasync since it views the link as spam
>>67299735
>you wouldn't give a shit about
Oh, you haven't learned American History then.
HOLY FUCK.
Many insult Amerifag history but there were some awesome parts. These two fags were amazing
I'll never understand why I took American History in college for a semester but damn if it didn't expand my mind. Not because it was American, but the man could teach history and show something beyond history: connection.
Sorry for the rant: but those two definitely deserve a movie or a musical.
>>67299932
>>67299871
Hetero male.
At least I can say almost 100% (if not 100%) of my theater events were because or with girls.
>>67300058
The comedian Stewart Lee wrote and directed Jerry Springer the Opera. whenever he's mentioned on /tv/ someone usually posts "he came out stew" in reference to one of his bits.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJAn70KjifY
>>67300113
>>67300092
I get that we're shit posting, but opera is hype as fuck. You haven't lived until you've been able to show off your vocal virtuosity in front of a crowd. Once you've trained for ten years, you can sing over any orchestra and just blow people away with the supple tone of your voice.
I love both art forms, but there's a certain transience to MT. The purity of the music and the dedication it takes to perform an opera really pushes it over into a new realm.
>>67300232
Oh, you're gonna fucking love this musical then.
We had a musical theater thread last week where a bunch of people were posting a /tv/ version of One Day More. I said I'd arrange a /tv/ sings of it but I was high as fuck and forgot. Anyone have the lyrics?
>>67300258
What do you mean "because of" girls?
Did they talk you into quitting the football team and acting in theater instead?
>>67300297
Why focus so much on loudness when you can use amplification and focus on the melody?
Specially considering 99% of music is consumed in recorded form nowadays
>>67299918
Listening to it now. Only on Ballad of Booth right now.
I'm surprised that I'm laughing and and the same time feeling really bad for John Wilkes fucking Booth of all people.
>>67300458
That how good Sondheim is
>>67300401
I bet, I plan to see it. But I can't see live theater until summer I think...
>>67300446
No, they just invited me to see the plays. One was in the plays, one just invited me and my family because their theater department was amazing (worth the hour drive and few dollar admissions. I think they paid always too)
There was ONE other girl who dragged me along but I stopped when I realized she was idiotic and the theater club she was with sucked.
>>67299772
I meant who, fuck autocorrect. It was the musical that made me love musicals. I saw it on tour and the set and abstraction blew me away. Sadly, I also think that's why it wouldn't translate to film; it would lose its strengths, and that comes from someone who was gung-ho about a movie and being Moritz in that movie. Ah, high school.
I always loved how they fed the mics down through their hair and whatever, absolutely brilliant.
>>67299799
Absolutely worth your time, terribly underrated musical, maybe my favorite Sondheim. Definitely listen.
>>67299671
Awesome. Something local? Or the NY deaf production? Almost saw that when I was up there, but I went and saw Drunk Shakespeare and Something Rotten instead.
Speaking of which, Something Rotten was pretty great, if normal fare. Pretty smart, excellently executed. I want the lead to go do Evil Dead the Musical; he's Bruce Campbell on Broadway.
>>67300511
Its a local production, I also missed a local production of Evil Dead to go see Mocking Jay part 1 with a group of friends and still regret it
>>67300571
You better have gotten super laid after skipping to watch that anon Jesus Christ
>>67299918
>in June 1860[5] joined the utopian religious sect known as the Oneida Community, in Oneida, New York
>Despite the "group marriage" aspects of that sect, he was generally rejected during his five years there, and was nicknamed "Charles Gitout".
JUST
>>67300571
>Mockingjay
Damn, not the same poster, but damn... I should have stopped with Catching Fire...
>>67300498
>>67300511
On How I Saved Roosevelt.
I'm really liking this. Complex as fuck and I don't think I can really catch onto it like I did Hamilton but I'm enjoying the hell out of these songs.
Well, the guy that tried to kill Roosevelt just got the Chair. This is neat stuff.
>>67300457
Because there's a different style to it. I'm not saying that the singers in a theater production aren't talented, but there's a different approach to the music.
The loudness isn't the point, it's one small part of a classically trained singer's technique. They can resonate at any dynamic, where you're stuck with a mic system for MT in spaces that don't allow sound to carry like music halls or opera houses.
And the difference between recorded and live music plays a large part in how this is consumed. Sure, you can listen to an album of a popular show, but it doesn't carry the same sort of weight as a live performance. Having that in between of the speaker system rather than the pure voice also puts distance between the singer and the audience. The singer's voice, without a mic, physically touches the theater goers and adds a whole different dimension to the experience. It's phenomenal. That's why it's so special to meand my bias as a classically trained singer who still dabbles in MT rep because it's all good shit.
>>67300622
Sadly no, the only thing I got out of that was the anger of the way it ended when it should have ended fucking five minutes earlier
>>67300643
Hamilton is unusually absorbing, it seems to have a similar kind of narrative appeal as something like Les Mis. Most Sondheim holds you a bit more at arms length, Assassins probably doubly so because of the revue structure.
>>67300761
>Most Sondheim holds you a bit more at arms length
I'm catching that drift, between this and the only other Sondheim I know (Into The Woods).
FUCK these sudden gunshots holy shit
>>67300624
> "I am Going to the Lordy" is a poem written by Charles J. Guiteau, the assassin of U.S. President James A. Garfield. He wrote it on June 30, 1882, the morning of his execution. He read it at the gallows. Guiteau was detested by many of his contemporaries; the poem was poorly received
>"I am Going to the Lordy" was marked as "pathetic", and the entire event was labeled as "obvious imbecility."
fucking Guiteau
>>67300941
poetry
>>67299918
LOOK ON THE BRIGHT SIDE
>>67301078
Man, I'm really enjoying this shit so far.
The other side of theater: plays.
Favorites? Any favorites that are available on DVD or streaming?
The Crucible from Digital Theatre is intense.
>>67301257
Hamlet, specifically Kenneth Branaugh
>>67301257
Let the Right One In. Really unnerving show.
>>67301360
they made a play out of it? is it like the movie at all or just an adaptation of the book?
>>67301360
What. That's a play? Fuck, I want to see it. I don't even know why I never finished the original movie...
>>67301288
Fuck, that movie... I will never forget it. Very impactful.
>>67301288
>Kenneth Branagh version
My nigga.
>>67300624
haha holy shit
>>67301288
Kenny is my fucking nigger
I can't believe that Disney wiped his brain and implanted jewish mind control into him
>>67301602
Thats the most depressing thing I've read all day, but you know he's just waiting to get a little older so he can give us the Tempest and Leer
>>67299505
I just finished Assassins.
Damn, that was entertaining as hell. I really liked the November 22, 1963 bit where it's just talking, for some reason I was really captivated by that.
If we're talking about movie musicals, JCSS is the best
But musicals in general, Hamilton, Heathers, Gentleman's Guide, Avenue Q, Next to Normal, The Last 5 Years, etc. Are all a lot better stage musicals.
>>67301860
>Hamilton
stop memeing this literal 2/10 garbage
>>67301907
these buttmad contrarians
even if you don't think it compares to the classics, hamilton is leagues ahead of trash like wicked
>>67301907
>2/10
It's 8/10 at worst
>>67301964
No, it's not offensively bad. It's original and I imagine it works well onstage but the music and story are nothing special at all and it is the most absurdly overrated thing ever to happen to Broadway. Even shit like Wicked has more comprehensive entertainment value, at least.
>>67301450
>>67301414
I haven't read the book, so I'm not sure which one it is more like! It followed many of the beats of the film from what I remember.
>>67301907
>stop liking what I don't like!
>>67302023
>music
>nothing special
holy shit this 0/10 comment
>>67302023
>music and story are nothing special at all
Damned Lies, anon.
>>67301964
You're overselling a bit.
>>67302265
wicked is "sets and costumes: the musical"
>>67302330
Exactly and people praise it to me all the time and don't get why I think its shit
>listening to christfag shit
>>67302401
JSCC is actually good. Godspell is a dreadful mess.
>>67302401
Weak bait
>>67302417
>Jesus Sist Cooper Car
>>67302401
>jesus christ superstar
>Christfag
But... the show was protested against by Christian groups, because it portrays Jesus as flawed and Judas as torn and all while singing pop rock music
>>67302330
Plus, you know, the awesome score. Wicked is in this weird place where it's both overrated by plebs and underrated by people who are sick of it. It wasn't some huge step forward for musical theater or particularly innovative, but it's still one of the most entertaining shows out there.
>>67302541
The show can be really good with the right cast (like julia murney, wiljemin verkaik, for elphaba anyway) or mediocre and theme park-y with the wrong
>>67302359
Never seen it. I liked a ton of the songs though.
>>67302541
Eh. I really didn't care for the score, it felt to me like the most generic kind of broadway pop and with only a couple of good songs. I don't want to hate on people for enjoying it, I can see the appeal especially when you factor in just how energizing and fun live musical theater can be, but it just felt to me like that's ALL it had going for it. That and its good natured amiability.
>>67302511
I snorted. Christianfags are literally idiotic then. I never saw JCS but even I knew Judas was a redeemable sinner, as was Peter and Jesus was flawed (his whore wife?)
But I'm not him... JCS can be loved by non-Christfags. Let's be honest: any media involved with religion can be good if it has other aspects. A lot of eastern mythology shit is good. Confuciusiam has good points.
>>67296105
Wrong
Wrong
Wrong
High schooler detected
>tfw you've been listening to musicals all night and you have no idea how you're gonna get through tomorrow without humming "HELLO, MY NAME IS ELDER PRICE" or "NO ONE ELSE WAS IN THE ROOM WHERE IT HAPPENED"
Thanks musicalfags.
>>67302736
I'm jew scum, and JCS was probably the first time I found the Christ narrative to be really engaging, and its probably the thing that really turned me away from fedoracore atheism and towards finding theology and peoples religious beliefs actually interesting and not just something to feel smug about.confucianism a shit though
>>67302736
>Jesus was flawed
fucking heathen enjoy eternal damnation
>>67299370
>>67299370
Change of plans I'm busy tomorrow at 9 so we'll start at 10:30pm EST instead
>>67304430
>jesus
>messiah
>supposed to unite mankind under one god
>mankind is as divided as ever
>>67297018
Thanks. I'll check it out soon.
