Your Favorite Broadway Shows/Musicals

Did you miss the part of the title of the thread where I wrote: Your "favorite" shows/musicals?

 

I'm sure you're joking, but the serious answer is that I have several, actually. Most would rather go to a Red Sox game than "Rent." One worked on "Will & Grace," but even he'd rather go to an art museum than a musical.

 

1. Les Miserables -- Saw it my freshman year in high school on Broadway when my band went to NYC/NJ for spring break. A bunch of us slept through the first 15 or so minutes of it because we were all dead tired from running around the city that day, but we all woke up during I Dreamed a Dream. That song is stuck in my mind to this day. I never thought I'd love a musical as much as I do Les Mis. The acting in it is amazing and the singing is even better.

 

Can't believe little Mikey mentioned Say Good Night Gracie... absolutley hilarious and Gorshen was sensational.

Cabaret with Joel Grey was great. And I loved Rent
More recently, Spamalot and The Producers.


Just went Sunday to see David Mamet's "November" with the incomparable Nathan Lane. Very funny show, especially for those of us who hate a certain bumbling presdent who, as Dylan Baker, as the President's counsel, tells President "Chuck" Smith "you've fucked up everything you've touched"

 

No sir. What made it one of my favorite musicals is the trip that my grandmother surprised me to go see it with seventh row middle tickets. Although the musical wasn't to die for in my mind, the time with my grandmother was and that makes it a damn good trip, which in turn makes it a fantastic musical because I was in my grandmother's presence.

 

As a Python fan, I wish I could have seen Spamalot. Saw The Producers, which I enjoyed, but it didn't have a successful run in Toronto.

A Chorus Line is coming here and I will be all over that.

 

we can put shows in too? wow ... i know what i'm doing the rest of the day

 

Let me add that I saw "Blue Man Group" off Broadway and loved it. It was close enough to Broadway that I would consider it on. You step outside and take one step to your right and you are on Broadway. It was on one of those corner places.

 

Someone else can correct me if I'm wrong but don't Broadway, Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway refer to the size of the theater, not exactly what street on which it's located.

 

I think so, actually. But oh well. I saw the "Blue Man Group" near the road that is named Broadway.

Edit...From Wikipedia:

 

Spamalot's a considerable disappointment. If you're a Python maniac, you're going to love it, no matter what, but for those not 100% sold on The Boys,
it's a struggle . . . though a couple of the songs are hilarious.

 

Oh, another thread could be started on Most Hated Famous Broadway Shows, but that's another topic for another day.