musicals - movies / broadway like shows

[cruising for burgers]

do u like any?

I love this tune, the orchestra here plays it live but it's a whole different thing… electric guitar, bass, drums, piano/synth and horns section… they play a lot of stuff from musicals and it got me interested in it… I might like some…

 

 

 

Edited June 2 by cruising for burgers

[dcom]

I like Tommy.

[cruising for burgers]

1 hour ago, dcom said:

I like Tommy.

cool thanks, actually I already had it on my watchlist...

 

i mean, look at this, gag me with a spoon ffs...

 

Edited June 1 by cruising for burgers

[Squee]

I was forced to watch Hamilton and it was so excruciatingly bad that if I didn’t know any better I would think the rap songs were written by the KKK. 
 

Why this became such a phenomenon must prove just how shitty everything else at Broadway is. 
 

I’ve also told this story before. But I was forced to watch Dear Evan Hansen which was a whole lot worse than Hamilton. No one in our friend group really wanted to watch it, so what I did was the days leading up to us seeing it, I downloaded the film and then started editing it, changing the sound design  etc. The first couple of things were pretty subtle, but then came the scene where I edited in scenes from Saving Private Ryan. 
 

No one batted an eye when this happened.

[taphead]

I like what I've heard of Industrial Musicals, can't really connect with all this stuff where they sing a story, but I am totally on board with learning about these practical applications of silicones

 

[ignatius]

"Once More With Feeling" is pretty great if you roll w/it a bit. some lolz.. awesome finale. also, anya and bunnies... skip the willow/tara song.. it gets a little.. idk. if you didn't watch the show then you kinda miss a lot of what the musical is about and the big reveal. but also, the youtube playlist skips all the dialogue so.. 

the first 30 or 40 minutes of Moulin Rouge is kinda psychedlic. 

Edited June 2 by ignatius

[auxien]

South Park Bigger Longer & Uncut

The Nightmare Before Christmas

Rocky Horror Picture Show

Star Trek SNW Subspace Rhapsody

the Muppets movies are good contenders, but they can be hit and miss

i'm a basic bitch on musicals, never cared for them in concept but the above were all very well done. i half-watched Little Shop of Horrors when drunk once ~20 years ago so i can't say for sure i liked it, but i think i did? lol

[ignatius]

could throw jesus christ super star in there  

also, the jeepers kreepers... 

mr. show had some great musical numbers with jack black. 

 

the jeepers creepers sketch won them an emmy or something. 

Moulin Rouge was fun and ridiculous on a big screen. pretty loud and bright and in your face close ups. 

also, Hair the movie is kinda weird in that 60s way. some funny scenes. 

 

Edited June 2 by ignatius

[YEK]

I don’t know many musicals but I know a few

 

 

[chenGOD]

Musicals suck but at least they gave us this album:

 

[zazen]

What I will say for Hamilton is that I'm a lefty brit and generally skeptical of the big old USA, I was out in the streets marching in protest twenty years ago when GWB came to visit London, generally see USA imperialism as a problem in the world etc. I know a little bit of USA history but they didn't teach it in a lot of detail when I was at school.

But I found Hamilton very inspiring, the story of how the USA was formed, and how radical it was at the time to tell the old powers to fuck off and just start from scratch, do all the debating and paperwork necessary to invent a structure of federated states within a republic and all the checks and balances to make it (mostly) work. Like really cutting edge. And now 250 years later you all (mostly) take the consitution very seriously still. Like, there are arguments about how to interpret it or whether it should be changed but the basic idea of it is very well respected.

Also the way Britain is represented is simultaneously hilarious and also very creepy, a sortof entitled air of superiority. King George's first song in Hamilton absolutely blew me away

Its quite hard to find a good copy of it on youtube but I found this one:

 

Edited June 2 by zazen

[Rubin Farr]

Saw Starlight Express in London in the 80s, and Jeff Wayne’s War of the Worlds with Liam Neeson in London a few years back.

Does Cirque Du Soleil count? 

[cruising for burgers]

5 hours ago, Rubin Farr said:

Does Cirque Du Soleil count

no circle do soleil or blue man group pls... unless there's some really great songs... I'm mostly looking for cool songs from mucicals and then try and find out different covers or even the originals where they're inspired from...

[Rubin Farr]

36 minutes ago, cruising for burgers said:

no circle do soleil or blue man group pls... unless there's some really great songs... I'm mostly looking for cool songs from mucicals and then try and find out different covers or even the originals where they're inspired from...

The Beatles Cirque was cool