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Singing in the Rain - Sing in the rain

Shall We Dance - The King and I

Sound of Music - the kids song at the ball and My favorite things

some others that i always loved where:
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Camelot
Miss Saigon
The Music Man
Oklahoma
Rent - for a more modern spin (this is just in a whole new category i didnt feel right mentioning it here - but the songs are good)

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I had you down for a Wizard of Oz fan for sure, Peachy

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i do but The King and I will always and forever be my favorite.

I love musicals on the screen and on the stage...they both have something to contribute in thier own ways. But there are some musicals that look better on the screen b/c they have more extensive sets and huge numbers like Singing in the Rain - that when they are on the stage they just cant compare. But The King and I does amazingly on BOTH. Its great on the screen but still captures my heart on the stage and loses none of its qualities...i still get emotional every time i see it and to me its one of the most wonderfully constructed musicals ever - songs and all.

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Dentist!
I can picture no one but Steve Martin in that role.

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Singing in the Rain is great, but too obvious. from the same movie, I like Moses Supposes. From another Gene Kelley movie (it's always fair weather), I like Baby You Knock Me Out (Cyd Charrise), The Time For Parting, and I Like Myself (Gene on roller skates). From Fred Astaire movies, my favorite dance/song number is Pick Yourself Up from Swing Time

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Singing in the Rain - Sing in the rain

Shall We Dance - The King and I

Sound of Music - the kids song at the ball and My favorite things

some others that i always loved where:
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Camelot
Miss Saigon
The Music Man
Oklahoma
Rent - for a more modern spin (this is just in a whole new category i didnt feel right mentioning it here - but the songs are good)

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I had you down for a Wizard of Oz fan for sure, Peachy

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i do but The King and I will always and forever be my favorite.

I love musicals on the screen and on the stage...they both have something to contribute in thier own ways. But there are some musicals that look better on the screen b/c they have more extensive sets and huge numbers like Singing in the Rain - that when they are on the stage they just cant compare. But The King and I does amazingly on BOTH. Its great on the screen but still captures my heart on the stage and loses none of its qualities...i still get emotional every time i see it and to me its one of the most wonderfully constructed musicals ever - songs and all.

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My girlfriend just finished up a run as Lady Thiang in King and I, and I wish her solo's were better.

She was also recently Marian Paroo in Music Man...her rendition of "My White Knight" is to die for. And how can anybody not love "Shapoopy"?

I may be biased.

Josh

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Tradition, and Sunrise Sunset from "Fiddler on the Roof"

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i cant BELIEVE i left off My Fair Lady...

that and The King and I are the two best

My Fair Lady doesnt fair as well on the stage for me though, probably b/c Audrey Hepburn stole a permanent spot in my heart for that role...makes it harder for me to enjoy by any name on stage...but the songs are great

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There's a grief that can't be spoken
There's a pain goes on and on
Empty chairs at empty tables
Now my friends are dead and gone.

Here they talked of revolution
Here it was they lit the flame
Here they sang about 'tomorrow'
And tomorrow never came

From the table in the corner
They could see a world reborn
And they rose with voices ringing
I can hear them now
The very words that they had sung
Became their last communion
On the lonely barricade at dawn!

Oh my friends, my friends, forgive me
That I live and you are gone.
There's a grief that can't be spoken
There's a pain goes on and on

Phantom faces at the window
Phantom shadows on the floor
Empty chairs at empty tables
Where my friends will meet no more

Oh my friends, my friends, don't ask me
What your sacrifice was for
Empty chairs at empty tables
Where my friends will sing no more

Les Miserables

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South Park the movie I rest everyones case

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What Would Brian Boitano do was better.

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Les Miz not filmed in musical form yet.

Given the botchjob on Phantom(someone needs to tell them that the Phantom is a tenor), I wouldn't hold my breath for anything good.

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Les Miz not filmed in musical form yet.


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Agree. 'The Glums' is an awesome musical to see. Wonderful songage.