Classic Musicals

[Kev]

Whats your fave?

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Sound Of Music?

[Howie]

Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel.

The Carousel Waltz and You'll Never Walk Alone - excellent!

[victorialush]

The Wizard of Oz

[sweetpatooti]

Fiddler on the Roof

[julia]

Torn between Les Miserables and everything/anything by Andrew Lloyd Weber (Especially Evita, Cats & Phantom of the Opera).

[wendyanne]

Singin' In

The Rain.

[jimmy]

Meet me in St. Louis,and The Phantom of the Opera.

[PhilipG]

Not exactly a musical, but any film

with a score by Ennio Morricone.

[GhostSearch]

Oh give me the King and I or Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

[MissInformed]

Oliver! and The Wicker Man (it IS classed as a musical by the

writer!)

2 of the most amazing soundtracks ever.... sigh

[Sloyne]

Musicals are, IMO,

the popular form of opera. 'The King & I'; 'Oklahoma'; 'Carousel'; 'State Fair'; 'Show Boat'; 'Student

Prince'; 'Sound of Music'; 'Half a Sixpence'; 'Camelot'; 'Finians Rainbow'; 'Brigadoon'; 'Kismet';

'Bless the Bride'; 'Blood Brothers'; 'Carmen Jones'; 'Porgy & Bess'; 'West Side Story'; 'White

Christmas'; 'Flower Drum Song'; and many more that have slipped my mind at present. However, my all time favourite musical is 'South

Pacific' the Rogers & Hammerstien adaption of James A. Michener's 'Tales of the South Pacific', and it is only the Mitzy Gaynor, Rosano Brazzi

version i'm refering to.

PS: It is nice to see classical music adapted to popular form with the likes of Borodin's music in Kismet and Bizet's in

Carmen Jones. Going the other way we find the RLPO performing a Beatles Concerto. I think it was Hans Christian Anderson who said: "Where words fail,

music speaks", the musical, to my mind, is a marriage of both.