I love musicals. It's why I'm still watching Glee, despite all the problems with that show. Express an emotion with a song and you've got me hooked.
If I have to pick just one musical, I think I'll go with Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella, the one with Brandi. I adored this musical when I was a child. I actually wore out the VHS from watching it so often. It's a fairy tale! And the songs are so fun. I especially love the opening duet between Cinderella and the Prince, which they wrote just for this edition; it's what bumps it up above the Julie Andrews soundtrack for me. I like that Cinderella and the Prince meet before the ball, and that they actually have some things in common that make a relationship between them plausible.
On top of that I love every single song. Impossible is something of a mantra I can hum to myself when things start to get overwhelming. I'll often find myself singing A Lovely Night after a particularly good date (and occasionally I Could Have Danced All Night, but that's a different musical). In high school, I got to choreograph a waltz to Ten Minutes Ago when the choir did a Broadway review.
I do need to give a special shout out to Jesus Christ Superstar, which I listen to every Easter. It's about the only tradition I observe in conjunction with that holiday, but it's an important one.
I love musicals. I always have, I always will. There is something about singing and acting used in unison that gets me every time. My favorite musical of always is probably The Sound of Music, it is the first live action musical that I remember both seeing and loving. It also probably helped that my mom loved it so much, so we actually owned it.
ReplyDeleteMusicals that should receive highly honorable mentions are Across the Universe, which just pulls at my heart-strings in all the right ways, one of the most emotionally draining musicals in recent memory. Also, the musical Disney movies of our childhood, just...all of them.
I'm going to go with the south park movie. And yes, it was as much a movie as the rest of these. I have not seen the book of Mormon yet though.
ReplyDeleteI can't edit that but I meant musical.
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