What Are Your Favorite Musicals?

[JohnDB]

 

[Razeontherock]

Since no one has mentioned the one Rick Moranis was in...

Little Shop of Horrors

"Suddenly Semore" was my favorite number in that one.

Feed me, Seymour!

 

[Edward]

Man I would LOVE to play 1st trumpet on that!! What a fun part

I have the DVD...But my 'puter won't play it...:angry

 

[LovethroughDove]

I was in the orchestra pit for that one, getting paid to play trumpet while in 10th grade. On opening night (!) the Conductor, Director and Producer for the current Broadway show watched it to give a review.

Their ENTIRE review: "that's an 802 brass section."

802 is the# of the Musician's local Union on Broadway. We were up to snuff! Consistent with "if you don't have anything good to say, don't say anything at all," they didn't say anything else.

It was pretty nerve racking, and that is a very challenging show to play, with some great music ...

Very impressive, cause it does seem like it'd be challenging music.

 

[JohnDB]

The music Man

 

[JohnDB]

Xanadu

 

[for_his_glory]

I've played all those, although "Yankee Doodle Dandy" that you're thinking of is probably George M! About George M Cohen, who wrote Yankee Doodle Dandy.

Fiddler on the Roof and Meet Me In St Louis I played for my own HS, so I didn't get paid

It was about the life of George M. Cohen. Who would have known James Cagney was such a great dancer as he mostly played in gangster movies.

 

[Razeontherock]

Very impressive, cause it does seem like it'd be challenging music.

Yeah. There's a part that has the trumpets playing in C, but it's written in B#

And the mute changes are so fast, it has dented many trumpet bells. The whole thing is pretty much nuts

 

[Razeontherock]

The music Man

That's one I've never played (I saw my Sister perform a leading role in it)