Musicals

I haven't been on for awhile so I figured I could go babble on about something, so I choose musicals, because I want to 8p

In the past year I have been introduced to showtunes, and I love it! My theatre geek friends are a reason I have been turned to this sad but epic obsession. The main reason was from seeing shows in London, and since then I have seen many others!

The first real show I ever saw was Beauty and the Beast on broadway. I'm sorry to say I barely remember it. I was young, I believe I was only 8. What I do remember was that our original plan was to go see The Lion King, but the tickets were sold out, so we saw this instead. I remember that one of the songs Belle sang *Home I think it was called* was a song on one of my Disney CDs, which was awesome because I was always wondering where that song was from because it wasn't in the movie. And of course, I remember liking this musical. I'd like to see it again though.

Second show, and the funniest musical ever, was Spamalot. Even better, this one I saw in London, so it had REAL BRITISH ACCENTS xD. 3rd row seats. This was indeed one of the best musicals ever. It was just funny as hell, there should be no reason that they just took it off broadway. You must understand that I was practically raised on Monty Python, we have all of their movies and the Flying Circus series. So seeing this kinda completed my life. 8p

Third show, which I also saw in London, was Wicked. Best Musical Ever. Hands down. The story behind this one was that in London we only planned to see Spammalot. Every day we walked to the Victoria Tube Station and right across from it was a theatre doing Wicked, so we saw the massive green sign everyday. On our last day in London, we had basically done every local thing possible, so my mom suggested we go check to see if Wicked had any tickets left on sale. Lucky us, they had tickets, not to far back, but far enough to the point I couldn't really see their faces, but thats alright. But as I said, definitly the best musical ever. It's funny, sad, romantic, dramatic, everything!

Fourth show, Phantom of the Opera. I have this younger friend named Kristin that goes to art with me. She had gotten herself into a POTO obsession. One day she brought in the CD from the movie and we played that on the little boombox. I found myself liking one of the songs so I listened to it on the computer, gradually moving onto some other songs, then asking to borrow the CD and the movie from Kristin all together. I saw POTO on broadway a few days after Christmas. I think I liked the movie version alittle too much because the broadway version wasn't pleasing me, but it was still very good and very impressive. Visually it's fantastic, and the actors have very impressive vocal skills

Afterwards, all other shows I've seen have been from local theatres and school stuff. Those shows were Little Shop of Horrors, The Wedding Singer, Once Upon A Mattress, The Producers, and Jesus Christ Superstar

Because of my little showtune obsession, I need a new iPod because my 1st gen nano can not hold all of my songs now.

On my iPod I have the broadway versions of Little Shop of Horrors, Wicked, and The Wedding Singer.

I also have the movie versions of Sweeney Todd, Rent, and Phantom of the Opera.

And then there are just single songs *planning on getting the albums for* from Hairspray *movie version* and Legally Blonde

I'm planning on getting the albums for the 2 musical mentioned above, plus Spamalot, Jesus Christ Superstar, Once Upon A Mattress, Dreamgirls*movie version*, and Toxic Avenger. I wanna get the movie version of The Producers, but iTunes doesn't have it anymore T.T

and then theres Across The Universe and Moulin Rouge, movie musicals. Need to get the full album for ATU and I have the pt.1 album for Moulin Rouge.

Me and my friends are so cool that we blast whatever showtunes I have on my iPod while driving in my friend Matt's car xD

Enough babbling! I'll let you all be now!


"In any great adventure, that you don't want to lose, victory depends upon the poeple that you choose. So, listen, Arthur darling, closely to this news: We won't succeed on Broadway, If we don't have any Jews"
-You Won't Succeed on Broadway, Spamalot