What's your favorite musical?

[Boris Godunov]

Les Mis is the only one I could ever sit through without wanting to eat the business end of a shotgun, so Les Mis it is.

I bet you'd love Avenue Q.

[Cort Haus]

As musicals go, West Side Story can be forgiven for the NYC 60's imagery, and the South Park film has the saving grace of being South Park, but apart from that, as a male heterosexual adult, I find musicals are best avoided.

[BlackCat]

Cats

[Cort Haus]

Oh, and

[EPW]

Boris Godunov

[Boris Godunov]

Boris Godunov

Don't think I'll forget this insult.

[Guynemer]

You couldn't sit through South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut? It's low class, sure, but not uninteresting...

I thought we were only talking about theatre. If we're including film, then by all means, SP:BLU.

[Guynemer]

So, just to be clear, we're all in agreement here--Tupac is Drake, right? I'll expect to see you in the college football thread.

[Tupac Shakur]

I thought we were only talking about theatre. If we're including film, then by all means, SP:BLU.

Films are included. Guys and Dolls has been great every time I've seen it on stage, but Sinatra is still the definitive Nathan Detroit in my eyes.

I'll expect to see you in the college football thread.

I don't have much use for sports, although I do occasionally watch hockey.

[Boris Godunov]

So, just to be clear, we're all in agreement here--Tupac is Drake, right? I'll expect to see you in the college football thread.

I don't see why he's Drake. It's not like Drake was banned and needs a DL, right?

I'd be more inclined to think he was another loinburger DL.

[Al B. Sure!]

On a side note, I always contended that Poetic Justice should've been a musical, but John Singleton was adamantly against it. Idiot; did he really think the public wouldn't accept a musical starring myself and Janet Jackson at the height of her popularity? That would've been a bonafide hit and might have breathed some life into a sadly moribund movie genre...

Make sense.

[onodera]

Ooooooookay.

And Les Mis.

It took me several minutes to realise that was Les Miserables. You Americans and your desire to shorten anything longer than 5 letters.

[IamSamSamIam]

5. Guys and Dolls

Here is a site that may provide reminders.

http://everythingmusicals.com/everything_i_know_i_learn/the-100-best-musicals-of-all-time.html

[Tupac Shakur]

Pretty good list, although I think Sweeney Todd is a little high at #3.

[Al B. Sure!]

You know, as crazy as the DL maker may think this is, it's actually not even all that off the wall...

At the age of twelve, Shakur enrolled in Harlem's 127th Street Repertory Ensemble and was cast as the Travis Younger character in the play A Raisin in the Sun, which was performed at the famous Apollo Theater. In 1986, the family relocated to Baltimore, Maryland.[20] After completing his second year at Paul Laurence Dunbar High School he transferred to the Baltimore School for the Arts, where he studied acting, poetry, jazz, and ballet. He performed in Shakespeare plays, and in the role of the Mouse King in The Nutcracker.

But 2pac was more of a ballet kind of guy than a musical guy, it seems.