Day 6: Flist-created February Meme

[falafel_musings]

February 6th: Talk about musicals other than Les Miz. daybreak777

Gladly! I love musicals. I love the musicals so much that I watched almost three seasons Glee, sitting through a lot of auto-tuned pop covers that weren't at all to my taste, just in the hopes of seeing them do a great showtune occasionally, usually courtesy of Lea Michele or Chris Colfer,

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[bessiemaemucho]

Hooray for musicals!!

I love the musicals so much that I watched almost three seasons Glee That IS dedication!! I love musicals too but I could only make it through like 1.5 seasons of it. Did you like Spring Awakening? I knew Lea Michele from that & am excited she's getting a wider audience, even if Glee is... not... great.

Can I ask why this was musicals besides Les Miz? Is that your favorite or your least favorite? (Or just the asker's least favorite maybe). I like Les Miz okay myself but it's not in my top 5.

My biggest wish is that more musicals would release "filmed live on Broadway/stage" DVDs like Rent and JCS have done. Movie adaptations are fine, but I tend to prefer the stage version.

As we've discussed, I love Hedwig!! 100% dedicated to trying to see it when it's revived in NYC this spring. Sigh.

I love Cabaret, too! Once I saw it with John Stamos as the emcee, which was... I don't really know why that happened. But he wasn't bad!

[falafel_musings]

I've only ever seen a few youtube clips of Spring Awakening, but yes, it looked great. Jonathan Groff from SA has also been in Glee as a guest star and he was awesome too.

I think Les Miz is just the main musical we've talked about together. I loved Les Miz a lot when I first saw the 10th anniversary concert but these days I wouldn't count it as one of my big faves either. I had very mixed feelings on the movie. Well Javert is my favorite character and I feel I'm never going to recover from Russell Crowe murdering 'Stars'.

Is that the Neil Patrick Harris version of Hedwig. Good luck getting to see it! The live version I saw was a small production at the Edinburgh festival but the lead actor was terrific.

[bessiemaemucho]

Oh! I forgot Jonathan Groff was in Glee. Sigh, I love Spring Awakening so muchhh. I wish that Glee would have made up its mind if it wanted to be taken seriously or if it wanted to be high camp. I think I would have liked it if it had been able to commit either way, but it ended up just being so lukewarm.

I feel I'm never going to recover from Russell Crowe murdering 'Stars'.
Hahahaha Russell Crowe's whole performance was just like, aw buddy, you tried :( Have you seen June Diane Raphael & Casey Wilson's version of "The Confrontation"? If not, I really cannot recommend it highly enough.

Is that the Neil Patrick Harris version of Hedwig. Good luck getting to see it!
Yes, NPH's version. Thank you! If I can work it out, I will assuredly blog about it.

[daybreak777]

Once I saw it with John Stamos as the emcee, which was... I don't really know why that happened.

I had to see it. :-)

His comedic timing really works for him and the audience here. :-)

[daybreak777]

CABARET!!!!!

*runs to YouTube*

Will you see Miss Saigon this summer?

I have to watch all of your YouTubes but I'm sleepy. Saturday!

[falafel_musings]

Like I said, seeing anything on the West End isn't really an option for me financially speaking. I'd love to see it though.

je suis enchanté

[daybreak777]

I loved Alan Cumming's Willkomen and I'm not even sure I like Cabaret!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KW5eFCFnW9c

Here is him at the Tony's.

Wow, that gets me going this morning!

I think I have to go see some of these plays, Falafel! You inspire me!

Re: je suis enchanté

[falafel_musings]

I definitely like Cabaret and Alan Cummings is a brilliant Emcee. Have you seen the vids of Michael C Hall in the same role. He's marvellous too.

[elliotsmelliot]

I am finally getting to see Cabaret at a festival this summer. I am very excited.