We Love Musicals Week is starting today over at Hamlette’s Soliloquy! I’m hoping to get a post up for that later this week, but in the meantime I decided to fill out this fun-looking We Love Musicals Week tag.
1. What are your favorite musicals? (Tell us a top 3 to 5, that sort of thing.)
Number 1 is Les Misérables. That is indisputable. Number 2 might be Mary Poppins (though for that one I specifically like the movie version, not so much the stage version). There are so many musicals I enjoy that I’m not sure what else to put in a top spot, but I should give special mention to Fiddler on the Roof; I’m re-watching it currently to aid me in writing my post for We Love Musicals Week, and I’m remembering afresh just how good the music is. (Sabbath Prayer/Sunrise, Sunset just might be my favorite song in the whole thing.)
2. What do you like about musicals?
I think musicals can express things in a unique way that no other storytelling medium can, which is very cool. There’s also just something so joyful and satisfying about a well-written and well choreographed song-and-dance number.
3. What’s the first musical you can remember seeing?
That’s a hard one! Probably either The Sound of Music or Mary Poppins, but there were quite a few old Hollywood musicals which were in circulation in my household when I was a wee tyke.
4. Have you ever seen a live musical onstage?
I saw a community theater production of The Music Man a few years ago, which was very fun.
5. Have you ever performed in a musical?
I was a shepherdess in Amahl and the Night Visitors, though I’m pretty sure that’s technically an operetta and not a musical.
6. Do you periodically dance about and burst into song in real life?
Dance about, only occasionally. But I burst into song quite often. What musical theater fan hasn’t tried to sing all of One Day More in the shower?
7. What’s the newest movie musical you’ve seen?
That would be Encanto (2021), but if animation doesn’t count it would be the movie version of Les Misérables (2012).
8. What’s the oldest movie musical you’ve seen?
According to Wikipedia (which as we know is never, ever wrong) that would be the Marx Brothers movie The Cocoanuts, from 1929. I feel slightly iffy counting that, as there aren’t that many songs in it…but it does have a few musical numbers, so I’ll roll with it.
9. What’s the last musical you watched?
As aforementioned, I’m currently in the middle of re-watching Fiddler on the Roof, but the last musical I watched in its entirety was The Music Man. I hadn’t seen it in a few years and felt like watching it again, because it is a lot of fun. (Though Marion definitely settled, and settled hard. I think we can all agree on that.)
10. What musical do you hope to watch for the first time soon?
I would love to watch La La Land. I’ve sadly had the entire plot spoiled for me already, but that is completely my own fault, so I can’t complain too much.
If you want to join the musical party, go check it out at Hamlette’s blog!
What are your favorite musicals? Which musicals have you discovered recently that you would recommend?
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Ooh, what fun!! (And I do believe I recognize that very top picture, despite having seen it only once…. Isn’t that from Singing In The Rain?) One doesn’t realize what a lot one has seen until something like this reminds you😄 Looking forward to this Post That Is To Come, The Fiddler On The Roof being one of last year’s chief discoveries along that line!
Favourite musicals, hmmm🤔 Excellent question, but the answer is being elusive X) It has not been firmly settled, apparently….
And as for recent discoveries, the only one I can think of would be A Week Away. Which is very new, and just a fun movie to watch, so😜
Is it indeed from Singin’ in the Rain! It’s such a pretty picture, isn’t it? (Though I can claim no credit for the button, since Hamlette designed them all.) Well, my Fiddler post is finally done, after much figurative blood, sweat, and tears, so I hope you enjoy ;D
Oh, I don’t know if I’ve even heard of that…I shall have to go look it up!
I love the 2012 edition of Les Miserables, too! I actually think it to be one of the greatest films of all time, let alone of all musicals.
Hurray, another Les Mis fan! 😀 The 2012 movie isn’t my absolute favorite version, I admit, but I do enjoy it. Anne Hathaway’s I Dreamed a Dream is absolutely breathtaking, isn’t it?
I have to admit, I’m not sure I’ve ever song “One Day More” in the shower. But I sing “I Dreamed a Dream” and “On My Own” in the shower pretty regularly.
Fun answers! Thanks for joining the party 🙂
Ah, those are excellent shower choices as well. Belting songs are always great for the shower.
Thank you so much for hosting! It was a lot of fun 🙂
I ADORE Fiddler on the Roof and I feel that not that many people do, so I’m glad to have found another fan!
Oh hey, I forgot about Mary Poppins! That had to be one of my first musicals, too.
Mwahaha, yes, so much Les Mis has been sung in the shower. XD
Isn’t it marvelous? It really deserves to be better known! And Les Mis is the ultimate shower musical. xD
I enjoyed reading your fun post! Fiddler on the Roof is a very touching musical. I don’t watch it often, but whenever I do it leaves me with a lingering bittersweet feeling. So good!
Thank you for reading! I should watch it more often, because I’ve been liking it more and more as I’ve gotten older. I know, it’s a story that really stays with you, isn’t it?