Your Favorite Musicals

[Super Scooter]

I just looked up the Nightmare Song... holy cow!!!!

Is your version of Pirates of Penzance the stage version DVD? I've only ever seen the video (with Angela Lansbury).

 

[SarahOnBway]

Haha yeah the Nightmare Song is intense--try saying it fast and with perfect speech or, even more difficult, in an accent! Oh crazy acting classes... The hardest part is the end, because we weren't allowed to breathe through:"You're a regular wrech with a crick in your neck and no wonder you snore for your head's on the floor and you've needles and pins from your soles to your shins and your flesh is a-creep for your left leg's asleep and you've cramp in your toes and a fly on your nose and some fluff in your lung and a feverish tongue and a thirst that's intense and a general sense that you haven't been sleeping in clover..." Yup. Try it. One breath. I dare you.

My DVD is... well it's a filmed one, it's not of the stage show, but it's the stage cast. Yeah, Angela Landsbury's in it. I didn't even know there was a filmed one of the stage show. I got the DVD at Colony, you know, that big music store in Times Square that has all the sheet music you could ever want (except for A Christmas Together, harumph. Had to special order that from Amazon).

 

[MrsPepper]

I like lots of musicals! But I can't pick a favourite.

I've seen The Lion King, The Producers, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, and Wicked.

 

[CensoredAlso]

Soooooooooo, any Pirates of Penzance fans? (there's one I just thought of!)

Yeah, I put that down as one of my favorites before, I love that musical! Its use of words is amazing (clearly people had larger vocabularies back then!)and the humor is so strong. I've had the movie version with Kevin Kline (and Louise Gold) for years. I also saw an older version years ago, wish I still had it. And bravo for including the Major General song! I've managed to memorize parts of it.

"Am I to understand...that in order to save his contemptible life...he dared to practice on our credulous simplicity??!!!" lol

 

[Teheheman]

Me? I'm not really a fan of musicals, but I was in a few in High School. **** Yankees(Excuse my language), Little Shop of Horrors, and I think there was as another one that I was in and I can't remember which one. Eh, oh well. I'll think of it later.

Daniel

 

[Super Scooter]

"Am I to understand...that in order to save his contemptible life...he dared to practice on our credulous simplicity??!!!" lol

HA! I remember that! What a great line.

I always wanted to learn the paradox song. So much fun!


No, it really doesn't matter, matter, matter, matter, matter...

If I had been so lucky as to have a steady mother
Who would talk to me as we two now would talk to one another


And that's all I know of it. I don't know if that's considered part of the same song as the paradoz number, but it's the same scene. That's the best scene in the whole thing, I'd say!

 

[SarahOnBway]

Parodox is something like
"A paradox a paradox a most ingenious paradox
Hahahahahahahaha a paradox"

...I was Mabel so I wasn't in this scene, well not till the end when she comes to see him go, so I can't really remember, but all I can remember of the verse is:
"But reck'ning by my natal day, but reck'ning by my natal day...
I am a little boy of FIVE!
He is a little boy of FIVE! hahahahahahahahahahaaaaa"

...I lost it. All I've got in my head now is "When Frederick was a little lad he proved so brave and daring" Oops. That's a totally different song.

 

[Aaron]

Soooooooooo, any Pirates of Penzance fans? (there's one I just thought of!)


GENERAL:

I am the very model of a modern Major-General,
I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral,
I know the kings of England, and I quote the fights historical
From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical;
I'm very well acquainted, too, with matters mathematical,
I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical,
About binomial theorem I'm teeming with a lot o' news,
With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse.

ALL:
With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse.
With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse.
With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse.

GENERAL:
I'm very good at integral and differential calculus;
I know the scientific names of beings animalculous:
In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral,
I am the very model of a modern Major-General.

ALL:
In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral,
He is the very model of a modern Major-General.

GENERAL:
I know our mythic history, King Arthur's and Sir Caradoc's;
I answer hard acrostics, I've a pretty taste for paradox,
I quote in elegiacs all the crimes of Heliogabalus,
In conics I can floor peculiarities parabolous;

I can tell undoubted Raphaels from Gerard Dows and Zoffanies,
I know the croaking chorus from the Frogs of Aristophanes!
Then I can hum a fugue of which I've heard the music's din afore,
And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense Pinafore.

ALL:
And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense Pinafore.
And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense Pinafore.
And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense Pinafore.

GENERAL:
Then I can write a washing bill in Babylonic cuneiform,
And tell you ev'ry detail of Caractacus's uniform:
In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral,
I am the very model of a modern Major-General.

ALL:
In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral,
He is the very model of a modern Major-General.

GENERAL:
In fact, when I know what is meant by "mamelon" and "ravelin",
When I can tell at sight a Mauser rifle from a javelin,
When such affairs as sorties and surprises I'm more wary at,
And when I know precisely what is meant by "commissariat",
When I have learnt what progress has been made in modern gunnery,
When I know more of tactics than a novice in a nunnery--
In short, when I've a smattering of elemental strategy,
You'll say a better Major-General has never sat a gee.

ALL:
You'll say a better Major-General has never sat a gee.
You'll say a better Major-General has never sat a gee.
You'll say a better Major-General has never sat a gee.

GENERAL:
For my military knowledge, though I'm plucky and adventury,
Has only been brought down to the beginning of the century;
But still, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral,
I am the very model of a modern Major-General.

ALL:
But still, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral,
He is the very model of a modern Major-General.


Whoooo!

i played the pirate king in a local production of that two years ago

 

[Super Scooter]

Awesome! Baldwinsville, huh? Hmmm. Where was the production?

 

[Aaron]

syracuse children's theatre