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ChiChi
#0Our Guilty Pleasures...
Posted: 8/18/04 at 12:14pm

I know that everyone has them...Musicals that definitely fall under the "Cheezy" category, but that we listen to all of the time in secret. I have many. I will list two:

1.) Barnum
2.) The Tap Dance Kid

Now you...


Gypsy - Betty Buckley http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUN5XoB5vFs&feature=youtu.be

broadwayguy2
#1re: Our Guilty Pleasures...
Posted: 8/18/04 at 12:16pm

I don't listen.. as I can't stand the original cast recording... but Mamma Mia on Broadway is a guilty pleasure.... *8shrugs** I can't help it. I findn Joe Machota irresistable..

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StickToPriest
#2re: Our Guilty Pleasures...
Posted: 8/18/04 at 12:21pm

Despite being a Sondheim snob, I listen to some real "fluff".

1) Seussical
2) Cats (hangs head in shame)
3) Movin' Out
4) Hairspray

Just kidding about HAIRSPRAY. I'm not guilty about it nor is it "fluff"


"One no longer loves one's insight enough once one communicates it."

The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.

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TheQuibbler
#3re: Our Guilty Pleasures...
Posted: 8/18/04 at 12:25pm

I thoroughly enjoyed "Mamma Mia."

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kitkatgirl54
#4re: Our Guilty Pleasures...
Posted: 8/18/04 at 12:26pm

i treated phantom of the opera like a religion when i was in 5th grade. i was very serious about it. now i can understand it has some major flaws and most parts of it are pretty annoying but i still have a huge soft spot for it and left the theater shaking when i saw it again a few months ago. :)

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NuggetMonkeys
#5re: Our Guilty Pleasures...
Posted: 8/18/04 at 12:28pm

StickToPriest...I am shocked and apalled...CATS?!?
I LLLLLOOOOVVVVVVVEEEEEE Seussical.
-d.b.j-


Vary My Days.

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xluckystar2107x
#6re: Our Guilty Pleasures...
Posted: 8/18/04 at 12:28pm

lol
im a Tap Dance Kid and Black and Blue and Bring in da Noise kindof person...i was into anything that included savion glover.

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StickToPriest
#7re: Our Guilty Pleasures...
Posted: 8/18/04 at 12:29pm

I know, I know. But in defense it WAS my first ever Broadway show. So I have a soft-spot for it.


"One no longer loves one's insight enough once one communicates it."

The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.

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aspiringguy715
#8re: Our Guilty Pleasures...
Posted: 8/18/04 at 12:31pm

Cats is definitely my guilty pleasure, it was also my first show Priest, so I have a good reason to listen to it every now and then :-P

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eyeonbroadway
#9re: Our Guilty Pleasures...
Posted: 8/18/04 at 12:32pm

Ok, cheezy... How about Lil Abner? I found the OBC Recording a few months ago and I occassionally catch myself whistling "Jubilation T. Cornpone". Then I look both ways to see if anyone heard me!re: Our Guilty Pleasures...

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BT
#10re: Our Guilty Pleasures...
Posted: 8/18/04 at 12:55pm

Every so often I flip the iPod dial to the Sound of Music while I'm at work and look around at my coworks clacking away while listening to the goatherd song.

See, even we Sondheim snobs can visit the hoi poloi every so often...


I sing for myself. I sing when I want, whenever I want to, just for me. I sing for my own pleasure. Do you understand that?

Coondiggitydogg
#11re: Our Guilty Pleasures...
Posted: 8/18/04 at 1:13pm

well theatre wise
BIG- i know i know it SUCKED but i love stars, and cross the line.

and off topic: REALITY TV- I AM ADDICTED

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Mister Matt
#12re: Our Guilty Pleasures...
Posted: 8/18/04 at 1:23pm

Mamma Mia
Big
Bombay Dreams
Jane Eyre
Barnum
I Love My Wife
Seussical
Joseph (original Broadway cast)
Starlight Express (original London cast)
Starmites


"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian

Coondiggitydogg
#13re: Our Guilty Pleasures...
Posted: 8/18/04 at 1:27pm

I've got another BIG fan. I think we should try and take over the world with BIG (sarcasm)

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Marquise
#14re: Our Guilty Pleasures...
Posted: 8/18/04 at 2:00pm

guilty pleasures [musical-wize]:

sound of music [cant believe i admitted that. . .lol]

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BT
#15re: Our Guilty Pleasures...
Posted: 8/18/04 at 2:01pm

You've got company, Marquise - I admitted it too.


I sing for myself. I sing when I want, whenever I want to, just for me. I sing for my own pleasure. Do you understand that?

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little_sally
#16re: Our Guilty Pleasures...
Posted: 8/18/04 at 2:03pm

Footloose... ::hangs head in shame::

It was the first Broadway musical I saw on stage and I've grown to become a huge fan of some of the original cast.


A little swash, a bit of buckle - you'll love it more than bread.

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Marquise
#17re: Our Guilty Pleasures...
Posted: 8/18/04 at 2:16pm

lol BT i just caught ur post. . .

u listen to "the goatherd song"?!!! ha ha ha. i cant get that d*mned "so long, farewell" outta my head!!!!!

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JMVR
#18re: Our Guilty Pleasures...
Posted: 8/18/04 at 2:26pm

Annie and Beauty and the Beast are definately the cheesiest of my guilty pleasures.


The meat is always leaner on somebody else's dinner plate!

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MyNameInLights
#19re: Our Guilty Pleasures...
Posted: 8/18/04 at 2:30pm

The New Starlight Express... I LOVE it. LOOOOOOOOVE it. Okay? I know it's wrong, but it feels so right! LOL!


"The stage is where I live and come alive and act out all the things that go on in my life. It's not just what I do for a living, it's my shrink and my love affair. No one in my life has ever or ever will kiss me on the mouth like this lover called my relationship with my performance."

MusicalDirector109
#20re: Our Guilty Pleasures...
Posted: 8/18/04 at 4:56pm

"The Sound of Music" - A true classic the music NEVER gets old. It has lifted me from many dark times in my life.
"Joseph"
"Mamma Mia!"
"Footloose"
"Movin' Out"

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BT
#21re: Our Guilty Pleasures...
Posted: 8/18/04 at 4:59pm

Marquise - I have this odd need to do the little dance every time I leave the office... Now you have me listening to it - and it is 5:00, so I'm outta here, just me and Julie Andrews and a gaggle of little children

...and up in the nursery an absurd little bird is popping up to say cuckoo


I sing for myself. I sing when I want, whenever I want to, just for me. I sing for my own pleasure. Do you understand that?

twogaab2
#22re: Our Guilty Pleasures...
Posted: 8/18/04 at 5:02pm

"I Had a Ball"-not very good but the performances pull it off.


TWOGAAB "A Class Act" will never die!

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wickedfan
#23re: Our Guilty Pleasures...
Posted: 8/18/04 at 5:02pm

BIG is not a guilt pleasure. BIG had a great score. the book needed work, that's all.
My guilty pleasures are: Seussical, Thoroughly Modern Millie (great dancing)
and the Apple Tree, actually scratch that, i luv the apple tree and am proud of it.


"Sing the words, Patti!!!!" Stephen Sondheim to Patti LuPone.

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DancerGirl16
#24re: Our Guilty Pleasures...
Posted: 8/18/04 at 5:04pm

DANCE OF THE VAMPIRES!!!!!!!! One of the biggest flops, but the best choreography ever.


When someone blunders, we say that he makes a misstep. Is it then not clear that all the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill our history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing. - Moliere


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