There is no need to insult me personally for an opinion of a team!!! We won't all agree on which teams we like and those we don't....You are getting there yourself ...
There is no need to insult me personally for an opinion of a team!!! We won't all agree on which teams we like and those we don't....You are getting there yourself ...
Yes, love the music from Cabaret... I think Chock and Bates are ideally suited to that music!!!I'd love to see a really well-done rendition of "Cabaret" which would make Liza proud.
Dreamgirls would be a great choice for Weaver and Poje!!!!BLASPHEMY!!! I absolutely HATED the remake. The original is MILES ahead of the remake.
For just plain 'musicals' I'd love to see something like the absolutely horribly amazing Grease 2. Or the awesome That Thing You Do.
And someone mentioned My Fair Lady - that is having a Broadway revival this year as well, so wouldn't be surprised to see it being used (unless the revival fails). It's in previews now and is officially opening mid-April.
There's some new shows opening this year on Broadway that could be successful and have great songs. 'Mean Girls' is in previews and has its official opening in early April. A revival of Carousel is also in previews right now. A try-out for a musical version of Pretty Woman is happening this year, as is a musical version of King Kong
There's a musical with the music of Donna Summer, another with the music of Cher, one with the music of The Go-Gos, one with the music of The Temptations.
And that's not even counting new stuff/revivals that's just in the works (without official dates) that could be hits before 2019/2020:
- Beaches
- Beetlejuice
- Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
- The Bodyguard
- Bombshell (based on the fake musical for the show Smash!)
- Damn Yankees
- Diner (new musical with music by Sheryl Crow)
- Dreamgirls
- Gypsy
- Josephine (about Josephine Baker)
- Kiss Me Kate
- Magic Mike (based, of course, on the movies)
- Piece of My Heart: The Bert Berns Story (based on the songbook of hit-maker Bert Berns)
- Roman Holiday
- Soul Train (based, of course on Don Cornelius)
- Tootsie
- Top Hat (based on the Fred Astaire film)
- A Britney Spears musical
- A Pat Benetar musical
Any one of these new shows or revivals could be absolutely fantastic for skating to. We'll just have to see how it goes!
I see Piper and Paul skating to RENT.....I'll add my suggestion from the dance thread here.
Chock/Bates need to skate to RENT using the songs for Mimi & Roger's love story.
It would be so awesome!
If any team skates to anything from RENT, I will uber them forever.
There is no need to insult me personally for an opinion of a team!!! We won't all agree on which teams we like and those we don't....
Thanks for clarifying......No insult meant ... you just tend to repeat the same comment thread after thread.
I was looking up songs that are quickstep rhythms last night and realized that "9 to 5" fits that and Dolly Parton turned the movie into a Broadway musical 10 years ago AND a West End production just opened up this month, so that might be another possibility.Anyone up on the new musicals that have come up in the past few years? Anything suitable for this year's Rhythm Dance from the newer Pretty Woman, The Prom, Be More Chill, Dear Evan Hansen, Mean Girls, The Band's Visit, Waitress, Anastasia , Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Kinky Boots, Wicked, Book of Mormon, The Producers, Drowsie Chaperone (it's not that new I guess), Bright Star, Shuffle Along, etc Beetlejuice just opened.
I liked an earlier poster's suggestion for Bandstand (waahhh... it closed too soon) with original music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOSpQZgWJfw
There really are quite a few jukebox musicals with a wide variety, some which I missed earlier: Crazy For You, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, American Idiot , Movin' Out, Donna Summer The Musical, Jersey Boys, Cher , Mamma Mia, Motown, etc.
<blink>THERE WAS A FULL MONTY MUSICAL?
It's going to be disappointing if people pick the musical "warhorses" but there's really such a wide variety to choose from. Even from the golden age of movie musicals there's Easter Parade, Brigadoon, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers... And if Fosse, why not Damn Yankees ? Even Sweet Charity ... nix that... we've had too much Hey, Big Spender
It doesn’t just have to be broadway style picks does it?
I’m hoping teams will also choose other kinds of musicals as well.
Like what?
Film musicals?
So I apologize for this being off topic, but since there are a lot of theater buffs here, can anyone recommend what they consider the best recording of Fiddler on the Roof?
I have one of the versions of it, I think it's the movie version, but I don't love it because the singer playing Goldie is made to sound like a traditional shrewish housewife. The horrid vocal mannerisms she uses kind of ruin "Sunrise to Sunset" (otherwise a beautiful song). Any recommendations appreciated ....
I don't know if anything in Fiddler would work for next year's FD, probably not I guess. "Le Chaim" is the most uptempo song as I recall.
So I realized a few days ago that a lot of The Beatles repertoire could be used, since many songs were incorporated into their movies. Some possibilities include:
From "A Hard Day's Night" - A Hard Day's Night, All My Loving, Can't Buy Me Love, She Loves You, Tell Me Why, And I Love Her...
From "Help" - Help!, You've Got To Hide Your Love Away, Ticket To Ride, The Night Before, From Me To You, You're Going To Lose That Girl...
From "Magical Mystery Tour" - Magical Mystery Tour, The Fool On The Hill, I Am The Walrus, Hello Goodbye...
From "Yellow Submarine" - Yellow Submarine, Eleanor Rigby, A Day in the Life, Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds, All You Need Is Love, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, With A Little Help From My Friends...
From "Let It Be" - Let It Be, Oh Darling, Octopus's Garden, Get Back, Across the Universe, Don't Let Me Down, The Long and Winding Road...
A lot of them don't fit the rhythms, but still - a lot to choose from. "The Who's Tommy" could be interesting too!
I'd love to see some Disney films incorporated. I got in my head yesterday that a team should skate to "I Wan'na Be Like You" from The Jungle Book, but the more swing-like version of the song as done by Robbie Williams and Olly Murs
I thought the tech committee said at the meeting at Worlds that movie soundtracks were not allowed, that the music has to come from a musical.
BUT, music by The Beatles was used to tell a story in Across the Universe. Across the Universe is roughly equivalent to Moulin Rouge. Moulin Rouge has more than one original song, unlike Across the Universe which is purely jukebox.
Smart/Diaz have announced that they are using Grease which is originally a film musical.
Grease is hardly "different".
We'll shake and shimmy, pushing the bounds of taste
Now take your arm and put it around my waist
And glide me on that polished floor
We can't want for more
As we explore how naughty we can be
We'll shimmy like they do in Paree