Musicals by alphabet

[dr_whom]

Like, a week ago, _mycroft_holmes posted a list of her favorite musical for each letter of the alphabet. Sounds like an lj-meme to me! Here are mine:

Assassins
Beauty and the Beast (movie, not Broadway musical)
Cabaret
Drowsy Chaperone
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Fiddler on the Roof
Guys and Dolls
Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney movie again)
Into the Woods
Jungle Book (Disney movie)
Kiss of the Spider Woman
Little Night Music
My Fair Lady
New Brain
On the Twentieth Century
Pippin
--
Ragtime
Sweeney Todd
Titanic
Urinetown
Victor/Victoria
West Side Story
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You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown
Zombie Prom

Notes:

• B: I didn't like the Broadway musical at all, but the movie is wonderful.
  
• E: I've never seen Evita, and that doesn't leave much in E.
  
• H: Still waiting for an English stage version of this, though my reaction to the stage version of Beauty and the Beast means that may be a poor idea.
  
• J: A lame choice, but I don't know Jesus Christ Superstar well enough for it to be eligible. And I don't like Jekyll & Hyde or Joseph.... Which, again, doesn't leave much.
  
• M: The Music Man is close, but.
  
• O: Never seen Oliver!, Oklahoma!, or Once on This Island. I've never seen On the Twentieth Century either, but at least I've heard the whole cast album, and I like it better than Of Thee I Sing.
  
• S: Tough choice here. 1776 and Songs for a New World both give it a run for its money, though I admit I'm biased in the case of Songs....
  
• V: I've only seen the movie of Victor/Victoria, which isn't really a musical, and it was okay but I was kind of lukewarm about it. But I've never seen any other musical beginning with V.
  
• Z: Not great, but not actively bad; and it begins with Z.

Comments

[sen-ichi-rei.livejournal.com]

My school-deprived brain: 1776? That doesn't start with an- oh. Seventeen Seventy Six.

It really does make one wonder how I got into Harvard. Or Penn, for that matter.