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I like all kinds of music.  I can't think of a single genre where I don't like at least some of it.  The lowest on the list, for me, is likely rap and hip-hop, but there's still a lot of 80s and early 90s rap and hip-hop that I do like.

Consequently I get some weird songs stuck in my head, on a pretty regular basis.

This is the one I'm constantly hearing right now:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyIOl-s7JTU

ABBA is a guaranteed way to get a room full of theater girls singing.

Word.  And theater boys too!

High school drama was pretty great.  There were a lot of really hot girls, because obviously they were all going to become famous Hollywood movie stars.  There weren't nearly as many guys, and there were even fewer straight guys.  On a couple of productions, I was the only straight guy in a cast/crew of 30.

Suffice to say, that made for easy pickins.

well we did The Music Man so I can do a great "We got trouble right here in River City"

well we did The Music Man so I can do a great "We got trouble right here in River City"

I like Music Man.

We did Oklahoma, Carnival, and Guys and Dolls while I was in school.  I can't even imagine a high school doing Guys and Dolls these days.  Or Carnival either, honestly.

I'm active in our local community theater. Never set foot in a theater class before, but am learning on the fly. There's a heckuva lotta talent in town, so I try to watch an emulate.

I've only had one singing role so far, and the joke on that character is that he's a notoriously bad singer. Nailed it!

As a drama/band/wannabe choir nerd, I grew up loving musicals.  My dad loved them, he had an acting/music scholarship to Lon Morris Junior College in Jacksonville, TX before finishing his degree in RTF at Texas.  Lon Morris is also home to famous actors Tommy Tune and Sandy Duncan, plus country music singer KT Oslin.  My dad knew both Tommy Tune and KT Oslin, though I don't think he ever knew Sandy Duncan.

Anyway, I grew up in a drama/theater/musical loving household, and I too have always found myself drawn to them.  Phantom and Les Mis are probably my all-time favorites, but I love all the old Rodgers and Hammerstein, Cole Porter, Gershwin stuff too.

Anyway, after having ABBA on the brain for most of yesterday and today, I naturally progressed to the musical Chess, because the music for that one was done by ABBA members Benny and Bjorn, and the book by the wonderful Tim Rice.  Murray Head's expansively promoted "One Night In Bangkok" is the most famous song from the musical, but this one is my favorite:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtAMrPJg75o

I was with this thread until it devolved to musicals

unless, Pink Floyd "the wall" and the Who "Tommy" are cornsidered musicals

to each his own corn man

there are good musicals and bad musicals

just because they dont hip hop or use electric guitars does not mean they cant be entertaining

oh, don't get me wrong, I've enjoyed some musicals.

even, "The Sound of Music", when I was a kid.

They just dont make musicals worth anything any more

Im not a fan of Hamilton although I did like its subject matter

Musicals can teach you a lot like Fiddler on the Roof and 1776 and to some extent The King and I

Musicals can be funny as hell like Paint Your Wagon

Musicals can be a love story like South Pacific

some musicals Im not a fan of like Flower Drum Song and Brigadoon

but for the most part Im a big fan