Chatterbox: Pudding's Place

Musicals! Yay musicals! We had a thread for these a while ago but it's long dead now so here's a shiny new one! Yay! /peppiness

At the moment I'm listening to the 2005 revival cast recording of Sweeney Todd... Patti LuPone is amazing... And the score is cool, 'cause it's just a handful of instruments as opposed to a full orchestra, which makes for an interesting change.

I'm also a fan of Disney's The Little Mermaid (because Sherie Rene Scott is amaaaaaazing... Well, everyone was but SRS especially....), and Aida (again, SRS, amazing... but a definite WTH Casting Agency with Disney's plans to make a movie with *Beyoncé* and *Christina Aguilera*... Ugh...).

And also Wicked (Idina Menzel and Kristen Chenoweth and a mechanical dragon head... h'm...), Les Miserables (as a matter of course...), The Phantom of the Opera (Erik/Christine FTW. Raoul's just an annoying git, quite frankly), Cats (especially the filmed stage cast with Elaine Page, goodness yes...).

Oh, and Rent, of course. I love Rent. And Adam Pascal, I love Adam Pascal... Hopefully Disney'll recast him as Radames in their Aida movie. I might forgive them for their... poor... casting choices for Aida and Amneris if they got AP to do Radames again.

And Spamalot, because Monty Python + music is a wonderful combination. They didn't win Best Musical for nothing, you know. 

I've also recently become mildly obsessed with some of the songs from The Music Man (namely, all of the Harold Hill songs, especially Ya Got Trouble...).

Off Broadway, I lovelovelove A Very Potter Musical. It's amazing. Especially Snape ("Ten points from Griffindor!"), Draco ("I want Hermione Granger! ...And a rocket ship.") and Voldy ("You think killing people will make them like you, but it doesn't. It just makes people dead").

H'm, and The Nightmare Before Christmas. Danny Elfman is a genius (and he's doing the soundtrack for Alice in Wonderland! SQUEE! Do you have ANY idea how AWESOME that movie's going to be? Tim Burton, Danny Elfman, Johnny Depp, HBC, Alan Rickman, Stephen Fry, Timothy Spall!? *squeesqueesquee*).

/overuse of the word amazing.

And what does everyone else think on the subject?