Musicals make me cry
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frostfoxWest Side Story. I don't like the film version of America as much as the stage version - my stage version is older than the flim. Anita is my favourite part - A boy like that, to kill your brother, love the duet with Maria.
The King and I (when his hand falls back on the bed and only the Prime Minister notices because they are all listening to the crown prince, in fact, even thinking about it makes me misty eyed, must be the slash fan in me... possibly my favourite scene in any musical). Yule Brynner proves bald men are sexy, that man was sex on a stick.
Camalot ('Run, my boy. Run! Oh, sob)
Umberellas of Cherbourg; my Mum's favourite, beautiful and so sad, it's years since I've seen it, might try to get it for her birthday. If it takes forever I will wait for you.
JC Superstar; which is an odd one for someone who's been a pagan since she was 11. I'd love to have seen the stage version with Amy and Emily, the two singers who are the Indigo Girls as Judas and Jesus - and their web page has a Jamie Hernandez picture, which is just so *right* I always think of them as Hernandez characters! I was never quite as moved after the Python's had finished with it. Whistles.
Sort of a musical - The Last Unicorn; not the end this time, but when Molly berates the Unicorn for coming too late, might go and re-read the book now...
And let's not forget M.Butterfly and Carmen and La Boheme.
But I very, very rarely cry at non musical films, I'm trying to think of the last film I cried at, it's musicals which get me. In fact, it's music which seems to go straight to my hind brain, I've been known to get misty when playing Two Out of Three Aint Bad (and Whistle Down the Wind makes me cry for totally different reasons...)
Of course, my favourite doesn't make me cry. FF goes all dreamy at the thought of Tim Curry in fishnets. I am that shallow.
The King and I (when his hand falls back on the bed and only the Prime Minister notices because they are all listening to the crown prince, in fact, even thinking about it makes me misty eyed, must be the slash fan in me... possibly my favourite scene in any musical). Yule Brynner proves bald men are sexy, that man was sex on a stick.
Camalot ('Run, my boy. Run! Oh, sob)
Umberellas of Cherbourg; my Mum's favourite, beautiful and so sad, it's years since I've seen it, might try to get it for her birthday. If it takes forever I will wait for you.
JC Superstar; which is an odd one for someone who's been a pagan since she was 11. I'd love to have seen the stage version with Amy and Emily, the two singers who are the Indigo Girls as Judas and Jesus - and their web page has a Jamie Hernandez picture, which is just so *right* I always think of them as Hernandez characters! I was never quite as moved after the Python's had finished with it. Whistles.
Sort of a musical - The Last Unicorn; not the end this time, but when Molly berates the Unicorn for coming too late, might go and re-read the book now...
And let's not forget M.Butterfly and Carmen and La Boheme.
But I very, very rarely cry at non musical films, I'm trying to think of the last film I cried at, it's musicals which get me. In fact, it's music which seems to go straight to my hind brain, I've been known to get misty when playing Two Out of Three Aint Bad (and Whistle Down the Wind makes me cry for totally different reasons...)
Of course, my favourite doesn't make me cry. FF goes all dreamy at the thought of Tim Curry in fishnets. I am that shallow.
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Date: 2005-01-03 05:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-01-03 06:57 pm (UTC)I like musicals in general and music in dramas, the musical Buffy episode is the only Buffy DVD I have.
Which reminds me, I bought Streets of Fire on dvd ages ago and haven't watched it yet, might do that tonight. Need to get Warriors on dvd too at some point.
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Date: 2005-01-03 08:03 pm (UTC)