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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Ah, Musicals...
Date: 2005-02-16 11:36 am (UTC)Little Shop Of Horrors (either the more downbeat stage version or the screen version). I love this one dearly - the nerd as genuinely courageous hero, the push-up bra'd brassy but loving heroine, a trio of sassy singers straight out of West Side Story by way of the Shirelles, the most vile dentist ever ("I thrill when I drill a bicuspid! - It's swell though they tell me I'm mad"), and an extra-terrestrial threat by exotic plant. What's not to like?
The Wizard Of Oz. It's a MUSICAL, okay? Not much dancing, but the songs are superb. Bert Lahr belting out "If I Were King Of The Forest" as his comapnions mockingly but affectionately drape him in improvised kingly regalia is one of my abiding "makes me laugh and also feel sappy at once - no mean achievement" film moments. And of course, "Over The Rainbow" carries a wallop that's still potent over 65 years later.
And "Singin' In The Rain". Just for two sequences in particular: the title number (of course...), and Donald O'Connor's amazing athleticism and agility in "Make 'Em Laugh". I never believed that bit about someone being able to run up walls and then flip back over, and then blow me down he only bloody goes and does it repeatedly...