So I was listening to the cast recording of Ragtime earlier and it occurred to me that the first act has a loooooong stretch of six songs which all take place entirely consecutively – What Kind of Woman, A Shtetl Iz Amerike, Success, His Name Was Coalhouse Walker, Getting Ready Rag and Henry Ford. There’s bits and pieces of dialogue throughout, even some scenes which are big enough not to make it onto cast recordings, but always as part of the songs themselves. So, it got me thinking, what is the longest stretch in musical theatre of consecutive songs?

Outside of anything sung-through, the only show I can think that even comes close is Sweeney Todd – an outside case, perhaps, because of just how much music there is, but besides some integrated dialogue everything from the first Ballad of Sweeney Todd to Poor Thing is music, so that’s five songs. Any others non-sung-through musicals that have especially long musical sequences?

I recently heard "Come Back" from Dogfight for the first time, which is a great song but sounds absolutely horrendous to sing, potentially the most technically difficult MT song that I've heard. Staying on pitch with all of the long, high range belts, combined with the repeated jumping sixths at the end sounds like it would be a crazy test of technique.

What other songs are genuinely hard to sing correctly and/or well? Solo or ensemble, any kind of MT song.

after reading the book i listened to the 2012 revival album last night, and i was BLOWN away! And Eve Was Weak is a straight masterpiece, In was a startlingly good opening number, and the closing number (just called Epilogue) had me feeling like i had walked out of the theatre, even though i was just on my couch with headphones.

anybody else listened to or watched Carrie: The Musical?

When the first word in a show is the word The and you are organizing those recordings you ignore the word "the" in the title and sort it with the letter that begins the following word. For example; The Rocky Horror Show goes under R. ...The Phantom of the Opera is filed under P. Encora does this automatically.

I recently added La Cage aux Folles and Encora filed it with the shows starting with C as it should because the first word in the title is La which in French means "the". But then I added Les Miserables to my collection and it is filed with the shows beginning with the letter L even though the word "Les" in French also means "the". If the others are filed with the word following "the" why isn't Les Miserables filed with the M's??

I don't speak French so is there some linguistic difference between La and Les which would make this make sense?

I’ve been rewatching a bunch of series lately and realized some of them have soundtracks I genuinely enjoy outside the show. Like, I’ll put the Euphoria or Succession score on while working, or throw on Stranger Things synths for a vibe.

So I’m curious: which TV show has a soundtrack so strong you’d happily listen to it like a normal music album, even with no scenes playing? Bonus points if you can name a specific track or composer that makes it stand out

I’ve been watching a lot of reaction videos on YouTube lately out of curiosity about how other people experience media I love. Next to Normal is particularly close to my heart, especially now as a bipolar woman in her late thirties. But DEAR GOD, I am begging the internet, the universe, everyone to PLEASE do your research and learn when this show was written/first produced. My god.

I was just in a production of "Oklahoma!" and was wondering what people's favorite classic musical was? Mine personally is Oklahoma.

Company is like my second favorite musical, and every time I see interpretations of the show that I disagree with I hate it way more than basically anything else ever (no fucking idea why).

Anyways I was wondering if you have interpretations of a certain show you have a very particular reading of.

It’s for a project lmao. I want a song that gives the vibe of someone being tortured by either one or many. The person is reliving their terrible life over and over again in hell being tormented by one guy who‘s at the head, but has lots of little minions that transform into the people in his life. Bonus points if it has clock ticking or violin playing.

Edit- holy shit yall are fast 😭

Been listneing to a lot of musical demos from new composers and one thing I've seemed to notice is that the songs seem to lack an "ear worm" componenet.

They are nice, and melodic, but the songs don't seem to go anywhere or have a discreet beginning, middle and end or a hook that sticks in my head. They all seem very patter-like.

Which gets me wonderign if mine are too "song like" in their structure, being self-contained with hooks to stick in your head. Makes me worry I really wrote a concept album not a musical.

Hey there! I know this is a really strange question, hear me out. I like going to musicals, but sometimes I have a really hard time because I can't see what's happening on stage, and a lot of theaters don't have audio description or anything. Just wondering if there are any musicals that you know of that would be a nightmare for me to experience without vision, so that I don't go to them accidentally?

There have been a couple musicals that I have gone to, and I honestly would've rather just stay home and listen to the soundtrack or something, because I had no clue what was going on, the whole audience was reacting around me, laughing, cheering, and I just felt so left out because so much of it was visual. I don't remember the names of them, I wish I did, because then I would ask what the hell was happening during them.

Thank you in advance for your help, I know this is an odd request, I just don't want to go through that again because it just hurt.

Update! I found what musical it was that inspired this post! If anyone has heard of it. It's called "noises off". Let me tell you about it. Just kidding, I can't. I had no clue what was going on the entire time. Like actually, the entire time. I went home feeling like I absolutely wasted 2 1/2 hours of my life. It was… Not a good experience at all. I seriously felt like I was going to cry during and after it because the whole audience just kept reacting and reacting and laughing around me the whole time, and nobody described anything to me, I didn't know what was going on. I'm assuming the play was extremely visual, and the concept itself I just didn't understand any way to begin with. If anyone has any information about this one, please let me know what it was about, because I did not understand it. I don't even think I understood the general concept of what it was supposed to be about. All I gathered from it was they were supposed to be rehearsing for a play. That's it

I make videos as a hobby on my social media and I wanted to make a video compilation of clips from the best villain songs across media, mostly movies and TV shows that have music numbers.

I've been coming across a lot of videos like this on my social media and I noticed a lot of them are mostly Disney and Pixar movies, but I want to emphasize villainous music numbers that aren't as well-known.

Six and Merrily We Roll Along were released recently, which others should follow suit?

I wanted to know everyone’s thoughts on the “Dont Say Good luck” movie that was released on Netflix! Starring Sunny Sandler (Adam Sandlers daughter), while she balances life and her high school musical.

I thought it was phenomenal would definitely recommend. Waitress as a high school musical… interesting choice but worked so well for the plot!!!

(This is a MOVIE and NOT a musical. It features many songs from Waitress)