What Musical Theatre number had the biggest impact on you?

[Wendy Summers]

Personally I'll go with "You Gotta Get a Gimmick" from Gypsy. Too many adult entertainers fail to realize there will always be someone younger, and prettier.


You Gotta Have A Gimmick - from "Gypsy" - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFRSawe33sA)



Plus I wanna do it with a horn...

[jasons_argo@]

tomorrow....from ANNIE, ginger haired minx

[Kevin Dong]

Elvis Presley - The Impossible Dream (1971) - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Mfd4E7kpvc&feature=fvwrel)

Sang this in high school in front of thousands in a musical we did. Man of La Mancha from Don Quixote.

[Wendy Summers]

Elvis Presley - The Impossible Dream (1971) - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Mfd4E7kpvc&feature=fvwrel)

Sang this in high school in front of thousands in a musical we did. Man of La Mancha from Don Quixote.

Please tell me there's home video I can watch.

[jasons_argo@]

only of masturbation...lol

[danthepoetman]

I’m a child of those wild flower years. I remember watching a few times, on acid, in great delights, some of Fred Astaire’s numbers. It just seemed like he was floating on air…
Broadway Melody of 1940 Amazing Dance Sequence Fred Astaire and Eleanor Powell - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSwDEp-XFGw)
Eleanor Powell and Fred Astaire Best Tap dancers ever! - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toDl2hXt8BM)
Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2A4-C-MK-Po)

[EdelweissFan]

"Ulysses in Nighttown," starring the great comedic actor Zero Mostel (eg, "The Producers" movie).

I know, kind of obscure. It was a play with musical numbers based on the classic (difficult) Irish novel, Ulysses by James Joyce.

I assume this question is in reference to sexuality.

So I'm in high school and sort of in a theater club, when Broadway was in the dumps (1970s) and theater tickets cost less than movie tickets. We're thinking Zero Mostel, funny kid friendly guy from TV and movies, an adaptation of a classic Irish novel our English teacher would be proud of, etc.

Turns out it was a sliver of the novel in which Leopold Bloom and his friend are wandering around the red light district of Dublin. It gets weirder and weirder until Mostel as Bloom is being whipped by a transvestite prostitute dominatrix in full on leather gear and stockings and whose dick is hanging out of his panties.

We stumbled out of the theater dazed and shocked. But I think it contributed to my fascination with both transgendered and dominatrixes and I fantasized about him/her for a long time.

NB I use "him" because it was clear from the play's context that he wasn't transsexual, but a transvestite.

[Willie Escalade]

This right here. This is truth. Church!

"It's a hard knock life" Annie 1982 - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0bOH8ABpco)

[Wendy Summers]

This right here. This is truth. Church!

"It's a hard knock life" Annie 1982 - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0bOH8ABpco)

Hehehe - a little girl I watch for a friend does the mocking "I Love You Miss Hannigan" every time I tell her to clean up her toys.

[Jericho]

............ :ignore:

South Pacific - Happy Talk ( Original Movie) - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwIddYGse9g)

[Stavros]

Not just the song but the performer:

71st Anniversary - Somewhere Over The Rainbow - Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWeF5Zv_pzs)

Judy Garland - Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5g4lY8Y3eoo)

Zarah Leander "Ich bin eine Stimme..." 1938- YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwuC3hDIN-E)

[Wendy Summers]

............ :ignore:

South Pacific - Happy Talk ( Original Movie) - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwIddYGse9g)

The little "happy talk" finger motion makes me think she's saying... "tweak my nips!"

[south ov da border]

Hmmm, maybe one of the songs from the sound of music.

Or DW washburn from smokey Joe's Cafe

Smokey Joe's Cafe - D.W. Washburn / Saved - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rT9YLKZvM-g)

[Prospero]

Anything from West Side Story, Guys and Dolls and My Fair Lady

[south ov da border]

definately guys and dolls. My favorite number.

Frank Sinatra - Guys and Dolls - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSjtN7lFthE)

[Wendy Summers]

I started this as a parody but since it has gained legs here's a few more important ones for me:

The Internet is for porn avenue Q original - Video - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-TA57L0kuc)

RENT Soundtrack - Out Tonight (Video) - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LroABeeh99E)

[TSMichelleAustin]

There are so many for me! I was a musical theater major in college! In High School I starred in West Side Story and in college I was in Chorus Line. Those were the days! But when I was a freshman in High School Rent came out and it changed me a lot! The whole musical changed how I looked at things! The movie did the stage version any justice!

Seasons of Love - RENT - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBoLHqLM7S4)

And then as an adult living in Chicago I fell in love with Wicked and seen it 8times!!! Love this song from it!

Wicked - For Good - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jx3rjS_vSM4)

[Baileyluv]

gonna have to go with prisilla, and victor victoria. just watched and both loved

[Baileyluv]

we did a production f rent and this lil guy that played Angel wuz beautiful omg, loved him. Especialy dressed up in that outfit so sxe.:Bowdown:

rent-halloween-perf-Today4You.3gp - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3sWatz79ks&feature=channel&list=UL)

[Colleen_Stewart]

Here are mine, being a Theatre Major I had a lot to chose from.
What I Could've Been - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-9ExN1Sg3c&feature=related)

Diana Ross sings "HOME" - 1981 - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibUTM-tXjxQ&feature=related)

[Colleen_Stewart]

Ps, awesome thread wendy ! ! !