Hey, I'm looking for some musicals. Mainly for the songs. Preferably quite rock styled and upbeat, maybe not loads of like, operaish style songs.
Just steer clear of Rock of Ages and American Idiot the musical

Although the film, 'Quadrophenia' wasn't a musical, it was based on The Who's *rock opera*, of the same name. The Who also created, 'Tommy'. Quadrophenia is the lesser known of the two.


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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadrophenia_%28film%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadrophenia

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079261/

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081777/

Not sure if that second one is technically a musical, bit IIRC there's lots of roller disco. :lol:

West Side Story
Cabaret
All That Jazz
Chicago
Moulin Rouge

The first five that come immediately to mind. I doubt they're what you're looking for, though.

Tommy (since Quadrophenia is already mentioned)?

BANDITS has a excellent soundtrack. It's about 4 chicks in a German Prison who escape and become rock stars. Jasmin Tabatabi and Nicolette Krebitz are wonderful. It's a rockers cult classic.

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Jesus Christ Superstar

Ian Gillan of Deep Purple and Black Sabbath fame did a freakin AWESOME job as JC on the original album. The Broadway play and movie followed later.

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Ian Gillan of Deep Purple and Black Sabbath fame did a freakin AWESOME job as JC on the original album.

The film was later remade as Jesus Christ Superstar 2000, which is rather good too. Not as awesome as the original film, though.

Other rock-oriented musicals:

Rocky Horror Picture Show.

Hairspray (two versions; I now prefer the remake over the original :blush:)

Can't believe I'm spacing on others right now. I love me my miscals.

Recently you've got Spring Awakening, Wicked, Billy Elliott, Come Dancing (based on the songs of The Kinks)...etc.

All these new ones have elements of traditional musicals and elements of rock opera. Here is a list of rock musicals, which should help narrow down your search:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rock_musicals

Hedwig and the Angry Inch :)

The Blues Brothers

My favorite musical is "South Park". Though, they don't really have any rock tunes, so maybe I'm of no help.

"Once" is a really good movie, and their music is all folk rock.

One of my favorite works for the stage is Sam Shepherd's "The Tooth of Crime," a rock and roll play. T-Bone Burnett just did an album of the songs from the play that's pretty fantastic.

Oh and Romance and Cigarettes. Although I haven't watched that in ages and I can't really remember the style of music they use. It's all over the place lol.

I had forgotten about several above.

Anyhoozel:

ACROSS THE UNIVERSE
ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW
MOULIN ROUGE
PINK FLOYD'S THE WALL
THIS IS SPINAL TAP
BOB ROBERTS
THE IDOLMAKER
STARDUST (1974)
THAT THING YOU DO

Some are about performers, and not strictly "musicals" in the classic sense.

GREASE. Although very disco, was still modern music (relatively) at the time.

Evita really rocks, especially the first half.

Some great ones have also been mentioned:
Chicago
Moulin Rouge
Cabaret (don't bother with the movie, much as I love Liza the movie version sucks. Find a live production)
The Producers (the more modern one is the musical)

I know there's more I'm not thinking of...

Cabaret (don't bother with the movie, much as I love Liza the movie version sucks.

Actually, I kind of liked it...

I'm leaning towards rock-type musicals. Most of these are movies, but a musical is a musical.

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hair

absolute beginners (music of david bowie)

zoot suit

streets of fire

purple rain

eddie and the cruisers

mamma mia (music of abba)

chess (song: one night in bangkok)

Remember you can always go to wikipedia and enter list of musicals. There are alot. why are you looking for them?

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EDIT: go to wikipedia and enter: list of rock musicals

Actually, I kind of liked it...

I liked it too. I felt it was a freaky art film....


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There's also "Purlie" and "The Wiz".

Actually, I kind of liked it...

Maybe I'm biased toward live theatre, but IMO the movie just does not compare. They changed it quite a lot so it's less of a musical and more a film with musical numbers. And maybe it was just my copy but the way they did the grainy, high contrast black and white made me want to punch my tv :D

Just my opinion. But the live version is one of my favorite musicals. Makes me want a time machine to go back to berlin in the 20's/30's.

Maybe I'm biased toward live theatre, but IMO the movie just does not compare. They changed it quite a lot so it's less of a musical and more a film with musical numbers. And maybe it was just my copy but the way they did the grainy, high contrast black and white made me want to punch my tv :D

Just my opinion. But the live version is one of my favorite musicals. Makes me want a time machine to go back to berlin in the 20's/30's.

"Cabaret" with Liza was in color.

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And do you really want to go back to the Weimar Republic? Do a little research; it's the period of time that led to Hitler and the Nazis. Rather frightening, actually.

Just re-watched West Side Story because it's on Sky Anytime this week.

When you think about it it's actually the weirdest idea. The very thought of gangs of young people roaming around snapping their fingers and doing ballet in the street makes me giggle.

But 'tis a great musical all the same.

lol! must have been my copy then that was black and white (it was my mothers and they recorded a lot of stuff from television in the 80s). That would also explain the crappy quality. :blush:

And obviously I don't mean that I want to go back to when hitler was in power. But the culture and spirit of that time and place (minus the politics) is very enchanting to me. At least the way it was presented in Cabaret.

As I said, it was pre-Nazi. The decadent lifestyle was an "eat-drink-and-be-merry-for-tomorrow-we-die" attitude, a tossing away of traditional values. The D-Mark went from one US dollar = 4 D-Marks in 1918 to one US dollar = 1 trillion D-Marks in 1923. Both were among the things Hitler capitalized on during his rise to power.

Cabaret was awesome, on film.

The one that really bites (on film) was A Chorus Line, with Michael Douglas.

Theatrically, both are fabulous though. :)

Regardless, just my opinion.

Well thanks for bursting my bubble :(

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