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Question for PoA: What's the best musical you've seen in your life and why?

Ah, well, I 've seen many both onstage and on screen so, well, it's also a hard choice.
Live, I remember really enjoying CATS which I thought smart, intelligent, thoroughly energetic and poetic. Plus the fact that we'd done some of those numbers ourselves onstage. But there was also THE KING AND I with Yul Brynner which I saw in London and also ON YOUR TOES which recaptured the era (my mum had this old 78 RPM player with Slaughter on 10th Street which I'd play and play and that number was in ON YOUR TOES...) I also got a real kick out of THE LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS and of course out of MAMMA MIA which I think is the most recent one I've seen onstage...

On the screen you can't dismiss all the greatness of a Gene Kelly or Fred Astaire musical and I wonder how many of you are familiar with those (although I'm quite sure you have seen Singing in the Rain). One rather intelligent musical that I saw was A CHORUS LINE, but I've become a collector of musicals. West Side Story, another intelligent one seems a bit dated now, but I've had the privilege of taking dance classes from one of the dancers of the original production.

Oh, oh, and I almost forgot probably the one I've seen the most times GREASE!!! Insane... What I like about musicals is that they are generally kitsch. I'd also recommend a musical film, though I'd not categorise it as a musical comedy, one with Bette Midler THE ROSE.