Hey everyone! Top Ten Tuesdays is a weekly tag originally created by The Broke and the Bookish but is now hosted over at That Artsy Reader Girl, and today’s prompt was all about hobbies. Over lockdown, I wanted to see what all the fuss was about so I set myself a challenge to listen to at least one musical. Let’s just say I listened to a few more than that… All the ones below are on Spotify and I would highly recommend them all (especially the top five! It was so hard to order them ha). So here are the top ten musical I want to go and watch live! What are your favourite musicals?
10. The Book Of Mormon
Starting off strong with a musical where you need Wikipedia open whilst listening just to understand the plot. I’d love to see it live so I could… you know… actually understand the plot…
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9. Dear Evan Hansen
The songs in Dear Evan Hansen are just *chef’s kiss whilst crying* (that pretty much sums up the plot of the musical)
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8. Beetlejuice The Musical
I’ve seen a few ‘slime tutorials’ and clips from the show and the set and costumers look amazing so I’d love to go. It would be amazing to see the original cast perform it (you gotta love Sophia Anne Carruso).
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7. Be More Chill
LISTEN TO THIS MUSICAL. If you do one thing this week, listen to this. I promise you you won’t regret it.
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6. Mean Girls The Musical
Did you know that Mean Girls is a musical? It’s possibly (dare I say it…) even better than the film – it’s got Barrett Wilbert Weed, Taylor Louderman and Grey Henderson…
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5. Heathers The Musical
I’m just realising how many of these are films adapted to musicals. It works – I saw Shrek the Musical once and there was no going back haha. This is a quirky, gory, darkly funny musical that I want to see live to rid the Riverdale cover that is scarred into my brain 😬
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4. RENT
I will have lived a full life if I ever see RENT live.
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3. Hadestown
Hadestown isn’t even a musical, it’s a piece of art (it’s worth the cringe sorry). The songs are beautiful and haunting and I can’t think how much better they’d be performed live.
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2. Spring Awakening
Ever wanted to see a musical about angsty German teenagers in the 19th century? Yeah. Yeah.
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drum roll please…
1. Hamilton
Number one is Hamilton! I was fortune enough to watch the recorded version on Disney plus for my birthday (Disney truly has bought everything) It was brilliant and fuelled my desire to go and see it live… if I ever have £500 spare. I’m telling myself I’m waiting for a revival of the originals cats (I’d be the dancer in the back of this gif haha).
For a chance to find out what Hercules whispers to Peggy, can you name the song the gif is from? Let me know in the comments!
P.S Sorry, I don’t actually know. It is one of life’s great mysteries 🙂
Hundreds & Thousands of Books 
What a great post! I love musicals, although I haven’t actually listened to most of these, except Rent and Hamilton (both of which I love, have listened to obsessively, and have seen live!!!)
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Ooo I’m very jealous, that sounds amazing! I really got into Hamilton over lockdown so it seemed like a great coincidence when it came onto Disney plus lol, but to see it live would be amazing…
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I still need to see the Disney version! I’m not a subscriber, but eventually I’ll break down…
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Haha that’s was my thinking too… disney does actually have some good stuff too (lots of nostalgia films!). I also want to watch mulan on it but I think you have to pay extra 😦
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Great post! I love your use of the GIFs. I have not watched any musicals, sadly, but I have heard of a few of these! 😊
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Haha thanks! Gifs definitely brighten up post 🙂
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“Hamilton” and “Dear Evan Hansen” are on my list too! So many YA books mentioned them and I really want to know what all the fuss is about! *lol* I’m such a huge musical fan! My favourites are “Elisabeth”, “Dance of the Vampires” and “The Phantom of the Opera”. 😀
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Amazing list of musicals, even though I haven’t watched any of them, many of them are on my To-Watch List. ❤
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Enjoy!!
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I have only seen Rent and I got to see it live one time! It was such a great musical.
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Well from this list, the one I really want to see is Hadestown. Already saw Rent- it is incredible to watch live.
My list also includes Something Rotten, Beauty and the Beast, Once, Frozen, Anastasia, and Oliver (due to not remembering the first time)
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I want to sit down and listen to something rotten properly – I’ve seen a few clips and heard a few songs and it seems very funny 😁
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I only heard a few songs. Just from previews and those few songs, I know I will love it
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yeah – there’s a few special musicals where you hear a few songs and you know you’ll love it (*cough cough* Heathers)
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Anastasia, Rent, Phantom of the Opera, Newsies, Music Man, and Pippin- knew I would love due to a couple songs, a lot, or just only one
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Hadestown- I have always loved Greek Mythology. One of the reasons I got fascinated by it. I did listen to like two to three songs. So here’s for hoping for Hadestown- it is touring to Charlotte October of 2021.
Just don’t want a year where I see zero musicals= that would feel a bit strange if that were to happen
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I’d love to see it live!
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THE SCHUYLER SISTERSSSSS~~~ WHOAHOSHAHHA
Sorry, Abby going slightly (?) insane in the comments is an immediate side effect of any post mentioning Hamilton 😂 From this list, I’m familiar with DEH, BMC, Beetlejuice, Hadestown, and obviously Hamilton — the rest I haven’t listened to because their plot synopses low-key scare me 😅 “Freeze Your Brain” is one of my all-time favorite songs though… amazing post!! 💖
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I’VE BEEN THROUGH TEN HIGH SCHOOLS IT STARTS TO GET BLURRRRYYYYY
I love Heathers too (dont know if you can tell…). Yessss Hamilton is brilliant!! Plot synopsises on Wikipedia save my life… but all the American polotics in Hamilton did confuse me a lot at first. I’m english and didn’t really know that much about american polotians in the 1600s – but it helped me with my History GCSE haha 🙂
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Oooh all great shows! I’ve seen a few of these live, and I’d love to see the others. I miss live theater!
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Ugh same 😩
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Dear Evan Hansen and Hamilton are on my list for sure!
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Glad you have a great taste in music hehe
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Great post! Hadestown is my number one for sure haha! Mean Girls is definitely up there as well. I’ve seen Hamilton and Book of Mormon and both were so much fun, I hope you get the chance to see them after theatres reopen! 🙂
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Book of Mormon looks HILARIOUS (I’m very jealous you’ve seen it ha). Hopefully theatres will open soon!
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Of course Hamilton has to be number one!
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Hamilton is always number one 🙂
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