What are your favourite musicals?

Like I mentioned, I really only know (aka love) 2 musicals. The Rocky Horror Picture Show because it is the best musical of all time (duh). And Hedwig and the Angry Inch-John Cameron Mitchell will forever be the one and only Hedwig. I think my heart is too cold and tiny to embrace most other musicals. They tend to be so sincere

I was in a musical once, in high school (small part, and only sang as part of a chorus), but I cannot for the life of me remember the name of the play or the plot, haha. I only remember that we sang sixties songs, so it was about bohemians or hippies. I sang "If I had a Hammer" and (look away steve) "I'll follow the Sun".

Never been in one.

Regarding movies, 'Singing In The Rain".

i used to do that when i was in high school. fun. 

Well, the Old Red Melodramas were all musicals (sort of) & I do have Sherlock Holmes & The Shadow Of The Phantom on my YT channel.
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But all the other musicals I was involved with entailed me managing the stage or on the tech crew.
Local drama companies would often call to ask me to work on their shows. I've been a weapons handler* (Annie Get Your Gun), fly-man (Singing In The Rain & about 2 dozen other shows), sound designer, set designer & director.
My old drama teacher & good friend (now deceased) used to run summer drama schools where we put on full-scale musicals (mostly home written) for kids. That got me involved with another company who did something similar, but with known/ pre-written musicals like Bugsy Malone & Dracula Spectacula & so on.
They were always a good laugh, except for putting up with the choreographers who were hell bent on ruining things.

Not quite Astaire level are they 
Working on Singing In The Rain was pretty cool. Especially as the leads all had to learn tap just for the show.
But I think the best by far was Return To The Forbidden Planet.
We had a Cookie who learnt the guitar just for the role & he seriously blew everyone away with his solo in She's Not There. That is one heck of a fun musical. No-one quite expected it & there was a standby axe man back stage, but he came out & shredded like he'd been born with a guitar in his hands.
I went to see a professional production of that too & I still think the amateur one was way better.