Musicals I Saw During My 59th Year

This was one of my favorite musicals. It was athletically beautiful, and the story line was moving and encouraging.

These past several years, I’ve tried to do a yearlong project that equals my age. This helps me to remember how old I am. And it is a fun accomplishment. Some things I’ve done are as follows:

• One year I collected that number of Operation Christmas Child boxes. . . . My OPERATION Christmas Child Plan is to Collect 55 Shoe Boxes
• Twice I read that number of books. . . . Did I Read 58 Books Last Year? Summary of My 58th Year Challenge . . . and . . . Did I Reach My Goal of Reading 59 Books?  . . . Sometimes I do more than one yearlong challenge per year. . . . Sometimes I haven’t documented my accomplishments on this blog.

The year I turned 59 (2017), I challenged myself to watch 59 musicals. Facebook friends gave me 78 ideas. I had only seen 33/78. Not even a passing grade. Of course, there are more musicals than that, 100’s in fact.

So by combining the list from my friends and lists from the Internet, I came up with 59 choices. I created my Musicals Bucket List.

So did I actually watch 59 musicals last year? YES! In fact I ended up watching 67 of them! I watched the ones that were easy to find. They were at the library, on Amazon or Netflix, and on friends DVD’s. I even found one title at the thrift store (Funny Lady) for $1.00. This was a fun project! I feel so cultured now.

Keep reading to see what I watched.

1. 1776
2. 42^nd Stree
3. Across the Universe 
4. An American in Paris
5. Anchors Aweigh
6. Aristocats (with grand daughter)
7. Babes in Arms
8. Babes in Toyland
9. Barefoot in the Park
10. Beauty and the Beast (new Disney Movie)
11. Burlesque
12. Cabaret
13. Calamity Jane
14. Camelot
15. Carousel
16. Chicago
17.  Chorus Line
18. Dreamgirls
19. Duck Soup 
20. Easter Parade
21. Finian’s Rainbow
22. Flower Drum Song
23. Funny Lady
24. A Funny Thing happened on the Way to the Forum
25. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
26. Gigi
27. Guys and Dolls
28. Gypsy
29. Hair
30. Hairspray
31. Happy Go Lovely
32. Hello Dolly
33. High School Musical 1
34. High School Musical 2
35. High School Musical 3
36. High Society
37. How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
38. Into the Woods
39. Jersey Boys
40. Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (I saw this on stage with Cindy Jines.)
41. Kiss Me Kate
42. The Last Five Years
43. Little Shop of Horrors
44. Lili
45. Man of La Mancha
46. Mary Poppins (I saw this on TV with my grand-daughter)
47. Moana (I saw this on TV with grand-daughter and then with my church group)
48. Meet Me in St Louis
49. The Mikado
50. Newsies
51. Night and Day
52. On a Clear Day You Can See Forever
53. The Pajama Game
54. Peggy Sue Got Married – DVD present from Pam Finney
55. The Producers
56. Rent!
57. Robin and the 7 Hoods
58. Second Chorus
59. Showboat
60. A Star is Born
61. State Fair 
62. Sweeney Todd
63. Swing Time
64. Taming of the Shrew
65. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
66. A Very Murray Christmas
67. Viva Las Vegas

I’d still like to see the following:

• Aida
• Evita
• La La Land
• Moulin Rouge! 
• Oliver! 
• On The Town 
• Otello
• The Rocky Horror Picture Show Library 

Your Turn . . . How many have you seen on this list?  . . . What would you add? . . .  Do you do birthday challenges?

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