when (😅) mickey gets to watching starkid/the hatchetfield trilogy, I'd love to know where Nerdy Prudes Must Die fits in this ranking hahah
@allisonbergh4429
2 күн бұрын
I’m defo going to have to rewatch High School Is Killing Me, if not the whole show, as soon as I’m done here 😂
@sophiebrown7678
Күн бұрын
BARE: A Pop Opera !!!! Severely underrated high school queer centred musical ANY FANS OF THE SHOW HERE…. It’s on at The Bridewell Theatre London from 12th- 16th November 💘💘
@suriyah3694
Күн бұрын
YES literally how did Bare not make the list?! Palladium troubles eh 👀 Bridewell let’s gooooo 💒
@allisonbergh4429
2 күн бұрын
Based on the criteria you laid out, you definitely need to watch Nerdy Prudes Must Die. It still works without having consumed all the other Hatchetfield content - you’ll miss a few references and not always know why people are cheering - but the school setting is extremely well realised and the characters are too! And the score is one of Starkid’s best
@amychappo3897
2 күн бұрын
You mentioned it in discussing another musical, but I'm surprised Spring Awakening wasn't in this list.
@annpaq8342
2 күн бұрын
Me too!
@selectedshipper8282
2 күн бұрын
It’s not set in high school? All the characters are like fourteen
@KatieWillems
2 күн бұрын
The results of this bode well for seeing the Heathers tour next week in Oxford 😁 Perfect timing! Also agree with other comments that Nerdy Prudes Must Die is definitely worth watching! Whether as the third instalment in the trilogy or as a standalone. Genuinely, it's something I could see being on a London stage. It might surprise you 🙂
@dylansmith1833
3 күн бұрын
It seems now we need musicals about University life. Halls was a great start! Need more shows like that!
@RStudent
2 күн бұрын
I had the great fortunate to see Carrie done in two theaters in California. The absolutely BEST production was an amazing one they di din a smaller theater where the audience was in the round in movable bleachers, and the cast rolled and moved sections during choreography and transitions. Just a superb staging and was received extremely warmly.
@jackckenny
8 сағат бұрын
BARE! (Pop Opera version obviously 👀) - and it's coming back to London next month at the Bridewell Theatre!!! 12th-16th November ✝
@joshboz6125
3 күн бұрын
Nerdy Prudes should be on this list!
@n8f2f
2 күн бұрын
Love your new footage at the end!
@MickeyJoTheatre
2 күн бұрын
Thank you! Very long overdue 😅
@RStudent
2 күн бұрын
@@MickeyJoTheatre I enjoyed the new outro material as well, but I do miss seeing you as a cat. :D That was iconic!
@jklein0079
2 күн бұрын
The ones I suggest to add are -Footloose which is a lot about fitting in a small town high school. -Kimberly Akimbo...thinking about it now does have to do with Kimberly fitting in but there is the fantastical element of her aging quickly. -Half of Freaky Friday's story is about fitting in during high school -Bare, though described as a pop opera, is a musical about discovering onself and conflicting beliefs with catholicism. Otherwise, solid list I looked through my list of shows that I've seen and here's my list in order of my favorites, I just based mine as overall show, music, and story 1. Heathers 2. Footloose 3. Mean Girls 4. Bring it On: The musical 4. The Prom 5. Kimberly Akimbo 6. Grease 7. Be More Chill 8. Cruel Intentions 9. Jagged Little Pill* (Asterisk because only 1 aspect of the musical is about high school) 10. Hairspray 11.Carrie The musical 12. Freaky Friday 13. Dear Evan Hansen 14.Spring Awakening (I need to see this one again, it's been over 10 years) 15. Bare 16. High School Musical There are a few that take place in middle school (13, Matilda, Junie B. Jones) but that can wait for another day.
@BroadwayBound009
3 күн бұрын
Bare; a rock opera would like a word….
@cammerronbaits8384
2 күн бұрын
Came here to say this ! lol justice for Bare!
@BroadwayBound009
2 күн бұрын
@@cammerronbaits8384 they where really going through it too!!!
@TheGadgetPanda
2 күн бұрын
I’m glad you mentioned Your Lie in April. I saw it very early in its run and for whatever reason decided I didn’t like it. I was very negative. Then I read other people’s opinions and realised I’d been overly critical and decided to give it another chance. I went back for the final performance and was sat next to a superfan who cheered and clapped the whole way through. His unrestrained love became kind of infectious and by the end I was completely in love with the show. Afterwards the lead actor gave a really moving speech about the production, Asian representation in theatre and YLIA’s journey to the West End. I really hope it’s not the end for that little show. It deserves a second chance. And a soundtrack, where’s the frickin’ soundtrack?!?
@callalily3994
3 күн бұрын
Between the Lines is pretty good at showing high school, I think. The book it's based on was written by Jodi Picault with her daughter, who was about 12 when they started writing it together, and her daughter was the one who came up with most of the plot ideas. There's one fairly subtle moment around gender identity that I thought was done really well, in terms of just a few lines showing something about a lot of characters. Jules is a nonbinary student who uses they/them. One of the first scenes we see is one of the popular girls mocking them with, "So, what are you today? He, she? Or it?" Then we see Jules meet Delilah (the main character), who is extremely socially anxious, could be read as autistic. Basically, the sort of quiet student who gets called a "good kid" because she's too anxious to ever contradict a teacher. Delilah is new at that school. They get to science class, and the teacher notices that Delilah doesn't have a lab partner, and says, "Jules doesn't have a partner, either. You can partner with her." From the way Jules reacts to this, it's pretty clear they've explained their pronouns to this teacher multiple times, and the teacher "just can never remember." The popular kids overhear it and they all laugh -- they see it as an insult to Jules, and they think it's funny. Delilah freezes for a second, and then finally says, "I'd be happy to work with them," with a bit of an emphasis on "them." And you can see that Delilah is pushing through her anxiety in order to say that, because she thinks it's important enough, and that Jules also realizes how tough that was for her and appreciates it, too.
@callalily3994
3 күн бұрын
It also has a dynamic between the kids and the adults at the school that I've seen a lot in real life, but not as much in fiction -- that the "mean girl" type of bully often has the social skills to be able to convince the teachers that she's actually the poor innocent victim of the "weird kid," while the "weird kid" just isn't able to do the "perform the type of kid the teacher want to see" thing, and gets punished for that.
@christopherhyde9523
2 күн бұрын
That was such a great show. They just couldn't find an audience for it. At the underattended performance I saw, they literally were begging the audience to spread the word.
@kingarthurslance
2 күн бұрын
The irony of me watching this on the way back to London after seeing Becoming Nancy, which I mostly really enjoyed! My cancellable take is that there are probably too many shows set in schools (and specifically ones where the girls all wear aesthetic plaid skirts) at the moment - theatre has to reach people where they are, but I do wonder how much young theatre-goers are really being challenged or hooked on the art form when most of the new musicals being marketed to them are, for want of a better term, YA theatre.
@elizabethm937
2 күн бұрын
You left out Freaky Friday! I’ve been listening to the cast album again, god the harmonies are amazing
@nikkotolentino9904
2 күн бұрын
Love the new outro Mickey-Jo!
@ChrystGryderMaakorey
2 күн бұрын
The Illinois thing is an inside joke/shout out/callback/nod to John Hughes and his iconic high schools films (Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller, et al.) which all take place there.
@Gust-sy9lj
2 күн бұрын
Fame is also based on a highschool
@mts7130
3 күн бұрын
I just saw the 2nd National Tour of Dear Evan Hansen in Little Rock at the Robinson Center. Michael Perez as Evan. It was so great. Glad I got a chance to see it. I've played Kenicke twice and Eugene once in Grease. I vote for doing the original (Broadway) songs. Better to be Alone at the Drive-In Movie and All Choked Up.
@Gusp5
2 күн бұрын
Really enjoy your videos!!! They are so fun!
@andrewhamilton8158
2 күн бұрын
the prom? fame? high school musical? clueless? 13? (technically middle school but still)
@PS-DLMA
2 күн бұрын
Fun fact....my dad saw Richard Gere as Danny in The West End prod of Grease (possibly OG cast).
@marty888nyc
2 күн бұрын
So did I - at the New London (now the Gillian Lynne)
@PS-DLMA
2 күн бұрын
@@marty888nyc its why my dad was confidant when he was cast as Flynn in the Chicago movie
@callalily3994
2 күн бұрын
Weirdly, I was just talking to my dad and he mentioned seeing Grease in the original off-Broadway production. (Sandy in that one was Carole Dumas, who later went on to be one of the stars of Magic Garden, a TV show for toddlers that only aired in the New York City area that I was obsessed with when I was little. Danny was Barry Bostwick.)
@PS-DLMA
2 күн бұрын
I am sad you didnt include THE PROM - not just coz i do love it haha
@ChristopherButler-um2ko
3 күн бұрын
At 11 (your time) p.m.there is a Broadway For Harris Concert on YT this evening.
@BroadwayFanProjects
2 күн бұрын
Huh...starting to realize high school for musical theatre is starting to become the equivalent of high school in anime XD
@kasia8306
Күн бұрын
I think you can see Mickey's maths teacher background in how quick he adds up the scores hahahhaa
@christopherhyde9523
2 күн бұрын
What about Best Foot Forward, on Broadway in 1941? It introduced Nancy Walker and June Allyson and had a very faithful movie made of it in 1943 with most of the original cast. Also an Off-Broadway revival with Liza Minnelli, Christopher Walken and A Chorus Line's Kay Cole. It has a great score including the deathless "Buckle Down, Winsocki." I thought you were spot-on in your rankings, by the way. I wish the Broadway production of Be More Chill hadn't gone so over the top that it crushed some very good material. That production deserved its failure but the show didn't. And I can't wait for the return of Heathers. I wasn't in the New York area when it was first done but I think the score is brilliant.
@netherfield2000
2 күн бұрын
I actively disliked Heathers when I saw it. I will be seeing Mean Girls next month. Never realized how similar the plots were.
@CanadianChick811
2 күн бұрын
Now do post secondary! A Chorus Line, Legally Blonde, Wicked...there's gotta be others.
@MilieNopeNotHere
Күн бұрын
Hey Mickey, i was wondering if you were gonna do a video of White Rabbit Red Rabbit, which is currently at Soho place? I saw it yesterday and found it incredibly fascinating. I know it's probably not the type of show you do a long review of since the actor is different every night, but I would be curious to know your thoughts on it ☺️
@darrenbertram7289
Күн бұрын
Who was doing WRRR when you saw it? I had Jason Isaacs and he really had the gravitas to pull it off 😀
@MilieNopeNotHere
Күн бұрын
@@darrenbertram7289 I saw Omari Douglas ☺️ he was very careful with reading the words, spoke a lot to the audience and seemed very kind in the way he conveyed the script. It was interesting, I do wonder what types of interpretations exist! Douglas sat next to an audience member to drink, and he did choose to drink a glass. I saw clips of other actors who didn't take the glasses away from the table, and who didn't seem to have drunk anything, which I also think is really interesting. Did anything special happen when you saw it?
@darrenbertram7289
15 сағат бұрын
@@MilieNopeNotHere There was a bit of audience participation and at the final bit the script called for a member of the audience the read the rest while Jason took a drink of a glass then lay on the floor. Now, we know nothing is going to happen to a performer on a London stage but if this were in a less stable regime? I can imagine how unnerving it would be. I'd love to have seen more interpretations of this, especially Stockard Channing and Minnie Driver. Really can't imagine someone like Alan Davies pulling this off, although you never know. How did you see clips of what others have done? Were audience members disregarding the rules and filming anyway?
@lindakahler4799
7 сағат бұрын
I had tickets to the original production of Carrie but it closed before I could go. Fast forward to the Village and the off Broadway production. Really enjoyed the scaled down production. Related to the teacher student storyline. I worked with a young man who stuttered because his father bullied him for being gay. Teachers do more than just instruct
@leahgrech8851
2 күн бұрын
They're doing Dear Evan Hansen in Malta soon too!
@beltingtokra
2 күн бұрын
Great ranking, how could i forget carrie?!?! I cant remember is footloose set in a high school too?
@theunamiable
Күн бұрын
I was wondering if you were going to include Ride the Cyclone or We are the Tigers, which are about high school kids, but not really set in high school. A stronger contender, at least in theme if not success, would be Zombie Prom. Anyway, always happy to see Heathers up there, but out with the pig's blood for Carrie not being higher! Well, I like it. And it even made Riverdale, for better or worse.
@ellie1981
2 күн бұрын
Well, no matter how many more recent ones try, nothing will ever top Grease. Call me basic, but it’s a classic with the biggest impact. Shout out to Everybody’s Talking About Jamie though.
@KarinaLudwig-q5d
Күн бұрын
Heathers is my fav musical of all time!!
@LuckyDipster2
21 сағат бұрын
Half of Back To The Future is set in the high school.
@kinmanthebrave
2 күн бұрын
JUSTICE FOR LYSISTRATA JONES!!!! Not really. But I was expecting Spring Awakening to be on the list. You even mentioned it! I am also wondering about 13 and School of Rock. Are those characters high school age or...a different type of school. I'm from New Zealand so I get confused about how other countries do school. Thank you for your service, this is a great video.
@callalily3994
2 күн бұрын
I think School of Rock is elementary school, and 13 is middle school. (In the US, roughly, elementary is ages 5-11, middle school is 11-14, and high school is 14-18, though some places do it differently -- the town where I grew up switched whether sixth grade, the 11-12 year, was in elementary or middle school a few times, based on how many kids there were in different grades in how much space there was in each building..)
@callalily3994
2 күн бұрын
The treatment of the teenage boy characters in Mean Girls always bugged me. There's never even the slightest hint that they could be dangerous in any way, and that just felt so unrealistic that it threw me out of the story hard. "Whose House Is This?" feels terrifying to me.
@theemarcuscollick
3 күн бұрын
Zanna Don’t snub 😭
@MickeyJoTheatre
3 күн бұрын
I have never seen it and did not know it was set in a high school! Excited to see it soon!
@jjicbut
2 күн бұрын
unfortunately i have to inform you czechoslovakia hasnt been around since 1992 😔 rip czechoslovakia
@MickeyJoTheatre
2 күн бұрын
Apologies - Czech Republic! My geography is famously atrocious.
@scottmoore1507
3 күн бұрын
Here’s hoping you love Becoming Nancy as much as I did!
@Midlander83
2 күн бұрын
I’m also waiting for this review! Loved it.
@Thisismyusername227
Күн бұрын
What about spring awakening!
@if3359
2 күн бұрын
For a hot second there when you said "partner with" I thought you were gonna bring Ellie in "Ranking" is starting to rival "chaotic" as her claim to fame
@VeronikaHer
2 күн бұрын
Please dont say Czechoslovakia... It hasnt existed since 1993 😅 No hate... I know you're not Mickey Jo Places 🤷🏼♀️☺️
@MickeyJoTheatre
2 күн бұрын
Czech Republic! Thank you!
@perfectlymarvellousmusicals
3 күн бұрын
Oooohhhh i am eager to watch this vid. Musicals like deh, bmc and heathers were my gateway drug i got obsessed and i haven’t stopped listening to all sorts of musicals since lol and watching ur channel 😂
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