#this is just a small segment of my brain collection XD

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I currently have a bit of a musical fixation so I would like to add:

Death Note the musical also has a Korean production with a number of mvs on youtube i highly recommend!

A good one from Broadway is definitely the Beetlejuice musical! Silly and zany while having a compelling moral about accepting grief and working to move on, it is one of the more easily accessible musicals on this list since it’s in English and the soundtrack is on youtube XD

Following the Jekyll and Hyde pipeline, Frankenstein: A New Musical is a good choice! It follows the plot of the book Frankenstein much better than most Frankenstein related media (imo) and has banger songs like Amen and Birth to My Creation (both with some wonderful animatics on youtube)! The soundtrack for this is also in English and on youtube.

Another Frankenstein-related musical I recommend is the 프랑켄슈타인 the Korean Frankenstein musical! While a pretty big departure from the original story, the music is good and the visuals are stunning. Four of the numbers from the first act have official English lyrics also! The soundtrack is on youtube, but there are currently no official English translations. It also had a production recently in Japan!

Elisabeth das Musical is a great one too! It follows the life of Empress Elisabeth of Austria as told by her assassin Luigi Lucheni, who claims Elisabeth was in love with Death as Death was in love with her. There are videos of this musical with full english subtitles on youtube :] Also, the takarazuka production of this is absolutely wonderful and highly recommended!

Did you know there’s another Phantom of the Opera musical other than the famous one by ALW? Phantom by Yeston/Kopit is another retelling of the tale of the Phantom that is (imo) overall more lighthearted than Poto although it also has its dark moments. The full Korean production can be found on Vimeo for 6 USD rental or 16 USD lifetime streaming! I also recommend finding the takarazuka production of this one if you can it’s very good.

While I have not watched it myself, I’ve heard good things about the Notre Dame de Paris musical! It can be found on youtube with english subtitles :3

I’ll add some more musicals that are less widely accessible/more niche under the cut!

My current biggest fixation is on the Korean Dorian Gray musical! It’s based on the Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde with some minor differences. There’s only officially ~6 of the songs available to listen to on youtube. I do have my attempt at an English translation of the script in my pinned! This also is currently having a production in China!

A much more niche recommendation I have is the Korean 해적 (Pirates) musical! It follows the story of a band of pirates (some you may have heard of such as Calico Jack, Mary Read, Anne Bonny) as they search for the mysterious Rose Island. One perk of this musical is that it is genderless, therefore actors of any gender can fill the two roles. However, the show runners have made an effort to always pair two actors of the same gender so the story is also Always Gay. While there are no official English translations, the channel BOX20 has been working on translating the songs to English!

any musical recomendations after EPIC?

Ulysses Dies at Dawn!!! It's a cyberpunk musical by the mechanisms with Greek myths interwoven into it

I also love Hadestown a lot so if you haven't listened to that you definitely should

Les Miserables is a classic I will always say Les Mis

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is a fun one! You can have your pick of the cast albums but I prefer the one with Anthony Warlow in it

Death Note the musical also slaps lmao, there's an English and japanese version of it

This is really recent but I also enjoyed Jesus Christ Superstar a lot!! It's like the gospel but set in the 70s? Occasionally Jesus sings in a really high pitch just because he can

Beloved King is a queer retelling of Jonathan and David from the bible but it isn't finished yet, I love the songs in it so far though