"South Pacific" returns to Broadway — what musical comedy from your or your parent's youth still resonates with you today?

The Sound of Music, still love it to this day. This world could use more musicals!

I grew up in a family that used to sing Broadway show tunes. One of my favorites were the songs from The Fantastics and Flower Drum Song, to this day I can still sing them note for note and word for word. Although as an adult I did not live close enough to my family and no where near any type of shows I still gave this love to my children, they all grew to be singers and have drawn most of their songs from Broadway show tunes. They know who Bob Fossey is and Rodgers and Hamerstein but they also love the new classics. At ages 12 & 13 they begged to see Rent, Les Mis and the Producers and I managed to get them to see each of them. My nineteen yr old just recently took a 1000 mile trip to Chicago just to see Wicked. I hope they can give this love on to their children as they grow.

OMG, before the age of 8, my mother had taken my sister and I to see, “Seven Brides for Seven Brothers,” 14 times. Like Ms. Bergen, all of them. My first Broadway musical was 1969. “Fiddler on The Roof,” starring Topol. I wore a red velvet empire dress. My father escorted my sister and I. When I met my first husband, in my head I literally heard, “Some Enchanted Evening.” Danced in an 8th grade school festival to “June Is Busting Out All Over” from “Carousel.” Saw “CATS” in London and SF. Yeah. They all resonate. Just think of Jennifer Holliday in “Dreamgirls.” Patti Lupone in “Evita.”

Mary Poppins, Finian’s Rainbow, My Fair Lady, Oklahoma, Fiddler on the Roof, The King and I, I really loved all of them. Hair, of course. Was the first musical I saw in San Francisco. West Side Story. Like Candice, I had friends who came over and we sang all the stuff from the Broadway songbooks. Loved ‘em all. Oh, Gawd, Camelot!