From unlikely pairings to surprising twists, Broadway has given us some truly unconventional romances! Join us as we explore the most shocking couples to grace the musical stage. From forbidden love to unexpected connections, these relationships definitely weren't love at first sight!
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00:00God, you inspire poetry in me! I'm making one up!
00:06Welcome to Ms. Mojo, and today, we're counting down our picks for the Broadway musical love stories we didn't see coming.
00:13There are some spoilers ahead, so be warned.
00:16I'm still free. Take a chance on me.
00:24Sorry.
00:26Number 10. Lulu and Gordy.
00:28Shucked. If you've heard any song from this recent show, it's probably independently owned.
00:34It's a barn burner of an I Am song, originated on Broadway by the vocal powerhouse, Alex Newell.
00:40Operated, modulated, celebrated!
00:44Liberated, calculated, educated!
00:48Lulu is pursued by a conman doctor named Gordy.
00:51She is uninterested, even downright antagonistic towards him throughout the show.
00:55Through a series of miscommunications, he ends up with Lulu's cousin instead.
01:00Their tension continues, only turning mutually flirtatious in the second act.
01:07Maybe she's not as independent as she thought.
01:13After everything is revealed, we find out Lulu actually is into him after all,
01:18and the show has been narrated in part by their grandchild.
01:21If we ever say, I do, I do, I do, I do.
01:32Number 9. Rose and Herbie, Gypsy.
01:36Rose is not necessarily interested in romance.
01:39Actually, the only thing she's concerned with is making sure her daughters become stars
01:43and living vicariously through them.
01:45Nobody knows you like I do, and no one can do for her what I can.
01:48Mama, this is my chance to be an actress.
01:50Mr. Granziger can make me a star.
01:52You are a star, and I made you one!
01:55Meeting Herbie, a talent agent, seems like just another tactic to get her girls on the vaudeville stage.
02:00But it's incredibly surprising to actually watch the two develop a real relationship.
02:05Rose, honey, you still got Herbie.
02:07You can marry me, and I promise you, you won't have one single worry the rest of your life.
02:11Don't you want that?
02:15Yes.
02:17Oh, Mama, say yes.
02:18Of course, it's completely doomed by Rose's obsession with stardom.
02:22And she will ruin everyone's lives in the process.
02:25But for a while there, you actually start to think Herbie's convinced her to settle down and be content.
02:30Don't leave, Herbie.
02:33I need ya.
02:36What for?
02:38A million things.
02:41Just one would be better.
02:47Number 8.
02:48Trina and Dr. Mendel, falsettos.
02:50When this tragicomic musical begins, Trina's not in a great place, admittedly.
02:55She's just been left by her husband Marvin for another man.
02:58Oh, sure, I'm sure he's sure he did his best.
03:02I mean, he meant to be what he was not.
03:05The things he was are things which I forgot.
03:08He's a queen, I'm a queen.
03:10Where is my crown?
03:12I'm breaking down.
03:13She deals with this in a myriad of ways, including aggressively chopping carrots and bananas,
03:18while in a full-on musical tailspin.
03:20But it's her ex's psychiatrist who helps her start to move on from her heartache.
03:24I think she's holding it so tenderly, I'll probably faint.
03:27If so, I'd rather die in this position than remain the saint.
03:32You think you know I'm not, although I must be showing better than the norm.
03:41Restraint.
03:42His methods of getting to know her are a little unconventional and perhaps even unethical.
03:47Still, he proposes to her out of nowhere.
03:49She accepts and they both seem pretty happy with the arrangement.
03:52Just chalk it up to a meet-cute that's fine as long as it stays on the stage.
03:56I'm not a giant man.
03:58Good.
03:59But I'll love you until, love you until I die.
04:05Dishonesty spins out of control in this controversial musical about a boy with social anxiety
04:32and the lies he tells about a deceased classmate he barely knew.
04:36Evan's stories, untrue as they are, bring a grieving family comfort
04:40and gets him closer to the boy's sister, Zoe.
04:42And he wondered how he learned to dance like all the rest of the world is in there.
04:53But he kept it all inside his head.
04:58What he saw, he left unlisted.
05:02Some find the entire thing way too problematic to even engage with.
05:06But one thing you can't deny is that Evan and Zoe's romance is anything but typical musical fare.
05:11The shadow of his lies and the memory of her late brother hang over their doomed love,
05:16ultimately coloring our perceptions of their relationship.
05:19What if it's us?
05:21What if it's us and only us?
05:26If what came before won't count anymore or matter?
05:30Number 6.
05:32Tata and Mother.
05:33Ragtime.
05:34One so fair.
05:36And the other lithe and dark.
05:39This ensemble piece presents a cross-section of America at the dawn of the 20th century,
05:46with a large cast made up of different ethnic and racial groups.
05:50At the start of Ragtime, Mother is in a stifling marriage to father,
05:53but social convention keeps her there.
05:55She and Tata, an Eastern European Jewish immigrant,
05:58meet briefly in the first act and seemingly part forever.
06:01We're two ships passing
06:04At a distance
06:05Through the darkness
06:06One going on
06:07One coming to America
06:09They reconnect in the second act due to their children's budding friendship,
06:14and they fall in love themselves.
06:16Their affection is a signal not just of their own personal journeys,
06:20but also the shifting American culture that fuels the entire show.
06:24Silhouetted by the blue
06:26One like me and one like you
06:31Number 5.
06:35Donna and Sam.
06:36Mamma Mia.
06:37On the eve of her daughter's wedding,
06:39Donna is faced with three lovers from her past.
06:41You always knew how to make an entrance.
06:47I better be dreaming you better not be here.
06:49She has no idea her daughters invited these men to Greece,
06:52thinking one is the father she never knew.
06:55It's pretty obvious one of them will rekindle their relationship with Donna,
06:58but which one will it be?
06:59Tonight the super trooper
07:02Things are gonna find me
07:04But I won't feel blue
07:07Like I always do
07:12Cause somewhere in the crowd there's blue
07:15At first, it's kind of a toss-up as to who Sophie's dad is,
07:20let alone who Donna will catch feelings for again.
07:22It's not really clear until the second act,
07:25when she and Sam, the architect,
07:27start to relive their glory days.
07:29Also surprising and pretty out of nowhere
07:31is when her friend Rosie ends up with her other ex, Bill.
07:34We can go dancing
07:36We can go walking
07:38Let's get together
07:40Number 4
07:43Dawn and Ogie
07:44Waitress
07:45With or without whipped cream?
07:47You choose.
07:48I trust you implicitly.
07:51But if you do choose that whipped cream,
07:53I would love it on the side,
07:54not touching the pie.
07:56I hate it when it touches the pie.
07:58No, it soggies the crust.
07:59And you can't control the whipped cream to pie ratio
08:02to create the perfect pie.
08:05This Sara Bareilles penned musical
08:07has all kinds of surprising relationships.
08:09If you have no idea about the story going in,
08:12Jenna's fling with her OB-GYN Dr. Pomader
08:15probably seems crazy enough.
08:17Later in the show,
08:18diner server Becky and her boss are caught mid-hookup.
08:22But the award for most unexpected
08:23and unexpectedly charming love story in the show
08:27has to go to waitress Dawn and Ogie,
08:29the nerdy and eccentric man she met online.
08:31Oh, gonna love you so
08:35You'll learn what I already know
08:39I love you means you're never, ever, ever getting rid of me
08:42She thinks their date was a disaster.
08:46He thinks he met his soulmate.
08:47They finally bond over their offbeat interests
08:50and more off-kilter declarations of love.
08:52One if by land, two if by sea
08:56And I, on the opposite shore, will be
09:00Number three,
09:08Fräulein Schneider and Herr Schultz
09:10Cabaret
09:10I will dress now.
09:12Herr Schultz has been kind enough to invite me
09:14to join him for a glass of schnapps for New Year.
09:17And a little fruit.
09:18And after all, why not?
09:20If the movie starring Liza Minnelli
09:23is your only exposure to the classic
09:25Cander and Ebb musical set in Berlin,
09:27you might be surprised to find out
09:28the show is very different.
09:30Sally Bowles is still a major character,
09:32but the most haunting and heartbreaking couple
09:34consists of her landlady,
09:36Fräulein Schneider,
09:37and a tenant, fruit merchant Herr Schultz.
09:40He brings her a pineapple
09:41to demonstrate his affection,
09:42touching off a sweet romance.
09:44It's a gift a young man would present
09:47to his lady love.
09:49It makes me blush.
09:52There's no one.
09:54No one in the whole of Berlin
09:55who is more deserving.
09:56If I could, I'd fill your entire room
09:58with pineapples.
10:00The mismatched pair are eventually ripped apart
10:02by the encroaching anti-Semitic Nazi regime.
10:05Schneider ultimately breaks off their engagement,
10:08defending her painful decision to call things off
10:10due to Schultz's Jewish identity.
10:11She chooses safety over a potentially dangerous future.
10:15What would you do
10:18if you
10:20were me?
10:28Number 2.
10:29Eliza and Henry, My Fair Lady.
10:32Well, if you was a gentleman,
10:33you might ask me to sit down, I think.
10:36Don't I tell you I'm bringing you business?
10:39Pickering, should we ask this baggage to sit down?
10:41Or should we just throw her out of the window?
10:43Phonetics professor Henry Higgins berates
10:45and condescends to a young woman
10:47he essentially picked up off the streets of London for hours.
10:50They fall in love by the end.
10:52Considering Eliza Doolittle also finds herself
10:55pursued by a charming socialite named Freddy,
10:57this is genuinely surprising.
11:00Freddy?
11:01That poor devil who couldn't get a job as an errand boy
11:03even if he had the guts to try for it?
11:05Woman, don't you understand?
11:06I've made you a consort for a king!
11:09Anyone familiar with the play the musical's based on
11:12would also be confused,
11:13because in George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion,
11:16Eliza does gear up to marry Freddy.
11:18But through all their bickering and devastating insults,
11:21she and Henry somehow end up growing accustomed to each other
11:24enough in the production to have us rooting for them.
11:27Eliza?
11:27Where the devil are my slippers?
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11:51Number 1.
11:52Christine and the Phantom.
11:54Love never dies.
11:55Once upon another time
11:59Our story had only begun
12:06Many fans swear that opera singer Christine Daae
12:08was as in love with the Phantom as he was with her.
12:11Yet the text of the original show
12:13doesn't necessarily support that.
12:15So imagine our surprise when the sequel,
12:17Love never dies,
12:18finally hit the stage after years.
12:20And I touch you
12:24This show tells us that not only did Christine reciprocate his feelings,
12:35but that the two had an offstage affair
12:38that resulted in a love child named Gustav.
12:41This may be a win for those who wanted them to be together,
12:44but it's arguably shocking in its brazen unfaithfulness to the original.
12:47There's a lot of logistical and emotional hoops to jump through here,
12:52making it a truly unexpected love story.
12:54Give me breath.
12:55Give me life.
12:56Sing for me.
12:58Or I will take from you everything you have ever loved.
13:00No.
13:01No, you can't.
13:02Oh, but I can.
13:04Did your favorite musical make the list?
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