March Madness Poll Tournament - seedings and non-participants

[slimandslam]

Posted: 2/28/08 at 2:06am

So, here are the seedings for the four “regions” in the March Madness opinion tournament. The regions are arbitrarily named (much like they used to be in the actual NCAA tournament), so don’t attach any significance to them.

EAST REGION
1. Beauty and the Beast
2. Bring in Da Noise, Bring in Da Funk
3. Sunset Boulevard
4. Blood Brothers
5. The Scarlet Pimpernel
6. Once on This Island
7. Aspects of Love
8. Buddy
9. Kat and the Kings
10. Those Were the Days
11. Side Show
12. The Capeman
13. A Grand Night for Singing
14. Anna Karenina
15. Marlene
16. Nick & Nora

NORTH REGION
1. Miss Saigon
2. Smokey Joe's Café
3. The Will Rogers Follies
4. Titanic
5. Victor/Victoria
6. Jelly's Last Jam
7. Five Guys Named Moe
8. It Ain't Nothin' but the Blues
9. Cyrano
10. Putting It Together
11. Parade
12. Street Corner Symphony
13. Juan Darien
14. Marie Christine
15. Truly Blessed
16. The Red Shoes

SOUTH REGION
1. Rent
2. Crazy for You
3. Kiss of the Spider Woman
4. Ragtime
5. The Secret Garden
6. Saturday Night Fever
7. Swing!
8. Big
9. The Goodbye Girl
10. Dream
11. Triumph of Love
12. Shogun
13. The Civil War
14. Chronicle of a Death Foretold
15. Ain't Broadway Grand
16. Metro

WEST REGION
1. The Lion King
2. Jekyll & Hyde
3. Fosse
4. The Who's Tommy
5. Footloose
6. Falsettos
7. The Life
8. Passion
9. High Society
10. State Fair
11. Swinging on a Star
12. Steel Pier
13. Play On!
14. My Favorite Year
15. A Change in the Heir
16. The Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public

The “brackets” will look exactly like the brackets for the NCAA tournament: in the first round #1 plays #16, #2 plays #15, etc.

FAILED TO MAKE THE TOURNEY
I decided that Catskills on Broadway was not really a musical. Ditto Swan Lake. I also decided that Eugene Onegin was too established as a musical entity to count as an “original Broadway musical.”
Aside from those I knocked out the revues that had the shortest runs: Band in Berlin, An Evening with Jerry Herman, The Gershwins’ Fascinating Rhythm, The High Rollers Social and Pleasure Club, and Oba Oba ’90.

Did I miss anything? Or include anything wrongly?

(This is just a tournament preview, so don't vote yet!)

[Liverpool]

Posted: 2/28/08 at 3:39am

How did you decide the seeding? cause i quesiton a number of the choices.

[slimandslam]

Posted: 2/28/08 at 7:36am

The seedings were determined by length of run. Beauty and the Beast had a longer run than Noise/Funk, which had a longer run than Sunset Blvd, etc. etc.

[slimandslam]

Posted: 3/1/08 at 9:04pm

Bumped because two other people asked, "Where are the rankings?" and I hate pasting thread links.