No way I can pick 10...but I think from what I've read from others you can't have a top 10 list without West Side Story(which I personally think is the best ever made), Gypsy, and Fiddler On The Roof.
"If there was a Mount Rushmore for Broadway scores, "West Side Story" would be front and center. It snaps, it crackles it pops! It surges with a roar, its energy and sheer life undiminished by the years" - NYPost reviewer Elisabeth Vincentelli
In my Top 10: Fiddler, WSS, Guys and Dolls and The Music Man. I'm not going to pick out 10, but if I were to, those would be in there (probably top 4).
I agree with many of your picks, but I think Rent and Dreamgirls are way outta their league and should step aside for West Side Story and Gypsy. And I'd replace Oklahoma with Carousel.
I actually did this list on my blog a few months ago. Here's what I came up with.
10. Show Boat 9. West Side Story 8. Gypsy 7. Evita 6. Merrily We Roll Along 5. A Chorus Line 4. Cabaret 3. Side Show 2. Hedwig and the Angry Inch 1. Dreamgirls
"How do you like THAT 'misanthropic panache,' Mr. Goldstone?" - PalJoey
1. Cabaret 2. Showboat 3. West Side Story 4. The Sound of Music 5. The King and I 6. Gypsy 7. Sweeney Todd 8. Carousel 9. The Music Man 10. Fiddler on the Roof
"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy."-Charlie Manson
1. Les Miserables 2. Thoroughly Modern Millie 3. Wicked 4. The Phantom of the opera (OBC not Emmy Rossum although i like that Raoul) 5. Little Women 6. Funny Girl 7. Rent 8. West Side Story 9. A Chorus Line 10. The Music Man/ Into the Woods/Company but i love most musicals I see.
"What a story........ everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end." -- Birdie
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"The Devil Be Hittin' Me" -- Whitney
In no particular order: Kiss of the Spider Woman Sweeney Todd Passion Rent A Chorus Line Parade Light in the Piazza Avenue Q The Who's Tommy Lady in the Dark BKLYN (totally kidding...haha)
How could I POSSIBLY forget Side Show....Side Show replaces Lady in the Dark.....totally....and I would give an honorable mention to tick, tick, BOOM! Caroline, Or Change and Once On This Island and Cabaret.
1-kiss of the spider woman 2-rent 3-aida 4-victor/victoria 5-grease! 6-wonderful town 7-bombay dreams 8-hello dolly! 9-la cage 10-the light in the piazza
"People have their opinions and that doesn't mean that their opinions are wrong or right. I just take it with a grain of salt because opinions are like as*holes, everyone has one".
-Felicia Finley-
1. Into the Woods 2. Wicked 3. The Secret Garden 4. Thoroughly Modern Millie 5. The Phantom of the Opera 6. Parade 7. Hello Dolly 8. Little Shop of Horrors 9. Sunday in the Park with George 10. Anything Goes
And you think of all of the things you've seen, and you wish that you could live in between ,and you're back again only different than before...
After the Sky.
-Into the Woods (Jack)
I have a top 100 but here goes: La Cage Aux Folles A Chorus Line Dreamgirls Pippin Avenue Q Violet Hairspray Carousel The King And I The Sound of Music Next top ten: The Full Monty Millie The Producers Dessa Rose Caroline or Change Urinetown The Last Five Years The Lion King Hair Grease Best Revues: 1. Forbidden Broadway SVU 2. Secret's Every Smart Traveller Should Know 3. Listen to My Heart 4. The Musical of Musicals 5. Newsical
My favorite musicals: (My live viewing of musical theateris so limited from a historical that the idea of picking "the ten greatest" would be just too presumptious.)
1) Les Miserables 2) Rent 3) 42nd Steet 4) Jesus Christ Superstar 5) Kiss me Kate 6) The Music Man 7) Mamma Mia Wicked 9) You're a Good Man Charlie Brown 10) Miss Saigon