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#1

BEST Musicals that DIDN'T win BEST MUSICAL

Posted: 11/7/05 at 3:35pm

So...we've had the thread for the Worst musical to win Best Musical. And we have the thread for the Best Musical to win Best Musical.

Well, here's the thread for the best musical to not win the award for Best Musical. Feel free to enter your opinion.

1988: Should have won: INTO THE WOODS
2002: Should have won: URINETOWN
"I love talking about nothing. It is the only thing I know anything about." - Oscar Wilde

Updated On: 11/7/05 at 03:35 PM

#3

re: BEST Musicals that DIDN'T win Best Musical

Posted: 11/7/05 at 3:39pm

1988: INTO THE WOODS
2003: WICKED
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)
#5

re: BEST Musicals that DIDN'T win Best Musical

Posted: 11/7/05 at 3:40pm

The Light in the god damned freakin Piazza.


alright, this thread can close now cause I just named the show that got screwed over the most in this category.
when ducks grow thumbs then maybe my opinion will change.
#8

re: BEST Musicals that DIDN'T win Best Musical

Posted: 11/7/05 at 3:43pm

Gypsy
West Side Story
Oliver
Chicago
Ragtime

EDIT: Sunday in the Park With George, ditto.
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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Updated On: 11/7/05 at 03:43 PM

#9

re: BEST Musicals that DIDN'T win Best Musical

Posted: 11/7/05 at 3:43pm

1998: RAGTIME

Honestly, I really really love Phantom of the Opera and Into the Woods both. Other than that, I'm going to reserve my judgement on shows that I haven't seen (e.g. Avenue Q).
#10

re: BEST Musicals that DIDN'T win Best Musical

Posted: 11/7/05 at 3:43pm

GYPSY.

Not a single Tony in its original run.
"I'm so looking forward to a time when all the Reagan Democrats are dead."
#11

re: BEST Musicals that DIDN'T win Best Musical

Posted: 11/7/05 at 3:46pm

How could I forget GYPSY?

It's a travesty that it didn't win any awards during its original run.
"I love talking about nothing. It is the only thing I know anything about." - Oscar Wilde
#12

re: BEST Musicals that DIDN'T win Best Musical

Posted: 11/7/05 at 3:46pm

Sunday in the Park With George
Ragtime
Urinetown
Into The Woods
Gypsy
Follies
Chicago

They, much like the Academy, rarely get things right...
#13

re: BEST Musicals that DIDN'T win Best Musical

Posted: 11/7/05 at 3:47pm

robbie: Didn't Merman win?

1960: GYPSY
1963: OLIVER!
1969: HAIR
1972: FOLLIES
1975: SHENANDOAH
1984: SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE
1988: INTO THE WOODS
1991: THE SECRET GARDEN
1993: BLOOD BROTHERS
1998: RAGTIME
1999: PARADE
2001: THE FULL MONTY
2002: URINETOWN
2004: CAROLINE, OR CHANGE
2005: THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA
"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy." -Charlie Manson
#14

re: BEST Musicals that DIDN'T win Best Musical

Posted: 11/7/05 at 3:47pm

Gypsy
West Side Story
Chicago
Sunday in the Park With George
Ragtime
Parade
The Full Monty
Urinetown
Caroline, or Change
The Light in the Piazza
A little swash, a bit of buckle - you'll love it more than bread.
#15

re: BEST Musicals that DIDN'T win Best Musical

Posted: 11/7/05 at 3:51pm

Munk---Merman didn't win for Gypsy. She was beaten out by Mary Martin in Sound of Music (which tied for Best Musical that year with Fiorello... meaning that Gypsy came in THIRD at the very best).

I believe Merman's only competetive Tony was for Call Me Madam.

But remember many of her legendary roles came before the Tonys had been established. Girl Crazy, Red, Hot & Blue, Anything Goes...
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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Updated On: 11/7/05 at 03:51 PM

#16

re: BEST Musicals that DIDN'T win Best Musical

Posted: 11/7/05 at 3:52pm

Merman lost to Mary Martin in The Sound of Music. The Merm said, "You can't buck a nun."

Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end: then stop.
#17

re: BEST Musicals that DIDN'T win Best Musical

Posted: 11/7/05 at 3:52pm

Wicked
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
"I wish the stage were as narrow as the wire of a tightrope dancer, so that no incompetent would dare step upon it." Goethe
#21

re: BEST Musicals that DIDN'T win Best Musical

Posted: 11/7/05 at 4:00pm

2005: Something other than "Spamalot". I believe that all the other shows nominated for the Best Musical award were more deserving of it. "Spamalot" seemed to me to win simply because of its connection to "Monty Python"

#22

re: BEST Musicals that DIDN'T win Best Musical

Posted: 11/7/05 at 4:03pm

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
Wicked
Gypsy
Dreamgirls
West Side Story
Chicago

Updated On: 11/7/05 at 04:03 PM

#24

re: BEST Musicals that DIDN'T win Best Musical

Posted: 11/7/05 at 4:20pm

DREAMGIRLS 1981!!!!! instead of NINE.
Just a GROUNDBREAKING show that didnt get its BEST musical tony award props. still relevant TODAY. and NINE? please.
the shuberts were however in a riff with the tony comittee that year.
this from Sheryl Lee Ralph herself.
#25

re: BEST Musicals that DIDN'T win Best Musical

Posted: 11/7/05 at 4:22pm

Feud or not, I still believe that NINE is one of the best musicals ever written and rightfully won.
"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy." -Charlie Manson

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