Best Broadway Musical Season

[GlenCoco]

Posted: 3/30/20 at 5:31pm

2015 with Hamilton with waitress and school of rock

[DoTheDood]

Posted: 3/30/20 at 5:42pm

Looking at Best Musicals from 2016-17 season, I would not be mad about any of those won the Tony. 

Updated On: 3/31/20 at 05:42 PM

[Jarethan]

Posted: 3/30/20 at 6:04pm

For consideration:

1957: My Fair Lady, The Most Happy Fella, Candide, Bells Are Ringing (certainly all great scores)

1960: Gypsy, Fiorello, Sound of Music, Once Upon a Mattress

1964: Hello Dolly, She Loves Me, Funny Girl, High Spirits, 110 in the Shade

1966: Man of La Mancha, Sweet Charity, Mame

1976: A Chorus Line, Chicago, Pacific Overtures

1982: Dreamgirls, Nine, Joseph and ...Dreamshirt

2017: Dear Evan Hansen, Natasha and Pierre, Come From Away, Bandstand (Snuck this in...itwas my favorite musical that year)

 

If I was forced to pick one, it'd be a tie between 1960 and 1964.

[Someone in a Tree2]

Posted: 3/31/20 at 12:56am

I concur on hurrahs for the 1964 season, particularly if you add ANYONE CAN WHISTLE to the gems that year. 

[theatreguy12]

Posted: 3/31/20 at 1:48am

Historically, so many great seasons.  Hard to beat the seasons that saw the original productions of WSS, The Music Man, Funny Girl, The Sound of Music, etc.

For me though personally:

1994---Carousel, Damn Yankees, Grease, Showboat, Sunset Boulevard (also saw Kiss of the Spider Woman and Miss Saigon from previous seasons)

1995---Hello, Dolly!, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Master Class, Smokey Joe's Cafe

2014---Aladdin, Beautiful, Bullets Over Broadway, On the Town, The Curious Incident, Lady Day

2015---An American in Paris, Fiddler on the Roof, Finding Neverland, Fun Home, Hamilton, On the Twentieth Century, Something Rotten!, The Color Purple, The King and I, The Visit

2016---American Psycho, Bright Star, Dear Evan Hansen, She Loves Me, Shuffle Along, Waitress

Fiddler in 2015 was super special because it was the first show I ever saw on Broadway when I was a pretty young kid in 1971.  Seeing it again in 2015 was like traveling full circle. 

[PatrickDC]

Posted: 3/31/20 at 1:52am

I don’t know my theater history enough but I thought 2013-2014 was strong based on a binge theater weekend I did of R+H Cinderella, Pippin revival, and Kinky Boots...capped off with that spectacular “Bigger, We’re Goin’ Bigger” Tonys opening number. 

[ggersten]

Posted: 3/31/20 at 10:09am

2005 Best Musical Nominees:  Spamalot, Light in the Piazza, Spelling Bee, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.  

That is quite the foursome for one season. 

On the non-musical side: Virginia Woolf (Bill Irwin/Kathleen Turner); Doubt, Gem of the Ocean, Pillowman, On Golden Pond with James Earl Jones; and Gem of the Ocean by August Wilson.

[OlBlueEyes]

Posted: 4/1/20 at 4:19pm

2015 was my favorite year of the decade. And more so if I include Roundabout's Cabaret which closed on March 29, 2015 and featured Emma Stone as Sally through February 15th and Alan Cumming until the close.