Best Musicals About America- Page 2

[MusicAngel]

Best Musicals About America#25

Posted: 7/1/10 at 11:53pm

Good one, chewy5000!

[jasonf]

Best Musicals About America#26

Posted: 7/2/10 at 12:50am

"Assassins and Ragtime are really the only two answers, I think. "

Seriously?

1776
Oklahoma
Hair
Ragtime
Rags
Music Man
West Side Story
In the Heights

And those are just the ones quoted on this thread.

Hi, Shirley Temple Pudding.

[lull89]

Best Musicals About America#27

Posted: 7/2/10 at 1:35am

The Pulitzer Prize winning "Of Thee I Sing" comes to mind, as well as its less successful sequel "Let 'Em Eat Cake"

[Jon]

Best Musicals About America#28

Posted: 7/2/10 at 10:53am

I can't believe no one mentioned Showboat - which chronicles 25 years of changes in American culture and values - all while telling a schmaltzy love story!

[newintown]

Best Musicals About America#29

Posted: 7/2/10 at 11:00am

I like munkustrap's list, to which I would add

A Little Night Music
Kwamina
We Take The Town
First Impressions
Metro
The Baker's Wife
Lost In The Stars

[husk_charmer]

Best Musicals About America#30

Posted: 7/2/10 at 11:01am

As jasonf said, to call "Assassins and Ragtime" it, is absolutely asinine.

TOns of shows deal with it, but if you had to say there was only ONE musical about America, it would e 1776. It's about writing the Declaration of Independence, which, correct me if I'm wrong, but we wouldn't even *have* an America without it.

And, while I think it makes a better album than show, The Civil War should count.

http://www.youtube.com/huskcharmer

[twinbelters]

Best Musicals About America#31

Posted: 7/2/10 at 11:24am

The Human Comedy
Anyone Can Whistle
Streets of New York
Side Show
Jesus Christ Superstar

With Irma you gotta do something!

[singtopher]

Best Musicals About America#32

Posted: 7/2/10 at 12:34pm

Fela!

"If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it." -Stephen Colbert

[Mister Matt]

Best Musicals About America#33

Posted: 7/2/10 at 12:39pm

I have to add Parade and Scottsboro Boys to the list.

"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian

[wonkit]

Best Musicals About America#34

Posted: 7/2/10 at 12:47pm

ANNIE!

[Mekroth]

Best Musicals About America#35

Posted: 7/2/10 at 3:52pm

And I'm going to add Fiorello! and 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

[MusicAngel]

Best Musicals About America#36

Posted: 7/2/10 at 4:16pm

Hmm.. suprised no one mentioned American Idiot. It certainly does describe America in the same direction as Urinetown does.
Updated On: 7/2/10 at 04:16 PM

[myshikobit]

Best Musicals About America#37

Posted: 7/2/10 at 5:12pm

Human Comedy for the win.

I also have a soft spot for Assassins, 1600 Penns., Ragtime, Rags and Music Man

"There are only two worthwhile things to leave behind when we depart this world of ours: children and art." -Sunday In The Park With George

Updated On: 7/2/10 at 05:12 PM

[Q]

Best Musicals About America#38

Posted: 7/2/10 at 5:15pm

Quilters
Working

[Phantom of London]

Best Musicals About America#39

Posted: 7/2/10 at 5:28pm

100% dead cert - Miss Saigon

[B3TA07]

Best Musicals About America#40

Posted: 7/2/10 at 5:33pm

Caroline, or Change
Ragtime
Assassins
Parade

-Benjamin
--http://www.benjaminadgate.com/

[Gypsy9]

Best Musicals About America#41

Posted: 7/2/10 at 5:57pm

BEN FRANKLIN IN PARIS described Franklin's visiting the king of France to get financial and moral support for the War of Independence. It starred Robert Preston who was his usual authoritative self and boasted a good score, helped by Jerry Herman. This 1964 musical flopped at 215 performances, but I thoroughly enjoyed myself. And the sets and costumes were great.

"Madam Rose...and her daughter...Gypsy!"

[TheatreFreak05]

Best Musicals About America#42

Posted: 7/2/10 at 6:59pm

I adore Quilters!
Updated On: 7/2/10 at 06:59 PM

[E.Davis]

Best Musicals About America#43

Posted: 7/2/10 at 7:55pm

Ya, even though Parade, if a part of America's dark past it is one of the best....And ofcourse Ragtime.

"I think lying to children is really important, it sets them off on the right track" -Sherie Rene Scott-

[iflip4musicals]

Best Musicals About America#44

Posted: 7/2/10 at 7:58pm

side note... I saw HAiR on the fourth last year, and everyone - cast and audience - cheered in "Going Down" when Berger says "it's like the fourth of July". It was very America pride-y.

"I've never encountered such religiously, you know, loyal fans as Broadway musical theater fans. It's amazing." --Allison Janney

[chewy5000]

Best Musicals About America#45

Posted: 7/2/10 at 11:14pm

(On The / Wonderful) Town

[Hannahbelle]

Best Musicals About America#46

Posted: 7/3/10 at 12:08am

If groups or subcultures of America count, lots of musicals could be included.
Rent, Avenue Q, Hairspray, Guys and Dolls, etc.

[KT1385]

Best Musicals About America#47

Posted: 7/3/10 at 2:28am

STATE FAIR always seemed like an idyllic snapshot of mid-century Americana to me.

[gypsy4]

Best Musicals About America#48

Posted: 7/3/10 at 2:40am

ANNIE!

[binau]

Best Musicals About America#49

Posted: 7/3/10 at 3:52am

How is "A Little NIght Music" about "America"? Some of these choices.. :-/.

Give me claws and a hunch, just away from this bunch.