Best Musicals About America- Page 3

[best12bars]

Posted: 7/3/10 at 8:10am

A Little Night Music? No. It's turn-of-the-20th-century Sweden.

Fiddler on the Roof? No. At best, it's a "prequel" to a few characters' lives who begin migration to America at the end of the show. But none of it takes place in America. It's not "about America," the American experience, or Americans at all. It's all prior to that.

About America:
1776
Ragtime

American historical themes or events incorporated:
Annie
Assassins
South Pacific

Slice-of-life or idealized America:
The Music Man
Oklahoma!
Hair
Grease
Caroline, or Change
West Side Story

I didn't put everything down. Just ones that IMO qualified as the "best."

Updated On: 7/3/10 at 08:10 AM

[jv92]

Posted: 7/3/10 at 8:17am

Follies, Grey Gardens...both very American.

[best12bars]

Posted: 7/3/10 at 8:31am

Well, then, any music depicting the lives of American characters could be called "American."

[singtopher]

Posted: 7/3/10 at 8:45am

For Besty and qolbinau.

RE: Fiddler and Night Music

Updated On: 7/3/10 at 08:45 AM

[best12bars]

Posted: 7/3/10 at 8:58am

If you have to give me the definition of sarcasm, then you didn't do it very well.

Fail.

[ObiHave]

Posted: 7/3/10 at 10:07am

Songs for a New World

[broadwayworldreader]

Posted: 7/3/10 at 2:54pm

Of Thee I Sing

[2ndBalcony]

Posted: 7/3/10 at 10:39pm

Don't forget

Porgy and Bess
Most Happy Fellah
Guys and Dolls
Annie Get Your Gun
Barnum
Pajama Game
Li'l Abner
How to Succeed
Mame
Gyspy
Finian's Rainbow



Updated On: 7/4/10 at 10:39 PM