Best Musicals About America- Page 3

[best12bars]

Best Musicals About America#50

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."

"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."

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

[jv92]

Best Musicals About America#51

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

Follies, Grey Gardens...both very American.

[best12bars]

Best Musicals About America#52

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

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

"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."

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[singtopher]

Best Musicals About America#53

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

For Besty and qolbinau.

RE: Fiddler and Night Music

"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

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

[best12bars]

Best Musicals About America#54

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.

"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."

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[ObiHave]

Best Musicals About America#55

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

Songs for a New World

[broadwayworldreader]

Best Musicals About America#56

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

Of Thee I Sing

[2ndBalcony]

Best Musicals About America#57

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