#26
Posted: 7/5/09 at 4:33am
plus, spring awakening was terrible, so it wouldn't belong in this thread anyway.
Best Original Musicals of the Decade — Page 2
#27
Posted: 7/5/09 at 4:42am
Random order:
*Avenue Q
*The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
*Caroline, or Change
*Urinetown (Uh, hello!)
*Contact
*Avenue Q
*The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
*Caroline, or Change
*Urinetown (Uh, hello!)
*Contact
#28
Posted: 7/5/09 at 11:17am
I think The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is based off of a documentary.
"There's nothing good on. The media hates Christmas. The media loves vampires, though. Maybe they will show a Twilight Christmas."
-Danmeg's 10 year old son.
-Danmeg's 10 year old son.
#29
Posted: 7/5/09 at 11:31am
You are thinking of Spellbound, which Disney was developing into a musical before Putnam County became a hit.
25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, I think, should just as well be considered an original musical. While it grew out of an improvisational play called C-R-E-P-U-S-C-L-E, following its initial production, Wendy Wasserstein suggested William Finn to collaborate with Rebecca Feldman to develop the piece into a scripted musical. Unlike the usual "based on" musicals, C-R-E-P-U-S-C-L-E became The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, similarly to the way that George Furth's one acts became Company.
25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, I think, should just as well be considered an original musical. While it grew out of an improvisational play called C-R-E-P-U-S-C-L-E, following its initial production, Wendy Wasserstein suggested William Finn to collaborate with Rebecca Feldman to develop the piece into a scripted musical. Unlike the usual "based on" musicals, C-R-E-P-U-S-C-L-E became The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, similarly to the way that George Furth's one acts became Company.
Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end: then stop.
#30
Posted: 7/5/09 at 11:33am
Next to Normal
or
Curtains
or
Curtains
2008: Feb. 18- Rent, Feb. 19- Curtains, April 18- Xanadu, April 22- Wicked, April 26- Legally Blonde, May 31- Wicked, June 13- The Little Mermaid, June 28- Wicked and Young Frankenstein, July 2- The Little Mermaid, July 6- A Chorus Line and Legally Blonde, August 16- Xanadu, September 13- Legally Blonde and 13, September 28- Xanadu and Spring Awakening, Oct. 12-GYPSY and [title of show], Oct. 19- Hairspray & Legally Blonde, Nov. 9- Wicked and 13, Dec. 14-13, Dec. 26- Billy Elliot, 2009: Jan 1- Shrek, Jan 2- 13 and Wicked, Jan 4- 13, Feb 17- In The Heights, Feb 19- Billy Elliot, Feb 22- Sweeney Todd (tour), March 28- Mary Poppins, April 4- Mamma Mia!, April 15- Jersey Boys (on tour), April 25- next to normal & 9 to 5
May 1- Billy Elliot, May 3- Spelling Bee (tour), May 8- Chicago, May 21- Wicked, June 6- Everyday Rapture, June 23- The Wiz, June 25- Hair July 15- Shrek, August 9- Wicked, September 7- Rock of Ages, October 11- Next To Normal, October 23- The Marvelous Wonderettes, November 7- Ragtime November 29- Dreamgirls, December 25- Billy Elliot, December 30- Finian's Rainbow, 2010: January 9- Bye Bye Birdie, January 16- Memphis February 17- The Phantom of The Opera, February 18- God of Carnage, March 7- Billy Elliot, March 31- American Idiot
#31
Posted: 7/5/09 at 11:34am
1. Grey Gardens
2. Caroline, or Change
3. Next to Normal
2. Caroline, or Change
3. Next to Normal
"This table, he is over one hundred years old. If I could, I would take an old gramophone needle and run it along the surface of the wood. To hear the music of the voices. All that was said." - Doug Wright, I Am My Own Wife
#32
Posted: 7/5/09 at 11:36am
Grey Gardens was not an original musical.
"There's nothing good on. The media hates Christmas. The media loves vampires, though. Maybe they will show a Twilight Christmas."
-Danmeg's 10 year old son.
-Danmeg's 10 year old son.
#33
Posted: 7/5/09 at 11:39am
My favorite musical of all time, although it's based on a poem, is Lippa's Wild Party.
#35
Posted: 7/5/09 at 11:55am
"My Top 10 [in alphabetical order]
Avenue Q
Curtains
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Full Monty, The
Grey Gardens
Next to Normal
Producers, The
Spring Awakening
Thoroughly Modern Millie
Urinetown: The Musical
with Honorable Mentions to Jersey Boys & The Light in the Piazza."
Avenue Q, Curtains, Next to Normal, and Urinetown are the only musicals you mentioned that are original.
Avenue Q
Curtains
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Full Monty, The
Grey Gardens
Next to Normal
Producers, The
Spring Awakening
Thoroughly Modern Millie
Urinetown: The Musical
with Honorable Mentions to Jersey Boys & The Light in the Piazza."
Avenue Q, Curtains, Next to Normal, and Urinetown are the only musicals you mentioned that are original.
"There's nothing good on. The media hates Christmas. The media loves vampires, though. Maybe they will show a Twilight Christmas."
-Danmeg's 10 year old son.
-Danmeg's 10 year old son.
#36
Posted: 7/5/09 at 11:57am
onedaymore-I have to agree. Pirate Queen is one of my favorite scores. I'm sad it didn't do as well as I had hoped.
Next to Normal is my favorite musical right now.
Next to Normal is my favorite musical right now.
"i had no idea billy elliot was about one boy's triumph over epilepsy."-FindingNamo
#37
Posted: 7/5/09 at 12:22pm
In the last ten years? Caroline, or Change. Without a doubt.
"Sing the words, Patti!!!!" Stephen Sondheim to Patti LuPone.
#38
Posted: 7/5/09 at 12:42pm
I apologize, I thought you meant original as in new (ie. not a revival).
#39
Posted: 7/5/09 at 1:16pm
Thoroughly Modern Millie
In The Heights
Spring Awakening
In The Heights
Spring Awakening
#41
Posted: 7/5/09 at 1:21pm
Millie and Spring Awakening are not original.
"There's nothing good on. The media hates Christmas. The media loves vampires, though. Maybe they will show a Twilight Christmas."
-Danmeg's 10 year old son.
-Danmeg's 10 year old son.
#42
Posted: 7/5/09 at 1:23pm
in no order:
[title of show]
Drowsy Chaperone
Caroline or Change
[title of show]
Drowsy Chaperone
Caroline or Change
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--Allison Janney
#43
Posted: 7/5/09 at 1:26pm
I liked Passing Strange a lot.
#44
Posted: 7/5/09 at 1:37pm
I like a few songs from Passing Strange, but I find the rest to be uncreative and self-indulgent.
"There's nothing good on. The media hates Christmas. The media loves vampires, though. Maybe they will show a Twilight Christmas."
-Danmeg's 10 year old son.
-Danmeg's 10 year old son.
#45
Posted: 7/5/09 at 2:22pm
I'm assuming the "original musical" is whatever that was eligible for "Best Musical" at the Tonys. I see no need to outsmart each other by claiming that Spelling Bee is unoriginal or Grey Gardens is not original.
"Hey, you! You're the worst thing to happen to musical theatre since Andrew Lloyd Webber!"
-Family Guy
#46
Posted: 7/5/09 at 2:46pm
AndAllthatJazz- this is how I took it as well:
"I think it's safer to refer to musicals with new scores written specifically for the stage as original or new musicals (or, not a revival)."
So chill.
"I think it's safer to refer to musicals with new scores written specifically for the stage as original or new musicals (or, not a revival)."
So chill.
"This table, he is over one hundred years old. If I could, I would take an old gramophone needle and run it along the surface of the wood. To hear the music of the voices. All that was said." - Doug Wright, I Am My Own Wife
#48
Posted: 7/5/09 at 4:51pm
AllThatJazz-Passing Strange's music seems to me like a Rent rip-off.
I also forgot to mention Urinetown. :)
I also forgot to mention Urinetown. :)
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#49
Posted: 7/5/09 at 5:01pm
Usual comments from those who never saw Passing Strange.
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