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Best Original Musicals of the Decade
#25re: Best Original Musicals of the Decade
Posted: 7/5/09 at 4:33amplus, spring awakening was terrible, so it wouldn't belong in this thread anyway.
#26re: Best Original Musicals of the Decade
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
AndAllThatJazz22
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/8/08
#27re: Best Original Musicals of the Decade
Posted: 7/5/09 at 11:17amI think The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is based off of a documentary.
-Danmeg's 10 year old son.
Smaxie
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/26/05
#28re: Best Original Musicals of the Decade
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.
WishingOnlyWounds2
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/25/08
#29re: Best Original Musicals of the Decade
Posted: 7/5/09 at 11:33am
Next to Normal
or
Curtains
ashley0139
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/3/05
#30re: Best Original Musicals of the Decade
Posted: 7/5/09 at 11:34am
1. Grey Gardens
2. Caroline, or Change
3. Next to Normal
AndAllThatJazz22
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/8/08
#31re: Best Original Musicals of the Decade
Posted: 7/5/09 at 11:36amGrey Gardens was not an original musical.
-Danmeg's 10 year old son.
kalfonso
Swing Joined: 9/22/08
#32re: Best Original Musicals of the Decade
Posted: 7/5/09 at 11:39amMy favorite musical of all time, although it's based on a poem, is Lippa's Wild Party.
jejr
Stand-by Joined: 11/29/08
AndAllThatJazz22
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/8/08
#34re: Best Original Musicals of the Decade
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.
-Danmeg's 10 year old son.
#35re: Best Original Musicals of the Decade
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.
#36re: Best Original Musicals of the Decade
Posted: 7/5/09 at 12:22pmIn the last ten years? Caroline, or Change. Without a doubt.
TalkinLoud
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/3/09
#37re: Best Original Musicals of the Decade
Posted: 7/5/09 at 12:42pmI apologize, I thought you meant original as in new (ie. not a revival).
#38re: Best Original Musicals of the Decade
Posted: 7/5/09 at 1:16pm
Thoroughly Modern Millie
In The Heights
Spring Awakening
AndAllThatJazz22
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/8/08
#40re: Best Original Musicals of the Decade
Posted: 7/5/09 at 1:21pmMillie and Spring Awakening are not original.
-Danmeg's 10 year old son.
#41re: Best Original Musicals of the Decade
Posted: 7/5/09 at 1:23pm
in no order:
[title of show]
Drowsy Chaperone
Caroline or Change
AndAllThatJazz22
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/8/08
#43re: Best Original Musicals of the Decade
Posted: 7/5/09 at 1:37pmI like a few songs from Passing Strange, but I find the rest to be uncreative and self-indulgent.
-Danmeg's 10 year old son.
COOOOLkid
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/15/05
#44re: Best Original Musicals of the Decade
Posted: 7/5/09 at 2:22pmI'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.
ashley0139
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/3/05
#45re: Best Original Musicals of the Decade
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.
#47re: Best Original Musicals of the Decade
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. :)
blaxx
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
#48re: Best Original Musicals of the Decade
Posted: 7/5/09 at 5:01pmUsual comments from those who never saw Passing Strange.
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