Posted: 6/11/18 at 9:13am
Memphis, The Book of Mormon, Once, Kinky Boots, A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, Fun Home, Hamilton, Dear Evan Hansen, and now The Band's Visit. Which of these best musical winners is your best/favorite and why?
Posted: 6/11/18 at 9:15am
1. Hamilton
2. Fun Home
3. The Book of Mormon
4. Once
5. The Band's Visit
6. Dear Evan Hansen
7. Kinky Boots
Haven't seen Memphis or Gentleman's Guide.
Updated On: 6/11/18 at 09:15 AM
Posted: 6/11/18 at 9:22am
Posted: 6/11/18 at 9:47am
Hamilton, Fun Home, Book of Mormon and DEH are the top tier.
Posted: 6/11/18 at 9:56am
Hamilton and DEH, hands down. For pure fun, Kinky Boots.
Least deserved: Once, which won in a pretty mediocre season -- its only real competition was Newsies!!! -- and Fun Home, which I thought was overrated. Memphis, which I enjoyed seeing once and had no interest in seeing even a second time, only won because it opened in a terrible season for musicals.
Posted: 6/11/18 at 11:35am
Posted: 6/11/18 at 11:37am
Matilda would have been in my top 3 or at least top 5 had it actually won. I have to think about it some more, but I do think Hamilton is number 1 with Fun Home following as number 2.
Posted: 6/11/18 at 11:40am
Its easily Fun Home and Hamilton competing for the top spot then Book of Mormon in third. And then Memphis, no matter what wins next year will be in dead last.
In terms of most over rated it Once or Dear Evan Hansen.
In terms of most the best crowd-pleaser/most fun is easily Kinky Boots.
Then the most forgettable, the "What won that year again?" such as 50's Redhead, 60's Halleljah Baby!, 70's Raisin, 80's Jerome Robbin's Broadway, 90's City of Angels or Fosse, 2000's Contact (If it wasn't for the controversy surrounding it) or arguably Spamalot (its a solid show, but its rarely brought up to the point where the film adaption announcement earlier this year took everyone by surprise)- will probably be A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder or The Band's Visit.
The most produced production of the Decade will probably be: Dear Evan Hansen
First Best Musical Winner to get a revival: Fun Home
First musical of the decade to get a revival: American Idiot.
Posted: 6/11/18 at 11:49am
I'd say my top three among that group would be Hamilton, DEH and Book of Mormon.
Posted: 6/11/18 at 11:53am
Listing only the shows I have seen.
1. Hamilton
2. Book Of Mormon
3. Dear Evan Hansen
4. Kinky Boots
5. Memphis
6. Once
Posted: 6/11/18 at 12:25pm
For me, it's:
1. Book of Mormon. Still one of my favorite shows, period.
2. Dear Evan Hansen
3. Hamilton (this is probably the "best" on paper, but I had a bad theatergoing experience the first time I saw it which inevitably soured me on it. It definitely redeemed itself on viewing #2, but the damage had already been done.)
4/5. Band's Visit & Fun Home (these are really tied for me. Loved them both so it's weird to have them as 4/5 but I guess I loved the others more)
6. Gentleman's Guide
7.Memphis
...
58. Kinky Boots
I never saw Once, so don't think I should rank it.
Updated On: 6/11/18 at 12:25 PM
Posted: 6/11/18 at 12:35pm
1. The Bands Visit
2. Book of Mormon
3. Gentlemen's Guide
4. Dear Evan Hanson
5. Kinky Boots
I still haven't seen Hamilton, I will when I don't have to take out a 2nd mortgage to buy a ticket.
I HATED Fun Home with the wrath of satan.
Updated On: 6/11/18 at 12:35 PM
Posted: 6/11/18 at 12:36pm
JudyDenmark said:
3. Hamilton (this is probably the "best" on paper, but I had a bad theatergoing experience the first time I saw it which inevitably soured me on it. It definitely redeemed itself on viewing #2, but the damage had already been done.)
I'm curious to know what soured it for you.
Also, to me it's between Mormon and Hamilton. Loved DEH and TBV and Fun Home also, but Hamilton and Mormon are amongst my all-time favorites. Also can't forget Come From Away which was great but didn't win Musical.
Updated On: 6/11/18 at 12:36 PM
Posted: 6/11/18 at 12:53pm
wow does this thread contradict those on this board whining about how bad the seasons have been!
1) hamilton
2) book of mormon
3) come from away (didnt win best musical and it was astounding)
4)dear evan hansen
5) kinky boots
6) the bands visit
7) Fun home
each of these shows is absolutely incredible at succeeding at at what it set out to do a show in its genre.
I would watch any of these as many times as i could(and have and will continue to)
memphis, once and gentlemens guide are all great shows, but a notch or two below the above shows in my opinion and not shows I would rush out to see again
Posted: 6/11/18 at 12:54pm
Alex172005 said: "JudyDenmark said:
3. Hamilton (this is probably the "best" on paper, but I had a bad theatergoing experience the first time I saw it which inevitably soured me on it. It definitely redeemed itself on viewing #2, but the damage had already been done.)
I'm curious to know what soured it for you."
It was a few things... I had trusted the reviews that said the show was crystal clear and that you didn't need to know anything about American history to follow it. I didn't take into account that those reviewers all had perfect seats. I was sitting in the nosebleeds and was lost about five minutes in... I think I was catching about every fifth word, and was having a hard time telling the characters apart from that distance. I could tell I was watching something "good," but had absolutely no idea what was going on for most of it, which made it frustrating and hard to enjoy. (This was before the cast recording had been released, otherwise I for sure would've listened ahead of time, knowing how wordy it is.)
On top of that, there was an usher who was walking in front of our section nonstop back and forth waving her flashlight at people. Through the entire show. I always think it's ironic that they're trying to prevent people from being on their phones and therefore distracting other people, when the flashlight waving is 100x more distracting. Also, the couple in front of me was making out the whole time, which was inappropriate and gross. (Not to mention a massive waste of money on their part!) And I also was dealing with lower back problems at the time that were exacerbated by the very uncomfortable seats at the Rodgers, which just added to the distraction as I was in a lot of pain.
That said, I knew the show was good, so I bought orchestra tickets for a year later. Within that year, the fandom got totally out of hand and extra obnoxious, and it felt like LMM was everywhere... I think he's a genius writer but can't say I'm a huge fan of his singing, so it was just too much and only increased my negativity towards it. But when I went back a year later, I really loved it. (Having Muñoz in the role helped, to be honest.) It also was the night of Obama's last speech in office, so it made the whole thing particularly emotional. I was literally sobbing through "One Last Time."
But yeah, that's why. Really not a fault of the show... just circumstance.
Updated On: 6/11/18 at 12:54 PM
Posted: 6/11/18 at 12:56pm
Posted: 6/11/18 at 12:58pm
Fun Home
Dear Evan Hansen
Hamilton
The Book of Mormon
A Gentleman's Guide ....
Once
Kinky Boots
Memphis
I haven't seen 'The Band's Visit' yet so I can't rate it, but of the rest of these shows I really enjoyed only FH and DEH completely, though I think Hamilton's staging was terrific and I loved the cast. I found 'Once' and 'Gentleman's Guide' a bit boring and didn't care for 'Kinky Boots' or 'Memphis' at all. Just my opinions ....
Posted: 6/11/18 at 1:09pm
How I'd rank them:
1. Hamilton
2. Book of Mormon
3. Dear Evan Hansen
4. Fun Home
5. Kinky Boots
HUGE DROP-OFF ...
6. The Bands Visit
7. Gentleman's Guide
8. Once
9. Memphis
Updated On: 6/11/18 at 01:09 PM
Posted: 6/11/18 at 1:20pm
Posted: 6/11/18 at 1:23pm
The Book of Mormon. Why? In part, because my family and I have a history with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints dating back to 1855 England.
Posted: 6/11/18 at 1:24pm
1) HAMILTON
2) FUN HOME
3) DEAR EVAN HANSEN
4) THE BOOK OF MORMON
5) ONCE
6) KINKY BOOTS
7) THE BAND'S VISIT
8) A GENTLEMAN'S GUIDE TO LOVE AND MURDER
A Grand Canyon sized gap
9) MEMPHIS
Posted: 6/11/18 at 1:32pm
Posted: 6/11/18 at 1:40pm
The Book of Mormon
Hamilton
The Band's Visit
Dear Evan Hansen
Once
Fun Home
Gentleman's Guide
Kinky Boots
Memphis
That being said, I genuinely love all nine of these shows and ranking them was really hard!
Updated On: 6/11/18 at 01:40 PM
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