Best thing to happen to Broadway in the past five years is(Now with totals)

[sally1112]

Posted: 9/12/08 at 8:40pm

Finish this statement anyway that you wish (a show, a person, an event...)Feel free to support your answer with a reason or an explanation.

The best thing to happen to Broadway in the past five years is...



Edit: Title change to include the phrase "Now with totals"

Updated On: 9/19/08 at 08:40 PM

[ljay889]

Posted: 9/12/08 at 8:42pm

Patti LuPone as Rose

Basically because it was something we never thought we would actually see, especially directed by the man who kept her from playing the role.

[defyinggravity42694]

Posted: 9/12/08 at 8:42pm

Wicked...

for those who don't like this show, I don't care, don't respond to me then.

[Broadwaynerd101]

Posted: 9/12/08 at 8:49pm

NOT Wicked!

[Schmerg_The_Impaler]

Posted: 9/12/08 at 8:50pm

I'm pretty sure the correct answer to this question is "Spamalot." First of all, it's brilliant, second of all, it brought the huge group of Monty Python aficionados who hate theatre to Broadway, third of all, Tim Curry starred in it, fourth of all, so did David Hyde Pierce, Hank Azaria, Sara Ramirez, and fifth of all, it also starred Christian Borle playing a gay prince, a man who stubbornly insists that he is not dead, a boring historian, and a tactless minstrel.

[sally1112]

Posted: 9/12/08 at 8:52pm

Good one jay. That is kind of what inspired me to start this thread. I was just listening to that recording while making dinner and I was thinking to myself how lucky I was to be a part of that amazing performance.

[theaterkid1015]

Posted: 9/12/08 at 8:52pm

Glory Days?

[antiandrewx]

Posted: 9/12/08 at 8:53pm

Doyle's production of Sweeney Todd and Patti LuPone in Gypsy.

[WickedMuzzy422]

Posted: 9/12/08 at 8:54pm

haha i was going to say in my life

[Trekkie2]

Posted: 9/12/08 at 8:56pm

I have to say Avenue Q winning the Tony award. It's what has allowed it stay open for so long, and it really made people think about well-written, well-acted shows over spectacle. The fan-girls can say Wicked "is like omg the best thing since ReNt", but they have to answer to the fact the Tony committee begged to differ.

[Schmerg_The_Impaler]

Posted: 9/12/08 at 8:57pm

Ah, yes, "Glory Days!" Now that's a show for the ages. The only thing longer than its triumphant run is the trail it blazed in terms of redefining modern theatre as an art form.

[Broadwaynerd101]

Posted: 9/12/08 at 8:57pm

CRY BABY!

[NGD2225]

Posted: 9/12/08 at 8:57pm

Grey Gardens.

[DefyGravity777]

Posted: 9/12/08 at 8:59pm

Stephanie J. Block and the show Wicked.

[Patash]

Posted: 9/12/08 at 9:01pm

August Osage County.

Musicals come and go, but a fantastic drama is a rare find in this day and age.

[Broadwaynerd101]

Posted: 9/12/08 at 9:40pm

Times They Are A Changing!

[lakezurich]

Posted: 9/12/08 at 9:51pm

I might have to go with The Drowsy Chaperone

[SporkGoddess]

Posted: 9/12/08 at 9:58pm

The Light in the Piazza!

[evadiva]

Posted: 9/12/08 at 10:04pm

Spork we singers think alike!

[bundy5000]

Posted: 9/12/08 at 10:11pm

Movies after movies are being transitioned to Musical Theaters. Which gains some appeal to teenagers and or more tourists, dosen't mean it is TOP NOTCH Quality. Patti Lupone. The spotlight of Legally Blonde having a reality show on MTV. Spamalot. and the spirit of NYC years after 9/11. "Broadway done good."

[Marianne2]

Posted: 9/12/08 at 10:23pm

Sara Ramirez as the Lady of the Lake. Nobody has been as good as her.

[ThankstoPhantom]

Posted: 9/12/08 at 10:35pm

A question like this should be answered objectively, rather than on how it makes YOU feel... You need to think of the show that has made the biggest impact progressively

Albeit, this is a hard question to answer, as often time needs to pass to see exactly what has been the greatest influence.

I think whatever it is, it will be someone involved with, or one of the the little-musicals-that-could that attempted to fight up against the corporate money machines, and the fantastic dramas that have found great success.

Updated On: 9/12/08 at 10:35 PM

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 9/12/08 at 10:37pm

John Doyle.



(Wow, nobody has said "Rent closing" yet?)

Updated On: 9/12/08 at 10:37 PM

[ratherbewhaling]

Posted: 9/12/08 at 10:38pm

The Last Five Years?
(I would have accepted "not Wicked")

but seriously folks it's a toss up between Lupone Gypsy and Grey Gardens/Light in the Piazza

[sondheimgeek]

Posted: 9/12/08 at 10:45pm

Grey Gardens.