BroadwayWorld Announces Summer Madness Bracket - Best Musical: Losers Edition

[Moderator]

Posted: 6/26/24 at 12:23pm

Which musical is really the Best Musical of all time? This spring, our readers picked Les Miz as the ultimate Tony Award-winning Best Musical of all time. But what about all of the other shows? By popular demand, we bring you our Summer Madness Bracket: Best Musical Losers Edition!

Our editors have selected Broadway's most acclaimed shows that didn't win the top prize, and now BroadwayWorld invites YOU to join us and our readers in deciding which Tony Award-loser deserves the title of The Ultimate Best Musical Loser!

Round one continues through Sunday, July 7th, 2024.

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How To Participate

-Select your pick in each contest round below & submit the form.
-Come back for round each round to see if your selections made it.
-Didn't join the contest in the first round? No problem! Join in any round.

Schedule of Events

-Round 1: Starts Wednesday, June 26, 2024 and ends Sunday, July 7, 2024
-Round 2: Starts Monday, July 8 and ends Friday, July 12, 2024
-Round 3: Starts Monday, July 15 and ends Friday, July 19, 2024
-Round 4: Starts Monday, July 22 and ends Friday, July 26, 2024
-Round 5: Starts Monday, July 29 and ends Friday, August 2, 2024
-Round 6: Starts Monday, August 5 and ends Friday, August 9, 2024

[hearthemsing22]

Posted: 6/26/24 at 1:42pm

Given the high response to Urinetown and the fact that NYCC is including it in their line-up, I hope that means we'll have a revival soon! 

[Ptero2]

Posted: 6/26/24 at 3:49pm

How is it this close between Follies and Aladdin??

[JSquared2]

Posted: 6/26/24 at 8:05pm

GYPSY almost tied with BEETLEJUICE?  Oyy!!

Seems like there are a lot of tweens voting and skewing the results.

 

[HeyMrMusic]

Posted: 6/26/24 at 9:28pm

I would think we would collectively rally behind She Loves Me, but here we are.

[Listener]

Posted: 6/28/24 at 3:31am

So we're still voting for the show that we like best, so it can win Silver, essentially?

Please let it be Follies or Gypsy or something. I mean...Mean Girls, really?

[Someone in a Tree2]

Posted: 6/28/24 at 1:13pm

Can anyone explain how the shows are paired up? I mean, bummer that it's WEST SIDE STORY vs PIPPIN when really, both should have made it to the final rounds...

[VintageSnarker]

Posted: 6/30/24 at 4:21pm

JSquared2 said: "GYPSY almost tied with BEETLEJUICE? Oyy!!

Seems like there are a lot of tweens voting and skewing the results.

Don't forget Les Mis won the last bracket. The snobs (I count myself as one) get outvoted and there's a strong recency bias. Frozen easily beating Caroline, or Change hurts my heart. How are Funny Girl and Mean Girls even close?

 

[fashionguru_23]

Posted: 7/3/24 at 3:36pm

I cannot live in a world where Beetlejuice is voted a better musical than Gypsy!

[Melissa25]

Posted: 7/4/24 at 11:05am

fashionguru_23: I cannot live in a world where Beetlejuice is voted a better musical than Gypsy!

Pass me the cyanide, Aladdin is beating Follies.

[JSquared2]

Posted: 7/7/24 at 11:50am

Looks like we’re about to see GYPSY, FOLLIES and SHE LOVES ME be eliminated in favor of BEETLEJUICE, ALADDIN and MARY POPPINS. 

Pathetic. Time for those of us over the age of 16 to start voting again with different email addresses! 

[SisterGeorge]

Posted: 7/8/24 at 1:40pm

JSquared2 said: "Looks like we’re about to see GYPSY, FOLLIES and SHE LOVESME be eliminated in favor of BEETLEJUICE, ALADDIN and MARY POPPINS.

Pathetic. Time for those of us over the age of 16 to start voting again with different email addresses!"

Pathetic and appalling. I'm surprised and pleased that Ragtime and Great Comet are tied, although I suspect Ragtime will take over soon (not my choice).  Dreamgirls losing to Matilda? Heresy.

[SonofRobbieJ]

Posted: 7/8/24 at 5:57pm

Some of these pairings were just plain mean.

Sunday in the Park against Parade? I feel like I'm the Confrontation in Jekyll and Hyde (I picked Sunday like a good boy). 

Dreamgirls v. Matilda? I really loved Matlida, but Dreamgirls is the great American musical of the end of the 20th Century. 

[JSquared2]

Posted: 7/11/24 at 5:42pm

Matilda can not be allowed to beat Dreamgirls!

 

 

[Melissa25]

Posted: 7/15/24 at 4:05pm

My first dose of cyanide did not work when Aladdin beat Follies in the previous round.  I will have to take a double dose now because Aladdin is beating my favorite musical of all time Chicago 75 vs 25. WTF?

[VintageSnarker]

Posted: 7/16/24 at 8:27pm

Melissa25 said: "My first dose of cyanide did not work when Aladdin beat Follies in the previous round. I will have to take a double dose now because Aladdin is beating my favorite musical of all time Chicago 75 vs 25. WTF?"

Probably only 4 people had voted at that point. I feel like the Disney shows are getting a boost from the movies as much as the stage shows but interestingly most of these shows have movie adaptations or pro-shots... which just returns to the voting skewing young.

[VintageSnarker]

Posted: 7/23/24 at 3:39pm

There are five days to stop Beauty and the Beast from knocking out Sunday in the Park with George

[VintageSnarker]

Posted: 7/30/24 at 9:34am

Honestly, at this point I just have to laugh. Beauty and the Beast vs. Chicago and Wicked vs. Newsies. 

[Dan6]

Posted: 7/30/24 at 3:42pm

Gypsy, West Side Story, Follies, Dreamgirls, Ragtime, Pippin, Sunday in the Park With George, Parade all eliminated. But thank God we still have Beauty and the Beast and Newsies. <smh>

[JSquared2]

Posted: 7/30/24 at 5:07pm

Dan6 said: "Gypsy, West Side Story, Follies, Dreamgirls, Ragtime, Pippin, Sunday in the Park With George, Parade all eliminated. But thank God we still have Beauty and the Beast and Newsies. "

Yep --- looks like this poll was dominated by 14 year old girls.

 

[Robbie2]

Posted: 7/30/24 at 11:03pm

JSquared2 said: "Dan6 said: "Gypsy, West Side Story, Follies, Dreamgirls, Ragtime, Pippin, Sunday in the Park With George, Parade all eliminated. But thank God we still have Beauty and the Beast and Newsies. "

Yep --- looks like this poll was dominatedby 14 year old girls.

"for sure annoying gen z girls and boys

 

[Broadway Flash]

Posted: 7/31/24 at 7:27pm

I’m pulling for Chicago to win

[Listener]

Posted: 8/1/24 at 9:35am

Robbie2 said: "JSquared2 said: "Dan6 said: "Gypsy, West Side Story, Follies, Dreamgirls, Ragtime, Pippin, Sunday in the Park With George, Parade all eliminated. But thank God we still have Beauty and the Beast and Newsies. "

Yep --- looks like this poll was dominatedby 14 year old girls.

"for sure annoying gen z girls and boys

"

No kidding! I guess we should be relieved Chicago is still even in the running.

[bear88]

Posted: 8/2/24 at 4:10am

It’s really going to be Beauty and the Beast against Newsies in the finals? How strange. 

[Gesualdo]

Posted: 8/4/24 at 9:19pm

From a musical perspective, West Side Story by Leonard Bernstein is a masterpiece because of the musical unity throughout the entire score.  This musical exhibits the best elements that all musicals contain, and it has become a classic in the musical theater repertoire.