BroadwayWorld Announces Summer Madness Bracket - Best Musical: Losers Edition
BroadwayWorld Announces Summer Madness Bracket - Best Musical: Losers Edition
BroadwayWorld Announces Summer Madness Bracket - Best Musical: Losers Edition#1
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
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/14/20
BroadwayWorld Announces Summer Madness Bracket - Best Musical: Losers Edition#2
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!
BroadwayWorld Announces Summer Madness Bracket - Best Musical: Losers Edition#3
Posted: 6/26/24 at 3:49pm
How is it this close between Follies and Aladdin??
BroadwayWorld Announces Summer Madness Bracket - Best Musical: Losers Edition#4
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.
BroadwayWorld Announces Summer Madness Bracket - Best Musical: Losers Edition#5
Posted: 6/26/24 at 9:28pm
I would think we would collectively rally behind She Loves Me, but here we are.
BroadwayWorld Announces Summer Madness Bracket - Best Musical: Losers Edition#6
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?
BroadwayWorld Announces Summer Madness Bracket - Best Musical: Losers Edition#7
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...
BroadwayWorld Announces Summer Madness Bracket - Best Musical: Losers Edition#8
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?
BroadwayWorld Announces Summer Madness Bracket - Best Musical: Losers Edition#9
Posted: 7/3/24 at 3:36pm
I cannot live in a world where Beetlejuice is voted a better musical than Gypsy!
BroadwayWorld Announces Summer Madness Bracket - Best Musical: Losers Edition#10
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.
BroadwayWorld Announces Summer Madness Bracket - Best Musical: Losers Edition#11
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!
BroadwayWorld Announces Summer Madness Bracket - Best Musical: Losers Edition#12
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.
BroadwayWorld Announces Summer Madness Bracket - Best Musical: Losers Edition#13
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.
BroadwayWorld Announces Summer Madness Bracket - Best Musical: Losers Edition#14
Posted: 7/11/24 at 5:42pm
Matilda can not be allowed to beat Dreamgirls!
BroadwayWorld Announces Summer Madness Bracket - Best Musical: Losers Edition#15
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?
BroadwayWorld Announces Summer Madness Bracket - Best Musical: Losers Edition#16
Posted: 7/16/24 at 8:27pmMelissa25 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.
BroadwayWorld Announces Summer Madness Bracket - Best Musical: Losers Edition#17
Posted: 7/23/24 at 3:39pmThere are five days to stop Beauty and the Beast from knocking out Sunday in the Park with George
BroadwayWorld Announces Summer Madness Bracket - Best Musical: Losers Edition#18
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.
BroadwayWorld Announces Summer Madness Bracket - Best Musical: Losers Edition#19
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>
BroadwayWorld Announces Summer Madness Bracket - Best Musical: Losers Edition#20
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.
BroadwayWorld Announces Summer Madness Bracket - Best Musical: Losers Edition#21
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
BroadwayWorld Announces Summer Madness Bracket - Best Musical: Losers Edition#22
Posted: 7/31/24 at 7:27pm
I’m pulling for Chicago to win
BroadwayWorld Announces Summer Madness Bracket - Best Musical: Losers Edition#23
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.
BroadwayWorld Announces Summer Madness Bracket - Best Musical: Losers Edition#24
Posted: 8/2/24 at 4:10am
It’s really going to be Beauty and the Beast against Newsies in the finals? How strange.
BroadwayWorld Announces Summer Madness Bracket - Best Musical: Losers Edition#25
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.
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