BroadwayWorld Announces Summer Madness Bracket - Best Musical: Losers Edition

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

How is it this close between Follies and Aladdin??

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

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...

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

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! 

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. 

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?

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 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

 

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.

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.