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If someone asked you what you thought the top 5 greatest musicals were, in

Posted: 6/5/08 at 5:09pm

1. Les Misérables
2. The Phantom of the Opera
3. Miss Saigon
4. Ragtime
5. The Color Purple

Updated On: 6/5/08 at 05:09 PM

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re: If someone asked you what you thought the top 5 greatest musicals were, in terms of book, what would you say?

Posted: 6/5/08 at 5:09pm

stop making threads...please

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re: If someone asked you what you thought the top 5 greatest musicals were,

Posted: 6/5/08 at 5:12pm

It's as though he never left... because he didn't. GO AWAY

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re: If someone asked you what you thought the top 5 greatest musicals were,

Posted: 6/5/08 at 5:17pm

So, what are the steps to get him banned?

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#5

re: If someone asked you what you thought the top 5 greatest musicals were,

Posted: 6/5/08 at 5:19pm

I agree with all of those except for The Color Purple.

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#6

re: If someone asked you what you thought the top 5 greatest musicals were,

Posted: 6/5/08 at 5:22pm

Caroline, Or Change has to be on a top 5 best book list

#7

re: If someone asked you what you thought the top 5 greatest musicals were,

Posted: 6/5/08 at 5:26pm

Do "Les Miz" "Phantom" and "Miss Saigon" have a book? Aren't they sung through?

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re: If someone asked you what you thought the top 5 greatest musicals were,

Posted: 6/5/08 at 5:31pm

Book doesn't refer solely to the spoken words between songs, it's also the overall narrative and structure of the show. As a book writer, I could say "and we'll have a song where the lead guy does this, then we'll send him offstage and bring on the comedy villain, and this will tell the story in the most concise and entertaining way" and just leave my lyricist to work out the finer details. ^_^

Don't know about greatest books, but the worst book I have ever - and will ever, if there is a god - is 'Gone With The Wind'. MAN it stinks! XP

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re: If someone asked you what you thought the top 5 greatest musicals were,

Posted: 6/5/08 at 5:38pm

if you wanted to be technical, MTF3's list is basically made up of Through-Songs. NOT "Musicals"

Through-Songs are shows (some consider them contemporary operas) with no structured book or speaken word. Dialouge is sung through reoccuring motifs and classical reciatatives.


Blaxx... we tried to get this child banned. it didn't work.

#10

re: If someone asked you what you thought the top 5 greatest musicals were,

Posted: 6/5/08 at 6:20pm

I would still consider them musicals tho. The only one that feels like an opera to me is Phantom.

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#11

re: If someone asked you what you thought the top 5 greatest musicals were,

Posted: 6/5/08 at 6:22pm

1. SWEENEY TODD
2. EVITA
3. CAROLINE, OR CHANGE
4. AVENUE Q
5. PACIFIC OVERTURES

EDIT: Oh sorry, I thought it said "favorite musicals." Oh well.

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Updated On: 6/5/08 at 06:22 PM

#12

re: If someone asked you what you thought the top 5 greatest musicals were,

Posted: 6/5/08 at 6:23pm

Best show of all time.

LUPWNED!

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re: If someone asked you what you thought the top 5 greatest musicals were,

Posted: 6/5/08 at 6:24pm

I know MTF3 is annoying, but...isn't this thread pretty legit?

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#14

re: If someone asked you what you thought the top 5 greatest musicals were,

Posted: 6/5/08 at 6:24pm

Lmao at Sweeney Todd. Talk about a horrible show.

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#15

re: If someone asked you what you thought the top 5 greatest musicals were,

Posted: 6/5/08 at 6:33pm

In no particular order other than alphabetical...

Carousel
Gypsy
Oklahoma
Ragtime
West Side Story

#16

re: If someone asked you what you thought the top 5 greatest musicals were,

Posted: 6/5/08 at 6:42pm

in alphabetical order, since I can't rank them...

Gypsy
Fiddler on the Roof
Passion
Sunday in the Park With George
Sweeney Todd

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re: If someone asked you what you thought the top 5 greatest musicals were,

Posted: 6/5/08 at 6:48pm

Guys and Dolls
Gypsy
A Chorus Line
Kiss Me Kate
A Funny Thing... Forum

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#18

re: If someone asked you what you thought the top 5 greatest musicals were,

Posted: 6/5/08 at 6:49pm

Ah, TooDarnHot, what you don't know about musicals could fill a library.

I'd say the best "book" for a musical was Gypsy. Maybe Ragtime would be on there. King and I is pretty damn good too. It's a good question- as a wise man once said the book of a musical is like the flour in a cake; It doesn't make the cake taste good, but try baking without it.

#19

re: If someone asked you what you thought the top 5 greatest musicals were,

Posted: 6/5/08 at 6:55pm

In order....
West Side Story
The Light in the Piazza
My Fair Lady
Little Shop of Horrors
Spring Awakening (yeah, I said it. Shoot me.)

#20

re: If someone asked you what you thought the top 5 greatest musicals were,

Posted: 6/5/08 at 6:57pm

1. Sweeney Todd
2. Gypsy
3. South Pacific
4. Follies
5. The King and I

#21

re: If someone asked you what you thought the top 5 greatest musicals were,

Posted: 6/5/08 at 7:02pm

The Wedding Singer. I kid, I kid.

No Order:

Phantom of the Opera
Ragtime
Sunday in the Park with George
Les Miserables
Carousel

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re: If someone asked you what you thought the top 5 greatest musicals were,

Posted: 6/5/08 at 7:14pm

I actually love The Wedding Singer. Not sure why it gets slammed so much.

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#23

re: If someone asked you what you thought the top 5 greatest musicals were,

Posted: 6/5/08 at 7:20pm

Fiddler on the Roof
Guys and Dolls
Gypsy
The Producers
Sweeney Todd

#24

re: If someone asked you what you thought the top 5 greatest musicals were,

Posted: 6/5/08 at 7:21pm

Lmao that someone who calls Sweeney Todd "a horrible show" is a Wedding Singer fan.

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Updated On: 6/5/08 at 07:21 PM

#25

re: If someone asked you what you thought the top 5 greatest musicals were,

Posted: 6/5/08 at 7:23pm

1776
My Fair Lady
Gypsy
Sweeney Todd
Guys and Dolls