If someone asked you what you thought the top 5 greatest musicals were, in
If someone asked you what you thought the top 5 greatest musicals were, in
#1If 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
#2re: 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 5:09pmstop making threads...please
Trekkie2
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/7/06
#2re: If someone asked you what you thought the top 5 greatest musicals were,
Posted: 6/5/08 at 5:12pmIt's as though he never left... because he didn't. GO AWAY
blaxx
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
#3re: If someone asked you what you thought the top 5 greatest musicals were,
Posted: 6/5/08 at 5:17pmSo, what are the steps to get him banned?
jackson992
Broadway Star Joined: 12/25/04
#4re: If someone asked you what you thought the top 5 greatest musicals were,
Posted: 6/5/08 at 5:19pmI agree with all of those except for The Color Purple.
sally1112
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/13/04
#5re: If someone asked you what you thought the top 5 greatest musicals were,
Posted: 6/5/08 at 5:22pmCaroline, Or Change has to be on a top 5 best book list
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#6re: If someone asked you what you thought the top 5 greatest musicals were,
Posted: 6/5/08 at 5:26pmDo "Les Miz" "Phantom" and "Miss Saigon" have a book? Aren't they sung through?
#7re: 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
TooDarnHot
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/7/08
#8re: 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.
jackson992
Broadway Star Joined: 12/25/04
#9re: If someone asked you what you thought the top 5 greatest musicals were,
Posted: 6/5/08 at 6:20pmI would still consider them musicals tho. The only one that feels like an opera to me is Phantom.
#10re: 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.
-Nellie McKay on the 2006 Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera, in which she played Polly Peachum
#11re: 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.
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#12re: If someone asked you what you thought the top 5 greatest musicals were,
Posted: 6/5/08 at 6:24pmI know MTF3 is annoying, but...isn't this thread pretty legit?
jackson992
Broadway Star Joined: 12/25/04
#13re: If someone asked you what you thought the top 5 greatest musicals were,
Posted: 6/5/08 at 6:24pmLmao at Sweeney Todd. Talk about a horrible show.
#14re: 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
#15re: 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
#16re: 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
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#17re: 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.
MerMaggieGalinda
Broadway Star Joined: 11/29/06
#18re: 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.)
zooxanthellae
Broadway Star Joined: 6/2/07
#19re: 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
#20re: 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
jackson992
Broadway Star Joined: 12/25/04
#21re: If someone asked you what you thought the top 5 greatest musicals were,
Posted: 6/5/08 at 7:14pmI actually love The Wedding Singer. Not sure why it gets slammed so much.
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#22re: 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
#23re: 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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ShbrtAlley44
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/1/03
#24re: If someone asked you what you thought the top 5 greatest musicals were,
Posted: 6/5/08 at 7:23pm
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My Fair Lady
Gypsy
Sweeney Todd
Guys and Dolls
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