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jackson992
Broadway Star Joined: 12/25/04
#50re: If someone asked you what you thought the top 5 greatest musicals were,
Posted: 6/6/08 at 1:31amWell to me Phantom is as close to an opera as one could get. I mainly say that for a few single songs in it. I myself consider it a musical and not an opera.
#51re: If someone asked you what you thought the top 5 greatest musicals were,
Posted: 6/6/08 at 1:50am
West Side Story
South Pacific
Oklahoma
A Chorus Line
My Fair Lady
TooDarnHot
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/7/08
#52re: If someone asked you what you thought the top 5 greatest musicals were,
Posted: 6/6/08 at 2:16amjv92 - every single musical has at least one flaw. no perfect show exists.
#53re: If someone asked you what you thought the top 5 greatest musicals were,
Posted: 6/6/08 at 2:18am
Well to me Phantom is as close to an opera as one could get. I
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#54re: If someone asked you what you thought the top 5 greatest musicals were,
Posted: 6/6/08 at 8:10am
Les Miserables
RENT
Bare
Wicked
Last 5 Years
"I trained as a classical actor at Juilliard. I jump at the opportunity to do classical text...But I never in a million years guessed I'd get to play Juliet!"- Michael Arden
#55re: If someone asked you what you thought the top 5 greatest musicals were,
Posted: 6/6/08 at 10:06am
Phantom of the Opera
Les Miserables
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Gypsy
Wicked
jagfkb
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/29/07
#56re: If someone asked you what you thought the top 5 greatest musicals were,
Posted: 6/6/08 at 10:30am
Greastest Musicals?
1: Gypsy
2: The Fantasticks
3: South Pacific
4: West Side Story
5: A Little Night Music
Honorable mentions include Rent, Sunday in the Park, The Producers, Les Miz, Evita, Man of La Mancha, 1776, and ofcourse The Sound of Music, Sweeny Todd, and Carousel.
Updated On: 6/6/08 at 10:30 AM
Zeitoujo
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/3/06
#57re: If someone asked you what you thought the top 5 greatest musicals were,
Posted: 6/6/08 at 11:16am
1. Gypsy
2. Chorus Line
3. Les Miserables
4. Sweeney Todd
5. Spring Awakening
"Those You've Known And Lost Still Walk Behind You"-Spring Awakening
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#58re: If someone asked you what you thought the top 5 greatest musicals were,
Posted: 6/6/08 at 11:30am
LEGALLY BLONDE
THE LITTLE MERMAID
TARZAN
AIDA
RENT
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#59re: If someone asked you what you thought the top 5 greatest musicals were,
Posted: 6/6/08 at 12:55pm
Well to me Phantom is as close to an opera as one could get.
Except that it's not. Watch an opera sometime and you'll understand.
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
sally1112
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/13/04
#60re: If someone asked you what you thought the top 5 greatest musicals were,
Posted: 6/6/08 at 12:59pmWasn't this thread originally which musicals have the best book?
wickedrentq
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/6/04
#61re: If someone asked you what you thought the top 5 greatest musicals were,
Posted: 6/6/08 at 1:18pm
Some people need to keep in mind the difference between "greatest" and "favorite." Rent and Wicked, for instance, are two of my favorites, but I wouldn't call them greatest.
West Side Story (okay, this is is also my favorite...because it's so great!)
Gypsy (one that's not my favorite...still, it's great)
Fiddler on the Roof
My Fair Lady
Sweeney Todd
Maybe I'd switch My Fair Lady and Fiddler on the Roof at another time...but I'm playing clarinet in a community theater production of Fiddler, so I'm a little biased towards that. (even if I wasn't, it would definitely be at least 4th on my list)
"If there was a Mount Rushmore for Broadway scores, "West Side Story" would be front and center. It snaps, it crackles it pops! It surges with a roar, its energy and sheer life undiminished by the years" - NYPost reviewer Elisabeth Vincentelli
NDR
Leading Actor Joined: 11/16/06
#62re: If someone asked you what you thought the top 5 greatest musicals were,
Posted: 6/6/08 at 2:39pm
My votes for greatest (not necessarily favorites or in favorite order)
1. Miss Saigon - epic, sweeping melodies, cultural relevance, historic, didactic, tragic, emotional, mature, comedic and dramatic
2. Phantom of the Opera - it's a greatest (IMHO) for its historic reach into main stream culture (bringing in the audiences for over 20 years) and the cross over of opera and musical theatre
3.Les Miserables - historic, epic, emotionally mature, beautiful melodies, etc.
4. RENT - because of its place in musical theatre history, its content, its journey, and its current and historical relevance
5. The Lion King - incorporation of dance and artistic expression along with dynamic design (I actually get bored of the story and despise children singing on stage but this piece was innovative)
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