Les Mis Voted Greatest Musical, Wicked 2nd, Phantom 3rd - Page 2

[smartpenguin78]

Posted: 8/27/13 at 1:12pm

Jemm Three obviously included rigorous and objective systems in setting up the list, weighted for various factors, and established the complicated and nuanced technology to prevent "bunch voting" or "stuffing the ballot box."

This list shall now be the only list ever of this kind and all discussion must be ended.

Of course, it also might be a random list of some fans' opinions.

One can never be sure of these things.

[Phantom of London]

Posted: 8/27/13 at 1:50pm

All polls are SUBJECTIVE, this is how the people voted, no evidence that the voting was just done by the young (14 year old girls), as they generally wouldn't be aware of musicals like Chess, which wow got to number 12 or Evita, so this sis how the American public voted, now get over it.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 8/27/13 at 1:53pm

Why would anyone start a thread leading people to this pile of lies?

Well, they're not actually lies. They are just the results of a poll based on the website's audience. Not unlike the BWW Awards. A small group of website fans who hope to make their opinion mean something to someone, but ultimately indicative of nothing.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 8/27/13 at 2:01pm

If this is the stupidest thing I've ever seen, I don't know what was.

[Buddy's blues]

Posted: 8/27/13 at 2:04pm

Very true Mister Matt - how can you take a poll like this seriously when Priscilla Queen of the Desert is voted as the 17th best musical and My Fair Lady is the 93rd? Makes no sense to me.

[Kad]

Posted: 8/27/13 at 2:26pm

From what I can gather, this is a relatively new (3 months old) and relatively small internet radio station.

And Phantom of London- this is a UK-based station. And it's on the internet. Presumably, the voters were from across the globe (though most likely skewing toward UK listeners).

[minicko88]

Posted: 8/27/13 at 3:13pm

This is horrible, but I can't think this is only 14 year old girls. Parade made the top 30, which I completely agree with. But, I can't see many 14 year old girls loving this musical.

[TheatreKid3]

Posted: 8/27/13 at 3:38pm

I just can't wrap my head around the fact the GHOST made top 10 but NEWSIES nor KINKY BOOTS managed to crack the top 100...

[JuanValjean72]

Posted: 8/27/13 at 10:11pm

The fact that a short-run musical with endless ballads like Ghost is much higher that Guys & Dolls and Gypsy. What?

[jwsel]

Posted: 8/28/13 at 2:56am

I just can't wrap my head around the fact the GHOST made top 10 but NEWSIES nor KINKY BOOTS managed to crack the top 100...

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Ghost played the West End. Newsies and Kinky Boots have not yet. If the listeners are mostly from the UK, they may be more familiar with Ghost.

That doesn't excuse the list. SMDH at no Show Boat or Follies, among other. 91-100 probably have more great and groundbreaking musicals than the top 10 and the less that is said about the shows listed from 11-20 the better. However, my favorite head-exploding moment was this juxtaposition:

#20 Starlight Express
#21 South Pacific

Those two shows should not even be discussed in the same breath, let alone be next to one another in a ranking of best musicals. Of course, there also was this:

#41 Sunday in the Park with George
#42 La Cage Aux Folles

Don't tell me that was pure happenstance that those two shows wound up next to one another. At least, they just managed to beat out #43 Blood Brothers (but, drat, not #40 Love Never Dies).

[lovebwy]

Posted: 8/28/13 at 3:05am

Whoever thinks those are the best musicals of all time is one sick puppy if you ask me.

[theatredk]

Posted: 8/28/13 at 3:10am

The only way they could possibly have come up with this list is they wrote the name on a card then threw the cards up in the air and this is how it turned out!!!!!!

[binau]

Posted: 8/28/13 at 4:43am

I can't believe people are getting so upset over this. The methodology is clear and the results are EXACTLY what you would expect by popular vote of a UK audience IMO.

I think that most people under the age of 30 would generally think that WIcked, Phantom, Les Mis etc.. are better musicals than GYPSY, MY FAIR LADY etc.

I am more surprised that musicals like FOLLIES even made it on the list.

Posted: 12/26/13 at 8:18am

Broadway is a world class event organizer and the latest show the Christmas musical story is really a hit one. Les Mis show of Broadway voted greatest musical event is really great.
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[tazber]

Posted: 12/26/13 at 8:30am

I know this is just a click-bait spam post, but I still have no idea what the eff you just said.

[Brian07663NJ]

Posted: 12/26/13 at 8:50am

Stop Making Stupid SHOWS Famous

[Tom 2]

Posted: 12/26/13 at 9:15am

Agreed...

[Liza's Headband]

Posted: 12/26/13 at 9:48am

Troll/Spam Alert. DO NOT Click on aeleenpreston's link.

[steven22]

Posted: 12/26/13 at 10:44am

I enjoyed GHOST, but #9? really???

[bobs3]

Posted: 12/26/13 at 11:51am

These fan lists are bullsh*t.

In 1999, Modern Library did a reader's poll of the greatest novels of the 20th Century:

ATLAS SHRUGGED by Ayn Rand
THE FOUNTAINHEAD by Ayn Rand
BATTLEFIELD EARTH by L. Ron Hubbard
THE LORD OF THE RINGS by J.R.R. Tolkien
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD by Harper Lee
1984 by George Orwell
ANTHEM by Ayn Rand
WE THE LIVING by Ayn Rand
MISSION EARTH by L. Ron Hubbard
FEAR by L. Ron Hubbard

Ayn Rand had 4 books in the Top 10 and L. Ron Hubbard had 3.


A poll of book critics and academics came up with the following list:

ULYSSES by James Joyce
THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald
A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN by James Joyce
LOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov
BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley
THE SOUND AND THE FURY by William Faulkner
CATCH-22 by Joseph Heller
DARKNESS AT NOON by Arthur Koestler
SONS AND LOVERS by D.H. Lawrence
THE GRAPES OF WRATH by John Steinbeck

Not a single match in the Top 10 on the two lists.

[sanda]

Posted: 12/27/13 at 9:12am

as long as Les Miz is No.1, the list is legit.

[carlodowd]

Posted: 12/27/13 at 9:47am

Hi all,

This list is no right at all!!! how some of those shows even made it on to the top 100 is beyond me however for fairness i came u with a new poll, just for us that actually know musicals! Please fill it in and i’ll have the results next week. Only posting it here so no Fan girls/gays will tell everyone to vote for just one musical!! Enjoy!
http://goo.gl/6WGT9A
The Greatest Musical of all time?