I also say the Light in the Piazza because the score is simply gorgeous.
And also Ragtime.
"You drank a charm to kill John Proctor's wife! You drank a charm to kill Goody Proctor!" - Betty Parris to Abigail Williams in Arthur Miller's The Crucible
Without doubt, the most beautiful score I have EVER heard is Kristina Fran Duvemala. It leaves me breathless, I just adore it! It will probably not do too well on broadway as it is an 80s style epic (á la Les Mis, Miss Saigon), but it is so wonderful I hope it does succeed.
Second best is Ragtime, and third is Light in the Piazza.
At the risk of sounding biased and/or cliche, The Phantom of the Opera. It's my #1 favorite, but there isn't one melody in it that I don't like (yeah, they repeat). Other musicals, I usually pick and choose with even though I love them, too. Including my other Webber fave, The Woman in White.
I used to think Carousel, Aspects, and Phantom were my favorites. But of late it has changed to Phantom and Woman In White. I think the Phantasia cd had something to do with it. It is beautiful.
Percy: Sink me! If it isn't Javvurt!
Javert: Zsah-vair, it's pronounced Zsah-vair.
Pecry: But it's spelled J-A-V-E-R-T Javvurt.
Javert: Repeat after me Zsah...Zsah....
Percy: Oh! Zsa-Zsa! Like the Gabor sister! Well I personally have always prefered Eva.
Javert: (Looks for gun)
<------ Me and my friends with patti Lupone at my friends afterparty for her concert with audra mcdonald during the summer of 2007.
"I am sorry but it is an unjust world and virtue is only triumphant in theatricle performances" The Mikado
We cannot know what will occur/Just make our journey worth the taking/And pray we're wiser then we were/In the beginning" ~Children of Eden
"Risk is everything" ~The Light in the Piazza
"I can just see us now in our bathing dresses...you in a nice navy and me? Stripes perhaps." ~Sweeney Todd
Tovah Won Me Ovah '06