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Most forgotten Best Musical Winner?
RockabyeHamlet
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/1/05
#50re: Most forgotten Best Musical Winner?
Posted: 5/24/09 at 9:23pm
I would agree with Passion.
I LOVE Fiorello! and PASSION. I don't think either of those will ever really be forgotten. Fiorello! has the Tom Bosley factor, and Passion is a Sondheim show and will always have somewhat of a following for that reason alone.
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#51re: Most forgotten Best Musical Winner?
Posted: 5/24/09 at 9:39pm
But gonna have to correct you on that one, frontrowcentre2... There have been 7 musicals to win the Pulitzer...
Well, NOW yes. But when FIORELLO won it was only the 3rd musical in Broadway history to win a PP.
Cast albums are NOT "soundtracks."
Live theatre does not use a "soundtrack." If it did, it wouldn't be live theatre!
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alterego
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/5/03
#52re: Most forgotten Best Musical Winner?
Posted: 5/25/09 at 10:43amRAISIN did produce one of the finest cast albums. Why it is not produced today is puzzling. When the revival of the play RAISIN IN THE SUN was announced a couple of years ago at first I thought it was a musical revival - with that cast it could have been done!
roquat
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/25/05
#53re: Most forgotten Best Musical Winner?
Posted: 5/25/09 at 2:37pmIt HAS to be CITY OF ANGELS. An outstanding, witty show with a spectacular score, which doesn't have nearly the reputation it deserves. It also doesn't have a great life in regional and community theatre, because of its production requirements and lack of name recognition. I've always thought that it needed re-examination (and that, with some tweaking and minor rewriting, it would make a fantastic movie musical--after all, it's ABOUT Hollywood and its techniques are incredibly cinematic already.)
I ask in all honesty/What would life be?/Without a song and a dance, what are we?/So I say "Thank you for the music/For giving it to me."
blaxx
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
#55re: Most forgotten Best Musical Winner?
Posted: 5/25/09 at 3:14pm
I'll still never forget when Will Rogers Follies won over Miss Saigon, Once on This Island and Secret Garden 
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