Poll: Best Musicals (Original OR Revival) Of The 2000s
Poll: Best Musicals (Original OR Revival) Of The 2000s
#1Poll: Best Musicals (Original OR Revival) Of The 2000s
Posted: 7/21/09 at 12:50am
After taking ljay889's inspired Musical Poll, I couldn't help feeling I was voting for some musicals just because they weren't the worst, not necessarily because they were the "best".
So, for another take on the poll, I've created one that includes the Best Originals with the Best Revivals. So each year, out of 8 musicals (and sometimes, less), which one was the best?!
Sweeney and (both) Gypsys may finally have their revenge. Enjoy! :]
(Also, please comment after you've voted, to keep the thread alive.)
Poll: Best Musicals (Original or Revival)
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Updated On: 7/21/09 at 12:50 AM
#2re: Poll: Best Musicals (Original OR Revival) Of The 2000s
Posted: 7/21/09 at 1:31amWow, throwing revivals and originals together really makes this hard! How can you choose between Avenue Q and Assassins?
Iluvlizlemon
Understudy Joined: 7/19/09
#2re: Poll: Best Musicals (Original OR Revival) Of The 2000s
Posted: 7/21/09 at 1:33am
Wow, throwing revivals and originals together really makes this hard! How can you choose between Avenue Q and Assassins?
Easily. Caroline or Change wins hands down.
#3re: Poll: Best Musicals (Original OR Revival) Of The 2000s
Posted: 7/21/09 at 2:45amJust choose Avenue Q and you'll be fine. :)
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#4re: Poll: Best Musicals (Original OR Revival) Of The 2000s
Posted: 7/21/09 at 2:57amCAROLINE, OR CHANGE is the most exciting new musical in the last decade, but (for me) the Encores! production of FOLLIES is by far the best revival.
Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
AnythingGoes2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/30/08
#5re: Poll: Best Musicals (Original OR Revival) Of The 2000s
Posted: 7/21/09 at 4:46amThe ENCORES Follies was wonderful and so was Washingtons Mame with Christine Baranski ... why those two shows never came to Broadway is beyond me when Finians Rainbow and Ragtime can...
AnythingGoes2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/30/08
#5re: Poll: Best Musicals (Original OR Revival) Of The 2000s
Posted: 7/21/09 at 4:46amThe ENCORES Follies was wonderful and so was Washingtons Mame with Christine Baranski ... why those two shows never came to Broadway is beyond me when Finians Rainbow and Ragtime can...
moowithme85
Understudy Joined: 7/6/09
#7re: Poll: Best Musicals (Original OR Revival) Of The 2000s
Posted: 7/21/09 at 9:03am
Easily - by choosing Wicked (please don't throw things)
I thought 2002 was hard, too...but Into the Woods is by far one of my favorites, so I had to choose it.
RogerBartFan78
Swing Joined: 11/4/05
#8re: Poll: Best Musicals (Original OR Revival) Of The 2000s
Posted: 7/21/09 at 12:49pmThat WAS hard - especially 2002!
Soliantu
Leading Actor Joined: 11/10/06
#9re: Poll: Best Musicals (Original OR Revival) Of The 2000s
Posted: 7/21/09 at 1:58pmThe Boy From Oz, it had Hugh Jackman for goodness sake! haha
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#10re: Poll: Best Musicals (Original OR Revival) Of The 2000s
Posted: 7/21/09 at 4:16pmWicked, then Spring Awakening. Last Five Years one of my guilty pleasures....
fgreene1938
Leading Actor Joined: 10/25/06
#11re: Poll: Best Musicals (Original OR Revival) Of The 2000s
Posted: 7/21/09 at 7:06pmGreat poll. I was surprised at how many revivals made my list, especially in the second half of the decade. "Caroline, or Change" remains the premier musical of the decade, but I would agree that the Encores "Follies" was a phenomenal revival. Too bad that one never had a BW transfer.
jagfkb
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/29/07
#12re: Poll: Best Musicals (Original OR Revival) Of The 2000s
Posted: 7/21/09 at 7:15pm
2000: The Music Man
2001: The Producers
2002: Urinetown
2003: Man of La Mancha
2004: Assassins
2005: Monty Python's Spamalot
2006: The Drowsy Chaperone
2007: Spring Awakening
2008: Sunday in the Park With George
2009: Hair
I'm tempted to put Drowsy as the automatic winner, but I think Sunday is the clear winner.
TulitaPepsi
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/13/04
#13re: Poll: Best Musicals (Original OR Revival) Of The 2000s
Posted: 7/21/09 at 7:26pmYANK!
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#14re: Poll: Best Musicals (Original OR Revival) Of The 2000s
Posted: 7/21/09 at 7:31pm
I'm really loving all the appreciation for Caroline, or Change.
2000: Kiss Me, Kate
2001: 42nd Street
2002: Urinetown
2003: Nine
2004: Caroline, or Change
2005: The Light in the Piazza
2006: Sweeney Todd
2007: Company
2008: Sunday in the Park with George (The hardest year, for me, to choose)
2009: Next to Normal
Overall winner: Caroline, or Change, with Company in a close 2nd and Sweeney Todd in 3rd.
#15re: Poll: Best Musicals (Original OR Revival) Of The 2000s
Posted: 7/21/09 at 8:06pmWow, that was one of the hardest things I've done in a while.
#16re: Poll: Best Musicals (Original OR Revival) Of The 2000s
Posted: 7/21/09 at 8:44pmUrinetown, Wicked, Sweeney Todd, Gypsy, and Billy Elliot were the only ones I cared to vote for.
#17re: Poll: Best Musicals (Original OR Revival) Of The 2000s
Posted: 7/21/09 at 11:13pm
Wow, it's so great to hear everyone enjoying the poll (despite how challenging)! There have already been 109 responses. Here are the top-voted musicals of each year, so far:
2000: Kiss Me, Kate - 43
2001: The Producers - 47
2002: Urinetown - 49
2003: Hairspray - 57
2004: Caroline, or Change -35
2005: The Light in the Piazza - 45
2006: Sweeney Todd - 45
2007: Spring Awakening - 38
2008: Gypsy - 38
2009: Next to Normal - 48
Interesting, to say the least... 3 revivals, 7 originals. The closest year was 2004, with Avenue Q, 30 votes, only 6 behind Caroline. The biggest runaway is Hairspray. Four musicals got 0 votes: A Year with Frog and Toad, Big River, Pal Joey, and Guys and Dolls.
Oh fun, two from just this year!
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Updated On: 7/21/09 at 11:13 PM
#18re: Poll: Best Musicals (Original OR Revival) Of The 2000s
Posted: 7/21/09 at 11:16pmI'm sure some people cheated.
#19re: Poll: Best Musicals (Original OR Revival) Of The 2000s
Posted: 7/21/09 at 11:22pmI contemplated that, but it's not like they're rewriting Tony history. It's marginal.
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#20re: Poll: Best Musicals (Original OR Revival) Of The 2000s
Posted: 7/21/09 at 11:29pmI am the one, can we view the results without voting again?
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#21re: Poll: Best Musicals (Original OR Revival) Of The 2000s
Posted: 7/22/09 at 3:36pm
Good idea, here's a link to the results page.
http://tinyurl.com/nxp8na
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