Poll: Best Musicals (Original OR Revival) Of The 2000s

[i am the one]

Poll: Best Musicals (Original OR Revival) Of The 2000s#1

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

[Scarywarhol]

re: Poll: Best Musicals (Original OR Revival) Of The 2000s#2

Posted: 7/21/09 at 1:31am

Wow, throwing revivals and originals together really makes this hard! How can you choose between Avenue Q and Assassins?

[Iluvlizlemon]

re: Poll: Best Musicals (Original OR Revival) Of The 2000s#2

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.

[rjjn]

re: Poll: Best Musicals (Original OR Revival) Of The 2000s#3

Posted: 7/21/09 at 2:45am

Just choose Avenue Q and you'll be fine. :)

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[somethingwicked]

re: Poll: Best Musicals (Original OR Revival) Of The 2000s#4

Posted: 7/21/09 at 2:57am

CAROLINE, 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.

[AnythingGoes2]

re: Poll: Best Musicals (Original OR Revival) Of The 2000s#5

Posted: 7/21/09 at 4:46am

The 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]

re: Poll: Best Musicals (Original OR Revival) Of The 2000s#5

Posted: 7/21/09 at 4:46am

The 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]

re: Poll: Best Musicals (Original OR Revival) Of The 2000s#7

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]

re: Poll: Best Musicals (Original OR Revival) Of The 2000s#8

Posted: 7/21/09 at 12:49pm

That WAS hard - especially 2002!

[Soliantu]

re: Poll: Best Musicals (Original OR Revival) Of The 2000s#9

Posted: 7/21/09 at 1:58pm

The Boy From Oz, it had Hugh Jackman for goodness sake! haha

[AlgonquinProd2]

re: Poll: Best Musicals (Original OR Revival) Of The 2000s#10

Posted: 7/21/09 at 4:16pm

Wicked, then Spring Awakening. Last Five Years one of my guilty pleasures....

[fgreene1938]

re: Poll: Best Musicals (Original OR Revival) Of The 2000s#11

Posted: 7/21/09 at 7:06pm

Great 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]

re: Poll: Best Musicals (Original OR Revival) Of The 2000s#12

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]

re: Poll: Best Musicals (Original OR Revival) Of The 2000s#13

Posted: 7/21/09 at 7:26pm

YANK!

"Hurry up and get into your conga clothes - we've got to do something to save this show!"

[vfd88]

re: Poll: Best Musicals (Original OR Revival) Of The 2000s#14

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.

[faithzilla]

re: Poll: Best Musicals (Original OR Revival) Of The 2000s#15

Posted: 7/21/09 at 8:06pm

Wow, that was one of the hardest things I've done in a while.

[Coraline]

re: Poll: Best Musicals (Original OR Revival) Of The 2000s#16

Posted: 7/21/09 at 8:44pm

Urinetown, Wicked, Sweeney Todd, Gypsy, and Billy Elliot were the only ones I cared to vote for.

[i am the one]

re: Poll: Best Musicals (Original OR Revival) Of The 2000s#17

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

[ljay889]

re: Poll: Best Musicals (Original OR Revival) Of The 2000s#18

Posted: 7/21/09 at 11:16pm

I'm sure some people cheated.

[i am the one]

re: Poll: Best Musicals (Original OR Revival) Of The 2000s#19

Posted: 7/21/09 at 11:22pm

I contemplated that, but it's not like they're rewriting Tony history. It's marginal.

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[binau]

re: Poll: Best Musicals (Original OR Revival) Of The 2000s#20

Posted: 7/21/09 at 11:29pm

I am the one, can we view the results without voting again?

Give me claws and a hunch, just away from this bunch.

[i am the one]

re: Poll: Best Musicals (Original OR Revival) Of The 2000s#21

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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