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#26

re: If you were a Tony voter for this entire decade....

Posted: 7/18/09 at 11:02pm

2000
The Wild Party
2001
The Producers
2002
Urinetown
2003
Hairspray
2004
Caroline or Change
2005
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
2006
The Drowsy Chaperone
2007
Grey Gardens
2008
In the Heights
2009
Next to Normal

Oh, and I almost forgot to mention...I'm the good cop, he's the bad cop.

#27

re: If you were a Tony voter for this entire decade....

Posted: 7/18/09 at 11:04pm

Write-ins will not be counted. That category will be excluded from your votes. The others will count though.

#28

re: If you were a Tony voter for this entire decade....

Posted: 7/18/09 at 11:30pm

Everyone is voting Next to Normal. Does anyone like Billy Elliot? haha.

Going to NYC for the 1st (real) time! Seeing Next to Normal, Wicked, and Jersey Boys. If anyone has a suggestion for rush Wednesday matinee (something not mainstream) please PM me! :D

#29

re: If you were a Tony voter for this entire decade....

Posted: 7/18/09 at 11:33pm

"Write-ins will not be counted"
*Dies inside*, well in that case...

2000
Contact
James Joyce's The Dead
Swing!
The Wild Party***

2006
Jersey Boys
The Color Purple
The Drowsy Chaperone***
The Wedding Singer

"There's nothing good on. The media hates Christmas. The media loves vampires, though. Maybe they will show a Twilight Christmas."
-Danmeg's 10 year old son.

#30

re: If you were a Tony voter for this entire decade....

Posted: 7/18/09 at 11:34pm

2000
The Wild Party

2001
The Producers

2002
Thoroughly Modern Millie

2003
Hairspray

2004
Avenue Q

2005
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

2006
The Drowsy Chaperone

2007
Grey Gardens

2008
In The Heights

2009
Billy Elliot

#31

re: If you were a Tony voter for this entire decade....

Posted: 7/18/09 at 11:35pm

"Everyone is voting Next to Normal. Does anyone like Billy Elliot? haha. "

I like Billy Elliot because I know Trent; in terms of what was a better musical, Next to Normal wins for me.

#32

re: If you were a Tony voter for this entire decade....

Posted: 7/18/09 at 11:36pm

2000
Contact
James Joyce's The Dead
Swing!
The Wild Party *** (although I enjoyed Aida more so...if I got to choose I would say Aida)

2001
The Producers
A Class Act
The Full Monty ***
Jane Eyre

2002
Thoroughly Modern Millie
Mamma Mia!
Sweet Smell of Success
Urinetown: The Musical***

2003
Hairspray***
Amour
A Year With Frog and Toad
Movin' Out

2004
Avenue Q
Caroline, or Change***
The Boy From Oz
Wicked

2005
Monty Python's Spamalot
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
The Light in the Piazza
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee***

2006
Jersey Boys
The Color Purple***
The Drowsy Chaperone
The Wedding Singer

2007
Spring Awakening
Curtains
Grey Gardens***
Mary Poppins

2008
In The Heights***
Cry-Baby
Passing Strange
Xanadu

2009
Billy Elliot
Next to Normal*** (although I liked [title of show] more so if I could write tos in then that would be my answer)
Rock of Ages
Shrek

#33

re: If you were a Tony voter for this entire decade....

Posted: 7/18/09 at 11:47pm

Also, ties are not being counted.

#34

re: If you were a Tony voter for this entire decade....

Posted: 7/18/09 at 11:52pm

2000
Contact
James Joyce's The Dead
Swing!
The Wild Party*

2001
The Producers
A Class Act *
The Full Monty
Jane Eyre

2002
Thoroughly Modern Millie
Mamma Mia!
Sweet Smell of Success
Urinetown: The Musical*

2003
Hairspray*
Amour
A Year With Frog and Toad
Movin' Out

2004
Avenue Q
Caroline, or Change*
The Boy From Oz
Wicked

2005
Monty Python's Spamalot
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
The Light in the Piazza
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee*

2006
Jersey Boys
The Color Purple *
The Drowsy Chaperone
The Wedding Singer

2007
Spring Awakening
Curtains
Grey Gardens*
Mary Poppins

2008
In The Heights
Cry-Baby
Passing Strange
Xanadu *

2009
Billy Elliot
Next to Normal*
Rock of Ages
Shrek

Glad to see some Class Act love on here! While I have never seen it, I had the pleasure of doing this show at my high school this past year. It was witty, origial, vibrant, and had great music. Highly underappreciated show, IMO.

"Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos."-Stephen Sondheim

#35

re: If you were a Tony voter for this entire decade....

Posted: 7/19/09 at 12:27am

2000
Contact*
James Joyce's The Dead
Swing!
The Wild Party

2001
The Producers*
A Class Act
The Full Monty
Jane Eyre

2002
Thoroughly Modern Millie
Mamma Mia!
Sweet Smell of Success
Urinetown: The Musical*

2003
Hairspray*
Amour
A Year With Frog and Toad
Movin' Out

2004
Avenue Q
Caroline, or Change* (Also the best musical of the decade, btw).
The Boy From Oz
Wicked

2005
Monty Python's Spamalot
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
The Light in the Piazza*
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

2006
Jersey Boys
The Color Purple
The Drowsy Chaperone*
The Wedding Singer

2007
Spring Awakening*
Curtains
Grey Gardens
Mary Poppins

2008
In The Heights*
Cry-Baby
Passing Strange
Xanadu

2009
Billy Elliot
Next to Normal*
Rock of Ages
Shrek

#36

re: If you were a Tony voter for this entire decade....

Posted: 7/19/09 at 2:33am

2000
Contact
James Joyce's The Dead
Swing!
The Wild Party***

2001
The Producers
A Class Act***
The Full Monty
Jane Eyre

2002
Thoroughly Modern Millie
Mamma Mia!
Sweet Smell of Success
Urinetown: The Musical***

2003
Hairspray***
Amour
A Year With Frog and Toad
Movin' Out

2004
Avenue Q***
Caroline, or Change
The Boy From Oz
Wicked

2005
Monty Python's Spamalot
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
The Light in the Piazza
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee***

2006
Jersey Boys
The Color Purple
The Drowsy Chaperone***
The Wedding Singer

2007
Spring Awakening
Curtains
Grey Gardens***
Mary Poppins

2008
In The Heights
Cry-Baby
Passing Strange
Xanadu***

2009
Billy Elliot
Next to Normal***
Rock of Ages
Shrek

#37

re: If you were a Tony voter for this entire decade....

Posted: 7/19/09 at 2:51am

2000
The Wild Party (Not a good year)

2001
The Producers

2002
Urinetown: The Musical

2003
Hairspray

2004
Avenue Q

2005
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

2006
The Drowsy Chaperone

2007
Grey Gardens

2008
Passing Strange

2009
I forfeit because I haven't seen Next to Normal yet.

#38

re: If you were a Tony voter for this entire decade....

Posted: 7/19/09 at 2:57am

2000
Contact
James Joyce's The Dead
Swing!
The Wild Party

2001
The Producers
A Class Act
The Full Monty
Jane Eyre

2002
Thoroughly Modern Millie
Mamma Mia!
Sweet Smell of Success
Urinetown: The Musical

2003
Hairspray
Amour
A Year With Frog and Toad
Movin' Out

2004
Avenue Q
Caroline, or Change
The Boy From Oz
Wicked

2005
Monty Python's Spamalot
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
The Light in the Piazza
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

2006
Jersey Boys
The Color Purple
The Drowsy Chaperone
The Wedding Singer

2007
Spring Awakening
Curtains
Grey Gardens
Mary Poppins

2008
In The Heights
Cry-Baby
Passing Strange
Xanadu

2009
Billy Elliot
Next to Normal
Rock of Ages
Shrek

"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"

#39

re: If you were a Tony voter for this entire decade....

Posted: 7/19/09 at 2:59am

2000
Contact
James Joyce's The Dead
Swing!
The Wild Party

2001
The Producers
A Class Act
The Full Monty
Jane Eyre

2002
Thoroughly Modern Millie
Mamma Mia!
Sweet Smell of Success
Urinetown: The Musical

2003
Hairspray
Amour
A Year With Frog and Toad
Movin' Out

2004
Avenue Q
Caroline, or Change
The Boy From Oz
Wicked

2005
Monty Python's Spamalot
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
The Light in the Piazza
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

2006
Jersey Boys
The Color Purple
The Drowsy Chaperone
The Wedding Singer

2007
Spring Awakening
Curtains
Grey Gardens
Mary Poppins

2008
In The Heights
Cry-Baby
Passing Strange
Xanadu

2009
Billy Elliot
Next to Normal
Rock of Ages
Shrek

#40

re: If you were a Tony voter for this entire decade....

Posted: 7/19/09 at 3:01am

2000
Contact
James Joyce's The Dead
Swing!
The Wild Party ********

2001
The Producers
A Class Act
The Full Monty ********
Jane Eyre

2002
Thoroughly Modern Millie
Mamma Mia!
Sweet Smell of Success
Urinetown: The Musical ********

2003
Hairspray ********
Amour
A Year With Frog and Toad
Movin' Out

2004
Avenue Q
Caroline, or Change ********
The Boy From Oz
Wicked

2005
Monty Python's Spamalot
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
The Light in the Piazza ********
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

2006
Jersey Boys ********
The Color Purple
The Drowsy Chaperone
The Wedding Singer

2007
Spring Awakening
Curtains
Grey Gardens ********
Mary Poppins

2008
In The Heights
Cry-Baby
Passing Strange ********
Xanadu

2009
Billy Elliot
Next to Normal ********
Rock of Ages
Shrek

#41

re: If you were a Tony voter for this entire decade....

Posted: 7/19/09 at 3:47am

2000
Contact
James Joyce's The Dead
Swing!
The Wild Party

2001
The Producers
A Class Act
The Full Monty
Jane Eyre

2002
Thoroughly Modern Millie
Mamma Mia!
Sweet Smell of Success
Urinetown: The Musical

2003
I didn't care for one.
Hairspray
Amour
A Year With Frog and Toad
Movin' Out

2004
Avenue Q
Caroline, or Change
The Boy From Oz
Wicked

2005
Monty Python's Spamalot
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
The Light in the Piazza
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

2006
Jersey Boys
The Color Purple
The Drowsy Chaperone
The Wedding Singer

2007
Spring Awakening
Curtains
Grey Gardens
Mary Poppins

2008
In The Heights
Cry-Baby
Passing Strange
Xanadu

2009
Billy Elliot
Next to Normal
Rock of Ages
Shrek

Whoever says money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to shop. - Bo Derek

#42

re: If you were a Tony voter for this entire decade....

Posted: 7/19/09 at 3:47am

2000
Contact
James Joyce's The Dead
Swing!
The Wild Party

2001
The Producers
A Class Act
The Full Monty
Jane Eyre

2002
Thoroughly Modern Millie
Mamma Mia!
Sweet Smell of Success
Urinetown: The Musical

2003
I didn't care for one.
Hairspray
Amour
A Year With Frog and Toad
Movin' Out

2004
Avenue Q
Caroline, or Change
The Boy From Oz
Wicked

2005
Monty Python's Spamalot
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
The Light in the Piazza
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

2006
Jersey Boys
The Color Purple
The Drowsy Chaperone
The Wedding Singer

2007
Spring Awakening
Curtains
Grey Gardens
Mary Poppins

2008
In The Heights
Cry-Baby
Passing Strange
Xanadu

2009
Billy Elliot
Next to Normal
Rock of Ages
Shrek

Whoever says money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to shop. - Bo Derek

#43

re: If you were a Tony voter for this entire decade....

Posted: 7/19/09 at 5:58am

2000
Contact
James Joyce's The Dead
Swing!
The Wild Party

2001
The Producers
A Class Act
The Full Monty
Jane Eyre

2002
Thoroughly Modern Millie
Mamma Mia!
Sweet Smell of Success
Urinetown: The Musical

2003
Hairspray
Amour
A Year With Frog and Toad
Movin' Out

2004
Avenue Q
Caroline, or Change
The Boy From Oz
Wicked

2005
Monty Python's Spamalot
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
The Light in the Piazza
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

2006
Jersey Boys
The Color Purple
The Drowsy Chaperone
The Wedding Singer

2007
Spring Awakening
Curtains
Grey Gardens
Mary Poppins

2008
In The Heights
Cry-Baby
Passing Strange
Xanadu

2009
Billy Elliot
Next to Normal
Rock of Ages
Shrek

#44

re: If you were a Tony voter for this entire decade....

Posted: 7/19/09 at 6:09am

2000
The Wild Party

2001
The Producers

2002
Urinetown: The Musical

2003
Haispray

2004
Avenue Q

2005
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

2006
The Drowsy Chaperone

2007
Curtains

2008
Passing Strange

2009
next to normal

Updated On: 7/19/09 at 06:09 AM

#45

re: If you were a Tony voter for this entire decade....

Posted: 7/19/09 at 6:41am

2000
Contact
James Joyce's The Dead
Swing!
The Wild Party***

2001
The Producers***
A Class Act
The Full Monty
Jane Eyre

2002
Thoroughly Modern Millie
Mamma Mia!
Sweet Smell of Success
Urinetown: The Musical***

2003
Hairspray***
Amour
A Year With Frog and Toad
Movin' Out

2004
Avenue Q
Caroline, or Change
The Boy From Oz
Wicked***

2005
Monty Python's Spamalot
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
The Light in the Piazza
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee***

2006
Jersey Boys
The Color Purple
The Drowsy Chaperone***
The Wedding Singer

2007
Spring Awakening
Curtains
Grey Gardens***
Mary Poppins

2008
In The Heights
Cry-Baby
Passing Strange
Xanadu***

2009
Billy Elliot
Next to Normal***
Rock of Ages
Shrek

#46

re: If you were a Tony voter for this entire decade....

Posted: 7/19/09 at 8:15am

2000
Contact
James Joyce's The Dead
Swing!
***The Wild Party

2001
***The Producers
A Class Act
The Full Monty
Jane Eyre

2002
***Thoroughly Modern Millie
Mamma Mia!
Sweet Smell of Success
Urinetown: The Musical

2003
***Hairspray
Amour
A Year With Frog and Toad
Movin' Out

2004
***Avenue Q
Caroline, or Change
The Boy From Oz
Wicked

2005
Monty Python's Spamalot
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
The Light in the Piazza
***The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

2006
Jersey Boys
The Color Purple
***The Drowsy Chaperone
The Wedding Singer

2007
***Spring Awakening
Curtains
Grey Gardens
Mary Poppins

2008
In The Heights
Cry-Baby
Passing Strange
***Xanadu

2009
Billy Elliot
Next to Normal
Rock of Ages
Shrek
Not gonna vote here because I haven't heard anything from N2N apart from whatwas on the tonys, saving it for next month when i go and see it).

#47

re: If you were a Tony voter for this entire decade....

Posted: 7/19/09 at 8:23am

2000
Contact
James Joyce's The Dead
Swing!
The Wild Party
[Marie Christine should have been nominated]

2001
The Producers
A Class Act
The Full Monty
Jane Eyre

2002
Thoroughly Modern Millie
Mamma Mia!
Sweet Smell of Success
Urinetown: The Musical

2003
Hairspray
Amour
A Year With Frog and Toad
Movin' Out

2004
Avenue Q
Caroline, or Change
The Boy From Oz
Wicked

2005
Monty Python's Spamalot
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
The Light in the Piazza
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

2006
Jersey Boys
The Color Purple
The Drowsy Chaperone
The Wedding Singer

2007
Spring Awakening
Curtains
Grey Gardens
Mary Poppins

2008
In The Heights
Cry-Baby
Passing Strange
Xanadu

2009
Billy Elliot
Next to Normal
Rock of Ages
Shrek
[NO VOTE]

"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body

#48

re: If you were a Tony voter for this entire decade....

Posted: 7/19/09 at 8:53am

2000
Contact
James Joyce's The Dead
Swing!
The Wild Party

2001
The Producers
A Class Act
The Full Monty
Jane Eyre

2002
Thoroughly Modern Millie
Mamma Mia!
Sweet Smell of Success
Urinetown: The Musical

2003
Hairspray
Amour
A Year With Frog and Toad
Movin' Out

2004
Avenue Q
Caroline, or Change
The Boy From Oz
Wicked

2005
Monty Python's Spamalot
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
The Light in the Piazza
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

2006
Jersey Boys
The Color Purple
The Drowsy Chaperone
The Wedding Singer

2007
Spring Awakening
Curtains
Grey Gardens
Mary Poppins

2008
In The Heights
Cry-Baby
Passing Strange
Xanadu

2009
Billy Elliot
Next to Normal
Rock of Ages
Shrek

Updated On: 7/19/09 at 08:53 AM

#49

re: If you were a Tony voter for this entire decade....

Posted: 7/19/09 at 2:48pm

Just did an early tally...
Some notes

The musicals with the most votes right now are THE WILD PARTY with 34 votes, HAIRSPRAY with 32 votes, and N2N with 29 votes.

Musicals with no votes are SWING!, MAMMA MIA!, THE BOY FROM OZ, A YEAR WITH FROG AND TOAD, THE WEDDING SINGER, MARY POPPINS, ROCK OF AGES, and SHREK. lol.

There was a GREY GARDENS and SPRING AWAKENING tie at one point, but now one of them is leading with substantial amount.

Remember write-ins and ties will NOT be counted. Leaving a category blank is fine. Please post your pick if you did a write-in or tie.

And keep voting people!

Updated On: 7/19/09 at 02:48 PM

#50

re: If you were a Tony voter for this entire decade....

Posted: 7/19/09 at 3:26pm

2000
Contact
James Joyce's The Dead
Swing!
The Wild Party

2001
The Producers
A Class Act
The Full Monty
Jane Eyre

2002
Thoroughly Modern Millie
Mamma Mia!
Sweet Smell of Success
Urinetown: The Musical

2003
Hairspray
Amour
A Year With Frog and Toad
Movin' Out

2004
Avenue Q
Caroline, or Change
The Boy From Oz
Wicked

2005
Monty Python's Spamalot
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
The Light in the Piazza
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

2006
Jersey Boys
The Color Purple
The Drowsy Chaperone
The Wedding Singer

2007
Spring Awakening
Curtains
Grey Gardens
Mary Poppins

2008
In The Heights
Cry-Baby
Passing Strange
Xanadu

2009
Billy Elliot
Next to Normal
Rock of Ages
Shrek

======

Notice some years (2005 in particular) have so many strong possibilities while other seasons (2000, 2008 ) it's very hard to select even one as an outstanding musical. If I could I would abstain those seasons.

CONTACT is not really a musical since no one sings anything, the music is all pre-recorded, and there really is very little book.

I think the category of Best Musical should be limited to shows with full original scores (allowing for the odd interpolation.) I think the jukebox shows and revues should be placed in the now deleted special events category. I realize that in doing so some seasons would not even have enough nominees to fill the category.

Just my thoughts.

Cast albums are NOT "soundtracks."
Live theatre does not use a "soundtrack." If it did, it wouldn't be live theatre!

I host a weekly one-hour radio program featuring cast album selections as well as songs by cabaret, jazz and theatre artists. The program, FRONT ROW CENTRE is heard Sundays 9 to 10 am and also Saturdays from 8 to 9 am (eastern times) on www.proudfm.com

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