"Oh look at the time, three more intelligent plays just closed and THE ADDAMS FAMILY made another million dollars" -Jackie Hoffman, Broadway.com Audience Awards
"This is wanting something, this is reaching for it,
This is wishing that a moment would arrive.
This is taking chances, this is almost touching, what the beauty is." --The Light in the Piazza
All I know about it is that (a) it was nominated for the Best Score Tony in 1992, in a season with only four Tony-eligible scores (Falsettos won), and (b) it was the subject of one of Frank Rich's most savage pans in the NYT (linked below, I hope). Frank Rich's Times review of Metro.
Well, I was going to go for METRO, but Frank Rich, you've convinced me:
RENT.
"Y'know, I think Bertolt Brecht was rolling in his grave."
-Nellie McKay on the 2006 Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera, in which she played Polly Peachum