TIME Magazine Top Ten Stage 2011

#1

TIME Magazine Top Ten Stage 2011

Posted: 12/8/11 at 10:12am

1. War Horse
2. Porgy & Bess
3. Chinglish
4. Death Takes a Holiday
5. Sleep No More
6. Silence! The Musical
7. The Normal Heart
8. The Book of Mormon
9. Traces
10. Anything Goes

Updated On: 12/8/11 at 10:12 AM

#2

TIME Magazine Top Ten Stage 2011

Posted: 12/8/11 at 10:23am

Silence? Really?

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#3

TIME Magazine Top Ten Stage 2011

Posted: 12/8/11 at 11:29am

I'd love to be the Time theatre critic. You see everything, write maybe two reviews a year, then publish a year-end list. Pretty sweet gig.

His list is mind-boggling, though.

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#4

TIME Magazine Top Ten Stage 2011

Posted: 12/8/11 at 11:37am

FOLLIES & UNCLE VANYA should have definitely made that Top 10 list.

#5

TIME Magazine Top Ten Stage 2011

Posted: 12/8/11 at 11:41am

He's the same critic who had The Little Mermaid and Grease on his Top 10 list. It's always ridiculous.

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#6

TIME Magazine Top Ten Stage 2011

Posted: 12/8/11 at 11:42am

Did someone get paid for this?

If "yes," how much?

#7

TIME Magazine Top Ten Stage 2011

Posted: 12/8/11 at 11:44am

It's the same critic, I presume, who called WICKED "the best musical of the decade".

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"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

#8

TIME Magazine Top Ten Stage 2011

Posted: 12/8/11 at 11:48am

Scott Brown list in NY Magazine is better:

1. Sweet and Soul
2. Sleep No More
3. Book of Mormon
4. Follies
5. Jerusalem
6. Cymbeline
7. Sons of the Prophet
8. Arcadia
9. School for Lies
10. Other Desert Cities / Intelligent Homosexual's Guide
Honorable Mention: The Cherry Orchard

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#9

TIME Magazine Top Ten Stage 2011

Posted: 12/8/11 at 12:12pm

Smaxie, no doubt anybody who disagrees with your so-called superior opinions is "ridiculous". I would hate to see your list. I'm sure my list would much more closely resemble Time's list. At least their critic doesn't overanalyze, spend an inordinate amount of time summarizing the plot, or cast sarcastic and irrelevant barbs to prove his wit.

#10

TIME Magazine Top Ten Stage 2011

Posted: 12/8/11 at 12:22pm

No, the Times critic doesn't over-analyze. He apparently closes his eyes and throws darts at a wall with the names of the plays pinned on it to make his choice.

#11

TIME Magazine Top Ten Stage 2011

Posted: 12/8/11 at 12:35pm

I hope at least one list has BURNING.

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#12

TIME Magazine Top Ten Stage 2011

Posted: 12/8/11 at 3:19pm

If GREASE and MERMAID were on his Top 10 list, then yes, it's ridiculous.

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#13

TIME Magazine Top Ten Stage 2011

Posted: 12/8/11 at 3:22pm

The NY list makes a lot more sense. This guys from the Times is clearly a moron.

#14

TIME Magazine Top Ten Stage 2011

Posted: 12/8/11 at 3:24pm

If GREASE and MERMAID were on his Top 10 list, then yes, it's ridiculous.

Not only that, Grease ranked #1.

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#15

TIME Magazine Top Ten Stage 2011

Posted: 12/8/11 at 3:32pm

Oh homeimp, unless you ARE the list maker from TIME, (I won't call him a critic), how can you find that list defensible? He sticks caveats in on many of these shows he supposedly likes. There's nothing worse than critics who just won't own their opinions. It's just like Brantley, constantly saying something "may just be one of the best things in years..."! Really? Go out on a limb and make a statement free of escape hatches. That TIME guy blows.

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#16

TIME Magazine Top Ten Stage 2011

Posted: 12/8/11 at 3:42pm

Maybe he doesn't see everything.

I mean "Porgy and Bess?!"

#17

TIME Magazine Top Ten Stage 2011

Posted: 12/9/11 at 12:42pm

He probably put Porgy and Bess on the list when Bess still called the women of Catfish Row "country bitches."

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#18

TIME Magazine Top Ten Stage 2011

Posted: 12/9/11 at 2:59pm

WAR HORSE in the number 1 spot is correct.
I'm surprised the NY list doesn't include it.

No Hugh Jackman? He's on MY list...

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#19

TIME Magazine Top Ten Stage 2011

Posted: 12/10/11 at 2:19pm

porgy and bess number 2?????

#20

TIME Magazine Top Ten Stage 2011

Posted: 12/10/11 at 7:48pm

Hugh Jackman's probably not on the list since it was preserved for actual theatre, not a concert.