TOP TEN MUSICALS OF THE 21st CENTURY... SO FAR. — Page 3

Urinetown
Caroline, or Change
The Light in the Piazza
Hairspray
Wicked
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
Avenue Q
Next to Normal
The Wild Party (LaChiusa)
The Full Monty

Honorable Mentions:

The Drowsy Chaperone
Mamma Mia
Movin' Out
Jane Eyre
Bombay Dreams
The Witches of Eastwick

---

Updated On: 12/4/09 at 12:14 PM

Alphabetical order because several of these I couldn't rank:

Curtains
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
The Drowsy Chaperone
Hairspray
In the Heights
Light in the Piazza
Next to Normal
Spamalot
Wicked
Xanadu

---

Less than 10 because many I have not seen. In order:

1. Jerry Springer the Opera
2. Spring Awakening
3. Bat Boy
4. Next to Normal
5. Hairspray
6. Avenue Q

I can only give you a top 10. If I lived in NYC and got to see more musicals, I could give you a top 10 :)

1. HAIRSPRAY (One of the longest running shows of the decade, and deservingly so. Fun, energetic, wonderful score, and it introduced to us a whole new generation of Broadway stars).
2. AVENUE Q (As original as it gets. The little show that could).
3. WICKED (Like it or hate it, it's a juggernaut that will be with us for a long time. It makes the top 10 by its sheer contribution to Broadway this decade, financially and otherwise).
4. JERSEY BOYS (As someone said before.. a jutebox musical done right. Another one that will eventually rank among the longest running musicals of all time).
5. AIDA (Beautiful yet versatile score).
6. THE PRODUCERS (It brought back the good ol' fashioned musical, and proved that audiences would still eat it up).

My top 7!!!!
1.Wicked
2.Next to Normal
3.Legally Blonde
4.Hairspray
5.Avenue Q
6.Spring Awakening
7.Shrek the Musical