Ten Favorite Musicals
#25re: Ten Favorite Musicals
Posted: 8/28/04 at 5:11pm
1. Wicked
2. Rent
3. Hairspray
4. Avenue Q
5. YAGMCB
6. Phantom
7. Les Mis
8. LSOH
9. Last 5 Years
10. Lion King
#26re: Ten Favorite Musicals
Posted: 8/28/04 at 5:15pm
The top three are in order.......after that it is just random
10.Les Mis.
9. Hair
8. Kiss Me Kate
7. The Wild Party (Lippa Version)
6. Parade
5. BARE
4. Tick Tick Boom
3. JCS
2. Phantom of the Opera (sentimental reasons and it ROCKS)
1. RENT
Lucifer
Stand-by Joined: 8/26/04
#27re: Ten Favorite Musicals
Posted: 8/28/04 at 5:29pm
I can't even fathom doing an actual order so here's the top 10 in no order:
Sweeney Todd
Beauty and the Beast
Wicked
Avenue Q
Rent
Throughly Modern Millie
Aida
Little Shop of Horrors
Into the Woods
Scarlet Pimpernel
#28re: Ten Favorite Musicals
Posted: 8/28/04 at 5:35pm
In alphabetical order -
Cabaret
Caroline, Or Change
Follies
Gypsy
Into The Woods
Man Of La Mancha
Nine
Rocky Horror Show, The
Sunday In The Park With George
West Side Story
#29re: Ten Favorite Musicals
Posted: 8/28/04 at 5:46pm
Since I'm very undecisive, no order..
~ Rent
~ Chicago
~ Movin Out
~ Wicked
~ Into The Woods
~ Annie Get Your Gun
~ Avenue Q
~ Cabaret
~ Thoroughly Modern Millie
~ Phantom of the Opera
#30re: Ten Favorite Musicals
Posted: 8/28/04 at 6:10pm
1. FOLLIES
2. RAGTIME
3. SWEENEY TODD
4. CABARET
5. KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN
6. COMPANY
7. PACIFIC OVERTURES
8. INTO THE WOODS
9. JEKYLL AND HYDE
10. CITY OF ANGELS
#31re: Ten Favorite Musicals
Posted: 8/28/04 at 6:26pm
1. RENT
2. JCS
3. Godspell
4. Pippin
5. TABOO
6. Cabaret
7. Tick Tick BOOM
8. Avenue Q
9. Zanna, Don't!
10. AIDA
That wasn't in order.
#32re: Ten Favorite Musicals
Posted: 8/28/04 at 6:31pm
1. Les Miserables
2.West Side Story
3.A Chorus Line
4. Company
5.Wicked
6. A Little Night Music
7. Avenue Q
8. Gypsy
9. Nine
10. Rent
timote316
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/20/04
#33re: Ten Favorite Musicals
Posted: 8/28/04 at 6:39pm
Rent, Little Shop, Rent, Joseph, Fiddler
Can't be on my list because I've never seen them, but if I saw them, they would be on there (based on OBCRs)
Urinetown*
Aida*
10. Guys and Dolls
9. The Music Man (based on the movie)
8. Grease (revival version)
7. Joseph
6. Little Shop of Horrors
5. Avenue Q
4. Fiddler on the Roof
3. Wicked
2. The Producers
1. Rent
This list changes, almost daily even! I also like Copacabana, but that wasn't too big of a hit here in the States, so I didn't include it.
Updated On: 8/28/04 at 06:39 PM
#34re: Ten Favorite Musicals
Posted: 8/28/04 at 6:40pm
I can't do it in order, sorry!
1. RENT
2. Les Miserables
3. tick, tick... BOOM!
4. Taboo
5. Wicked
6. A Chorus Line
7. The Music Man
8. Avenue Q
9. Jekyll and Hyde
10. Sweeney Todd
lyfeisacabaret
Understudy Joined: 8/18/04
#35re: Ten Favorite Musicals
Posted: 8/28/04 at 7:07pm
1. Annie Get Your Gun
2. Wicked
3. Sweeney Todd
4. POTO
5. Urinetown
6. BatBoy
7. DOTV hmm... what a guilty pleasure
8. West Side Story
9. Carousel
10. Oklahoma
That's hard... Really hard!
Unworthy
Swing Joined: 11/19/03
#37re: Ten Favorite Musicals
Posted: 8/28/04 at 9:35pm
Hokay, so...
10. Pippin
9. Little Shop of Horrors
8. Into the Woods
7. Ragtime
6. A Man of No Importance
5. A New Brain
4. The Last 5 Years
3. Assassins
2. She Loves Me
1. Sweeney Todd
God, that was difficult.
Deena Jones2
Leading Actor Joined: 9/4/03
#38re: Ten Favorite Musicals
Posted: 8/28/04 at 9:40pm
Dreamgirls
Evita
Follies
The Mystery of Dewin Drood
West Side Story
Blood Brothers
Chess
Les Miserables
Sweeney Todd
Gypsy
CJR
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/14/03
#39re: Ten Favorite Musicals
Posted: 8/28/04 at 9:45pm
1. Chicago
2. A Chorus Line
3. The Wild Party (Lippa)
4. West Side Story
5. The Full Monty
6. Urinetown
7. Avenue Q
8. Wicked
9. Rent
10. Aida
If in Heaven you don't excel, you can always party down in hell...
#40re: Ten Favorite Musicals
Posted: 8/28/04 at 9:51pm
I can't put them in order. I'll group them though.
Loved Them:
Into The Woods
Aida
Wicked
Les Miserables
Rent
Liked Them:
Thoroughly Modern Millie
Chicago
Peter Pan
On The Town
I think that covers everything that I've seen on Broadway. I hope I didn't forget anything.
#42re: Ten Favorite Musicals
Posted: 8/28/04 at 10:01pm
Okay, this was tough. But here goes... in no particular order and subject to change....
Thoroughly Modern Millie
Wicked
Music Man
Urinetown
The Producers
Les Mis
Annie Get Your Gun
Little Shop of Horrors
Kiss Me Kate
The Sound of Music
broadwayfan24
Leading Actor Joined: 7/7/04
#43re: Ten Favorite Musicals
Posted: 8/28/04 at 10:11pm
1. Wicked
2. Thoroughly Modern Millie
3. Annie Get Your Gun
4. Hairspray
5. Little Shop of Horrors
6. Rent
7. Kiss Me Kate
8. The Lion King
9. The Producers
10. Grease
LilMiZBroADwaY23
Broadway Star Joined: 8/11/04
#44re: Ten Favorite Musicals
Posted: 8/28/04 at 10:13pm
Hairspray and Phantom of the Opera come into a first place tie.
Les Miserables
The Lion King
Wicked
Little Shop of Horrors
Beauty and the Beast
Evita
Those are pretty much in order, but I haven't seen that many and they are all tours.
#46re: Ten Favorite Musicals
Posted: 8/28/04 at 10:35pm
1) Sweeney Todd
2) A Chorus Line
3) Into the Woods
4) Caroline or Change
4) Le Miz
5) The Wiz
6) Urinetown
7) Purlie
Platinum
9) Rent
10) Assassins
(In case nobody has heard of "Platinum".....It starred Alexis Smith. Tried out in Philadelphia in 1979, where I saw it twice, and moved to B'way. It did not last long but Alexis Smith was nominated for a Tony. The show was never recorded.)
#47re: Ten Favorite Musicals
Posted: 8/28/04 at 10:44pm
1. Phantom of the Opera
2. Wicked
3. Hairspray
4. Les Miz
5. Chicago
6. Beauty and the Beast
7. Once on this Island (WOOHOO!!! GO MadeofGold!!!)
thats about it from what ive seen... gaining interest in BARE, so they could be added soon... hopefully.... is anyone actually gonna read everyone's list?!?!
#48re: Ten Favorite Musicals
Posted: 8/28/04 at 10:56pm
10.annie
9. miss saigon
8. mamma mia
7. wicked
6. grease
5. taboo
4. bare
3. little shop
2. rent
1.hairspray
MargoChanning
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/5/04
#49re: Ten Favorite Musicals
Posted: 8/28/04 at 11:10pm
A Chorus Line
Gypsy
Sweeney Todd
Porgy & Bess
Dreamgirls
Chicago
Gospel At Colonus
Sunday In The Park With George
Urinetown
Company
Honorable Mention (depending on my mood, half of these would be in my top ten): Follies, 1776, Candide, Hedwig, Caroline, or Change, Violet, Falsettos, Guys and Dolls, The Wiz
#50re: Ten Favorite Musicals
Posted: 8/28/04 at 11:23pm
As always, these are in constant fluctuation:
1. Les Miserables
2. Rent
3. Sweeney Todd; The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
4. The Last Five Years
5. Cabaret
6. The Producers
7. Caroline, Or Change
8. Into The Woods
9. Chicago
9.5. Aida
10.Avenue Q
And I have to mention "Hairspray", because though I havn't seen it (soon...soon), I LOVE the score. And there are so many more that, just because they don't make my list now, doesn't mean they won't next week.
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