Top 10 Fav Broadway Shows- Page 2

[NDR]

Posted: 3/17/08 at 5:06pm

The list would be different if we were including shows that never made it to Broadway but were produced for Broadway, but here it goes:

1. Miss Saigon
2. Wicked
3. Les Miserables
4. Pirate Queen (sorry - i liked it; it needed work but the base was there - oh well).
5. Ragtime
6. Tommy
7. Phantom
8. RENT
9. Chicago
10. Hairspray

Disclaimer: this post is based solely on my preferences and opinion. If you disagree with my choices, please keep it to yourself and spare other posters your diatribes.

[amalou]

Posted: 3/17/08 at 5:16pm

^Everyone has different taste. You like what you like! :)

1.Ragtime
2.Wicked
3.Pirate Queen
4.Phantom of the Opera
5.Scarlet Pimpernel
6.Les Miserables
7.Spamalot
8.Thoroughly Modern Millie
9.Cabaret
10.Aida

And I don't know if it counts because it was off Broadway, but also Johnny Guitar.

Updated On: 3/17/08 at 05:16 PM

[musicalmaster703]

Posted: 3/18/08 at 11:07am

I said show it could be any thing!

[EponineAmneris]

Posted: 3/18/08 at 11:33am

There is really no way to say top ten for me *lol*

Check out my profile for a full list

[NYC_or_Bust]

Posted: 3/18/08 at 12:56pm

In Random Order

Mary Poppins
The Lion King
Beauty and the Beast
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
GYPSY (Bernadette Peters)
Thoroughly Modern Millie
On Golden Pond (James Earl Jones)
The Producers
The Color Purple
42nd Street (Revival)

[kate2]

Posted: 3/18/08 at 1:11pm

1. Xanadu
2. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
3. Aida
4. All Shook Up
5. Les Mis
6. Is He Dead?
7. Hairspray
8. The Little Mermaid
9. Jersey Boys
10. Wicked

[jacobsnchz14]

Posted: 3/18/08 at 4:42pm

(IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER)

1. Avenue Q
2. Beauty & the Beast
3. Grease
4. Hairspray
5. Legally Blonde
6. Lion King
7. Little Mermaid
8. Wicked
9. Xanadu
10. Young Frankenstein

(IN ORDER BY FAVORITES - Best to Worst)

1. Little Mermaid
2. Hairspray
3. Grease
4. Legally Blonde
5. Beauty & the Beast
6. Lion King
7. Xanadu
8. Wicked
9. Avenue Q
10. Young Frankenstein

Other musicals I like: Mamma Mia, Chicago, Mary Poppins

[waltero]

Posted: 3/18/08 at 4:57pm

Sorry I don't have a Top 10 list, but of the shows I've seen, nothing beats:

1) Les Miserables

[george95]

Posted: 3/18/08 at 5:06pm

(I'm not including shows that I like but have not seen on B-way: sound of music/west side story etc)

10.The Lion King
9.The Music Man
8.A Chorus Line
7.Aida
6.Avenue Q
5.Spring Awakening
4.Chicago
3.Rent
2.Les Miserables
1.The Phantom of the Opera

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 3/18/08 at 5:55pm

1. Superman
2. Chicago
3. The Producers
4. Follies (Original)
5. Ragtime
6. Sunset Blvd
7. Jersey Boys
8. Cabaret (Original)
9. Mack & Mabel
10.Gypsy (Peters)

[casualtyofLoVe]

Posted: 3/19/08 at 4:20pm

1. rent
2. in the heights
3. bare: a pop opera
4. legally blonde
5. wicked
6. the drowsy chaperone
7. the 25th annual putnam county spelling bee
8. company
9. the wedding singer
10. fiddler on the roof

[singalongsong2]

Posted: 3/19/08 at 4:54pm

1. Rent
2. Legally Blonde
3. Jesus Christ Superstar
4. Wicked
5. Sweeney Todd
6. Phantom of the Opera
7. A Chorus Line
8. Jersey Boys
9. Hairspray
10. The Music Man

[kikki327]

Posted: 3/19/08 at 11:36pm

1. Movin' Out!!
2. Spring Awakening
3. A Chorus Line
4. The Times They Are A-Changin'
5. Grey Gardens
6. Rent
7. Wicked
8. The Phantom of the Opera
9. Chicago
10. The Producers

[Love4Theatre]

Posted: 3/19/08 at 11:43pm

10. Mamma Mia
9. The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
8.. Altar Boyx
7. Sweeney Todd
6. Tick Tick Boom
5. Disney's Aida
4. Rent
3. Hairspray
2. Ragtime
1. In the Heights

[EugLoven]

Posted: 3/20/08 at 12:02am

BROADWAY MUSICALS (in alphabetical order)

A Chorus Line
Company
Hair
Kiss of the Spider Woman
The Light in the Piazza
Sweeney Todd
Spring Awakening
Sunday in the Park with George
Titanic
Wicked

BROADWAY PLAYS (in alphabetical order)

Angels in America
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
The Crucible
Death of a Salesman
Doubt
Equus
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
Six Degrees of Separation
Take Me Out
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

[theaterguy11]

Posted: 3/20/08 at 2:49am

amalou:

you didnt SEE Johnny Guitar off-broadway.

how could you know?

[Liverpool]

Posted: 3/20/08 at 3:46am

No particular order and i included a couple off broadway shows.

Awake and Sing
Caroline, or Change
Sweeney Todd
Talk Radio
Ragtime
Merrily We Roll Along
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolfe
Next to Normal
Bat Boy
Company

[snl89]

Posted: 3/20/08 at 12:00pm

I shall be including off Broadway shows, because many of my favorite shows have in fact been off Broadway haha


1. RENT
2. Spring Awakening
3. Bare
4. Next to Normal
5. Tick, Tick...BOOM
6. Last 5 Years
7. Aida
8. Wedding Singer
9. Hairspray
10.Wicked


yeah, yeah, I know, I'm cliche and need to learn to appreciate non-rock/pop musicals. But... I can't help it. I get way more attached to modern musicals than I do to classic ones!

(for the record, I have not seen In The Heights or Passing Strange yet, but they sound like they'd pobably be my cup of tea)

[songanddanceman2]

Posted: 3/20/08 at 12:15pm

Hmm Broadway Shows

1 Rent
2 Carrie
3 Jersey Boys
4 Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
5 Legally Blonde
6 Cabaret at 54
7 The Producers
8 The Lion King
9 Sweet Charity revival
10 Taboo

9They are the ones i have seen live, if i was inc shows i have seen on some other format In The Heights would be behind Rent)

And because im from the UK here is my top ten West End/London shows

1.Hairspray
2 Taboo
3 Rent
4 Angels In America
5 Bad Girls the musical
6 Guys and Dolls
7 Beautiful Game
8 Footloose
9 Little Shop Of Horrors Revival
10 Miss Saigon

and the worst shows i have seen on both sides of the Atlantic

Rent Remixed
Desperately Seeking Susan
Cats
Beautiful and the Damned
Dirty Dancing
Return to the Forbidden Planet
Tarzan
Fiddler On The Roof

[TonyVincent]

Posted: 3/20/08 at 1:05pm

I'm really surprised how many of these lists have no theme that one would expect from someone's "favorite" shows. People will like gritty rock operas (JCS) right up with campy, fluffy 50s stuff (Hairspray) right next to dark Sondheim (Sweeney Todd).

I guess it goes to show that the execution and quality of a show can have a greater effect than its style.

[snl89]

Posted: 3/20/08 at 1:09pm

I guess it goes to show that the execution and quality of a show can have a greater effect than its style.

absolutely :) I mean, I personally DO have a tendency to drift toward the modern rock/pop musicals, but I wouldn't rule out something just because it's NOT that kind of musical. I saw Company, and although I didn't love the score, I definitely appreciated the beauty of the show, and the brilliance of its book. Basically, I am willing to try anything and if it's executed well, I'll probably at least appreciate that aspect of it. It may not be my cup of tea, but I can appreciate it.

[ShadyLady]

Posted: 5/8/08 at 11:30pm

"amalou:

you didnt SEE Johnny Guitar off-broadway.

how could you know?"

So basically amalou isn't entitled to like it? Maybe you should mind your own biz, buddy.

Here's my 10:

1. Sweeney Todd
2. Wicked
3. Jersey Boys
4. Annie Get Your Gun
5. The Lion King (I know, I know)
6. Boy from Oz
7. Rent
8. Thoroughly Modern Millie
9. Les Miserables
10. Ragtime (and no, I didn't see it on Broadway. I saw a professional production at the Paper Mill. Is that okaaaay????)

[xoangel2789xo]

Posted: 5/9/08 at 1:32am

1.Spamalot
2.Spring Awakening
3.Wicked
4.Les Miserables
5.Avenue Q
6.Fiddler on the Roof
7.Phantom of the Opera (Hugh Panaro was amazing)
8.Rent
9.Hairspray
10. Sweeney Todd (haven't actually seen it yet)

I remember being Cats being my favorite when I was little >hides in shame<

[viola13]

Posted: 5/9/08 at 2:03am

Not in any particular order, and counting only shows I've seen:

Rent
Company
Next to Normal
A Chorus Line
Les Miserables
Jersey Boys
Avenue Q
Chicago
Hairspray
Parade