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Top 10 Greatest Musicals?

BroadwayAndSports
#50re: re: re: re: re: re: Top 10 Musicals
Posted: 4/20/18 at 4:01pm

1) Hamilton

2) Come From Away

3) In The Heights

4) Dear Evan Hansen

5) Sweeney Todd

6) Pippin

7) The Lion King

8) Spelling Bee

9) The Producers

10) Bandstand 

Honorable Mention: Waitress & Rent

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BroadwayConcierge
#51re: re: re: re: re: re: Top 10 Musicals
Posted: 4/20/18 at 4:08pm

10. Les Misérables

9. The King and I

8. Sunday in the Park with George

7. Tie: Hello, Dolly! and My Fair Lady

6. Gypsy

5. Hair

4. A Chorus Line

3. West Side Story

2. Company

1. Hamilton

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SempreLiberal
#52re: re: re: re: re: re: Top 10 Musicals
Posted: 4/20/18 at 7:29pm

Top 10 (the order changes moment to moment)
1. South Pacific
2. Gypsy
3. Rent
4. Hamilton
5. Sweeney Todd
6. Les Miserables
7. My Fair Lady
8. Great Comet
9. Chicago
10. West Side Story

Honorable Mention:

Sunday in the Park With George
Kiss Me, Kate
Miss Saigon
Guys and Dolls
Oklahoma
On the Town
La Cage aux Folles
The Light in the Piazza
The Music Man
Show Boat

Personal affection, but not in the pantheon:

Kiss of the Spider Woman
Here Lies Love
Camelot
The Sound of Music
Carousel
The King and I
Wicked
Candide
Annie Get Your Gun
Porgy and Bess







natashalost
#53re: re: re: re: re: re: Top 10 Musicals
Posted: 4/20/18 at 8:34pm

I love top ten lists! In no particular order:

- West Side Story

-??????? Great Comet

-??????? Hair (2008 Revival)

-??????? Hello, Dolly!

-??????? Sunday in the Park With George 

-??????? The Band's Visit

-??????? She Loves Me

-??????? Hamilton

-??????? Into the Woods

-??????? In The Heights

Honorable mentions: 

The Color Purple, Parade, The Light in the Piazza, Once on this Island (Revival), On Your Feet, Kiss Me, Kate, 

Updated On: 4/20/18 at 08:34 PM

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darquegk
#54re: re: re: re: re: re: Top 10 Musicals
Posted: 4/20/18 at 8:55pm

Objectively, the list goes something like:

Shrek
Shrek
Shrek
Shrek
Shrek
Shrek
South Pacific
Shrek
Shrek
Shrek

Honorable mentions go to Hamilton, Threepenny Opera and Shrek

broadwaysfguy
#55re: re: re: re: re: re: Top 10 Musicals
Posted: 4/20/18 at 10:09pm

in no order

south pacific
a little night music
aida
book of mormon
hamilton
les miserables
dear evan hansen
how to succeed in business
my fair lady
cabaret

Phantom4ever
#56re: re: re: re: re: re: Top 10 Musicals
Posted: 4/20/18 at 11:51pm

In no particular order but probably not that out of order either
1. The Phantom of the Opera
2. Les Miserables
3. West Side Story
4. Hamilton
5. Chicago
6. Rent
7. Oklahoma!
8. The Book of Mormon
9. The Music Man
10. Ragtime

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TheSeafarer
#57re: re: re: re: re: re: Top 10 Musicals
Posted: 4/26/18 at 12:28am

1. The Wiz - 1975
2. Billy Elliot
3. Wicked
4. A Chorus Line
5. Book of Mormon
6. Les Miserables
7. Annie - 1977
8. Dear Evan Hansen
9. Chess
10.Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Runner ups
Hair
La Cage Aux Folles
Damn Yankees
Rockabye Hamlet
Me and My Girl
Dancin'
Candide -1974
Juan Darien
Pacific Overtures - 1976
Sugar Babies


 

Updated On: 4/26/18 at 12:28 AM

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TheSeafarer
#58re: re: re: re: re: re: Top 10 Musicals
Posted: 4/26/18 at 12:28am

Double Post


 

Updated On: 4/26/18 at 12:28 AM

BroadwayMan5
#59re: re: re: re: re: re: Top 10 Musicals
Posted: 4/26/18 at 12:51am

1. Into the Woods
2. Guys & Dolls
3. Ragtime
4. Aida
5. Fiddler on the Roof
6. Carousel
7. Hamilton
8. The Music Man
9. West Side Story
10. Bye Bye Birdie

Honorable Mention (in no particular order): Dear Evan Hansen, Matilda, Les Miserables, Avenue Q, The Drowsy Chaperone, Come From Away, Something Rotten, Annie, Once on this Island

usher2
#60re: re: re: re: re: re: Top 10 Musicals
Posted: 4/26/18 at 1:24am

With Jekyll and Hyde on top, I must be in an alternative universe.  One of the most painful nights ever.

 

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JudyDenmark
#61re: re: re: re: re: re: Top 10 Musicals
Posted: 4/26/18 at 1:27am

Why not.

—Little Shop 
—Once on This Island (combo of the original for being so good to me since middle school, and the new one for being gorgeous and perfect)
—Les Mis
—Chorus Line
—Book of Mormon
—Ruthless (the original LA production specifically)
—City of Angels
—Sweet Charity
—Man of La Mancha
—JCS

Roughly in that order

Honorable mentions to Pippin, Aida, and the Deaf West Spring Awakening 

Updated On: 4/26/18 at 01:27 AM


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