Top 10 Greatest Musicals?
re: re: re: re: re: re: Top 10 Musicals#50
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
re: re: re: re: re: re: Top 10 Musicals#51
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
re: re: re: re: re: re: Top 10 Musicals#52
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
re: re: re: re: re: re: Top 10 Musicals#53
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,
re: re: re: re: re: re: Top 10 Musicals#54
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
re: re: re: re: re: re: Top 10 Musicals#55
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
re: re: re: re: re: re: Top 10 Musicals#56
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
re: re: re: re: re: re: Top 10 Musicals#57
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
re: re: re: re: re: re: Top 10 Musicals#58
Posted: 4/26/18 at 12:28am
Double Post
re: re: re: re: re: re: Top 10 Musicals#59
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
re: re: re: re: re: re: Top 10 Musicals#60
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.
re: re: re: re: re: re: Top 10 Musicals#61
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
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