Top 10 Scores (between 1900-1980)
Top 10 Scores (between 1900-1980)
#0Top 10 Scores (between 1900-1980)
Posted: 9/5/05 at 1:02pm
Because musical theatre was around before dancing cats and witches on cherry pickers...What are your 10 favorite scores written between 1900-1980.
Updated On: 9/5/05 at 01:02 PM
#1re: Best 10 Musicals between 1900-1980
Posted: 9/5/05 at 1:05pm
A Little Night Music
Company
Follies
Finian's Rainbow
Of Thee I Sing
Pal Joey
Kiss Me, Kate
The Cradle Will Rock
The Threepenny Opera
Show Boat
apdarcey
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/10/04
Marguerite Chauvelin
Broadway Star Joined: 7/19/05
#3re: Top 10 Scores (between 1900-1980)
Posted: 9/5/05 at 1:10pm
This will be hard....
West Side Story
Company
Sweeney Todd
Oklahoma!
Show Boat
Chicago
Damn Yankees
Godspell
Hair
Any Rodgers & Hart
In order of what I thought of.
Percy: Sink me! If it isn't Javvurt!
Javert: Zsah-vair, it's pronounced Zsah-vair.
Pecry: But it's spelled J-A-V-E-R-T Javvurt.
Javert: Repeat after me Zsah...Zsah....
Percy: Oh! Zsa-Zsa! Like the Gabor sister! Well I personally have always prefered Eva.
Javert: (Looks for gun)
#4re: Top 10 Scores (between 1900-1980)
Posted: 9/5/05 at 1:11pm
ok, the music was written around this time but the musical was written in 93. It's:
Crazy For You
~Dirty Rotten Scoundrels~
~Curtains~
~A Tale of Two Cities ~
#5re: Best 10 Musicals between 1900-1980
Posted: 9/5/05 at 1:11pm
Sweeney Todd
Evita
Company
A Little Night Music
Follies
Gypsy
Funny Girl
Boys from Syracuse
Sweet Charity
Chicago
Updated On: 9/5/05 at 01:11 PM
#6re: Best 10 Musicals between 1900-1980
Posted: 9/5/05 at 1:13pm
BobbyBubby, you know I suck at this. You know I cannot only pick ten!
#7re: Best 10 Musicals between 1900-1980
Posted: 9/5/05 at 1:15pm
WOnderboy, weren't your 10 favorite musicals written in 2004? 
colleen_lee
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/16/05
#8re: Top 10 Scores (between 1900-1980)
Posted: 9/5/05 at 1:18pm
Whoa, hard one. In no particular order:
Jesus Christ Superstar
Pippin
Chicago
Gypsy
A Chorus Line
West Side Story
Cabaret
My Fair Lady
Annie Get Your Gun
Once Upon a Mattress
#9re: Best 10 Musicals between 1900-1980
Posted: 9/5/05 at 1:21pm
In no order
West Side Story
Wondeful Town
Gypsy
Chicago
Sweet Charity
Sweeney Todd
The King and I
Cabaret
*Mind is drawing a blank for 2 more scores*
Updated On: 9/5/05 at 01:21 PM
#10re: Best 10 Musicals between 1900-1980
Posted: 9/5/05 at 1:26pmBobbyBubby ~ you know that's not true! Duh! RENT!!!
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Joined: 12/31/69
#11re: Best 10 Musicals between 1900-1980
Posted: 9/5/05 at 1:27pm
Company
A Little Night Music
Porgy and Bess
Kiss Me, Kate
Guys and Dolls
Anything Goes
Anyone Can Whistle
Sweeney Todd
Funny Girl
My Fair Lady
#12re: Best 10 Musicals between 1900-1980
Posted: 9/5/05 at 1:29pm
I wonder if any of the Rent/Wicked tweens can even LIST 10 scores from this time period. 
#13re: Best 10 Musicals between 1900-1980
Posted: 9/5/05 at 1:31pmAh, young caterpillar. You have unlocked the secret reason for this thread.
#14re: Best 10 Musicals between 1900-1980
Posted: 9/5/05 at 1:32pm
Ljay, of course! There is
RENT
WICKED
BROOKLYN
WICKED
RENT
WICKED
BROOKLYN
WICKED
RENT
LiKe DuH! LES MIZ iS SO oLd scHoOl!
#15re: Best 10 Musicals between 1900-1980
Posted: 9/5/05 at 1:33pm
Keep in mind, I'm going with best SCORES. The book of the musical isn't included in judgement. In no particular order:
MY FAIR LADY
WEST SIDE STORY
SOUTH PACIFIC
CAROUSEL
GYPSY
ANNIE GET YOUR GUN
FUNNY GIRL
KISS ME, KATE
SWEENEY TODD
CHICAGO
#16re: Best 10 Musicals between 1900-1980
Posted: 9/5/05 at 1:33pm
If you see the show more than once it counts as a new score each time you see it!
MargoChanning
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/5/04
#17re: Best 10 Musicals between 1900-1980
Posted: 9/5/05 at 1:37pm
Porgy and Bess
Threepenny Opera
West Side Story
Gypsy
Hair
Company
Follies
Chicago
Pacific Overtures
Sweeney Todd
#18re: Best 10 Musicals between 1900-1980
Posted: 9/5/05 at 1:50pm
Gypsy
West Side Story
Kiss Me, Kate
Follies
Chicago
Company
Sweeney Todd
My Fair Lady
Anything Goes
Cabaret
In random order.
wickedrentq
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/6/04
#19re: Best 10 Musicals between 1900-1980
Posted: 9/5/05 at 1:55pm
Ljay, we've discussed this before...again I'm not a tween, but please give more credit to some rent/wicked fans and at least if you're gonna post something like that I would greatly appreciate adding a brief(I know there are some fans of the shows who are very knowledgable about the past, etc) like you did in the other thread. As far as my own...hmm..
West Side Story first
The rest prob not in a particular order:
Chicago
Cabaret
My Fair Lady
Fiddler on the Roof
The King and I
Jesus Christ Superstar
Hair
These two balance each out:
Sound of Music-loved movie as a child so perhaps not best but not fav
Sweeney Todd-not particularly top 10 fav but understand the quality of it and maybe will appreciate it more after seeing it live
Also will add I don't know that much if any scores well enough pre-R&H to rank them here.
#20re: Best 10 Musicals between 1900-1980
Posted: 9/5/05 at 1:56pmOh duh. I forgot Sweet Charity. And Annie Get Your Gun! Ahh, there's so many. That's a near impossible question that is just cruel to ask. Just cruel.
#21re: Best 10 Musicals between 1900-1980
Posted: 9/5/05 at 2:13pm
Hair
Pippin
Godspell
Evita
Jesus Christ Superstar
West Side Story
Chicago
Cabaret
A Chorus Line
Guys & Dolls
Edited because I only had 9
Sant
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/12/04
#22re: Best 10 Musicals between 1900-1980
Posted: 9/5/05 at 2:15pm
CHICAGO
THE KING AND I
SHOW BOAT
EVITA
GREASE
THE SOUND OF MUSIC
GYPSY
JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR
GUYS AND DOLLS
DAMN YANKEES
#23re: Best 10 Musicals between 1900-1980
Posted: 9/5/05 at 2:25pm
PETER PAN
GYPSY
INTO THE WOODS
COMPANY
LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS
WEST SIDE STORY
GUYS & DOLLS
THE SOUND OF MUSIC
FUNNY GIRL
THE MUSIC MAN
--Aristotle
#24re: Best 10 Musicals between 1900-1980
Posted: 9/5/05 at 2:33pm
Well, if we're talking "scores" only, and not overall shows (which include the book), I would say...
Porgy and Bess
Show Boat
Oklahoma!
Brigadoon
Gypsy
Guys and Dolls
The Most Happy Fella
Sweeney Todd
The Music Man
West Side Story
(Not in any particular order. Jeez, that was tough.)
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