Top 10 Scores (between 1900-1980)

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Top 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

re: 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

re: Best 10 Musicals between 1900-1980

Posted: 9/5/05 at 1:07pm

sweeney todd
west side story

re: 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.

If Percy Blakeney were in Les Mis....

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)

re: 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

<--- the set of A Midsummer Night's Dream that I was assistant stage manager for during the 2007 season at the STNJ outdoor stage.

-Dre- You must remember all the same that at the crux of every game is knowing when it's time to leave the table... And it's important to be artful in your exit. No turning back, you must accept the con is done... It was a ball, it was a blast. And it's a shame it couldn't last. But every chapter has to end, you must agree.
~Dirty Rotten Scoundrels~
There's a special kind of people known as show people. We live in a world full of dreams. Sometimes we're not too certain what's false and what's real. But we're seldom in doubt about what we feel.
~Curtains~
It is a far, far better thing I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest I go to, than I have ever known.
~A Tale of Two Cities ~

re: 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

re: 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!

"For me, THEATRE is an anticipation, an artistic rush, an emotional banquet, a jubilant appreciation, and an exit hopeful of clearer thought and better worlds." ~ an anonymous traveler with Robert Burns

re: Best 10 Musicals between 1900-1980

Posted: 9/5/05 at 1:15pm

WOnderboy, weren't your 10 favorite musicals written in 2004?

re: 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

"You just can't win. Ever. Look at the bright side, at least you are not stuck in First Wives Club: The Musical. That would really suck. " --Sueleen Gay

#10

re: 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

#11

re: Best 10 Musicals between 1900-1980

Posted: 9/5/05 at 1:26pm

BobbyBubby ~ you know that's not true! Duh! RENT!!!

#12

re: 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

#13

re: 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.

#14

re: Best 10 Musicals between 1900-1980

Posted: 9/5/05 at 1:31pm

Ah, young caterpillar. You have unlocked the secret reason for this thread.

#15

re: 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!

#16

re: 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

Praying Decca Broadway will put "Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope" on CD!

#17

re: 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!

#18

re: 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

"What a story........ everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end." -- Birdie [http://margochanning.broadwayworld.com/] "The Devil Be Hittin' Me" -- Whitney

#19

re: 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.

#20

re: 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.

"If there was a Mount Rushmore for Broadway scores, "West Side Story" would be front and center. It snaps, it crackles it pops! It surges with a roar, its energy and sheer life undiminished by the years" - NYPost reviewer Elisabeth Vincentelli

Updated On: 9/5/05 at 01:55 PM

#21

re: Best 10 Musicals between 1900-1980

Posted: 9/5/05 at 1:56pm

Oh 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.

#22

re: 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

I have my books and my poetry to protect me...

Updated On: 9/5/05 at 02:13 PM

#23

re: 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

#24

re: 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

"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle

#25

re: 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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