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#26

re: Best 10 Musicals between 1900-1980

Posted: 9/5/05 at 2:41pm

Wouldn't it be more resourceful, and less repetitive, if we ask each new member to list their top ten favorite musical scores when they sign up?

That way it can be posted in a profile, and anyone can see what musicals particulary move us. Maybe we can even create a "favorites" page, a la the fan photos for our Top Ten Lists. (Shows, performers, etc.)

Also it eliminates the need to have the same thread, created every week or so, albeit worded differently, and answered by the same posters.

Just a suggestion to break the seemingly never-ending repetive nature of the threads.

Updated On: 9/5/05 at 02:41 PM

#27

re: Best 10 Musicals between 1900-1980

Posted: 9/5/05 at 2:47pm

Since most top 10's around here include the same 5 musicals from the last 10 years, I thought it would be more interesting to limit the time period.

#28

re: Best 10 Musicals between 1900-1980

Posted: 9/5/05 at 2:48pm

Sweeny Todd
Fiorello!
A Little Night Music
Sweet Charity
Carousel
South Pacific
Show Boat
Gypsy
The King and I
Guys and Dolls

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#29

re: Best 10 Musicals between 1900-1980

Posted: 9/5/05 at 2:48pm

In no particular order:

My Fair Lady
West Side Story
Kiss Me Kate
Li'l Abner
Mame
Carousel
A Chorus Line
Gypsy
Annie Get Your Gun
Anything Goes

Updated On: 9/5/05 at 02:48 PM

#30

re: Best 10 Musicals between 1900-1980

Posted: 9/5/05 at 2:51pm

I love you for mentioning LI'L ABNER! I simply adore that show! I've been dying to play Abner for years! Well, especially since I can't get cast as Daisy Mae!

I'd love for this show to come back to Broadway!

"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

#31

re: Best 10 Musicals between 1900-1980

Posted: 9/5/05 at 2:58pm

Capn,

Little Shop and Into the Woods are post-1980.

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

#32

re: Best 10 Musicals between 1900-1980

Posted: 9/5/05 at 3:02pm

We're talking BEST SCORES here - meaning the quality of the music - not the book or performances, or sets, or anything else...

I'm limiting myself to American composers only.

Roughly chronological:

SHOWBOAT
GIRL CRAZY
BABES IN ARMS
CAROUSEL
CANDIDE
THE MOST HAPPY FELLA
GYPSY
WEST SIDE STORY
SHE LOVES ME
SWEENEY TODD

#33

re: Best 10 Musicals between 1900-1980

Posted: 9/5/05 at 3:43pm

Based on scores that yielded the greatest numbers of Hit songs and/or standards...
SHOW BOAT (1927) -
GIRL CRAZY (1930)
ANYTHING GOES (1934)
BABES IN ARMS (1937)
OKLAHOMA! (1943)
ANNIE GET YOUR GUN (1946)
MY FAIR LADY (1956)
WEST SIDE STORY (1957)
GYPSY (1959)
SOUND OF MUSIC (1959)

Notice that after 1960 most shows if they had any hit songs it was usually one per score, once in a while maybe 2. Most of the above the entire score became popular.

Cast albums are NOT "soundtracks."
Live theatre does not use a "soundtrack." If it did, it wouldn't be live theatre!

I host a weekly one-hour radio program featuring cast album selections as well as songs by cabaret, jazz and theatre artists. The program, FRONT ROW CENTRE is heard Sundays 9 to 10 am and also Saturdays from 8 to 9 am (eastern times) on www.proudfm.com

#34

re: Best 10 Musicals between 1900-1980

Posted: 9/5/05 at 3:46pm

Sweeney Todd
Company
Evita
JCS
Chicago
Oklahoma
Pirates of Penzance et. al.
Fiddler
Follies

and, I know it didn't happen til 81 but i don't care Merrily We Roll Along is on my list

when ducks grow thumbs then maybe my opinion will change.

#35

re: Best 10 Musicals between 1900-1980

Posted: 9/5/05 at 5:28pm

In no particular order, and based only on the merits of the score:

A Little Night Music
Sweeney Todd
West Side Story
Company
The King and I
Fiddler on the Roof
South Pacific
Gypsy
Cabaret
Follies

Ah, I feel like I forgot something I really love. And I think these have all been mentioned already...

#36

re: Best 10 Musicals between 1900-1980

Posted: 9/5/05 at 5:48pm

Gypsy
Sweeny Todd
Company
Chicago
Carousel
West Side Story
Kiss Me Kate
How To Succeed...
Guys and Dolls
Evita

#37

re: Best 10 Musicals between 1900-1980

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

West Side Story
Gypsy
Sweet Charity
Hair
Promises Promises
Company
Follies
Cabaret
Chicago
A Chorus Line

**in no particular order**

#38

re: Best 10 Musicals between 1900-1980

Posted: 9/5/05 at 5:57pm

West Side Story
Wondeful Town
Gypsy
Chicago
Sweet Charity
Sweeney Todd
The King and I
Cabaret
A Chorus Line
Kiss Me Kate

#39

re: Best 10 Musicals between 1900-1980

Posted: 9/5/05 at 6:43pm

Chicago
Damn Yankees
Kiss Me Kate
Gypsy
West Side Story
Company
Godspell
Caberet
Funny Thing...Forum
Sweeney Todd

Be the change you want in the world....

Updated On: 9/5/05 at 06:43 PM

#40

re: Best 10 Musicals between 1900-1980

Posted: 9/5/05 at 6:54pm

Kel, you like Company so much you had to list it twice?

Chicago
Damn Yankees
Fantastics
Cabaret
West Side Story
Jesus Christ Superstar
Joseph...Dreamcoat
Guys and Dolls
Annie Get Your Gun
Pippin

Updated On: 9/5/05 at 06:54 PM

#41

re: Best 10 Musicals between 1900-1980

Posted: 9/5/05 at 6:56pm

Oh crap...(she goes to edit it)

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