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Top Ten Musicals

Posted: 8/1/05 at 3:54pm

Top Ten Musicals
BBC Radio polled more than 400,000 theatregoers to help pick the Top Ten Musicals of all-time, and they've now published the list. For the complete story, click here (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/4733061.stm).

1. Les Miserables
2. The Phantom of the Opera
3. Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
4. The King and I
5. Sunset Boulevard
6. Evita
7. Chess
8. The Rocky Horror Show
9. Follies
10. Hair


Posted on Monday, August 01, 2005 @ 03:28 PM

Updated On: 8/1/05 at 03:54 PM

#2

re: Top Ten Musicals

Posted: 8/1/05 at 3:54pm

that's from rob's blog... kind of a crazy list in my opinion.
#3

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Posted: 8/1/05 at 3:56pm

Can't argue about Les Miserables - it is my number one. It is obvious that it is a UK list however.
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#4

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Posted: 8/1/05 at 3:57pm

I agree kind of a crazy list. Some of those shows are good but others...?
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#5

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Posted: 8/1/05 at 3:57pm

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers? What?

I agree with 3 on that list.
#7

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Posted: 8/1/05 at 3:58pm

i mean... i just sat there looking at it saying, "HUH?"
#8

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Posted: 8/1/05 at 4:00pm

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers??? That was one of the biggest Broadway flops of the 80s. It only ran 5 performances (the same as Carrie the Musical). I take it that it did much better in the West End.
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#9

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Posted: 8/1/05 at 4:01pm

I saw that - it's almost as bad as Britain's Channel 4 Top 100 Musicals list (Grease #1! WHAT?!?!?!?!?)

If I had to pick, I'd go:
1. Sweeney
2. Fiddler
3. West Side
4. Gypsy
5. Cabaret
6. A Chorus Line
7. My Fair Lady
8. Follies
9. Company
10. A Little Night Music
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#10

re: Top Ten Musicals

Posted: 8/1/05 at 4:01pm

Where the hell is West Side Story? Gypsy?
#12

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Posted: 8/1/05 at 4:02pm

that list sux
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#13

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Posted: 8/1/05 at 4:05pm

i can't get over it... chess? seven brides for seven brothers? hair? evita? sunset boulevard? rocky horror? follies? i guess i could understand a popular vote getting the king and i, les mis and phantom... but for real?
#14

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Posted: 8/1/05 at 4:10pm

well i am at least ahppy that hair made the list.
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#15

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Posted: 8/1/05 at 4:12pm

Follies is the only show on that list that would have made a top ten list of mine.
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#16

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Posted: 8/1/05 at 4:15pm

only in the revised version, right margo?
#17

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Posted: 8/1/05 at 4:15pm

Les Miz and Phantom are really the only ones I agree with.

seven brides for seven brothers??
#18

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Posted: 8/1/05 at 4:28pm

I will have to admit, even I'm amazed that "Chess" made the list, and I am an ABBA fan...loud and proud about ABBA, too: just ask me!!! Then again, if you know any people from across the pond, ABBA is still a major musical commodity over in Europe. I wish they were here...that there were more people that realize that ABBA were a lot more than "Dancing Queen". I also defy anyone to find voices to equal Agnetha's in "The Winner Takes It All", and Anni-Frid's in "When All Is Said And Done", or "The Visitors". Talk about "money notes"... yeah, they hit 'em, alright...

"Chess" is a good musical with a weak storyline that is still playing in the UK. Take a chance on it. Get at least the greatest hits cd and listen to Tommy Korberg sing "Anthem". That song alone is worth the $35 to buy the 2-cd set. Then there is the Murray Head/Anders Glenmark performance of "One Night In Bangkok"...remember when MtV first came out? I do...this was one of the very first vids to be shown. "I Know Him So Well" is a very ABBA-like duet...with Elaine Page...and ??? I'm sorry, I always forget her name, and am too lazy to get up and look for it right now!! The duet "You and I" is also good.

The storyline sucks, but the music is another matter...imho.

#19

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Posted: 8/1/05 at 4:30pm

well the score isn't bad... but it is clearly not one of the top ten musicals of all time.
#20

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Posted: 8/1/05 at 4:39pm

Greatest Musicals of All Time. My version:
Musicals placed on this list have garnered some sort of merit either for being innovative to the genre or for having a long lasting life. (These are not in any order)

1. Gypsy
2. West Side Story
3. A Chorus Line
4. Into The Woods
5. RENT
6. Les Miserables
7. Phantom of the Opera
8. Fiddler On The Roof
9. Cabaret
10. 42nd Street

Add Another 10?
11: Miss Saigon
12: Little Shop Of Horrors
13. HAIR
14. My Fair Lady
15. Dream Girls
16. Showboat
17. Sweet Charity
18. Grease
19. Company
20. The Rocky Horror Show

God, I forgot how many of these shows I don't like! But anyhow, they've managed to get up there because they've done something interested or they are the best of a specific Genre. 42nd St is just a damn good old fashioned musical (When the cast is good)...
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Updated On: 8/1/05 at 04:39 PM

#21

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Posted: 8/1/05 at 4:43pm

i agree with you except for 42nd street mimi.. i guess i could argue phantom and fiddler too, but i'll give them to you!
#22

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Posted: 8/1/05 at 4:47pm

My top ten:

1. Kristina från Duvelmåla tied with Rent
2. The Sound of Music
3. The Phantom of the Opera
4. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
5. Carousel
6. The Song of Norway
7. South Pacific
8. West Side Story
9. My Fair Lady (Audrey Hepburn)
10. The Singing Nun

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#23

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Posted: 8/1/05 at 4:48pm

How could I forget the sound of muckas. AS much as I have a distain for the vontrappers it definitly needs to be in the top ten. bump out 42nd st and make the list 21
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#24

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Posted: 8/1/05 at 4:52pm

C'mon Margo. Don't leave us hanging. Give us your top ten list. Your opinions are so exceptionally well-informed that they make many people like me, rethink our favs and explore works we normally wouldn't think about.
#25

re: Top Ten Musicals

Posted: 8/1/05 at 4:53pm

(i would put ragtime on any top 10 list)

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