What are the most rarely seen/under-appreciated musicals?

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What are the most rarely seen/under-appreciated musicals?

Posted: 5/22/08 at 7:40pm

I choose Anyone Can Whistle & Sunday in the park.
basically any piece Mr Sondheim graced the world with.

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Posted: 5/22/08 at 7:43pm

There are some popular Sondheim pieces. Sunday doesn't really count anymore since the revival.

I'd say

Redhead
New Girl In Town


Good look finding a production of those musicals.

Updated On: 5/22/08 at 07:43 PM

#3

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Posted: 5/22/08 at 7:55pm

Golden Apple.

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Posted: 5/22/08 at 7:58pm

She Loves Me (although it still gets produced here and there)

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Posted: 5/22/08 at 7:59pm

I think Finian's Rainbow is fairly under-appreciated. hopefully that will change a bit after next year's Encores! production.

some other shows that come to mind are Pacific Overtures, Big River, and...Prettybelle.

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Posted: 5/22/08 at 8:01pm

Carrie
Dear World
Mack and Mabel
The Baker's Wife
Prettybelle
Late Nite Comic (I like the music, although the guy who wrote complains all the time in interviews)

and many more...

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Updated On: 5/22/08 at 08:01 PM

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Posted: 5/22/08 at 8:17pm

Amour

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Posted: 5/22/08 at 8:46pm

Olympus on my Mind
Hollywood Pinafore
Zombie Prom
A Day in Hollywood...
Trixie True, Teen Detective

#9

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Posted: 5/22/08 at 8:52pm

Side Show

And it's really not that under-appreciated, but it does deserve to be a lot more well known: Ragtime.

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#10

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Posted: 5/22/08 at 11:31pm

Zorba-one of Kander & Ebb's best scores, and when done right, it can be a really soaring and uplifting show.

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Posted: 5/22/08 at 11:47pm

The majority of Michael John LaChiusa musicals, mainly....

HELLO AGAIN
MARIE CHRISTINE
THE WILD PARTY
SEE WHAT I WANNA SEE.

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#12

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Posted: 5/22/08 at 11:49pm

I saw She Loves Me just this past Monday at the Huntington in Boston and I absolutely adored it. anyone who's anywhere near Boston REALLY needs to go see it.

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Posted: 5/23/08 at 12:09am

Smile

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Posted: 5/23/08 at 12:18am

Lestat
Dracula
Dance of the...
Oh, who am I kidding, there's no way I can make those choices sound sincere.

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Posted: 5/23/08 at 12:24am

Me and My Girl comes to mind. I hadn't even heard of it until I saw it at the Pittsburgh CLO with Sutton Foster a couple of years ago.

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Posted: 5/23/08 at 12:33am

Carrie is not "rarely seen."

I'll respond with Side Show

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Posted: 5/23/08 at 12:47am

The majority of Michael John LaChiusa musicals, mainly....

Exactly.

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Posted: 5/23/08 at 3:56am

KISMET
PAINT YOUR WAGON (problematic book)
SILK STOCKINGS
FIORELLO
NO STRINGS
DO I HEAR A WALTZ?
GOLDEN BOY
I LOVE MY WIFE
THE RINK
MAN OF NO IMPORTANCE

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Posted: 5/23/08 at 5:31am

"I Love My Wife" jumps out of that previous list. The OBCR is so great, I'd love to see it. Reprise in LA is doing it next season, with Jason Alexander.

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Posted: 5/23/08 at 8:38am

L'll ABNER is under-appreciated. It may be done in high schools, but I think it could stand a Broadway revival. Its satiric book and score are great, IMO, and its sly take on the corruption in Washington is very up to date. It would need a great choreographer, as dancing is an important factor in this show, originally choreographed by the famous Michael Kidd. The movie version has retained some of the original Broadway dances and is worth getting for this alone, and the title role is played by Peter Palmer, also from Broadway. And the film also has the unique Julie Newmar who has to be seen to be believed. It is available very cheap on Amazon.com

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Posted: 5/23/08 at 8:48am

Applause
By Jeeves
Honk
Lizzie Borden
Mutiny
Sarafina!

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Posted: 5/23/08 at 8:55am

Dear World
Sideshow
Working
Ballroom

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Posted: 5/23/08 at 9:02am

The Baker's Wife
Ragtime
Shenandoah

Then there is the never seen (but, having never seen it, the score may be the best part):
Mack & Mabel

#24

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Posted: 5/23/08 at 9:32am

I think the most underseen show is "On the Twentieth Century"
It has a fabulous score, hysterical book and great characters so it's surprising there has never been a Broadway revival. And there is already the perfect cast for it. The actors fund did an amazing concert version of it a couple years ago - they should revive the show with Marin Mazzie and Douglass Sills.

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Posted: 5/23/08 at 9:34am

I think The Mystery of Edwin Drood is vastly under appreciated