What are your top favorite shows of all time?

#1

What are your top favorite shows of all time?

Posted: 7/14/06 at 11:10am

I want to know.
Mine:
1. Avenue Q (Surprise)
2. Forbidden Broadway
3. A Chorus Line
4. Gypsy
5. Pippin/Mame
6. Dreamgirls
7. The Wiz/LA CAGE AUX FOLLES
8. Millie
9. Dessa Rose
10. The Color Purple

Updated On: 7/14/06 at 11:10 AM

#2

re: What are your top favorite shows of all time?

Posted: 7/14/06 at 11:17am

A Chorus Line.

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#3

re: What are your top favorite shows of all time?

Posted: 7/14/06 at 11:24am

Gypsy

#4

re: What are your top favorite shows of all time?

Posted: 7/14/06 at 11:28am

Let's see:

Follies
Falsettos (and all of it's versions)
The Light in the Piazza
Jon and Jen
Chess
The Last Five Years
110 in the Shade

... and oh so many more :)

#5

re: What are your top favorite shows of all time?

Posted: 7/14/06 at 11:40am

The Phantom of the Opera
Miss Saigon
The Woman in White
Aida
Evita
The Drowsy Chaperone

Updated On: 7/14/06 at 11:40 AM

#6

re: What are your top favorite shows of all time?

Posted: 7/14/06 at 11:45am

Follies
Sunday in the Park with George
Nine
Rent
Gypsy
Cabaret
Hello, Dolly!
Sweeney Todd
A Little Night Music
The Light in the Piazza
The Last 5 Years
Hedwig and the Angry Inch

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#7

re: What are your top favorite shows of all time?

Posted: 7/14/06 at 11:49am

Cornie2, you should share w/ us also what yours are... Mine are listed below...
CHICAGO
Gypsy
Anything Goes - Revival version
Will Rogers Follies
Funny Girl
A Chorus Line
Wicked
Thoroughly Modern Millie

#8

re: What are your top favorite shows of all time?

Posted: 7/14/06 at 11:51am

Nine
Ragtime
Last Five Years
Gypsy
Secret Garden
A Chorus Line
Into the Woods

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#9

re: What are your top favorite shows of all time?

Posted: 7/14/06 at 11:51am

1. Chicago
2. Follies
3. Carousel
4. South Pacific
5. Sweeney Todd
6. The Light in the Piazza

A lot of you may question why Follies comes before Sweeney Todd. Well, the characters of Joanna and Anthony are so poorly written (and performed poorly in most productions except for the current one) that it makes even the blandest characters in Follies seem interesting.

#10

re: What are your top favorite shows of all time?

Posted: 7/14/06 at 11:57am

Jersey Boys
Sweeney Todd
Little Shop of Horrors
The Producers
The Drowsy Chaperone
La Cage Aux Folles
The Phantom Of The Opera
Monty Python's SpamAlot
Avenue Q
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#11

re: What are your top favorite shows of all time?

Posted: 7/14/06 at 11:57am

Rent
Sweeney Todd
The Drowsy Chaperone
Gypsy
Thourghly Modern Millie
Evita
My Fair Lady
Passion
The Light in the Piazza
Forbidden Broadway

Updated On: 7/14/06 at 11:57 AM

#12

re: What are your top favorite shows of all time?

Posted: 7/14/06 at 11:58am

Ragtime tops the list, with Les Miserables, Cabaret, Fiddler on the Roof, and Guys and Dolls a close second, third, fourth, and fifth.

Updated On: 7/14/06 at 11:58 AM

#13

re: What are your top favorite shows of all time?

Posted: 7/14/06 at 12:00pm

1. Ragtime
2. Parade
3. Caroline, or Change
4. The Light in the Piazza

#14

re: What are your top favorite shows of all time?

Posted: 7/14/06 at 12:03pm

I find it hard to answer this question. A mediocre show can be amazing with the right creative team behind it, the same way that a great book/score can be ruined by a bad production. I love the original Sweeney Todd but dislike the revival. Showboat doesn't do much for me but the Hal Prince revival is one of my favorite productions ever. Same with NT/LC's Carousel. Strangely, I like the show Evita but dislike the original production (it's good but I think it could be better).

#15

re: What are your top favorite shows of all time?

Posted: 7/14/06 at 12:39pm

1. Crazy for You
2. Into the Woods
3. Jekyll and Hyde
4. Oklahoma

and then Rent and the Music Man are ok...

cheers,
Mel...

#16

re: What are your top favorite shows of all time?

Posted: 7/14/06 at 12:42pm

Ragtime
Parade
Nine
Caroline or Change
Light in the Piazza

#17

re: What are your top favorite shows of all time?

Posted: 7/14/06 at 1:18pm

Sweeney Todd
Gypsy
Into the Woods
Sunday In The Park With George
Evita

#18

re: What are your top favorite shows of all time?

Posted: 7/14/06 at 1:24pm

The Light In The Piazza
Ragtime
Songs for a New World
Miss Saigon
Into the Woods
A Chorus Line
Les Miserables
Wicked

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#19

re: What are your top favorite shows of all time?

Posted: 7/14/06 at 1:27pm

CHICAGO and AVENUE Q

#20

re: What are your top favorite shows of all time?

Posted: 7/14/06 at 1:31pm

GYPSY
GUYS AND DOLLS
MY FAIR LADY
KING AND I
THE FANTASTICKS
FIDDLER ON THE ROOF
INTO THE WOODS
A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC

#21

re: What are your top favorite shows of all time?

Posted: 7/14/06 at 1:38pm

Musicals:
Falsettos
Sunset Boulevard
[title of show]

Plays:
The Glass Menagerie
The Tricky Part
The Paris Letter

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#22

re: What are your top favorite shows of all time?

Posted: 7/14/06 at 1:44pm

Assassins/ Sweeney Todd
Urinetown
The Fantasticks
Songs For A New World
Last Five Years

#23

re: What are your top favorite shows of all time?

Posted: 7/14/06 at 2:17pm

Gypsy
Ragtime
Sweeney Todd

The order changes practically everytime I listen to each of the scores!

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#24

re: What are your top favorite shows of all time?

Posted: 7/14/06 at 3:58pm

West Side Story
Cabaret
Ragtime
Urinetown
Sweeney Todd
My Fair Lady
The Light in the Piazza
Assassins
Tick, Tick... BOOM!
Rent
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Titanic the Musical
Songs for a New World
The Last Five Years

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#25

re: What are your top favorite shows of all time?

Posted: 7/14/06 at 4:02pm

Gypsy
Sweeney Todd
A Chorus Line
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Sunday In The Park With George
Cabaret
Assassins
Last Five Years
Chicago
Funny Girl
A Little Night Music
The Threepenny Opera