What do YOU think the best show of the post-millenium years was (so far)??

[asinger]

What do YOU think the best show of the post-millenium years was (so far)??#1

Posted: 6/21/07 at 9:46pm

Recently (after the year 2000), what do YOU think was the best new show overall?

My choices:

-The Light in the Piazza
-Grey Gardens


Now your turn

[ahmelie]

re: What do YOU think the best show of the post-millenium years was (so far)??#2

Posted: 6/21/07 at 9:48pm

I'd have to agree with you, those two were exactly what I thought of.

Theatre is a safe place to do the unsafe things that need to be done. -John Patrick Shanley

[Yankeefan007]

re: What do YOU think the best show of the post-millenium years was (so far)??#2

Posted: 6/21/07 at 9:49pm

The Producers
Spamalot
Jersey Boys
Spring Awakening
Mamma Mia
Movin' Out
Hairspray
The Pillowman
The Coast of Utopia
The History Boys
Blackbird
The Clean House

Updated On: 6/21/07 at 09:49 PM

[wonderfulwizard11]

re: What do YOU think the best show of the post-millenium years was (so far)??#3

Posted: 6/21/07 at 9:50pm

Urinetown
Hairspray
Grey Gardens

I am a firm believer in serendipity- all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose was all along.

[keen on kean]

re: What do YOU think the best show of the post-millenium years was (so far)??#4

Posted: 6/21/07 at 9:54pm

Coast of Utopia

[jrb_actor]

re: What do YOU think the best show of the post-millenium years was (so far)??#5

Posted: 6/21/07 at 9:59pm

Caroline, Or Change

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[munkustrap178]

re: What do YOU think the best show of the post-millenium years was (so far)??#6

Posted: 6/21/07 at 10:08pm

MUSICALS
Elaine Stritch: At Liberty
Urinetown
Caroline, or Change
The Light in the Piazza
Grey Gardens

PLAYS
The Goat
Sixteen Wounded
700 Sundays
Doubt
The Pillowman
Bridge & Tunnel
The History Boys
Rabbit Hole
The Clean House
The Coast of Utopia
Frost/Nixon
Jay Johnson: The Two and Only!
The Little Dog Laughed

"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy." -Charlie Manson

[joniray]

re: What do YOU think the best show of the post-millenium years was (so far#7

Posted: 6/21/07 at 10:13pm

I agree with JRB (Caroline)

[Clara's Pony]

re: What do YOU think the best show of the post-millenium years was (so far#8

Posted: 6/21/07 at 10:23pm

I think LITP will certainly be remembered as one of the most important musicals of the decade - in a way I see Grey Gardens as the beginning of its legacy. Let's hope there'll be many more shows like these.

Why, hello Margaret! Yes darling, half past five. Well, everyone, simply le tout Park Avenue and la creme de Hyannis! Well, the press table's going to be awfully crowded... but if you don't mind sharing a folding chair with Harper's Bazaar... Sing? Me? Heavens no, it's Edie's day, not mine... Although people can be so insistent, and I hate to disappoint. Twist my arm, blackmail me, threaten my very life, and who knows? You might get a verse of something...

[Tom148502]

re: What do YOU think the best show of the post-millenium years was (so far#9

Posted: 6/21/07 at 10:28pm

Grey Gardens
Urinetown

[joniray]

re: What do YOU think the best show of the post-millenium years was (so far#10

Posted: 6/21/07 at 10:32pm

"in a way I see Grey Gardens as the beginning of its legacy."

How so? Grey Gardens was written before Piazza was at Lincoln Center.

[wonderfulwizard11]

re: What do YOU think the best show of the post-millenium years was (so far#11

Posted: 6/21/07 at 10:33pm

I think she means the final product of Grey gardens, what is seen on stage right now.

I am a firm believer in serendipity- all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose was all along.

[Boq101]

re: What do YOU think the best show of the post-millenium years was (so far#12

Posted: 6/21/07 at 10:33pm

The Light in the Piazza

[bwaylvsong]

re: What do YOU think the best show of the post-millenium years was (so far#13

Posted: 6/21/07 at 10:34pm

Definitely "The Light in the Piazza"

[ashley0139]

re: What do YOU think the best show of the post-millenium years was (so far#14

Posted: 6/21/07 at 10:34pm

Grey Gardens. I'm so original. And if we can include Off-Broadway, I think See What I Wanna See is pure brilliance.

"This table, he is over one hundred years old. If I could, I would take an old gramophone needle and run it along the surface of the wood. To hear the music of the voices. All that was said." - Doug Wright, I Am My Own Wife

[Liverpool]

re: What do YOU think the best show of the post-millenium years was (so far#15

Posted: 6/21/07 at 10:36pm

hands down Caroline or Change

[Broadwayluva]

re: What do YOU think the best show of the post-millenium years was (so far#16

Posted: 6/21/07 at 10:39pm

Mamma Mia!
Hairspray
Wicked
Jersey Boys

[Piercemn]

re: What do YOU think the best show of the post-millenium years was (so far#17

Posted: 6/21/07 at 11:08pm

I think Urinetown is important, because it's the best political commentary musical since The Cradle Will Rock.

Mamma Mia, because it's simply the most entertaining musical in years. I've seen it 5 times, and woudl go again.

Grey Gardens. This musical is the most important contribution to the musical theatre since Follies, not only for its topic, but for what it represents to the musical theatre.

NYC Visitor and Broadway Fan

[Clara's Pony]

re: What do YOU think the best show of the post-millenium years was (so far#18

Posted: 6/22/07 at 12:06am

Thanks wonderfulwizard11, I was indeed referring to final products, and was comparing them very loosely. I wasn't suggesting that Guettel DIRECTLY inspired Frankel & Korie - I think you know that joniray. I wasn't even trying to say that GG is derivative of LITP - beyond a few superficial similarities the two shows are completely different. Of course GG was conceived before LITP hit the stage, but if this is going to descend into a fussy point-scoring argument over chronology, then may I point out that Guettel started writing music for LITP way back in the late 90s. I was making a (very) general point about the two shows - suggesting that LITP's success has helped to foster a climate in which shows like GG can compete more readily.

Why, hello Margaret! Yes darling, half past five. Well, everyone, simply le tout Park Avenue and la creme de Hyannis! Well, the press table's going to be awfully crowded... but if you don't mind sharing a folding chair with Harper's Bazaar... Sing? Me? Heavens no, it's Edie's day, not mine... Although people can be so insistent, and I hate to disappoint. Twist my arm, blackmail me, threaten my very life, and who knows? You might get a verse of something...

Updated On: 6/22/07 at 12:06 AM

[thevolleyballer]

re: What do YOU think the best show of the post-millenium years was (so far#19

Posted: 6/22/07 at 12:10am

Urinetown. It will definitely be around for years to come -- it's evolving into one of the most fun, hip, best shows for high schools and regional/community theatres to do. Easily my favorite post-millenium show.

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

re: What do YOU think the best show of the post-millenium years was (so far#20

Posted: 6/22/07 at 12:25am

I can't really comment on the plays but as far as musicals are concerned:
CAROLINE, OR CHANGE (my top choice, great example of an effective post-modernist musical, pure brilliance)
GREY GARDENS
La Chiusa's THE WILD PARTY
THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA

"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"

[jam_man]

re: What do YOU think the best show of the post-millenium years was (so far#21

Posted: 6/22/07 at 12:39am

The Light in the Piazza and Urinetown, mostly.


And another for your consideration: Jerry Springer: The Opera!

"Who is Stephen Sondheim?" -roninjoey
"The man who wishes he had written Phantom of the Opera!" - SueleenGay

GO CARDINALS!!!

[BroadwayGirl107]

re: What do YOU think the best show of the post-millenium years was (so far#22

Posted: 6/22/07 at 12:44am

Musicals:
Caroline, or Change
See What I Wanna See
The Light in the Piazza
The Wild Party (LaChiusa)

[Cape Twirl of Doom]

re: What do YOU think the best show of the post-millenium years was (so far#23

Posted: 6/22/07 at 12:59am

Light in the Piazza
Urinetown
Assassins
tick..tick.. BOOM! (or does that not count since it was Off-Broadway?)

"It's Phantom meets Hamlet... Phamlet!"

[jam_man]

re: What do YOU think the best show of the post-millenium years was (so far#24

Posted: 6/22/07 at 1:10am

Hate to ruin your list, but Assassins was written and first premired in the early '90s.

"Who is Stephen Sondheim?" -roninjoey
"The man who wishes he had written Phantom of the Opera!" - SueleenGay

GO CARDINALS!!!