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

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

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

Coast of Utopia

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

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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.

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"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.

The Light in the Piazza

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

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Mamma Mia!
Hairspray
Wicked
Jersey Boys

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.

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

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

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

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

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