What is your own personal "Golden Age" of Broadway?- Page 2

[Wildcard]

Posted: 8/1/13 at 12:53pm

Is it possible to discuss one's personal golden age without bringing down other periods in Broadway history which may be the golden age of another?

[bpr515]

Posted: 8/1/13 at 1:01pm

My "golden age" is the big musical boom of the late 80s/early 90s: Les Mis, Phantom, Saigon, Aspects of Love, etc. Good or bad, they'll always hold a special place for me as that's when I fell in love with theater.

[landryjames2]

Posted: 8/1/13 at 1:05pm

The time period I wish I was alive and attending Broadway shows all the time would have been the sixties with Anyone Can Whistle, Hello Dolly, Mame, Funny Girl, Hair, Camelot; the introduction of Barbra Streisand; the start of Sondheim having musicals on Broadway where he wrote both lyrics and music. It is the time of Broadway history (and actually in general) I am most jealous of (so to speak).

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 8/1/13 at 1:22pm

Mine would have to be the late nineties into 2001. Cats was still running, Miss Saigon was still running, Phantom was using the original logo, Jekyll & Hyde finally made it to Broadway, Titanic won best musical, Putting it Together introduced me to the music of Stephen Sondheim, the boys were getting naked in The Full Monty and then in 2001 this little musical comedy came along called The Producers.

[GavestonPS]

Posted: 8/1/13 at 7:57pm

Is it possible to discuss one's personal golden age without bringing down other periods in Broadway history which may be the golden age of another?

Yes, I suppose that favoring any one period automatically disfavors others. But as long as we define our terms (which the OP did in the first post), I don't see the harm.

If you are asking whether we can appreciate the R&H period and still love earlier and later shows, then, yes, of course we can.

[buddy5]

Posted: 8/2/13 at 5:38pm

The so called Golden Age was long in quantity..but evey decade produced its Golden Moments starting with Show Boat in the twenties ...Of Thee I Sing in the thirties..Carousel in the forties..My Fair Lady in the fifties..right through modern times with the revival of Follies.,which in 80 years of theater going, I consider
The most creative musical of all times..a completely eclectic score and a totally original book....

[Tink2]

Posted: 8/2/13 at 8:29pm

My personal Golden Age was the seventies thru the late eighties...Pippin, Chorus Line thru Les Mis, Phantom. There were many wonderful shows in the fifties and sixties, but I was too young to experience them. Of course, I've been back to Broadway and seen shows since then, but a lot of those were revivals of shows I saw in my Golden Age, or shows from the fifties ad sixties.

Posted: 8/4/13 at 1:40pm

my own was the 80's helicopters,chandeliers and flying tires.

but personally i think it was in the 40's/50's.