What's the most UNDER APPRECIATED Broadway Score?

In my opinion:

Cats
Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark
The Pirate Queen (bad book, amazing score)
Addams Family

And I know it doesn't have a cast album but I just love it...
CARRIE: THE MUSICAL

What do you think?

EDIT:
The title "Underrated" has received criticism, so I have retitled it to Under Appreciated. Please share!

Updated On: 9/11/11 at 10:54 PM

Now that I'm completely smitten with it, I am saying "Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown." Infectious and gorgeous songs-poetry set to music.

I'll get shot in the head for this, but I also love "Sunset Boulevard". I think it was greatly underrated.

I also love the score for "Bright Lights, Big City" but nothing ever seemed to happen with that.

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"Cats
Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark
The Pirate Queen (bad book, amazing score)
Addams Family"


For real? I'd count those 4 as some of the worst (and laziest) of the post Golden Age!

For me(if we're talking 80's on..):

The Grind
LaChuisa's The Wild Party
Side Show
Steel Pier
Taboo
Women on the Verge...
Story of My Life
Bloody, Bloody Andrew Jackson

Off the top of my head (and too lazy to get up to look at cast albums)...

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Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Sunset Boulevard
The Scarlet Pimpernel- (yes I know it is Wildhorn, but I think the score has some absolutely stunning music)

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"Let me guess, you're 12?"

Like I haven't heard that before. Give me a break. I'm 17 smart ass. I just asked a question and gave my opinion. Just post your opinion and don't make a big deal out of anything.

Updated On: 8/28/11 at 02:01 AM

JUNO, GREENWILLOW, and on a limb here, ALL AMERICAN.

Mamma Mia!

Footloose!

wicked.

Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson. - From last year, I really felt this was one of the most misunderstood scores. I thought the shows mockery - or mocking of the material, slightly came off as mocking the audience, although i think some felt they were 'in' on the joking. i don't know. i feel that i it makes sense that the show wasn't as - cohesive as it might have been, i think being disjointed was part of it's structure intentionally. but in terms of a score being fresh and interesting i dug it.

i've been spending a lot of time listening to the bubbly black girl sheds her chameleon skin.

i'd totally agree that caroline or change is one of the great score of the past ten years. I remember reading, gosh fred ebb maybe, damn, in any event, someone was talking about how fabulous caroline was, except that it didn't have a book. I'm not sure how i feel about this statement. if the form is supposed to evolve, but cling to antiquated notions of what is or isn't a book or is or isn't an effective score - i don't know, aren't we limiting the work potential for the development?

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Updated On: 8/28/11 at 10:44 AM

Using the term underrated implies that you think you know better than the majority of people that think those scores are inferior. It's fine to like them, but using the term underrated gives you a "I know something you don't know" attitude.

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This one isn't strictly Broadway, but I find it underrated AND underrepresented- Sondheim's "Dick Tracy." Count me in the school of those who feel like this is among Sondheim's best material, and deserves to have its score expanded or have a show built around it.

To me, the songs in Dick Tracy finish the mission that Sondheim inadvertently started when "Send In The Clowns" took off as a popular song- this score proves that Sondheim can write brilliant-but-accessible songs in the jazz-pop idiom without ever "dumbing down" his music or pandering to the lowest common denominator. If the songs were Sondheim as Tin Pan Alley, they were still the equals, if not the betters, of many of the actual songs of the Prohibition era, not to mention that the recurring internal rhymes in "What Can You Lose" are simple to hear, yet complex to read.

(Although I still stick by my friend's theory that "What Can You Lose" sounds like a trunk song from Merrily that got repurposed into Dick Tracy... maybe Look I Made A Hat will confirm!)