What's your favorite musical? — Page 2

So difficult to pick just one.
Hello Dolly
How To Succeed...
Cats
Annie
South Pacific
Phantom Of The Opera
Thoroughly Modern Millie

Blood brothers... Follies and the best jukebox musical of all time- hot stuff! But I bet none of you guys have heard of that one!!!

Anything without Aaron Tveit.

Lordy, lordy- it really does depend on the day- but, Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita, Next to Normal, Little Shop of Horrors and Annie stay at the top for me.

This is like asking, "So, Mrs. Bach, which child is your favourite?" But as I've grown older, FOLLIES — which has a far from perfect book — is still right up there. I've listened to that score hundreds of times, and it never gets old.

Close on its heels: COMPANY. A lot more facile, I know, and certainly showing its age, but it still remains a great piece of work.

After that, it gets murky, but — and I'm prepared to be greeted with a considerable number of eyerolls here — THE MUSIC MAN. As corny as that show is, it's beautifully written. Meredith Wilson never equalled that one, which is a shame. And I dont think there's been a truly great production of that show yet. Everyone looks at it like they used to look at R&H (before the Brits got their hands on them and showed the Americans how dark and edgy these things actually were). Maybe someday someone will look at TMM and see there's a lot under the brass-plated surface.

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I still believe The Music Man is one of the most perfect musicals ever written. Unfortunately, it is often lazily directed. Meredith Wilson's score is astonishing.

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As countless others have said I could never pick just one. Sweeney Todd for being overall perfect, A Chorus Line for its innovative and timeless choreography and book, Follies for being the most splendid score I've ever heard, Carousel when I need a dose of the classics, Caroline or Change when I think of some of my favorite moments ever sitting in a theatre, Gypsy when the show is led by a phenomenal female lead, Company when the time is right to hear the score again, South Pacific if Kelli O'Hara will ever star in it again, and in the past few years I've never loved a show as much as I loved Once.

I'm sure I'm missing a bunch that I could easily substitute onto this list.

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1. Miss Saigon
2. The Light in the Piazza
3. Ragtime
4. Passion
5. Jesus Christ Superstar (my all-time favorite musical up until I saw Miss Saigon in high school)

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Updated On: 4/3/13 at 08:30 PM

Ooh, I forgot to mention The King and I.

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Can't pick one. Top 5, alphabetically:

Chess (original Broadway - saw London, too, but Broadway version)
Dreamgirls (original Broadway)
Hairspray
Grand Hotel
Pippin (original Bob Fosse Broadway)

Wow. Isnt anyone gonna mention HER FIRST ROMAN?

:: ducking and laughing as he runs away ::

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Wicked, Les Miserables, and Phantom of the Opera :)
I really love Les Mis and Wicked equally but Wicked is first for me because I know so much more about its many nuances, much more so than Les Mis.

Honorable mentions: Newsies, Mary Poppins, Blood Brothers, In the Heights, Sister Act, Annie and 9 to 5.

I wish I had gotten the opportunity to see musicals like Carousel and My Fair Lady.

Updated On: 4/4/13 at 06:02 PM