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#3

re: Who's The Best Rock Opera Musical Ever?

Dreamgirls
Hedwig
Hair (though the book doesn't hold up, the score is incredible)
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#8

re: Who's The Best Rock Opera Musical Ever?

Hair
Hedwig
Tommy
Rocky Horror


this is not considering Dreamgirls as a "rock opera" but a pop opera.
Actually, I think Rent is in that category as well. Always struck me as more pop than rock.
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#9

re: What's The Best Rock Opera Musical Ever?

Who's?



Don't you mean 'What's'?
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#11

What's The Best Rock Opera Musical Ever?

Tommy!
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#15

What's The Best Rock Opera Musical Ever?

1) Starmania / Tycoon
2) Tommy
3) Hedwig
4) Jesus Christ Superstar
5) Rent
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#18

What's The Best Rock Opera Musical Ever?

- Tanz Der Vampire
- Hair
- Elisabeth
- Mozart
- Rent
- Jesus Christ Superstar

.....There's more, but I'll wait until I can remember what they are, LOL!

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#19

What's The Best Rock Opera Musical Ever?

TOMMY for sure.
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#22

What's The Best Rock Opera Musical Ever?

1 Hair
2 Hedwig
3 Dreamgirls

(sorry don't really consider Taboo a Rock Opera Musical...although I do love Taboo).
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#23

What's The Best Rock Opera Musical Ever?

1. Hair
2. Rent
3. Starmites (Just kidding!)
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#25

What's The Best Rock Opera Musical Ever?

Hedwig and the Angry Inch
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