It is an unconventional score with no stand out songs. All the songs are plot driven. If you take it in that context, the score fits the show perfectly
I am a firm believer in serendipity- all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose was all along.
children... children... no one has yet mentioned Closer to Heaven!?!?!?
The Pet Shop Boys Musical?
"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed
I can't believe most of the ones you all listed as worst EVER. Come on, you really gotta consider all the terrible ones throughout the course of Broadway.
One of them, however has GOT to be "Think of Meryl Streep" from Fame: The Musical. And I mean EVER.
The person who put who do you love i hope makes me laugh. I recently played that show, and the song really did bite...it was really fun to play though, but I guess I see your point.
"If there was a Mount Rushmore for Broadway scores, "West Side Story" would be front and center. It snaps, it crackles it pops! It surges with a roar, its energy and sheer life undiminished by the years" - NYPost reviewer Elisabeth Vincentelli