Yeah, well, if you're such a big Broadway fan, answer me this!- Page 2

[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 7/20/04 at 10:01pm

I think you're right, BBE. :)

I *want* to like it though! Honestly I do! Am I abornomal? And I think Lea Salonga is really amazing.

[sean martin]

Posted: 7/20/04 at 10:01pm

>> My point is that it doesn't matter what show it was, I don't know

He didnt have a first, per se. Shows back then were written by teams of composers and lyricists, just as screenplays nowadays are attributed to one writer but actually handled by a half dozen or more. Kern's first would have been contributions to revues like the George White Scandals; Sunny was to come about a decade later.

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 7/20/04 at 10:04pm

SWEENEY TODD is the ultimate musical. If not quintessential - ultimate. It doesn't get any better than that. In the same way that opera companies still produce operas like La Boheme that were written hundreds and hundreds of years ago by composers we still, today, consider to be the masters of the art - SWEENEY TODD will still be put on by theatre and opera companies alike hundreds and hundreds of years from now...

[broadwaystar2b]

Posted: 7/20/04 at 10:05pm

West Side Story
A love story, big group numbers, and a real world conflict

[StickToPriest]

Posted: 7/20/04 at 10:07pm

Most Masterful---Sweeney Todd
Best Written-----Sweeney Todd
Most Entertaining-----Sweeney Todd
Best Music/Lyrics----Sweeney Todd

But, heaven and Sondheim forgive me...

Qunitessential----Gypsy

[bronxboundexpress]

Posted: 7/20/04 at 10:08pm

Broadway was a wasteland last year? It was a wasteland for 50 years untill JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR came out!! But when the 80s rolled aorund and we got STARLIGHT EXPRESS and the 90s with THE WHO'S TOMMY and RENT Broadway exploaded to life!! IT's the Circle of Life and it moves us all and B'way!!

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 7/20/04 at 10:08pm

YAY PRIEST!!!

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 7/20/04 at 10:09pm

I've always felt that someone needs to do WEST SIDE STORY with rough harsh choreography instead of ballet. The ballet to me has always been so laughable. Especially the movie. It's hilarious! It needs to be rough dance. Violent. Even scary. The ballet thing never served the piece correctly in my opinion....

[wiggum2]

Posted: 7/20/04 at 10:09pm

Gypsy!

[marincrazy11]

Posted: 7/20/04 at 10:11pm

Gypsy
West Side Story
A Chorus Line
and 42nd Street...........I don't have an explanation, but these are four shows that immediately come to mind when one thinks of broadway, if theya re not a HUGE fan and don't many other shows

[Mamie]

Posted: 7/20/04 at 10:36pm

For me it would be Phantom. Sets, costumes, beautiful melodic music, romance, comedy, tragedy, everything except one biggy - dance. Every major Broadway musical I can think of seems to have lacked at least one element. Usually all of the other parts were so good that the one missing component didn't hurt the show. In fact, I'm going all the way back to "Showboat" to come up with one that seemed to have everything.

[Alix7272]

Posted: 7/20/04 at 10:40pm

West Side Story

[EVIE]

Posted: 7/20/04 at 10:44pm

For me, it's Les Miz.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 7/20/04 at 10:47pm

Mamie - GYPSY isn't missing anything. That's why it's the quintessential.

[Broadwayboobs]

Posted: 7/20/04 at 10:49pm

A Chorus Line

[Mamie]

Posted: 7/20/04 at 10:50pm

Yeah - you're right. I'd thought about that but to be honest, Bernadette was such a powerhouse in that show that I have a hard time remembering that anyone else was in it!

[jonartdesigns]

Posted: 7/20/04 at 11:03pm

chicago plain and simple

[Paul LW]

Posted: 7/20/04 at 11:42pm

Oklahoma!

How is there a debate?

Is is the classic!

The first show to use music, song, AND dance as ways of futhering a storyline.

[BroadwayMonkey]

Posted: 7/21/04 at 12:28am

The Phantom of the Opera. It's just such an amazing show. I love it!!

[Dolly_Levi]

Posted: 7/21/04 at 12:31am

Sticktopriest - "But, heaven and Sondheim forgive me... Qunitessential----Gypsy"

I am sure Steve will forgive you as he had quite a bit to do with Gypsy as well, LOL!

[CJR]

Posted: 7/21/04 at 12:32am

A Chorus Line

[Corine2]

Posted: 7/21/04 at 12:32am

1. A Chorus Line tied with Dreamgirls!
2. Pippin
3. Hair
4. Gypsy
5. The Wiz (Come on and ease on down the road) Updated On: 7/21/04 at 12:32 AM

[Delphine]

Posted: 7/21/04 at 12:49am

I've always thought Les Mis and A Chorus Line. Updated On: 7/21/04 at 12:49 AM