Your Top 10 Shows This Decade — Page 2

I've included only new shows but opened it up to off-Broadway. There have been some incredible works in the past decade! Here are ten that knocked me out:

Taylor Mac’s 24 Hour History of Popular Music

An Octoroon

Scottsboro Boys

Hamilton

Indecent

The Inheritance

Guards at the Taj

Waitress

born bad

What the Constitution Means to Me

Yerma

The Ferryman

Hamilton

Sweat

Slave Play

Three Tall Women

Venus in Fur

My Fair Lady

Oklahoma!

Skylight

The Band's Visit

Updated On: 11/29/19 at 10:47 AM

PLAYS:

1. Indecent - Cort Theatre
2. Choir Boy - Manhattan Theatre Club
3. The Ferryman - Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre
4. Heroes of the Fourth Turning - Playwrights Horizons
5. Daddy - Vineyard Theatre/The New Group
6. The Grand Paradise - Third Rail Projects
7. Angels in America - Neil Simon Theatre
8. White Noise - The Public Theater
9. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Ethyl Barrymore Theatre
10. Small Mouth Sounds - Ars Nova

MUSICALS:

1. Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 - Imperial Theatre
2. Ghost Quartet - Curran: Under Construction
3. Octet - Signature Theatre
4. Once - Phoenix Theatre
5. Fun Home - Circle in the Square Theatre
6. The Scottsboro Boys - American Conservatory Theatre
7. The Band's Visit - Ethyl Barrymore Theatre
8. The Book of Mormon - Eugene O'Neill Theatre
9. Oklahoma! - Oregon Shakespeare Festival
10. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - Barrow Street Theatricals

Updated On: 11/27/19 at 11:37 AM

MUSICALS/PLAYS

The Color Purple (2015 Revival)

Hadestown

Hamilton

Tina! The Tina Turner Musical

Dear Evan Hansen

Come From Away

The Inheritance

Slave Play

The Crucible (2016 Revival)

Little Shop of Horrors (2019 Revival)

This list is heavily slanted towards the last few years. I fell out of watching theater for a while, but then got back into it with a vengeance in 2017. (I blame the falling out on my graduate program - I had neither time nor money!)

In no particular order...

• Angels in America (2018 Berkeley Rep production)
• Come From Away
• Groundhog Day
• Ghost Quartet (Seattle production)
• Fun Home
• Hadestown
• Hamilton
• Head Over Heels
• Hello Dolly revival (touring production)
• Rags Parkland Sings the Songs of the Future (Ars Nova)

Honorable mentions: Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812, The Book of Mormon, The Prom, Octet, The Ferryman, What the Constitution Means to Me, The Band's Visit, Weightless (American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco), Waitress

Updated On: 11/27/19 at 12:49 PM

Ledaero said: "^ "No particular order" and then you rank them lmao"

That wasn’t an actual ranking. That was me just counting out the shows as I typed. But sure, go off, sis.

in no particular order

The Inheritance

Follies (National Theatre)

Spring Awakening (Deaf West LA)

Hamilton

Jagged Little Pill ( ART)

Moulin Rouge! (Boston)

The Glass Menagerie (Broadway)

Slave Play

The Ferryman

Hello Dolly (Bette)

Updated On: 11/27/19 at 07:51 PM

Interesting project and enjoying reading people's lists. I'm doing separate lists as others have for musicals and plays - turns out I liked a lot more plays than musicals as I was considering this. In chronological order as I saw them - not in particular order of how I liked them.

Musicals:

Billy Elliott

Anything Goes

Pippen

Cabaret

Hamilton

Shuffle Along
My Fair Lady

Hello Dolly

Plays:

Let Me Down Easy

Orphans Home Cycle

War Horse

Other Desert Cities

One Man, Two Guvnors

The Exonerated

The Piano Lesson

Golden Boy

All the Way

Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime

Master Harold and the Boys

Sweat

The Ferryman

To Kill a Mockingbird

Updated On: 12/1/19 at 08:32 PM

Oh gosh this is really hard, but I'm gonna go with (not completely in order)

-Come From Away

-Hadestown

-Dear Evan Hansen

-The Band's Visit

-Once On This Island

-Hamilton

-Great Comet

-Pippin

-Fun Home

-Anastasia

Honorable mentions to Waitress, Head Over Heels, and The Prom, and for plays, Choir Boy and What The Constitution Means to Me

I limited myself to shows I actually saw. I didn't see Hamilton, Dogfight, Heathers, Violet, Bridges, Hedwig, etc. In no particular order...

Original Shows

Waitress, Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812, Shuffle Along, War Paint, If/Then, Doctor Zhivago, Fun Home

Revivals

The Color Purple (Cynthia Errivo), My Fair Lady (Laura Benanti), Oklahoma!, Hello, Dolly!, Once on This Island, The King and I, A Little Night Music

Off Broadway- Original

Daddy Long Legs, Hadestown, The Band's Visit, Bella: An American Tall Tale, A Strange Loop, First Daughter Suite, Pondling, Futurity, Sell/Buy/Date, Company XIV Cinderella

Off Broadway- Revival

Little Shop of Horrors (Gyllenhaal, Ellen Greene), On A Clear Day You Can See Forever (Irish Rep), Do I Hear a Waltz, The Marvelous Wonderettes, The Robber Bridegroom, The Secret Garden (concert), Brigadoon, A Midsummer Night's Dream (SITP), Fiddler on the Roof (Yiddish)

Cutting it all the way down to a top 10: Waitress, Great Comet, My Fair Lady (Laura Benanti), The Color Purple (Cynthia Errivo), A Little Night Music, The King and I, On A Clear Day You Can See Forever (Irish Rep), Bella: An American Tall Tale, Daddy Long Legs... and honestly I think I prefer the shows I mainly know through the cast album/clips to anything else I could add to this list. This decade has featured a lot of great theatrical moments but not great shows in my opinion.