Stand-by Joined: 12/30/14
Angels In America
Dear Evan Hansen
Doubt
Cabaret (Roundabout)
The Ferryman
View From The Bridge
The Wolves
Once On This Island
Pippin (revival)
Hadestown / Fun Home (tie)
Honorable Mention: Boys In The Band, Macbeth at the Armory, Significant Other, Indecent
Stand-by Joined: 4/4/17
The Ferryman
The Prom
Hello Dolly! W Bette
Come From Away
Hamilton
Something Rotten!
Sweeney - Barrow Street
Dear Evan Hanson
The Great Comet
To Kill A Mockingbird
Honorable mention: Moulin Rouge!, Once On This Island, Harry Potter-Cursed Child, A Christmas Story.
Featured Actor Joined: 12/8/15
In no particular order:
Honorable Mentions:
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/18/19
Top Musicals (and in no particular order):
Waitress
the Once On This Island revival
Hair at Shakespeare in the Park
the revival of Fiddler on The Roof
Come From Away
Hamilton
Bright Star
Something Rotten!
My Fair Lady most recent revival
Wicked
HONORABLE MENTIONS: Fun Home, Hadestown, Great Comet, Cabaret revival, The Prom, Hello Dolly! Bernadette, Dear Evan Hansen, Pippin, Amelie, Sweeney Todd downtown
Plays
Our Dear Dead Drug Lord
Privacy at The Public Theater
The Play That Goes Wrong
Harry Potter and The Cursed Child
Animal (this was a play downtown at the Lucille Lortel about a woman who was going through Post Partum Depression. I think this was the title)
The Mousetrap (saw this in London, I could not have predicted that twist)
It's Only a Play
The Ferryman
Significant Other
A Parallelogram (Second Stage)
In no particular order...
-Cabaret (2014 revival with Alan Cumming and Michelle Williams)
-Hello, Dolly! (2017 revival)
-Hamilton
-King Charles III
-My Fair Lady (2018 revival)
-The King and I (2015 revival)
-Matilda
-Hadestown
-Little Shop of Horrors (2019 Off-Broadway revival)
-The Ferryman
Honorable Mentions
-The Cher Show
-What the Constitution Means to Me
-American Psycho
-The Boys in the Band
Leading Actor Joined: 6/23/14
The Book of Mormon
Clybourne Park
Fun Home
Hamilton
Indecent
The Little Foxes
An Octoroon
"Oklahoma" revival
Cromer "Our Town" (opened in 2009 but I saw it in 2010)
Shuffle Along
Stand-by Joined: 12/8/17
This was tough.
1. HAMILTON
2. COME FROM AWAY
3. DEAR EVAN HANSEN
4. THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG
5. HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD
6. SWEENEY TODD (Immersive)
7. THE BAND'S VISIT
8. BANDSTAND
9. THE WRONG MAN (off broadway)
10. PIPPIN (revival)
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/27/14
Absolutely Epic Decade of musical theatre that will stand the test of time
1) Hamilton
2)Book of Mormon
3) Dear Evan Hansen
4) Come from Away
5) Kinky Boots
6) Beautiful
7) Waitress
8) Fun Home
9) Hadestown
10) A Gentlemans Guide
Fantastic Honorable Mentions include:
Tootsie
Aint Too Proud
Mathilda
Once
Memphis
Newsies
Alladin
School of Rock
Something Rotten
Sister Act
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/30/15
Has it been an epic decade? It feels like a mediocre decade of theater with some fantastic revivals and a few big original musicals that stand out.
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/7/18
Anastasia
Aladdin
My Fair Lady revival
The Waverly Gallery
SIX (Chicago Shakespeare)
Come From Away
Dear Evan Hansen
The Sound of Music LIVE (NBC production)
Beautiful
Tootsie
Hello Dolly (Donna Murphy)
Hello Dolly (Bernadette Peters)
Sunset Blvd
Great Comet
A Little Night Music (Peters)
Waitress
Beautiful
Phantom (hadn't seen it in 20+ years - still my favorite)
Really, the only musical I didn't like this past decade had to be "Summer"
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/27/14
hi vintagesnarker
been a while since we have chatted. I knew epic would draw a response so we can have a dialogue vs another dreary list posting
Epic is certainly a subjective opinion, and it will take the advantage of time to see where the class of 2010-2019 stacks up against golden age decades in the 1950s and 1960s or the BIG musical 1980s or 1990s.
my nomination for 2010s as EPIC is based on
1) Hamilton as a true gamechanger in making music in musicals contemporary as well as being in many critics opinion one of the greatest musicals of all time
2) Book of Mormon setting a new standard for musical comedy in terms of number of laughs, pushing boundaries, and having amazingly hooky songs
3) Dear Evan Hanson and Come From Away as two extraordinary musicals dealing with very difficult subjects in amazing deft ways and launching Pasek & Paul as true creators at the top of their craft
4) Kinky Boots, Matilda, The Bands Visit, Waitress, Once and others for bringing the niche movie to musical adaptation to very high standards of execution and entertainment value
5) Beautiful, Aint Too Proud and Rock of Ages for demonstrating "jukebox" can deliver an entertaining story and fun and involved musical experience
five of the musicals from this class are in my top ten all time, so that is pretty EPIC for me personally (Ham, BOM, DEH, CFA, Kinky) and there is something about the contemporary feel that i like more than even watching a great revival of MFL, Fiddler, King & I, Dolly, How To Succeed, or other much loved classics.
So im good with "epic" as a descriptor for this decade. certainly a lot of not very good musicals to get through (spongebob and head over heels come to mind immediately). all in all 20 excellent to brilliant shows in 10 years is a very good output for broadway
1. Come From Away
2. The Book of Mormon
3. Hello, Dolly! (w/Bette)
4. The Color Purple
5. Curious Incident...
6. Kinky Boots
7. Pippin
8. The Cher Show
9. The Play That Goes Wrong
10. Once
Honorable Mention: Hunchback of Notre Dame at Papermill
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/30/15
Hi broadwaysfguy :)
Epic certainly makes more sense when you explain it like that. We differ on our opinions about the quality of the original musicals. I can see how you'd have a more positive view of the decade when you compare your list of great shows to mine.
I'm not just hating on recent shows. I think 2000-2009 Broadway was similar. Meh overall but with some standout original shows.
I was just figuring this out for myself a while back. In no particular order:
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Hamilton
Dear Evan Hansen
She Loves Me
Sunday in the park With George
The Great Comet
The Ferryman
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 1 & 2
What the Constitution Means to Me
Hadestown
That all being said I’m coming to town next week and thinking Moulin Rouge might knock one of these off the list!
Sorry, could not narrow it down to 10. I tried!
Musicals:
Follies
Shuffle Along
Pippin
Matilda
The Prom
The Visit
Caroline or Change (PPAS Production)
Heathers
Nevermore (The Imaginary Life and Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe)
Leap of Faith
Bright Star
Hello Dolly (with Donna Murphy)
Plays:
The Children
Miles For Mary
Significant Other
Harry Clarke
The Humans
A Doll's House Pt. II
The Normal Heart
The Other Place
Bobbie Clearly
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
Choir Boy
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime
Gary
School Girls or the African Mean Girls Play
Our Dear Dead Drug Lord
Fairview
Stand-by Joined: 3/17/15
1. The Prom
2. Hello, Dolly
3. Follies
4. Addams Family
5. All My Sons
6. Glass Menagerie
7. Significant Other
8. On the Twentieth Century
9. War Paint
10. Sunset Boulevard
11. (bc I couldn’t narrow it down) Falsettos
MUSICALS
Hamilton
Hello Dolly-Bette Midler
Book of Mormon
Matilda
King and I
Hadestown
Anything Goes
Fun Home
The Band's Visit
Sunday in the Park with George
*Honorable Mentions*
Shuffle Along
Once
On the 20th Century
Pippin
On the Town
Matilda
Natasha,Pierre & the Great Comet
War Paint
Follies rev.
Cabaret rev.
Color purple rev.
On the 20th Century rev
Harry Potter
Humans
Inheritance
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/18/19
n2nbaby said: "Hair was 2009, no?"
Ah shoot you're right. um. Another musical...hmm....I'll take one of my honorable mentions and promote them. I'm going to go with Hello Dolly! with Bernadette and Victor Garber. Seeing them together onstage after seeing them on screen in various things was very special.
VintageSnarker said: "Has it been an epic decade? It feels like a mediocre decade of theater with some fantastic revivals and a few big original musicals that stand out."
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Broadway Legend Joined: 3/18/19
Skip23 said: "VintageSnarker said: "Has it been an epic decade? It feels like a mediocre decade of theater with some fantastic revivals and a few big original musicals that stand out."
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I think that truly depends on the individual and is not up for a general consensus. Each show means something to someone else, people connect with shows in different ways. So I don't think you can't make that sort of general statement.
The Hollywood Reporter's List:
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/best-new-york-theater-decade-1258955
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