Your Top 10 Shows This Decade — Page 4

I've included new shows, not revivals, with half plays and half musicals, in no ranking order. I must say, I think it was a much better decade for plays than for musicals, where I had trouble even coming up with five.

Plays:

Other Desert Cities

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime

The Humans

A Doll's House, Part 2

To Kill a Mockingbird

Musicals:

Catch Me If You Can

Fun Home

Dear Evan Hansen

Come From Away

Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812

Time Stands Still

Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson

Other Desert Cities

Peter and the Starcatcher

The Bridges of Madison County

The King and I

Hamilton

Hello, Dolly

What the Constitution Means to Me

Moulin Rouge

Alright. Here’s mine. As a reminder to self, I had to go through all my Playbills the last 10 years. In reverse order:

10. Groundhog Day

9. Everybody’s Talking About Jaime

8. The Book of Mormon

7. Once on this Island

6. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

5. The Ferryman

4. Angels In America, Parts 1 & 2

3. The Great Comet of 1812

2. Dear Evan Hansen

1. Hamilton

Updated On: 12/12/19 at 12:06 AM

These are somewhat in order (starting with my very favorite). All were Broadway except Scottsboro Boys

Scottsboro Boys (L.A.)
Angels in America
Fun Home
Pippin
Hadestown
Hamilton
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Hello Dolly
The Visit
Curious Incident.....

For this exercise I'm only counting shows I saw on Broadway. I live in Chicago and make it out to NYC twice a year. If I opened this up to include Chicago shows this would be a very daunting task indeed.

10 Favorite Musicals (New or Revival) of the Decade (in alphabetical order)

• Fun Home
• A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
• Hadestown
• Hamilton
• Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Neil Patrick Harris)
• Hello, Dolly! (Bernadette Peters)
• Kinky Boots
• Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812
• Once
• She Loves Me
• Honorable Mention: David Byrne's American Utopia (not a "musical" by any stretch of the imagination, but one of the most joyous and musically rewarding experiences I have had on Broadway)

10 Favorite Plays (New or Revival) of the Decade (listed alphabetically by title)

• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
• Eclipsed
• The Ferryman
• Hand to God
• Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
• Jerusalem
• The Normal Heart
• Sweat
• Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
• What the Constitution Means to Me

Favorite musicals (no particular order after the top three):

Scottsboro Boys

Mormon

Hamilton

Sweeney Todd in London with Imelda Staunton and Michael Ball

Dreamgirls in London with Amber Riley

Pippin revival

Color purple final performance

Groundhog Day

Hello Dolly!

The Band’s Visit

Oklahoma!




Honorable mention:

Bridges of Madison County,
After Midnight
The King & I
Next to Normal
Bring it On
On the Town
On the 20th Century
Fun Home




Plays:

Hand to god

A view from the bridge (Van Hove)

The play that goes wrong

Dolls house p. 2

Angels in America

Harry Potter

Waverly galllery

Torch song

Ferryman

Slave play

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Limiting it to just Broadway...

Musical
The Band’s Visit
The Book of Mormon
Come From Away
Dear Evan Hansen
Fun Home
Hadestown
Hamilton
Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812
Once
The Scottsboro Boys

Play
Choir Boy
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
A Doll's House, Part 2
Eclipsed
The Humans
Indecent
The Inheritance
Peter and the Starcatcher
Slave Play
What the Constitution Means to Me

Revival of a Musical
The Color Purple
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Hello, Dolly!
The King and I
My Fair Lady
Oklahoma!
Once on this Island
Pippin
Spring Awakening
Sunday in the Park with George

Revival of a Play
Angels in America
The Boys in the Band
Fences
The Glass Menagerie
The Normal Heart
A Raisin in the Sun
Three Tall Women
Twelfth Night
A View From the Bridge
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

With so much free time -- I am retired -- I gave it too much more time and have concluded that the folloiwng does as good a job of representing my views than my prior list. Clearly, there are things I did not get to see, e.g., Angels revival, Lupone Gypsy, The Inheritance. There are also big hits that I did not like, e.g., Fun Home, Hadestown, Billy Elliott, A Doll's House Part 2 I also disqualified at least one, e.g., the second revival of Cabaret, because it was the same exact show with the same exact male lead as the original revival (else it would have been much higher).



Musicals:

#1: The Producers

#2. Moulin Rouge

#3. A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder

#4. Hamilton

#5. Dear Evan Hansen

#6. Urinetown

#7. Bandstand

#8. Kinky Boots

#9. The Scottsboro Boys

#10. Finding Neverland


Musical Revivals:

#1: Oklahoma

#2. Evita at the Asolo Theatre in Sarasota, Fl.

#3. She Loves Me

#4: The King and I

#5. Chess at the Signature Theatre in Arlington, VA

#6. Sunday in the Park With George (first one)

#7. Merrily We Roll Along at Huntington Theatre, Boston

#8. South Pacific

#9. Ragtime

#10. Sunset Blvd.



Plays:

#1: The Ferryman

#2. To Kill a Mockingbird

#3. Slave Play

#4. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night

#5. OSLO

#6. The Sound Inside

#7. Sweat

#8. Vanya, Sonya, Masha and Spike

#9. Time Stands Still

#10. The Nance


Play Revivals:

#1. The Normal Heart

#2. The Little Foxes

#3. The Crucible

#4. Three Tall Women

#5. The Glass Menagerie (Booth)

#6. You Can't Take It With You

#7. The Cripple of Inashnaan at the Kennedy Center

#8. Fences

#9. A Raisin in the Sun (second revival)

#10. The Waverly Gallery

Updated On: 1/8/21 at 06:55 PM

I’m sure like many of you on this thread, this exercise not only made me homesick for live theater, but also reminded me of the incredible talent that is out there both onstage and off... in no particular order:

Musicals:
Hamilton
The Color Purple revival
Dear Evan Hansen
Hedwig (with NPH)
Pippin
King and I
Natasha Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812
The Band’s Visit
Hello Dolly
Hadestown

Plays:
To Kill a Mockingbird
King Charles III
Peter and the Starcatcher
The Humans
Jitney
Hand to God
Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime
Oslo
The Sound Inside
Angels in America
Indecent
(I wish I had seen: The Inheritance, Ferryman, Slave Play, Sweat and several others)

Off Broadway:
Fun Home
Sweeney Todd
Ghost Quartet
Strange Loop
Octet
Unknown Soldier
Dogfight
Little Shop of Horrors
Torch Song
What the Constitution Means to Me
Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven