Your Top 50 Favorite Musicals

This is one of the hardest things I've ever had to do. Remember to try to keep them in order. (and don't judge me for having TABOO so high on my list)

1) Falettos
2.) Merrily We Roll Along
3) Cabaret
4) West Side Story
5) Bare
6) Assassins
7) Rent
Fiddler on the Roof
9) Les Mis
10) Man of No Importance
11) Carousel
12) The Last 5 Years
13) A New Brain
14) Taboo
15) A Chorus Line
16) Company
17) Ragetime
1 Parade
19) Kiss of the Spiderwoman
20) Pirates of Penzance
21) The Most Happy Fella
22) Titanic
23) Sunday in the Park with George
24) Into the Woods
25) Avenue Q
26) Spelling Bee
27) Spring Awakening
2 Elegies
29) Sweeney Todd
30) Oklahoma
31) The Who's Tommy
32) Man of La Mancha
33) Jesus Christ Superstar
34) Guys & Dolls
35) Dreamgirls
36) Five Guys Named Moe
37) Pippin
3 La Cage Aux Follies
39) 1776
40) Follies
41) Scarlett Pimpernell
42) Oliver
43) The Full Monty
44) Songs of a New World
45) Bat Boy
46) Gpsy
47) The Baker's Wife
4 Hedwig
49) [tite of show]
50) Once on this Island
After #30sih, they are no particular order.

It's BKLYN! Get it right! Gosh.

1-50. That's quite a list to put together. I'll give my top 10

1. Les Miserables
2. Spring Awakening
3.The Drowsy Chaperone
4. A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
5. Company
6. Hairspray
7. Little Shop
8. Phantom
9. Wicked
10. West Side Story

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Do you know how long it took me to get together my list of my top 10 cast recordings? CAST RECORDINGS. No movie soundtracks allowed. And shows that are brilliant but don't have amazing cast recordings didn't make it. And some shows that aren't that great but have brilliant cast recordings are right there. And I included shows I haven't seen because I was judging solely on cast recordings. And it was only ten.

I can honestly say it would take me at least two years to work out my definitive list of my top fifty favourite musicals, and even that's only if I start RIGHT NOW. O_O

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Updated On: 4/29/07 at 05:23 PM

Oooooh! I'd been looking for a good title for my as-yet unwritten musical about working in a bookshop; I reckon RAGETIME could be it!

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-The Sound of Music
-Company
-The Pajama Game
-The Light in the Piazza
-Sunday in the Park With George
-Mame
-Anything Goes
-A Chorus Line
-Les Miserables
-Chicago

50???

All we need is one list, because it's gonna wind up carbon copied for everone else. You're not exactly making the paramteres all that narrow.

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Dreamgirls is at the top of my list with Parade at number 2. When I can think up a list, I'll be back.

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I can only name my top 10.

Chicago
Follies
Carousel
Sweeney Todd
The Light in the Piazza
Sunday in the Park with George
Nine
Gypsy
The Most Happy Fella
Mame

(Honorable Mention- South Pacific.)

I dont know if I can put 50 in a row lol. I dont know if I have seen 50 different musicals, but the ones I havent seen I have listened to the recording and read the script of the most part

1. Bright Lights, Big City
2. Spring Awakening
3. Bare a Pop Opera
4. [title of show]
5. The Light in the Piazza
6. ...Spelling Bee
7. Rent
8. Gypsy
9. Wicked
10. You're a Good Man Charlie Brown
11. Fame
12. Avenue Q
13. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
14. Grey Gardens
15. The Wedding Singer

These are my top 15

I officially can't do a list like this. All I know is that my top 3 are Dreamgirls, Parade, and Assassins.

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The first show I saw on in NYC was MISS LIBERTY in 1949. The last was IN THE HEIGHTS. Neither would be in the top 50, if I had a top 50 list. However, I don't like to choose favorites among musicals any more than I do among my children

This is a toughy but I will give it the old college try, and I am only going to do 10:

1. The Last 5 Years
2. The Wedding Singer
3. High Fidelity
4. Rent
5. The Great American Trailor Park Musical
6. Bright Lights, Big City
7. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
8. The Full Monty
9. Grey Gardens
10. Rosalind Russell's version of Gypsy

Runner Up: EVIL DEAD: THE MUSICAL

Sorry its very updated list, but its what I listen to the most on the go -

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