Your Top 50 Favorite Musicals

Posted: 4/29/07 at 4:11pm

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.

[Pippin]

Posted: 4/29/07 at 4:12pm

1-49: ThE WeDdING SinGER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

50: BrKlyn

[Mandi Moo]

Posted: 4/29/07 at 4:16pm

It's BKLYN! Get it right! Gosh.

[Pippin]

Posted: 4/29/07 at 4:23pm

[BDavis0092]

Posted: 4/29/07 at 4:27pm

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

[Mark_E]

Posted: 4/29/07 at 4:32pm

I'll include movies because I havent seen anywhere near 50 shows.

1. Avenue Q
2. Blood Brothers
3. Rent (Film)
4. Little shop of horrors (Film)
5. Wicked
6. Chicago
7. We Will Rock You
8. Starlight Express
9. Phantom
10. Mary Poppins
11. Thoroughly Modern Millie (Been in amateur production)
12. Joseph
13. Fame
14. Grease (Film)
15. West Side Story (Film)
16. Chitty
17. Scrooge
18. Cats
19. Oliver (Film)
20. Guys and Dolls
21. Cabaret (Film)

Well, thats all ive seen.
Soon to see -
(On Tour)
Footloose
42nd Street
The Producers

(London)
The sound of music
Lion King
Mamma Mia
Little shop of horrors

Im thinking most of these will be pretty high on the list, All shows 17-21 I didn't like very much at all.

[Weez]

Posted: 4/29/07 at 5:23pm

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

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

[dancingthrulife04]

Posted: 4/29/07 at 6:14pm

"Ragetime" - Is that some kind of RAGTIME spinoff about angry people?

[Weez]

Posted: 4/29/07 at 6:33pm

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!

[purpleprince101]

Posted: 4/29/07 at 8:32pm

Not 50 but.... Not really in order

1)Les Miserables
2)Guys and Dolls
3)The wiz
4)Hairspray
5) Kiss of the Spider Women
6)Into the Woods
7) Dreamgirls
8} Sweeney Todd
9) The Phantom of The Opera
10) Little Shop of Horrors
11) Beauty and the beast
12)Chicago
13) Color Purple
14) Mary Poppins
15) Annie Get Your Gun
16) Aida
17) Gypsy
18} Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
19)Thoroughly Modern Millie
20)Footloose

[BroadwaySinger2]

Posted: 4/29/07 at 8:38pm

-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

[AnnaK<3LMIP]

Posted: 4/29/07 at 8:44pm

-Les Miserables
-Ragtime
-Miss Saigon
-The Light in the Piazza
-The Scarlet Pimpernel
-My Fair Lady
-Sunday in the Park with George
-Man of La Mancha
-Assassins
-Once on This Island
-The Sound of Music
-Urinetown



pssst. It's Scarlet Pimpernel. Not Scarlett Pimpernell. It's not that big of a deal..but it is. And by Falettos, do you mena Falsettos?

[SeanMartin]

Posted: 4/29/07 at 10:33pm

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.

[VonTussleGirl]

Posted: 4/29/07 at 10:43pm

I don't even LIKE 50 musicals.

[Mattbrain]

Posted: 5/5/07 at 10:33pm

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

[nathanlaneismyhero]

Posted: 5/6/07 at 3:00am

50 is a lot, so I will just name a few"

The Producers
Fiddler on the Roof
Kiss Me Kate
The Music Man
Guys and Dolls
Funny Thing
Chicago
Rent
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Cabaret
The Sound of Music
Wicked
The Last Five Years
Hairspray
Avenue Q
South Pacific

[jv92]

Posted: 5/6/07 at 9:27am

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.)

[catstagestud]

Posted: 5/6/07 at 1:53pm

This is hard...here's my top 15.

1. Aida
2. Bare
3. Hairspray
4. The Last 5 Years
5. The Light in the Piazza
6. City of Angels
7. Dreamgirls
8. Cabaret
9. The Color Purple
10.john & jen
11.Nine
12.Big River
13.Sunday in the Park with George
14.Sweeney Todd
15.Company

Cheers,

Christopher

[cstringdemon]

Posted: 5/7/07 at 1:27pm

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

[cat4554]

Posted: 5/7/07 at 4:44pm

1960/ 1961 Camelot - my first play, I was 7 years old and it is still my all time favorite. Same year Sound of Music.
Then I would have to say West Side Story, Phantom of the Opera,
King and I, Evita, Momma Mia, Gypsy, Annie, Oliver, Cats and although I never saw it on Broadway but elsewhere, Brigadoon.

[Mattbrain]

Posted: 5/24/07 at 1:12pm

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

[raphael06]

Posted: 5/24/07 at 1:30pm

50! Wow. Congrats on such an accomplishment:

Some of mine (after #1, they are in no particular order):

1. Cabaret
2. Godspell
3. Phantom of the Opera
4. Evita
5. Jesus Christ Superstar
6. Into the Woods
7. Company
8. Sunday in the Park With George
9. Chicago
10. Wicked
11. Rent
12. West Side Story
13. Titanic
14. A New Brain
15. The Light in the Piazza
16. Nine
17. The Lion King
18. Mamma Mia
19. Joseph and...
20. The Last 5 Years

[Tom148502]

Posted: 5/24/07 at 1:44pm

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

[avab802]

Posted: 5/24/07 at 2:29pm

I don't even think I could name 50 musicals in general, let alone 50 musicals that I've seen. I'll name my top... however many I can think of that I really love.

1. Ragtime
2. Cabaret
3. RENT

That's it. There are many other shows that I like, even love, but those 3 are the top of the top that immediately come to mind. To name a 4th I'd have to think about it, which means it's not in the same league.

[RentHead2]

Posted: 5/24/07 at 2:40pm

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 -