Your favorite comedy musical?

[jetts7]

Posted: 12/2/11 at 3:35pm

What is your favorite comedy musical?

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 12/2/11 at 3:46pm

Funniest musical I ever saw was Urinetown.

[themysteriousgrowl]

Posted: 12/2/11 at 3:59pm

URINETOWN is hilarious. THE PRODUCERS was also pretty uproarious the first time around, but it's gotten less funny with each subsequent viewing. I remember laughing myself stupid at the tender age of 13 when Jerry Lewis did DAMN YANKEES

But BOOK OF MORMON easily tops them all.

[Emmaloucbway]

Posted: 12/2/11 at 4:50pm

- Book of Mormon
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[SeanMartin]

Posted: 12/2/11 at 4:54pm

FORUM.

I enjoy others, but I *love* forum.

[ghostlight4]

Posted: 12/2/11 at 5:00pm

AVENUE Q

[voteforsaraberry]

Posted: 12/2/11 at 7:13pm

It's a tossup between The Book of Mormon and Avenue Q. 13 the Musical is also quite hilarious, in my opinion.

[peerrjb]

Posted: 12/2/11 at 11:10pm

URINETOWN was indeed pee-in-your-pants funny. I think it's the most genuinely funny of the recent "let's-quote-other-show-styles-and-nudge-nudge-wink-wink-current-trends" type of show. The book really holds it together.

FORUM is really great, but REALLY a tough show to do properly, though many folks might disagree. I think it suffers from its stylistic requirements.

Of the more classic shows, though it's dated now, LI'L ABNER captures Al Capp's ridiculously whacko characters, and has more political satire couched in it (as did the comic strip) than anything I recall. I mean, go back and listen to "The Country's in the Very Best of Hands".

Of course, COMPANY was even CALLED "A Musical Comedy". So, that's a top choice for me, too. At least I found the original production wickedly funny.

[After Eight]

Posted: 12/2/11 at 11:27pm

How to Succeed
Little Me
The Happiest Girl in the World
Little Mary Sunshine
The Student Gypsy

[broadwayfever]

Posted: 12/2/11 at 11:57pm

Nothing even comes close to Book of Mormon.

[henrikegerman]

Posted: 12/3/11 at 11:10am

She Loves Me is my favorite musical comedy, as it's a comedy and it's my favorite musical.

If you're asking about broader musical comedies, my answer would be Anything Goes. And if you're asking about musicals at the furthest frontiers of mayhem and ridiculousness, my answer would be Pardon, My English.

[GoSmileLaughCryClap]

Posted: 12/3/11 at 1:49pm

Judging based the strength of comedy:

On the 20th Century - I remember the show getting belly laughs and applause in the middle of half the songs.

Guys and Dolls

Forum

A Little Night Music is elegant and saucy, and also gets laughs during several songs. Getting laughter from lyrics isn't easy or common. Most songs get their laughs from staging.

Urinetown also earns its status from the writing.

[staunchcharacter]

Posted: 12/4/11 at 4:11pm

I have many in the realms of classics, but when it comes to modern musical comedy: The Producers. No competition.

[xxdrewboy85xx]

Posted: 12/4/11 at 6:21pm

Of this Century....

Urinetown
Avenue Q
Bat Boy
Book of Mormon

[ClapYo'Hands]

Posted: 12/4/11 at 6:40pm

American: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

British: Betty Blue Eyes

[JohnBoy2]

Posted: 12/4/11 at 7:40pm

How to Succeed...

[Gaveston2]

Posted: 12/4/11 at 7:56pm

I agree that a good production of FORUM is difficult and rare. But when it's done well, I don't know anything that funnier.