the 10 Most Innovative Shows of the 21st Century
the 10 Most Innovative Shows of the 21st Century
esparza 333
Broadway Star Joined: 7/24/07
#1the 10 Most Innovative Shows of the 21st Century
Posted: 7/25/08 at 3:13pm???????????
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dramaboy27
Understudy Joined: 5/7/07
#2re: the 10 Most Innovative Shows of the 21st Century
Posted: 7/25/08 at 4:04pm
Caroline or Change
Urintown
Angels in America
August Osage County
Sweeney Todd Revival
Sunday in the Park...Revival
Macbeth Revival
In The Heights
Spring Awakening
Avenue Q
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#2re: the 10 Most Innovative Shows of the 21st Century
Posted: 7/25/08 at 4:06pm
Wasn't Angels in America in the 20th century?
Anyhoo, Spring Awakening and Passing Strange.
Roscoe
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#3re: the 10 Most Innovative Shows of the 21st Century
Posted: 7/25/08 at 4:08pmWhat exactly was innovative about PASSING STRANGE?
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Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#4re: the 10 Most Innovative Shows of the 21st Century
Posted: 7/25/08 at 4:17pmThey wrote a musical that was unabashedly intelligent and funny and didn't care what people thought, among other reasons.
#5re: the 10 Most Innovative Shows of the 21st Century
Posted: 7/25/08 at 4:34pmisn't that what almost every musical is set out to do?
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#6re: the 10 Most Innovative Shows of the 21st Century
Posted: 7/25/08 at 4:39pm
LEGALLY BLONDE, THE LITTLE MERMAID, and crap of that ilk don't.
I'd add anything by the Wooster Group.
Ivo Van Hove's revivals.
Charles Mee's productions.
Its a big list but Broadway really isn't the place to look for "innovative".
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#7re: the 10 Most Innovative Shows of the 21st Century
Posted: 7/25/08 at 4:45pm
Caroline or Change (For the score. But loved everything about the show!)
Stuff Happens (I like that the script was based on what might have been said behind closed doors)
Adding Machine (Have only heard it, so for it's score)
Fuerzabruta (For the whole production)
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Updated On: 7/25/08 at 04:45 PM
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#9re: the 10 Most Innovative Shows of the 21st Century
Posted: 7/25/08 at 4:49pmMETAMORPHOSES
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
~ Muhammad Ali
#10re: the 10 Most Innovative Shows of the 21st Century
Posted: 7/25/08 at 4:49pmBARE crossed my mind, but I don't know that I found it to be "innovative". I loved it though.
Just give the world Love. - S. Wonder
#11re: the 10 Most Innovative Shows of the 21st Century
Posted: 7/25/08 at 5:04pm
We're only 8 years in. lol
Honestly, the only ones that are REALLY innovative would be Avenue Q, Urinetown, and Spring Awakening.
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#12re: the 10 Most Innovative Shows of the 21st Century
Posted: 7/25/08 at 5:16pmI meant to include Urinetown. I had to see it twice. Excellent show.
Just give the world Love. - S. Wonder
#13re: the 10 Most Innovative Shows of the 21st Century
Posted: 7/25/08 at 5:18pmI second Metamorphoses.
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WiCkEDrOcKS
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/13/04
#14re: the 10 Most Innovative Shows of the 21st Century
Posted: 7/25/08 at 5:18pmThis is a very broad topic...innovative in terms of what? Topic? Production? Writing? Technical aspects? Performances?
#15re: the 10 Most Innovative Shows of the 21st Century
Posted: 7/25/08 at 5:21pm
Urinetown
The Light In The Piazza
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#16re: the 10 Most Innovative Shows of the 21st Century
Posted: 7/25/08 at 5:24pmI guess you could say Sweeney Todd revival. I know some people didn't like it, but you have to admit that what John Doyle did WAS innovative.
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#17re: the 10 Most Innovative Shows of the 21st Century
Posted: 7/25/08 at 5:27pmWICkED, I agree, that's why I specified things for each show I listed in my 1st post.
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#18re: the 10 Most Innovative Shows of the 21st Century
Posted: 7/25/08 at 7:04pm"...and there were 94 years to go!"
Other than that, did you enjoy the play Mrs Lincoln?
Chance
Broadway Star Joined: 7/16/08
#20re: the 10 Most Innovative Shows of the 21st Century
Posted: 7/25/08 at 7:32pmNEVERANDY, I WAS GOING TO SAY THE SAME THING!!!!!!
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philly03
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/20/07
#21re: the 10 Most Innovative Shows of the 21st Century
Posted: 7/25/08 at 8:32pm
I happen to believe that Woman in White is #1.
First show to rely solely on projections, and paved the way for shows that actually got great reviews for them such as Sunday... .
#22re: the 10 Most Innovative Shows of the 21st Century
Posted: 7/25/08 at 9:20pm
Obviously it depends on how one classes innovation...as people have said, there are a list of different categories.
In The Heights is the first of its kind to reach the critical + commercial success that it has.
Wicked in terms of spectacle, is pretty innovative. You could argue that the fact the story revolves around two women is pretty uncommon, if not...the only.
Spring Awakening, Avenue Q and Bare are contenders too i'd say.
Broadway Star Joined: 12/31/69
#23re: the 10 Most Innovative Shows of the 21st Century
Posted: 7/25/08 at 9:52pmWhat was so innovative about Doyle's sweeney? Unless by "innovative" you mean completely unintelligible.
#24re: the 10 Most Innovative Shows of the 21st Century
Posted: 7/25/08 at 10:50pm
Doyle's Sweeney Todd for sure. It was a completely new concept for Broadway.
Also you have to admit, Wicked started the trend of shows painting their actors green 
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