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re: Which was the toughest competitive year for Best Musical?

Posted by:	keikekaze 12:57 am EST 01/17/14
In reply to:	re: Which was the toughest competitive year for Best Musical? - MikeR 06:35 pm EST 01/16/14

I bow to many in my love for West Side Story, which I've always found excessively bombastic and self-important, and I'll flatly state that The Music Man is, all things considered, a better musical. It may not be a better dance performance, or a better "conception by Jerome Robbins," or Stephen Sondheim's Broadway debut--but it is a better musical. Don't let it's (perfectly deliberate) corniness fool you, folks. It disguises its craft very craftily.

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