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

Posted by:	perfectlyfrank 01:35 pm EST 01/17/14
In reply to:	Which was the toughest competitive year for Best Musical? - Chazwaza 06:20 pm EST 01/16/14

I'm going with 1960. It was so tough it produced the only tie for Best Musical. Then you factor in that the tied winners did not include what many people consider the greatest musical ever written - GYPSY - which was also in the running that year. Well, that sounds like the toughest competitive year to me. There were other tough races and many years when the "best" did not win. But 1960 was a special year. Funny that of the nominees, FIORELLO! has faded the most while the others are still being produced again and again. Yet that show was the one to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama (one of the rare times a musical has won the award.) Yeah, I'd give it to 1960 given the quality of the productions, the Pulitzer, the Tony tie, and ultimately, the legacies of those shows.

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