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Posted by:	Chazwaza 02:59 pm EDT 03/13/14
In reply to:	The last great musical to open on Broadway - JayBee 08:17 am EDT 03/13/14

I'm sorry you feel that way but I think you're absolutely wrong. First of all, SWEENEY TODD opened after Night Music. To say nothing of the other great musicals that have opened since 1973 (like Chicago, Annie, Pacific Overtures, A Chorus Line which has a great score even if it's not quite at the level of Sondheim, and On the Twentieth Century). Are you defining a "great musical" as a romantic musical comedy? Besides the 70s, do you think the 80s were ONLY populated by the British invasion (which includes Phantom, Evita, Les Miz, etc, some of which are good)? That decade also gave us Sunday in the Park, Into the Woods, Nine, Little Shop of Horrors, Dreamgirls, Drood, La Cage. The 90s gave us Once On This Island, Violet, Floyd Collins, City of Angels, The Secret Garden, Falsettos, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Assassins, Parade, Rent, Titanic, The Life, and Ragtime. The 00s gave us The Producers, The Wild Party, Urinetown, Hairspray, Avenue Q, Caroline or Change, Taboo, The Light in the Piazza, Grey Gardens, Spring Awakening, Bernarda Alba, Next to Normal, Billy Elliot. The 10s so far have given us Book of Mormon, Scottsboro Boys, Matilda, A Christmas Story... Yes, of course, many of these are debatably not "great" in the sense that I think you mean, but I think quite a few of them are. It seems pointless to claim that not ONE "great musical" has opened in NYC since 1973 with A Little Night Music (which I admit is a GREAT musical, far better than most on the list, but not necessarily greater than a few others in my opinion).

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