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re: Good call, JayBee

Posted by: Chazwaza 03:35 pm EDT 03/13/14
In reply to: Good call, JayBee - Paul_Gordon 12:17 pm EDT 03/13/14
I agree that it's a flawless musical... but, to my chagrin, not everyone does. Not everyone agrees that the book is flawless or that the musical as a whole is perfect. I think they're wrong, but they certainly exist and they existed when the show opened and the exist now, and I don't just mean a few people.

So even though I think it's perfect, and one of the great musicals ever written, I don't think it's unanimously agreed upon that it's "perfect" or the last great or flawless or perfect show to open in NYC.

Many, myself included, would call Sweeney Todd perfect and flawless. I might even call Chicago flawless. Personally, I'd call Sunday in the Park flawless and perfect. Maybe would say it about Once On This Island, maybe Nine, maybe Dreamgirls, maybe Assassins, maybe Les Miz, maybe Hairspray. I'd also say it about Caroline or Change.

It's hard to find a show everyone agrees is perfect. I'd think you'd find no one arguing about West Side Story, or on the other side, The Music Man. Yet there are haters of both shows. The King and I? My Fair Lady? Fiddler? Cabaret? Haters.

Perhaps the only show I've never heard a bad word about was Guys & Dolls and I'm sure there are people that find it shallow or not funny.


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