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re: The last great musical to open on Broadway

Posted by: Chazwaza 06:39 pm EDT 03/14/14
In reply to: re: The last great musical to open on Broadway - AlanScott 06:25 pm EDT 03/14/14

I'd be very curious what your top 5 or 10 musicals of the last 20 years (or so) are. (hell, go for 30 yrs if you want)


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re: The last great musical to open on Broadway

Posted by: AlanScott 07:21 pm EDT 03/14/14
In reply to: re: The last great musical to open on Broadway - Chazwaza 06:39 pm EDT 03/14/14

Oh, there are so many shows that I didn't see that I feel I should have seen and that perhaps would have made this list if I had, but of what I've seen, here are my faves (sticking strictly to the last 20 years and not necessarily in order of preference):

Adding Machine
The Light in the Piazza
Fun Home
Parade
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Grey Gardens
Floyd Collins
Passion (that one gets in just under the wire timewise)

I may be forgetting something. Runner-ups would be The Wild Party (LaChiusa) and Spring Awakening.


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re: The last great musical to open on Broadway

Posted by: Chazwaza 07:45 pm EDT 03/14/14
In reply to: re: The last great musical to open on Broadway - AlanScott 07:21 pm EDT 03/14/14

Very interesting.

My top 10 list would including these 12: (not in order)

The Wild Party (LaChiusa)
Grey Gardens
Spring Awakening
Parade
Bernarda Alba
Ragtime
The Light in the Piazza
Floyd Collins
Caroline or Change
Violet
Hairspray
Hedwig and the Angry Inch

Runners Up might include:
Rent
A New Brain
Adding Machine
Dessa Rose
Taboo
Fun Home
Avenue Q
Book of Mormon
See What I Wanna See
Next to Normal
Marie Christine

There are others I enjoyed a lot (like In the Heights) but that haven't meant anything to me outside the theater.

I haven't seen nor am I familiar with Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.


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re: The last great musical to open on Broadway

Posted by: AlanScott 08:13 pm EDT 03/14/14
In reply to: re: The last great musical to open on Broadway - Chazwaza 07:45 pm EDT 03/14/14

No passion for Passion?


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make that 13

Posted by: Chazwaza 08:23 pm EDT 03/14/14
In reply to: re: The last great musical to open on Broadway - AlanScott 08:13 pm EDT 03/14/14

Yes, absolute Passion for Passion. I thought I'd written it in there.

I guess if I had to cut 3 from that list for some arbitrary reason of having to arbitrarily make a top 10 list for the last 20 years... No, I can't, all 13 are absolutely exceptional, unique and wonderful pieces of musical theater.

(I'd cut Hairspray first, but it's the only old fashioned-style musical comedy so hard to cut it.. then and Grey Gardens because most of what I love is the 2nd act, though the 2nd act is more brilliant than most full shows, then Violet? I don't know! Not that anyone asked)


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