Also love the ON THE TWENTIETH CENTURY performance on the Tonys, but no list is perfect. It is great to have so many wonderful clips in a single place - like an "all you can eat" lunch buffet.
They have Cabaret there twice (original and 1998 revival), but they couldn't include Les Miz? That was a thrilling performance.
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Did Tim Minchin piss off someone at Buzzfeed? Matilda wasn't included in their Best Musicals of the 2000s list, and now their impossibly joyful Tony performance didn't make this list, either. Happy to see that Ragtime and Spring Awakening were remembered, though. I guess the 2009 opening doesn't really count but that was the most amazing thing I ever saw happen on the Tonys. (Just checked the weird list and saw that it was included there. The only thing I'd consider weird about that performance were the parts starring Liza and Stockard Channing.)
And I call bullsh!t on the Xanadu inclusion. I was just rewatching that performance the other day and couldn't get over how boring it was.
What invalidates these lists is the use of an arbitrary and large number like "33."
It's as if the person making the lst was too lazy or stupid to choose among all the possibilities and just said "F*CK it. This is Buzzweed. I'll just leave them all in."
I have to agree with Jon. Any list that speaks of great Tony performances and leaves off Michael Jeter is uninformed. He was the Ray Bolger of the modern era.
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I think 42nd Street was the last time you saw 10 million people on stage at one time. And it was glorious. So how the author can compare Chenoweth doing her shtick in Charlie Brown to a full chorus of dancers is beyond me.
If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.