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Best Scores From the Last Five Years?
#25Best Scores From the Last Five Years?
Posted: 6/15/17 at 3:24pm
Thanks to this thread, I went back to listen to If/Then and I agree there's ton of potential there. Would love to see a revival in the future.
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Stand-by Joined: 9/8/17
#27Best Scores From the Last Five Years?
Posted: 9/10/17 at 6:06pm
GavestonPS said: "DADDY LONG LEGS hasn't been mentioned here. It's a two-character show, but one I listened to daily for six months after it was streamed for free on the internet."
Seconded wholeheartedly. It's an Off-Broadway show based on the short novel Daddy Long Legs by Jean Webster. You don't need to read the story beforehand to understand it, though!
#28Best Scores From the Last Five Years?
Posted: 9/10/17 at 6:07pm
Dear Evan Hansen
Once (I saw five years ago but was it more than five years ago that it began on Broadway?)
If/Then
Hedwig & The Angry Inch (I know that it's been around longer than five years, but it debuted on Broadway less than five years ago)
Fun Home
Hamilton
Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812
#29Best Scores From the Last Five Years?
Posted: 9/10/17 at 6:28pm
Once
Bring It On
Matilda
Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
Violet
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Fun Home
Something Rotten
The Visit
Hamilton
Bright Star
Great Comet
Bandstand
Daddy Long Legs (Off-Broadway)
Sense & Sensibility (Chicago Shakespeare Theatre)
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
#30Best Scores From the Last Five Years?
Posted: 9/10/17 at 6:43pm
In the last five years, the best scores have been, IMO, DEH, Hamilton and Bridges of Madison County.
CZJ at opening night party for A Little Night Music, Dec 13, 2009.
Alex Kulak2
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/11/16
#31Best Scores From the Last Five Years?
Posted: 9/10/17 at 7:18pm
Dear Evan Hansen, Heathers, Dogfight, Waitress, Gentleman's Guide, Bridges of Madison County, Be More Chill, Big Fish
#32Best Scores From the Last Five Years?
Posted: 9/10/17 at 7:23pm
Anastasia
Bandstand
Dear Evan Hansen
Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812
A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
Matilda
Something Rotten
Newsies
Heathers
Hamilton
Bring It On
Groundhog Day
#33Best Scores From the Last Five Years?
Posted: 9/10/17 at 7:28pm
Hamilton
Fun Home
The Great Comet
Dear Evan Hansen
Waitress
Kinky Boots
#34Best Scores From the Last Five Years?
Posted: 9/10/17 at 11:23pm
The score for Heathers is atrociously bad.
I would say: Fun Home, Hamilton, Waitress, Bridges, Great Comet, and I would throw Something Rotten in there as the "fun" score.
#35Best Scores From the Last Five Years?
Posted: 9/10/17 at 11:37pm
And I know that the show wasn't very successful but I thought Bright Star had an absolutely lovely score. I think of the major flops of the last five years Bright Star was the musical that had a score that deserved to be heard for way longer.
MCfan2
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/29/06
#36Best Scores From the Last Five Years?
Posted: 9/10/17 at 11:42pm
Bandstand, Gentleman's Guide, She Loves Me, Hamilton, Edwin Drood, Daddy Long Legs, Bright Star.
#37Best Scores From the Last Five Years?
Posted: 9/11/17 at 12:11am
HTDobson, matter of opinion. I an not a fan of a few you listed.
I would add Bright Star.
I also loved and was a bit obsessed with the score to "Nevermore...". I really liked the walk-in music a lot. Finally got a copy of the show amd walk-in music.
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#38Best Scores From the Last Five Years?
Posted: 9/11/17 at 12:22am
I posted my favorites when this thread was first started, but since then, I've discovered "Venice," which I've absolutely fallen in love with. I know it got a lot of negative word of mouth at the Public, but I think the score is just phenomenal. It's my current musical theatre obsession. I've made it my goal to introduce it to all my musical theatre-loving friends, because I don't know anybody who has heard it.
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