Top 5 Musicals?

Alex Kulak2
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Top 5 Musicals?#1
Posted: 10/17/16 at 10:28pm

Mine:

Honorable Mention: Be More Chill (One of the best produced cast albums ever, but I haven't had the opportunity to see the actual show) 

5. Hunchback of Notre Dame: La Jolla Version

4. The Last Five Years

3. The 25th Annual Putnam Spelling Bee

2. Sweeney Todd

1. Big Fish

 

Play nice, y'all

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Top 5 Musicals?#2
Posted: 10/17/16 at 10:32pm

I totally agree with Sweeney Todd....

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Top 5 Musicals?#3
Posted: 10/17/16 at 10:36pm

5. The Last Five Years

4. Hamilton

3. Assassins

2. Fun Home

1. Company

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Top 5 Musicals?#4
Posted: 10/17/16 at 10:42pm

1. Cabaret

2. Matilda

3. Fun Home

4. South Pacific

5. Hamilton

 

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Top 5 Musicals?#5
Posted: 10/17/16 at 11:12pm

1. Sweeney Todd

2. Into the Woods

3. Cabaret

4. South Pacific

5. Fun Home

Honorable Mentions: 6. Sunday in the Park with George, 7. Caroline, or Change, 8. She Loves Me, 9. The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, 10. The Light in the Piazza.

Updated On: 10/19/16 at 11:12 PM
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Top 5 Musicals?#6
Posted: 10/17/16 at 11:33pm

1) Dear Evan Hansen

2) Spring Awakening

3) Pippin (revival)

4) American Psycho

5) Hamilton

 

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Top 5 Musicals?#7
Posted: 10/17/16 at 11:40pm

5) Godspell

4) Damn Yankees, tied with Hairspray

3) Les Miz, tied with Company

2) Sweeney

1) Oliver

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Top 5 Musicals?#8
Posted: 10/17/16 at 11:40pm

1.Book of Mormon

2.Hedwig and the Angry Inch

3.Hamilton

4.Dear Evan Hansen

5.Cabaret

the first 4 varie on how I'm feeling that day
 

Updated On: 10/17/16 at 11:40 PM
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Top 5 Musicals?#9
Posted: 10/18/16 at 2:51am

Thrilled to see all the love for Cabaret & Sweeney.

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Top 5 Musicals?#11
Posted: 10/18/16 at 7:44am

1. Phantom

2. Natasha Pierre and The Great Comet of 1812

3. Tuck Everlasting 

4. The King and I 

5. Dear Evan Hansen

 (Not in that particular order)

Honorable mentions: Cats, Cabaret, Paramour, Love Never Dies, Sweeney Todd, The Last Ship, Finding Neverland. 

Updated On: 10/18/16 at 07:44 AM
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Top 5 Musicals?#12
Posted: 10/18/16 at 12:24pm

1-5 Hamilton. That is all.

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Top 5 Musicals?#13
Posted: 10/18/16 at 12:30pm

1. Company

2. Cabaret

3. A Chorus Line

4.  Sweeney Todd

5. Follies

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Top 5 Musicals?#14
Posted: 10/18/16 at 12:41pm

Ah this is such a Sophie's Choice kinda question, but if I had to choose 5(in no particular order) they'd be:

1. West Side Story

2. Hamilton

3. Fun Home

4. Into The Woods

5. Company

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Top 5 Musicals?#15
Posted: 10/18/16 at 1:51pm

This was hard, but... 

1. Floyd Collins 

2. Spoon River

3. Giant 

4. Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812

5. Fun Home

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Top 5 Musicals?#16
Posted: 10/18/16 at 2:20pm

Honorable Mention: WEST SIDE STORY

5. NEXT TO NORMAL

4. HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH

3. THE LAST 5 YEARS

2. PARADE

1. SONGS FOR A NEW WORLD

"I shall stay until the wind changes."
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Top 5 Musicals?#17
Posted: 10/18/16 at 2:48pm

Dear Evan Hansen

Next to Normal

Hamilton

Last Five Years

Spring Awakening

Hunchback of Notre Dame

Les Miserables

p.s.  if you didn't make me cry, what was the point?   (and no, apparently, I can't count)

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Top 5 Musicals?#18
Posted: 10/18/16 at 2:51pm

Hamilton

A Chorus Line

1776

Gypsy

Follies

"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg." -- Thomas Jefferson
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Top 5 Musicals?#19
Posted: 10/18/16 at 2:53pm

1. A Chorus Line

2. Sunday in the Park With George

3. Sweeney Todd

4. Guys and Dolls

5. Assassins

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Top 5 Musicals?#20
Posted: 10/18/16 at 2:55pm

-a chorus line

-west side story

-bombay dreams

-kiss of the spider woman

-merrily we roll along

"People have their opinions and that doesn't mean that their opinions are wrong or right. I just take it with a grain of salt because opinions are like as*holes, everyone has one". -Felicia Finley-
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Top 5 Musicals?#21
Posted: 10/18/16 at 2:56pm

1. Hamilton

2. The Book of Mormon

3. Les Miserables

4. Side Show

5. The King and I

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Top 5 Musicals?#22
Posted: 10/18/16 at 3:28pm

1) Fun Home

In no particular order:

-Hedwig and the Angry Inch

-Next to Normal

-Les Miserables

-Hamilton

Honorable mention: Chess

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Top 5 Musicals?#23
Posted: 10/18/16 at 3:42pm

1) Les Miz

2) Book of Mormon

3) Next to Normal

4) Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

5) Jersey Boys

This could change drastically as we are planning on seeing Dear Evan Hansen & Great Comet on Broadway and the touring editions of Fun Home & Hedwig.

 

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Top 5 Musicals?#24
Posted: 10/18/16 at 3:48pm

HONORABLE MENTIONS: Sunday in the Park with GeorgeLes Misérables, The Phantom of the Opera

5. Company

4. TIE: West Side Story and A Chorus Line

3. Hedwig and the Angry Inch

2. Wicked

1. Hamilton

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Top 5 Musicals?#25
Posted: 10/18/16 at 3:53pm

1.  Caroline, or Change

2.  Cabaret

3.  Passing Strange

4.  Chorus Line

5.  Pippin / Fun Home (tie, because I can't decide between the 2)

then Hedwig, Les Miserables, Sweeney Todd, Hamilton, and Chicago right behind 

Updated On: 10/18/16 at 03:53 PM
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Top 5 Musicals?#26
Posted: 10/18/16 at 5:42pm

5. Young Frankenstein

4. If/Then

3. Hamilton

2. Hedwig and the Angry Inch

1. Rent