I did not see the original BIG RIVER - it's the only show I almost didn't include on my list - but it's not really BEST MUSICAL material, if you ask me. I was in the show - am very familiar with it, and saw the revival - which I adored - but I still don't think it's a great musical - it's the source material that I love.
Some pretty fantastic shows? Feel free to point them out.
"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy."-Charlie Manson
I saw the original "Big River" 2 1/2 times. Okay, yes, that means I second-acted it once. Guilty, as charged.
I had a friend take over the role of Mary Jane Wilkes in it, so several of us went to see it a few times and wish her well. I 'fessed up about this on other postings, but it was Marin Mazzie making her Broadway debut. We had just worked together a month before she got this part. The show holds a special place in my heart, as we had all just moved to New York. But I thought it was a damn fine musical all around. Still do. And the entire cast was terrific.
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I agree SB is not the best musical ever, although is my favorite but I definately think that even with "actually real competition" would be a big contender in any other year.
In my opinion, Avenue Q is very funny but not a best musical deserver, if that term exists jeje
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I borrowed the cast recording from the local library a couple of weeks bad and I despise it. Correct me if I'm wrong, but it opened during a very weak season.
"The cynicism you refer to, I acquired the day I discovered I was different from little boys!~All About Eve
What about "Jerome Robbin's Broadway". Not that the songs where bad, but it wasn't an musical as more a revue and really 1989 was pretty much the worst year on record for new material.
JEROME ROBBINS' BROADWAY was a revue, but it was an utterly brilliant and thrilling one (several revues have won Best Musical incidentally). A whole evening of showstoppers. FAR from the worst Best Musical.
"What a story........ everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end." -- Birdie
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