The Producers Spamalot Jersey Boys Spring Awakening Mamma Mia Movin' Out Hairspray The Pillowman The Coast of Utopia The History Boys Blackbird The Clean House
I am a firm believer in serendipity- all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose was all along.
MUSICALS Elaine Stritch: At Liberty Urinetown Caroline, or Change The Light in the Piazza Grey Gardens
PLAYS The Goat Sixteen Wounded 700 Sundays Doubt The Pillowman Bridge & Tunnel The History Boys Rabbit Hole The Clean House The Coast of Utopia Frost/Nixon Jay Johnson: The Two and Only! The Little Dog Laughed
"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy."-Charlie Manson
I think LITP will certainly be remembered as one of the most important musicals of the decade - in a way I see Grey Gardens as the beginning of its legacy. Let's hope there'll be many more shows like these.
Why, hello Margaret! Yes darling, half past five. Well, everyone, simply le tout Park Avenue and la creme de Hyannis! Well, the press table's going to be awfully crowded... but if you don't mind sharing a folding chair with Harper's Bazaar... Sing? Me? Heavens no, it's Edie's day, not mine... Although people can be so insistent, and I hate to disappoint. Twist my arm, blackmail me, threaten my very life, and who knows? You might get a verse of something...
I think she means the final product of Grey gardens, what is seen on stage right now.
I am a firm believer in serendipity- all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose was all along.
Grey Gardens. I'm so original. And if we can include Off-Broadway, I think See What I Wanna See is pure brilliance.
"This table, he is over one hundred years old. If I could, I would take an old gramophone needle and run it along the surface of the wood. To hear the music of the voices. All that was said." - Doug Wright, I Am My Own Wife
I think Urinetown is important, because it's the best political commentary musical since The Cradle Will Rock.
Mamma Mia, because it's simply the most entertaining musical in years. I've seen it 5 times, and woudl go again.
Grey Gardens. This musical is the most important contribution to the musical theatre since Follies, not only for its topic, but for what it represents to the musical theatre.
Thanks wonderfulwizard11, I was indeed referring to final products, and was comparing them very loosely. I wasn't suggesting that Guettel DIRECTLY inspired Frankel & Korie - I think you know that joniray. I wasn't even trying to say that GG is derivative of LITP - beyond a few superficial similarities the two shows are completely different. Of course GG was conceived before LITP hit the stage, but if this is going to descend into a fussy point-scoring argument over chronology, then may I point out that Guettel started writing music for LITP way back in the late 90s. I was making a (very) general point about the two shows - suggesting that LITP's success has helped to foster a climate in which shows like GG can compete more readily.
Why, hello Margaret! Yes darling, half past five. Well, everyone, simply le tout Park Avenue and la creme de Hyannis! Well, the press table's going to be awfully crowded... but if you don't mind sharing a folding chair with Harper's Bazaar... Sing? Me? Heavens no, it's Edie's day, not mine... Although people can be so insistent, and I hate to disappoint. Twist my arm, blackmail me, threaten my very life, and who knows? You might get a verse of something...
Urinetown. It will definitely be around for years to come -- it's evolving into one of the most fun, hip, best shows for high schools and regional/community theatres to do. Easily my favorite post-millenium show.
I can't really comment on the plays but as far as musicals are concerned: CAROLINE, OR CHANGE (my top choice, great example of an effective post-modernist musical, pure brilliance) GREY GARDENS La Chiusa's THE WILD PARTY THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"