Most forgotten Best Musical Winner?
Most forgotten Best Musical Winner?
#1Most forgotten Best Musical Winner?
Posted: 5/19/09 at 5:14pm
What would you say is the most forgotten musical that won Best Musical?
I would think it's REDHEAD. It is rarely performed. It was basically a Fosse/Verdon vehicle that won 5 Tonys, but is rarely talked about these days. Encores hasn't even done it! REDHEAD is known for having a pleasant score, but a very confusing and problematic book. Most say it will never be revived.
What do you think is the most forgotten Best Musical winner?
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#2re: Most forgotten Best Musical Winner?
Posted: 5/19/09 at 5:17pmI'd vote for Hallelujah Baby, or Raisin.
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blaxx
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#2re: Most forgotten Best Musical Winner?
Posted: 5/19/09 at 5:18pmI'd say Will Rogers Follies
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#4re: Most forgotten Best Musical Winner?
Posted: 5/19/09 at 5:22pmI agree with Redhead. For good reason. Not a fan.
#5re: Most forgotten Best Musical Winner?
Posted: 5/19/09 at 5:23pmI believe PASSION had the shortest run of a Best Musical winner, but it's still kind of recent, and it does have a bit of a cult following.
blaxx
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#6re: Most forgotten Best Musical Winner?
Posted: 5/19/09 at 5:25pm
Passion just had the Cerveris, LuPone, McDonald concert, so hardly forgotten.
Jerome Robbin's Broadway.
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#7re: Most forgotten Best Musical Winner?
Posted: 5/19/09 at 5:25pm
Passion has had a major concert production shown on national television and has lived through its DVD of the OBC. I would hardly consider it forgotten. In fact, I think it is more appreciated than it was when it premiered.
#8re: Most forgotten Best Musical Winner?
Posted: 5/19/09 at 5:26pmPassion was the first thing that popped into my head. Although, there are a lot of regional productions of it it seems.
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#9re: Most forgotten Best Musical Winner?
Posted: 5/19/09 at 5:31pm
Passion is far from forgotten, its score has a huge following and its performed often.
I would say Raison, I've only heard of it because it won the tony.
BillyE
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#10re: Most forgotten Best Musical Winner?
Posted: 5/19/09 at 5:39pm
Passion is unforgettable in my mind, mainly for the brilliant performance by Donna Murphy.
Redhead though, huh?
Ed_Mottershead
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#11re: Most forgotten Best Musical Winner?
Posted: 5/19/09 at 6:16pm
I question whether Drood had much afterlife. it's a tricky show to pull off, if for no other reason than the denouement isn't set in stone. Enjoyable enough at the time, but hardly memorable.
Also, I saw Redhead once in summer stock many years ago -- without Verdon, forget it. I think it caught on only because of her and won the Tony b/c there just wasn't much competition at the time (Gypsy wasn't eligible for that season). Interestingly, the only show it competed against was Flower Drum Song, which, again difficult to cast, was at least filmed and had a revival (not very successful, I grant) a few years back.
BroadwayEd
#12re: Most forgotten Best Musical Winner?
Posted: 5/19/09 at 6:18pmDrood has had a huge life in regional and community theatre.
#13re: Most forgotten Best Musical Winner?
Posted: 5/19/09 at 6:32pmI'd definitely agree with REDHEAD.
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#14re: Most forgotten Best Musical Winner?
Posted: 5/19/09 at 6:34pmWhat about Two Gentlemen of Verona? You also don't see much of Raisin, which I love!
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#15re: Most forgotten Best Musical Winner?
Posted: 5/19/09 at 6:36pmI think it's safe to say the most forgotten best musical is "Daisy and the Washing Machine."
#16re: Most forgotten Best Musical Winner?
Posted: 5/19/09 at 6:48pmJust did a search on the Tony Awards website, and definately the only Best Musical winners that haven't had a life post-broadway are Rasin, Redhead, and Hallelujah, Baby.
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#17re: Most forgotten Best Musical Winner?
Posted: 5/19/09 at 8:02pmTo me, Raisin in the Sun should never have been musicalized. The score isn't my cup of tea either.
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#18re: Most forgotten Best Musical Winner?
Posted: 5/19/09 at 11:24pmTWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA is the one that popped into my mind quickly.
#19re: Most forgotten Best Musical Winner?
Posted: 5/19/09 at 11:28pmTwo Gent... is certainly obscure, but it also had a major NY revival a couple years ago in the park. And, i suppose maybe it's just me, and I had heard of a production of it back when I was in HS, so I've always seen it as a known show (although I don't know it at all)
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#20re: Most forgotten Best Musical Winner?
Posted: 5/19/09 at 11:35pm
HALLELUJAH BABY!
I was just listening to it as I showered earlier today.
What were those white people thinking?
Hey let's get Arthur Laurents, Jule Styne and Betty and Adolph to write the history of being black in America as the decades fly!
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#22re: Most forgotten Best Musical Winner?
Posted: 5/20/09 at 12:11amContact
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#24re: Most forgotten Best Musical Winner?
Posted: 5/20/09 at 12:24amDefinitely RAISIN and HALLELLUJAH BABY.
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