Best Broadway Musicals of All Time

Why is it down here?! I love it! Very spectacular ( and romantic :D ) Nicole Kidman is great!

eh. It's for females...just saying.

This musicle is awsome i think the only reason it is way down here is not enough people know about it

How the hell is it in 243????

This is my favorite show. It pains me that this isn't at least top 100, and it's my personal number 1. As a composer, I can't help but pay attention to the role of the score in a show, and here the score is simply unbelievable, so perfectly communicating the incongruity of Leo Frank, a Jewish man from Brooklyn, and Georgia in 1914, which is clearly still dangerously committed to the ideals of the Confederacy. It has a solid book and masterful music that makes you feel the tragedy. What bugs me the most is people complaining that the show is too heavy, since that's precisely the point of showing this event; it's meant to expose a dark chapter of history by way of powerful, moving drama.

OK the story is a little down for a musical. Probably one of the most original and innovative scores of the past 20 years. I can't hear "All The Wasted Time" without tearing up.

Although Carrie is recognized as the biggest flop in Broadway history, the revival was actually phenomenal. Definitely one of my top five favorite musicals.

That's like saying rock n roll isn't music.

Its an opera not a musical

Powerful. Makes me cry just listening to the soundtrack.

This stayed so long on Broadway because it was a parody of the 50s and caused people to think. More people know more portions of this musical than many of the 180 ahead of it in this ranking. The entertainment value of this musical was and is huge. It does not belong at this "rank".

I agree that Grease really is not the best musical when it comes to morals. However, what if the whole purpose of that ending was to make us think? To make us feel sorry for Sandy at the end and encourage the opposite response from the "slutty" one she chose? Just food for thought.

There is nothing funnier than when a Catholic high school produces Grease. The moral is not only encouraging conformity, but that if you want the guy, go slutty.

Grease has fun songs, but the moral at the end is misplaced. I mean, it basically says that it's ok to compromise who you are as a person just so you can be a **** and get the boy. What kind of message is that? Shame on you, Grease for encouraging conformity.

Very Funny. Great characters. I think 228 is very underrated

I love Footloose so much! I was in this show and the dancing was amazing as well as the songs! Definitely needs to be in a higher ranking.

Terrible. Just terrible.

How did this beat Spring Awakening and Next to Normal and 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee? I've been in Seussical twice, and it was a horrible, depressing experience. Stupid plot, boring music.

We did it in highschool. I liked it a lot.

I was in seussical and....wanted to kill myself. worst music and plots of all time. Seuss should stay in the children's books where he belongs.

It about legend Fanny Brice

Rude name :D

Terribly written show....my high school put it on. I played one of the two Jimmy's and we were the only two that got praised. It is hard to follow along and it has some of the worst songs I've ever heard in a broadway show....but thats just me.

great relatively new musical!! :)

Great true story, great cast, great songs. This has to be so much higher.

Amazing. The score keeps you moving and the acting is just great. Aaron Tveit is amazing and was robbed once again. Norbert brings the house down. The chorus will take your breath away.