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Best Broadway Musicals of All Time

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Rated 199 points - posted 15 years ago by BrendaKaye in category Music.

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Peggy Ann

1926

38 points - added 14 years ago by guest -

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America's Sweetheart

1931

38 points - added 14 years ago by guest -

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Wish You Were Here

1952 Harold Rome Musical

38 points - added 14 years ago by guest -

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American Idiot

2010 Tony Award Nominee for Best Musical

36 points - added 14 years ago by guest - 1 comment

Comments:

Well constructed :)

Added 13 years ago by guest, 1 point

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Shrek

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Fosse

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Shenendoah

Tony nominated musical in 1975

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Jekyll and Hyde

The singing...the music! The tempo...the clever way haunting melodies turn up again throughout. I don't know anyone who has seen this (performed by a good cast) that hasn't gotten goosebumps. It should definitely at least be on the list! (Though it is my number one favorite of all time)

31 points - added 10 years ago by guest -

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Happy End

Tony nominated musical in 1977

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Jelly's Last Jam

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Irma La Douce

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The Wedding Singer

2006 Tony Award Nominee for Best Musical

29 points - added 14 years ago by guest -

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The Addams Family

28 points - added 14 years ago by guest - 3 comments

Comments:

It's great!

Added 9 years ago by guest, 1 point

This musicle is so unique and awsome. It is so fun and amazong

Added 11 years ago by guest, 2 points

Nathan and Bebe are GENIUS in this, however, the whole score was a bit to "pop" for me.

Added 12 years ago by guest, 1 point

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The Color Purple

26 points - added 14 years ago by guest -

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Blood Brothers

1993 Tony Award Nominee for Best Musical

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Memphis

25 points - added 14 years ago by guest - 1 comment

Comments:

This musicle is so moving and so good. the music is brilliand

Added 11 years ago by guest, 0 points

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Aspects of Love

1990 Musical nominated for a Tony Award for best musical

24 points - added 14 years ago by guest -

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On the Twentieth Century

Tony nominated musical in 1978

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13 the Musical

Great score; great book

20 points - added 12 years ago by guest - 1 comment

Comments:

this is my FAVORITE musical of all time! The plot is amazing and the songs are very relatable!!!

Added 11 years ago by guest, 1 point

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Stop the World, I Want to Get Off

Tony nominated musical in 1963

20 points - added 14 years ago by guest - 1 comment

Comments:

incredible score

Added 8 years ago by guest, 0 points

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Zorba

Tony nominated musical in 1969

20 points - added 14 years ago by guest -

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Tarzan

20 points - added 14 years ago by guest -

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Falsettoland

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Bare

2000 Pop opera by Hartmere and Intrabartolo

18 points - added 10 years ago by guest - 2 comments

Comments:

deserves a higher ranking

Added 9 years ago by guest, 0 points

Very cool music. Story set in a catholic high school, centered on a gay relationship between Peter and Jason. Peter wants their relationship to be open and Jason does not. Great side stories, as well. Very little dialogue and the music flows nicely.

Added 10 years ago by guest, 0 points

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Children of Eden

One of the Greatest Musicals of all time.

18 points - added 11 years ago by guest - 1 comment

Comments:

Amazing. I cant believe this wasn't on the list already

Added 11 years ago by guest, 0 points

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Cabin in the Sky

18 points - added 14 years ago by guest -

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The Streets of New York

Music by Richard B. Chodosh, lyrics and book by Barry Alan Grael), one of the great forgotten musicals of the 1960s

17 points - added 14 years ago by guest -

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As the Girls Go

1946 Musical with music by Jimmy McHugh and lyrics by Harold Adamson

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Up In Central Park

1945 hit by Sigmund Romberg

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Sweet Smell of Success

Tony Nominated Musical in 2002

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Nunsense

17 points - added 14 years ago by guest -

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Bloomer Girl

Show from 1944. Harold Allen wrote the music.

16 points - added 14 years ago by guest -

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Milk and Honey

Tony nominated musical in 1962

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Repo! The Genetic Opera

This musical teaches people that, sometimes your parents can have dark secrets that you may not be able to handle. As well as enemies will do anything to get you back. Defiantly an amazing and beautiful musical

15 points - added 12 years ago by guest -

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Rags

Tony nominated musical in 1987

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Smokey Joe's Café

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We will rock you

BLOODY AMAZING, Made me want to cry, and the fact that it's Queen's fantastic songs just makes it a MILLION times better.

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Li'l Abner

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The Wild Party

2000 Tony Award Nominee for Best Musical

13 points - added 14 years ago by guest -

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Steel Pier

1997 Tony Award Nominee for Best Musical

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Baby

Tony nominated musical in 1984

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Contact

Tony Award for Best Musical in 2000

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Passing Strange

2008 Tony Award Nominee for Best Musical

12 points - added 14 years ago by guest - 1 comment

Comments:

The most powerful musical I have ever seen on Broadway going on forty years. Check out the Spike Lee doc on this. AMAZING. Stew Rocks

Added 13 years ago by guest, 0 points

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Ballroom

Tony nominated musical in 1979

12 points - added 14 years ago by guest -

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Follow the Girls

About a burlesque queen who becomes a star, it debuted on Broadway in 1944 and London in 1945, running over two years in both locations.

11 points - added 14 years ago by guest -

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Skyscraper

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Hero! - The Rock Opera

Great show, a story of what would happen if Christ's life was set in modern-day New York. Really gives you a whole other view of the Lord to help further connect with Him

10 points - added 12 years ago by guest -

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Pricilla- Queen Of The Desert

This is a fun musical, great for a night out

10 points - added 13 years ago by guest -

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Knickerbocker Holiday

Lyrics by Maxwell Anderson; Music by Kurt Weill created this 1938 hit.

10 points - added 14 years ago by guest -

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Inside USA

1948 Arthur Schwatrz musical

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Stomp

9 points - added 14 years ago by guest -

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Come Fly Away

Created by Twyla Tharp, four couples as they fall in and out of love during one song and dance filled evening at a crowded nightclub.

9 points - added 14 years ago by guest -

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The Full Monty

2002 Tony Award Nominee for Best Musical

9 points - added 14 years ago by guest -

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Hallelujah Baby

Tony Award for Best Musical in 1968

9 points - added 14 years ago by guest -

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The Boy From Oz

9 points - added 14 years ago by guest -

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Spider-man: Turn Off the Dark

I saw this on Broadway twice. Amazing musical with rock music. Very creative and original. Love Reeve Carney.

7 points - added 11 years ago by guest -

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Die Fledermaus

7 points - added 12 years ago by guest -

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Million Dollar Quartet

2010 Tony Award Nominee for Best Musical

7 points - added 14 years ago by guest -

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Walking Happy

Tony nominated musical in 1967

7 points - added 14 years ago by guest -

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Fame the Msuical

It's not that good of a musical, at all. Poorly written, and bad experiences from the show

6 points - added 11 years ago by guest -

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A Year with Frog and Toad

2003 Tony Award Nominee for Best Musical

6 points - added 14 years ago by guest -

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Carnival

6 points - added 14 years ago by guest -

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A Day in Hollywood

Tony nominated musical in 1980

5 points - added 14 years ago by guest -

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Amour

5 points - added 14 years ago by guest -

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Five Guys Named Mo

5 points - added 14 years ago by guest -

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Hamilton

Won the Tony awards for best Musical in 2016. Lin Manuel Miranda is a genius and a true visionary mixing genres in a story that never would've been told so publicly without him.

4 points - added 8 years ago by guest - 1 comment

Comments:

How is Shrek higher that this?

Added 5 years ago by guest, -1 points

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Flashdance the Musical

4 points - added 11 years ago by guest -

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Little Me

Tony nominated musical in 1963

4 points - added 14 years ago by guest -

369.

Ariana Grande+Liz Gilles=AMAZING SHOW

3 points - added 11 years ago by guest -

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Dietrich & Chevalier: The Musical

3 points - added 14 years ago by guest -

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Fela

2010 Tony Award Nominee for Best Musical

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Oh, Captain!

Tony nominated musical in 1958

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Runaways

Tony nominated musical in 1978

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Quilters

Tony nominated musical in 1985

3 points - added 14 years ago by guest -

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Songs for a New World

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