1.
A Chorus Line
This show WAS broadway for years and years, playing 6,137 performances.
20 points - added 13 years ago by plink -
2.
Sweeney Todd
And all of Broadway changed.
12 points - added 13 years ago by plink -
3.
Company
Sondheim riffs on the value of Being Alive for romance and love in New York City during the 1970s. Songs include Being Alive, Another Hundred People, Side by Side, and Ladies Who Lunch
8 points - added 13 years ago by plink -
4.
Ain't Misbehavin'
Must by Fats Waller.
8 points - added 13 years ago by plink -
5.
Chicago
Quintessential crowd-pleaser with some of the best tunes Broadway has seen...
7 points - added 13 years ago by plink -
6.
Annie
Almost every aspiring actress remembers the time they first heard "Tomorrow," "Maybe," and "Hard Knock Life."
7 points - added 13 years ago by plink -
7.
The Wiz
Ease On Down The Road...
7 points - added 13 years ago by plink -
8.
Grease
By way of reminder: Summer Lovin', Beauty School Drop Out, Worst Things I Could Do, and Grease Lightning....
7 points - added 13 years ago by plink -
9.
A Little Night Music
...Send in the Clowns....
6 points - added 13 years ago by plink -
10.
Godspell
a brilliant score Stephen Schwartz made this small show about the Gospel of Matthew a huge hit.
5 points - added 13 years ago by plink -
11.
Pippin
There isn't a high school theater department in the country that hasn't done Pippin.
4 points - added 13 years ago by plink -
12.
Runaways
A musical with dark, gritty-substance for young actors and audiences.
3 points - added 13 years ago by plink -
13.
On the Twentieth Century
3 points - added 13 years ago by plink -
14.
Jesus Christ Superstar
Broadway's first true rock-opera.
2 points - added 13 years ago by plink -
15.
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
...title alone.
2 points - added 13 years ago by plink -
16.
Shenandoah
Broadway hit from 1975 that earned six tony nominations and ran for over a thousand performances.
2 points - added 13 years ago by plink -
17.
Follies
While this Sondheim musical actually lost money in it's original broadway run, the show is frequently revived and many of the songs have become standards.
1 point - added 13 years ago by plink -
18.
Applause
Mostly forgotten, this adaptation of All About Eve was a broadway hit and won the Tony for Best Musical in 1970.
1 point - added 13 years ago by plink -
19.
Raisin
Tony Award for Best Musical of 1974. A musical adaptation of A Raisin in the Sun.
1 point - added 13 years ago by plink -
20.
Side by Side By Sondheim
This tony-nominated music review of 1977 has such great tunes and so little technical requirements almost every community theatre and summer stock theatre opts to produce it.
0 points - added 13 years ago by plink -
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