2000 The Wild Party 2001 The Producers 2002 Urinetown 2003 Hairspray 2004 Caroline or Change 2005 The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee 2006 The Drowsy Chaperone 2007 Grey Gardens 2008 In the Heights 2009 Next to Normal
Oh, and I almost forgot to mention...I'm the good cop, he's the bad cop.
Everyone is voting Next to Normal. Does anyone like Billy Elliot? haha.
Going to NYC for the 1st (real) time! Seeing Next to Normal, Wicked, and Jersey Boys. If anyone has a suggestion for rush Wednesday matinee (something not mainstream) please PM me! :D
"Write-ins will not be counted" *Dies inside*, well in that case...
2000 Contact James Joyce's The Dead Swing! The Wild Party***
2006 Jersey Boys The Color Purple The Drowsy Chaperone*** The Wedding Singer
"There's nothing good on. The media hates Christmas. The media loves vampires, though. Maybe they will show a Twilight Christmas." -Danmeg's 10 year old son.
2000 Contact James Joyce's The Dead Swing! The Wild Party*
2001 The Producers A Class Act * The Full Monty Jane Eyre
2002 Thoroughly Modern Millie Mamma Mia! Sweet Smell of Success Urinetown: The Musical*
2003 Hairspray* Amour A Year With Frog and Toad Movin' Out
2004 Avenue Q Caroline, or Change* The Boy From Oz Wicked
2005 Monty Python's Spamalot Dirty Rotten Scoundrels The Light in the Piazza The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee*
2006 Jersey Boys The Color Purple * The Drowsy Chaperone The Wedding Singer
2007 Spring Awakening Curtains Grey Gardens* Mary Poppins
2008 In The Heights Cry-Baby Passing Strange Xanadu *
2009 Billy Elliot Next to Normal* Rock of Ages Shrek
Glad to see some Class Act love on here! While I have never seen it, I had the pleasure of doing this show at my high school this past year. It was witty, origial, vibrant, and had great music. Highly underappreciated show, IMO.
"Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos."-Stephen Sondheim
2000 Contact James Joyce's The Dead Swing! The Wild Party***
2001 The Producers A Class Act*** The Full Monty Jane Eyre
2002 Thoroughly Modern Millie Mamma Mia! Sweet Smell of Success Urinetown: The Musical***
2003 Hairspray*** Amour A Year With Frog and Toad Movin' Out
2004 Avenue Q*** Caroline, or Change The Boy From Oz Wicked
2005 Monty Python's Spamalot Dirty Rotten Scoundrels The Light in the Piazza The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee***
2006 Jersey Boys The Color Purple The Drowsy Chaperone*** The Wedding Singer
2007 Spring Awakening Curtains Grey Gardens*** Mary Poppins
2008 In The Heights Cry-Baby Passing Strange Xanadu***
2009 Billy Elliot Next to Normal*** Rock of Ages Shrek
"In theater, the process of it is the experience. Everyone goes through the process, and everyone has the experience together. It doesn't last - only in people's memories and in their hearts. That's the beauty and sadness of it. But that's life - beauty and the sadness. And that is why theater is life." - Sherie Rene Scott
2000 Contact James Joyce's The Dead Swing! The Wild Party
2001 The Producers A Class Act The Full Monty Jane Eyre
2002 Thoroughly Modern Millie Mamma Mia! Sweet Smell of Success Urinetown: The Musical
2003 Hairspray Amour A Year With Frog and Toad Movin' Out
2004 Avenue Q Caroline, or Change The Boy From Oz Wicked
2005 Monty Python's Spamalot Dirty Rotten Scoundrels The Light in the Piazza The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
2006 Jersey Boys The Color Purple The Drowsy Chaperone The Wedding Singer
2007 Spring Awakening Curtains Grey Gardens Mary Poppins
2008 In The Heights Cry-Baby Passing Strange Xanadu
2009 Billy Elliot Next to Normal Rock of Ages Shrek
"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"
2000 Contact James Joyce's The Dead Swing! ***The Wild Party
2001 ***The Producers A Class Act The Full Monty Jane Eyre
2002 ***Thoroughly Modern Millie Mamma Mia! Sweet Smell of Success Urinetown: The Musical
2003 ***Hairspray Amour A Year With Frog and Toad Movin' Out
2004 ***Avenue Q Caroline, or Change The Boy From Oz Wicked
2005 Monty Python's Spamalot Dirty Rotten Scoundrels The Light in the Piazza ***The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
2006 Jersey Boys The Color Purple ***The Drowsy Chaperone The Wedding Singer
2007 ***Spring Awakening Curtains Grey Gardens Mary Poppins
2008 In The Heights Cry-Baby Passing Strange ***Xanadu
2009 Billy Elliot Next to Normal Rock of Ages Shrek Not gonna vote here because I haven't heard anything from N2N apart from whatwas on the tonys, saving it for next month when i go and see it).
2000 Contact James Joyce's The Dead Swing! The Wild Party [Marie Christine should have been nominated]
2001 The Producers A Class Act The Full Monty Jane Eyre
2002 Thoroughly Modern Millie Mamma Mia! Sweet Smell of Success Urinetown: The Musical
2003 Hairspray Amour A Year With Frog and Toad Movin' Out
2004 Avenue Q Caroline, or Change The Boy From Oz Wicked
2005 Monty Python's Spamalot Dirty Rotten Scoundrels The Light in the Piazza The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
2006 Jersey Boys The Color Purple The Drowsy Chaperone The Wedding Singer
2007 Spring Awakening Curtains Grey Gardens Mary Poppins
2008 In The Heights Cry-Baby Passing Strange Xanadu
2009 Billy Elliot Next to Normal Rock of Ages Shrek [NO VOTE]
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
The musicals with the most votes right now are THE WILD PARTY with 34 votes, HAIRSPRAY with 32 votes, and N2N with 29 votes.
Musicals with no votes are SWING!, MAMMA MIA!, THE BOY FROM OZ, A YEAR WITH FROG AND TOAD, THE WEDDING SINGER, MARY POPPINS, ROCK OF AGES, and SHREK. lol.
There was a GREY GARDENS and SPRING AWAKENING tie at one point, but now one of them is leading with substantial amount.
Remember write-ins and ties will NOT be counted. Leaving a category blank is fine. Please post your pick if you did a write-in or tie.
2000 Contact James Joyce's The Dead Swing! The Wild Party
2001 The Producers A Class Act The Full Monty Jane Eyre
2002 Thoroughly Modern Millie Mamma Mia! Sweet Smell of Success Urinetown: The Musical
2003 Hairspray Amour A Year With Frog and Toad Movin' Out
2004 Avenue Q Caroline, or Change The Boy From Oz Wicked
2005 Monty Python's Spamalot Dirty Rotten Scoundrels The Light in the Piazza The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
2006 Jersey Boys The Color Purple The Drowsy Chaperone The Wedding Singer
2007 Spring Awakening Curtains Grey Gardens Mary Poppins
2008 In The Heights Cry-Baby Passing Strange Xanadu
2009 Billy Elliot Next to Normal Rock of Ages Shrek
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Notice some years (2005 in particular) have so many strong possibilities while other seasons (2000, 2008 ) it's very hard to select even one as an outstanding musical. If I could I would abstain those seasons.
CONTACT is not really a musical since no one sings anything, the music is all pre-recorded, and there really is very little book.
I think the category of Best Musical should be limited to shows with full original scores (allowing for the odd interpolation.) I think the jukebox shows and revues should be placed in the now deleted special events category. I realize that in doing so some seasons would not even have enough nominees to fill the category.
Just my thoughts.
Cast albums are NOT "soundtracks." Live theatre does not use a "soundtrack." If it did, it wouldn't be live theatre!
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