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Topic	I've seen Phantom of the Opera 8 times on Broadway. AMA
Zeus 11/12/19 3:12:51 AM #14:	I'm jealous. I've only seen Phantom on Broadway twice, maybe three times tops. PK_Spam posted... Before you ask for my definitive ranking of broadways shows, Ill do it for you 1) Avenue Q 2) Book of Mormon 3) Phantom 4) Legally Blonde 5) Lion King 6) How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying 7) Ghost: The Musical 8) Thoroughly Modern Millie This is where they go from maybe being kinda bad, to mostly bad. 9) Beauty and the Beast 10) Pippin (I really dont even remember this one, and I saw it twice) 11) Mary Poppins 12) idk, if you held a gun to my head, Id probably say Spring Awakening 13) the dirt under my shoes 14) Rent, and I saw it three times and was forced to watch the movie a dozen more because I was a theatre kid. THE worst musical Ive ever seen that wasnt Love Never Dies (which was a movie and doesnt count) Guessing this is based solely on what you've seen. All the same, Mormon over Phantom is heresy. While I'm big into cast recordings, I think I've only seen a handful of shows on and around Broadway. Offhand, it's Phantom (at least twice), Mormon (although I watched it on YT like a month before I wound up seeing the show... so that kinda sucked), The Addams Family, Spider-Man (which I was arm-twisted into seeing instead of Wicked, which in itself was very wicked), and... I know I'm missing a bunch. Counting Broadway + adjacent shows I've watched on YT, the most noteworthy ones are probably Hamilton and Young Frankenstein. Plus the MTV recording of Legally Blonde, if that counts. Out of everything I've seen so far, I'd definitely put Hamilton at the top. Likewise, I'd rank it the highest for musical numbers, although it's cheating because the damn thing is pretty much nothing but musical numbers which is why it flows together so beautifully. Granted, some other musicals also tell a pretty complete story just from the music -- Young Frankenstein, for instance. Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is another. Maybe Bring It On as well, since I'm pretty sure I heard the soundtrack before wiki'ing anything. Ragtime was reasonably complete as well. MrMelodramatic posted... Phantom is the only show Ive seen on Broadway. Was okay. Kinda nonsense story tho Uhhhhh....? PK_Spam posted... Legally Blonde has some very good songs and some very middling ones. Maybe it should be lower on my list "Blood in the Water" is incredibly catchy. "Whipped into Shape" was also great, as was "Positive" and "What You Want." --- (\/)(\/)\|-\| There are precious few at ease / With moral ambiguities / So we act as though they don't exist. <cite>Zeus posted [p:930015627] in I've s... [t:78150200]...</cite> <quote>I'm jealous. I've only seen Phantom on Broadway twice, maybe three times tops. PK_Spam posted...</cite> <quote>Before you ask for my definitive ranking of broadways shows, Ill do it for you 1) Avenue Q 2) Book of Mormon 3) Phantom 4) Legally Blonde 5) Lion King 6) How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying 7) Ghost: The Musical 8) Thoroughly Modern Millie This is where they go from maybe being kinda bad, to mostly bad. 9) Beauty and the Beast 10) Pippin (I really dont even remember this one, and I saw it twice) 11) Mary Poppins 12) idk, if you held a gun to my head, Id probably say Spring Awakening 13) the dirt under my shoes 14) Rent, and I saw it three times and was forced to watch the movie a dozen more because I was a theatre kid. THE worst musical Ive ever seen that wasnt Love Never Dies (which was a movie and doesnt count) </quote> Guessing this is based solely on what you've seen. All the same, Mormon over Phantom is heresy. While I'm big into cast recordings, I think I've only seen a handful of shows on and around Broadway. Offhand, it's Phantom (at least twice), Mormon (although I watched it on YT like a month before I wound up seeing the show... so that kinda sucked), The Addams Family, Spider-Man (which I was arm-twisted into seeing instead of Wicked, which in itself was very wicked), and... I know I'm missing a bunch. Counting Broadway + adjacent shows I've watched on YT, the most noteworthy ones are probably Hamilton and Young Frankenstein. Plus the MTV recording of Legally Blonde, if that counts. Out of everything I've seen so far, I'd definitely put Hamilton at the top. Likewise, I'd rank it the highest for musical numbers, although it's cheating because the damn thing is pretty much nothing but musical numbers which is why it flows together so beautifully. Granted, some other musicals also tell a pretty complete story just from the music -- Young Frankenstein, for instance. Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is another. Maybe Bring It On as well, since I'm pretty sure I heard the soundtrack before wiki'ing anything. Ragtime was reasonably complete as well. MrMelodramatic posted...</cite> <quote>Phantom is the only show Ive seen on Broadway. Was okay. Kinda nonsense story tho</quote> Uhhhhh....? PK_Spam posted...</cite> <quote>Legally Blonde has some very good songs and some very middling ones. Maybe it should be lower on my list </quote> "Blood in the Water" is incredibly catchy. "Whipped into Shape" was also great, as was "Positive" and "What You Want." --- (\/)(\/)\|-\| There are precious few at ease / With moral ambiguities / So we act as though they don't exist. </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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