If you had to choose one Broadway musical as a favorite, which would it be and why?

Once again, so very, very hard to pick just one but if I have to I will go with West Side Story. Why? Because it’s nearly perfect.

Either MY FAIR LADY or CAROUSEL. For the perfect combo of book and the music.

Chicago. Good music, interesting plot, great characters, and the visual aspect is awesome.

My Fair Lady
I like the story and the music…Seven Brides for Seven Brothers for the dancing.

This post makes me wish I had the traveling means to visit Broadway often.

I’m fond of Into the Woods and Chicago (because Sondheim and Fosse are inspirations of mine.)

The Phantom of the Opera is by far the greatest. The music is classicalesque and of course anything that resembles classical I am going to like. I can get emotionally invested in it as well. Excellent music, good story, mysterious, wonderful lyrics and rhymes, it’s just the best. Wicked is excellent as well.

Funny Girl. Also, HAIR.

no, i’m not gay

The Phantom of the Opera is my favorite. It has been my favorite from the first time I saw it. I love the story line and the music in it.

If I was allowed to pick more than one, I would also pick Sweeney Todd and Smokey Joe’s Cafe.

If I had to pick just one I would go with Kiss Me Kate. But then I think of Bye Bye Birdie and I just don’t know!

@DominicX Classicalesque? Is that even a word, my dear one? Who cares. I like it; not that my liking it means anything.

@SuperMouse

Go with Bye Bye Birdie…it entered my brain as I posted!

I just noticed the don’t forget why part! For Kiss Me Kate I have four words Brush up your Shakespeare…

@ibstubro “We love you Conrad oh yes we doooooo…”

@lillycoyote

Of COURSE Classicalesque is a word!

We just made it. lol 3 is a consensus.

@ibstubro That’s good enough for me, not that that means anything, as I mentioned above.

I have to agree with “A Chorus Line.” It’s pretty much everything a good musical should be, stripped of everything that makes musicals campy and surface.

However, I throw out “Rent” as my favorite musical that should still be recognized because it was so contemporary, and showed the new promise of what a musical could be in modern times.

And also “In the Heights” because it fulfilled that promise, and is everything that a musical made about today should be.

@iamthemob I hadn’t thought of it that way:

”...stripped of everything that makes musicals campy and surface.”

But if course, you’re right.

Let me preface my answer by first admitting that I abhor musicals. That said, I absolutely adored Les Miserables, but I happened to see it when I was in my French period. My all time favorite musical tho is Spamalot. It was hilarious and I do enjoy a good hearty belly laugh. I enjoyed Monthy Python as a kid and this musical just brought those good times back. Very funny indeed.

@bippee I think I enjoy the music from musicals more than the musicals themselves. I saw Evita on Broadway, and even though I had come to love the music, I could barely set through the show itself.

I guess that’s why the mobster and I like A Chorus Line…it tells a story and it’s not campy and surface.

I would have picked A Chorus Line because it is the only one I’ve seen.

And I would pick Wicked because it’s the only one I’ve see. It was very good though!