Saturday, August 17, 2013

Entertainment Weekly's All-Time 10 Greatest Stage Musicals


Now for the musicals....Entertainment Weekly's All-Time Greatest Stage Musicals by Thom Geier. I don't quite agree with the list but here it goes... 



  • Guys and Dolls - Music & Lyrics by Frank Loesser; Book by Joe Swerling and Abe Burrows
  • Gypsy - Music by Jule Styne; Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim; Book by Arthur Laurents 
  • Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - Music & Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim; Book by Hugh Wheeler 
  • Oklahoma! - Music by Richard Rodgers; Lyrics and Book by Oscar Hammerstein II
  • West Side Story - Music by Leonard Bernstein; Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim; Book by Arthur Laurents
  • Cabaret - Music by John Kander and Lyrics by Frank Ebb
  • A Chorus Line - Music by Marvin Hamlisch; Lyrics by Edward Kleban; Book by James Kirkwood Jr. and Nicholas Dante
  • Rent - Music and Lyrics by Jonathan Larson
  • Carousel - Music by Richard Rodgers; Lyrics and Book by Oscar Hammerstein II
  • The Book of Mormon - Music, Lyrics & Book by Trey Parker, Matt Stone and Robert Lopez

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