best tony winner for Best Musical, 2000-2019

I forgot when I saw Hairspray in NYC, it had both 90's R&B star Tevin Campbell playing Seaweed, and Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame legend Darlene Love playing Motormouth. she got an ovation during "I Know Where I've Been".

I said this on the Tay thread but I still prefer the Hadestown studio album to the cast album

Waitress didn't win, I think it's there by mistake, songs I've heard are good tho.

yes a c+p mistake! but uh vote for it if you want

deciding between hadestown and the producers, a weird decision I admit

hadestown suffered from a weak sauce lead performance from orpheus imo, otherwise it’s pretty singularly glorious

Kinky Boots was massively, utterly disappointing. The dance numbers were fun but how are you going to have a musical with zero (0) memorable musical numbers? If you offered me a million dollars to sing any of the songs from it, I couldn’t.

Avenue Q and Hairspray are fantastic. I saw the film version of The Producers and my baseline reaction was “someone must squash Matthew Broderick like a bug”. Spamalot was fun but the production I saw was interrupted when one of the dancers slammed into a set piece and had to be carried sobbing off the stage. I’ve only seen about 10 minutes of Spring Awakening but I viscerally loathed all ten of those minutes with a fury unlike any beheld on planet Earth except for when I saw Rent. I really like the songs I know from Book of Mormon and Once but I haven’t seen either show.

Hamilton is literally another level of art from any other Broadway musical I’ve seen, which are words I didn’t expect to say before I saw it. I would have been a lock for Avenue Q but Hamilton on Broadway is straight-up the best musical performance I have ever been to, period.

even from a technical standpoint, it's a landmark, but it's definitely a league of its own in terms of what it is.

have you seen Blindspotting? Daveed Diggs is fantastic in that, and does a lot of rapping

DJP definitely seek out Hadestown if only one of the recordings (I guess that's the only option for the foreseeable anyway)

I had a friend who was supposed to see Hadestown this year, he was crushed of course.

i guess I should get around to listening to it.

sorry about your friend getting crushed

imo try the original studio album first if you care more about the songs than the sheen

lmao

sorry about your friend getting crushed

LOL

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the only two i've seen are the producers and kinky boots and frankly i can't remember any songs from either

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well this was a mistake

Can we talk about how entirely unhinged Dear Evan Hansen is?

The premise, I mean; I haven't seen it and maybe they turn a patently sociopathic idea into something interesting but... it seems like a deeply unpleasant pile of garbage

Every time I flash back on Pauline Kael's slam of West Side Story and specifically how hard it allegedly tried to make its dancers athletic efforts the actual aesthetic goal, I muse that she didn't know how good she had it.

Like, are you in the front rows? Bring a sheet of Gallagher plastic with you.

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I won't link because who cares, but Arm0nd's pan carries a nugget that I kind of agree with? (Taking what I presume he actually means by "universal (in fact, unified) moral sensibility" out of the discussion.)

Transferring a Broadway show to Hollywood was traditionally the convention of a cohesive society — when a showfolk subculture spoke through a universal (in fact, unified) moral sensibility and a film adaptation would bring that artistic expression to a larger popular audience.