Favorite musicals

Rocky Horror Picture Show
Hamilton
West Side Story
Grease
Hair
Wizard of Oz
Sound of Music
Les Miserables
Porgy and Bess
Willy Wonka
Little Shop of Horrors
Avenue Q
Tommy
Tick, tick, tick…Boom!
Rent
Chicago
A Chorus Line
On The Town
Guys and Dolls
All That Jazz
Cats
Momma Mia
The Prom
Into The Woods
Frozen
Moana

Newsies
Annie

Kiss Me Kate

Other people like, but I didn't connect: Wicked, Phantom, Hairspray, Fiddler on the Roof, In The Heights, Kinky Boots, Moulin Rouge, The Producers, Matilda, Legally Blond, School of Rock, Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast, Billy Elliot, Evita, Lion King, Mary Poppins, Oklahoma, Funny Girl, Fame, Hunchback, My Fair Lady, Miss Saigon.

I like Gigi, but the frame is all wrong.

I need to see: A Gentleman's Guide, Urinetown, The Book of Mormon, Dear Evan Hansen, Falsettos, Sweeny Todd, Beetlejuice, Hadestown, Legally Blond, Heathers, Six, Fun Home, Amelie, Great Comet, The Band's Visit, Be More Chill, If/Then, Godspell, Jesus Christ Superstar, Company, Catch Me, Dream Girls, Spring Awakening, American Idiot, Jagged Little Pill, Waitress, The Last Five Years, Sunday In The Park With George, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Jersey Boys.

Wow, my apologies for what I've missed out.

I've been looking at people's tier lists on r/musicals to formulate these lists.

I also went on a binge and watched all 3 Annies, and Newsies. Newsies is a good musical, the politics are right. Took me watching the live version to really fall in love with it.

Like everything, the more you watch, the more you see, the more you appreciate a genera.

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Manet and Degas

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Introduction

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movie versus book

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