The Broadway Musical Blog – Musical theater news and gossip from the Great White Way
Dishing out daily (or almost daily) Broadway musical news and gossip. The companion site to The Broadway Musical Home (broadwaymusicalhome.com), a directory of Broadway musicals with the story, songs, merchandise, video clips, lyrics, tickets, rights & awards for almost 200 shows.Archive for Broadway
In honor of #theatrethursday, your list of the top 50 Broadway musicals of all time
We asked and you responded. Here’s a list of your all time favorite Broadway musicals, in no particular order:
- Les Miserables
- Rent
- The King and I
- Sunday in the Park with George
- Wicked
- Guys and Dolls
- Sweeney Todd
- Ragtime
- West Side Story
- In the Heights
- Phantom of the Opera
- Into the Woods
- Next to Normal
- Cats
- Parade
- Company
- Chess
- A Chorus Line
- Man of La Mancha
- Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
- Rocky Horror Show
- The Music Man
- My Fair Lady
- Mame
- Jersey Boys
- The Last Five Years (technically off-Broadway, but enough of you voted for it that I had to include it)
- Candide
- The Drowsy Chaperone
- The Sound of Music
- Spring Awakening
- Little Shop of Horrors
- The Wiz
- Miss Saigon
- Hair
- Billy Elliot
- Gypsy
- Assassins
- Rock of Ages
- Hello Dolly!
- Cabaret
- The Lion King
- Hairspray
- Grease
- Avenue Q
- South Pacific
- Evita
- The Producers
- Pippin
- Chicago
- Dreamgirls
Is your favorite not on the list? Add it in the comments below!
Win a pair of tickets to see Memphis on Broadway!
Win a pair of tickets to see Memphis on Broadway on Friday, October 2 and write us a review of the show for the blog!
To enter to win, just comment below, tweet @broadwaymusical or email why you want to see the show!
Please note: I reserve the right to make edits to the winner's review. Winner will be chosen using www.random.org and will be announced on Monday, September 28 on the blog, broadwaymusicalhome.com, Twitter and Facebook.
September is Back2Broadway month – tons of awesome events!
Our friends over at ILoveNY have been busy preparing for what they’ve dubbed Back2Broadway Month. Watch their video and check out some of the awesome events:
Sirius XM Radio “Live on Broadway” Lunchtime Concerts
Sept 16th, 23rd and 30th - 12 pm
Inside the Times Square Information Center on 7th Avenue between 46th and 47th Streets
Star Chats
Sept 9th (Joe DiPietro, Rick Elice, Marshall Brickman) at Marriott Marquis
Sept 23rd at Sardi’s Restaurant
Sept 30th at TheTimesCenter
All Star Chats will take place at 5:30 pm
RSVP with the date you’d like to attend
Karaoke
Sept 10th, 17th and 24th - 5 pm
Broadway and 7th Avenue between 46th and 47th Streets
Open House Theatre Tours
Sept 12th: Al Hirschfeld Theatre, Broadway Theatre and Brooks Atkinson Theatre
Sept 19th: Al Hirschfeld Theatre, Richard Rodgers Theatre, and Winter Garden Theatre
Sept 26th: August Wilson Theatre, Majestic Theatre and Minskoff Theatre
All tours will take place from 10 am – noon
Broadway on Broadway concert
September 13th - 11:30 am
Times Square
Kids’ Night on Broadway – Kids Go Free!
Sept 15 and 16
Insider View Post-Show Talkbacks
Sept 15, 22 and 29 immediately following evening performances of Billy Elliot the Musical, Burn the Floor, Chicago, In the Heights, Jersey Boys, Memphis, Next to Normal, The Phantom of the Opera, Rock of Ages, The Royal Family, Shrek:The Musical, Superior Donuts, The 39 Steps, The Toxic Avenger, West Side Story
Broadway Dance Studio
Sept 18 and 26 - 5 pm
Duffy Square, Broadway and 7th Avenue between 46th and 47th Streets
Broadway Tweet-Up via Twitter
September 22 - from 12-2 pm
“Broadway Salutes”
September 22 – 4 pm
Duffy Square, Broadway and 7th Avenue between 46th and 47th Streets
The 23rd Annual Broadway Flea Market and Grand Auction
September 27
Shubert Alley, West 44th Street between Seventh and Eighth Avenues
Locations and more details are available on the I Love NY website.
Is anyone out there working on a Michael Jackson show for Broadway?
I have no Broadway connections (sadly) and get messages from people all the time who hope I do. These have varied from Julie Andrews autograph requests, to resumes/headshots/reels or pleas that I help get someone’s show produced on Broadway. I usually just write back a polite email wishing them the best of luck and lamenting the fact that I’m a nobody just like them.
Today I got an adorable email from an 11 year old named Spencer, and just feel horrible that I have to write back saying I can’t do a thing for him, so I thought, why not put it on the blog? Maybe some big shot working on a show will run across it on the interweb and Spencer’s dream can come true.
So without further ado, here’s the email. (If you’re someone working on the show email me and I’ll get you Spencer’s address.)
Dear to whom it may concern, my name is spencer and i am 11 years old. I am a big fan of broadway and movies and music and i was surfing the web yesterday when i came across that michael jackson’s thriller was supposed to be on broadway early january. Since I am somewhat of a big fan of michael jackson I just wanted to share some of my ideas:
Michael Jackson meets a girl and perhaps to flirt with her he sings “the way you make me feel” and then she leaves him in a few weeks and he sings “billie jean” (the name of the girl can perhaps even be, Billie Jean) and then perhaps he meets another girl named anne and falls in love and sings smooth criminal. Then he realized he wants billie jean back and he goes on falls in love with billie and they live happily and then one day they come out of a film and michael explains that he is not like other guys and then he turns into a “monster” and sings the 1# hit, THRILLER!!!! let me know what you think and i look forward to hearing from you!
love, spencer
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