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TTT: Favorite Broadway Musicals

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly themed blog hop created by The Broke and the Bookish and now hosted at That Artsy Reader Girl.

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Today we are going to visit one of my other favorite things in the world: Broadway Musicals. I love them. My collection of musicals is the largest of any genre of music I own. It all began when little second grade me when on a field trip to see a regional production of The Sound of Music. Since then, I have tried to see every National Tour possible. I have been fortunate enough to see several of my favorites not just on National Tours but also on Broadway.

Here are my favorites in the order I fell in love with them. (Limited to shows I've seen and not just listened to. And I would totally pay to see over and over.)


 Times I've seen it: 5
Favorite Song: "On My Own"
Favorite Number to See Live: "One Day More"



 Times I've Seen It: 3
Favorite Song: "I Still Believe"
Favorite Number to See Live: "The Fall of Saigon


 Times I've Seen It: 2
Favorite Song: "Back to Before"
Favorite Number to See Live: "What a Game!"


Times I've Seen It: 3
Favorite Song: "No Good Deed"
Favorite Number to See Live: "Defying Gravity"


Times I've Seen It: 1
Favorite Song: "Wait for It"
Favorite Number to See Live: Everything from "Guns and Ships" through "The Battle of Yorktown (The World Turned Upside Down)"


Times I've Seen It: 1
Favorite Song: "Me and the Sky"
Favorite Number to See Live: Is it cheating to say the whole thing? Because the honest answer is the whole thing. It's such a big story told in such a small space with only 12 actors and each number flows into the next flawlessly taking you and all your emotions with it.


(Otherwise Known As: The one that I sneered at for a super long time and then ended up loving and becoming obsessed with therefore having to eat crow with my teenage daughter.)
Favorite Song: "In My Dreams"
Favorite Number to See Live: Quartet at the Ballet

I will give the last three spots to musicals I LOVE, but have not yet been privileged enough to see.





Any other Broadway fans out there? What is your favorite show to see live? What is the number one show on your to see wish list?

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Kim Aippersbach said…
I haven't seen that many musicals: Les Miserables, which is wonderful in every way; the Lion King, which is spectacular; Mamma Mia, which is a ton of fun; Wicked, which has great music; Next To Normal, which is an amazing story with some truly excellent songs. A lot of these I saw with my teenage daughter, who was really into acting and singing at the time and was completely excited about going to see them. (She acted in Beauty and the Beast and Oklahoma, so I've seen them, too.) She was also obsessed with Rent, so I can sing you most of those songs, even though I've never seen it live (but we watched the movie over and over). Now that she's moved away I don't have anyone to go with (since my husband is not into musicals at all). I missed a chance to see Come From Away and am kicking myself for it!
March 26, 2019 at 2:47 AM
Katy K. said…
What a fun topic! I had Les Mis memorized as a teen, though I don't think I ever saw it live. I've seen professional productions of Miss Saigon, Phantom, and Wicked, and been in high school or college productions of Little Shop of Horrors, Fiddler on the Roof, and Into the Woods, all of which were lots of fun! Also Pirates of Penzance and the Gondoliers, though those are technically operettas. I would love to see Hamilton, Les Mis, and Rodger's and Hammerstein's Cinderella (which is playing near me this weekend, if only I had the time and money!)
March 27, 2019 at 1:19 PM
Katy K. said…
I forgot I was going to say Fun Home, too - on the want to see list.
March 27, 2019 at 1:20 PM
Brandy said…
@Kim If you ever get the chance to see Come From Away again, take it! it's truly amazing. My daughter is very into theater too though that's partly due to environment. She went to see her first musical at age 4. It's totally my fault she wants to be an actress.

@Katy I saw this tour of Cinderella here back in February! It was really good. The current prince is spectacularly funny and awkward.
March 29, 2019 at 6:58 PM
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