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MY TOP PICKS
Greatest Musicals
of all time
From demon barbers to love-struck phantoms, domineering stage mothers to misunderstood witches. Some of the most compelling, entertaining and downright bizarre stories ever told have been told in the form of stage musicals.
Let's count down to the faves.
West Side Story
The passion and rebellion of West Side Story still lingers today. The musical, which is an interpretation of Romeo and Juliet told through the eyes of warring teenage gangs, debuted on Broadway in 1957 and continues to feel fresh with every revival and tour. The innovative show shifted the way musicals were staged, breaking apart rules of choreography and storytelling. One of its most thrilling contributions, however, are the lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, who had his big break with the show's success and went on to write some of theater's most challenging, moving and iconic pieces.
Jesus Christ Superstar
Originally released as a concept album, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's rock opera re-told the story of Jesus' last week of life in the most Seventies way possible. The controversial musical, which debuted in 1970, highlighted the tension between Jesus and Judas in a modern way that was as loud and brazen as the rock music topping the charts and youth culture shepherding in a new decade at the time.
Les Miserables
Based off Victor Hugo's novel of the same name, the musical Les Miz has become a frequently revived Broadway classic that retells the story of the French revolution. The stories of characters like Javert, Fantine and Éponine are told with delicacy and soundtracked by some of theater's most epic, explosive ballads and numbers that reflect the immediacy of the movement and class war occurring in 19th-century France.
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