To me, musicals are just contemporary Operas in English with rock or pop music. Whether Broadway or the West End, musical theater has made greater contributions to pop culture than we can ever imagine. In fact, I challenge you to go through this list and tell me if there is not at least one of this songs that does not crack a smile on your face... These are my top 20 musicals...
1. Les Misarables: I Dreamed a Dream; One Day More, Stars, Do You Hear the People Sing?, Master of the House, Look Down, Lovely Ladies, Red and Black, Drink with me, Beggards at the Feast...
2. Rent: Seasons of Love, Rent, One Song Glory, Tango: Maureen, Santa Fe, La Vie Boheme, I'll Cover You, Today 4 U, Over the Moon, Light my Candle..
3. Phantom of the Opera: The Music of the Night, The Phantom of the Opera, All I Ask of You, Wishing you Were Here Somehow Again, The Point of No Return, Angel of Music...
4. Chicago: All That Jazz, Cell Block Tango, Press Conference Rag, Roxie, Mr. Cellophane, Razzle Dazzle, Class, I Can't Do it Alone, Nowadays, Class, Hot Honey Rag...
5. Fiddler on the Roof: Tradition, If I Were a Rich Man, Sunrise Sunset, Matchmaker, Anatekva, Far From the Home I Love, Little Bird, Do You Love Me?, Miracle of Miracles...
6. A Chorus Line: What I Did for Love; One; Nothing; Hello Twelve, Hello Thirteen, Hello Love; I Can Do That, I Hope I Get It; At the Ballet; Sing...
7. Cats: Memory; Magical Mr. Mistoffolees; The Rum Tum Tugger; Gus: The Theatre Cat; Bustopher Jones; Macavity: The Mystery Cat; Skimbleshanks; Jellicle Songs for Jellicle Cats...
8. Jesus Christ Superstar: Gethsemane, Superstar, Heaven on Their Minds, Last Supper, I Don't Know How to Love Him, Can We Start Again Please?, The Trail Before Pilate, Herod's Song, Hossana, This Jesus Must Die, Simon Zeloates...
9. West Side Story: Quintet, Maria, Jet Song, Somewhere, America, I Feel Pretty, Tonight, Gee Officer Krumpke...
10. Joseph & The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat: Any Dream Will Do, Go Go Joseph, Close Every Door, One More Angel in Heaven, Song of the King, Poor Poor Pharoah, Those Canaan Days, Benjamin's Calypso...
11. Hair: Easy to be Hard, Aquarius, Let the Sun Shine In, I Got Life, Hair, Ain't Go No, Where Do I Go?, Manchester England, The Flesh Failures, Good Morning Starshine, Sodomy, I'm Black, Walking in Space...
12. Evita: Don't Cry for me Argentina, Waltz for Eva and Che, Oh What a Circus!, Another Suitcase in Another Hall, a New Argentina, High Flying Adored, And the Money Kept Rolling In, Buenos Aires, On This Night of a Thousand Stars, The Rainbow Tour...
13. My Fair Lady: Why Can't the English?, I Could Have Danced All Night, Get Me to the Church on Time, Wouldn't It Be Loverly?, On the Street Where you Live, A Hymn to Him, With a Little Bit of Luck, Just You Wait...
14. Grease: Summer Nights, We Go Together, Beauty School Drop Out, Alone at the Drive-In, Rock'n'Roll Party Queen, Those Magic Changes, Greased Lightning, There are Worse Things I Could Do, Look at me I'm Sandra Dee...
15. Avenue Q: The Internet is for Porn, Purpose, Mix Tape, Everyone's a little bit Racist, If You Were Gay, There's a Fine Fine Line, Sucks to be Me...
16. Camelot: I Wonder What the King is Doing Tonight, Camelot, The Lusty Month of May, If Ever I Would Leave You, What do the Simple Folk Do?, Guenevere...
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17. Man of la Mancha: The Impossible Dream, Man of la Mancha, The Knight of the Woeful Countenance, Little Bird Little Bird, Dulcinea, Golden Helmet of Mambrino
18. Spamalot: Always Look in the Bright Side of Life, You Won't Succeed in Broadway, The Song that Goes Like This, Knights of the Round Table, Brave Sir Robin, Diva's Lament, Find Your Grail...
19. Pirates of Penzance: The Pirate King, The Very Model of a Major General, Climb Over Rocky Mountain, When the Foreman Bares His Steel, A Paradox, A Rollicking Band of Pirates We, Finale Act II
20. Wicked: Defying Gravity, Popular, No One Mourns the Wicked, the Wizard and I, No Good Deed, Dancing Through Life, One Short Day, What is This Feeling?
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