What is your top ten list of musicals?

The songs aren't that good, the voices are good and the instrumentals are good, but they don't fit together perfectly and the instrumentals are very basic. ... It is also the first Broadway musical to include Rock music, and I mean straight up rock music, not rock opera or any other hybrid/sub-genre. .... Answered Jul 9, 2013. read more

In no particular order: The Sound of Music, Hairspray, Wicked, The Little Mermaid, Oliver, Matilda, Mary Poppins, The Lion King, Tarzan, Doornroosje de musical (Studio 100). read more

Singin' in the Rain's title song is perhaps the most famous musical sequence in the history of the genre (it was made doubly memorable after being psychotically repurposed as a murder ballad in A Clockwork Orange), and many put the movie up there with Bandwagon, Funny Face and Meet Me in St Louis as the high water mark of the mid-century American musical comedy. read more