Broadway Bound
Feb 20, 2021 4:00 PM โ 6:00 PM
With Garrett Stack
Life-Changing, Mind-Blowing Musicals
A few musicals, a dozen or so, have been life-changing, mind-blowing shows. Their impact is profound. This is my list. What's yours?
When you're in the theater and suddenly you say to yourself, "where am I?" you have just been transported to that magic place by the confluence of many theatrical elements that make the living stage sometimes breathtaking. I say sometimes, and perhaps even most of the time you may enjoy a show, but it's not life-changing.
On this Broadway Bound I offer my list of 12 musicals that have had a profound effect on me. The oldest is from 1969. The newest is from 2017.
This is my list and is incomplete due to to time constraints. But rest assured, these shows only rarely come along. Spoiler alert. Here they are:
1776
Cabaret
Les Miserables
La Cage aux Folles
Sunset Boulevard
A Chorus Line
Evita
Sweeney Todd
Chaplin
Come From Away
Billy Elliot
Hamilton
| 4:00 PM | John Williams;The Boston Pops Orchestra Gotta Dance - A Tribute to Jerome Robbins Music of the Night: Pops on Broadway 1990 Sony Classical
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| 4:02 PM | William Daniels & Virginia Vestoff Yours, Yours, Yours Sherman Edwards 1776 (Original Broadway Cast Recording) Masterworks Broadway
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| 4:04 PM | William Daniels Is Anybody There? Sherman Edwards 1776 (Original Broadway Cast Recording) Masterworks Broadway
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| 4:07 PM | 1776 Ensemble Finale Sherman Edwards 1776 (Original Broadway Cast Recording) Masterworks Broadway
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| 4:10 PM | Alan Cumming;The Kit Kat Club (Girls, Boys and Band) Wilkommen (From "Cabaret") There's No Business Like Show Business RCA Victor
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| 4:18 PM | Alan Cumming Finale John Kander Cabaret (New Broadway Cast Recording) Masterworks Broadway
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| 4:24 PM | Randy Graff I Dreamed A Dream ClaudeโMichel Schรถnberg Les Miserables - Highlights Universal Music Ireland Ltd.
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| 4:28 PM | Colm Wilkinson Bring Him Home Les Miserables - Highlights Universal Music Ireland Ltd.
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| 4:33 PM | George Hearn I Am What I Am (From La Cage Aux Folles) Jerry Herman La Cage Aux Folles RCA Red Seal
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| 4:39 PM | Glenn Close & Alan Campbell There's Been A Call / Journey To Paramount Sunset Boulevard US [ 2005 remastered (set) ] Universal Music Ireland Ltd.
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| 4:43 PM | Glenn Close As If We Never Said Goodbye - US 1994 / Musical "Sunset Boulevard" Andrew Lloyd Webber Sunset Boulevard US [ 2005 remastered (set) ] Decca Broadway
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| 4:51 PM | Carole Bishop, Nancy Lane, Kay Cole At the Ballet Marvin Hamlisch A Chorus Line (Original Broadway Cast Recording) Masterworks Broadway
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| 5:00 PM | Patti LuPone Eva's Final Broadcast Weber/Rice Evita (Original 1979 Cast Recording) RCA
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| 5:03 PM | Mandy Patinkin, Patti Lupone Montage Andrew Lloyd Webber Evita Universal Music Ireland Ltd.
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| 5:06 PM | Mandy Patinkin, Patti LuPone Lament Evita (Original Cast Recording 1979) Universal Music Ireland Ltd.
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| 5:12 PM | Len Cariou & Victor Garber Wigmaker Sequence: The Ballad of Sweeney Todd: "Sweeney'd Waited Too Long Before" / The Letter Stephen Sondheim Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Original Broadway Cast Recording) RCA Victor
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| 5:15 PM | Ken Jennings, Angela Lansbury Not While I'm Around (From "Sweeney Todd") Stephen Sondheim Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Original Broadway Cast Recording) RCA Victor
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| 5:19 PM | Rob McClure What Only Love Can See (Reprise) Christopher Curtis Chaplin: The Musical Masterworks
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| 5:22 PM | Christiane Noll & Company This Man Christopher Curtis Chaplin: The Musical Masterworks
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| 5:25 PM | Company Finale / Tramp Reprise Christopher Curtis Chaplin: The Musical Masterworks
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| 5:29 PM | 'Come From Away' Company Blankets and Bedding Come From Away (Original Broadway Cast Recording) The Musical Company
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| 5:32 PM | 'Come From Away' Company On the Bus Come From Away (Original Broadway Cast Recording) The Musical Company
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| 5:33 PM | 'Come From Away' Company Darkness and Trees Come From Away (Original Broadway Cast Recording) The Musical Company
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| 5:35 PM | Chad Kimball & 'Come From Away' Company Prayer Come From Away (Original Broadway Cast Recording) The Musical Company
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| 5:38 PM | 'Come From Away' Company 10 Years Later Come From Away (Original Broadway Cast Recording) The Musical Company
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| 5:38 PM | Joel Hatch & 'Come From Away' Company Finale Come From Away (Original Broadway Cast Recording) The Musical Company
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| 5:44 PM | Original Cast of Billy Elliot He Could Be A Star Elton John Billy Elliot: The Original Cast Recording Universal Music Ireland Ltd.
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| 5:49 PM | Original Cast of Billy Elliot Electricity Elton John Billy Elliot: The Original Cast Recording Universal Music
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| 5:53 PM | Christopher Jackson Alexander Hamilton Lin-Manuel Miranda Hamilton (Original Broadway Cast Recording) Atlantic Records
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| 5:57 PM | Christopher Jackson History Has Its Eyes On You Lin-Manuel Miranda Hamilton (Original Broadway Cast Recording) Atlantic Records
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