My recap thus far of the 2018-2019 theatre season:
- Introduction
- Musicals
- Plays
- Revivals
- Miscellaneous Categories
- Musical Categories
- Play Categories
- Broadway, Miscellaneous Categories
- Broadway, Musical Categories
- Broadway, Play Categories
Today: the big Broadway finish!
Specifically:
Ranking each category of show — Musical, Play, Musical Revival, Play Revival — and then a complete ranking of THEM ALL:
MUSICAL
- Choir Boy
- King Kong
- A trash musical, to be sure — which isn’t pejorative! Trash can be glorious! It just usually doesn’t show up at the Tonys — but not a single element of any of the musicals below compare to King Kong’s animatronics, easily one of my highlights of the season.
- The Prom
- Pretty Woman
- DELIGHTMAAAAAAAAARES ‘R’ US!
- Hadestown
- Ain’t Too Proud
- Be More Chill
- Head Over Heels
- Gettin’ the Band Back Together
- Beetlejuice
- The Illusionists—Magic of the Holidays
- Tootsie
- The Cher Show
MUSICAL REVIVAL
- Oklahoma!
- Kiss Me, Kate
PLAY REVIVAL
- The Waverly Gallery
- The Boys in the Band
- True West
- Burn/This
- Torch Song
- All My Sons
- King Lear
PLAY
The play vs. production Tony conundrum strikes again! If these rankings were based on text alone, Straight White Men would be waaaaay higher, and the likes of Network, The Lifespan of a Fact, and The Ferryman would plummet.
- What the Constitution Means to Me
- Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus
- Hillary and Clinton
- The New One
- Straight White Men
- Network
- The Ferryman
- The Lifespan of a Fact
- Ink
- The Nap
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- Bernhardt/Hamlet
- American Son
POWER RANKING
- What the Constitution Means to Me
- Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus
- Choir Boy
- The Waverly Gallery
- Hillary and Clinton
- The New One
- Straight White Men
- The Boys in the Band
- Network
- Oklahoma!
- True West
- The Ferryman
- The Lifespan of a Fact
- Burn/This
- King Kong
- The Prom
- Pretty Woman
- Ink
- Hadestown
- Ain’t Too Proud
- Torch Song
- The Nap
- Bernhardt/Hamlet
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- All My Sons
- Be More Chill
- Head Over Heels
- King Lear
- Kiss Me, Kate
- Gettin’ the Band Back Together
- Beetlejuice
- The Illusionists—Magic of the Holidays
- American Son
- Tootsie
- The Cher Show
A musical adaptation of a movie and a jukebox musical pulling up the rear? How 2019!