Top 10 Musicals You've Never Heard Of
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- Опубликовано: 17 июн 2024
- You never heard of them, but these musicals need a second act. Welcome to MsMojo, and today we’ll be looking at the most notable stage and screen musicals that don’t get nearly enough recognition. Our countdown includes "Finian's Rainbow," "Little Me," "Ghost Quartet," and more! Which musical do YOU think deserves more time in the spotlight? Sing out in the comments!
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Which musical do YOU think deserves more time in the spotlight? Let us know below, and be sure to also check out our video of the Top 20 Most Underrated Songs from Popular Musicals - ruclips.net/video/n8JVePfvie8/видео.html
Batboy the Musical.
The fact that Ordinary Days is not well known makes my heart sad.
Ordinary Days deserves SO MUCH HYPE I love that show@@kaitiecolbert8597
Hold on wild party had Sutton foster how did I now know this?!?!
Eugenius! Just fun, beautiful, funny, sweet with great music and humor ❤
I'm sorry, but shows that won Tony Awards and had 700 shows are not unknown. Wth? That's the definition of recognition.
They’re not well-known amongst folks who aren’t into theater. I will say that the inclusion of The Secret Garden, Something Rotten, and Parade are questionable, since I’d consider all of them to be mainstream musicals. Plus, Bare and The Lighting Thief are known by anyone who has more than a passing interest in musicals and Finian’s Rainbow has been done by every school theater group ever.
WatchMojo: 10 Musicals you’ve never heard of
Me, an autistic theatre major: Try me.
(I knew 7/10)
Me, an autistic performer: 9/10 (only The Ghost Quartet eluded me), and 3/4 honorable mentions (The Beautiful Game).
I nominate Children of Eden! A Stephen Schwartz show that has yet to go to Broadway even though it's been around for a few decades. Act one is Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, and a snake singing five-part harmony (I was part of the snake squad in a production in St. Louis a couple years ago). Act two is Noah and his family, as many animals as you'd expect, a bonus character who doesn't appear in the scriptural account, and THE BEST eleven o'clock number: "Ain't It Good." Look up the Paper Mill Playhouse cast recording; I think the whole thing (or close to) exists as a playlist somewhere here on the Tubes.
I am also autistic and have musicals as a special interest !
@@jenniferkerner6444 Also an autistic performer.
Me too and I watched proshot Ruthless and Ghost Quartet when pandemia stared. I bought movie version ... Rainbow so i must watch this now ❤
Bold of you to put the Lightning Thief musical as the thumbnail.
Bold of them to put it on the list, it was so bad the Academy didn’t even nominate it for best musical award, even though it was 1 of only 2 musicals during COVID.
@@punkwrestleReally? I’ve only heard of ppl loving that musical (especially more than the movies though that bar isn’t that high)
@@punkwrestle Bad? I will tolerate no such slander. It is an incredible musical and deserved to be nominated.
@@punkwrestleWHATTT it was the first musical I've ever gotten into obsessively, I know every little sound they made in the soundtrack, whether it's actual lyrics or just random sounds that happened to be there
As a theater kid and Percy Jackson fangirl, I agree
I think you should have titled this video "Top ten underappreciated musicals' Many of them are well known but didn't last long on Broadway. Secret Garden is very popular on tour and and in regional theaters, and Lily's Eyes is sung by dozens of top singers.
I hardly think of The Secret Garden as an unknown musical.
I was shocked by this as well. Also, Parade was fairly obscure for a while, but it had a resurgence in popularity last year thanks to the production with Ben Platt.
My thoughts exactly. I consider it a fairly well known show.
Our high school performed The Secret Garden last year.
I said the same about The Unsinkable Molly Brown......I saw the movie version with Debbie Reynolds
I absolutely love this musical and listen to it often
Parade?? Seriously? That's a very well known show and is currently on tour. Secret Garden is also well known.
I would love to see Bare. The cast recording (not soundtrack) is fantastic.
There was a clip from A New Brain in the beginning of the video so I assumed it would show up on the list. I've seen it multiple times and love it.
Agree.
I was a little shocked that parade was on there to but I think Parade is still undated it's my second favorite musical after seeing the Broadway revival
REAL!!! My best friend and I have been talking for ages about how we wanna play Leo and Lucile Frank if we ever got the chance. Plus (at least around my theater company) Percy is very well known and we all love it.
I would’ve put Titanic on here. I feel the reason it gets so overlooked is because the James Cameron blockbuster opened up the same year.
Ironically, I actually think more people are aware of the Unsinkable Molly Brown. I’m surprised that it was on the list.
And New York City Center's current mounting of Titanic is SENSATIONAL!
yea i think more people know about the secret garden then titanic
I didn't know that existed until I participated in a March Madness Broadway bracket. I almost lost my fucking mind lmao
YES!!!! What a score! Masterful. City Center Encores! just did a fantastic, semi-staged production that had an unbelieveable and impossibly gifted cast. A star, every one of them, with every voice a golden thread. STUNNING production that I was lucky enough to see on it's "maiden" voyage, as well as it's "final" sailing. (I went to the first show, and the last!)
@@JoesCranium Could not possibly agree more! It was STUNNING!
"Number Ten: THE WILD PARTY"
Musical theater fans: Which one
"Aida" should've been included in this list! An underrated, masterful Disney musical that seems to be forgotten in today's times and is long overdue for a revival and especially a live-action film adaptation by Disney!
How about "Anyone Can Whistle", "The Capeman" or "Sweet Smell of Success"? All three could stand a film adaptation too, especially the last one. The original production of "Sweet Smell of Success" underperformed both critically and commercially back in 2002, due to opening 6 months after 9/11. A movie musical adaptation of the property should revive mainstream public interest in the stage musical itself (and in the 1957 film on which the musical is based).
Studio: MGM
Filming location: Toronto, Canada
Director: Damien Chazelle
Producer: Damien Chazelle (the 2002 musical had Clear Channel Entertainment AND Harvey "Scissorhands" Weinstein attached to it)
Associate Producer: Olivia Hamilton
Choreographer: Sergio Trujillo
Assistant Choreographer: Jennie Ford
Orchestrator: Justin Hurwitz
Conductors: Justin Hurwitz & Damon Gupton
Editor: Tom Cross
Cinematographer: Linus Sandgren
Costume Designer: Mary Zophres
Production Designer: Florencia Martin
Hair Department Head: Jaime Leigh McIntosh
Makeup Department Head: Heba Thorisdottir
Supervising Sound Editor/Sound Designer/Re-Recording Mixer: Ai-Ling Lee
Supervising Sound Editor: Mildred Iatrou Morgan
Cast:
*Dan Aykroyd as JJ Hunsecker
*Carrie Underwood as Susan Hunsecker (JJ's daughter, upgraded from his half-sister)
*Ryan Gosling as Sidney Falco
*Shawn Mendes as Steven "Dallas" Cochran
*Fefe Dobson as Rita O'Rourke, Sidney's girlfriend
*Jack Noseworthy as Otis Elwell, rival gossip columnist (Jack originated the role of Dallas on stage in 2002 and is married to Colombian-Canadian choreographer Sergio Trujillo)
*Jonathan Frakes as NYPD Commissioner Harry Kello, Sr.
*Stephen Kramer Glickman as NYPD Lieutenant Harry Kello, Jr., Commissioner Kello's son and the artistic director of the Policeman's Ball
*Ed Robertson as Billy Van Cleve, owner of the Café Elysian
*Ramin Karimloo as Tony, owner of the Club Voodoo
*Jared Cotter as Club Zanzibar Singer
*Greg Bryk as Senator
*Robyn Hurder as Senator's Girlfriend
*Paula Brancati as Dead Actress
*Jennie Ford as Pregnant Woman
*Timothy J. Alex as Tony's Caprice Bartender
*Nicholas Colicos as Telethon Announcer
*Sutan Amrull as Andre
*Brock Hayhoe as Mae West
*Anna Chazelle (Damien's sister) as Abigail Barclay, aspiring actress
*Stella Aykroyd (Dan's youngest daughter) as Madge, JJ's secretary
*Olivia Hamilton (Damien's wife) as Charlotte von Habsburg (formerly Pepper White)
*Joshua Henry as Lester
I agree completely!
@@disney4real Thank you very much.
I feel like Aida is fairly well known
I couldn’t agree more. Interesting enough there was an attempt to make an Aida movie and Whitney Houston was cast as Aida, the movie was shelved after she passed away and hasn’t been revisited since (to the public knowledge)
I love "Bare: A Pop Opera", though sadly, it has a heartbreaking ending. I couldn't stop crying the first time I watched it, which does to show just how poignant it is.
Opinion on Urinetown? I see you're comments all the time lol
Percy jackson the musical is the best adaptation of the books
I clicked because of the thumbnail.
@@esthero5428 samee 🤣🤣
Real
Come on, Something Rotten played for almost two years on Broadway and was nominated for 10 Tony Awards. "A Musical" owned theater kids FOREVER.
I was in the lightning thief musical
My college just did it
Me too! Who did you play
Me tooo
Jane Erye the musical, The Light in the Piazza, Death Takes a Holiday were all fantastic musicals.
The Magicians Elephant is still being developed but from what I have seen, it is going to be big when it hits the US stage.
I was in The Lightning Thief as Percy and it is definitely not unknown 😭
I think Tuck Everlasting is a musical that most people don’t know of, unless you saw it in its short lived run or in some way were related to it. It has such pretty music and the story is super impactful, more people should know about it
Tuck gets done at the highschool and community level all the time. hardly would consider it unknown.
@@Bowling_Dude I did it this past year for our musical, but everyone I talked to didn’t know it was a musical
MY LOCAL THEATRE DID TUCK, MY FRIEND WAS IN IT, OMG IT WAS AMAZING AND I AGREE ITS SO UNDERRATED!!!
my twin pitched Tuck Everlasting for their spring musical and auditioned for Miles, but then the director rolled up and was like "you wanna play Jesse?" and that has been the one time my SM sibling has and WILL play a lead role
@@legendarydumpsterfire what is an SM sibling?
The Scarlet Pimpernel, an underrated and fairly unknown musical by Frank Wildhorn, the guy who wrote Jekyll and Hyde. It's based on the book of the same name about a guy who saves french artisocrats from the guillotine during the french revolution while keeping up a secret identity and hiding his true self from his wife, who he believes is a spy, and a man working for the french government during the reign of terror. It's lyrics are a little basic, but I love the orchestrations and the plot is fun, dramatic, and adventurous.
I'd recommend watching the tony awards for it (1997)
You could put half of wildhorn's catalog on this list as he doesn't find much success here in the states. you might have a harder time convincing someone that his works are unknown in Germany or South Korea though.
Yes, another stunning score that deserves more airtime!!
YESS SCARLET PIMPERNEL IS MY FAVORITE MUSICAL AND NO ONE KNOWS ABOUT IT
@@damienb.kaiser3677 I sing 2 songs from scarlet pimpernel. Where's the Girl and Falcon in the Dive
Lily's eyes from the secret garden is soooooooo good!
Best key change ever!
Britney and Natalie weren't "reportedly" understudies for Ruthless... they WERE the understudies lol
Ruthless is such a fun show, I love how it parodies movies such as "The Bad Seed."
Something rotten is incredible the soundtrack is really fun
A theatre piece has an original cast album. A soundtrack is for a film.
Saw it in New York and it was hysterical!
Wasn’t it just on Broadway, same as Parade..
The Clockmaker’s Daughter is so critically unknown. Great story and incredible music!!!
Bandstand definetly deserves more love and recognition! I'd love to be able to see it live on day:)
I love Bandstand so much ❤❤
I agree with some of the previous comments that both A Lightning Thief and Something Rotten shouldn't be on this list. They are both too well known. to be a "Musical You've Never Heard Of ". I would add the Poe musical "Nevermore" and the recent British production of "Death Note: The Musical" as pet favorites of mine. For a real deep cut I would add Holy Musical B@tman as well. 😆
Who wrote Nevermore?
@@tracyhuddlestun2560 Jonathan Christenson
All starkid shows could be on here lol
@@littlefeeblefrogman i truly was hoping for either a starkid or tin can bros show and im a little sad they didnt make the list :(
I'm a massive fan of Nevermore and was hoping it'd be on this list! Thank you for mentioning it, I never see anyone besides me talk about it 😂
Parade was JUST on BDWY
Unlike most of the shows examined here, "The Unsinkable Molly Brown" is unquestionably the most challenging to cast. It requires a female star of the highest magnitude who must act, sing and dance throughout, with scarcely a moment's break to take a breath. Also, the climactic sinking of the Titanic is treated almost as incidental, only a brief scene which takes place in the lifeboat after the event. The film cut several songs from the original stage musical and added "He's My Friend," a rip-snorting song and dance. "Colorado, My Home" was shifted from the finale to early in Act 1 as an introduction for the male lead, Johnny Brown.
I would put The Pirate Queen and Martin Guerre in this category. From Boulbil and Schoenberg fame (Les Miserables and Miss Saigon), the music is gorgeous
I saw Martin Guerre in London and it is a beautiful show.
@@susanpayson7843 I wish I had seen it before it was redone. The original 1995 soundtrack was gorgeous. The remake they did a few years later was less impressive to me
@@peternighswander9629 I agree. I saw it in either 1997 or 1998. Can’t remember which.
sad that "Songs for a New World" was not mentioned though one of the songs was shown
Which has some heartbreakingly beautiful songs! "I'll never have the moon."
Curtains. The last musical done by Kander and Ebb.
Putting shows on the list that have had national tours is wild
I have never understood why 1966 The Apple Tree never took off. Barbara Harris, Alan Alda, and Larry Blyden provided stunning performances, and the story of these three plays in one was delightful.
That's a good one! The Apple Tree was done at City Center Encores! a few years ago and it was a revelation.
How about ""Be more chill" ?
Bmc is well-known
I think one I haven't heard a lot of people talk about was In Transit. It's an accapella musical that I think was well done when I saw it
I literally mentioned In Transit in my top 10 least known musical list in the comments. I guess for the mojo group they think not wicked or hamilton = not known but there are real not known musicals out there.
Yes! I had a friend in the cast, it was a really interesting and un-heard of concept. Beautifully staged at Circle in the Square!
If you ask me, Starlight Express and Jimmy Buffet's Escape to Margaritaville don't get talked about that much when discussing Broadway musicals.
Starlight Express is due for a revival...especially when I was approximately four when I saw it on tour. (1990)
Starlight is actually running in London until next year
@@sarahdickson2189 So I've heard.
One of my favorites, for the soundtrack, is Wonderland. Especially the song Mad Hatter.
“One Knight” is my husband’s and my song 🥰
I love that soundtrack, too!!!
I was in "Crazy for You" in Highschool and it is way too much fun to be left out of a larger spotlight!
I would’ve put Wonderland on here, it was a legitimately good musical that got screwed over by one bad review.
Mad Hatter is one of my audition songs.
By Jeeves! would have been another excellent choice, as it too is an underappreciated Andrew Lloyd Webber musical.
Bridges of Madison County!
Yes! I think that if they had given ita different title it would have played more. This needs an Off Broadway revival atg a smaller theater.One of my favorite scores .
For me. Back then, I was surprised to learn there was a "Goosebumps" musical.
The Pirate Queen is absolutely deserved to be on this list. Written by Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg (the Les Mis guys) in collaboration with an Irish Riverdance team, tells the story of Grace O'Malley, one of the most badass women in history.
Forbidden Broadway should get more attention, too!
I knew of the secret garden and Parade just won best revival last year. Does watchmojo do any research?
“Bandstand” and “Between the Lines” deserve significantly more recognition. The former had a very short-lived run on Broadway, and the latter’s off-Broadway run was cut short.
“Bandstand” features incredible music and a heartbreaking story, and “Between the Lines” is the rare adaptation that improves on its source material.
BANDSTAND YES ❤❤❤❤ THANK YOU FOR BRINGING IT UP
SHOCKED "Disaster!" wasn't on this list. It's a jukebox musical of 70s music that parodies disaster movies of the time and easily the funniest musical I've ever seen or been a part of. Its Broadway run got so much critical acclaim but flopped in ticket sales. When my old high school did it, the writer actually recorded and sent us a video thanking us by name for doing this show! That's right, it's so obscure, the writer thanked this random high school by name for doing it!
It was horrible.
awesome job about Musicals You've Heard Of from Top 10
Taboo would have been my choice. (Uk 2001-2002, broadway 2003-2004)
It died after it went bust at the Tonies.
I was lucky enough to have seen Something Rotten! when it toured. It is absolutely my favorite musical comedy. I'm so sad it isn't around anymore.
My daughter took singing lessons from for 6 or 7 years starting when she was 12. One of the songs she learned when she was younger was from Secret Garden. We got the cast recording and listened to it non-stop. The music was amazing and I'm so sad we never got to see it on stage.
Lastly, I saw the movie of Finian's Rainbow when it came out. I was 7 or 8 years old and completely enthralled. I loved that movie.
I absolutely love Parade! I had no idea it existed until its 2023 run and it closed too soon! Definitely needs more love!
I was surprised that Great Comet of 1812 wasn’t at least mentioned. I feel like more people know Lightning Thief and Bonnie & Clyde more than that show.
Also Little Women. Everyone knows the story, but doesn’t know of the musical. It’s beautiful story and music have a special place in my heart and deserve more love
I remember getting all dressed up and going to see The Secret Garden with my dad and my cousin. It was a wonderful musical. I still listen to the soundtrack on occasion.
There was a recent production in California that I certainly hope makes it's way to NYC!!!
I'm surprised you didn't mention the SECOND "The Wild Party" that ran almost concurrently with the one you spotlight. Or that the original novel "Little Me" was written by Patrick Dennis of "Auntie Mame" fame. Or that the gardener in the "Secret Garden" footage is HEDWIG herself, JCM.
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With the Wicked movie coming out later this year, this list would be a good time to bring up Stephen Schwartz's best & most underrated musical, "Children of Eden"
Percy was scheduled to be on broadway but that was exactly when COVID hit 😢
Bare has been my favorite show since I was 16, and I got to perform in it last October. Definitely underrated!
I will also submit The Clockmaker's Daughter for musicals you might not have hesrd about! It has incredible music!
How about The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.
I guess more people know the story to "Bright Star" than I thought. But why give the top spot to a musical that just won a revival tony ONE YEAR AGO?!
AND was nominated for best musical during it's original broadway run
Finally; High Fidelity is mentioned! Such fun music by Tom Kitt. I saw it with Will Chase before he hit it big. Love it.
Jerry Herman’s flop “Mack & Mabel” great score, unhappy ending. “Zanna, Don’t!”, Off-broadway alternate universe love story. “3 Guys Naked from the Waist Down” (thanks Nipper Knapp for introducing this one to me), a musical about standup comedy. And lastly my favorite show from the ‘90’s, “Side Show”. One the best scores of any show from that decade
My college did Zanna, Don't my freshman year! I played piano in the pit.
I 100% believe that Hello Girls deserves more recognition. The roller coaster of emotions you feel during this musical of the struggles of being a woman in the army at a time where it was unheard of. Also I love (Eugene) matterson and (Susanne) privo!!
Also, Amélie the musical with Phillipa Soo from Hamilton. I know a lot of people prefer the London Cast version, but I love the OBC. Phillipa has such a nice voice, and I love that entire cast in general. The whole story is so uplifting and emotional and romantic.
If/Then was amazing. Never hear it talked about.
Civil War and They’re Playing Our Song
having secret garden, lighting thief, something rotten, and bare on here is WILD. I wouldn't say these are unknown but rather, underrated.
parade being number 1 is CRAZY. anyone well versed in classic theatre knows that parade is iconic.
I expected "big river" to make the list, or at least the honorable mentions.
Never heard of? I did see Something Rotten with my dad. I was stunned that the actor who played Shrek in Shrek the Musical was in Something Rotten
It has just been announced that here in the UK that we are finally getting Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief here in February. we are also getting Something Rotten here in the UK. But unfortunately as a staged concert not a full production.
Omg yes Bare!! This show deserves so much love!
"Ruthless" actually sounded like something that would've worked as a "Drag Race" Rusical. (Even the name brands perfectly as "RUthless.")
It’s equal parts Shade (Season 6) and Joan (AS 8).
"A Man of No Importance" should have been included, too. It's a beautiful, heartbreaking and heartwarming story.
Oh good, nice to see my favorite musical on thumbnail to video like this.
The Life is one you missed
I am a simple person I see the Percy Jackson musical in the thumbnail and i click
Ruthless! really is great. Saw the version from London (as shown in the film) several times
Some of my favorites: Toxic Avenger the Musical, The Great American Trailer Park Musical, Brooklyn the musical
Chat Something Rotten is one of my favorite musicals it has been for years and LIGHTNING THIEF IS MY SHOW FR LOVED IT SINCE 2018
No mention of Be More Chill?
There’s an original Australian musical called “MacKillop” which I starred in back in 2010, the year that Saint Mary MacKillop was canonised in Australia.
I can’t believe video is so recent and im currently in the cast of something’s rotten at my theatre company and its so good and underrated 😭
Wow. I never heard of Ruthless nor Ghost Quartet. I didn't realize I knew that many "unknown" musicals. Or at least not popular ones.
My late husband worked with Daisy Egan (Tony winner as Mary Lennox is The Secret Garden.) She was playing Sally Bowles in “Cabaret” for which he was rehearsal pianist. Let’s just say “miscast” doesn’t even begin to describe it, and she quit three days before it opened - taking the actor playing Cliff with her.
Tale of two cities should be on here.
Do people not know Something Rotten? It's REALLY awesome!!
I love your channel ❤️
My school did the lighting thief my senior year... god, how I miss my theater friends!!!
Something Rotten being on this list is CRIMINAL. it was literally nominated for ten tonys, winning one (Christian Borle, best featured actor).
My school did Bonnie and Clyde my freshman year and it was INCREDIBLE!! I unfortunately started doing theater my sophomore year and didn’t participate but they won 9 awards for it, goodness it was good!
I'm a big fan of Chess, Frankenstein: A New Musical, and Death Note, all of which nobody I know had heard of before meeting me
The Bridges of Madison County!! Yes I’m saying this bc I’m in a production of it right now😂 A story of Italian immigrant housewife Francesca’s passionate weeklong affair with NatGeo photographer Robert Kincaid when her family is out of town. From the same composer as Parade(I actually sang from Parade to get cast lmao).
Literally all of these are mainstream titles produced nationwide every season…
Ragtime!!! It’s a big musical, but somebody please do a revival now
I agree witih many below-these musicals are not unknown-maybe they didn't last but most are very well known.
Parade is being done at a really prominent company in Sacramento California this season
I am music directing The Secret Garden this summer
Hello, Again is a great show based on La Ronde.
Zanna, Don’t is a super small show that was a “fairy tale” in a world where homosexuality is the norm and heterosexuality is taboo. Some great music in both
The Light Princess. Music & lyrics by Tori Amos, book by Samuel Adamson.
Tuck Everlasting should be included. The musical really didn’t get a fair shot at all on Broadway. It has been popular on the community theater circuit but wish it would get a revival.
My college did "Finian's Rainbow" 40 years ago.
Not only have I heard of the Lightning Thief musical, which is based on one of my favorite books from my favorite series, I have listened to the soundtrack a million times, and I'm seeing a production of it next week
wow secret garden is the show my parents met and fell in love in