There is good, there is good,Here are the results of the normblog musicals poll. And fascinating they are too. There were 106 entries, and you voted for 125 musicals in all. A very clear winner emerged, and a very clear top five - though, within that, the musicals in second, third and fourth places are very close together, separated by less than a single first-place vote. (I explained the scoring system when I announced the poll.) The rest of the top 20 follow in some way behind the first five. Like this...
There is untapped good!
The Top 20 Musicals
01 (170) - West Side Story
02 (115) - Guys and Dolls
03 (113) - Singin' in the Rain
04 (111) - My Fair Lady
05 (80) - The Sound of Music
06 (48) - Oklahoma
07 (47) - Cabaret
08 (42) - The Wizard of Oz
09 (37) - Fiddler on the Roof
10 (34) - Les Misérables
11 (33) - Oliver
11 (33) - South Pacific
13 (31) - Grease
14 (25) - Mary Poppins
15 (20) - An American in Paris
15 (20) - Chicago
17 (19) - Calamity Jane
18 (17) - Hair
18 (17) - The Music Man
20 (15) - Meet Me in St Louis
20 (15) - Porgy and Bess
Other musicals scoring 10 points or more:
Blood Brothers (14), Carousel (14), Kiss Me Kate (14), Little Shop of Horrors (13), The Threepenny Opera (13), Top Hat (13), Anything Goes (12), A Chorus Line (11), Moulin Rouge (11), The King and I (10), A Little Night Music (10), On the Town (10), The Producers (10), Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (10), Swing Time (10), Tommy (10).
Big thanks, as always, to those who entered. Blogger participants:
Arbitrary Constant, Atlantic Blog, Black Triangle, Clive Davis, A Cloud in Trousers, Early Modern Notes, Eine Kleine Nichtmusik, A General Theory of Rubbish, Harry's Place, Hassenpfeffer, Jah Jah Dub, Just Another False Alarm, Ligneus, The Manchizzle, A Million Monkeys Typing, More Than Mind Games, The non-bloggish blog, normblog, Nourishing Obscurity, Ocean Guy, The Passing Parade, Rullsenberg Rules, Saving the World, Sisu, Small Town Scribbles, Solomonia, A Special Way of Being Afraid, Take Off Your Running Shoes, Tinkerty Tonk, To the Point, The Virtual Stoa, Where Worlds Collide, WongaBlog, Yankee Wombat, Zimbabwe: Outpost of Tyranny.
[For links to the results of earlier normblog polls, see here.]