Cabaret, on the whole, is the best all-around musical for me. Amazing to perform. Amazing to watch. Amazing to dance. Utterly timeless. Sally Bowles is a perfect character - especially in her imperfectness. https://twitter.com/_celia_bedelia_/status/1279025711169392645

There’s a line in Rent (which, as a whole has not aged well but the music is so fucking good) that Taye Diggs sings - draw a line in the sand and then make a stand - that is one of the most perfectly sung lines in musical theater.

Godspell is really good and you can’t change my mind - “God Save the People” is perfect.

Grease is a bad musical - especially on stage. One of the few musicals that’s better as a movie than it is as a stage show.

The harmony between Fantine, Eponine, and Jean Valjean at the end of Les Mis in the Epilogue is sheer perfection and so simple in its beauty.

Hadestown is perfect. Listen to the soundtrack. One of the fates is written as a true true alto and it IS PERFECT.

“Not for the Life of Me” is a such a great opener for a musical. Just such a clear, perfect musical theater song.

Oh god the Drowsy Chaperone does not remotely get enough love. It’s a 90-minute, no intermission musical that is fucking hilarious.

The best movie-musical, hands-down, is Singing in the Rain. I will not argue this. Gene Kelly is magical.

Anything Goes - tap dancing heaven. Reno Sweeney and every single song she sings just blow me away every time.

there’s an extended note Julie Andrew’s sings at the end of Do-re-mi that gives me chills every. Single. Time.

One of the few times I have been brought to tears and literally had to muffle my sobs was when Cynthia Erivo sang “I’m Here” in The Color Purple.

Holy hell was The Life before it’s time. There’s a live version of Lillias White singing “The Oldest Profession.” Go listen to it. Now.

Stop being assholes about Wicked. It’s good. Kristin Chenowith is a goddess. Popular is so much fucking fun.

Mean Girls was a bad musical and I cannot remember a single song from it. It was too long. There were too many fucking songs. Ugh, I’m mad about it.

Oh god - Funhome. God. Hearthbreaking. Beautiful. Try not crying during “Ring of Keys.” I can’t be the only one who freaked out about the actors safety when parts of the floor dropped out during the show.

Is there any better ensemble song than “Cell Block Tango?”

Ragtime. That opening number is fucking breathtaking and such a remarkable feat of musical theater and staging. BRIAN STOKES MITCHELL AND AUDRA MCDONALD AND DADDY’S SON.

Fuck Cosette. She’s boring and whiny and no cares about you soprano. EPONINE FOR LIFE.

WHY DOES ONLY COSETTE GET TO LIVE? YOU KILL OFF FANTINE EPONINE GAVROCHE AND JEAN VALJEAN AND WE ARE LEFT WITH FUCKING COSETTE?

The entirety of Little Shop of Horrors makes it one of the best musicals ever (save for call back in the morning but I’ll forgive it). Skid Row is amazing. That opening fucking riffffffff. The dentist. The urchins. Probably #2 for me.

One of the greatest disappointments in my life is I’ve never gotten to play the Witch in Into the Woods and I firmly believe it’s one of the best written parts in one of the best written shows. “Your Fault” is tongue-twisting genius.

The leading player in Pippin. God. Ben Vereen? Patina Miller? Simple Joys.

No time at all. Corner of the sky.

Oh god I love Pippin.

Hair - kind of bad as a story. But I love all the music.

I fucking love Hello Dolly and Gavin Creel singing “it only takes a moment” is just....swoon. Dolly Levi is perfect.

Fuck y’all there are SO FUCKING MANY GOOD MUSICALS AND SONGS. I CANNOT STOP.

Guys and Dolls is so fucking long but fuck if I don’t love it but also please blow up “marry the man today”

please please listen to @Instatituss singing “Sit Down You’re Rocking the Boat. That “down” at 2:30!

Oh god y’all. BILLY. FUCKING. PORTER. put him in every fucking show. I want to see him play everything. MAKE BILLY PORTER MAMA ROSE 2021.

NEXT TO NORMAL. Fuck. the voices mixing in “I am the one”

And also - our introduction to AARON TVEIT.

YOU ARE WELCOME EVERYONE.

Okay so yes I loved Dear Evan Hansen. I saw it off-broadway and it was beautiful and Ben Platt is truly what makes you forget about all the other weird shit in that show. When he sings down the octave in “waving through the window” it’s so good.

BUT - listen to dogfight.

I’m a Lippa Wild Party gal. FYI.

Oh my god y’all have you listened to Santino Fontana sing “Ten Minutes Ago” from Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella? It’s perfection. In fact, I love that whole fucking show and LEST WE NOT FORGET THE BRANDI WHITNEY VERSON.