# Favorite Musicals of All Time

An episode of [And That's What You REALLY Missed](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1645980188), 12 Mar 2026, 27 min.

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Jenna and Kevin face one of the biggest challenges to date, picking their favorite stage musicals of all time! Get ready for a musical theater debate for the ages! From Wicked to Hamilton, to Phantom of the Opera ... who makes the cut and who just gets cut! Kevin and Jenna share their list of musicals that struck a chord with them, left lasting impressions, and they also debate loving an entire show versus just loving its music! Will their final lists strike the right chord or have a twist ending? Plus, they share their absolute dream roles that they wish they could portray on stage! For fun, exclusive content, and behind-the-scenes clips, follow us on Instagram @andthatswhatyoureallymissedpod & TikTok @thatswhatyoureallymissed! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

## Transcript

[0:01] Speaker 1: And that's what you really missed with Jenna.
[0:04] Speaker 2: And Kevin and iHeartRadio podcast.
[0:09] Speaker 1: Welcome to you, and that's what you were in this podcast.
[0:12] Speaker 1: Hi Kevin, Hi Jenna. This today is a very exciting
[0:18] Speaker 1: episode for me and also very stressful. I feel like
[0:24] Speaker 1: I'm letterboxing my musicals of all time and I feel stressed.
[0:30] Speaker 1: This is I thought we would talk about our favorite
[0:32] Speaker 1: musicals of all time. I know that you are new
[0:37] Speaker 1: to this world.
[0:38] Speaker 2: Well it's not fair.
[0:40] Speaker 1: I know it's not but we can talk about it
[0:42] Speaker 1: because I think our lists are going to be very different.
[0:44] Speaker 2: And this is only things we've seen on stage, no
[0:47] Speaker 2: musical movies.
[0:48] Speaker 1: Exactly, just on stage. We've been talking about musicals lately
[0:54] Speaker 1: and I just it brought me so much joy, and
[0:58] Speaker 1: I thought we should talk about favorite musicals of time,
[1:00] Speaker 1: but I just I can't. I'm having trouble because I
[1:03] Speaker 1: can't pick. I picked a lot.
[1:07] Speaker 2: I would like to say that when we were discussing
[1:10] Speaker 2: this episode with our wonderful producer Sam, we were like, Okay,
[1:15] Speaker 2: we'll do our top three to five. I log into
[1:20] Speaker 2: our Google doc. Jenna has her top twenty two, so like,
[1:30] Speaker 2: that is not fair.
[1:32] Speaker 1: I was just going through the list of like, oh
[1:34] Speaker 1: and this one and this one and this one. I
[1:35] Speaker 1: figured we could like break them down, maybe you could
[1:37] Speaker 1: help me get to my top five, because I really
[1:40] Speaker 1: am having a really hard time and I don't know
[1:42] Speaker 1: how to like judge that right, Like I don't know
[1:44] Speaker 1: how to figure out there's pieces of each one and
[1:47] Speaker 1: times I've seen it, memories, casts, like different places, it
[1:51] Speaker 1: just it all blends together. So I'm a little stressed,
[1:53] Speaker 1: but I'm excited.
[1:54] Speaker 2: I did have some questions for you, okay, because I
[1:59] Speaker 2: also wanted to ask you, like what I guess it's
[2:05] Speaker 2: just what you said just now, but like what qualify
[2:08] Speaker 2: How do you qualify something as your favorite? Because for me,
[2:12] Speaker 2: I've obviously seen a lot less shows than you. Yeah, yeah,
[2:15] Speaker 2: but there are there are cast recordings, yes, or songs
[2:19] Speaker 2: that I will sing a lot, but that doesn't necessarily
[2:23] Speaker 2: mean music musical. And there's shows that I don't really
[2:29] Speaker 2: know any of the music. I've never even gone to
[2:31] Speaker 2: listen to the score, like the cast recording, but I
[2:35] Speaker 2: loved the show.
[2:38] Speaker 1: Yeah, that's fair, I think when I was writing down,
[2:42] Speaker 1: I've seen a lot of musicals live, like I've seen
[2:44] Speaker 1: a lot on Broadway. I think when I when I'm
[2:48] Speaker 1: thinking about my favorites, it's something that it's a mixture
[2:51] Speaker 1: of both. It's that I saw it live and it
[2:54] Speaker 1: was it struck a specific chord in my heart that
[2:57] Speaker 1: was like I loved this show, whether it was the book,
[3:00] Speaker 1: whether it was the music, whether it was the cast,
[3:03] Speaker 1: you know whatever. And then it was like, afterwards, am
[3:07] Speaker 1: I listening to this cast recording? And if the answer
[3:10] Speaker 1: is yes, that it constitutes as a favorite for me, right,
[3:16] Speaker 1: And then I kind of went down the whole of
[3:18] Speaker 1: like for this particular episode of like which ones could
[3:22] Speaker 1: I like really listen to most of this album? Or
[3:27] Speaker 1: do I love most of this album? Do do I
[3:30] Speaker 1: understand most of the album or the recording? Because there's
[3:33] Speaker 1: some that I love that I'm like, yeah, it's a
[3:36] Speaker 1: great musical. I love it in theory, it's widely you
[3:39] Speaker 1: know loved, but like, could I sit through it a
[3:41] Speaker 1: hundred times? Probably? Not Like Companies on my list, I
[3:45] Speaker 1: love Company. I think there's specific songs I lovet from Company.
[3:49] Speaker 1: I think I like it in pieces, but I don't
[3:51] Speaker 1: know that it's like number in my top five. And
[3:54] Speaker 1: it's also sometime so like my favorite componer, so like,
[3:57] Speaker 1: I just you know, I think that's where I'm coming
[4:00] Speaker 1: from in terms of like favorite is all the pieces combined,
[4:06] Speaker 1: which one's rise to the top.
[4:08] Speaker 2: Which ones are checking the most boxes?
[4:10] Speaker 1: Yes, yes, exactly, I think. Okay, so I'm taking company
[4:14] Speaker 1: off my list. Okay, I don't even know where to begin.
[4:20] Speaker 1: Should we just like talk? Should we just like list
[4:23] Speaker 1: them out and like list the musicals and then like
[4:25] Speaker 1: talk through them.
[4:26] Speaker 2: Well, so I have spelling be on mine.
[4:29] Speaker 1: So I actually forgot to spelling beyond there.
[4:32] Speaker 2: I've never seen it. I've only been in it.
[4:36] Speaker 1: I will tell you though, you know the musical right like,
[4:39] Speaker 1: and yes it does. And I saw a spelling Bee
[4:43] Speaker 1: and I felt the same way that I saw it
[4:46] Speaker 1: and would be in it. I loved it, Like I
[4:48] Speaker 1: think I've been in musicals where I'm like, well this
[4:50] Speaker 1: is fine, you know, but I think it counts. I
[4:52] Speaker 1: think it counts. Oh spelling okay, Okay, I keep thinking
[4:59] Speaker 1: of and I'm like, oh my god, oh yeah.
[5:01] Speaker 2: Once on this Island. I also started to make like
[5:04] Speaker 2: a little list of shows that I'd really like to see.
[5:07] Speaker 1: Oh well, let's talk about those words.
[5:09] Speaker 2: Okay, So maybe they're like honorable mentions of the Honorable
[5:13] Speaker 2: Mentions or TVD.
[5:15] Speaker 1: And have you heard of these musicals? Have you heard
[5:17] Speaker 1: music from these musicals and you just want to see them?
[5:20] Speaker 1: Or like what what? Yeah?
[5:22] Speaker 2: All the above. So I would like to see a
[5:24] Speaker 2: chorus line, Yes, definitely, I feel like I will love
[5:28] Speaker 2: a chorus line. I obviously know some songs from it.
[5:31] Speaker 2: I've seen some numbers. I've just never seen the full thing.
[5:35] Speaker 1: It's so simple yet's so effective.
[5:37] Speaker 2: Of course, I am very excited. I've never seen Rocky
[5:41] Speaker 2: Horror on stage.
[5:42] Speaker 1: I'm so jealous, You're Horror.
[5:44] Speaker 2: This new cast is absurd in Sam Pinkleton's directing, and
[5:48] Speaker 2: so I really want to see that. I've never seen
[5:50] Speaker 2: Kinky Boots.
[5:52] Speaker 1: Great musical.
[5:53] Speaker 2: I feel like I will love it God Sweeney Todd.
[5:58] Speaker 2: We obviously recently want the.
[6:00] Speaker 1: Movie better on stage.
[6:02] Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, and I would really like to see it
[6:04] Speaker 2: because I've heard wonderful things about it. I'm sure I'm
[6:10] Speaker 2: going to add more things to this as we talked
[6:11] Speaker 2: about this today. Yeah, yeah, but Sunday in the Park
[6:15] Speaker 2: with George, Are.
[6:16] Speaker 1: You gonna go to London and see it? Oh?
[6:18] Speaker 2: Yeah, probably, I'll probably have to do that. But even
[6:21] Speaker 2: before that was even a thing. Austin became sort of
[6:24] Speaker 2: obsessed with it last year yep, and started showing it
[6:29] Speaker 2: to me. Okay, great, I had no idea so that. Yeah,
[6:32] Speaker 2: I'm all about it. That's where I'm at right now.
[6:36] Speaker 1: Okay, I love this. Sunday in the Park with George
[6:40] Speaker 1: is on my list as well. Is one of my favorites.
[6:43] Speaker 2: Okay, you have several some times.
[6:47] Speaker 1: Yeah, this is the thing. It's a theme.
[6:49] Speaker 2: So do you think there are multiple some times in
[6:52] Speaker 2: your top five?
[6:56] Speaker 1: If I had to pick some time for one of
[7:03] Speaker 1: my top five, it would be Into the Woods.
[7:07] Speaker 2: It could be more than one.
[7:08] Speaker 1: I don't know that he would make it more than once.
[7:12] Speaker 2: Okay. Into the Woods is also my top five.
[7:15] Speaker 1: Okay, great, we love that. Yeah, I think I think
[7:20] Speaker 1: it would only be once. Okay, I think it would
[7:24] Speaker 1: only be once. I think we took company off. I
[7:26] Speaker 1: think Someday in the Park I love also love pieces.
[7:29] Speaker 1: I like seeing it for the cast because they bring
[7:33] Speaker 1: such different things to it. Obviously, the revival of Jake
[7:35] Speaker 1: Jylln Hall was special. I think the cast is the
[7:38] Speaker 1: star of this show. The show is beautiful. It's really insane.
[7:43] Speaker 1: But I don't like if we're going by my meter
[7:47] Speaker 1: of like listening to the whole album and the whole thing,
[7:49] Speaker 1: I think it comes off. I think Sunday the part
[7:51] Speaker 1: comes off.
[8:00] Speaker 2: Another question for you, Okay, shows you've been in, Oh
[8:03] Speaker 2: my god, Okay, Spring Awakening, yep, King and I.
[8:06] Speaker 1: Yep, Waitress, They're all on my list. Oh yes, Har's
[8:09] Speaker 1: on my list too.
[8:10] Speaker 2: Are any of those in your top five?
[8:12] Speaker 1: Yes? I think so. The King and I is hard
[8:16] Speaker 1: because it's so attached to my experience as a kid.
[8:21] Speaker 1: But I went back and saw the revival Ellenkin Center
[8:24] Speaker 1: with Donna Murphy. We went and saw it and we
[8:29] Speaker 1: looked at each other and we were like, wow, Kelly O'Hara,
[8:33] Speaker 1: is this is Anna? It was excellent And we looked
[8:36] Speaker 1: at each other and we were like, wow, that book
[8:39] Speaker 1: is still so good, and that music, like Rogers and Hammerstein,
[8:45] Speaker 1: one of is the best pieces. So I think The
[8:48] Speaker 1: King and I would be up there.
[8:50] Speaker 2: Okay, above Spring Awakening.
[8:52] Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm going with it for now. We're going with
[8:55] Speaker 1: it for now. Right, We're just we're talking through us
[8:58] Speaker 1: springing it. Spring Awakening. I saw that musical way before
[9:02] Speaker 1: I got cast in it. I had no intention of
[9:05] Speaker 1: being cast in it. I had no dreams of being
[9:07] Speaker 1: cast in it. I never thought I would be casting it.
[9:10] Speaker 1: I saw it and was like, this is life changing,
[9:12] Speaker 1: life changing. You were the right age, yes for it
[9:18] Speaker 1: to have that impact. I feel like, yes, And it
[9:20] Speaker 1: was in like it's prime right, it had just won
[9:23] Speaker 1: the Tony. If not, maybe I saw it just before
[9:26] Speaker 1: it won the Tony. So I think that one also
[9:29] Speaker 1: is in my top like, go back and listen to
[9:31] Speaker 1: that recording. It's unreal. It's so good, and it's like
[9:38] Speaker 1: it just really changed Broadway, I think, and like what
[9:43] Speaker 1: we were, what was being made, and then also like
[9:47] Speaker 1: Duncan Cheek being the composer.
[9:51] Speaker 2: I just saw a video on my timeline today on
[9:55] Speaker 2: TikTok of one of the first workshops from nineteen ninety nine.
[9:59] Speaker 2: Oh my god, and they're like singing through it. It's
[10:01] Speaker 2: so wild.
[10:04] Speaker 1: I Waitress, I think when I saw that before I
[10:09] Speaker 1: was even even a thought to be cast in that
[10:12] Speaker 1: one as well. I just didn't never seen Jesse Mueller before.
[10:17] Speaker 1: I didn't know who Jesse Mueller was and was like,
[10:19] Speaker 1: who is that?
[10:20] Speaker 2: What a freak of name goddess.
[10:22] Speaker 1: Yeah, And so I think Waitress is an incredible show.
[10:29] Speaker 1: I think Waitress has the best music, big Sarah Brols fan.
[10:37] Speaker 1: Is it in my top five? I don't know, Maybe
[10:40] Speaker 1: top ten?
[10:41] Speaker 2: I feel the same way. Okay, it's on my list.
[10:43] Speaker 2: I wouldn't say it's top ten, but I do think
[10:47] Speaker 2: she used to be mine as top five greatest songs
[10:50] Speaker 2: ever written.
[10:51] Speaker 1: Totally totally agreed, agreed, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Okay, I've
[10:57] Speaker 1: we're on the same Patriot.
[10:58] Speaker 2: What about Hair?
[11:00] Speaker 1: Oh God, what a musical. I think my experience Trump's
[11:07] Speaker 1: the actual musical for me, But I think the musical
[11:11] Speaker 1: it was also groundbreaking. It's so good that all of
[11:18] Speaker 1: is so good. I saw it in the park. I
[11:24] Speaker 1: saw it on Broadway because I think they moved it.
[11:27] Speaker 1: I think they took it from the park and then
[11:28] Speaker 1: they moved it. Yeah. I love Hair. There's something about
[11:37] Speaker 1: that music that really gets you. But I don't maybe
[11:41] Speaker 1: not in my top You saw it right with you? Yeah,
[11:46] Speaker 1: that was when you saw it was when we were
[11:48] Speaker 1: me and.
[11:49] Speaker 2: I've also seen a production at Columbia University.
[11:53] Speaker 1: You did, Oh my gosh. Okay, what else is in
[11:56] Speaker 1: your top five? God?
[11:59] Speaker 2: I don't know. So my list is a lot shorter
[12:03] Speaker 2: than yours. Okay, Waitresses on there. Yeah, Wicked is on there.
[12:11] Speaker 1: Yeah, it's online too. I mean, what a perfect musical.
[12:15] Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's and it's I hate to say magical,
[12:20] Speaker 2: but it is sort of like classic, like what you
[12:25] Speaker 2: want from a Broadway production, totally like mega musical mega musical.
[12:31] Speaker 2: Music is incredible. Obviously, the story is great, there's actual magic.
[12:37] Speaker 2: It's like things that just make you have to like
[12:42] Speaker 2: gasp at how people they look on stage.
[12:44] Speaker 1: Total.
[12:48] Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know if it's top five though Wicked
[12:52] Speaker 2: really no, I don't know. I don't know because here's
[12:56] Speaker 2: the thing. I have a lot of I feel like
[12:59] Speaker 2: I have, Oh I was gonna have a lot of comedies,
[13:02] Speaker 2: but I don't. I have Spelling Bee Into the Woods
[13:07] Speaker 2: and Titanique. Oh my god, titan is not in my
[13:11] Speaker 2: top five. I just wanted to put it on there because, yeah, notable.
[13:15] Speaker 2: I think it's notable. Yes, I think it is so special.
[13:21] Speaker 2: It is so funny and stupid in all the right ways.
[13:29] Speaker 2: I have Death Becomes Her on here, as well.
[13:32] Speaker 1: Is that in top five?
[13:34] Speaker 2: It could be? It could be. I think Death Becomes
[13:37] Speaker 2: Her is a perfect show.
[13:38] Speaker 1: Interesting, I haven't heard anything about it. Megan Megan Hilty
[13:44] Speaker 1: is I heard was a queen in it.
[13:46] Speaker 2: Megan Hilty and Jennifer Simard were unbelievable. The amount of
[13:58] Speaker 2: energy that must take to do that show.
[14:01] Speaker 1: They are that's why they're all like in getting injured
[14:05] Speaker 1: and there's like replacements left and right.
[14:07] Speaker 2: It's like, oh yeah, it's nuts, but it is. It
[14:11] Speaker 2: is so funny. It is such a spectacle like Wicked
[14:15] Speaker 2: on stage that it's such a great use of costumes
[14:19] Speaker 2: and set design, like unbelievable.
[14:22] Speaker 1: And do you listen to the recording? Yes, I need
[14:25] Speaker 1: to listen to that recording. I also okay, So here's
[14:28] Speaker 1: like the top few that I had. I have a
[14:30] Speaker 1: really long list. I'm just going to read it to you,
[14:33] Speaker 1: but here's the few that it hit the top for
[14:35] Speaker 1: me that take me back and really check all those boxes.
[14:40] Speaker 1: A M saw it with Heather Headley and Ana Pascal,
[14:47] Speaker 1: and then Mission I saw with Leya Slanga. It was
[14:52] Speaker 1: life changing for me. I also auditioned for a second
[14:55] Speaker 1: when I was really really little. Lay Miss isn't the
[14:58] Speaker 1: top for me. It's also Clubs John Berg It's I
[15:01] Speaker 1: think it's a perfect musical. It's really long, but I
[15:05] Speaker 1: love it. And last five years also is in my
[15:08] Speaker 1: top I know, and it's going to be at the Bowl,
[15:13] Speaker 1: then Plattin and Rachel Ziegler, and I'm like, am I
[15:15] Speaker 1: going I think.
[15:16] Speaker 2: I need to Oh are they doing it at the Bowl? Yeah?
[15:19] Speaker 1: Like the concert j Brown, Yeah, they're doing it both
[15:23] Speaker 1: at the Bull and as a concert in London and
[15:25] Speaker 1: reent Rent is definitely in my top five. Rent was
[15:29] Speaker 1: just also a game changer for me. A few of
[15:32] Speaker 1: the others that I had were Hamilton obviously, Dear e
[15:37] Speaker 1: Van Hansen, You're a good Man, Charlie Brown excellent christ
[15:43] Speaker 1: and Channa with Anthony Rap Come from Away ninety minute,
[15:49] Speaker 1: perfect musical.
[15:50] Speaker 2: I've only listened to that recently, No so good. I
[15:56] Speaker 2: driving in the car and like October or something and
[16:00] Speaker 2: played it from Springs.
[16:02] Speaker 1: And it's how are you kidding? Moving Out is also
[16:07] Speaker 1: one something that I listened to on repeat. It's Billy Joel.
[16:10] Speaker 1: Michael Kavanaugh's voice is really incredible, and it was dance.
[16:13] Speaker 1: It's like it's a musical Broadbay musical where Michael Kavanaugh
[16:17] Speaker 1: sits in the rafters with a piano, sings his face off,
[16:20] Speaker 1: and it's all these incredible dancers and it's just told
[16:25] Speaker 1: by Dance the whole story, it's a plus plus. Wow.
[16:31] Speaker 1: Jersey Boys downline young, so good, Frankie Valley. In the
[16:35] Speaker 1: four seasons they tell this story kind of like from
[16:38] Speaker 1: past to present, they go back. It's I actually never
[16:42] Speaker 1: saw Jersey Boys, but I listened to it on repeat
[16:45] Speaker 1: for so many years. Pip and I had in there.
[16:49] Speaker 1: I think it's a great musical. I don't think it's
[16:52] Speaker 1: in my top ten, so let's just take that off. Also,
[16:55] Speaker 1: Light in the Piazza, which Matthew morrisons in. Aaron Lazar
[16:59] Speaker 1: was so in it. Kelly O'Hara and Victoria Clark. I
[17:04] Speaker 1: saw it at Lincoln Center. It's it's operatic. It's not
[17:09] Speaker 1: everybody's jam, it's not modern, but it is absolutely beautiful,
[17:14] Speaker 1: absolutely gorgeous. The costumes, the cast, and then the singing
[17:20] Speaker 1: is just out of this world. The two of them together,
[17:24] Speaker 1: Victoria Clark and Kelly O'Hair are just what a what
[17:29] Speaker 1: a cast.
[17:30] Speaker 2: I have a confession about Victoria Clark. Okay, she came
[17:35] Speaker 2: to see Spelling Bee rehearsal before the Kennedy Center, like
[17:39] Speaker 2: you know, in the rehearsal room, like she came to
[17:42] Speaker 2: watch that. I had no idea who she was, and
[17:48] Speaker 2: everyone was like, oh my god, Victoria Clark's here.
[17:50] Speaker 1: I'm like Royalty.
[17:51] Speaker 2: I don't know who she is, but she's very nice.
[17:53] Speaker 1: Royalty. Yeah, and spelling Bee is on my list. I
[17:57] Speaker 1: saw the original cast the Circle in the Square, I
[17:59] Speaker 1: saw Jesse, I would say, I saw everybody, Silly, Quina Bulger.
[18:02] Speaker 1: It was just it was perfect. It's perfect. It's always
[18:05] Speaker 1: been a dream of mind to be in that musical.
[18:08] Speaker 2: You really need to be Jenna, you'd crush it.
[18:12] Speaker 1: Anyway. Those are my top.
[18:22] Speaker 2: Okay, I have color purple on here.
[18:24] Speaker 1: Okay, I said very well because that is.
[18:28] Speaker 2: Probably what I sing more than anything, which I probably
[18:34] Speaker 2: shouldn't say publicly. But I love that music.
[18:43] Speaker 1: Yeah, like it.
[18:47] Speaker 2: The amount of times I've blown out my voice singing that,
[18:50] Speaker 2: trying attempting to sing it, I don't ever, you know,
[18:53] Speaker 2: accomplish it. I've never even seen the movie, like the
[18:57] Speaker 2: original movie, So that's what I'm conflicted. I don't know
[19:03] Speaker 2: if I love the show as much as I love
[19:07] Speaker 2: the music.
[19:08] Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I agree, because I think I like the
[19:10] Speaker 1: music more that I like show, and.
[19:12] Speaker 2: The same maybe Happy Ending is going up there. It's
[19:15] Speaker 2: top five for me.
[19:16] Speaker 1: I mean you said when you saw that show. Yeah, recently,
[19:20] Speaker 1: you said I was the favorite, one of the most,
[19:22] Speaker 1: the favorite things you've ever seen.
[19:24] Speaker 2: It was the greatest thing I've ever seen. Yeah, I
[19:26] Speaker 2: think it's specifically for me. It is my jam. But
[19:32] Speaker 2: it's also one of those things where I don't know
[19:33] Speaker 2: if there i'd go back and listen to a bunch
[19:36] Speaker 2: of the music by itself. There's definitely some songs, but
[19:41] Speaker 2: like that show to me, mm hmm, as like a
[19:44] Speaker 2: piece of theater is what I want to see. Like
[19:47] Speaker 2: I I would go back over and over over to
[19:49] Speaker 2: see that, fair enough, So that's definitely up there. Okay,
[19:53] Speaker 2: I have phantom on here.
[19:55] Speaker 1: Get out of here.
[19:56] Speaker 2: Don't be mad at me.
[19:57] Speaker 1: I'm mad.
[19:58] Speaker 2: That's like that also is the salgic for.
[20:00] Speaker 1: Me, I understand.
[20:02] Speaker 2: But I'm seeing that like a touring production in San
[20:06] Speaker 2: Francisco when I was like seven years old. It was
[20:09] Speaker 2: life changing.
[20:10] Speaker 1: I get it. I it's the reason why it's like
[20:14] Speaker 1: one of the longest Okay.
[20:18] Speaker 2: So I don't know if that needs to be top five,
[20:20] Speaker 2: but it does.
[20:21] Speaker 1: I think it does for you.
[20:22] Speaker 2: Okay, I'm gonna take color, Okay, hard that becomes her.
[20:28] Speaker 2: I have a strange loop on you. Yoh yeah, okay,
[20:32] Speaker 2: incredible wild show, really really moving. Okay, I think that's
[20:40] Speaker 2: my I've said all ten of those, Okay, Okay. I
[20:44] Speaker 2: just don't know what qualify the top five.
[20:46] Speaker 1: I think your top five is pretty close. I think
[20:49] Speaker 1: it's maybe happy Ending, Phantom, spelling into the Woods, and
[20:52] Speaker 1: spelling day.
[20:54] Speaker 2: What's fifth?
[20:55] Speaker 1: Oh, maybe I'm fanning and spelling into the woods.
[21:01] Speaker 2: It's not a strange loop.
[21:03] Speaker 1: Maybe death because I think maybe death becomes.
[21:06] Speaker 2: Her it's for you, or or I might have to
[21:10] Speaker 2: be color purple though, hmmm, that music makes me feel something.
[21:16] Speaker 1: Okay, then let's put it in there. Let's put it
[21:19] Speaker 1: in there.
[21:19] Speaker 2: Okay, So into the Woods, spelling beat, the offer, maybe
[21:25] Speaker 2: happy Ending in the color Purple my top five.
[21:28] Speaker 1: Wow.
[21:29] Speaker 2: Now I've never seen Chicago on stage.
[21:32] Speaker 1: I like Chicago. I think you like the movie more
[21:35] Speaker 1: though I liked the movie more. It's a little bit
[21:38] Speaker 1: more expressive. There's a little bit more visually to see.
[21:42] Speaker 1: I think at this point now it's about the cast
[21:44] Speaker 1: and who's in it and who people are going to see,
[21:46] Speaker 1: obviously Alex newl But like you know, it's it's a
[21:49] Speaker 1: black box basically, yeah, it's so it's really like a
[21:53] Speaker 1: black box.
[21:53] Speaker 2: And I've never seen Tytic Boom except the movie in
[21:55] Speaker 2: which I.
[21:58] Speaker 1: Literally stools like stools mics. So it was off Broadway,
[22:02] Speaker 1: by the way, but it was I guess so technically
[22:06] Speaker 1: a musical if we're not going by Broadway musicals. But yeah,
[22:10] Speaker 1: black box, so I think the movie you would also
[22:12] Speaker 1: like better. Okay, okay, this is my top six right now. Okay,
[22:19] Speaker 1: I'm having I'm struggling, but mis Sigon, lame Is, Rent,
[22:23] Speaker 1: Moving Out, Spring Awakening, Into the Woods gets pushed to
[22:26] Speaker 1: six king and I gets pushed to sound Wow. Into
[22:34] Speaker 1: the Woods and Spring Awakening are definitely head to head,
[22:39] Speaker 1: but I think like moving I listened to Moving Out
[22:43] Speaker 1: like it's like if my top listens. It's also like
[22:47] Speaker 1: very pleasant to listen to without like needing the musical itself. Missigon,
[22:53] Speaker 1: I haven't listened to in a long time, but it
[22:54] Speaker 1: was just like such a staple for me growing up.
[22:57] Speaker 1: Lame Is is also just a staple growing up. Rent
[23:00] Speaker 1: is like my obsession. Spring Awakening was powerful, and Into
[23:05] Speaker 1: the Woods has to make number six because of some time.
[23:08] Speaker 1: But I think this is right. I think this this hit. Yeah,
[23:13] Speaker 1: I think so.
[23:14] Speaker 2: I also hope I'm probably just gonna get read to
[23:17] Speaker 2: filth of my basic ass. Look, I'm learning, Okay.
[23:21] Speaker 1: I wish that you are and you're seeing a lot,
[23:24] Speaker 1: and you're in a musical now and you're making your way,
[23:27] Speaker 1: and I'm so proud of you. Yeah. I mean, there
[23:31] Speaker 1: was not a musical like that in a really long time, right.
[23:34] Speaker 1: I remember when it came out and I would listen
[23:36] Speaker 1: to it on the subway and I just like, everybody's
[23:38] Speaker 1: just like drumming it into their you know, phones and
[23:42] Speaker 1: iPods and everything time. And it was one of those
[23:45] Speaker 1: musicals that reminded me of the Wickeds of the world,
[23:48] Speaker 1: of the Spring Awakenings of the world. Oh Avenue Q
[23:51] Speaker 1: wasn't even on there. Oh my gosh, the Rents where
[23:55] Speaker 1: you just listen on loop right, you listen NonStop. There's
[23:58] Speaker 1: like two sides and you're like just go back and forth.
[24:00] Speaker 2: Now, Hamilton's an incredible, incredibly complex and perfect show.
[24:04] Speaker 1: It's definitely in my top ten. It's definitely in my
[24:07] Speaker 1: top ten.
[24:08] Speaker 2: I forgot to put that. That would absolutely be in
[24:10] Speaker 2: my top ten.
[24:11] Speaker 1: Okay, fair enough. Uh, yeah, I think there's like a
[24:15] Speaker 1: mix of like what what makes it so good? Like
[24:19] Speaker 1: I think also there's like the the part of it
[24:22] Speaker 1: that's like, oh a revival and like you bring it
[24:25] Speaker 1: back and you're like, wow, it's reimagined. That's so exciting
[24:28] Speaker 1: and makes things even better. But like something that was
[24:31] Speaker 1: all really really good. The thing about revivals for me
[24:34] Speaker 1: is like, if it's perfect, it has to be different, right,
[24:38] Speaker 1: You can't like yes, because what are we doing? Why
[24:42] Speaker 1: are we touching it? You know?
[24:44] Speaker 2: And I think a lot of revivals missed that.
[24:48] Speaker 1: Agreed, But something that Mark George did a really good job,
[24:52] Speaker 1: I thought, And.
[24:55] Speaker 2: I want to go to Lincoln Center and watch.
[24:59] Speaker 1: You should anyway. I hope this was fun for people.
[25:02] Speaker 1: I would love to hear your guys' top five.
[25:06] Speaker 2: Yeah, way, Jenna, I need to know one thing from
[25:08] Speaker 2: you before we go. Okay, out of all the shows
[25:13] Speaker 2: we've mentioned, is there a role, Oh my god, and
[25:19] Speaker 2: one of them that you have not played that you
[25:23] Speaker 2: would absolutely love to like? What is the top role
[25:26] Speaker 2: in all of these?
[25:27] Speaker 1: Okay, well, miss Igon obviously, Islana cam and mis Icon,
[25:31] Speaker 1: But the white whale of my life I've I've outgrown
[25:35] Speaker 1: it at this point is Eponine. I've always wanted to
[25:39] Speaker 1: do epanine. Who hasn't or who doesn't dream of doing eponine?
[25:43] Speaker 1: Or maybe I'm wrong, maybe there's like a new one
[25:45] Speaker 1: that's the new eponin of this generation. But like I
[25:49] Speaker 1: was like, it's my white whale. I'll never play it.
[25:54] Speaker 1: I'm too old now. It was always my dream. Are
[25:58] Speaker 1: you day more? It's my favorite? One day more is
[26:02] Speaker 1: my favorite and I would love to be a part
[26:05] Speaker 1: of that number. What about you?
[26:12] Speaker 2: Oh god?
[26:14] Speaker 1: Oh I mean there a fun home.
[26:18] Speaker 2: I also thought, uh, fun Holme would be up there,
[26:21] Speaker 2: and so a book of Mormon.
[26:22] Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. I put pokem Mormon and they
[26:23] Speaker 1: were deleted. I was like, oh my god, I think
[26:29] Speaker 1: I don't know the phanim.
[26:34] Speaker 2: Honestly, Yes, Phantom and the opera.
[26:38] Speaker 1: And I think Jack will be your white will Yes,
[26:41] Speaker 1: Jack into the Wood, although I don't think that you
[26:43] Speaker 1: would be too old for Jack, because I think adults
[26:45] Speaker 1: can play Jack and it's widely accepted.
[26:47] Speaker 2: Or I could probably play the baker, Yes you could
[26:51] Speaker 2: at this point.
[26:52] Speaker 1: You'd be a great baker. Anyway. I hope you guys
[26:57] Speaker 1: enjoyed this. I hope it was semi enjoyable for you.
[27:00] Speaker 1: We love musicals. I would love to hear yours. That's
[27:04] Speaker 1: what you reallymissed.
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