I've posted the Top 50 Musicals over the last couple of days, and now it's time to look at all shows that have been submitted - 312 in total! Thank you for participating and submitting your lists, this was great fun 🎭
The scores (given in round brackets) were calculated as follows: #1 received 10 points, #2 received 9 points,..., and #10 received 1 point, resulting in 55 points per entry/list. Incomplete and anonymous entries were discounted. If applicable, the rank achieved in 2022 is given in square brackets.
I ranked the musicals up to #112 (16 points), all shows that scored 15 points or fewer are merely listed in alphabetical order. The logos you can see here represent musicals that weren't mentioned even once.
SURVEY - STATS - 2022 RESULTS
1) Les Misérables (723) [1]
2) Hadestown (551) [3]
3) The Phantom of the Opera (ALW) (405) [2]
4) Elisabeth (379) [11]
5) Wicked (313) [5]
6) Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812 (248) [7]
7) Hamilton (238) [4]
8) Sweeney Todd (234) [16]
9) Come From Away (213) [10]
10) Tanz der Vampire / Dance of the Vampires (197) [27]
11) The Lord of the Rings (192) [38]
12) Rent (180) [23]
13) Roméo et Juliette / Romeo and Juliet (Presgurvic) (169) [61]
14) Cabaret (152+poll) [50]
15) Next to Normal (152) [20]
16) Jesus Christ Superstar (149) [14]
17) Rebecca (146) [25]
18) Mozart, l’opéra rock / Mozart, the Rock Opera (134) [88]
19) Falsettos (132) [8]
20) Assassins (124) [77]
21) Into the Woods (120) [13]
22) Legally Blonde (107+poll) [28]
23) Notre Dame de Paris (107) [70]
24) Chess (106) [41]
25) Легенда о Берене и Лютиень: Лэ о Лэйтиан / The Legend of Beren and Lúthien: The Lay of Leithian (105) [102]
26) Heathers (104) [12]
27) Cats (99) [21]
28) Spring Awakening (97) [19]
29) Последнее Испытание / The Last Trial (92) [10 points]
30) Fiddler on the Roof (91) [33]
31) Newsies (90) [6]
32) Little Shop of Horrors (89) [15]
33) The Lion King (85) [42]
34) Company (84) [35]
35) The Hunchback of Notre Dame (76) [22]
36) Operation Mincemeat (74) [-]
37) Chicago (72) [29]
38) Six (71+poll) [9]
39) In the Heights (71) [24]
40) West Side Story (66) [17]
41) Rocky Horror Show (63) [56]
42) Финрод / Finrod (60+poll) [8 points]
43) Ragtime (60) [10 points]
44) Sunday in the Park with George (59+poll) [69]
45) Ghost Quartet (59) [47]
46) Ride the Cyclone (57) [7 points]
47) Moulin Rouge (56) [31]
48) Fun Home (55+poll) [43]
49) Beetlejuice (55) [18]
50) My Fair Lady (53) [44]
No polls were conducted to determine the ranking of the following musicals. The show with more mentions ranks higher; if the number of mentions is the same, the musicals share that rank.
Legend: Rank) Musical / English translation (points; mentions) [2022 rank or points]
51) Mamma Mia (50; 12m) [51]
52) Titanic (50; 8m) [93]
53) The Guy Who Didn’t Like Musicals (45; 9m) [65]
54) Merrily We Roll Along (45; 8m) [8 points]
55) Matilda (43) [47]
56) Jekyll & Hyde (42; 10m) [34]
57) Death Note (42; 8m) [5 points]
58) Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat (41) [51]
59) The Music Man (40) [80]
60) Passion (39) [10 points]
61) The Secret Garden (37) [61]
62) Anastasia (35; 8m) [26]
63) Gypsy (35; 5m) [15 points]
64) 1776 (33) [-]
65) Hair (32) [14 points]
66) Twisted & Beauty and the Beast (Disney) (31; 7m) [98; 39]
68) Mozart! (30; 9m) [80]
69) Follies (30; 4m) [4 points]
70) Evita (27) [99]
71) A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder (26; 8m) [45]
72) Lizzie (26; 6m) [10 points]
73) Hedwig and the Angry Inch & A Little Night Music (26; 5m) [15 points; 14 points]
75) Pippin (25; 8m) [51]
76) Spies Are Forever (25; 5m) [-]
77) Something Rotten! (25; 4m) [37]
78) Húrinovy děti / The Children of Húrin (25; 3m) [-]
79) Maybe Happy Ending (24) [-]
80) Hairspray (23; 7m) [58]
81) The Sound of Music (23; 6m) [30]
82) Frozen & The Last Five Years & Starlight Express (23; 4m) [61; 59; 15 points]
Just a quick post to confirm that Hidden Paths will be running again in 2024.
Hidden Paths was created as a low-pressure, low-commitment opportunity to explore the lesser known Tolkien canons (e.g. Sellic Spell, Mr. Bliss, The Notion Club Papers), and create and share fanworks based on them.
The dates will be the same as last year, 14th - 28th Feb, with optional prompts at the start of each week of the event.
For more info on the event and how it works, check out our AO3 collection or our Dreamwidth sticky post.
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I haven’t really been using tumblr in ages but with twt possibly going down the Musk drain I might have a look around this place again.
Have a picture of the lovely Oxford Botanical Garden and Arboretum and the Magdalen College Tower for a start 😍
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This is a Tolkien-fandom-wide event in which participating artists create a piece of art to be claimed by one of our signed up authors. Authors will then write a 5k word fic based on the art they chose.
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Explanations of what all of these mean can be found in the relevant section of our FAQ. Signups for these roles will not close and will get you access to the gallery; however, you must be signed up as an author to claim.
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Don’t worry if you’re new to the fandom, or you aren’t super-experienced as an artist/writer, or you haven’t read everything Tolkien ever wrote. We have artists and writers of all experience levels taking part in this event, from complete beginners through to professionals. Length of time in fandom and knowledge of different canons also varies. As mods we aim to keep conversations positive and encouraging; we do not gate-keep here.
If you’re worried that your particular fandom niche might be under-represented, then spread the word to your fellow creators, and use the suggestions spreadsheet to make the case for your favourite canons/ships/characters.
We have a fantastic guest to start off our second season of the Tolkien Experience Podcast: Marcel Aubron-Bülles! Marcel, also known as The Tolkienist, is very involved in Tolkien fandom. Marcel is…
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Disappearance of the author: Treating the context and circumstances of the work’s authorship as entirely irrelevant with respect to its interpretation, as though the work had popped into existence fully formed just moments ago.
Taxidermy of the author: Working backwards from a particular interpretation of the work to draw conclusions about what the context and circumstances of its authorship must have been.
Undeath of the author: Holding the author personally responsible for every possible reading of their work, even ones they could not reasonably have anticipated at the time of its authorship.
Frankenstein’s Monster of the author: Drawing conclusions about authorial intent based on elements that are present only in subsequent adaptations by other authors.
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