Rank The Best Musical Winners Of The 50s!

Lerner and Loewe's classic musical had enchanted audiences for decades. The original production starred Rex Harrison as Henry Higgins, a professor of phonetics, and Julie Andrews as Eliza Doolittle, a Cooney flower girl. The show has recently been revived by Lincoln Centre Theatre and the show also had a successful film adaptation that won the Academy Award for Best Picture!

The classic tale of Harold Hill who attempts to con the town of River City, Iowa by pretending to being a professor that can turn the boys of the town into a boys band is a timeless classic, with this original production starring Robert Preston in one of Broadway's most iconic performances. The show then had a successful revival directed and choreographed by 5 time Tony Award winner Susan Stroman!

Home to one of the greatest Showtunes ever written: "Sit Down, You're Rocking the Boat", Frank Loesser's comedy about gamblers, a Christian mission group and a trip to Cuba has had many successful revivals with the most successful being the 1992 Broadway production starring Nathan Lane and Faith Prince!

This is a story that will like on for ages, mostly because it keeps getting revived. But who can blame someone for wanting to tell this story. Anna Leowens is a fantastic leading female role and has been portrayed by wonderful actresses including Gertrude Lawrence and Kelli O'Hara!

Bob Fosse's choreography debut was a smash hit debut and had a successful revival in 2006. The show is a popular production for community theatre and includes hit songs such as "There Once Was a Man", "Steam Heat" and "Hernando's Hideaway"!

What happens if you put the tale of Faust into the world of baseball? Well, you would get a show that won 7 Tony Awards in its original production and then had a successful revival in the 1990s and then a revival in the works by Kathleen Marshall.

A Pulitzer Prize winning masterpiece about starting a mixed raced family during the Second World War. Being the only show in Broadway history to win all 4 acting awards and being the origin of such stand out favourites such as "There is Nothing Like a Dame", "Some Enchanted Evening" and "I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outta My Hair"!

One of actor Alfred Drake's greatest roles, and the first Tony Award winning role, is the story of a poet who gets himself out of trouble multiple times with clever wordplay, all the while his daughter falls in love with the prince of rhe land. The show is quite comical and romantic, which it never lets you forget with funny rhymes, both in poems and songs!

Who doesn't love a whodunit mystery? So why not combine it with musical theatre? Well it worked with Redhead! Bob Fosse's debut as a director starred Richared Kiley as a distraught fan of a performer who has recently been murdered and Gwen Verdon as a girl who pretends to know who the murderer is, just to impress Kiley's character. 

Though not as iconic as Leonard Bernstein's other works such as West Side Story or Candide, Wonderful Town is still a thrill! People going to New York City for success is a classic story and Wonderful Town portrays it, well, wonderfully!