My girl Tonya! Loved her from her All My Children days!

I’d throw in “Let it Burn” from Paradise Square! The singer was so powerful and the song can be a mighty anthem.

@andigrimes8325

11 ай бұрын

That one had me off the couch when I watched it live.

@courdeleon

11 ай бұрын

YES!!

Fun Home was an amazing show and Sydney Lucas' performance of "Ring of Keys" was astonishing!

@benjaminbackbite

6 ай бұрын

Totally overrated.

I'm glad to see Urinetown getting some love and recognition, bit of a underrated musical nowadays.

I remember not knowing a thing about Fun Home, but ever since seeing that Tony performance I knew I had to see it one day! & I surprisingly saw it on Broadway for a class trip & it was so amazing! So emotional! I even cried to the young Alison at the time at the stage door (mainly cuz of jet lag haha!)! Such an emotional show AND book it’s based on! 🥹🙏

Always starting over from if/then by the wickedly talented Idina Menzel should Have been on here it’s one of my all time favorite tony award performances

@bestnameeverf

11 ай бұрын

You mean Adele Dazeem

"We'll Take a Glass Together" should've been number one, not an honorable mention, if you're talking spectacular numbers that people never talk about. Michael Jeter makes his rubber-bandi-ness and pure joy look so effortless that people don't realize until they watch the number performed by a normal human being how spectacular he was.

@user-rc6vx5nd3t

11 ай бұрын

Agree - Michael Jeter made an incredibly difficult choreography look absolutely effortless. I go back to that performance frequently just to see pure joy. His body was moving like Gumby!

@thomasbradley4505

11 ай бұрын

I can watch that number on repeat and never get bored. Soooo good

@CreativeLib

11 ай бұрын

ABSOLUTELY!!!

@cair124

11 ай бұрын

AMEN!!!

Being Alive is one of the most over-done numbers and very few people can really do it justice. But Raoul Esparza blew it away.

@Unintelligentful

5 ай бұрын

This is exactly the reason why Neil Patrick Harris is massively overrated to me, he is just a "loved celebrity" that can sing in tune but he is NOT a musical theatre performer.

I love anything that Sutton Foster does! Thoroughly Modern Millie and The Drowsy Chaperone deserves more love! Also loved the energy of In The Heights!

#10 and #2 SUTTON FOSTER YES!!!!!!!!!!! Sutton is so damn incredible. "Sutton Foster you can show off for us anytime" ....yes, yes you can

Raul Esparza’s Being Alive still gives me goosebumps

Raul!!!! Got that right.

Tonya Pinkins's performance of Lot's Wife is absolutely breathtaking and I wish that Caroline or Change would had been nominated a year later and she could had won the Tony for best actress in a leading role in an musical for Caroline or Change.

@johnardwashington2872

11 ай бұрын

couldnt agree more

@jasonhays8644

10 ай бұрын

Yep. I saw it when it was still downtown, and I was blown away. I remember not being able to breathe during Lot's Wife. And Anika Noni Rose!!! She was outstanding too.

I love Next to Normal

I don't get how any of these are "underappreciated"

Not a lot I knew, but one or two musicals I know, I can't wait to see the remake of the Color Purple, looks so good.

@elephantbluepeter

11 ай бұрын

Yeah but I wish Cynthia Erivo was playing Celie instead of Fantasia and I wish Idina Menzel was Elphaba in the film version of "Wicked" instead of Cynthia Erivo.

Honestly so happy Next to Normal was included! It's so underappreciated!!

Rip to our beloved Broadway brothers and sisters that have passed away

40 odd years of going to shows…nothing yet has beaten Tonya and the cast smashing Caroline or Change!! Just a stunningly wonderful musical

You know these MsMojo lists are cobbled together by people who are not really fans when they say Mrs Lovett is singing to Sweeney Todd. She is SUPPOSED to be but she obviously isn't in this version. And even including "We'll Take A Drink Together" in this list as an honorable mention is ludicrous. Any fan knows it is nowhere near underappreciated - it is legendary.

WatchMojo: Makes a list called Underappreciated Tony Award Performances... includes one of most famous Tony Award Performance I'm recent times...

Passing Strange is one of the most under appreciated musicals ever!

Ragtime deserves way more than an honorable mention.

I would have thrown “Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812” on there but happy to see Raul and Company as #1

Yes, "Book of Mormon" is always a win. I hope that it will eventually become a movie.

@-karma-2426

11 ай бұрын

Book of Mormon is hilarious

@musicalsingingboy

11 ай бұрын

Directed from the South Park creators

Who is underappreciating these performances? 🤷‍♀ These are some of the best.

I can tell you a true theater fan did not make this list. Every single one of these is an artistic smash that we hold dear. And most of the shows in question won best musical or revival and the star being celebrated in each almost all got a Tony as well.

Oh sweet!

Tonya was on all my children and enchanted

I bought the CD for Urinetown after the Tonys.

OK MsMojo make me real happy by reposting this, amended to include the FULL performances. If you can get the synopsized cut versions, you can get the total performances. Theater geeks like me will revel in it.

Next to Normal in 2009 lost to Billy Elliot. That should answer the question.

Fun home is great❤❤

Yay I’m the first one to comment

waitress stays so underrated it’s still not on this list 🙄

This list, again, is so dumb. “I’m Here” has 2.1 million views and is quite literally what made the general Broadway audience take note of Cynthia. Also, Ring of Kings is talked about all the time because it’s what kept Fun Home open for as long as it was. The only one on this list that is truly under appreciated is Urinetown. I beg Ms Mojo to literally be so for real for once. This little white girl seems to be such a Broadway girlie and yet….she literally is so unserious with these videos. Also half of these were in your “best Tony performance of each year” so you, Ms Mojo, have appreciated these performances not long ago. The only thing more embarrassing than this video is the fact I’m so torn up over it tbh.

@theatrebear

11 ай бұрын

I feel exactly the same. You are not alone. These Broadway posts from them make me so angry.

Gee I’m finally glad Book of Mormon is getting the recognition it deserves. *Sarcasm*

@kristashafer93098

11 ай бұрын

Maybe now people will talk more about that Hamilton production! lol

So, Stephen Colbert was in Company? Hmmm.

@bookemdano7567

11 ай бұрын

A concert version with Patti LuPone, Neil Patrick Harris and Martha Plimpton and it’s awesome!

Why would Disney put villains in there shows if there supposed to be for all ages i was only 12 when Disney was still putting Villains in there movies

does "underappreciated" mean something else? Because the theatre nuts I know talk about these all the time

OMG you talk all the way through every number.

@suebob16

8 ай бұрын

There are usually reasons why a channel like MsMojo or WatchMojo presents clips the way they do. These are my guesses for some of the reasons: *For people new to musical theater, some context or info is usually needed regarding performance clips. How else can viewers understand what they are seeing? *Entire performance clips probably can't be shown for possible copyright reasons. *If they show the top 10 or 20 performances in their entirety it would create too long a video. *The channel likely tries to strike a balance between showing a clip and providing information, and it's not going to please everyone. But we are so fortunate to have popular channels that are willing to look at the past and present excellence in the performing arts, even if the presentation isn't perfect. This brings more awareness and hopefully inspires more participants.