Greatest Show Tune Ever Poll Results – Top 50 Show Tunes
BritishTheatre.com is pleased to bring to you the poll results for the Greatest Show Tune Ever. Thousands of you nominated your favourites before a final voting list of 200 songs was produced and voting opened. What is shown below is not only the Greatest Ever Show Tune but the Top 50 Show Tunes from that vote. Les Miserables scored a phenomenal five songs in the top 20, three of those in the top 10. Stephen Sondheim was the most listed composer with 7 songs nominated, Alain Boublil and Claude Michel-Schoenberg with 6 songs with Alan Menken and Andrew Lloyd Webber tied with 3 each. A suprising poll result saw Le Jazz Hot from Victor/Victoria come in at number 8. Songs from musicals were once the songs that were often re-interpreted by some of the greatest artists becoming standards around the globe. There is no doubting the fact that songs from … Read more
