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  • Broadway Box
    An uber-site for ticket discounts. Very useful, indeed.
  • Broadway World
    A very cluttered, but also very informative site. Lots of cool videos, for the broadband-enabled.
  • CastAlbumCollector.com
    A comprehensive, and growing, database of cast and theater-related recordings. An online community for the musical-obsessed.
  • Critic-O-Meter
    Creates composite grades for the critical response to Broadway and Off-Broadway shows.
  • Damon Runyon Broadway Tickets
    Want tickets to Wicked? Or Jersey Boys? If money is no object, check these guys out. Proceeds benefit the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation.
  • Did He Like It?
    A cool compendium of critical response to Broadway and Off-Broadway shows.
  • Dress Circle
    The shop to visit when you're in London. And, depending on the exchange rate, a great place to find foreign cast recordings.
  • Givenik
    When you buy tickets through Givenik, 5% goes to charity. Show choices are limited, but it's a nice way of diverting funds to a worthy cause.
  • Internet Broadway Database
    An invaluable resource of people, productions, and performance venues.
  • Internet Off-Broadway Database
    Similar to the IBDB, except for Off-Broadway shows, and not quite as comprehensive.
  • Musical Shop
    Another source for foreign cast albums. Smaller selection than Sound of Music, but better prices.
  • Playbill Online
    The best theater site on the Web. News, features, columns, quizzes, contests, discount tickets, and more.
  • Sound Advice
    Talkin' Broadway's list of upcoming cast recordings, books, and DVDs. Updated very regularly.
  • Sound of Music
    Great source of foreign cast albums. Slow service, but, hey, they're shipping this stuff from Germany.
  • Theater Mania
    Usually has the same info as Playbill, but there are some interesting sub pages, and they actually print reviews.
  • Theatre Monkey
    A independent guide to London theater (Er...excuse me...theatre)
  • Triton Gallery
    The best place to find theater posters on the Web.

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The Musicals That Suck

Here's a list of shows that, barring any divine intervention or significant rewrites, I will never put onto any list of the best musicals, no matter how long. I'm only listing shows that I'm personally familiar with: there are undoubtedly many many more that have earned the "suck" distinction.

Tale of two cities 70 Girls 70
Annie Warbucks
Aspects of Love
A Tale of Two Cities
Big
Blood Brothers
Bring Back Birdie
Brooklyn
Canterbury Tales
Carrie
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Dance of the Vampires
Dirty Dancing
Dracula
Dude
Eating raoulEating Raoul
Evil Dead
Fame
First Impressions
Footloose
Frankenstein
Golden Rainbow 
Happy Days
Here's Love
In My Life
Into the Light
Jekyll and Hyde
Happy days cdLegs Diamond
Lestat
LoveMusik
Mary Poppins
Metropolis
Moby Dick
Mutiny
Newsies (Yeah, it's a movie. But it sucks so much I felt the need to include it.)
Oh, Brother!
Oh! Calcutta!
Promenade
Roza
Saved
Side Show
Starlight Express
Starmites
LestattheplayTarzan
The Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public
The Boy From Oz
The King of Hearts
The Last Session
The Magic Show
The Pirate Queen
The Red Shoes
Time
The Tin Pan Alley Rag
Two Gentlemen of Verona
Victor/Victoria
We Will Rock You
Young Frankenstein

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