Top 10 Best British Musicals

The stage never sounded so good! For this list, WatchMojo UK counts down the greatest ever British musicals! Featuring some of the best productions that theatre-land has ever seen... we've got toe-tapping dance numbers, vocal-smashing solo performances, and amazing ensemble singalongs! Turn that volume up!

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[trinaq]

Andrew Lloyd Webber is the king of British Musicals! Cats, Evita, Phantom, Joseph, they're all his creations!

[EllieGxmes]

So glad I found six on one of these list! 😊

[mollyredsull]

The Rocky Horror picture show is a british musical, just like the Original stage show

[dalekmoon]

Any that featured Carrie Hope Fletcher!♥ You're welcome!

[onesiewoman]

Where is RHPS in this list? Surely that counts as a British Musical!

[williamfairchild]

2:09 Half a Sixpence is my favourite British musical, I saw it twice at the Noel Coward Theatre in London on Wednesday 25th January and Saturday 2nd September 2017, it was brilliant and Charlie Stemp was amazing as Arthur Kipps

[shaliseshaw]

Cats, Joseph and The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Sunset Boulevard, Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita, etc. should've been on the list. 🗽🗼🏰🎟️🎭🎸🎻🎻🎺🎷🎹🎶🎵🎤

[epicdude]

4:21 was it in the royal shakespeare theatre?

[railnut]

Also tricky to say when quickly summarising but it isn't Chinchester it is Chichester festival theatre (I might have misheard)

[miathomas]

Definitely agree about six I saw it on Friday night and it was absolutely phenomenal

[frankmoniz]

I was surprised by the musical at number 3, ranking so high on the list, never heard of it.

[Holyroller]

Er … did he say DANNY Osmond played Joseph?!

[gracehowell.]

Did... did you say DANNY Osmond? It's Donny Osmond, you bellend!

[julianaylor]

These sort of lists are very subjective.

[TheTradge]

With the exception of Billy Elliot, Matilda and Six, this is basically a list of some of the worst or most overrated musicals, would absolutely have put JCS ahead of Joseph, Finding Neverland I'd have had as an honourable mention at least, plus would Lion King not count given that British songwriting legend Sir Elton John wrote the music?? Yet another list that proves WatchMojo knows absolutely fuck all about musicals.

[Chris_GY]

Les Miserables is the world’s longest running musical and won more awards than most of them except Phantom and you didn’t include it.

[TheTradge]

*Makes a list about "best" British musicals

*Proceeds to start with ALW's "Joseph"

🙄

In fairness and seriousness though, there have historically been very few strong British musicals that have started life here, or been written by British writers, it's only really in the past 4 or 5 years roughly that we have started seeing more success from this side of the Atlantic outside of (the hugely overrated) Andrew Lloyd Webber. Six, Billy Elliot and Matilda are probably the biggest British success stories of the past 20 years or so, very few musicals by UK writers and producers make it across to broadway.

[davidz]

What's the appeal of musicals? Why do their fans want films to be repeatedly interrupted by song and dance routines?