‘Wicked’ and ‘Spring Awakening’ Among Decade’s Top Musicals

NYTimes.com: "JUDGED from the long view of history, the Broadway musical’s rise, reign and fall appear to have taken place in a flash. This American-born art form reached its artistic peak in the 1940s and began a slide toward senescence a mere two decades later. But take a stroll through Times Square today, and a different point of view asserts itself. The tourists thronging the area aren’t coming for the lawn chairs, after all, or the peculiar chain stores devoted to candy brands."