The result explains why the tuner, though it run a year and a half, is generally consigned to the bottom end of the Rodgers & Hammerstein nine-Broadway-musicals ranking.
There are, however, indications that these musical ranks have been growing.
In the early 1950s, Siegmeister was called to testify at a Congressional hearing investigating Communism in the musical ranks.
Perhaps Barry De Vorzon and Perry Botkin Jr. would have joined Zbigniew Turski in the Olympian musical ranks, for the sentimental strains that long accompanied the title credits to "The Young and the Restless," and later became known as "Nadia's Theme," in tribute to the gymnast Nadia Comaneci.
One of the most promising approaches in music information retrieval is query-by-example (QBE) retrieval [1 7], where a user can receive a list of musical pieces ranked by their similarity to a musical piece (example) that the user gives as a query.
So Longtail and Mr. Brock worked from a straightforward premise: Players mimic the moves of their on-screen avatars for any of 20 musical numbers, ranked by difficulty.
Ben Brantley, the New York Times's chief theatre critic, wrote that the musical may "rank among the worst" in Broadway history.
Ben Brantley, The Times's chief theater critic, was one of the most negative, saying the musical may "rank among the worst" in Broadway history.
Since its inception in 2001, Mel Brooks's movie-turned-musical has consistently ranked in the top three or four of New York's most profitable Broadway shows, so it came as no surprise when Brooks announced in December 2003 that he was bringing The Producers to London.
