Ok, while musicals are in the air, there are two I have to mention, having grown up in the 1960s and 1970s.
The first is Hair, which I'll post on later. The second is Jesus Christ Superstar.
Let's admit, up front, that the musicals of the hippy era blew away the Rodgers and Hammerstein era musicals. First, in energy, second, in music, and third, in revolutionary spirit.
Note, in this film version, we get the great choice of Judas Iscariot as a black man. Talk about in your face:
Now, here is another version of the song, from season 7 of American Idol:
Carly Smithson (nee Hennessy) should have finished much higher than she did that season- poor song choices and an inability to recognize her strengths doomed her.
Andrew Lloyd Webber is one of the great rock composers of the last 40 years.