My top 3 favorite musicals off the top of my head are, West Side Story, Oklahoma and The King and I. Certainly very different stories all brought together by music. I have to say that the stories, characters and of course the individual songs themselves draw me back to these 3 particular musicals time and time again. Certainly these 3 favorites are very different from each other, yet they portray many similarities. One, a culture in a foreign country struggling to become accepted. Another, similar people living in a new state and finally, a cultural refined woman and her son coming to live in a foreign land. I love the cultural stories they portray.