My Picks:

-Pre-Modern Drama: "Hamlet." I'm sorry, maybe it's cliche, but really that show is not only the archetype for so much in theatre and literature, but it's so... perfect. At least in my view...

-Post-Modern Drama: I'll have to go with, at least initially, "A Doll's House" by Ibsen... there's another show I'd have liked to put here, and it's a category winner, but I think it's better in another spot... and Ibsen's a great modern playwright (when he can avoid being too dry- and "A Doll's House" is just right.)

-Light Comedy: Oh wow, plenty of these to choose from... but the funniest show I've actually SEEN in this category would have to be "Leading Ladies," so I'll take that.

-Serio-Comedy: "Waiting For Godot" by Beckett. This is that one I almost put for Modern drama, but there's too much humour in the show, and it's just a great example of not only absurdist and existentialist ideas, but also of how a comedic show can have a HUGE impact. (Just for the record, aside from the "twin" of this play, "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead," I'd pick, as a runner-up, "The Merchant of Venice" for Shakespeare's creating one of the first non-Christian characters (and a Jew, no less, a Jew in Elizabethan times) that was truly three-dimensional- a villian, but a truly sympathetic villian.)

-Light Musical: There are so many fun ones here... my drama friends performed "Into the Woods," "My Fair Lady," and "Little Shop of Horrors" in my time there, and all of those could easily win here. But I'm going to cheat a bit and pick the classic comique opera by Gilbert and Sullivan that many view as a forebearer to such shows- "HMS Pinafore." It was performed then as a loosely musical piece, and today is often performed as a musical, so I think that it fits, it never, never gives a bad show... well, hardly ever. ;)

-Mesage-Based Musical: This really should've been titled "Heavy" Musical, because that's more along the lines of what I mean- the shows that are musical, but not always happy. I like "Evita," and there are plenty others that are more than deserving, but the one show that stands out for me is the musical I refer to as THE musical. To me, no musical has, and possibly never will, top the perfection and absolute beauty and power that is... the adaptaion of Victor Hugo's "Les Miserables."

So, the winners, in my book (so far... debate, shall we?) are:

-Hamlet
-A Doll's House
-Leading Ladies
-Waiting For Godot
-HMS Pinafore
-Les Miserables