List of musicals: A to L
This is a general list of musicals, including Broadway musicals, West End musicals, and musicals that premiered in other places, as well as film musicals, whose titles fall into the A-L alphabetic range. Please see List of musicals: M to Z for additional titles. (See also List of notable musical theatre productions, List of operettas, List of Bollywood films, List of rock musicals.)
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Production | Year | Venue/Type | Music | Lyrics | Book | Notes |
110 in the Shade | 1963 | Broadway | Harvey Schmidt | Tom Jones | N. Richard Nash | Based on Nash's 1954 play, The Rainmaker. |
13 | 2008 | Broadway | Jason Robert Brown | Brown | Dan Elish and Horn | |
1492 Up To Date | 1893 | Broadway | Carl Pflueger | R. A. Barnet | Barnet | A burlesque show. |
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue | 1976 | Broadway | Leonard Bernstein | Alan Jay Lerner | Lerner | Ran for only 7 performances. |
1776 | 1969 | Broadway | Sherman Edwards | Edwards | Peter Stone | |
1789: Les Amants de la Bastille | 2012 | French musical | Rod Janois, Jean-Pierre Pilot, Olivier Schultheis, William Rousseau and Dove Attia | Attia and Vincent Baguian | Attia and François Chouquet | Based on the French Revolution |
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee | 2005 | Broadway | William Finn | Finn | Rachel Sheinkin | |
35MM: A Musical Exhibition | 2012 | Off-Broadway | Ryan Scott Oliver | Oliver | N/A | |
3 Musketiers | 2003 | Dutch musical | Ferdi Bolland, Rob Bolland, and Paul Bogaev | Bolland and Bolland | André Breedland | |
3hree | 2001 | Off-Off-Broadway | Laurence O'Keefe, Neil Dunbar Benjamin, Robert Lindsey Nassif and John Bucchino | O'Keefe, Benjamin, Nassif and Bucchino | O'Keefe, Benjamin, Nassif and Bucchino | Three One-act musical combined, The Mice, The Flight of the Lawnchair Man and Lavender Girl. |
42nd Street | 1980 | Broadway | Harry Warren | Al Dubin | Michael Stewart and Mark Bramble | Based on Bradford Ropes' novel. |
70, Girls, 70 | 1971 | Broadway | John Kander | Fred Ebb | Ebb and Norman L. Martin | Based on the 1958 play Breath of Spring by Peter Coke. |
8 femmes | 2002 | Musical film | Various artists | Various artists | François Ozon and Marina de Van | Bases on the play by Robert Thomas. |
9 to 5 | 2009 | Broadway | Dolly Parton | Parton | Patricia Resnick | Based on the 1980 film. |
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Production | Year | Venue/Type | Music | Lyrics | Book | Notes |
A... My Name Is Alice and A... My Name Will Always Be Alice |
1984 | Off-Broadway revue | David Zippel, Winnie Holzman and Lucy Simon | Zippel, Holzman and Simon | Joan Micklin Silver and Julianne Boyd | |
A Christmas Story: The Musical | 2012 | Broadway | Benj Pasek and Justin Paul | Pasek and Paul | Joseph Robinette | |
A Dangerous Maid | 1923 | Broadway | George Gershwin | Ira Gershwin | Charles W. Bell | Based on Bell's 1918 play, A Dislocated Honeymoon. |
A Family Affair | 1962 | Broadway | John Kander | James Goldman and William Goldman | Goldman and Goldman | |
A Hatful of Snow | 1994 | Holiday Musical | Matthew Breindel | Breindel | Breindel | |
A Little Princess | 2003 | Off-Broadway | Andrew Lippa | Brian Crawley | Brian Crawley | |
A Minister's Wife | 2011 | Off-Broadway | Joshua Schmidt | Jan Tranen | Austin Pendleton | Based on George Bernard Shaw's Candida. |
A New Brain | 1998 | Off-Broadway | William Finn | Finn | Finn and James Lapine | |
A Tale of Two Cities | 2008 | Broadway | Jill Santoriello | Santoriello | Santoriello | |
A Very Potter Musical | 2009 | Off-Off-Broadway | A.J. Holmes and Darren Criss | Holmes and Criss | Matt Lang, Nick Lang and Brian Holden | Performed by StarKid Productions. |
A Very Potter Sequel | 2010 | Off-Off-Broadway | Darren Criss | Criss | Matt Lang, Nick Lang and Brian Holden | Performed by StarKid Productions. |
A Very Potter Senior Year | 2012 | Off-Off-Broadway | A.J. Holmes, Clark Baxtresser, Pierce Siebers and Darren Criss | Holmes, Baxtresser, Siebers and Criss | Matt Lang, Nick Lang and Brian Holden | Performed by StarKid Productions. |
Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick | 1952 | Musical Film | Ray Evans and Jay Livingston | Evans and Livingston | Claude Binyon | |
Abbacadabra | 1983 | French musical | Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus | Alain Boublil and Daniel Boublil | N/A | |
About Face | 1952 | Musical film | Peter de Rose et al | de Rose et al | Peter Milne | |
About Town | 1906 | Broadway | Melville Ellis and Raymond Hubbell | Joseph Herbert | Herbert | |
Absolute Beginners | 1986 | Musical film | Gil Evans and various artists | Evans and various artists | Richard Burridge | |
Abyssinia | 1906 | Broadway | Ted Kociolek | James Racheff | Racheff and Kociolek | Based on the novel Marked by Fire, by Joyce Carol Thomas. |
Ace | 2006 | Off-Off-Broadway | Richard Oberacker | Robert Taylor and Oberacker | Taylor and Oberacker | |
Ace of Clubs | 1950 | West End | Noël Coward | Coward | Coward | |
Acorn Antiques: The Musical! | 2005 | West End | Victoria Wood | Wood | Wood | |
Across the Universe | 2007 | Musical film | The Beatles | The Beatles | Julie Taymor | |
The Act | 1977 | Broadway | John Kander | Fred Ebb | George Furth | |
The Addams Family | 2010 | Broadway | Andrew Lippa | Lippa | Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice | |
Adding Machine | 2008 | Off-Broadway | Joshua Schmidt | Jason Loewith and Schmidt | Loewith and Schmidt | |
Adèle | 1913 | Broadway | Jean Briquet and Adolf Phillipp | Paul Hervé | Hervé | English adaptation by Philipp and Edward A. Paulton. |
Adonis | 1884 | Broadway | Edward E. Rice and John Eller | Rice and Eller | William Gill | |
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert | 1994 | Musical film | Guy Cross and various artists | Various artists | Stephan Elliott | |
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer | 2001 | Broadway | Don Schlitz | Schlitz | Ken Ludwig | |
Affair in Trinidad | 1952 | Musical film | Lester Lee and Bob Russell et al. | Lee and Russell et al. | Berne Giler and James Gunn | |
The Affairs of Dobie Gillis | 1953 | Musical film | Various Artists | Various Artists | Max Shulman | |
Afgar | 1919 | West End | Charles Cuvillier | Douglas Furber | Fred Thompson and Worton David | |
Africana | 1934 | Broadway | Donald Heyward | Heyward | Heyward | |
After the Ball | 1953 | West End | Noël Coward | Coward | Coward | Based on Oscar Wilde's play, Lady Windermere's Fan. |
Aida | 2000 | Broadway | Elton John | Tim Rice | Linda Woolverton, Robert Falls and David Henry Hwang | |
Ain't Misbehavin' | 1978 | Broadway revue | Various Artists | Various Artists | Murray Horwitz and Richard Maltby, Jr. | |
Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death | 1971 | Broadway | Melvin Van Peebles | Van Peebles | Van Peebles | |
Aladdin | 1958 | TV musical | Cole Porter | Porter | S.J. Perelman | |
Aladdin
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2014 | Broadway | Alan Menken | Howard Ashman, Chad Beguelin and Tim Rice | Beguelin | Based on the film of the same name. Notable Songs: "A Whole New World" and "Friend Like Me". |
Ali Baba fr:Les 1001 Vies d'Ali Baba | 2000 | French musical | Fabrice Aboulker and Alain Lanty | Thibaut Chatel and Frédéric Doll | ||
Alice in Wonderland | 1951 | Animated film | Bob Hilliard and Sammy Fain | Hilliard and Fain | Winston Hibler and Ted Sears | |
Alice in Wonderland, a Musical Adventure in One Act | 1997 | Musical/operetta | Michael Sirotta | Michael Sirotta | Heather M. Dominick and Michael Sirotta | Based on Lewis Carroll's book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. |
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | 1972 | Musical film | John Barry | Barry | William Sterling | |
Alice with Kisses | 1964 | Off-Broadway | ||||
Alive and Kicking | 1950 | Broadway revue | Hoagy Carmichael et al. | Paul Francis Webster et al. | I.A.L. Diamond | |
All 4 One | 2001 | Off-West End | John Trent Wallace | Kevin John Heuston | Heuston | |
All Aboard | 1913 | Broadway | E. Ray Goetz and Malvin M. Franklin | Goetz | Mark Swan | |
All American | 1962 | Broadway | Charles Strouse | Lee Adams | Mel Brooks | |
All Hands on Deck | 1961 | Musical film | Cyril Mockridge | Donald R. Morris | Jay Sommers | |
All in Fun | 1940 | Broadway revue | Baldwin Bergerson and John Rox | |||
All in Love | 1961 | Off-Broadway | Jacques Urbont | Bruce Geller | Geller | |
All Shook Up | 2005 | Broadway Jukebox musical | Elvis Presley | Various artists | Joe DiPietro | |
All That Jazz | 1979 | Musical film | Ralph Burns | Various artists | Robert Alan Aurthur and Bob Fosse | |
All the Fun of the Fair | 2008 | West End | Ian Wherry | Jon Conway | David Essex Jukebox musical | |
All the King's Horses | 1935 | Musical film | Edward Horan | Horan | Lawrence Clark, et al. | |
Allegro | 1947 | Broadway | Richard Rodgers | Oscar Hammerstein II | Hammerstein II | |
An Alligator Named Daisy | 1955 | Musical film | Stanley Black and Sam Coslow, et al. | Jack Davies | ||
Alma, Where Do You Live? | 1910 | Broadway | Jean Briquet | George V. Hobart | Hobart | |
Alone at Last | 1914 | Broadway | Franz Lehár et al. | Matthew Woodward et al. | ||
Along Fifth Avenue | 1949 | Broadway revue | Gordon Jenkins et al. | Tom Adair et al. | ||
Altar Boyz | 2005 | Off-Broadway | Gary Adler and Michael Patrick Walker | Adler and Walker | Kevin Del Aguila | |
Ambassador | 1972 | Broadway | Don Gohman | Hal Hackady | Don Ettlinger and Anna Marie Barlow | |
Amen Corner | 1983 | Broadway | Garry Sherman | Peter Udell | Philip Rose and Peter Udell | |
America Kicks Up Its Heels | 1983 | Off-Broadway | William Finn | Finn | Charles Rubin | |
The American Astronaut | 2001 | Musical film | Billy Nayer Show | Nayer Show | Cory McAbee | |
American Idiot | 2010 | Broadway | Green Day | Billie Joe Armstrong | Armstrong and Michael Mayer | |
American Pop | 1981 | Animated film | Lee Holdridge | Various artists | Ronni Kern | Paralleling the history of American popular music. |
An American in Paris | 1951 | Musical film | George Gershwin | Ira Gershwin | Alan Jay Lerner | |
America's Sweetheart | 1931 | Broadway | Richard Rodgers | Lorenz Hart | Herbert Fields | |
The Amorous Flea | 1964 | Off-Broadway | Bruce Montgomery | Montgomery | Jerry Devine | |
Amour | 2002 | Broadway | Michel Legrand | Didier Van Cauwelaert | Jeremy Sams | |
Amphitryon | 1935 | Musical film | Franz Doelle | C. Amberg and Bruno Balz | Molière et al. | |
An Arabian Girl and 40 Thieves | 1899 | Broadway | W.H. Batchelor, John J. Braham, Jessie Williams and Meyer Lutz | J. Cheever Goodwin | ||
Anastasia | 1997 | Animated film | Stephen Flaherty | Lynn Ahrens | Susan Gauthier et al. | |
Anchors Aweigh | 1945 | Musical film | Georgie Stoll | Various artists | Natalie Marcin | |
And the Angels Sing | 1944 | Musical film | Victor Young | Various artists | Claude Binyon et al. | |
And the World Goes 'Round | 1991 | Off-Broadway revue | John Kander | Fred Ebb | N/A | |
André Charlot's Revue of 1924 | 1924 | Revue | Various artists | Various artists | N/A | |
Andy Hardy's Private Secretary | 1941 | Musical film | ||||
Angel | 1978 | Broadway | Gary Geld | Peter Udell | Udell and Ketti Frings | |
Angel in the Wings | 1947 | Revue | Bob Hilliard and Carl Sigman | Hilliard and Sigman | ||
Angelika | 2007 | Czech musical | ||||
Angélique, Marquise des Anges | 1995 | French musical | ||||
Angry Housewives | 1983 | Off-Broadway | Chad Henry and A.M. Collins | Henry and Collins | ||
Ani: A Parody | 2014 | Off-Broadway | Matt and Nick Lang with music and lyrics by Clark Baxtresser & Pierce Siebers | |||
Animal Crackers | 1928 | Broadway | Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby | Kalmar and Ruby | George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind | |
Ankles Aweigh | 1955 | Broadway | Sammy Fain | Dan Shapiro | Guy Bolton and Eddie Davis | |
Anne and Gilbert | 2005 | Canadian musical | Jeff Hochhauser, Nancy White and Bob Johnston | Hochhauser, White and Johnston | Hochhauser, White and Johnston | Based on Lucy Maud Montgomery's novels, Anne of Avonlea and Anne of the Island. |
Anne of Green Gables | 1965 | Canadian musical | Norman Campbell | Don Harron, Campbell, Elaine Campbell and Mavor Moore | Harron | Based on Lucy Maud Montgomery's novel, Anne of Green Gables. |
Annie |
1977 | Broadway | Charles Strouse | Martin Charnin | Thomas Meehan | Notable songs: "Tomorrow" and "A Hard-Knock Life". |
Annie Get Your Gun
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1946 | Broadway | Irving Berlin | Berlin | Herbert Fields and Dorothy Fields | Notable song: "There's No Business Like Show Business". |
Annie Warbucks | 1993 | Off-Broadway | Charles Strouse | Martin Charnin | Thomas Meehan | Sequel to Annie. |
Anya | 1965 | Broadway | Robert Wright and George Forrest | Wright and Forrest | George Abbott and Guy Bolton | |
Anyone Can Whistle | 1964 | Broadway | Stephen Sondheim | Sondheim | Arthur Laurents | |
Anything Goes | 1934 | Broadway | Cole Porter | Porter | Guy Bolton and P.G. Wodehouse | Notable songs: "Anything Goes", "You're the Top" and "I Get a Kick out of You". |
Applause | 1970 | Broadway | Charles Strouse | Lee Adams | Betty Comden and Adolph Green | |
Apple Blossoms | 1919 | |||||
The Apple Tree | 1966 | Broadway | Jerry Bock | Sheldon Harnick | Bock, Harnick and Jerome Coopersmith | |
April in Paris | 1952 | Musical film | Vernon Duke and LeRoy Prinz | Various artists | Jack Rose | |
April Love | 1957 | Musical film | Sammy Fain and Alfred Newman | Various artists | George Agnew | |
Arabian Nights | 1954 | Off-Broadway | Carmen Lombardo and John Jacob Lœb | Lombardo and Lœb | ||
The Ark | 1998 | Off-Broadway | Michael McLean | McLean and Kevin Kelly | McLean and Kelly | |
The Arcadians | 1909 | West End | Lionel Monckton and Howard Talbot | Arthur Wimperis | Mark Ambient and Alexander M. Thompson | |
Are You With It? | 1945 | Broadway | Harry Revel | Arnold B. Horwitt | Sam Perrin and George Balzer | Based on the novel, Slightly Perfect by George Malcolm-Smith. |
Argentine Nights | 1940 | Musical film | Frank Skinner | Various artists | J. Robert Bren and Gladys Atwater | |
The Aristocats | 1970 | Animated film | Georges Bizet et al. | Various artists | Ken Anderson et al. | |
Arms and the Girl | 1950 | Broadway | Morton Gould | Dorothy Fields | Herbert Fields and Fields | |
Around the World | 1946 | Broadway | Cole Porter | Porter | Orson Welles | |
Arthur! Arthur! | 1969 | Musical film | Harry Robertson | Various artists | Julian Symons | A musical retelling of Dudley Moore's Arthur films. |
Artists and Models | 1955 | Musical film | Harry Warren and Jack Brooks | Various artists | Frank Tashlin et al. | Notable song: "Innamorata". |
As Long as They're Happy | 1954 | Musical film | Stanley Black | Alan Melville | Melville | |
As the Girls Go | 1948 | Broadway | Jimmy McHugh | Harold Adamson | William Roos | |
As Thousands Cheer | 1933 | Broadway | Irving Berlin | Berlin | Moss Hart | |
Aspects of Love | 1990 | West End | Andrew Lloyd Webber | Don Black and Charles Hart | Lloyd Webber | Notable song: "Love Changes Everything". |
Assassins | 1990 | Off-Broadway | Stephen Sondheim | Sondheim | John Weidman | Premiered on Broadway in 2004. |
At Home Abroad | 1935 | Broadway revue | Arthur Schwartz | Howard Dietz | N/A | |
At Long Last Love | 1975 | Musical film | Cole Porter | Porter | Peter Bogdanovich | |
At the Circus | 1939 | Musical film | Harold Arlen | Arlen | Irving Brecher | |
At the Drop of a Hat | 1956 | Off-West End revue | Donald Swann | Michael Flanders | Swann and Flanders | Produced on Broadway in 1959. |
At the Drop of Another Hat | 1963 | Off-West End revue | Donald Swann | Michael Flanders | Swann and Flanders | Produced on Broadway in 1966. |
At War with the Army | 1950 | Musical film | Joseph J. Lilley | Lilley | James Allardice and Fred Finklehoffe | |
Athena | 1954 | Musical Film | Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane | Martin and Blane | William Ludwig and Leonard Spigelgass | |
The Athenian Touch | 1964 | Off-Broadway | Willard Straight | David Eddy | J. Albert Fracht and Arthur Goodman | |
Aunt Sally | 1933 | Musical film | Harry M. Woods | Woods | Guy Bolton | |
Autant en emporte le vent | 2003 | French musical | Gérard Presgurvic | Presgurvic | Based on the novel Gone with the Wind | |
Avenue Q | 2003 | Broadway | Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx | Lopez and Marx | Jeff Whitty | Notable songs: "It Sucks to Be Me", "Everyone's a Little Bit Racist" and "There's a Fine, Fine Line". |
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Production | Year | Venue/Type | Music | Lyrics | Book | Notes | |
Babes in Arms | 1937 | Broadway | Richard Rodgers | Lorenz Hart | Rodgers and Hart | Notable songs: "Where or When", "My Funny Valentine", "The Lady Is a Tramp", "Johnny One Note" and "I Wish I Were in Love Again". | |
Babes in Toyland | 1903 | Broadway | Victor Herbert | Glen MacDonough | MacDonough | ||
Babes on Broadway | 1941 | Musical film | Burton Lane and Roger Edens | E.Y. Harburg and Ralph Freed | |||
Babette | 1903 | Broadway | Victor Herbert | Harry B. Smith | Smith | ||
Baby | 1983 | Broadway | David Shire | Richard Maltby, Jr. | Sybille Pearson | ||
Bad Girls: The Musical | 2006 | West End | Kath Gotts | Gotts | Maureen Chadwick and Ann McManus | Based on the ITV1 television series Bad Girls. | |
Back to the 80's | 2004 | Australian musical | Neil Gooding | Gooding | Gooding | ||
Bad Habits of 1926 | 1926 | Broadway revue | Manning Sherwin | Arthur Herzog, Jr. | N/A | ||
Bajour | 1964 | Broadway | Walter Marks | Marks | Ernest Kinoy | Based on Joseph Mitchell's short stories, The Gypsy Women and The King of the Gypsies. | |
Baker Street | 1965 | Broadway | Marian Grudeff, Raymond Jessel and Jerry Bock | Grudeff, Jessel and Sheldon Harnick | Jerome Coopersmith | ||
The Baker's Wife | 1989 | West End | Stephen Schwartz | Schwartz | Joseph Stein | Aimed at a Broadway run in 1976, but closed during try-outs. | |
The Balkan Princess | 1910 | West End | Paul Rubens | Rubens and Arthur Wimperis | Frederick Lonsdale and Frank Curzon | ||
Ball im Savoy | 1932 | German operetta | Paul Abraham | Alfred Grünwald and Fritz Löhner-Beda | Abraham | ||
Ballad for Bimshire | 1963 | Off-Broadway | Irving Burgie | Burgie | Burgie and Loften Mitchell | ||
Ballroom | 1978 | Broadway | Billy Goldenberg | Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman | Jerome Kass | ||
Bambi | 1942 | Animated film | Frank Churchill and Edward H. Plumb | Churchill and Plumb | Larry Morey | ||
Band Geeks | 2014 | Off-Off-Broadway | Tommy Newman and Mark Allen | Newman and Alter | Gaby Alter | ||
Band Waggon | 1940 | Musical film | Various artists | Various artists | |||
The Band Wagon | 1931 | Broadway revue | Arthur Schwartz | Howard Dietz | N/A | Notable songs: "I Love Louisa", "Hoops" and "Dancing in the Dark". | |
Bandanna Land | 1908 | Broadway | Will Marion Cook | Jesse A. Shipp and Alex Rogers | Shipp and Rogers | ||
Banjo Eyes | 1941 | Broadway | Vernon Duke | John La Touche and Harold Adamson | Joseph Quinlan and Izzy Ellinson | ||
Bar Mitzvah Boy | 1978 | West End | Jule Styne | Don Black | Jack Rosenthal | ||
Barbarella | 2004 | Austrian musical | Dave Stewart | Stewart | Stewart | Based on the 1968 film. | |
Bare: A Pop Opera | 2000 | Off-Broadway | Damon Intrabartolo | Jon Hartmere, Jr. | Intrabartolo and Hartmere, Jr. | Notable song: "Portrait of a Girl". | |
Bare Facts of 1926 | 1926 | Broadway revue | Charles M. Schwab | Henry Myers | Stuart Hamill | ||
Barefoot Boy with Cheek | 1947 | Broadway | Sidney Lippman | Sylvia Dee | Max Shulman | ||
The Barkleys of Broadway | 1949 | Musical film | Harry Warren and George Gershwin | Ira Gershwin | Betty Comden, Adolph Green and Sidney Sheldon | ||
Barnum | 1980 | Broadway | Cy Coleman | Michael Stewart | Mark Bramble | ||
Baron Trenck | 1912 | Broadway | Felix Albini | Frederick F. Schrader | Henry Blossom | ||
The Baroness Fiddlesticks | 1904 | Broadway | Emil Bruguiere | George De Long | De Long | ||
Bat Boy: The Musical | 2001 | Off-Broadway | Laurence O'Keefe | O'Keefe | Keythe Farley and Brian Flemming | ||
Bats | 1983 | Australian musical | Ian Dorricott | Simon Denver | Dorricott and Denver | ||
The Battle of Paris | 1929 | Musical film | Cole Porter, Jay Gorney and Dick Howard | Howard Dietz and Porter | Gene Markey | ||
Be Yourself | 1930 | Musical film | Hugo Riesenfeld | Riesenfeld | Joseph Jackson | ||
Beat the Band | 1942 | Musical TV show | Various artists | Various artists | N/A | ||
Beatlemania | 1977 | Broadway revue | The Beatles | The Beatles | Bob Gill, Robert Rabinowitz and Lynda Obst | ||
Beautiful: The Carole King Musical | 2014 | Broadway | Gerry Goffin, Carole King, Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil | Goffin, King, Mann and Weil | Douglas McGrath | ||
Beautiful Dreamer | 1961 | Off-Broadway | |||||
The Beautiful Game | 2000 | West End | Andrew Lloyd Webber | Ben Elton | Lloyd Webber and Elton | ||
Beauty and the Beast
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1994 | Broadway | Alan Menken | Howard Ashman and Tim Rice | Linda Woolverton | Based on animated Walt Disney film of the same name. Notable songs: "Be Our Guest" and "Beauty and the Beast". | |
The Beauty Shop | 1914 | Off-Broadway | Charles J. Gebest | Rennold Wolf | |||
The Beauty Spot | 1909 | Off-Broadway | Reginald De Koven | Joseph W. Herbert | Herbert | ||
Beauty World | 1988 | Singaporean musical | Dick Lee | Michael Chiang | Chiang | ||
Because You're Mine | 1952 | Musical film | Johnny Green | Green | Ruth Brooks Flippen and Sy Gomberg | ||
Bedknobs and Broomsticks | 1971 | Animated film | Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman | Irwin Kostal | Bill Walsh and Don DaGradi | Notable songs: "The Age of Not Believing" and "Substitutiary Locomotion". | |
A Bedtime Story | 1933 | Musical film | Ralph Rainger | Rainger | Benjamin Glazer and Nunnally Johnson | ||
The Beggar Student | 1882 | German operetta | Carl Millöcker | Camillo Walzel and Richard Genée | Millöcker | ||
Beggar's Holiday | 1946 | Broadway | Duke Ellington | John La Touche | La Touche | ||
The Beggar's Opera | 1728 | West End opera | John Gay | Gay | Gay | ||
Behind the Iron Mask | 2005 | West End | John Robinson | Robinson | Colin Scott and Melinda Walker | The show draws inspiration from the Man in the Iron Mask. | |
Bel-Ami | 2014 | Off-West End | Alex Loveless | Loveless | Loveless | A contemporary musical adaptation of the book of the same name. | |
Bell Bottom George | 1943 | Musical film | Harry Bidgood | Bidgood | Edward Dryhurst and Peter Fraser | ||
Belles belles belles | 2003 | French musical | Claude François, Jean-Pierre Bourtayre, Carolin Petit | Claude François, Daniel Moyne | Daniel Moyne, Jean-Pierre Bourtayre | Jukebox musical based on songs by Claude François. | |
La belle Hélène | 1864 | Paris opera bouffe | Jacques Offenbach | Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy | Offenbach | ||
La Belle Meunière | 1948 | Musical film | Tony Aubin | Aubin | Marcel Pagnol | ||
The Belle of Brittany | 1908 | Opera | Howard Talbot and Marie Horne | Percy Greenbank et al. | Leedham Bantock and P.J. Barrow | ||
The Belle of New York | 1897 | Broadway | Gustave Kerker | Hugh Morton | Morton | ||
Belle of the Nineties | 1934 | Musical film | Arthur Johnston | Johnston | Mae West | ||
Belle of the Yukon | 1944 | Musical film | Arthur Lange | Lange | Houston Branch | ||
Bells Are Ringing | 1956 | Broadway | Jule Styne | Betty Comden and Adolph Green | Comden and Green | A film was released in 1960. | |
Belmont Varieties | 1932 | Broadway revue | Various artists | Various artists | N/A | ||
The Beloved Vagabond | 1936 | Musical film | Darius Milhaud | Milhaud | William John Locke | ||
Ben Franklin in Paris | 1964 | Broadway | Mark Sandrich, Jr. and Jerry Herman | Sidney Michaels | Michaels | ||
Bernarda Alba | 2006 | Off-Broadway | Michael John LaChiusa | LaChiusa | LaChiusa | ||
Bernardine | 1957 | Musical film | Lionel Newman and Johnny Mercer | Newman and Mercer | Mary Chase and Theodore Reeves | ||
Besame Mucho El Musical | 2005 | Mexican Jukebox musical | José María Vitier (arranger) | Various artists | Consuelo Garrido, Lorena Maza and Victor Weinstock | Based on Bolero songs of the 1920s Mexico. | |
Best Foot Forward | 1941 | Broadway | Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane | Martin and Blane | John Cecil Holm | ||
The Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public | 1994 | Broadway | Carol Hall | Hall | Larry L. King and Peter Masterson | ||
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas | 1978 | Broadway | Carol Hall | Hall | Larry L. King and Peter Masterson | ||
The Best Things in Life Are Free | 1956 | Musical film | Lionel Newman | Lew Brown and Buddy DeSylva | William Bowers and Phoebe Ephron | ||
Betjemania | 1976 | West End | John Gould | John Betjeman | David Benedictus and Gould | ||
Bette Midler's Clams on the Half Shell | 1975 | Broadway revue | Various artists | Various artists | Bruce Vilanch, Bill Hennessy and Jerry Blatt | ||
Bette! Divine Madness | 1979 | Broadway revue | Various artists | Various artists | Jerry Blatt, Bette Midler and Bruce Vilanch | ||
The Better 'Ole | 1917 | West End | Herman Darewski | Percival Knight and James Heard | Bruce Bairnsfather and Arthur Elliot | ||
Better Tunes | 1922 | Broadway revue | |||||
Betty | 1915 | West End | Paul Rubens and Ernest Steffan | Adrian Ross and Rubens | Frederick Lonsdale and Gladys Unger | ||
Betty Blue Eyes | 2011 | West End | George Stiles | Anthony Drewe | Ron Cowen and Daniel Lipman | Based on A Private Function by Alan Bennett and Malcolm Mowbray. | |
Between the Devil | 1937 | Broadway | Arthur Schwartz | Howard Dietz | Dietz | ||
Betwixt! | 2008 | Off West End | Ian McFarlane | Mcfarlane | Mcfarlane | ||
Beyond the Fringe | 1961 | West End revue | Various artists | Various artists | Alan Bennett, Peter Cook, Jonathan Miller and Dudley Moore | ||
Bible Women | 1995 | Off-Broadway | Elizabeth Swados | Swados | Swados | ||
Big: the musical | 1996 | Broadway | David Shire | Richard Maltby, Jr. | John Weidman | ||
The Big Bad Musical | 2009 | Off-Broadway | Bill Francoeur | Francoeur | Alec Strum | ||
The Big Beat | 1958 | Musical film | Henry Mancini | Mancini | David P. Harmon | ||
Big Boy | 1925 | Broadway | James F. Hanley and Joseph Meyer | Buddy DeSylva | Harold R. Atteridge | ||
The Big Broadcast | 1932 | Musical film | Various artists | Various artists | William Ford Manley | ||
The Big Broadcast of 1936 | 1935 | Musical film | Various artists | Various artists | Walter DeLeon, Francis Martin and Ralph Spence | ||
The Big Broadcast of 1937 | 1936 | Musical film | Various artists | Various artists | Walter DeLeon and Francis Martin | ||
The Big Broadcast of 1938 | 1938 | Musical film | Various artists | Various artists | Walter DeLeon, Francis Martin and Ken Englund | ||
Big Fella | 1937 | Musical film | G. H. Clutsam and Will Grosz | Clutsam and Grosz | Ingram D'Abbes and Fenn Sherie | ||
Big Fish | 2013 | Broadway | Andrew Lippa | Lippa | John August | Based on the film of the same name. | |
The Big Gay Musical | 2009 | Musical film | Rick Crom | Crom | Fred M. Caruso | ||
Big River | 1985 | Broadway | Roger Miller | Miller | William Hauptman | ||
Billboard Girl | 1932 | Musical film | Lewis R. Foster, Harry McCoy, Earle Rodney and John A. Waldron | ||||
Billie | 1928 | Broadway | George M. Cohan | Cohan | Cohan | ||
Billie | 1965 | Musical film | Dominic Frontiere | Frontiere | Ronald Alexander | ||
Billion Dollar Baby | 1945 | Broadway | Morton Gould | Betty Comden and Adolph Green | Comden and Green | ||
Billy | 1974 | West End | John Barry | Don Black | Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais | ||
Billy Elliot the Musical | 2004 | West End Broadway |
Elton John | Lee Hall | Hall | ||
The Billy Barnes Revue | 1959 | Off-Broadway revue | Billy Barnes | Barnes | Bob Rodgers | ||
Billy Noname | 1970 | Off-Broadway | Johnny Brandon | Brandon | William Wellington Mackey | ||
The Bing Boys Are Here | 1916 | West End revue | Nat D. Ayer | Clifford Grey | George Grossmith, Jr. and Fred Thompson | ||
The Bing Boys on Broadway | 1918 | West End revue | Nat D. Ayer | Clifford Grey | George Grossmith, Jr. and Fred Thompson | ||
The Bing Girls Are There | 1917 | West End revue | Nat D. Ayer | Clifford Grey | George Grossmith, Jr. and Fred Thompson | ||
The Biograph Girl | 1980 | West End | David Heneker | Heneker and Warner Brown | Brown | ||
Birds of Paradise | 1987 | Off-Broadway | David Evans | Winnie Holzman | Evans and Holzman | ||
Bitter Sweet | 1929 | West End operetta | Noël Coward | Coward | Coward | ||
Black and Blue | 1985 | French musical revue | Various artists | Various artists | N/A | ||
The Black Crook | 1866 | Broadway | Thomas Baker, Giuseppe Operti and George Bickwell | Theodore Kennick | Charles M. Barras | ||
Blackbirds of 1928 | 1928 | Broadway revue | Jimmy McHugh | Dorothy Fields | N/A | Notable song: "Doin' the New Low-Down". | |
The Black Rider | 1990 | German musical | Tom Waits | Waits | William S. Burroughs | ||
Das Blaue Vom Himmel | 1932 | Musical film | Paul Abraham | Abraham | Max Kolpé and Billy Wilder | ||
Bleach | 2005 | Japanese anime musical | Shoichi Tama | Naoshi Okumura | Okumura | ||
Bless the Bride | 1947 | West End | Vivian Ellis | A. P. Herbert | Herbert | ||
Bless You All | 1950 | Broadway revue | Harold Rome | Rome | N/A | ||
Blitz! | 1962 | West End | Lionel Bart | Bart | Bart and Joan Maitland | ||
The Blonde in Black | 1903 | Broadway | Gustav Kerker | Harry B. Smith | Smith | ||
Die Blonde Nachtigall | 1930 | Musical film | Willy Kollo and Otto Stransky | Kollo and Stransky | Walter Schlee and Walter Wassermann | ||
Blondel | 1983 | West End | Stephen Oliver | Tim Rice | Rice | ||
Ein blonder Traum | 1932 | Musical film | Werner R. Heymann | Heymann | Walter Reisch and Billy Wilder | ||
Blondie Goes Latin | 1941 | Musical film | Leo Arnaud | Arnaud | Karen DeWolf and Richard Flournoy | ||
Blood Brothers | 1983 | West End | Willy Russell | Russell | Russell | Notable songs: "Marilyn Monroe" and "Tell Me It's Not True". | |
Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson | 2008 | Off-Broadway | Michael Friedman | Friedman | Alex Timbers | ||
Bloomer Girl | 1944 | Broadway | Harold Arlen | E. Y. Harburg | Sig Herzig and Fred Saidy | ||
Blossom Time | 1921 | Austrian operetta | Franz Schubert | Alfred Maria Willner and Heinz Reichert | Willner and Reichert | ||
The Blue Angel | 1930 | Musical film | Friedrich Hollaender | Robert Liebmann | Heinrich Mann | ||
Bluebell in Fairyland | 1901 | West End | Walter Slaughter | Aubrey Hopwood and Charles H. Taylor | Seymour Hicks | ||
Blue Hawaii | 1961 | Musical film | Joseph J. Lilley | Lilley | Allan Weiss | ||
Blue Holiday | 1945 | Broadway revue | Al Moritz | Mortiz | N/A | ||
The Blue Kitten | 1922 | Broadway | Rudolf Friml | Otto Harbach and William Carey Duncan | Harbach and Duncan | ||
The Blue Mazurka | 1927 | West End operetta | Franz Lehár | Leo Stein and Bela Jenbach | Stein and Jenbach | ||
Blue of the Night | 1933 | Musical film | Various artists | Various artists | |||
The Blue Paradise | 1915 | Broadway | Edmund Eysler and Sigmund Romberg | Herbert Reynolds | Edgar Smith | ||
Blue Rhythm | 1931 | Musical film | W. C. Handy | Handy | |||
Blue Skies | 1946 | Musical film | Irving Berlin | Berlin | Berlin | ||
Blues in the Night | 1941 | Musical film | Heinz Roemheld | Roemheld | Edwin Gilbert, Elia Kazan and Robert Rossen | ||
Blues in the Night | 1982 | Off-Broadway revue | Various artists | Various artists | N/A | ||
Boccaccio | 1936 | Musical film | Franz Doelle | Doelle | Emil Burri and Walter Forster | ||
The Body Beautiful | 1958 | Broadway | Jerry Bock | Sheldon Harnick | Joseph Stein and Will Glickman | ||
The Bodyguard
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2012 | West End Jukebox musical | Various artists | Various artists | Alexander Dinelaris | Based on the film of the same name. | |
The Bohemian Girl | 1843 | West End opera | Michael William Balfe | Alfred Bunn | Balfe | ||
Bombay Dreams | 2002 | West End | A. R. Rahman | Don Black | Meera Syal and Thomas Meehan | ||
Bombo | 1921 | Broadway | Sigmund Romberg | Harold R. Atteridge | Atteridge | ||
Bonnie and Clyde | 2009 | Off-Broadway | Frank Wildhorn | Don Black | Ivan Menchell | ||
Boobs! The Musical | 2003 | Off-Broadway | Ruth Wallis | Wallis | Steve Mackes and Michael Whaley | ||
Boogie Nights | 1998 | West End | Various artists | Various artists | Jon Conway | ||
The Book of Mormon | 2011 | Broadway | Robert Lopez, Trey Parker and Matt Stone | Lopez, Parker and Stone | Lopez, Parker and Stone | ||
Boots and Saddles | 1937 | Musical film | Raoul Kraushaar | Kraushaar | Jack Natteford | ||
Boots! Boots! | 1934 | Musical film | Jack Cottrell and George Formby | ||||
Born to Dance | 1936 | Musical film | Cole Porter | Porter | Jack McGowan and Sid Silvers | Notable song: "I've Got You Under My Skin". | |
Bottoms Up | 1934 | Musical film | Howard Jackson | Jackson | David Buster, Buddy DeSylva and Sid Silvers | ||
Boy Meets Boy | 1975 | Off-Broadway | Bill Solly | Solly | Solly and Donald Ward | ||
The Boy Friend | 1954 | West End | Sandy Wilson | Wilson | Wilson | ||
The Boy from Oz | 2003 | Broadway | Peter Allen | Allen | Nick Enright and Martin Sherman | ||
The Boy Who Heard Music | 2007 | Workshop | Pete Townshend and Rachel Fuller | Townshend and Fuller | Townshend | Adaptation of The Who's rock opera Wire and Glass. | |
The Boys from Syracuse | 1938 | Broadway | Richard Rodgers | Lorenz Hart | George Abbott | Notable songs: "Falling in Love with Love" and "This Can't Be Love". | |
Bran Nue Dae | 1990 | Australian musical | Jimmy Chi and Kuckles | Chi and Kuckles | Chi and Kuckles | ||
Bravo Giovanni | 1962 | Broadway | Milton Schafer | Ronny Graham | A. J. Russell | ||
Breakfast at Tiffany's | 1966 | Broadway | Bob Merrill | Merrill | Edward Albee | Aimed at Broadway but closed during previews. | |
Brewster's Millions | 1935 | Musical film | Marr Mackie | Mackie | Arthur Wimperis | ||
The Bridges of Madison County | 2014 | Broadway | Jason Robert Brown | Brown | Marsha Norman | Based on the novel of the same name. | |
Brigadoon | 1947 | Broadway | Frederick Loewe | Alan Jay Lerner | Lerner | Notable song: "Almost Like Being in Love". | |
Bright Eyes | 1934 | Musical film | Richard A. Whiting and Samuel Kaylin | Whiting and Kaylin | William Conselman | ||
Bright Lights, Big City | 2004 | Off-Broadway | Paul Scott Goodman | Goodman | Goodman | ||
Bright Lights of 1944 | 1943 | Broadway revue | Jerry Livingston | Mack David | Norman Anthony and Charles Sherman | ||
Bring Back Birdie | 1981 | Broadway | Charles Strouse | Lee Adams | Michael Stewart | A sequel to Bye Bye Birdie. | |
Bring in 'da Noise, Bring in 'da Funk | 1996 | Broadway revue | Daryl Waters, Zane Mark and Ann Duquesnay | Reg E. Gaines, George C. Wolfe and Duquesnay | Gaines | ||
Bring It On | 2012 | Broadway | Lin-Manuel Miranda and Tom Kitt | Amanda Green and Miranda | Jeff Whitty | Based on the 2000 film. | |
Bring on the Girls | 1945 | Musical film | Robert E. Dolan | Dolan | Karl Tunberg, Darrell Ware and Pierre Wolff | ||
Bring Your Smile Along | 1955 | Musical film | Paul Mason Howard | Howard | Blake Edwards and Richard Quine | ||
Britannia of Billingsgate | 1933 | Musical film | Various artists | Various artists | Christine Jope-Slade and Sewell Stokes | ||
Broadway Gondolier | 1935 | Musical film | Heinz Roemheld | Roemheld | Sig Herzig, Yip Harburg and Hanns Kräly | ||
Broadway Hostess | 1935 | Musical film | Ray Heindorf and Heinz Roemheld | Heindorf and Roemheld | George Bricker | ||
The Broadway Melody | 1929 | Musical film | Nacio Herb Brown, George M. Cohan and Willard Robison | Brown, Cohan and Robison | Edmund Goulding, Norman Houston and James Gleason | ||
Broadway Melody of 1936 | 1935 | Musical film | Nacio Herb Brown | Brown | Harry W. Conn, Moss Hart, Jack McGowan and Sid Silvers | ||
Broadway Melody of 1938 | 1937 | Musical film | Nacio Herb Brown | Arthur Freed | Jack McGowan | ||
Broadway Melody of 1940 | 1940 | Musical film | Cole Porter, Roger Edens and Walter Ruick | Porter, Edens and Ruick | Jack McGowan and Dore Schary | ||
Broadway Through a Keyhole | 1933 | Musical film | Alfred Newman | Newman | C. Graham Baker and Gene Towne | ||
Brooklyn | 2004 | Broadway | Mark Schoenfeld and Barri McPherson | Schoenfeld and McPherson | Schoenfeld and McPherson | ||
A Broken Idol | 1909 | Broadway | Egbert Van Alstyne | Harry Williams | Hal Stephens | ||
Bronx Bombers | 2014 | Broadway | Lindsay Jones | Eric Simonson | Simonson | ||
Bubbling Brown Sugar | 1976 | Broadway revue | Various artists | Various artists | Loften Mitchell | ||
Buck Benny Rides Again | 1940 | Musical film | Victor Young | Young | Arthur Stinger, Edmund Beloin and William Morrow | ||
Buck Privates | 1941 | Musical film | Charles Previn | Previn | Arthur T. Horman | ||
Buddies | 1919 | Broadway | B. C. Hilliam | Hilliam | George V. Hobart | ||
Buddy – The Buddy Holly Story | 1989 | West End Jukebox musical | Various artists | Various artists | N/A | ||
Bugs Bunny on Broadway | 1990 | Broadway | Carl Stalling and Milt Franklyn | Stalling and Franklyn | George Daugherty | Based on the TV series Looney Tunes. | |
Bugsy Malone | 1976 | Musical film | Paul Williams | Williams | Alan Parker | Notable songs: "Fat Sam's Grand Slam" and "So You Wanna Be a Boxer?". | |
Bullets Over Broadway | 2014 | Broadway revue | Various artists | Various artists | Woody Allen | Based on the film of the same name. | |
Bundle of Joy | 1956 | Musical film | Robert Carson, Norman Krasna, Arthur Sheekman and Felix Jackson | ||||
Bus Stop | 1956 | Musical film | Ken Darby, Cyril J. Mockridge, Alfred Newman and Lionel Newman | Darby, Mockridge, Newman and Newman | George Axelrod and William Inge | ||
By Jeeves | 1975 | West End | Andrew Lloyd Webber | Alan Ayckbourn | Lloyd Webber and Ayckbourn | ||
By Jupiter | 1942 | Broadway | Richard Rodgers | Lorenz Hart | Rodgers and Hart | Based on The Warrior's Husband by Julian F. Thompson. | |
By the Beautiful Sea | 1954 | Broadway | Arthur Schwartz | Dorothy Fields | Herbert Fields and Fields | ||
By the Light of the Silvery Moon | 1953 | Musical film | Gus Edwards and Max Steiner | Edwards and Steiner | Booth Tarkington | ||
By the Way | 1925 | Off-Broadway revue | Vivian Ellis | Graham John | N/A | ||
Bye Bye Birdie | 1960 | Broadway | Charles Strouse | Lee Adams | Michael Stewart | Notable songs: "A Lot of Livin' to Do", "Kids" and "Put On a Happy Face". |
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Production | Year | Venue/Type | Music | Lyrics | Book | Notes |
Cab Calloway's Hi-De-Ho | 1933 | Musical film | Cab Calloway | Calloway | Milton Hockey and Fred Rath | |
Cabalgata | 1949 | Broadway revue | Ramon Bastida | Bastida | N/A | |
Cabaret
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1966 | Broadway | John Kander | Fred Ebb | Joe Masteroff | Notable songs: "Cabaret", "Maybe This Time" and "Willkommen". |
Cabin in the Sky
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1940 | Broadway | Vernon Duke | John La Touche. | Lynn Root | |
The Caddy | 1953 | Musical film | Joseph J. Lilley | Lilley | Danny Arnold and Edmund Hartmann | |
La Cage aux Folles | 1983 | Broadway | Jerry Herman | Herman | Harvey Fierstein | Notable song: "I Am What I Am". |
Calamity Jane | 1953 | Musical film | Sammy Fain | Paul Francis Webster | James O'Hanlon | Notable song: "Secret Love". |
Call Me Madam
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1950 | Broadway | Irving Berlin | Berlin | Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse | Star vehicle for Ethel Merman. |
Call Me Mister | 1946 | Broadway revue | Harold Rome | Rome | N/A | |
Call of the Flesh | 1930 | Musical film | William Axt | Axt | John Colton and Dorothy Farnum | |
Calypso Heat Wave | 1957 | Musical film | Arthur Morton | Morton | David Chandler | |
Camelot
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1960 | Broadway | Frederick Loewe | Alan Jay Lerner | Lerner | Notable songs: "Camelot", "If Ever I Would Leave You", "I Loved You Once in Silence" and "The Lusty Month of May". |
Camp | 2003 | Musical film | Various artists | Various artists | Todd Graff | |
Can-Can
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1953 | Broadway | Cole Porter | Porter | Abe Burrows | Notable song: "I Am in Love". |
Candide | 1956 | Broadway | Leonard Bernstein | Richard Wilbur | Lillian Hellman | Notable song: "Glitter and Be Gay". |
The Candy Shop | 1909 | Broadway | John L. Golden | Golden | George V. Hobart | |
Cannibal! The Musical | 1993 | Musical film | Trey Parker and Rich Sanders | Parker and Sanders | Parker | Originally known as Alferd Packer: The Musical. |
Can't Help Singing | 1944 | Musical film | Jerome Kern | E. Y. Harburg | Lewis R. Foster and Frank Ryan | |
Canticle of the Plains | 1997 | Concept album | Rich Mullins, Mitch McVicker and Beaker | Mullins, McVicker and Beaker | N/A | |
Canterbury Tales | 1968 | West End | John Hawkins and Richard Hill | Nevill Coghill | Martin Starkie and Coghill | |
Can't Stop the Music | 1980 | Musical film | Various artists | Various artists | Allan Carr and Bronte Woodard | Starred the Village People, Steve Guttenberg, Valerie Perrine and Bruce Jenner. |
The Capeman | 1998 | Broadway | Paul Simon | Simon and Derek Walcott | Simon and Walcott | |
Le capitaine Craddock | 1931 | Musical film | Werner R. Heymann | Heymann | Hans Müller | |
El Capitan | 1896 | Broadway | John Philip Sousa | Charles Klein and Tom Frost | Klein | |
Captain January | 1936 | Musical film | Lew Pollack | Pollack | Sam Hellman, Gladys Lehman and Harry Tugend | |
Captain Jinks | 1925 | Broadway | Lewis E. Gensler and Stephen Jones | B.G. DeSylva and Laurence Schwab | Frank Mandel | |
Captain Louie | 1988 | Off-Broadway | Stephen Schwartz | Schwartz | Anthony Stein | |
Captain of the Guard | 1930 | Musical film | Charles Wakefield Cadman | Cadman | Houston Branch | |
The Card | 1973 | West End | Tony Hatch and Jackie Trent | Hatch and Trent | Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall | |
Carefree | 1938 | Musical film | Irving Berlin | Berlin | Allan Scott and Ernest Pagano | Starred Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. |
Carib Song | 1945 | Broadway | Baldwin Bergersen | William Archibald | Archibald | |
Carmelina | 1979 | Broadway | Burton Lane | Alan Jay Lerner | Joseph Stein and Lerner | |
Carmen | 2007 | Czech musical | Frank Wildhorn | Jack Murphy | Norman Allen | |
Carmen Cubana | 2006 | Austrian musical | Martin Gellner and Werner Stranka | Kim Duddy, Gellner and Stranka | Duddy | |
Carmen Jones | 1943 | Broadway | Georges Bizet | Oscar Hammerstein II | Hammerstein II | Featured the music from the opera Carmen. |
Carnival! | 1961 | Broadway | Bob Merrill | Merrill | Michael Stewart | Notable song: "Love Makes the World Go 'Round". |
Carnival in Flanders | 1953 | Broadway | Jimmy Van Heusen | Johnny Burke | Preston Sturges | Notable song: "Here's That Rainy Day". |
Carolina Blues | 1944 | Musical film | George Duning | Duning | Joseph Hoffman and Al Martin | |
Caroline, or Change | 2004 | Broadway | Jeanine Tesori | Tony Kushner | Kushner | |
Carousel
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1945 | Broadway | Richard Rodgers | Oscar Hammerstein II | Hammerstein II | Notable songs: "Soliloquy", "You'll Never Walk Alone" and "If I Loved You". |
Carrie | 1988 | Broadway | Michael Gore | Dean Pitchford | Lawrence D. Cohen | |
Casbah | 1948 | Musical film | Harold Arlen | Leo Robin | Leslie Bush-Fekete | |
The Casino Girl | 1900 | Broadway | Various artists | Various artists | Harry B. Smith | |
Castles in the Air | 1926 | Broadway | Percy Wenrich | Raymond W. Peck | Peck | |
The Cat and the Fiddle | 1931 | Broadway | Jerome Kern | Otto Harbach | Harbach | |
The Catch of the Season | 1904 | West End | Herbert Haines and Evelyn Baker | Charles H. Taylor | Seymour Hicks and Cosmo Hamilton | |
Catch Me If You Can | 2009 | Broadway | Mark Shaiman | Scott Wittman and Shaiman | Terrence McNally | Notable song: "Live in Living Color". |
A Catered Affair | 2008 | Broadway | John Bucchino | Bucchino | Harvey Fierstein | |
Cats
|
1981 | West End Broadway |
Andrew Lloyd Webber | T. S. Eliot | Trevor Nunn | Notable songs: "Memory", "Mr. Mistoffelees" and "Macavity: The Mystery Cat". |
Cats Don't Dance | 1997 | Musical Animated film | Randy Newman | Newman | Roberts Gannaway, Cliff Ruby and Elana Lesser | |
Celebration | 1969 | Broadway | Harvey Schmidt | Tom Jones | Jones | |
Centennial Summer | 1946 | Musical film | Jerome Kern | Oscar Hammerstein II | Michael Kanin | |
The Century Girl | 1916 | Broadway revue | Victor Herbert and Irving Berlin | Berlin and Henry Blossom | N/A | |
Champagne Charlie | 1944 | Musical film | Billy Mayerl | Lord Berners | John Dighton, Angus MacPhail and Austin Melford | Notable song: "Champagne Charlie". |
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory | 2013 | West End | Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman | Shaiman and Wittman | David Greig | |
Charlie Girl | 1965 | West End | David Heneker and John Taylor | Heneker and Taylor | Hugh Williams, Margaret Vyner and Ray Cooney | |
Charlotte's Web | 1973 | Musical Animated film | Robert B. Sherman and Richard M. Sherman | Sherman and Sherman | Earl Hamner Jr. | |
Charlotte Sweet | 1982 | Off-Broadway | Gerald Jay Markoe | Michael Colby | Colby | |
Chasing Rainbows | 1930 | Musical film | Milton Ager | Jack Yellen | Al Boasberg and Robert E. Hopkins | Notable song: "Happy Days Are Here Again". |
Chee-Chee | 1928 | Broadway | Richard Rodgers | Lorenz Hart | Lew M. Fields | |
The Cheetah Girls | 2003 | Musical film | John Van Tongeren and Mark Mothersbaugh | N/A | Notable songs: "Cinderella", "Girl Power" and "Cheetah Sisters". | |
The Cheetah Girls 2 | 2006 | Musical film | N/A | Notable songs: "The Party's Just Begun", "Strut", "Step Up" and "Amigas Cheetahs". | ||
The Cheetah Girls: One World | 2008 | Musical film | David Nessim Lawrence | N/A | Notable songs: "Cheetah Love" and "One World". | |
Chess | 1986 | West End Broadway |
Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus | Tim Rice and Ulvaeus | Richard Nelson | Notable songs: "One Night in Bangkok" and "I Know Him So Well". |
Chicago
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1975 | Broadway | John Kander | Fred Ebb | Ebb and Bob Fosse | Notable songs: "All That Jazz", "Cell Block Tango", "Mr. Cellophane" and "We Both Reached for the Gun". |
Children of Eden | 1991 | West End | Stephen Schwartz | Schwartz | John Caird | Notable song: "The Spark of Creation". |
Children's Letters to God | 2004 | Off-Broadway | David Evans | Douglas J. Cohen | Stoo Hample | |
Chin-Chin | 1914 | Broadway | Ivan Caryll | Anne Caldwell and James O'Dea | Caldwell and R. H. Burnside | |
A Chinese Honeymoon | 1899 | West End | Howard Talbot and Ivan Caryll | Harry Greenbank | George Dance | |
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
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2004 | West End Broadway |
Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman | Sherman and Sherman | Jeremy Sams | Based on the film of the same name. |
The Chocolate Dandies | 1924 | Broadway | Eubie Blake | Noble Sissle | Sissle and Lew Payton | |
The Chocolate Soldier | 1908 | German musical | Oscar Straus | Stanislaus Stange | Rudolf Bernauer and Leopold Jacobson | |
A Chorus Line
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1975 | Broadway | Marvin Hamlisch | Edward Kleban | James Kirkwood, Jr. and Nicholas Dante | Notable songs: "What I Did for Love" and "One". |
Chris and the Wonderful Lamp | 1900 | Broadway | John Philip Sousa | Glen MacDonough | MacDonough | |
Christine | 1960 | Broadway | Sammy Fain | Paul Francis Webster | Pearl S. Buck and Charles K. Peck, Jr. | |
A Christmas Carol
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1995 | Off-Broadway | Alan Menken | Lynn Ahrens | Mike Ockrent and Ahrens | |
The Christmas Schooner | 1995 | Off-Off-Broadway | Julie Shannon | Shannon | John Reeger | |
Chronicle of a Death Foretold | 1995 | Broadway | Bob Telson | Graciela Daniele, Jim Lewis and Michael John LaChiusa | Daniele, Lewis and LaChiusa | |
Chu Chin Chow
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1916 | West End | Frederic Norton | Norton | Oscar Asche | |
Church Basement Ladies | 2005 | Off-Off-Broadway | Drew Jansen | Jansen | Jim Stowell and Jessica Zuehlke | |
Cinderella | 1950 | Musical Animated film | Mack David, Al Hoffman and Jerry Livingston | David, Hoffman and Livingston | Various writers | Notable songs: "A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes" and "Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo". |
Cinderella |
2013 | Broadway | Richard Rodgers | Oscar Hammerstein II | Hammerstein II and Douglas Carter Beane | Based on the original 1957 television special. Notable songs: "In My Own Little Corner" and "Ten Minutes Ago". |
Cindy | 1964 | Off-Broadway | Johnny Brandon | Brandon | Joe Sauter and Mike Sawyer | |
Cindy: Cendrillon 2002 | 2002 | French musical | Romano Musumarra | Musumarra | Luc Plamondon | |
The Cingalee | 1904 | West End | Lionel Monckton and Paul Rubens | Adrian Ross and Percy Greenbank | James T. Tanner | |
City of Angels | 1989 | Broadway | Cy Coleman | David Zippel | Larry Gelbart | Notable songs: "You're Nothing Without Me" and "Funny". |
The Civil War | 1999 | Broadway | Frank Wildhorn | Jack Murphy | Gregory Boyd and Wildhorn | Notable song: "Tell My Father". |
Clambake | 1967 | Musical film | Various artists | Various artists | Arthur Browne Jr. | |
A Class Act | 2001 | Broadway | Edward Kleban | Kleban | Linda Kline and Lonny Price | |
Cleavage | 1982 | Broadway revue | Buddy Sheffield | Sheffield | Sheffield and David Sheffield | |
Close Harmony | 1929 | Musical film | Richard A. Whiting | Leo Robin | Elsie Janis and Gene Markey | |
Closer Than Ever | 1989 | Off-Broadway revue | David Shire | Richard Maltby, Jr. | N/A | |
Closer to Heaven | 2001 | West End | Pet Shop Boys | Pet Shop Boys | Jonathan Harvey | |
Clue | 1997 | Off-Broadway | Galen Blum, Wayne Barker and Vinnie Martucci | Tom Chiodo | Peter DePietro | |
Coco | 1969 | Broadway | André Previn | Alan Jay Lerner | Lerner | Star vehicle for Katharine Hepburn. |
The Cocoanut Grove | 1938 | Musical film | John Leipold | Leo Shuken | Sy Bartlett and Olive Cooper | |
The Cocoanuts
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1925 | Broadway | Irving Berlin | Berlin | George S. Kaufman | |
Colleen | 1936 | Musical film | Harry Warren | Al Dubin | Robert Lord | |
College Humor | 1933 | Musical film | Arthur Johnston | Sam Coslow | Claude Binyon and Frank Butler | |
Colma: The Musical | 2007 | Musical film | H.P. Mendoza | Mendoza | Mendoza | |
The Color Purple | 2005 | Broadway | Brenda Russell, Allee Willis and Stephen Bray | Russell, Willis and Bray | Marsha Norman | Notable song: "I'm Here". |
Come Summer | 1969 | Broadway | David Baker | Will Holt | Holt | |
Comin' Round the Mountain | 1951 | Musical film | Joseph Gershenson | Gershenson | Robert Lees and Frederic Riedel | |
Company | 1970 | Broadway | Stephen Sondheim | Sondheim | George Furth | Notable songs: "The Ladies Who Lunch" and "Being Alive". |
Coney Island | 1943 | Musical film | Ralph Rainger | Leo Robin | George Seaton | |
A Connecticut Yankee | 1927 | Broadway | Richard Rodgers | Lorenz Hart | Herbert Fields | Notable song: "Thou Swell". |
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court | 1949 | Musical film | Jimmy Van Heusen | Johnny Burke | Edmund Beloin | |
The Conquering Hero | 1961 | Broadway | Mark Charlap | Norman Gimbel | Larry Gelbart | |
Contact | 2000 | Broadway | Various artists | Various artists | John Weidman | |
Conversation Piece | 1934 | West End | Noël Coward | Coward | Coward | |
The Co-Optimists
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1921 | West End revue | Various artists | Various artists | N/A | |
Copacabana | 1947 | Musical film | Edward Ward | Ward | László Vadnay, Allen Boretz and Howard Harris | |
Copacabana | 1994 | West End revue | Barry Manilow | Manilow | Manilo | |
Copper and Brass | 1957 | Broadway | David Baker | David Craig | Ellen Violett and Craig | |
Corpse Bride | 2005 | Musical Animated film | Danny Elfman | John August | August, Caroline Thompson and Pamela Pettler | |
Cotton Patch Gospel | 1988 | N/A | Harry Chapin | Chapin | Tom Key and Russell Treyz | |
The Count of Luxembourg | 1911 | West End | Franz Lehár | Basil Hood and Adrian Ross | Hood and Ross | |
Count To Ten | 2009 | Off-Broadway | Michael Blevins, Scott Knipe, Bruce Sakcs and David Wollenberger | Blevins and Beth Clary | Blevins and Clary | |
Countess Maritza | 1924 | German musical | Emmerich Kálmán | Harry B. Smith | Julius Brammer and Alfred Grünwald | |
The Court Jester | 1956 | Musical film | Sylvia Fine | Sammy Cahn | Melvin Frank and Norman Panama | |
Cover Girl | 1944 | Musical film | Jerome Kern | Ira Gershwin and E.Y. Harburg | Virginia Van Upp | |
Cowardy Custard | 1972 | West End revue | Noël Coward | Coward | Coward | |
Cowboy from Brooklyn | 1938 | Musical film | Leo F. Forbstein | Adolph Deutsch | Robert Sloane and Louis Pelletier | |
Coyote Tales | 1998 | Off-Broadway | Henry Mollicone | Sheldon Harnick | Harnick | |
The Cradle Will Rock | 1938 | Broadway | Marc Blitzstein | Blitzstein | Blitzstein | |
Cranks | 1956 | Broadway revue | John Addison | John Cranko | N/A | |
Crazy for You | 1992 | Broadway | George Gershwin | Ira Gershwin | Ken Ludwig | A revised version of Girl Crazy |
Cry-Baby
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2007 | Broadway | Adam Schlesinger | David Javerbaum | Mark O'Donnell and Thomas Meehan | Based on the 1990 film of the same name. |
Cry for Us All | 1970 | Broadway | Mitch Leigh | William Alfred and Phyllis Robinson | Alfred and Albert Marre | |
Cuban Love Song | 1931 | Musical film | Herbert Stothart | Stothart | C. Gardner Sullivan and Bess Meredyth | |
The Cuckoos | 1930 | Musical film | Harry Ruby | Ruby | Guy Bolton and Bert Kalmar | |
Curley McDimple | 1967 | Off-Broadway | Robert Dahdah | Dahdah | Dahdah and Mary Boylan | |
Curly Top | 1935 | Musical film | Ray Henderson | Ted Koehler | Patterson McNutt and Arthur J. Beckhard | |
Curtains | 2007 | Broadway | John Kander | Fred Ebb | Rupert Holmes | |
Cyrano | 1973 | Broadway | Michael J. Lewis | Anthony Burgess | Burgess | Based on Anthony Burgess's translation of the Edmond Rostand play Cyrano de Bergerac. |
Cyrano: The Musical | 1993 | Broadway | Ad van Dijk | Koen van Dijk, Peter Reeves and Sheldon Harnick | van Dijk | |
Children In The Playground | 2001 | Soon To Tour | Benjamin D. Smith | Smith | Based on book written by Benjamin D. Smith about the aftermath of September 11 |
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Production | Year | Venue/Type | Music | Lyrics | Book | Notes |
Falsettoland | 1990 | Off-Broadway | William Finn | Finn | James Lapine | Later become half of Falsettos. |
Falsettos | 1992 | Broadway | William Finn | Finn | James Lapine and Finn | |
Fame |
1988 | Off-Broadway | Steve Margoshes | Jacques Levy | Jose Fernandez | Based on the 1980 film version. |
Fancy Nancy the Musical | 2012 | Off-Broadway | Danny Abosch | Susan DiLallo and Abosch | DiLallo | |
Fanny | 1954 | Broadway | Harold Rome | Rome | S. N. Behrman and Joshua Logan | |
The Fantasticks | 1960 | Off-Broadway | Harvey Schmidt | Tom Jones | Jones | Notable songs: "Try to Remember" and "Soon It's Gonna Rain". |
Fellowship! | 2004 | Off-Broadway | Allen Simpson | Various | Kelly Holden-Bashar and Joel McCrary | A Tolkien parody. |
Fiddler on the Roof | 1964 | Broadway | Jerry Bock | Sheldon Harnick | Joseph Stein | Notable songs: "Tradition", "If I Were a Rich Man" and "Matchmaker, Matchmaker". |
The Fields of Ambrosia | 1996 | Canadian musical | Martin Silvestri | Joel Higgins | Higgins | Based on the 1970 film The Traveling Executioner. |
Finding Nemo – The Musical | 2007 | Disney musical | Robert Lopez | Kristen Anderson-Lopez | Peter Brosius | |
Fings Ain't Wot They Used T'Be | 1959 | West End | Lionel Bart | Bart | Frank Norman | |
Finian's Rainbow | 1947 | Broadway | Burton Lane | E. Y. Harburg | Harburg and Fred Saidy | Notable songs: "How are Things in Glocca Morra?" and "Old Devil Moon". |
Fiorello! | 1959 | Broadway | Jerry Bock | Sheldon Harnick | Jerome Weidman and George Abbott | Notable song: "Little Tin Box". |
First Date | 2013 | Broadway | Alan Zachary and Michael Weiner | Zachary and Weiner | Austin Winsberg | |
First Impressions | 1959 | Broadway | George Weiss, Robert Goldman and Glenn Paxton | Weiss, Goldman and Paxton | Abe Burrows | Based on Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice. |
First Lady Suite | 1993 | Off-Broadway | Michael John LaChiusa | |||
Five Guys Named Moe | 1990 | West End | Louis Jordan | Jordan | Clarke Peters | |
The Five O'Clock Girl | 1928 | Broadway | Harry Ruby | Bert Kalmar | Guy Bolton and Fred Thompson | |
The Fix | 1997 | West End | Dana P. Rowe | John Dempsey | John Dempsey | |
Flahooley | 1951 | Broadway | Sammy Fain | E.Y. Harburg | Harburg and Fred Saidy | |
Flashdance the Musical | 2008 | West End | Robbie Roth | Roth and Robert Cary | Tom Hedley and Cary | Based on the film Flashdance |
Flora the Red Menace | 1965 | Broadway | John Kander | Fred Ebb | George Abbott and Robert W. Russell | Noted for Broadway debut of Liza Minnelli. |
Florodora | 1899 | West End | Leslie Stuart and Paul Rubens | Rubens and Edward Boyd-Jones | Owen Hall | |
Flower Drum Song
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1958 | Broadway | Richard Rodgers | Oscar Hammerstein II | Hammerstein II and Joseph Fields | Notable songs: "I Enjoy Being a Girl" and "Love, Look Away". |
Floyd Collins | 1996 | Off-Broadway | Adam Guettel | Guettel and Tina Landau | Landau | |
Flying High | 1930 | Broadway | Ray Henderson | B. G. DeSylva and Lew Brown | Brown, DeSylva, and John McGowan | |
Follies | 1971 | Broadway | Stephen Sondheim | Sondheim | James Goldman | Notable songs: "Broadway Baby", "I'm Still Here" and "Losing My Mind". |
Follow That Girl | 1960 | West End | Julian Slade and Dorothy Reynolds | Slade and Reynolds | Slade and Reynolds | |
Follow the Boys | 1963 | Musical film | Various | Various | Lou Breslow and Gertrude Purcell | |
Follow the Girls | 1944 | Broadway | Phil Charig, Dan Shapiro and Milton Pascal | Charig, Shapiro and Pascal | Guy Bolton and Fred Thompson | |
Follow Thru | 1929 | Broadway | Ray Henderson | B. G. DeSylva and Lew Brown | DeSylva and Lawrence Schwab | |
Footloose |
1998 | Broadway | Tom Snow | Dean Pitchford | Pitchford and Walter Bobbie | Based on the 1984 film version. |
Forever Plaid | 1990 | Off-Broadway | Various | Various | Stuart Ross | |
Forbidden Zone | 1980 | Musical film | Danny Elfman | Elfman | Richard Elfman | |
Forbidden Broadway | 1982 | Off-Broadway revue | Various | Gerard Alessandrini | Alessandrini | |
Fosse | 1999 | Broadway revue | Various | Various | N/A | |
The Four Musketeers | 1967 | West End | Laurie Johnson | Herbert Kretzmera | Michael Pertwee | |
Foxy | 1964 | Broadway | Robert Emmett Dolan | Johnny Mercer | Ian McLellan Hunter and Ring Lardner Jr. | Based on Ben Jonson's play Volpone. |
Frankenstein – A New Musical | 2007 | Off-Broadway | Mark Baron | Jefferey Jackson | Jackson and Gary P Cohen | |
Free as Air | 1957 | West End | Julian Slade | Dorothy Reynolds and Slade | Reynolds and Slade | |
The Frogs | 2004 | Broadway | Stephen Sondheim | Sondheim | Burt Shevelove and Nathan Lane | Originally performed in Yale University's gymnasium's swimming pool in 1974. |
From Generation to Generation | 1996 | Off-Broadway | Karen Sokolof Javitch | Sokolof Javitch | Sokolof Javitch and Elaine Jabenis | |
From Here to Eternity | 2013 | West End | Stuart Brayson | Tim Rice | Bill Oakes | |
From Justin to Kelly | 2003 | Musical film | Greg Siff | Michael Wandmacher | Kim Fuller | |
Frozen | 2013 | Musical Animated film | Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez | Lopez and Anderson-Lopez | Jennifer Lee | Starred Idina Menzel, Kristen Bell, Jonathan Groff, Josh Gad and Santino Fontana. |
The Full Monty | 2000 | Broadway | David Yazbek | Yazbek | Terrence McNally | Based on the 1997 film version. |
Funny Face
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1927 | Broadway | George Gershwin | Ira Gershwin | Paul Gerard Smith and Fred Thompson | |
Funny Girl
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1964 | Broadway | Jule Styne | Bob Merrill | Isobel Lennart | Notable songs: "People" and "Don't Rain on My Parade". |
Funny Lady | 1975 | Musical film | John Kander | Fred Ebb | Jay Presson Allen and Arnold Schulman | |
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum | 1962 | Broadway | Stephen Sondheim | Sondheim | Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart | Notable song: "Comedy Tonight". |
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I and Albert | 1972 | West End | Charles Strouse | Lee Adams | Jay Presson Allen | |
I Can Get It for You Wholesale | 1962 | Broadway | Harold Rome | Rome | Jerome Weidman | |
I Can't Sing! The X Factor Musical | 2014 | West End | Steve Brown | Brown, Harry Hill | Hill | |
I Could Go on Singing | 1963 | Musical film | Harold Arlen | Arlen | Robert Dozier | |
I Do! I Do! | 1966 | Broadway | Harvey Schmidt | Tom Jones | Jones | |
I Don <3 u ne Mor | 2010 | Off-Broadway | Frank Grullon and Cathy Thomas | Daren Taylor | Taylor | |
I Love My Wife | 1977 | Broadway | Cy Coleman | Michael Stewart | Stewart | |
I Love You Because | 2006 | Off-Broadway | Joshua Salzman | Ryan Cunningham | Cunningham | |
I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change | 1996 | Off-Broadway | Jimmy Roberts | Joe DiPietro | DiPietro | |
I Married an Angel | 1938 | Broadway | Richard Rodgers | Lorenz Hart | Rodgers and Hart | |
Idol: The Musical | 2007 | Off-Broadway | Jon Balcourt | Balcourt | Todd Ellis | Based on the popular TV show American Idol. |
If/Then | 2014 | Broadway | Tom Kitt | Brian Yorkey | Yorkey | |
Illya Darling | 1967 | Broadway | Manos Hadjidakis | Joe Darion | Jules Dassin | |
Imagine Tap! | 2006 | Off-Broadway revue | Zane Mark | Crystal Joy | N/A | |
Imagine This | 2008 | West End | Shuki Levy | David Goldsmith | Glenn Berenbeim | |
The Immigrant | 2004 | Off-Broadway | Steven M. Alper | Sarah Knapp | Mark Harelik | Based on Harelik's play, The Immigrant. |
In Dahomey | 1903 | Broadway | Will Marion Cook | Paul Laurence Dunbar | Jesse A. Shipp | |
In the Heights | 2008 | Broadway | Lin-Manuel Miranda | Miranda | Quiara Alegría Hudes | |
In Trousers | 1979 | Off-Broadway | William Finn | Finn | Finn | |
Infertility: The Musical That's Hard to Conceive | 2007 | Off-Broadway | Chris Neuner | Neuner | Neuner | |
Into the Woods
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1987 | Broadway | Stephen Sondheim | Sondheim | James Lapine | Notable songs: "No One is Alone" and "Children Will Listen". |
Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem | 2003 | Animated musical film | Various artists | Various artists | Thomas Bangalter, Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, Cédric Hervet and Leiji Matsumoto | |
Irene | 1919 | Broadway | Harry Tierney | Joseph McCarthy | James Montgomery and Joseph Stein | |
Irma La Douce | 1956 | French musical | Marguerite Monnot | Alexandre Breffort | Breffort | |
Is there life after high school? | 1982 | Broadway | Craig Carnelia | Carnelia | Jeffrey Kindley | |
It Ain't Nothin' But the Blues | 1999 | Off-Broadway revue | Various artists | Various artists | Charles Bevel, Lita Gaithers, Randal Myler, Ron Taylor and Dan Wheetman |
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Kean | 1961 | Broadway | Robert Wright and George Forrest | Wright and Forrest | Peter Stone | |
Keating! | 2007 | Australian musical | Casey Bennetto | Bennetto | Bennetto | Portrays the political career of former Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating. |
Kelly | 1965 | Broadway | Mark Charlap | Eddie Lawrence | Lawrence | Never officially opened Broadway. |
The King and I
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1951 | Broadway | Richard Rodgers | Oscar Hammerstein II | Hammerstein II | Notable songs: "Shall We Dance", "I Whistle a Happy Tune" and "Getting to Know You". |
King David | 1997 | Broadway | Alan Menken | Tim Rice | Rice | |
Kinky Boots | 2013 | Broadway | Cyndi Lauper | Lauper | Harvey Fierstein | Based on the 2005 film version. |
Kismet | 1953 | Broadway | Alexander Borodin, Robert Wright and George Forrest | Wright and Forrest | Charles Lederer and Luther Davis | Notable song: "Stranger in Paradise". |
Kiss of the Spider Woman | 1993 | Broadway | John Kander | Fred Ebb | Terrence McNally | |
Kiss Me, Kate
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1948 | Broadway | Cole Porter | Porter | Samuel and Bella Spewack | Notable song: "Too Darn Hot". |
Kissing Time | 1919 | Broadway | Ivan Caryll | Guy Bolton and P. G. Wodehouse | Bolton and Wodehouse | |
Knickerbocker Holiday | 1938 | Broadway | Kurt Weill | Maxwell Anderson | Anderson | Notable songs: "September Song" and "It Never Was You". |
Kristina från Duvemåla | 1995 | Swedish musical | Benny Andersson | Björn Ulvaeus | Ulvaeus | |
A Kurt Weill Cabaret | 1963 | Off-Broadway | Kurt Weill | Various artists | N/A | |
Kronborg: 1582 | 1974 | Canadian musical | Cliff Jones | Jones | Jones | Based on William Shakespeare's Hamlet. |
Kwamina | 1961 | Broadway | Richard Adler | Adler | Robert Alan Aurthur |
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Labyrinth | 1986 | Musical film | David Bowie | Bowie | Terry Jones | |
Ladies First | 1918 | Broadway revue | A. Baldwin Sloane | Harry B. Smith | Smith | Featuring songs by James Brockmann and James Kendl. |
Lady and the Tramp | 1955 | Musical Animated film | Sonny Burke and Peggy Lee | Burke and Lee | Erdman Penner, Joe Rinaldi, Ralph Wright and Don DaGradi | Notable songs: "The Siamese Cat Song", "He's a Tramp" and "Bella Notte". |
Lady, Be Good | 1924 | Broadway | George Gershwin | Ira Gershwin | Guy Bolton and Fred Thompson | |
The Lady Comes Across | 1942 | Broadway | Vernon Duke | John La Touche | Fred Thompson and Dawn Powell | |
Lady in the Dark
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1941 | Broadway | Kurt Weill | Ira Gershwin | Moss Hart | Notable songs: "Tschaikowsky (and Other Russians)", "My Ship" and "The Saga of Jenny". |
La Révolution Française | 1973 | French musical | Claude-Michel Schönberg and Raymond Jeannot | Alain Boublil and Jean-Max Rivière | Boublil and Rivière | |
The Last Empress | 1995 | Korean musical | Kim Hee Gap | Yang In Ja and Georgina St George | Mun Yol Yi | |
The Last Five Years
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2003 | Off-Broadway | Jason Robert Brown | Brown | Brown | Notable songs: "Still Hurting" and "I Can Do Better Than That". |
The Last Session | 1997 | Off-Broadway | Steve Schalchlin | Schalchlin, John Bettis and Marie Cain | Jim Brochu | |
Laughing Room Only | 2003 | Broadway | Doug Katsaros | Katsaros | Dennis Blair and Digby Wolfe | |
Leader of the Pack | 1985 | Broadway revue | Ellie Greenwich | Various artists | Anne Beatts | |
Leben ohne Chris | 2009 | German musical | Wolfgang Böhmer | Peter Lund | Lund | |
Legally Blonde | 2007 | Broadway | Nell Benjamin and Laurence O'Keefe | Benjamin and O'Keefe | Heather Hach | Notable songs: "Omigod You Guys", "Ireland" and "So Much Better". |
Legs Diamond | 1989 | Broadway | Peter Allen | Allen | Harvey Fierstein and Charles Suppon | |
Lend Me a Tenor | 2011 | West End | Brad Carroll | Peter Sham | Sham | |
Lennon | 2005 | Broadway | John Lennon | Lennon | Don Scardino | |
Leonard Sillman's New Faces of 1952
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1952 | Broadway revue | Various artists | Various artists | N/A | Notable song: "Boston Beguine". |
Les Misérables | 1985 | West End | Claude-Michel Schönberg | Alain Boublil and Herbert Kretzmer | Schönberg, Boublil, Trevor Nunn and John Caird | Notable songs: "I Dreamed a Dream", "On My Own" and "Do You Hear the People Sing?". |
Lestat | 2006 | Broadway | Elton John | Bernie Taupin | Linda Woolverton | Based on the vampire novels of Anne Rice. |
Let It Ride | 1961 | Broadway | Jay Livingston and Ray Evans | Livingston and Evans | Abram S. Ginnes | |
Let My People Come | 1974 | Broadway | Earl Wilson, Jr. | Wilson, Jr. | Wilson, Jr. | |
Letters from Lehrer | 2006 | Canadian musical | Tom Lehrer | Lehrer | Richard Greenblatt | |
Die letzte Kommune | 2013 | German musical | Thomas Zaufke | Peter Lund | Lund | |
The Lieutenant | 1975 | Broadway | Gene Curty, Nitra Scharfman and Chuck Strand | Curty, Scharfman and Strand | Curty, Scharfman and Strand | |
The Life | 1997 | Broadway | Cy Coleman | Ira Gasman | David Newman, Gasman and Coleman | |
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby | 1980 | West End | Stephen Oliver | Oliver | David Edgar | |
Life Begins at 8:40 | 1934 | Broadway revue | Harold Arlen | Ira Gershwin and E.Y. Harburg | N/A | |
The Light in the Piazza | 2005 | Broadway | Adam Guettel | Guettel | Craig Lucas | |
The Light Princess | 2013 | Royal National Theatre | Tori Amos | Amos | Samuel Adamson | |
Liberty: The Siege of The Alamo | 2003 | Off-Off-Broadway | Bernard J. Taylor | Taylor | Taylor | |
The Likes of Us | 1965 | Off-West End | Andrew Lloyd Webber | Tim Rice | Leslie Thomas | |
Li'l Abner
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1956 | Broadway | Gene De Paul | Johnny Mercer | Norman Panama and Melvin Frank | |
The Lion King
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1997 | Broadway | Elton John | Tim Rice | Roger Allers and Irene Mecchi | Based on the film of the same name. Notable songs: "The Circle of Life", "Hakuna Matata" and "Can You Feel the Love Tonight". |
Little by Little | 1999 | Off-Broadway | Brad Ross | Ellen Greenfield and Hal Hackady | Annette Jolles and Greenfield | |
Little Fish | 2003 | Off-Broadway | Michael John LaChiusa | LaChiusa | LaChiusa | |
Little Ham | 1987 | Off-Broadway | Judd Woldin | Richard Engquist and Woldin | Dan Owens | |
Little Johnny Jones | 1904 | Broadway | George M. Cohan | Cohan | Cohan | |
Little Mary Sunshine | 1959 | Off-Broadway | Rick Besoyan | Besoyan | Besoyan | |
Little Me | 1962 | Broadway | Cy Coleman | Carolyn Leigh | Neil Simon | |
The Little Mermaid
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2008 | Broadway | Alan Menken | Glenn Slater and Howard Ashman | Doug Wright | Based on the film of the same name. Notable songs: "Part of Your World", "Kiss the Girl" and "Under the Sea". |
Little Miss Sunshine | 2013 | Off-Broadway | William Finn | Finn | James Lapine | Based on the film of the same name. |
Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland | 1993 | Musical Animated film | Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman | Sherman and Sherman | Chris Columbus and Richard Outten | |
A Little Night Music | 1973 | Broadway | Stephen Sondheim | Sondheim | Hugh Wheeler | Notable song: "Send in the Clowns". |
Little Shop of Horrors
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1982 | Broadway | Alan Menken | Howard Ashman | Ashman | Notable songs: "Suddenly, Seymour" and "Somewhere That's Green". |
Little Tramp | 1995 | Off-Off-Broadway | David Pomeranz | Pomeranz | Pomeranz and Steven David Horwich | |
Little Women | 2005 | Broadway | Jason Howland | Mindi Dickstein | Allan Knee | Notable song: "Astonishing". |
Lock Up Your Daughters | 1959 | West End | Laurie Johnson | Lionel Bart | Bernard Miles | |
London Calling! | 1923 | West End revue | Noël Coward | Coward | André Charlot | |
London Road | 2011 | Royal National Theatre | Adam Cork | Alecky Blythe | Blythe | |
Lone Star Love | 2004 | Off-Broadway | Jack Herrick | Herrick | John L. Haber and Robert Horn | |
Look to the Lilies | 1970 | Broadway | Jule Styne | Sammy Cahn | Leonard Spigelgass | |
The Lord of the Rings | 2007 | West End | A. R. Rahman, Värttinä and Christopher Nightingale | Matthew Warchus and Shaun McKenna | Warchus and McKenna | Based on the books by J. R. R. Tolkien. |
Loserville | 2012 | West End | James Bourne and Elliot Davis | Bourne and David | Based on the Son of Dork album Welcome to Loserville. | |
Lost in the Stars
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1949 | Broadway | Kurt Weill | Maxwell Anderson | Anderson | |
Louisiana Purchase
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1940 | Broadway | Irving Berlin | Berlin | Morrie Ryskind | |
Love! at the Cafe! | 1993 | Off-Broadway | Karen Sokolof Javitch | Javitch and James Spicer Conant | Conant | |
Love from Judy | 1952 | West End | Hugh Martin | Martin and Timothy Gray | Eric Maschwitz and Jean Webster | |
Love, Janis | 2001 | Off-Broadway revue | Various artists | Various artists | N/A | |
Love Life | 1948 | Broadway | Kurt Weill | Alan Jay Lerner | Lerner | |
LoveMusik | 2007 | Broadway | Kurt Weill | Various artists | Alfred Uhry | |
Love Never Dies | 2010 | West End | Andrew Lloyd Webber | Glenn Slater | Ben Elton | Sequel to the Lloyd Webber musical The Phantom of the Opera. |
Love Story | 2010 | West End | Howard Goodall | Goodall and Stephen Clark | Clark | |
Lucky Stiff | 1988 | Off-Broadway | Stephen Flaherty | Lynn Ahrens | Ahrens | Based on a novel by Mike Butterworth. |
Ludwig II | 2000 | German musical | Franz Hummel | Stephan Barbarino | Barbarino | |
Lust 'n Rust | 2001 | Off-Off-Broadway | Frank Haney, Carol Kimball and Dave Stratton | Haney, Kimball and Stratton | Haney, Kimball and Stratton |
See List of musicals: M to Z for additional titles.