List of musicals: A to L
This is a list of musicals, including Broadway, Off-Broadway, and West End musicals, as well as film and television musicals, whose titles fall into the A–L alphabetic range. This is not a complete list of musicals, and is limited to musicals that have their own articles on the English-language Wikipedia.
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Production | Year | Venue/type | Music | Lyrics | Book | Notes | Reference |
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8 femmes | 2002 | French film | Various artists | Various artists | Based on the 1958 play of the same name by Robert Thomas. Directed by François Ozon, written by Ozon and Marina de Van. | [1] | |
9 to 5 | 2009 | Broadway | Dolly Parton | Dolly Parton | Patricia Resnick | Based on the 1980 film. | [2] |
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+ film (2022)
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2008 | Broadway | Jason Robert Brown | Brown | Dan Elish and Robert Horn | The only Broadway musical ever with a cast and band entirely made of teenagers. | [3] |
21 Chump Street | 2014 | Off-Broadway | Lin-Manuel Miranda | Miranda | Miranda | 14-minute musical based on a true story told on This American Life. | [4] |
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee | 2005 | Off-Broadway and Broadway | William Finn | Finn | Rachel Sheinkin | Performances were partially improvised and featured audience participation (during spelling-bee sequences). Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical for Dan Fogler and Best Book of a Musical for Sheinkin.
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[5] |
42nd Street | 1933 | Film | Harry Warren | Al Dubin | Based on Bradford Ropes' novel of the same name. Directed by Lloyd Bacon and Busby Berkeley, written by Rian James and James Seymour. | [6] | |
42nd Street | 1980 | Broadway | Harry Warren | Al Dubin and Johnny Mercer | Michael Stewart and Mark Bramble | Based on the 1933 film. | [7] |
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 and primarily starring cast members who are 70 years of age and older. | [8] |
101 Dalmatians | 2022 | West End | Douglas Hodge | Douglas Hodge | Johnny McKnight and Zinnie Harris | The Hundred and One Dalmatians by Dodie Smith | [9] |
110 in the Shade | 1963 | Broadway | Harvey Schmidt | Tom Jones
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N. Richard Nash | Based on Nash's 1954 play, The Rainmaker. | [10] |
1492 Up to Date | 1893 | Broadway | Carl Pflueger | R. A. Barnet
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Barnet | A burlesque show. | [11] |
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue | 1976 | Broadway | Leonard Bernstein | Alan Jay Lerner | Lerner | Examination of the occupants of the White House, which ran for only 7 performances. | [12] |
1776+ film (1972) | 1969 | Broadway | Sherman Edwards | Edwards | Peter Stone | Based on the events leading up to the signing of the Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical for Ron Holgate and Best Direction of a Musical for Peter Hunt. William Daniels, who starred as John Adams, was nominated for Best Featured Actor but declined the nomination in protest, for being ruled ineligible for Best Actor due to his name not being above the title of the show.
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1789: Les Amants de la Bastille | 2012 | French | 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. | [14] |
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Production | Year | Venue/type | Music | Lyrics | Book | Notes | Reference |
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A... My Name Is Alice | 1984 | Off-Broadway | David Zippel, Winnie Holzman and Lucy Simon | Zippel, Holzman and Simon | Joan Micklin Silver and Julianne Boyd | Revue with an all-female cast. Revised versions staged as ''A... My Name Is Still Alice in 1992 and A... My Name Will Always Be Alice in 1995 . | [15] |
Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick | 1952 | Film | Ray Evans and Jay Livingston | Evans and Livingston | Based on the 1919 play by Walter Benjamin Hare. Directed and written by Claude Binyon. | [16] | |
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1983 | French television | Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus | Alain Boublil and Daniel Boublil (French production); David Wood, Mike Batt, Don Black (UK production) | Boublil and Boublil | Adaptation of classic fairy tales set to the music of ABBA with new French lyrics. | [17] |
About Face | 1952 | Film | Peter DeRose and various artists | Charles Tobias and various artists | Directed by Roy Del Ruth; written by Peter Milne. | [18] | |
About Town | 1906 | Broadway | Melville Ellis and Raymond Hubbell | Joseph W. Herbert | Herbert | [19] | |
Absolute Beginners | 1986 | Film | Gil Evans (score) and various artists (songs) | Various artists | Based on the novel by Colin MacInnes. Directed by Julien Temple; written by Richard Burridge, Christopher Wicking, and Don Macpherson. | [20] | |
Abyssinia | 1906 | Broadway | Will Marion Cook and Bert Williams | Jesse A. Shipp and Alex Rogers | Jesse A. Shipp and Alex Rogers | [21] | |
Abyssinia | 1987 | Broadway | Ted Kociolek | James Racheff | Racheff and Kociolek | Based on the novel Marked by Fire, by Joyce Carol Thomas. | [22] |
Ace | 2006 | Off-Off-Broadway
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Richard Oberacker | Robert Taylor and Oberacker | Taylor and Oberacker | [23] | |
Ace of Clubs | 1950 | West End | Noël Coward | Coward | Coward | [24] | |
Acorn Antiques | 2005 | West End | Victoria Wood | Wood | Wood | Based on Victoria Wood as Seen on TV .
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Across the Universe | 2007 | Film | The Beatles (John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr) (songs). Elliot Goldenthal (score) | The Beatles | Jukebox musical Film directed by Julie Taymor; written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais. | [26] | |
The Act | 1977 | Broadway | John Kander | Fred Ebb | George Furth | Directed by Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical for Liza Minnelli .
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The Addams Family | 2010 | Broadway | Andrew Lippa | Lippa | Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice | Based on the cartoons by Charles Addams. Includes The Addams Family Theme composed by Vic Mizzy. The 2011 touring version introduced several modifications to the plot and song list. | [28] |
Adding Machine | 2008 | Off-Broadway | Joshua Schmidt | Jason Loewith and Schmidt | Loewith and Schmidt | Based on the 1923 play by Elmer Rice. | [29] |
Adèle | 1913 | Broadway | Jean Briquet and Adolf Phillipp | Paul Hervé | Hervé | English adaptation by Philipp and Edward A. Paulton of a French musical. | [30] |
Adonis | 1884 | Broadway | Edward E. Rice and John Eller | Rice and Eller | William Gill | [31] | |
The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland | 1999 | Film | Various artists | Various artists | Film featuring the Sesame Street Muppets. Directed by Gary Halvorson; written by Mitchell Kriegman and Joey Mazzarino. | [32] | |
The Adventures of Marco Polo | 1956 | Television | Clay Warnick and Mel Pahl
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Edward Eager | Part of the Max Liebman Presents series of original television musicals. Directed by Liebman, written by Neil Simon, Billy Friedberg, and Will Glickman. Reunited Alfred Drake and Doretta Morrow of Kismet.[33]
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer | 2001 | Broadway | Don Schlitz | Schlitz | Ken Ludwig | Based on the 1876 novel by Mark Twain. | [35] |
Affair in Trinidad | 1952 | Film | Lester Lee, Bob Russell, various artists | Lee and Russell | Directed by Vincent Sherman; written by Oscar Saul, James Gunn, Virginia Van Upp, and Berne Giler. | [36] | |
The Affairs of Dobie Gillis | 1953 | Film | Various artists | Various artists | Directed by Don Weis; written by Max Shulman. Notable for the first film appearance of Bob Fosse. | [37] | |
Afgar | 1919 | West End | Charles Cuvillier | Douglas Furber | Fred Thompson and Worton David | [38] | |
Africana | 1934 | Broadway | Donald Heyward | Heyward | Heyward | [39] | |
After Midnight | 2013 | Broadway | Various artists | Various artists | Jack Viertel ("conceived by") and Langston Hughes ("selected text by") | Jazz jukebox musical revue based on the 2011 Encores! revue Cotton Club Parade and comprising songs written by Duke Ellington, Harold Arlen and others. | [40] |
After the Ball | 1953 | West End | Noël Coward | Coward | Coward | Based on the 1892 play Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde. | [41] |
Aida | 2000 | Broadway | Elton John | Tim Rice | Linda Woolverton, Robert Falls and David Henry Hwang | Based on Tony Awards for Best Original Score (John and Rice), Best Actress in a Musical for Heather Headley. Notable song: Written in the Stars .
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Ain't Misbehavin' | 1978 | Broadway | Fats Waller and various artists | Waller and various artists | Murray Horwitz and Richard Maltby, Jr.
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Richard Maltby, Jr. )
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Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death | 1971 | Broadway | Melvin Van Peebles | Van Peebles | Van Peebles | [44] | |
Ain't Too Proud
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2017 | Broadway | The Temptations and various artists | The Temptations and various artists | Dominique Morisseau | Jukebox biomusical based on the lives and featuring the songs of the Temptations. | [45] |
Aladdin | 1958 | Television | Cole Porter | Porter | Based on the folktale "Aladdin" from the One Thousand and One Nights and presented on DuPont Show of the Month on CBS. Directed by Ralph Nelson; written by S. J. Perelman. Porter's last score. | [46] | |
Aladdin | 1979 | West End | Sandy Wilson | Wilson | Wilson | Based on the folktale "Aladdin" from the One Thousand and One Nights. | [47] |
Aladdin | 1992 | Animated film | Alan Menken | Howard Ashman and Tim Rice | Based on the folktale "Aladdin" from the One Thousand and One Nights. Notable Songs: "A Whole New World" and "Friend Like Me". | [48] | |
Alexander's Ragtime Band | 1938 | Film | Irving Berlin | Berlin | Jukebox musical featuring 23 Berlin songs including two written for the film ("Now it Can be Told" and "My Walking Stick"). Directed by Henry King; written by Kathryn Scola and Lamar Trotti. | [49] | |
Ali Baba Goes to Town | 1937 | Film | Various artists | Various artists | Directed by David Butler; written by Harry Tugend and Jack Yellen. | [50] | |
Alice at the Palace | 1982 | Television | Elizabeth Swados | Swados | Swados and Lewis Carroll | Filmed version for PBS of Alice in Concert with revisions and new cast. External link: Alice at the Palace on BroadwayHD. | [51] |
Alice by Heart | 2019 | Off-Broadway | Steven Sater | Duncan Sheik | Sheik and Jessie Nelson
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Based on Lewis Carroll's 1865 book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. | |
Alice in Concert | 1980 | Off-Broadway | Elizabeth Swados | Swados | Swados and Lewis Carroll | Based on Carroll's books Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass (1871). Meryl Streep starred.[52] | |
Alice in Wonderland | 1886 | West End | Walter Slaughter | Lewis Carroll, Henry Savile Clarke and Aubrey Hopwood | Clarke | Based on Carroll's books Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass (1871). | |
Alice in Wonderland | 1951 | Animated film
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Oliver Wallace, Sammy Fain, Bob Hilliard, and various artists | Lewis Carroll, Fain, Hilliard, and various artists | Based on Carroll's books Alice's Adventures in Wonderland(1865) and Through the Looking-Glass (1871). | ||
Alice in Wonderland | 1976 | Adult film | Jack Stern | Stern | Based on Off-broadway musical with an entirely new score in 2004.
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Alice in Wonderland | 1985 | Television | Steve Allen | Lewis Carroll and Allen | Based on Carroll's books Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass (1871). Directed by Harry Harris, written by Paul Zindel. | ||
Alice in Wonderland | 2004 | Off-Broadway | TayWah | TayWah | Bill Osco | Adapted from the 1976 pornographic film of the same name.[53] | |
Alice in Wonderland (or What's a Nice Kid Like You Doing in a Place Like This?)
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1966 | Animated television film | Charles Strouse | Lee Adams | Based on Lewis Carroll's 1865 book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Directed by Alex Lovy, written by Bill Dana. | ||
Alice Through the Looking Glass | 1966 | Animated television film | Mark Charlap
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Elsie Simmons | Based on Lewis Carroll's 1871 book Through the Looking-Glass. Directed by Alan Handley, written by Albert Simmons.[54] | ||
Alice with Kisses | 1964 | Off-Broadway | Sammy Fields , Joseph L. Blankenship, and Nevett Bartow.
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Blankenship | Blankenship | Closed in previews. Memorialized in the 1967 film The Producers as one of the flop window cards tacked on Max Bialystock's wall. | |
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | 1972 | Film | John Barry | Lewis Carroll and Don Black | Based on Carroll's books Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass (1871). Directed and written by William Sterling. | ||
Alive and Kicking | 1950 | Broadway | Hoagy Carmichael and various artists | Paul Francis Webster and various artist | I. A. L. Diamond | Revue. | [55] |
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 | [56] | |
All Dogs Go to Heaven | 1989 | Animated film | Ralph Burns | Charles Strouse, Al Kasha, Joel Hirschhorn, and T.J. Kuenster | Directed by Don Bluth; written by David N. Weiss. | ||
All Dogs Go to Heaven 2 | 1996 | Animated film | Barry Mann | Cynthia Weil | Sequel to the 1989 film All Dogs Go to Heaven. Directed by Larry Leker and Paul Sabella; written by Kelly Ward & Mark Young and Arne Olsen. | ||
All Hands on Deck | 1961 | Film | Cyril Mockridge
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Donald R. Morris | Jay Sommers | ||
All in Fun | 1940 | Broadway | Baldwin Bergerson and John Rox | Revue. | [57] | ||
All in Love | 1961 | Off-Broadway | Jacques Urbont | Bruce Geller | Geller | ||
All Out of Love | 2018 | Manila | Air Supply | Air Supply | Jim Millan | ||
All Shook Up | 2005 | Broadway | Elvis Presley | Various artists | Joe DiPietro | jukebox featuring songs written and/or sung by Elvis Presley. | |
All That Jazz | 1979 | Film | Ralph Burns | Various artists | Robert Alan Aurthur and Bob Fosse | ||
All the Fun of the Fair | 2008 | West End
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David Essex | Essex | Jon Conway | jukebox featuring the songs of David Essex. | |
All the King's Horses
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1935 | Film | Edward Horan | Horan | Edmund H. North, Frank Tuttle and Frederick Stephani | All the King's Horses by Lawrence Clark , Max Giersberg, Frederik Herendeen and Edward Horan
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Allegiance | 2012 | Broadway | Jay Kuo | Jay Kuo | Marc Acito, Jay Kuo, Lorenzo Thione | Regional Premiere 2012, Broadway 2015 | |
Allegro | 1947 | Broadway | Richard Rodgers | Oscar Hammerstein II | Hammerstein | ||
An Alligator Named Daisy | 1955 | Film | Stanley Black and Sam Coslow, and various artists | Jack Davies | |||
Alma, Where Do You Live? | 1910 | Broadway | Jean Briquet | George V. Hobart | Hobart | ||
Almost Famous | 2019 | Broadway | Tom Kitt | Cameron Crowe | Crowe | Based on the 2000 film of the same name.[58] | |
Alone at Last | 1914 | Broadway | Franz Lehár and various artists | Matthew Woodward and various artists | |||
Along Fifth Avenue | 1949 | Broadway | Gordon Jenkins and various artists | Tom Adair and various artists | Revue. | ||
Altar Boyz | 2005 | Off-Broadway | Gary Adler and Michael Patrick Walker | Adler and Walker | Kevin Del Aguila | ||
Amazing Grace | 2012 | Broadway | Christopher Smith | Christopher Smith | Christopher Smith, Arthur Giron | Regional Premiere 2012. Broadway 2015 | |
Ambassador | 1972 | Broadway | Don Gohman | Hal Hackady | Don Ettlinger and Anna Marie Barlow | ||
Amélie | 2017 | Broadway | Daniel Messé | Daniel Messé and Nathan Tyson | Craig Lucas | Based on the 2001 romantic comedy film of the same name. | |
Amen Corner | 1983 | Broadway | Garry Sherman | Peter Udell | Philip Rose and Peter Udell | ||
America Is Hard to See | 2018 | Off-Broadway | Priscilla Holbrook | Holbrook | Travis Russ | Documentary play with music. | |
America Kicks Up Its Heels | 1983 | Off-Broadway | William Finn | Finn | Charles Rubin | ||
The American Astronaut | 2001 | Film | Cory McAbee and Billy Nayer Show | McAbee and Billy Nayer Show | Directed and written by McAbee. | ||
American Idiot | 2010 | Broadway | Green Day | Billie Joe Armstrong | Armstrong and Michael Mayer | ||
An American in Paris | 1951 | Film | George Gershwin | Ira Gershwin | Alan Jay Lerner | ||
An American in Paris | 2015 | Broadway | George Gershwin | Ira Gershwin | Craig Lucas | Based on the 1951 musical film of the same name. | |
The American Mall | 2008 | Television | Various artists | MTV film with original songs. Directed by Shawn Ku; written by Margaret Oberman. | |||
American Pop | 1981 | Animated film
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Various artists (songs); Lee Holdridge (score) | Various artists | Jukebox musical paralleling the history of American popular music. Directed by Ralph Bakshi; written by Ronni Kern. | ||
American Psycho | 2016 | Broadway | Duncan Sheik | Duncan Sheik | Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa | Based on the controversial 1991 novel by Bret Easton Ellis. | |
An American Tail | 1986 | Animated film | James Horner, Barry Mann, and various artists | Cynthia Weil and various artists | Directed by Somewhere Out There ".
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An American Tail: Fievel Goes West | 1991 | Animated film | James Horner and various artists | Will Jennings and various artists | Sequel to An American Tail (1986). Directed by Phil Nibbelink and Simon Wells; written by Flint Dille. | ||
Americana | 1926 | Broadway | Con Conrad and various artists | J. P. McEvoy and various artists | McEvoy | Revue including songs by George and Ira Gershwin, Arthur Schwartz, and others. | |
America's Sweetheart | 1931 | Broadway | Richard Rodgers | Lorenz Hart | Herbert Fields | ||
The Amorous Flea | 1964 | Off-Broadway | Bruce Montgomery
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Montgomery | Jerry Devine | ||
Amour | 2002 | Broadway | Michel Legrand | Didier Van Cauwelaert | Jeremy Sams | ||
Amphitryon | 1935 | Film | Franz Doelle | C. Amberg and Bruno Balz | Reinhold Schünzel | Based on the stage play Amphytrion by Titus Maccius Plautus and Heinrich von Kleist .
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Anastasia | 1997 | Animated film
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Stephen Flaherty | Lynn Ahrens | Based on the legend of execution of her family. Directed by Don Bluth and Gary Goldman; written by Susan Gauthier, Bruce Graham, Bob Tzudiker, and Noni White .
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Anastasia | 2017 | Broadway | Stephen Flaherty | Lynn Ahrens | Terrence McNally | Based on the 1956 film and 1997 animated musical films of the same name, with a new book and 16 new songs in addition to six songs from the animated movie. | |
Anchors Aweigh | 1945 | Film | Georgie Stoll | Various artists | Natalie Marcin | ||
& Juliet | 2019 | West End | Max Martin and others | Max Martin and others | David West Read | ||
And the Angels Sing | 1944 | Film | Jimmy Van Heusen | Johnny Burke (lyricist) | Directed by George Marshall; written by Melvin Frank and Norman Panama. Notable song: "It Could Happen to You". | ||
And the World Goes 'Round | 1991 | Off-Broadway | John Kander | Fred Ebb | — | Revue comprising the songs of Kander and Ebb. | |
André Charlot's Revue of 1924 | 1924 | Broadway Revue | Various artists | Various artists | — | Revue. | |
Andy Hardy's Private Secretary | 1941 | Film | |||||
Angel | 1978 | Broadway | Gary Geld | Peter Udell | Udell and Ketti Frings | ||
Angel in the Wings | 1947 | Bob Hilliard and Carl Sigman | Hilliard and Sigman | Hank Ladd, Ted Luce, Paul Hartman, and Grace Hartman. | Civilization "
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Angelika | 2007 | Prague | Michal David | Lou Fanánek Hagen | Hagen | Based on the Angelique novels by Anne and Serge Golon .
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Angélique, Marquise des Anges
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1995 | Paris | Michel Magne, Nadia Golon, and Eddie Barclay | Magne, Golon, and Barclay | Alain Decaux | Based on the Angelique novels by Anne and Serge Golon .
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Angry Housewives | 1983 | Off-Broadway | Chad Henry and A.M. Collins | Henry and Collins | |||
Ani: A Parody | 2014 | Off-Broadway | Clark Baxtresser and Pierce Siebers | Matt and Nick Lang | M. and N. Lang | ||
Animal Crackers | 1928 | Broadway | Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby | Kalmar and Ruby | George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind | [59] | |
Ankles Aweigh | 1955 | Broadway | Sammy Fain | Dan Shapiro
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Guy Bolton and Eddie Davis | ||
Anna and the Apocalypse | 2017 | Film | Roddy Hart and Tommy Reilly | Hart and Reilly | Directed by John McPhail; written by Alan McDonald and Ryan McHenry. | ||
Anna Karenina | 1992 | Broadway | Daniel Levine | Peter Kellogg | Kellogg | Based on Leo Tolstoy’s novel of the same name | [60] |
Anne & Gilbert | 2005 | Victoria, Prince Edward Island | 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 | Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island | Norman Campbell | Don Harron, Campbell, Elaine Campbell and Mavor Moore | Harron | Based on Lucy Maud Montgomery's novel of the same name. | |
Annie |
1977 | Broadway | Charles Strouse | Martin Charnin | Thomas Meehan | Notable songs: " Tomorrow" and "It's the Hard Knock Life "
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Annie Get Your Gun + film (1950) |
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. | |
Another Cinderella Story | 2008 | Film | Various artists | Various artists | Directed by Damon Santostefano; written by Erik Patterson and Jessica Scott. | ||
Anya | 1965 | Broadway | Robert Wright and George Forrest
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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 | ||
The Apple | 1980 | Film | Kobi Recht | George Clinton and Iris Recht | Directed by Menahem Golan; written by Golan and Recht. | ||
The Apple Tree | 1966 | Broadway | Jerry Bock | Sheldon Harnick | Bock, Harnick and Jerome Coopersmith | ||
April in Paris | 1952 | Film | Vernon Duke and LeRoy Prinz | Various artists | Jack Rose | ||
April Love | 1957 | Film | Alfred Newman (score)
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Paul Francis Webster | Based on the 1941 novel Phantom Filly by George Agnew Chamberlain. Directed by Henry Levin; written by Winston Miller .
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An Arabian Girl and 40 Thieves | 1899 | Broadway | W. H. Batchelor, John J. Braham, Jessie Williams and Meyer Lutz
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Arabian Nights | 1954 | Off-Broadway | Carmen Lombardo and John Jacob Lœb | Lombardo and Lœb | |||
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. | |
Are You with It? | 1948 | Film | Inez James and Sidney Miller | James and Miller | Based on the Broadway musical of the same name, but with a revised plot and an entirely new score by James and Miller. Directed by Jack Hively; written by Oscar Brodney. | ||
Argentine Nights | 1940 | Film | Frank Skinner | Various artists | J. Robert Bren and Gladys Atwater | ||
Ari | 1971 | Broadway | Walt Smith | Leon Uris | Based on the novel Exodus by Leon Uris. | ||
The Aristocats | 1970 | Animated film
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George Bruns | Various Artists | Ken Anderson, Larry Clemmons, Eric Cleworth, Vance Garry, Julius Svendsen, Frank Thomas, and Ralph Wright | Based on characters created by Tom McGowan and Tom Rowe. | |
The Ark | 1998 | Off-Broadway | Michael McLean | McLean and Kevin Kelly | McLean and Kelly | ||
Arms and the Girl | 1950 | Broadway | Morton Gould | Dorothy Fields | Herbert Fields and Fields | ||
Around the Clock | 1906 | road musical with stop on Broadway | Lee Orean Smith | J. Sebastian Hiller | Steve B. Cassin | [61] | |
Around the World | 1946 | Broadway | Cole Porter | Porter | Orson Welles | ||
Arthur! Arthur!
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1969 | Film | Harry Robertson
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Various artists | Julian Symons | ||
Artists and Models | 1937 | Film | Various artists | Various artists | Frank Tashlin, Herbert Baker, and Hal Kanter | Notable songwriters: Burton Lane, Harold Arlen, and Victor Young. Directed by Raoul Walsh; written by Eugene Thackrey and Keene Thompson. | |
Artists and Models | 1955 | Film | Harry Warren and Jack Brooks | Various artists | Notable song: "Innamorata". Based on the 1942 play Rock-a-Bye Baby! by Michael Davidson and Norman Lessing. Directed by Frank Tashlin; written by Herbert Baker, and Hal Kanter. | ||
An Artist's Model | 1895 | West End | Sidney Jones | Harry Greenbank and various artists | Owen Hall | ||
As Long as They're Happy | 1954 | 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 | Revue loosely based on the sections of a newspaper of the time. One of the rare "topical" revues to be frequently revived, due to the many songs that became American standards. Notable songs: "Easter Parade", "Heat Wave", Supper Time. | |
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 | Arthur Schwartz | Howard Dietz | Various artists (sketches) | Revue. | |
At Long Last Love | 1975 | Film | Cole Porter | Porter | Jukebox musical featuring songs written by Porter. Directed and written by Peter Bogdanovich. A critical and commercial flop when it was released; a revised version became a cult film due to television airings and has risen in critical esteem since. Musical numbers were performed and filmed live. | ||
At the Circus | 1939 | Film | Harold Arlen | Arlen | Irving Brecher | ||
At the Drop of a Hat | 1956 | Off-West End | Donald Swann | Michael Flanders | Swann and Flanders | Revue also produced on Broadway in 1959. | |
At the Drop of Another Hat | 1963 | Off-West End revue | Donald Swann | Michael Flanders | Swann and Flanders | Revue also produced on Broadway in 1966. | |
At War with the Army | 1950 | Film | Joseph J. Lilley | Lilley | James Allardice and Fred Finklehoffe
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Athena | 1954 | Film | Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane | Martin and Blane | William Ludwig and Leonard Spigelgass | ||
The Athenian Touch | 1964 | Off-Broadway | Willard Straight
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David Eddy | J. Albert Fracht and Arthur Goodman | ||
Atlantic City | 1944 | Film | Various artists | Various artists | Directed by Ray McCarey; written by Doris Gilbert, Frank Gill Jr. and George Carleton Brown. | ||
Aunt Sally | 1933 | Film | Harry M. Woods | Woods | Guy Bolton | ||
Autant en emporte le vent | 2003 | Paris | Gérard Presgurvic | Presgurvic | Based on the novel Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell. | ||
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". | [62] |
B
Production | Year | Venue/type | Music | Lyrics | Book | Notes | Reference |
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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". | [63] |
Babes in Toyland | 1903 | Broadway | Victor Herbert | Glen MacDonough | MacDonough | [64] | |
Babes on Broadway | 1941 | Film | Various artists | E.Y. Harburg and Ralph Freed
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Babette | 1903 | Broadway | Victor Herbert | Harry B. Smith | Smith | ||
Baby | 1983 | Broadway | David Shire | Richard Maltby, Jr.
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Sybille Pearson | ||
Baby It's You! | 2011 | Broadway | Various Artists | Various Artists | Floyd Mutrox and Colin Escott | ||
Baby Talk | 2000 | Neuköllner Opera | Thomas Zaufke | Peter Lund | Das Kinder-Krieg Musical | ||
Back to the 80's | 2001 | Australian | Neil Gooding | Gooding | Gooding | ||
Back to the Future | 2020 | West End | Alan Silvestri | Glen Ballard | Bob Gale | Back to the Future | |
Bad Cinderella | 2021 | West End | Andrew Lloyd Webber | David Zippel | Emerald Fennell (Original Book) & Alexis Scheer (Adaptation) | Based on the fairy tale Cinderella | |
Bad Girls | 2006 | West End | Kath Gotts | Gotts | Maureen Chadwick and Ann McManus | Based on the ITV1 television series Bad Girls. | |
Bad Habits of 1926 | 1926 | Broadway revue | Manning Sherwin | Arthur Herzog, Jr.
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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 | Raymond Jessel and Jerry Bock
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Grudeff, Jessel and Sheldon Harnick | Jerome Coopersmith | Based on the Sherlock Holmes stories of Arthur Conan Doyle | |
The Baker's Wife | 1989 | West End | Stephen Schwartz
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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 | Marilyn Bergman
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Jerome Kass | ||
Bambi | 1942 | Animated film
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Frank Churchill and Edward H. Plumb | Churchill and Plumb | Larry Morey | ||
The Band
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2017 | West End | Take That | Take That | Tim Firth | ||
Band Geeks | 2014 | Off-Off-Broadway
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Tommy Newman and Mark Allen | Newman and Gaby Alter | Alter | ||
Band Waggon | 1940 | Film | Various artists | Various artists | |||
The Band Wagon | 1931 | Broadway revue | Arthur Schwartz | Howard Dietz | — | 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 | ||
The Band's Visit | 2016 | Broadway | David Yazbek | Yazbek | Itamar Moses | Based on the film of the same name. | |
Bandstand | 2015 | Broadway | Richard Oberacker | Oberacker and Robert Taylor | Oberacker and Taylor | ||
Banjo Eyes | 1941 | Broadway | Vernon Duke | John La Touche and Harold Adamson
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Joseph Quinlan and Izzy Ellinson | ||
Bar Mitzvah Boy | 1978 | West End | Jule Styne | Don Black | Jack Rosenthal | ||
Barbarella | 2004 | Austrian | Dave Stewart | Stewart | Stewart | Based on the 1968 film. | |
The Bardy Bunch | 2014 | Off-Broadway | Various Artists | Various Artists | Stephen Garvey | ||
Bare | 2012 | Off-Broadway | Damon Intrabartolo | Jon Hartmere | Hartmere | New, revised version of Bare: A Pop Opera. | |
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 | 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
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Frederick F. Schrader | Henry Blossom | ||
The Baroness Fiddlesticks | 1904 | Broadway | Emil Bruguiere | George De Long | De Long | ||
Bat Boy | 2001 | Off-Broadway | Laurence O'Keefe | O'Keefe | Keythe Farley and Brian Flemming | ||
Bat Out of Hell
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2017 | West End | Jim Steinman | Steinman | Steinman | ||
Bathhouse | 2006 | Off-Broadway |
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Bats
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1983 | Australian | Ian Dorricott | Simon Denver | Dorricott and Denver | ||
The Battle of Paris | 1929 | Film | Cole Porter, Jay Gorney and Dick Howard | Howard Dietz and Porter | Gene Markey | ||
Bayside! | 2013 | Off-Broadway | Bob and Tobly McSmith | Bob and Tobly McSmith | Bob and Tobly McSmith | A musical parody of the television show Saved by the Bell.[65] | |
Be More Chill | 2015, 2018, 2019 | Broadway | Joe Iconis | Joe Iconis | Joe Tracz | ||
Be Yourself
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1930 | Film | Hugo Riesenfeld | Riesenfeld | Joseph Jackson | ||
Beat the Band | 1942 | Television | Various artists | Various artists | — | ||
Beatlemania | 1977 | Broadway revue | The Beatles | The Beatles | Robert Rabinowitz and Lynda Obst
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Beautiful Dreamer | 1961 | Off-Broadway | |||||
The Beautiful Game | 2000 | West End | Andrew Lloyd Webber | Ben Elton | Lloyd Webber and Elton | ||
A Beautiful Noise: The Neil Diamond Story | 2022 | Broadway | Neil Diamond | Diamond | Anthony McCarten | The life and music of Neil Diamond | |
Beautiful: The Carole King Musical | 2014 | Broadway | Gerry Goffin, Carole King, Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil | Goffin, King, Mann and Weil | Douglas McGrath | ||
Beauty and the Beast |
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 | Dick Lee | Michael Chiang | Chiang | ||
Because of Winn-Dixie | 2013 | Regional | Duncan Sheik | Sheik | Nell Benjamin | Based on the 2005 film of the same name. | |
Because You're Mine | 1952 | Film | Johnny Green | Green | Ruth Brooks Flippen and Sy Gomberg | ||
Becoming Nancy | 2019 | Regional | George Stiles | Anthony Drewe | Elliot Davis | ||
Bedknobs and Broomsticks + film (1971) |
2019 | Touring Production | Richard M. Sherman, Robert B. Sherman | Sherman, Sherman | Brian Hill | ||
A Bedtime Story | 1933 | Film | Ralph Rainger | Rainger | Benjamin Glazer and Nunnally Johnson | ||
Beetlejuice | 2018 | Broadway | Eddie Perfect | Perfect | Scott Brown and Anthony King | Based on the 1988 film of the same name. | |
The Beggar Student | 1882 | German operetta | Carl Millöcker | Camillo Walzel and Richard Genée | Millöcker | ||
Beggar's Holiday | 1946 | Broadway | Duke Ellington | John La Touche
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La Touche | ||
The Beggar's Opera | 1728 | West End opera | John Gay | Gay | Gay | ||
Beguiled Again | 1997 | Revue
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Richard Rodgers | Lorenz Hart | Various | ||
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
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2014 | Off-West End | Alex Loveless | Loveless | Loveless | A contemporary musical adaptation of the book of the same name .
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Bell Bottom George | 1943 | Film | Harry Bidgood | Bidgood | Edward Dryhurst and Peter Fraser | ||
Bella: An American Tall Tale | 2016 | Off-Broadway | Kristen Childs | Kristen Childs | Kristen Childs | ||
La belle Hélène | 1864 | opera bouffe
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Jacques Offenbach | Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy | Offenbach | ||
La Belle Meunière | 1948 | Film | Tony Aubin | Aubin | Marcel Pagnol | ||
The Belle of Brittany | 1908 | Opera | Howard Talbot and Marie Horne | Percy Greenbank | Leedham Bantock and P.J. Barrow | ||
The Belle of New York | 1897 | Broadway | Gustave Kerker | Hugh Morton | Morton | ||
Belle of the Nineties | 1934 | Film | Arthur Johnston | Johnston | Mae West | ||
Belle of the Yukon | 1944 | Film | Arthur Lange | Lange | Houston Branch | ||
Belles belles belles | 2003 | French jukebox | Claude François, Jean-Pierre Bourtayre, Carolin Petit | Claude François, Daniel Moyne | Daniel Moyne, Jean-Pierre Bourtayre | Based on songs by Claude François. | |
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 | — | ||
The Beloved Vagabond | 1936 | Film | Darius Milhaud | Milhaud | William John Locke | ||
Ben Franklin in Paris | 1964 | Broadway | Mark Sandrich, Jr. and Jerry Herman | Sidney Michaels | Michaels | ||
Bend It Like Beckham
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2015 | West End
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Howard Goodall | Charles Hart | Gurinder Chadha and Paul Mayeda Berges | ||
Bernarda Alba | 2006 | Off-Broadway | Michael John LaChiusa | LaChiusa | LaChiusa | ||
Bernardine | 1957 | Film | Lionel Newman and Johnny Mercer | Newman and Mercer | Mary Chase and Theodore Reeves | ||
Besame Mucho
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2005 | Mexican jukebox | 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 + film (1982) |
1978 | Broadway | Carol Hall | Hall | Larry L. King and Peter Masterson | ||
The Best Things in Life Are Free | 1956 | 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! Divine Madness | 1979 | Broadway revue | Various artists | Various artists | Jerry Blatt, Bette Midler and Bruce Vilanch | ||
Bette Midler's Clams on the Half Shell | 1975 | Broadway revue | Various artists | Various artists | Bruce Vilanch, Bill Hennessy and Jerry Blatt | ||
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 | Gladys Unger
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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 | ||
Between the Lines | 2017 | Off-Broadway | Elyssa Samsel and Kate Anderson | Elyssa Samsel and Kate Anderson | Timothy Allen McDonald | ||
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 | 1996 | Broadway | David Shire | Richard Maltby, Jr.
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John Weidman | ||
The Big Bad Musical | 2009 | Off-Broadway | Bill Francoeur | Francoeur | Alec Strum | ||
The Big Bang Theory: A Pop-Rock Musical Parody | 2019 | Off-Broadway | Karlan Judd | Judd | Judd | A musical parody of the television show The Big Bang Theory.[66] | |
The Big Beat | 1958 | Film | Henry Mancini | Mancini | David P. Harmon | ||
Big Boy | 1925 | Broadway | James F. Hanley and Joseph Meyer | Buddy DeSylva | Harold Atteridge | ||
The Big Broadcast | 1932 | Film | Various artists | Various artists | William Ford Manley | ||
The Big Broadcast of 1936 | 1935 | Film | Various artists | Various artists | Walter DeLeon, Francis Martin and Ralph Spence | ||
The Big Broadcast of 1937 | 1936 | Film | Various artists | Various artists | Walter DeLeon and Francis Martin | ||
The Big Broadcast of 1938 | 1938 | Film | Various artists | Various artists | Walter DeLeon, Francis Martin and Ken Englund | ||
Big Fella | 1937 | Film | G. H. Clutsam and Will Grosz
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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 | Film | Rick Crom | Crom | Fred M. Caruso | ||
Big River | 1985 | Broadway | Roger Miller | Miller | William Hauptman | ||
Big Tent | 2007 | Off-Broadway | Ben Cohn and Sean McDaniel | Cohn and McDaniel | Jeffery Self | A musical based on the life of Tammy Faye Bakker.[67] | |
Billboard Girl | 1932 | Film | Lewis R. Foster, Harry McCoy, Earle Rodney and John A. Waldron | ||||
Billie | 1928 | Broadway | George M. Cohan | Cohan | Cohan | ||
Billie | 1965 | 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 | ||
The Billy Barnes Revue | 1959 | Off-Broadway revue | Billy Barnes | Barnes | Bob Rodgers | ||
Billy Elliot | 2005 | West End | Elton John | Lee Hall | Hall | ||
Billy Noname | 1970 | Off-Broadway | Johnny Brandon | Brandon | William Wellington Mackey | ||
The Bing Boys Are Here | 1916 | West End revue | Nat D. Ayer
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Clifford Grey | George Grossmith, Jr. and Fred Thompson
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The Bing Boys on Broadway | 1918 | West End revue | Nat D. Ayer
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Clifford Grey | George Grossmith, Jr. and Fred Thompson
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The Bing Girls Are There | 1917 | West End revue | Nat D. Ayer
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Clifford Grey | George Grossmith, Jr. and Fred Thompson
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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 revue | Various artists | Various artists | — | ||
The Black Crook | 1866 | Broadway | Thomas Baker, Giuseppe Operti and George Bickwell | Theodore Kennick | Charles M. Barras | ||
Black Friday | 2019 | Los Angeles | Jeff Blim | Blim | Matt Lang and Nick Lang | Produced by StarKid Productions. | |
The Black Rider | 1990 | German | Tom Waits | Waits | William S. Burroughs | ||
Blackbirds of 1928 | 1928 | Broadway revue | Jimmy McHugh | Dorothy Fields | — | Notable song: "Doin' the New Low-Down". | |
Das Blaue Vom Himmel | 1932 | Film | Paul Abraham | Abraham | Max Kolpé and Billy Wilder | ||
Bless the Bride | 1947 | West End | Vivian Ellis | A. P. Herbert | Herbert | ||
Bless You All | 1950 | Broadway revue | Harold Rome | Rome | — | ||
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 | 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
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1932 | Film | Werner R. Heymann | Heymann | Walter Reisch and Billy Wilder | ||
Blondie Goes Latin | 1941 | 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
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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 | Film | Friedrich Hollaender | Robert Liebmann | Heinrich Mann | ||
Blue Hawaii | 1961 | Film | Joseph J. Lilley | Lilley | Allan Weiss | ||
Blue Holiday | 1945 | Broadway revue | Al Moritz | Moritz | — | ||
The Blue Kitten | 1922 | Broadway | Rudolf Friml | Otto Harbach and William Carey Duncan | Harbach and Duncan | ||
The Blue Mazurka
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1927 | West End operetta | Franz Lehár | Leo Stein and Bela Jenbach | Stein and Jenbach | ||
Blue of the Night | 1933 | Film | Various artists | Various artists | |||
The Blue Paradise | 1915 | Broadway | Edmund Eysler and Sigmund Romberg | Herbert Reynolds | Edgar Smith | ||
Blue Rhythm | 1931 | Film | W. C. Handy | Handy | |||
Blue Skies | 1946 | Film | Irving Berlin | Berlin | Berlin | ||
Bluebell in Fairyland | 1901 | West End | Walter Slaughter | Aubrey Hopwood and Charles H. Taylor | Seymour Hicks | ||
Blues in the Night | 1941 | Film | Heinz Roemheld | Roemheld | Edwin Gilbert, Elia Kazan and Robert Rossen | ||
Blues in the Night | 1982 | Off-Broadway revue | Various artists | Various artists | — | ||
Boccaccio | 1936 | 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 + film (1992) |
2012 | West End jukebox | 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 Atteridge | Atteridge | ||
Bonnie & Clyde | 2009 | Broadway | Frank Wildhorn | Don Black | Ivan Menchell | ||
Boobs! | 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 | ||
Boop! The Musical | 2023 | Broadway | David Foster | Susan Birkenhead | Bob Martin | ||
Boots and Saddles
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1937 | Film | Raoul Kraushaar | Kraushaar | Jack Natteford | ||
Boots! Boots! | 1934 | Film | Jack Cottrell and George Formby | ||||
Born for This | 2018 | Regional | BeBe Winans | Winans | Winans, Charles Randolph-Wright, and Lisa D'Amour | A musical about the life of BeBe Winans.[68] | |
Born to Dance | 1936 | Film | Cole Porter | Porter | Jack McGowan and Sid Silvers | Notable song: "I've Got You Under My Skin". | |
Bottoms Up | 1934 | Film | Howard Jackson | Jackson | David Buster, Buddy DeSylva and Sid Silvers | ||
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 in the Dress | 2019 | British | Robbie Williams, Guy Chambers and Chris Heath | Williams, Chambers and Heath | Mark Ravenhill | Based on David Walliams' children's book of the same name | |
Boy Meets Boy | 1975 | Off-Broadway | Bill Solly | Solly | Solly and Donald Ward | ||
The Boy Who Heard Music | 2007 | Workshop production | Pete Townshend and Rachel Fuller | Townshend and Fuller | Townshend | Adaptation of Wire and Glass .
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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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | ||
Bright Star | 2016 | Broadway | Edie Brickell and Steve Martin | Edie Brickell | Steve Martin | ||
Bring Back Birdie | 1981 | Broadway | Charles Strouse | Lee Adams | Michael Stewart | ||
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 | Film | Robert E. Dolan | Dolan | Karl Tunberg, Darrell Ware and Pierre Wolff | ||
Bring Your Smile Along | 1955 | Film | Paul Mason Howard | Howard | Blake Edwards and Richard Quine | ||
Britannia of Billingsgate | 1933 | Film | Various artists | Various artists | Christine Jope-Slade and Sewell Stokes | ||
Broadway Gondolier | 1935 | Film | Heinz Roemheld | Roemheld | Sig Herzig, Yip Harburg and Hanns Kräly | ||
Broadway Hostess | 1935 | Film | Ray Heindorf and Heinz Roemheld | Heindorf and Roemheld | George Bricker | ||
The Broadway Melody | 1929 | 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 | Film | Nacio Herb Brown | Brown | Harry W. Conn, Moss Hart, Jack McGowan and Sid Silvers | ||
Broadway Melody of 1938 | 1937 | Film | Nacio Herb Brown | Arthur Freed | Jack McGowan | ||
Broadway Melody of 1940 | 1940 | Film | Cole Porter, Roger Edens and Walter Ruick | Porter, Edens and Ruick | Jack McGowan and Dore Schary | ||
Broadway Through a Keyhole | 1933 | Film | Alfred Newman
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Newman | C. Graham Baker and Gene Towne | ||
A Broken Idol | 1909 | Broadway | Egbert Van Alstyne | Harry Williams | Hal Stephens | ||
Bronx Bombers | 2014 | Broadway | Lindsay Jones | Eric Simonson | Simonson | ||
A Bronx Tale | 2016 | Broadway | Alan Menken | Glenn Slater | Chazz Palminteri | Based on the play of the same name. | |
Brooklyn | 2004 | Broadway | Mark Schoenfeld and Barri McPherson | Schoenfeld and McPherson | Schoenfeld and McPherson | ||
Bubble Boy | 2013 | American | Cinco Paul
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Bubbling Brown Sugar | 1976 | Broadway revue | Various artists | Various artists | Loften Mitchell | ||
The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin | 2000 | Off-Broadway | Kirsten Childs | Kirsten Childs | Kirsten Childs | ||
Buck Benny Rides Again | 1940 | Film | Victor Young | Young | Arthur Stinger, Edmund Beloin and William Morrow | ||
Buck Privates | 1941 | Film | Charles Previn | Previn | Arthur T. Horman | ||
Buddies
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1919 | Broadway | B. C. Hilliam | Hilliam | George V. Hobart | ||
Buddy – The Buddy Holly Story
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1989 | West End jukebox | Various artists | Various artists | — | ||
Bugs Bunny on Broadway | 1990 | Broadway | Carl Stalling and Milt Franklyn
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Stalling and Franklyn | George Daugherty | Based on the TV series Looney Tunes. | |
Bugsy Malone | 1983 | West End | Paul Williams | Williams | Alan Parker | Based on the 1976 film of the same name. Notable songs: "Fat Sam's Grand Slam" and "So You Wanna Be a Boxer?". | |
Bullets over Broadway
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2014 | Broadway revue | Various artists | Various artists | Woody Allen | Based on the film of the same name. | |
Bumblescratch | 2016 | West End | Robert J. Sherman | Sherman | Sherman | One night only, red-carpet gala, charity benefit performance at the Adelphi Theatre in benefit of the Variety Club of Great Britain, commemorating the 350th anniversary of the Great Fire of London in 1666. Notable songs: "Music of the Spheres", "Adorable Me!", "Melbourne Bumblescratch", "At Least A Rat 'As Got An Excuse" | |
Bundle of Joy | 1956 | Film | Robert Carson, Norman Krasna, Arthur Sheekman and Felix Jackson | ||||
The Bunyip | 1917 | Australia | Vince Courtney, Herbert De Pinna | Ella Airlie | |||
Burlesque + film (2010) |
2024 | Manchester/Glasgow | Christina Aguilera, Sia, Diane Warren, Todrick Hall, and Jess Folley | Aguilera, Sia, Warren, Hall, and Folley | Steve Antin | ||
Bus Stop | 1956 | Film | Alfred Newman and Lionel Newman
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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 | Film | Gus Edwards and Max Steiner
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Edwards and Steiner | Booth Tarkington | ||
By the Way | 1925 | Off-Broadway revue | Vivian Ellis | Graham John | — | ||
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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1964 | Broadway | Jule Styne | Betty Comden and Adolph Green | Comden and Green | Closed after 274 performances, after several changes in lead |
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. |
A Family Affair | 1962 | Broadway | John Kander | James Goldman and William Goldman | Goldman and Goldman | |
Fancy Nancy | 2012 | Off-Broadway | Danny Abosch | Susan DiLallo and Abosch | DiLallo | |
FANGIRLS | 2019 | Australian Tour | Yve Blake | Yve Blake | Yve Blake | FANGIRLS performed an Australian tour in Brisbane, Sydney, Adelaide, Wollongong, Canberra, and Melbourne theatres. |
Fanny | 1954 | Broadway | Harold Rome | Rome | S. N. Behrman and Joshua Logan | |
The Fantasticks | 1960 | Off-Broadway | Harvey Schmidt | Tom Jones
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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. |
F.F.F | 1920 | Australia | Reginald Stoneham | C. J. De Garis | C. J. De Garis | tour of major Australian cities |
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 | Martin Silvestri | Joel Higgins | Higgins | Based on the 1970 film The Traveling Executioner. |
Finding Nemo
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2007 | Disney musical | Robert Lopez | Kristen Anderson-Lopez | Peter Brosius | |
Finding Neverland | 2012 | Broadway | Scott Frankel and Michael Korie | Frankel and Korie | James Graham | Based on the 1998 play The Man Who Was Peter Pan by Allan Knee and the play's 2004 film adaptation by David Magee. |
Fine and Dandy | 1930 | Broadway | Kay Swift | James Warburg | Donald Ogden Stewart | Notable song: "Fine and Dandy". |
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
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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". |
Firebringer | 2016 | Chicago | Meredith Stepien and Mark Swiderski | Stepien and Swiderski | Matt Lang, Nick Lang, and Brian Holden | |
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 | |||
The First Queen | 2010 | Seoul | ||||
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
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Harburg and Fred Saidy | |
Flashdance
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2008 | West End
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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 + film (1961) |
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 | |
Fly by Night (musical) | 2014 | Off-Broadway | Will Connolly, Michael Mitnick, and Kim Rosenstock | Will Connolly, Michael Mitnick, and Kim Rosenstock | Will Connolly, Michael Mitnick, and Kim Rosenstock | |
Flying High | 1930 | Broadway | Ray Henderson | B. G. DeSylva and Lew Brown
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Brown, DeSylva, and John McGowan | |
Flying Over Sunset | 2021 | Broadway | Tom Kitt | Michael Korie | James Lapine | |
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 | Film | Various | Various | Lou Breslow and Gertrude Purcell | |
Follow the Girls | 1944 | Broadway | Phil Charig, Dan Shapiro and Milton Pascal
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Charig, Shapiro and Pascal | Guy Bolton and Fred Thompson | |
Follow Thru | 1929 | Broadway | Ray Henderson | B. G. DeSylva and Lew Brown
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DeSylva and Lawrence Schwab | |
Footloose |
1998 | Broadway | Tom Snow | Dean Pitchford | Pitchford and Walter Bobbie | Based on the 1984 film version. |
Forbidden Broadway | 1982 | Off-Broadway revue | Various | Gerard Alessandrini | Alessandrini | |
Forbidden Zone | 1980 | Film | Danny Elfman | Elfman | Richard Elfman | |
Forever Plaid | 1990 | Off-Broadway | Various | Various | Stuart Ross | |
The Fortress of Solitude | 2014 | Off-Broadway | Michael Friedman | Friedman | Itamar Moses | Based on novel of the same name .
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Fosse | 1999 | Broadway revue | Various | Various | — | |
The Four Musketeers | 1967 | West End | Laurie Johnson | Herbert Kretzmera | Michael Pertwee | |
Foxes | 2018 | Australian | Shannon Parnell | Shannon Parnell | Rachel Pengilly | |
Foxy | 1964 | Broadway | Robert Emmett Dolan
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Johnny Mercer | Ring Lardner, Jr.
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Based on Ben Jonson's play Volpone. |
Frankenstein | 2007 | Off-Broadway | Mark Baron | Jefferey Jackson | Jackson and Gary P Cohen | |
Freaky Friday + film (2018) |
2016 | Regional | Tom Kitt | Brian Yorkey | Bridget Carpenter | Based on the 1972 book of the same name, the musical is an adaptation of the 1976, 1995, and 2003 films. |
Free as Air | 1957 | West End | Julian Slade | Dorothy Reynolds and Slade | Reynolds and Slade | |
Freestyle Love Supreme | 2019 | Off-Broadway | Various | Various | Various | An 80-minute improvisational hip-hop musical based on audience suggestions. Concept created by Lin-Manuel Miranda, Thomas Kail, and Anthony Veneziale.[71] |
Friends! The Musical Parody | 2017 | Off-Broadway | Assaf Gleizner | Gleizner | Bob and Tobly McSmith | A musical parody of the television show Friends.[72] |
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
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2013 | West End
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Stuart Brayson | Tim Rice | Bill Oakes | |
From Justin to Kelly | 2003 | Film | Greg Siff
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Michael Wandmacher | Kim Fuller | |
Frozen + film (2013) |
2017 | Broadway | Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez | Lopez and Anderson-Lopez | Jennifer Lee | Based on the 2013 film of the same name. |
Frozen Fever | 2015 | Short film | Christophe Beck | Beck | Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee, and Marc E. Smith | |
Full House! The Musical! | 2015 | Off-Broadway | Bob and Tobly McSmith | Bob and Tobly McSmith | Bob and Tobly McSmith | A musical parody of the television show Full House.[73] |
The Full Monty | 2000 | Broadway | David Yazbek | Yazbek | Terrence McNally | Based on the 1997 film version. |
Fun Home | 2015 | Broadway | Jeanine Tesori | Lisa Kron | Lisa Kron | Based on the 2006 graphic memoir Fun Home by Alison Bechdel. |
Funny Face + film (1957) |
1927 | Broadway | George Gershwin | Ira Gershwin | Paul Gerard Smith and Fred Thompson | |
Funny Girl + film (1968) |
1964 | Broadway | Jule Styne | Bob Merrill | Isobel Lennart | Notable songs: " People" and "Don't Rain on My Parade ".
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Funny Lady | 1975 | 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! | 2014 | West End
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Steve Brown | Brown, Harry Hill | Hill | Based on the Reality television show The X Factor |
I Capture The Castle | 2017 | UK Regional Tour | Steven Edis | Teresa Howard | Teresa Howard | Based on the Novel by Dodie Smith |
I Could Go on Singing | 1963 | Film | Harold Arlen | Arlen | Robert Dozier | |
I Do! I Do!
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1966 | Broadway | Harvey Schmidt | Tom Jones
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Jones | |
I Don't <3 u no More |
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 | |
Identical | 2022 | Regional | George Stiles | Anthony Drewe | Stuart Paterson | Based on the novel Lisa and Lottie by Erich Kästner |
Idol | 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
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Joe Darion | Jules Dassin | |
Imagine Tap! | 2006 | Off-Broadway revue | Zane Mark | Crystal Joy | — | |
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 Green | 2019 | Off-Broadway | Grace McLean | McLean | McLean | Based on the lives of Hildegard of Bingen and Jutta von Sponheim |
In the Heights | 2008 | Broadway | Lin-Manuel Miranda | Miranda | Quiara Alegría Hudes | |
In Transit | 2016 | Broadway | Kristen Anderson-Lopez, James-Allen Ford, Russ Kaplan, and Sara Wordsworth | Anderson-Lopez, Ford, Kaplan, Wordsworth | Anderson-Lopez, Ford, Kaplan, Wordsworth | This is an a cappella musical. |
In Trousers | 1979 | Off-Broadway | William Finn | Finn | Finn | |
Infertility: The Musical That's Hard to Conceive | 2007 | Off-Broadway | Chris Neuner | Neuner | Neuner | |
Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem | 2003 | Animated film
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Various artists | Various artists | Thomas Bangalter, Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, Cédric Hervet and Leiji Matsumoto | |
Into the Light | 1986 | Broadway | Lee Holdridge | John Forster | Jeff Tambornino | |
Into the Woods + film (2014) |
1987 | Broadway | Stephen Sondheim | Sondheim | James Lapine | Notable songs: "No One is Alone" and "Children Will Listen". |
Irene | 1919 | Broadway | Harry Tierney | Joseph McCarthy | James Montgomery and Joseph Stein | |
Irma La Douce | 1956 | French | 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
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1999 | Off-Broadway revue | Various artists | Various artists | Charles Bevel, Lita Gaithers, Randal Myler, Ron Taylor and Dan Wheetman | |
It Shoulda Been You | 2011 | Broadway | Barbara Anselmi | Brian Hargrove | Hargrove | |
It's Only Life[75] | 2008 | Revue | John Bucchino | John Bucchino | Daisy Prince and John Bucchino |
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Ka-Boom!
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1980 | Off-Broadway | Joe Ercole | Bruce Kluger | Bruce Kluger | A musical about the end of the world, directed by John-Michael Tebelak. |
Katdashians! Break the Musical! | 2016 | Off-Broadway | Bob and Tobly McSmith | Bob and Tobly McSmith | Bob and Tobly McSmith | A musical parody of the Kardashians.[76] |
Kean | 1961 | Broadway | Robert Wright and George Forrest
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Wright and Forrest | Peter Stone | |
Keating! | 2007 | Australian | Casey Bennetto | Bennetto | Bennetto | Portrays the political career of former Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating. |
Kelly | 1965 | Broadway | Moose Charlap | Eddie Lawrence | Lawrence | Never officially opened on Broadway. |
The Kid |
2010 | Off-Broadway | Andy Monroe | Jack Lechner | Michael Zam | Based on the memoir by Dan Savage. |
Kimberly Akimbo | 2021 | Off-Broadway | Jeanine Tesori | David Lindsay-Abaire | David Lindsay-Abaire | Kimberly Akimbo |
The King and I + film (1956) |
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 | |
King Kong | 2013 | Broadway | Marius de Vries | Eddie Perfect | Jack Thorne | Based on the 1933 film on the same name. |
Kinky Boots | 2013 | Broadway | Cyndi Lauper | Lauper | Harvey Fierstein | Based on the 2005 film version. |
Kismet | 1953 | Broadway | Robert Wright and George Forrest
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Wright and Forrest | Charles Lederer and Luther Davis | Notable song: "Stranger in Paradise". |
Kiss Me, Kate + film (1953) |
1948 | Broadway | Cole Porter | Porter | Samuel and Bella Spewack
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Notable song: "Too Darn Hot". |
Kiss of the Spider Woman | 1993 | Broadway | John Kander | Fred Ebb | Terrence McNally | |
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". |
KPOP | 2017 | Broadway | Helen Park and Max Vernon | Park and Vernon | Jason Kim | Based on the K-pop genre of music. |
Kristina från Duvemåla | 1995 | Swedish | Benny Andersson | Björn Ulvaeus | Ulvaeus | |
Kronborg: 1582 | 1974 | Canadian | Cliff Jones | Jones | Jones | Based on William Shakespeare's Hamlet. |
A Kurt Weill Cabaret | 1963 | Off-Broadway | Kurt Weill | Various artists | — | |
Kwamina | 1961 | Broadway | Richard Adler | Adler | Robert Alan Aurthur |
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See also
- List of musicals: M to Z
- List of notable musical theatre productions
- List of operettas
- List of Bollywood films
- List of rock musicals
Notes
- ^ Jenner changed her name due to gender transition in 2015.[69]
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