Musicals
This is a general list of musicals, including Broadway musicals, West End musicals, and musicals that premiered in other places.
| Follies |
Follies is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book by James Goldman. Follies opened on April 4, 1971 at the Winter Garden Theatre on Broadway. It starred Alexis Smith, John ...(more) |
| Footloose |
Footloose the Musical opened at Broadway's Richard Rodgers Theatre on October 5th, 1998 and ran until July 2nd, 2000. Footloose received an at-best mixed critical reception though it was reasonabl ...(more) |
| Funny Girl |
Funny Girl is a 1964 semi-biographical musical that tells the story of Broadway star Fanny Brice. It featured a book by Isobel Lennart, music by Jule Styne, and lyrics by Bob Merrill. The original pr ...(more) |
| Gigi |
This musical was written for an MGM film, with Leslie Caron (often dubbed by Betty Wand), Louis Jourdan, Maurice Chevalier, and Hermione Gingold, which became one of the great movie musical successes ...(more) |
| Godspell |
Godspell is a musical based on the Gospel of Saint Matthew with music and new lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and book by John-Michael Tebelak. Following closely on the heels of the similarly-themed Je ...(more) |
| Grease |
Grease is a popular musical by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey. A very successful film version was made in 1978 starring John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John. The musical is based around some of the s ...(more) |
| Guys And Dolls |
Guys and Dolls is a successful 1950 musical. On Broadway, it enjoyed a long initial run (1200 performances), as well as three revivals (totalling another 1397 performances). On November 3, 1955 the f ...(more) |
| Gypsy |
Gypsy: A Musical Fable is the full title of a musical with music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and a book by Arthur Laurents. (It is usually referred to as simply Gypsy.) It is frequentl ...(more) |
| Hair |
Hair, subtitled The American Tribal Love/Rock Musical, is a musical about hippies and was a significant part of the drug, music and peace-love culture of the 1960s. It is famous for originally being ...(more) |
| Hello Dolly! |
Hello, Dolly! is one of the most popular Broadway musicals ever written. It opened at the St. James Theater in New York City on January 16, 1964 and ran for 2,844 performances, becoming the longest r ...(more) |
| High Society |
Based on the movie "High Society" and the play "The Philadelphia Story". Music and Lyrics- Cole Porter. The frothy plot of High Society deals with the complications that arise when Tracy Lord, abo ...(more) |
| Holiday Inn |
Holiday Inn is a 1942 film starring Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire, which featured the music of Irving Berlin. In May 1940, Irving Berlin signed an exclusive contract for Paramount Pictures to write ...(more) |
| Jekyll & Hyde |
Jekyll & Hyde is a Broadway musical based on the novel, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson. The original stage conception was by Steve Cuden and Frank Wildhorn. The ...(more) |
| Jesus Christ Superstar |
Jesus Christ Superstar is a rock musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice. Introduced in 1970, it highlights the political and interpersonal struggles of Judas Iscariot and Jesus. The action large ...(more) |
| Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat |
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat was the second musical theatre show written by the team of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice. (The first was "The Likes of Us", a show which was written in ...(more) |