Musicals
This is a general list of musicals, including Broadway musicals, West End musicals, and musicals that premiered in other places.
| Kiss Me Kate |
Kiss Me, Kate is a stage musical by Samuel and Bella Spewack (book) and Cole Porter (music and lyrics) that ran for 1,077 performances and was first performed in New York on December 30, 1948. It was ...(more) |
| La Cage Aux Folles |
In 1983, composer Jerry Herman (Hello Dolly!, Mame), playwright Harvey Fierstein (Torch Song Trilogy), and director Arthur Laurents (Gypsy) united to collaborate on a musical version for Broadway. A ...(more) |
| Les Misérables |
Les Misérables, commonly known as Les Mis or Les Miz, is, especially in terms of international renown, the most famous of all French musicals. It is based on the novel Les Misérables by Victor Hug ...(more) |
| Little Shop Of Horrors |
Little Shop of Horrors is a 1982 adaptation of The Little Shop of Horrors by composer Alan Menken and writer Howard Ashman, who later went on to write songs for Disney's The Little Mermaid, Beauty an ...(more) |
| Mack and Mabel |
Mack & Mabel is a Broadway musical play. The plot has as its origin the tumultuous relationship between Hollywood director Mack Sennett and Mabel Normand, a waitress from Flatbush, Brooklyn, who b ...(more) |
| Mamma Mia! |
Mamma Mia!, a musical written by British playwright Catherine Johnson, is based on the songs of ABBA. The title of the musical is taken from the group's 1975 chart-topper "Mamma Mia." The musical ...(more) |
| Man of La Mancha |
Man of La Mancha is a 1965 Broadway musical in one act which tells the story of the classic novel Don Quixote as a play within a play, performed by Miguel de Cervantes and his fellow prisoners as he ...(more) |
| Mary Poppins |
Mary Poppins is the central character in a series of children's books written by P. L. Travers and illustrated by Mary Shepard, which were subsequently adapted for film and for the stage. In Decem ...(more) |
| Me and My Girl |
Me and My Girl is a popular British stage musical, with book and lyrics by Douglas Furber and L. Arthur Rose and music by Noel Gay. It was originally performed at the Victoria Palace Theatre in Lo ...(more) |
| Meet Me in St Louis |
Meet Me in St. Louis is a Broadway musical based on the 1944 film of the same title, about a family living in St. Louis, Missouri on the eve of the 1904 World's Fair. It ran from November 2, 1989 thr ...(more) |
| Miss Saigon |
Miss Saigon is a musical by Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil, with lyrics by Richard Maltby, Jr.. It premiered at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, in London on September 20, 1989, closing afte ...(more) |
| My Fair Lady |
My Fair Lady is a 1956 musical theater production with lyrics and book by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe. It was originally adapted by producer Gabriel Pascal into a musical from the sc ...(more) |
| Nine |
Nine is a musical play with a book by Arthur Kopit and music and lyrics by American composer Maury Yeston. The show is a theatrical adaptation of the Federico Fellini film 8½. Fellini's essentiall ...(more) |
| Oklahoma! |
Oklahoma! (1943) was the first musical play written by composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist/librettist Oscar Hammerstein II. Some argue that it marked a revolution in musical drama: while it was har ...(more) |
| Oliver! |
Oliver! is a British musical, with music and lyrics by Lionel Bart. It was made into a film directed by Carol Reed. It first appeared in the West End in 1960, and enjoyed a long run that launched ...(more) |