Musicals
This is a general list of musicals, including Broadway musicals, West End musicals, and musicals that premiered in other places.
| On The Town |
On the Town is a musical with music by Leonard Bernstein and book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green. It premiered on Broadway at the Adelphi Theater on December 28, 1944. On the Town was di ...(more) |
| Pal Joey |
Pal Joey is a 1939 epistolary novel by John O'Hara, which became the basis of a 1940 musical comedy and 1957 motion picture of the same name. O'Hara's novel tells the story of Joey Evans, a second ...(more) |
| Pippin |
Pippin is a stage musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and book by Roger O. Hirson. Bob Fosse also contributed to the libretto. The show imagines the life of Pippin the Hunchback, the so ...(more) |
| Porgy and Bess |
Porgy and Bess is an opera with music by George Gershwin, libretto by DuBose Heyward, and lyrics by Ira Gershwin and Heyward. It was based on Heyward's novel Porgy and the play of the same name that ...(more) |
| Rent |
Rent is an American Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning rock musical, with lyrics and music by Jonathan Larson. It debuted in New York City on February 13, 1996 at the New York Theatre Workshop before mo ...(more) |
| Robert and Elizabeth |
Robert and Elizabeth is a theater musical. It has music by Ron Grainer and lyrics and book by Ronald Millar. The story was based on an unproduced musical titled The Third Kiss by Judge Fred G. Moritt ...(more) |
| Seven Brides for Seven Brothers |
Set in Oregon in 1850 Seven Brides for Seven Brothers is the story of Adam, the eldest of seven brothers, who goes to town to get a wife. He convinces Milly to marry him that same day. They return to ...(more) |
| Show Boat |
Show Boat is a musical in two acts with music by Jerome Kern and book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II (with the notable exception of the song "Bill," which was originally written for Kern in 1918 ...(more) |
| Singin' In The Rain |
A Musical in 2 Acts, 17 Scenes. Adaptation (book) by Betty Comden and Adolph Green. Based on their screenplay for the MGM film of the same name. Music by Nacio Herb Brown. Lyrics by Arthur Freed. |
| Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs |
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is the first animated feature in the Disney animated features canon. Although it was not the first full-length animated feature to be produced (the 1917 Argentinian fi ...(more) |
| Song and Dance |
Song and Dance is a musical by composer Andrew Lloyd Webber. It is unique in the fact that the first act is completely sung and the second act is one big dance number. It was originally conceived ...(more) |
| South Pacific |
South Pacific is a musical play, with music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, that opened on Broadway on April 7, 1949, and ran for more than five years. It is generally consider ...(more) |
| Spamalot |
Monty Python's Spamalot is a comedic musical "lovingly ripped off from" the film Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975). Like the film, it is a highly irreverent parody of Arthurian Legend, but it di ...(more) |
| Starlight Express |
Starlight Express is a through-composed rock opera by Andrew Lloyd Webber (music) and Richard Stilgoe (lyrics), with later revisions by Don Black and David Yazbek. It is perhaps most well known for i ...(more) |
| Sunset Boulevard |
Sunset Boulevard is a musical play based on the movie of the same title. The plot revolves around Norma Desmond, a faded star of the silent screen era, living in the past in her decaying mansion on t ...(more) |