Musicals
This is a general list of musicals, including Broadway musicals, West End musicals, and musicals that premiered in other places.
| Sweet Charity |
Sweet Charity, based on Federico Fellini's screenplay for Nights of Cabiria, is a musical directed and choreographed by Bob Fosse, with music by Cy Coleman, lyrics by Dorothy Fields, and book by Neil ...(more) |
| Tell Me On A Sunday |
Originally produced in 1980 as an album, Tell Me On A Sunday was composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber and starred Marti Webb. The lyrics were written by Don Black. It was later reworked as the first ac ...(more) |
| The Beautiful Game |
The Beautiful Game is a musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Ben Elton about a group of teenagers growing up amid religious intolerance in Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1969. The title of the musical ...(more) |
| The Boy From Oz |
The Boy From Oz is a musical based (not entirely accurately) on the life of singer/songwriter Peter Allen and featuring songs written by him. Written by Nick Enright, the show opened at Her Majest ...(more) |
| The King and I |
The King and I is a musical by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, with a script based on the book Anna and the King of Siam by Margaret Landon. The plot comes from the questionable autobiograp ...(more) |
| The Lion King |
The Lion King is an award-winning Broadway stage musical based on the 1994 Disney animated film of the same name and is directed by Julie Taymor, featuring actors in animal costumes as well as giant, ...(more) |
| The Pajama Game |
The Pajama Game is a Broadway musical based on the novel 7-1/2 Cents by Richard Bissell. It features a score by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross. The original Broadway production ran from May 13, 1954 ...(more) |
| The Phantom of the Opera |
The Phantom of the Opera is a musical composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber, based on the novel The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux. It was later adapted into a 2004 motion picture of the same name c ...(more) |
| The Producers |
The 1968 film, The Producers, was adapted as a critically acclaimed Broadway musical by Mel Brooks in 2001. Its first run starred Nathan Lane (who reprised that role during the show's first run on Lo ...(more) |
| The Sound of Music |
The Sound of Music is a Broadway musical based on the book The Story of the Trapp Family Singers by Maria von Trapp. It contains many hit songs, including "Edelweiss", "My Favorite Things", "Climb Ev ...(more) |
| The Wizard of Oz |
The Wizard of Oz is the name of a play based on the screenplay of the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz. The popularity of the film has made the musical play a favorite of schools and community theatres. |
| The Woman in White |
The Woman in White is a musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber and David Zippel with a book by Charlotte Jones, based on the novel The Woman in White written by Wilkie Collins. Musical adaptation of the b ...(more) |
| Victor/Victoria |
On the verge of starvation in 1930s Paris, erstwhile entertainer Victoria is rescued by gay cabaret performer Toddy. What she needs to succeed, opines Toddy, is a gimmick. What if she becomes a male ...(more) |
| We Will Rock You! |
We Will Rock You is a musical play, based on the songs of Queen and named after their hit single of the same name. The musical was written by English comedian and author Ben Elton in collaboration wi ...(more) |
| West Side Story |
West Side Story is a musical written by Arthur Laurents (book), Leonard Bernstein (music), and Stephen Sondheim (lyrics), and was originally produced, choreographed, and directed by Jerome Robbins. W ...(more) |