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42nd Street (1980) (Harry Warren and Al Dubin) Notable songs: 42nd Street, Shuffle Off to Buffalo,
Young and Healthy
Annie (1977) (Strouse and Charnin) Notable songs: Tomorrow, A Hard-Knock Life
Annie Get Your Gun (1946) (Irving Berlin) Notable song: There's No Business Like Show Business
Anyone Can Whistle (1964) (Stephen Sondheim)
Anything Goes (1934) (Cole Porter) Featured Ethel Merman. Notable songs: Anything Goes, Blow,
Gabriel Blow
Babes in Arms (1937) (Rodgers and Hart)
Babes in Toyland
Beauty and the Beast (1994) (Music: Alan Menken; Lyrics: Howard Ashman, Tim Rice)
The Boyfriend (Sandy Wilson)
Bye, Bye Birdie (1960) (Strouse and Adams) Notable song: A Lot of Livin' To Do
Cabaret (Kander and Ebb) Notable song: Cabaret
Carnival (1961 (Bob Merrill)
Carousel (1945) (Rodgers and Hammerstein) Notable songs: Bill's Soliloquy; When you Walk
Through a Storm; What's the Use of Wonderin
Cats (Andrew Lloyd-Webber)
Chess (Tim Rice/Benny Andersson/Bjorn Ulvaeus)
A Chorus Line
Damn Yankees (1955) (Adler and Ross)
Evita (Andrew Lloyd-Webber)
The Fantasticks (Off-Broadway) (1960) (Music: Harvey Schmidt; Lyrics: Tom Jones) To World's
longest-running musical to date (run ended 2002). Notable song: Try to Remember
Fiddler on the Roof (1964) (Music: Jerry Bock, lyrics: Sheldon Harnick) Featured: Zero Mostel.
Notable songs: Tradition, Sunrise, Sunset, If I Were a Rich Man
Follies (Stephen Sondheim)
Funny Girl (1964) (Music: Jules Styne, lyrics: Bob Merrill) Featured Barbra Streisand; notable song:
People
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1962) (Stephen Sondheim)
Gigi
Guys & Dolls
Gypsy (1959) (Music: Jules Styne, lyrics: Stephen Sondheim). Featured Rosalind Russell. Notable
song: Big Spender
Hello, Dolly (1964) (Jerry Herman) Featured Carol Channing; notable song, Hello, Dolly."
Hair (1967) Notable song: Aquarius
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Into the Woods (1987) (Stephen Sondheim)
The King and I (1951) (Rodgers and Hammerstein) Featured: Gertrudge Lawrence, Yul Brynner;
notable songs: Shall We Dance, Getting to Know You
Kiss Me, Kate
Jesus Christ Superstar (Andrew Lloyd-Webber)
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Andrew Lloyd-Webber)
The Lion King (1997) (Music: Elton John; Lyrics: Tim Rice)
Little Shop of Horrors
Mama Mia
Mame
Man of La Mancha
Miss Saigon
The Music Man (1957) (Meredith Willson) Notable songs: Seventy-Six Trombones, Till There was
You, Ya Got Trouble (Right Here in River City),
My Fair Lady (1956) (Lerner and Loewe) Featured: Rex Harrison, Julie Andrews, Stanley Holloway.
Notable songs: Loverly, Accustomed to her Face, Get Me To the Church On Time"
No, No Nanette
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Oliver! (Lionel Bart) Notable songs: Consider Yourself
Oklahoma! (1943) (Rodgers and Hammerstein) Notable songs: Oh! What a Beautiful Mornin',
Oklahoma!, People will Say We're in Love
On a Clear Day, You Can See Forever (Lerner and Loewe)
On the Town (1944) (Music: Leonard Bernstein; Lyrics: Comden and Green) Notable song: New
York, New York (It's A Wonderful Town)
The Pajama Game (1954) (Adler and Ross)
Peter Pan (1954) Featured: Mary Martin
Pippin
Porgy and Bess
The Producers
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Show Boat (1927) (Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II) Notable songs: Old Man River, My Bill,
Can't Help Lovin' That Man of Mine
The Sound of Music (1959) (Rodgers and Hammerstein) Notable songs: Do-Re-Mi, Climb Ev'ry
Mountain, The Sound of Music, My Favorite Things
South Pacific (1949) (Rodgers and Hammerstein) Notable songs: Bali Hai, Some Enchanted
Evening
Starlight Express (Andrew Lloyd-Webber/Richard Stilgoe)
Street Scene (1947) (Music Kurt Weill, lyrics Elmer Rice)
Strike Up the Band (George and Ira Gershwin) Notable song: Strike Up the Band
Sunset Boulevard (Andrew Lloyd-Webber)
Tommy
The Unsinkable Molly Brown
West Side Story (1957) (Music: Leonard Bernstein, lyrics: Stephen Sondheim). Notable songs:
Tonight, America, Gee, Officer Krupke
Where's Charley? (1948) Featured Ray Bolger; notable song Once in Love with Amy
Wonderful Town (1953) (Music: Leonard Bernstein; lyrics: Comden and Green)
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