Famous Broadway Musicals
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42nd Street: 1980 musical about a musical;
Peggy Sawyer becomes a star;
"Lullaby of Broadway"
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Aida: 2000 Elton John & Tim Rice work based on Verdi opera
a love triangle in ancient Egypt
Aida, Radames, Amneris
"Written in the Stars"
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Ain't Misbehavin': 1978 musical featuring the music of Fats
Waller
a tribute to the musicians of the Harlem Renaissance
"I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter",
"I Can't Give You Anything but Love"
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American Idiot: 2010 musical based on the Green Day album
Johnny, Will, Tunny, Whatsername
"Jesus of Suburbia", "Boulevard of Broken Dreams"
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Annie: 1977 show inspired by Harold Gray comic strip
Annie, Miss Hannigan, Oliver 'Daddy' Warbucks
"Tomorrow", "Hard-Knock Life"
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Annie Get Your Gun: 1946 Irving Berlin musical about Annie
Oakley
Annie, Frank Butler, Chief Sitting Bull, Buffalo Bill
"There's No Business Like Show Business", "Doin' What Comes
Natur'lly", "You Can't Get a Man with a Gun", "They Say It's
Wonderful", "Anything You Can Do."
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Anything Goes: 1934 Cole Porter show of antics on NY to London
ship
Billy Crocker, Reno Sweeney, Hope Harcourt, Moonface Martin
"Anything Goes", "You're the Top", "I Get a Kick Out of You."
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Avenue Q: 2003 musical that uses Sesame Street-like puppets
Kate Monster, Princeton, Nicky
"What Do You Do with a B.A. in English?", "It Sucks to Be Me"
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Billy Elliot: 2008 Elton John & Lee Hall based on a movie
a young boy from a UK coal town becomes a ballet star
Billy, Michael Caffrey, Debbie Wilkinson
"Electricity"
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The Book of Mormon: 2011 religious satire musical from
South Park's creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone
Two young missionaries in Uganda
Elder Kevin Price, Elder Arnold Cunningham, Nabulungi
Bye Bye Birdie: 1960 musical about teenagers and rock n' roll in
the 50s
Albert Peterson, Conrad Birdie, Kim MacAfee
"Kids", "Put on a Happy Face", "A Lot of Livin' to Do"
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Cabaret: 1966 musical set in The Kit Kat Club of pre-Hitler Berlin
Sally Bowles, Clifford Bradshaw, Fraulein Schneider
adapted from Goodbye to Berlin & I am a Camera
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Camelot: 1960 Lerner & Loewe musical
based on The Once and Future King by T. H. White
King Arthur, Queen Guenevere, Sir Lancelot, Merlyn
"If Ever I Would Leave You"
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Carousel: 1945 Rodgers & Hammerstein musical set in Maine
adapted from Ferenc Molnár's 1909 play Liliom
romance between carousel barker Billy Bigelow and millworker
Julie Jordan; Carrie Pipperidge, Enoch Snow
"If I Loved You", "June Is Bustin' Out All Over" and "You'll Never
Walk Alone".
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Cats: 1982 Andrew Lloyd Webber musical
from Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot.
The Jellicle cats : Rum Tum Tugger, Mr. Mistoffelees, Old
Deuteronomy, Grizabella
"Memory."
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Chicago: 1975 musical with choreography by Bob Fosse,
based on a 1926 play by reporter Maurine Dallas Watkins about
corrupt courts during Prohibition
Velma Kelly, Roxie Hart, Billy Flynn
"All that Jazz"
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A Chorus Line: 1975 featuring music by Marvin Hamlisch
a group of performers auditioning for a Broadway show
Don Kerr, Maggie Winslow, Mike Costa, Connie Wong
"One", "What I Did for Love"
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Cinderella: 1957 Rogers and Hammerstein fairtale musical
written for television (CBS), starring Julie Andrews
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Crazy for You: 1992 with music from George & Ira Gershwin
based on 1930 musical Girl Crazy
Bobby Child, Polly Baker, Bella Zangler, Irene Roth
"Someone to Watch Over Me", "I Got Rhythm", "But Not for Me",
"They Can't Take that Away from Me", "Nice Wrok if You Can Get
It", "Embraceable You"
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Damn Yankees: 1955 musical set during the 1950s in D.C.,
based Faust legend and on Douglass Wallop's novel The Year the
Yankees Lost the Pennant
Joe Boyd, Joe Hardy, Lola, Mr. Applegate, (The Devil in disguise as
a slick salesman), Meg Boyd
"Whatever Lola Wants, Lola Gets"
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Dream Girls: 1981 story of The Dreams, a fictional all-girl R&B
group
Effie White, Deena Jones, Lorrell Robinson, Curtis Taylor, Jr.,
James "Thunder" Early
"One Night Only"
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Evita: 1978 musical Andrew Lloyd Webber & Tim Rice;
Che Guevara narrates the life story of Eva Peron
"Don't Cry for Me Argentina"
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Fantasticks: 1960 show with music by Tom Jones
based on the Edmond Rostand play "The Romancers"
world's longest running musical (42 years off-Broadway)
two fathers who trick their childreninto falling in love
Matt, Luisa, Hucklebee, Bellomy
"Try to Remember", "Soon It's Gonna Rain"
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Fiddler on the Roof: 1964 musical about a Jewish family in
czarist Russia
from Tevye and his Daughters by Sholem Aleichem
Tevye, Tzeitel, Motel, Hodel, Perchik, Chava, Fyedka
"If I Were a Rich Man", "Matchmaker", "Sunrise, Sunset," "The
Bottle Dance"
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Follies: 1971 Stephen Sondheim musical
story about a reunion in a crumbling Broadway theatre
Ben, Sally, Phyllis and Buddy
"Losing My Mind", "Broadway Baby"
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Footloose: 1998 musical based on the 1984 film
city boy moves to a conservative small town
Ren, Ariel, Reverend Shaw Moore
"Let's Hear It for the Boy", "Almost Paradise"
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Funny Girl: 1964 musical about Ziegfeld Follies star Fanny Brice
Fanny, Nick Arnstein
"People", "You Are Woman, I Am Man", "Don't Rain on My
Parade"
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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: 1962
Stephen Sondheim musical comedy
Inspired by the farces of Roman playwright Plautus
Pseudolus, Hero, Philia, Senex
"Comedy Tonight"
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Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat: 1982, A.
Lloyd Webber & Tim Rice (1st collaboration)
based on story from the Book of Genesis
Jacob, Joseph, Potiphar, Joseph's 11 brothers, Pharoah
"Any Dream Will Do", "Close Every Door"
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The King and I: 1951 Rodgers & Hammerstein
based on Margaret Landon's 1944 novel Anna and the King of Siam
Anna, the King, Tuptim, Lun Tha
"Getting to Know You", "I Whistle a Happy Tune", "Hello Young
Lovers"
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Kinky Boots: 2012 best musical with lyrics by Cyndi Lauper
a struggling British shoe factory's young, straitlaced owner,
Charlie, who forms an unlikely partnership with Lola, a drag
queen, to save the business
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Kiss Me Kate: 1948 Cole Porter musical based on Taming of the
Shrew
Fred, Lilli, Lois, Bill
"Brush up Your Shakespeare", "Too Darn Hot", "Why Can't You
Behave", "Tom, Dick or Harry"
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Les Misérables: 1987 musical by Claude-Michel Schönberg,
based on Victor Hugo novel
Jean Valjean, Javert, Cossette, Marius, Thenardiers
"I Dreamed a Dream", "Master of the House"
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The Lion King: 1997 Elton John & Tim Rice version of the Disney
film
Simba, Mufasa, Scar, Nala, Rafiki, Zazu
"Circle of Life", "Hakuna Matata"
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A Little Night Music: 1972 Stephen Sondheim production
includes the song "Send in the Clowns"
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Little Shop of Horrors: 1982 musical based on the1960 black
comedy film
Audry, Audry II, Seymour, Mushnik
"Feed Me"
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Mamma Mia!: 2001show using some of ABBA's greatest hits
a girl tries to find her father (set on a Greek island)
Donna, Rosie, Tanya, Sam Carmichael
"Mamma Mia!", "Dancing Queen", other ABBA hits
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Man of La Mancha: 1965 musical adaptation of Don Quixote
Quixote, Sancho Panza, Aldonza
"The Impossible Dream", "To Each His Dulcinea"
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Meet Me in St. Louis: 1989 musical based on the 1944 film
set during the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair
Katie the maid, Alonzo Smith, Esther Smith, John Truitt
"The Boy Next Door", "The Trolley Song", "Have Yourself a Merry
Little Christmas"
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Into the Woods: 1987 work by Sondheim and Lapine,
children's stories and what happens afterwards
Cinderella, Jack, Baker, Witch
The Mikado: 1885 Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera
The Emperor of Japa,n Ko-Ko, Nanki-Poo,
"Three Little Maids From School Are We."
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Jersey Boys: 2005 docu-musical about The Four Seasons
Frankie Valli, Tommy DeVito, Bob Gaudio, Nick Massi
"Earth Angel", "Sherry", "Can't Take My Eyes Off of You"
Miss Saigon: 1991 show by Claude-Michel Schönberg
based on Puccini's opera Madame Butterfly
Kim, Christopher Scott, John Thomas
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The Music Man: 1957 Meredith Wilson musical set in 1912 Iowa
conman salesman tries to sell instruments to locals
Professor Harold Hill, Marian Paroo, Marcellus Washburn, Mayor
George Shinn
"76 Trombones", "Till There was You", "Trouble"
Godspell: 1976 show based on the Gospel of Matthew
Jesus, John the Baptist, Peter
"Day by Day", "Beautiful City"
Grease: 1971 musical about highschool in the 1950s
Sandy, Danny, Kenickie, Frenchy
"Summer Nights", "We Go Together"
Guys and Dolls: 1950 musical from Frank Loesser and Abe
Burrows,
gangsters, gamblers, and the NY underworld
Nathan Detroit, Miss Adelaide, Sky Masterson, Sarah Brown
Based on short stories by Damon Runyon
"Luck Be a Lady Tonight", "Sit Down, You're Rockin' the Boat"
Gypsy: 1959 about a stage mother, lyrics by Sondheim
based on the story of Gypsy Rose Lee
Rose, Baby June, Louise
"Everything's Coming Up Roses"
Hair: revolutionary 1968 rock musical of Vietnam-era hippies
Claude, Sheila, Berger, Woof
"Hair", "Aquarius", "Good Morning Starshine"
Hairspray: 2002 musical adapted from the 1988 Movie
Tracy and Edna Turnblad, Amber and Velma von Tussle
"Good Morning Baltimore", "Welcome to the 60s", "The Madison"
- a 60s dance
Hello, Dolly: 1964 show based on Thorton Wilder's play The
Matchmaker
story of a meddlesome widow matchmaker
Dolly, Horace, Cornelius, Barnaby, Irene
"Hello, Dolly" (won a Grammy for Louis Armstrong)
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H.M.S. Pinafore: 1878 comic opera by Gilbert and Sullivan
about the marriage of the captain's daughter
Sir Joseph Porter, Captain Corcoran, Josephine
"I'm Called Little Buttercup" and "When I Was a Lad."
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How to Suceed in Business without Really Trying: 1961
musical based on Shepherd Mead's 1952 book
young man rises from window washer to chairman of the board of
the World Wide Wicket Company
J. Pierrepont Finch, Rosemary Pilkington, J.B. Biggley, Bud Frump,
Hedy LaRue
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Jesus Christ Superstar: 1971 rock opera by Andrew Lloyd
Webber & Tim Rice
Jesus, Judas, Mary Magdalene, Pilate
"I Don't Know How to Love Him", "Everything's Alright"
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My Fair Lady: 1956 show by Lerner & Loewe,
Adapted from Pygmalion by G.B. Shaw;
Eliza Dolittle, Henry Higgins
"The Rain in Spain," "I Could Have Danced All Night", "On the
Street Where You Live"
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Rent: 1996 musical by Jonathon Larson,
lives of artists & musicians under the shadow of AIDS
Based on Puccini's opera La Bohème
Mark, Maureen, Roger, Tom Collins, Benj. Coffin III
"Seasons of Love (525,600 Minutes)"
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No, No Nanette: 1925 musical based on the play My Lady
Friends
three couples in an Atlantic City blackmail scheme
Jimmy Smith, Sue Smith, Nanette
"Tea for Two", "I Want to Be Happy".
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The Rocky Horror Show: 1973 comedic horror cult classic by
Richard O'Brien,
Brad Majors, Janet Weiss, Dr. Frank N Furter
"The Time Warp"
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Oklahoma!: 1943 Rodgers & Hammerstein show often considered
considered the first modern book musical
Curly McLain,Laurey, Ado Annie, Will Parker
"Oh What a Beautiful Mornin'" and "Oklahoma,"
Seussical: 2000 musical amalgamation of Dr. Seuss stories
Horton, Cat in the Hat, JoJo, Gertrude McFuzz
"Horton Hears a Who"
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Showboat: 1927 show w/ music by Jerome Kern & O.
Hammerstein
Based on Edna Ferber's novel of the same name
follows the story of workers on the Cotton Blossom
"Make Believe", "Ol' Man River"
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Oliver!: 1963 musical based on a Dickens' novel
Oliver Twist, Fagin, Nancy, Mr. Brownlow, Bill Sikes, Mr. Bumble,
The Artful Dodger
"Food, Glorious Food", "Consider Yourself"
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Once: 2012 musical based on 2006 independent film
the bittersweet romance of two strangers in Dublin
Guy, Girl
"Falling Slowly" (Oscar-winning song)
Singin' in the Rain: 1985 adaptation of the 1952 movie
romantic tension surround a movie production
Don Lockwood, Lina Lamont, Kathy Selden
"Singin' in the Rain"
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The Pajama Game: 1954 musical based on the novel 7½ Cents by
R. Bissell
labor troubles and love in a pajama factory
Sid Sorokin, Catherine "Babe" Williams, Myron "Old Man" Hasler,
Gladys Hotchkiss
"Hey There", "Steam Heat"
The Sound of Music: 1959 mucial by Richard Rodgers & Oscar
Hammerstein
Maria, Captain von Trapp, the 7 von Trapp children
"My Favorite Things," "Do-Re-Mi", "Edelweiss,"Climb Ev'ry
Mountain"
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South Pacific: 1950 Rogers and Hammerstein musical
romance on a Pacific island during WWII
Nelly Forbush, Emile de Becque, Lt. Joe Cable, Bloody Mary
"Some Enchanted Evening", Bali Hai", "Gonna Wash that Man
Right Outta My Hair", "Happy Talk"
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Spamalot: 2005 Eric Idle musical of Monty Python & the Holy
Grail
King Artur, Sir Lancelot, Lady in the Lake
"Always Look on the Bright Side", "Knights of the Round Table"
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Spring Awakening: 2006 collaboration from Steven Sater &
Duncan Sheik,
A rock musical adaptation of the controversial 1891 German play
of the same title by Frank Wedekind.
Melchior, Wendla, Ilsa, Moritz
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Sweeney Todd: 1979 horror/ comedy by Stephen Sondheim,
Sweeney, Mrs. Lovett, Toby
based on the 1973 play Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet
Street by Christopher Bond.
"Worst Pies in London"
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Thoroughly Modern Millie: 2002 show where Kansas girl
becomes a NY flapper
Millie Dillmount , Jimmy Smith
Based on the 1967 film of the same name
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Tommy: 1993 rock opera based on 1969 album by The Who
Tommy, Captain Walker, Mrs. Walker
"Pinball Wizard", "Tommy Can You Hear Me"
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The Unsinkable Molly Brown: 1960 Meredith Wilson musical
about Molly Brown
Molly, J.J. "Leadville" Johnny Brown
"I Ain't Down Yet"
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West Side Story: 1957 musical By Bernstien and Sonheim;
based on Romeo and Juilet
the Jets, the Sharks, Tony, Maria, Anita, Bernardo
"I Feel Pretty," "America," "Tonight," ,
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Pal Joey: 1940 Rodgers & Hart musical, novel by John O'Hara
Joey schemes to open a night club
Joey, Linda English, Vera Simpson
"I Could Write a Book", "Bewitched, Bothered & Bewildered"
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The Phantom of the Opera: 1986 musical by Andrew Lloyd
Webber,
Adapted from novel by Leroux.
Longest running show in Broadway history.
Christine Daae, the Phantom, Raoul
"Music of the Night", "Think of Me"
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Pippin: 1972 Stephen Schwartz musical
life of Pippin the Hunchback, son of Charlemagne
Pippin, Charlemagne, Catherine
"Magic to Do", "Morning Glow"
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Pirates of Penzance: 1879 Gilbert & Sullivan comic opera
love story about an indentured servant pirate
Frederic, Mabel, Major-General Stanley
"I am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General"
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Porgy and Bess: 1935 opera by George and Ira Gershwin
based on DuBose Heyward's novel and play Porgy
blacks living in the slums of Charleston, South Carolina
Porgy, Bess, Crown, Sportin' Life
"Summertime", "It Ain't Necessarily So", "I Loves You Porgy" and
"I Got Plenty o' Nuttin'".
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The Producers: 2001 Mel Brooks comedy based on his 1968
movie
Max Bialystock, Leopold "Leo" Bloom, Roger De Bris, Carmen
Ghia
"Springtime for Hitler", "Heil Myself"
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Ragtime: 1998 show based on E.L. Doctorow's novel Ragtime
Mother, Tateh, Coalhouse Walker, Jr.
features jazz and rags from the early 1900s
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Wicked: 2003 prequel to The Wizard of Oz
the witches of Oz: Glinda, Elphaba
loosely based on Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire
"Popular", "For Good"