List of musicals: A to L
Appearance
This is a general list of musicals, including Broadway, Off-Broadway, and West End musicals, and musicals that premiered in other places, as well as film and television musicals, whose titles fall into the A–L alphabetic range.
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Production | Year | Venue/type | Music | Lyrics | Book | Notes |
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110 in the Shade | 1963 | Broadway | Harvey Schmidt | Tom Jones | N. Richard Nash | Based on Nash's 1954 play, The Rainmaker. |
13 | 2008 | Broadway | Jason Robert Brown | Brown | Dan Elish and Horn | The only Broadway musical ever with a cast and band entirely made of teenagers. |
1492 Up To Date | 1893 | Broadway | Carl Pflueger | R. A. Barnet | Barnet | A burlesque show. |
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue | 1976 | Broadway | Leonard Bernstein | Alan Jay Lerner | Lerner | Examination of the occupants of the White House, which ran for only 7 performances. |
1776 | 1969 | Broadway | Sherman Edwards | Edwards | Peter Stone | Based on the events leading up to the signing of the Declaration of Independence, with some dialogue and lyrics adapted from the writings of the Founding Fathers of the United States. Tony Awards included Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical for Ron Holgate and Best Direction of a Musical for Peter Hunt. William Daniels, who starred as John Adams, was nominated for Best Featured Actor but declined the nomination in protest, for being ruled ineligible for Best Actor due to his name not being above the title of the show. |
1789: Les Amants de la Bastille | 2012 | French | Rod Janois, Jean-Pierre Pilot, Olivier Schultheis, William Rousseau and Dove Attia | Attia and Vincent Baguian | Attia and François Chouquet | Based on the French Revolution. |
21 Chump Street | 2014 | Off-Broadway | Lin-Manuel Miranda | Miranda | Miranda | 14-minute musical based on a true story told on This American Life. |
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee | 2005 | Off-Broadway and Broadway | William Finn | Finn | Rachel Sheinkin | Performances were partially improvised and featured audience participation (during spelling-bee sequences). Tony Awards for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical for Dan Fogler and Best Book of a Musical for Sheinkin. |
3 Musketiers | 2003 | Rotterdam | Ferdi Bolland, Rob Bolland, and Paul Bogaev | Bolland and Bolland | André Breedland | |
3 Weeks in Spring | 2019 | Sydney | Russell Tredinnick | Ian Gerrard | Ian Gerrard | Workshopped in 2011, premiering at the State Theatre Sydney in August 2019.[1] |
35MM: A Musical Exhibition | 2012 | Off-Broadway | Ryan Scott Oliver | Oliver | Oliver | "Multimedia musical" based on photographs by Matthew Murphy. |
3hree | 2001 | Philadelphia | Laurence O'Keefe (The Mice), John Bucchino (Lavender Girl), and Robert Lindsey Nassif (The Flight of the Lawnchair Man) | Nell Benjamin (The Mice), Bucchino (Lavender Girl) and Nassif (The Flight of the Lawnchair Man) | Julia Jordan (The Mice), James D. Waedekin (Lavender Girl) and Peter Ullian ('"The Flight of the Lawnchair Man) | Three one-act musicals selected by Harold Prince and developed by the Prince Music Theater.[2] |
42nd Street | 1933 | Film | Harry Warren | Al Dubin | Based on Bradford Ropes' novel of the same name. Directed by Lloyd Bacon and Busby Berkeley, written by Rian James and James Seymour. | |
42nd Street | 1980 | Broadway | Harry Warren | Al Dubin and Johnny Mercer | Michael Stewart and Mark Bramble | Based on the 1933 film. |
70, Girls, 70 | 1971 | Broadway | John Kander | Fred Ebb | Ebb and Norman L. Martin | Based on the 1958 play Breath of Spring by Peter Coke and primarily starring cast members who are 70 years of age and older. |
8 femmes | 2002 | French film | Various artists | Various artists | Based on the 1958 play of the same name by Robert Thomas. Directed by François Ozon, written by Ozon and Marina de Van. | |
9 to 5 | 2009 | Broadway | Dolly Parton | Dolly Parton | Patricia Resnick | Based on the 1980 film. |
90210! The Musical! | 2016 | Off-Broadway | Assaf Gleizner | Gleizner | Bob and Tobly McSmith | A musical parody of the television show Beverly Hills, 90210.[3] |
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Production | Year | Venue/type | Music | Lyrics | Book | Notes |
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Fade Out - Fade In | 1964 | Broadway | Jule Styne | Betty Comden & Adolph Green | Comden & Green | Closed after 274 performances, after several changes in lead |
F.F.F | 1920 | Australia | Reginald Stoneham | C. J. De Garis | C. J. De Garis | tour of major Australian cities |
Falsettoland | 1990 | Off-Broadway | William Finn | Finn | James Lapine | Later become half of Falsettos. |
Falsettos | 1992 | Broadway | William Finn | Finn | James Lapine and Finn | |
Fame |
1988 | Off-Broadway | Steve Margoshes | Jacques Levy | Jose Fernandez | Based on the 1980 film version. |
A Family Affair | 1962 | Broadway | John Kander | James Goldman and William Goldman | Goldman and Goldman | |
Fancy Nancy | 2012 | Off-Broadway | Danny Abosch | Susan DiLallo and Abosch | DiLallo | |
Fanny | 1954 | Broadway | Harold Rome | Rome | S. N. Behrman and Joshua Logan | |
The Fantasticks | 1960 | Off-Broadway | Harvey Schmidt | Tom Jones | Jones | Notable songs: "Try to Remember" and "Soon It's Gonna Rain". |
Fellowship! | 2004 | Off-Broadway | Allen Simpson | Various | Kelly Holden-Bashar and Joel McCrary | A Tolkien parody. |
Fiddler on the Roof | 1964 | Broadway | Jerry Bock | Sheldon Harnick | Joseph Stein | Notable songs: "Tradition", "If I Were a Rich Man" and "Matchmaker, Matchmaker". |
The Fields of Ambrosia | 1996 | Canadian | Martin Silvestri | Joel Higgins | Higgins | Based on the 1970 film The Traveling Executioner. |
Finding Nemo | 2007 | Disney musical | Robert Lopez | Kristen Anderson-Lopez | Peter Brosius | |
Finding Neverland | 2012 | Broadway | Scott Frankel and Michael Korie | Frankel and Korie | James Graham | Based on the 1998 play The Man Who Was Peter Pan by Allan Knee and the play's 2004 film adaptation by David Magee. |
Fings Ain't Wot They Used T'Be | 1959 | West End | Lionel Bart | Bart | Frank Norman | |
Finian's Rainbow | 1947 | Broadway | Burton Lane | E. Y. Harburg | Harburg and Fred Saidy | Notable songs: "How are Things in Glocca Morra?" and "Old Devil Moon". |
Fiorello! | 1959 | Broadway | Jerry Bock | Sheldon Harnick | Jerome Weidman and George Abbott | Notable song: "Little Tin Box". |
Firebringer | 2016 | Chicago | Meredith Stepien and Mark Swiderski | Stepien and Swiderski | Matt Lang, Nick Lang, and Brian Holden | |
First Date | 2013 | Broadway | Alan Zachary and Michael Weiner | Zachary and Weiner | Austin Winsberg | |
First Impressions | 1959 | Broadway | George Weiss, Robert Goldman and Glenn Paxton | Weiss, Goldman and Paxton | Abe Burrows | Based on Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice. |
First Lady Suite | 1993 | Off-Broadway | Michael John LaChiusa | |||
Five Guys Named Moe | 1990 | West End | Louis Jordan | Jordan | Clarke Peters | |
The Five O'Clock Girl | 1928 | Broadway | Harry Ruby | Bert Kalmar | Guy Bolton and Fred Thompson | |
The Fix | 1997 | West End | Dana P. Rowe | John Dempsey | John Dempsey | |
Flahooley | 1951 | Broadway | Sammy Fain | E.Y. Harburg | Harburg and Fred Saidy | |
Flashdance | 2008 | West End | Robbie Roth | Roth and Robert Cary | Tom Hedley and Cary | Based on the film Flashdance |
Flora the Red Menace | 1965 | Broadway | John Kander | Fred Ebb | George Abbott and Robert W. Russell | Noted for Broadway debut of Liza Minnelli. |
Florodora | 1899 | West End | Leslie Stuart and Paul Rubens | Rubens and Edward Boyd-Jones | Owen Hall | |
Flower Drum Song + film (1961) |
1958 | Broadway | Richard Rodgers | Oscar Hammerstein II | Hammerstein II and Joseph Fields | Notable songs: "I Enjoy Being a Girl" and "Love, Look Away". |
Floyd Collins | 1996 | Off-Broadway | Adam Guettel | Guettel and Tina Landau | Landau | |
Flying High | 1930 | Broadway | Ray Henderson | B. G. DeSylva and Lew Brown | Brown, DeSylva, and John McGowan | |
Follies | 1971 | Broadway | Stephen Sondheim | Sondheim | James Goldman | Notable songs: "Broadway Baby", "I'm Still Here" and "Losing My Mind". |
Follow That Girl | 1960 | West End | Julian Slade and Dorothy Reynolds | Slade and Reynolds | Slade and Reynolds | |
Follow the Boys | 1963 | Film | Various | Various | Lou Breslow and Gertrude Purcell | |
Follow the Girls | 1944 | Broadway | Phil Charig, Dan Shapiro and Milton Pascal | Charig, Shapiro and Pascal | Guy Bolton and Fred Thompson | |
Follow Thru | 1929 | Broadway | Ray Henderson | B. G. DeSylva and Lew Brown | DeSylva and Lawrence Schwab | |
Footloose |
1998 | Broadway | Tom Snow | Dean Pitchford | Pitchford and Walter Bobbie | Based on the 1984 film version. |
Forbidden Broadway | 1982 | Off-Broadway revue | Various | Gerard Alessandrini | Alessandrini | |
Forbidden Zone | 1980 | Film | Danny Elfman | Elfman | Richard Elfman | |
Forever Plaid | 1990 | Off-Broadway | Various | Various | Stuart Ross | |
Fosse | 1999 | Broadway revue | Various | Various | — | |
The Four Musketeers | 1967 | West End | Laurie Johnson | Herbert Kretzmera | Michael Pertwee | |
Foxes | 2018 | Australian | Shannon Parnell | Shannon Parnell | Rachel Pengilly | |
Foxy | 1964 | Broadway | Robert Emmett Dolan | Johnny Mercer | Ian McLellan Hunter and Ring Lardner Jr. | Based on Ben Jonson's play Volpone. |
Frankenstein | 2007 | Off-Broadway | Mark Baron | Jefferey Jackson | Jackson and Gary P Cohen | |
Freaky Friday + film (2018) |
2016 | Regional | Tom Kitt | Brian Yorkey | Bridget Carpenter | Based on the 1972 book of the same name, the musical is an adaptation of the 1976, 1995, and 2003 films. |
Free as Air | 1957 | West End | Julian Slade | Dorothy Reynolds and Slade | Reynolds and Slade | |
Freestyle Love Supreme | 2019 | Off-Broadway | Various | Various | Various | An 80-minute improvisational hip-hop musical based on audience suggestions. Concept created by Lin-Manuel Miranda, Thomas Kail, and Anthony Veneziale.[17] |
Friends! The Musical Parody | 2017 | Off-Broadway | Assaf Gleizner | Gleizner | Bob and Tobly McSmith | A musical parody of the television show Friends.[18] |
The Frogs | 2004 | Broadway | Stephen Sondheim | Sondheim | Burt Shevelove and Nathan Lane | Originally performed in Yale University's gymnasium's swimming pool in 1974. |
From Generation to Generation | 1996 | Off-Broadway | Karen Sokolof Javitch | Sokolof Javitch | Sokolof Javitch and Elaine Jabenis | |
From Here to Eternity | 2013 | West End | Stuart Brayson | Tim Rice | Bill Oakes | |
From Justin to Kelly | 2003 | Film | Greg Siff | Michael Wandmacher | Kim Fuller | |
Frozen + film (2013) |
2017 | Broadway | Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez | Lopez and Anderson-Lopez | Jennifer Lee | Based on the 2013 film of the same name. |
Frozen Fever | 2015 | Short film | Christophe Beck | Beck | Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee, and Marc E. Smith | |
Full House! The Musical! | 2015 | Off-Broadway | Bob and Tobly McSmith | Bob and Tobly McSmith | Bob and Tobly McSmith | A musical parody of the television show Full House.[19] |
The Full Monty | 2000 | Broadway | David Yazbek | Yazbek | Terrence McNally | Based on the 1997 film version. |
Fun Home | 2015 | Broadway | Jeanine Tesori | Lisa Kron | Lisa Kron | Based on the 2006 graphic memoir Fun Home by Alison Bechdel. |
Funny Face + film (1957) |
1927 | Broadway | George Gershwin | Ira Gershwin | Paul Gerard Smith and Fred Thompson | |
Funny Girl + film (1968) |
1964 | Broadway | Jule Styne | Bob Merrill | Isobel Lennart | Notable songs: "People" and "Don't Rain on My Parade". |
Funny Lady | 1975 | Film | John Kander | Fred Ebb | Jay Presson Allen and Arnold Schulman | |
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum | 1962 | Broadway | Stephen Sondheim | Sondheim | Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart | Notable song: "Comedy Tonight". |
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Production | Year | Venue/type | Music | Lyrics | Book | Notes |
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Katdashians! Break the Musical! | 2016 | Off-Broadway | Bob and Tobly McSmith | Bob and Tobly McSmith | Bob and Tobly McSmith | A musical parody of the Kardashians.[22] |
Kahootz | 2019 | Never produced | Rocky Nardone | Rocky Nardone | Rocky Nardone | |
Kean | 1961 | Broadway | Robert Wright and George Forrest | Wright and Forrest | Peter Stone | |
Keating! | 2007 | Australian | Casey Bennetto | Bennetto | Bennetto | Portrays the political career of former Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating. |
Kelly | 1965 | Broadway | Moose Charlap | Eddie Lawrence | Lawrence | Never officially opened on Broadway. |
The Kid |
2010 | Off-Broadway | Andy Monroe | Jack Lechner | Michael Zam | Based on the memoir by Dan Savage. |
The King and I + film (1956) |
1951 | Broadway | Richard Rodgers | Oscar Hammerstein II | Hammerstein II | Notable songs: "Shall We Dance", "I Whistle a Happy Tune" and "Getting to Know You". |
King David | 1997 | Broadway | Alan Menken | Tim Rice | Rice | |
King Kong | 2013 | Broadway | Marius de Vries | Eddie Perfect | Jack Thorne | Based on the 1933 film on the same name. |
Kinky Boots | 2013 | Broadway | Cyndi Lauper | Lauper | Harvey Fierstein | Based on the 2005 film version. |
Kismet | 1953 | Broadway | Alexander Borodin, Robert Wright and George Forrest | Wright and Forrest | Charles Lederer and Luther Davis | Notable song: "Stranger in Paradise". |
Kiss Me, Kate + film (1953) |
1948 | Broadway | Cole Porter | Porter | Samuel and Bella Spewack | Notable song: "Too Darn Hot". |
Kiss of the Spider Woman | 1993 | Broadway | John Kander | Fred Ebb | Terrence McNally | |
Kissing Time | 1919 | Broadway | Ivan Caryll | Guy Bolton and P. G. Wodehouse | Bolton and Wodehouse | |
Knickerbocker Holiday | 1938 | Broadway | Kurt Weill | Maxwell Anderson | Anderson | Notable songs: "September Song" and "It Never Was You". |
KPOP | 2017 | Off-Broadway | Helen Park and Max Vernon | Park and Vernon | Jason Kim | Based on the K-pop genre of music. |
Kristina från Duvemåla | 1995 | Swedish | Benny Andersson | Björn Ulvaeus | Ulvaeus | |
Kronborg: 1582 | 1974 | Canadian | Cliff Jones | Jones | Jones | Based on William Shakespeare's Hamlet. |
A Kurt Weill Cabaret | 1963 | Off-Broadway | Kurt Weill | Various artists | — | |
Kwamina | 1961 | Broadway | Richard Adler | Adler | Robert Alan Aurthur |
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See also
- List of musicals: M to Z
- List of notable musical theatre productions
- List of operettas
- List of Bollywood films
- List of rock musicals
Notes
- ^ Jenner changed her name due to gender transition in 2015.[13]
References
- ^ "3 Weeks in Spring – A musical about the birth of the Anzac legend". Retrieved 5 May 2019.
- ^ Oxman, Steven (26 April 2001). "Legit Reviews: 3hree". Variety. Variety Media, LLC. Archived from the original on 2 May 2016. Retrieved 14 May 2020.
'3hree' [is a] compilation of one-act musicals selected by venerable producer-director Harold Prince and developed under the auspices of his Prince Music Theater in Philadelphia.
- ^ Clement, Olivia. "90210! The Musical! Opens Tonight". Playbill. Retrieved 23 December 2018.
- ^ Hischak, Thomas (2008). The Oxford Companion to the American Musical: Theatre, Film, and Television. New York, New York: Oxford University Press. p. 7. ISBN 978-0195335330.
- ^ Concord Theatricals (2020). "Alice in Concert". Concord Theatricals. Retrieved 14 May 2020.
This "music hall" version of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass was a New York Shakespeare Festival production. Swados composed the score, adapted the book and directed for the stage. Meryl Streep starred as "Alice" at New York's Public Theatre.
- ^ Hernandez, Ernio (12 January 2004). "Through the Looking Glass: Adult Musical Comedy, Alice in Wonderland, Begins Jan. 12". Playbill. Playbill Inc. Archived from the original on 30 September 2018. Retrieved 14 May 2020.
- ^ Hischak, Thomas (2008). The Oxford Companion to the American Musical: Theatre, Film, and Television. New York, New York: Oxford University Press. p. 13. ISBN 978-0195335330.
- ^ Skethway, Nathan. "Meet the Cast of the New Almost Famous Musical". Playbill. Retrieved 13 September 2019.
- ^ Gans, Andrew. "Bayside! The Musical!, Parody of TV's "Saved By the Bell," Will Play Off-Broadway's Theatre 80". Playbill. Retrieved 23 December 2018.
- ^ Lefkowitz, Andy. "The Big Bang Theory Musical Parody to Debut Off-Broadway". Broadway.com. Retrieved 17 January 2019.
- ^ "New Musical 'Big Tent' Covers Life of Tammy Faye Bakker". Broadway World. Retrieved 18 January 2019.
- ^ Chatter, Rialto. "Rialto Chatter: Is BORN FOR THIS Heading to Broadway?". Broadway World. Retrieved 18 January 2019.
- ^ Leibovitz, Annie (1 June 2015). "Introducing Caitlyn Jenner". Vanity Fair. Retrieved 1 June 2015.
- ^ "Cirque Dreams Holidaze". Cirque Productions. Retrieved 28 November 2018.
- ^ "Cirque Dreams Holidaze". Broadway.com. Retrieved 28 November 2018.
- ^ Catlin, Roger. "Bringing an empowered Cinderella to the stage". The Washington Post. Retrieved 10 January 2019.
- ^ Clement, Olivia. "Lin-Manuel Miranda's Freestyle Love Supreme Adds Shows to Sold-Out Run". Playbill. Retrieved 23 December 2018.
- ^ Clement, Olivia. "Friends Musical Parody Begins Off-Broadway". Playbill. Retrieved 23 December 2018.
- ^ Clement, Olivia. "Musical Parody of "Full House" to Premiere Off-Broadway". Playbill. Retrieved 23 December 2018.
- ^ Gans, Andrew. "Gospel According to Tammy Faye, with Mayes, Peck, Foldesi, Presented Dec. 16-18". Playbill. Retrieved 18 January 2019.
- ^ Bucchino, John. "Past Events". John Bucchino - Songwriter. Retrieved 17 July 2018.
- ^ Weisenstein, Kara. "Katdashians! The Musical! Struts Down a New Stretch of Broadway Theater". Vice. Retrieved 23 December 2018.
- ^ Conley, Erin. "Theater Review: The Last Breakfast Club at Rockwell Table & Stage". On Stage and Screen. Retrieved 9 December 2018.