| A |
| Production |
Year |
Venue/Type |
Music |
Lyrics |
Book |
Notes |
A... My Name Is Alice and
A... My Name Will Always Be Alice |
1984 |
Off-Broadway revue |
David Zippel, Winnie Holzman and Lucy Simon |
Zippel, Holzman and Simon |
Joan Micklin Silver and Julianne Boyd |
|
| A Christmas Story: The Musical |
2012 |
Broadway |
Benj Pasek and Justin Paul |
Pasek and Paul |
Joseph Robinette |
|
| A Dangerous Maid |
1923 |
Broadway |
George Gershwin |
Ira Gershwin |
Charles W. Bell |
Based on Bell's 1918 play, A Dislocated Honeymoon. |
| A Family Affair |
1962 |
Broadway |
John Kander |
James Goldman and William Goldman |
Goldman and Goldman |
|
| A Hatful of Snow |
1994 |
Holiday Musical |
Matthew Breindel |
Breindel |
Breindel |
|
| A Little Princess |
2003 |
Off-Broadway |
Andrew Lippa |
Brian Crawley |
Brian Crawley |
|
| A Minister's Wife |
2011 |
Off-Broadway |
Joshua Schmidt |
Jan Tranen |
Austin Pendleton |
Based on George Bernard Shaw's Candida. |
| A New Brain |
1998 |
Off-Broadway |
William Finn |
Finn |
Finn and James Lapine |
|
| A Tale of Two Cities |
2008 |
Broadway |
Jill Santoriello |
Santoriello |
Santoriello |
|
| A Very Potter Musical |
2009 |
Off-Off-Broadway |
A.J. Holmes and Darren Criss |
Holmes and Criss |
Matt Lang, Nick Lang and Brian Holden |
Performed by StarKid Productions. |
| A Very Potter Sequel |
2010 |
Off-Off-Broadway |
Darren Criss |
Criss |
Matt Lang, Nick Lang and Brian Holden |
Performed by StarKid Productions. |
| A Very Potter Senior Year |
2012 |
Off-Off-Broadway |
A.J. Holmes, Clark Baxtresser, Pierce Siebers and Darren Criss |
Holmes, Baxtresser, Siebers and Criss |
Matt Lang, Nick Lang and Brian Holden |
Performed by StarKid Productions. |
| Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick |
1952 |
Musical Film |
Ray Evans and Jay Livingston |
Evans and Livingston |
Claude Binyon |
|
| Abbacadabra |
1983 |
French musical |
Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus |
Alain Boublil and Daniel Boublil |
N/A |
|
| About Face |
1952 |
Musical film |
Peter de Rose et al |
de Rose et al |
Peter Milne |
|
| About Town |
1906 |
Broadway |
Melville Ellis and Raymond Hubbell |
Joseph Herbert |
Herbert |
|
| Absolute Beginners |
1986 |
Musical film |
Gil Evans and various artists |
Evans and various artists |
Richard Burridge |
|
| Abyssinia |
1906 |
Broadway |
Ted Kociolek |
James Racheff |
Racheff and Kociolek |
Based on the novel Marked by Fire, by Joyce Carol Thomas. |
| Ace |
2006 |
Off-Off-Broadway |
Richard Oberacker |
Robert Taylor and Oberacker |
Taylor and Oberacker |
|
| Ace of Clubs |
1950 |
West End |
Noël Coward |
Coward |
Coward |
|
| Acorn Antiques: The Musical! |
2005 |
West End |
Victoria Wood |
Wood |
Wood |
|
| Across the Universe |
2007 |
Musical film |
The Beatles |
The Beatles |
Julie Taymor |
|
| The Act |
1977 |
Broadway |
John Kander |
Fred Ebb |
George Furth |
|
| The Addams Family |
2010 |
Broadway |
Andrew Lippa |
Lippa |
Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice |
|
| Adding Machine |
2008 |
Off-Broadway |
Joshua Schmidt |
Jason Loewith and Schmidt |
Loewith and Schmidt |
|
| Adèle |
1913 |
Broadway |
Jean Briquet and Adolf Phillipp |
Paul Hervé |
Hervé |
English adaptation by Philipp and Edward A. Paulton. |
| Adonis |
1884 |
Broadway |
Edward E. Rice and John Eller |
Rice and Eller |
William Gill |
|
| The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert |
1994 |
Musical film |
Guy Cross and various artists |
Various artists |
Stephan Elliott |
|
| The Adventures of Tom Sawyer |
2001 |
Broadway |
Don Schlitz |
Schlitz |
Ken Ludwig |
|
| Affair in Trinidad |
1952 |
Musical film |
Lester Lee and Bob Russell et al. |
Lee and Russell et al. |
Berne Giler and James Gunn |
|
| The Affairs of Dobie Gillis |
1953 |
Musical film |
Various Artists |
Various Artists |
Max Shulman |
|
| Afgar |
1919 |
West End |
Charles Cuvillier |
Douglas Furber |
Fred Thompson and Worton David |
|
| Africana |
1934 |
Broadway |
Donald Heyward |
Heyward |
Heyward |
|
| After the Ball |
1953 |
West End |
Noël Coward |
Coward |
Coward |
Based on Oscar Wilde's play, Lady Windermere's Fan. |
| Aida |
2000 |
Broadway |
Elton John |
Tim Rice |
Linda Woolverton, Robert Falls and David Henry Hwang |
|
| Ain't Misbehavin' |
1978 |
Broadway revue |
Various Artists |
Various Artists |
Murray Horwitz and Richard Maltby, Jr. |
|
| Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death |
1971 |
Broadway |
Melvin Van Peebles |
Van Peebles |
Van Peebles |
|
| Aladdin |
1958 |
TV musical |
Cole Porter |
Porter |
S.J. Perelman |
|
Aladdin
- + film (1992)
|
2014 |
Broadway |
Alan Menken |
Howard Ashman, Chad Beguelin and Tim Rice |
Beguelin |
Based on the film of the same name. Notable Songs: "A Whole New World" and "Friend Like Me". |
| Ali Baba fr:Les 1001 Vies d'Ali Baba |
2000 |
French musical |
Fabrice Aboulker and Alain Lanty |
Thibaut Chatel and Frédéric Doll |
|
|
| Alice in Wonderland |
1951 |
Animated film |
Bob Hilliard and Sammy Fain |
Hilliard and Fain |
Winston Hibler and Ted Sears |
|
| Alice in Wonderland: An X-Rated Musical Comedy |
1976 |
Adult film
(Off-Broadway; 2007) |
Jack Stern |
Jack Stern |
Bill Osco |
Based on Lewis Carroll's book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. |
| Alice in Wonderland, a Musical Adventure in One Act |
1997 |
Musical/operetta |
Michael Sirotta |
Michael Sirotta |
Heather M. Dominick and Michael Sirotta |
Based on Lewis Carroll's book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. |
| Alice's Adventures in Wonderland |
1972 |
Musical film |
John Barry |
Barry |
William Sterling |
|
| Alice with Kisses |
1964 |
Off-Broadway |
|
|
|
|
| Alive and Kicking |
1950 |
Broadway revue |
Hoagy Carmichael et al. |
Paul Francis Webster et al. |
I.A.L. Diamond |
|
| All 4 One |
2001 |
Off-West End |
John Trent Wallace |
Kevin John Heuston |
Heuston |
|
| All Aboard |
1913 |
Broadway |
E. Ray Goetz and Malvin M. Franklin |
Goetz |
Mark Swan |
|
| All American |
1962 |
Broadway |
Charles Strouse |
Lee Adams |
Mel Brooks |
|
| All Hands on Deck |
1961 |
Musical film |
Cyril Mockridge |
Donald R. Morris |
Jay Sommers |
|
| All in Fun |
1940 |
Broadway revue |
Baldwin Bergerson and John Rox |
|
|
|
| All in Love |
1961 |
Off-Broadway |
Jacques Urbont |
Bruce Geller |
Geller |
|
| All Shook Up |
2005 |
Broadway Jukebox musical |
Elvis Presley |
Various artists |
Joe DiPietro |
|
| All That Jazz |
1979 |
Musical film |
Ralph Burns |
Various artists |
Robert Alan Aurthur and Bob Fosse |
|
| All the Fun of the Fair |
2008 |
West End |
Ian Wherry |
|
Jon Conway |
David Essex Jukebox musical |
| All the King's Horses |
1935 |
Musical film |
Edward Horan |
Horan |
Edmund H. North, Frank Tuttle and Frederick Stephani |
All the King's Horses by Lawrence Clark, Max Giersberg, Frederik Herendeen and Edward Horan |
| Allegro |
1947 |
Broadway |
Richard Rodgers |
Oscar Hammerstein II |
Hammerstein II |
|
| An Alligator Named Daisy |
1955 |
Musical film |
Stanley Black and Sam Coslow, et al. |
|
Jack Davies |
|
| Alma, Where Do You Live? |
1910 |
Broadway |
Jean Briquet |
George V. Hobart |
Hobart |
|
| Alone at Last |
1914 |
Broadway |
Franz Lehár et al. |
Matthew Woodward et al. |
|
|
| Along Fifth Avenue |
1949 |
Broadway revue |
Gordon Jenkins et al. |
Tom Adair et al. |
|
|
| Altar Boyz |
2005 |
Off-Broadway |
Gary Adler and Michael Patrick Walker |
Adler and Walker |
Kevin Del Aguila |
|
| Ambassador |
1972 |
Broadway |
Don Gohman |
Hal Hackady |
Don Ettlinger and Anna Marie Barlow |
|
| Amen Corner |
1983 |
Broadway |
Garry Sherman |
Peter Udell |
Philip Rose and Peter Udell |
|
| America Kicks Up Its Heels |
1983 |
Off-Broadway |
William Finn |
Finn |
Charles Rubin |
|
| The American Astronaut |
2001 |
Musical film |
Billy Nayer Show |
Nayer Show |
Cory McAbee |
|
| American Idiot |
2010 |
Broadway |
Green Day |
Billie Joe Armstrong |
Armstrong and Michael Mayer |
|
| American Pop |
1981 |
Animated film |
Lee Holdridge |
Various artists |
Ronni Kern |
Paralleling the history of American popular music. |
| An American in Paris |
1951 |
Musical film |
George Gershwin |
Ira Gershwin |
Alan Jay Lerner |
|
| America's Sweetheart |
1931 |
Broadway |
Richard Rodgers |
Lorenz Hart |
Herbert Fields |
|
| The Amorous Flea |
1964 |
Off-Broadway |
Bruce Montgomery |
Montgomery |
Jerry Devine |
|
| Amour |
2002 |
Broadway |
Michel Legrand |
Didier Van Cauwelaert |
Jeremy Sams |
|
| Amphitryon |
1935 |
Musical film |
Franz Doelle |
C. Amberg and Bruno Balz |
Reinhold Schünzel |
Based on the stage play Amphytrion by Molière, Titus Maccius Plautus and Heinrich von Kleist |
| An Arabian Girl and 40 Thieves |
1899 |
Broadway |
W.H. Batchelor, John J. Braham, Jessie Williams and Meyer Lutz |
J. Cheever Goodwin |
|
|
| Anastasia |
1997 |
Animated film |
Stephen Flaherty |
Lynn Ahrens |
Susan Gauthier, Bruce Graham, Bob Tzudiker, Noni White and Eric Tuchman |
|
| Anchors Aweigh |
1945 |
Musical film |
Georgie Stoll |
Various artists |
Natalie Marcin |
|
| And the Angels Sing |
1944 |
Musical film |
Victor Young |
Various Artists |
Claude Binyon, Melvin Frank and Norman Panama |
|
| And the World Goes 'Round |
1991 |
Off-Broadway revue |
John Kander |
Fred Ebb |
N/A |
|
| André Charlot's Revue of 1924 |
1924 |
Revue |
Various artists |
Various artists |
N/A |
|
| Andy Hardy's Private Secretary |
1941 |
Musical film |
|
|
|
|
| Angel |
1978 |
Broadway |
Gary Geld |
Peter Udell |
Udell and Ketti Frings |
|
| Angel in the Wings |
1947 |
Revue |
Bob Hilliard and Carl Sigman |
Hilliard and Sigman |
|
|
| Angelika |
2007 |
Czech musical |
|
|
|
|
| Angélique, Marquise des Anges |
1995 |
French musical |
|
|
|
|
| Angry Housewives |
1983 |
Off-Broadway |
Chad Henry and A.M. Collins |
Henry and Collins |
|
|
| Ani: A Parody |
2014 |
Off-Broadway |
Matt and Nick Lang with music and lyrics by Clark Baxtresser & Pierce Siebers |
|
|
|
| Animal Crackers |
1928 |
Broadway |
Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby |
Kalmar and Ruby |
George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind |
|
| Ankles Aweigh |
1955 |
Broadway |
Sammy Fain |
Dan Shapiro |
Guy Bolton and Eddie Davis |
|
| Anne and Gilbert |
2005 |
Canadian musical |
Jeff Hochhauser, Nancy White and Bob Johnston |
Hochhauser, White and Johnston |
Hochhauser, White and Johnston |
Based on Lucy Maud Montgomery's novels, Anne of Avonlea and Anne of the Island. |
| Anne of Green Gables |
1965 |
Canadian musical |
Norman Campbell |
Don Harron, Campbell, Elaine Campbell and Mavor Moore |
Harron |
Based on Lucy Maud Montgomery's novel, Anne of Green Gables. |
Annie
- + film (1982)
+ film (1999)
+ film (2014)
|
1977 |
Broadway |
Charles Strouse |
Martin Charnin |
Thomas Meehan |
Notable songs: "Tomorrow" and "A Hard-Knock Life". |
Annie Get Your Gun
- + film (1950)
|
1946 |
Broadway |
Irving Berlin |
Berlin |
Herbert Fields and Dorothy Fields |
Notable song: "There's No Business Like Show Business". |
| Annie Warbucks |
1993 |
Off-Broadway |
Charles Strouse |
Martin Charnin |
Thomas Meehan |
Sequel to Annie. |
| Anya |
1965 |
Broadway |
Robert Wright and George Forrest |
Wright and Forrest |
George Abbott and Guy Bolton |
|
| Anyone Can Whistle |
1964 |
Broadway |
Stephen Sondheim |
Sondheim |
Arthur Laurents |
|
| Anything Goes |
1934 |
Broadway |
Cole Porter |
Porter |
Guy Bolton and P.G. Wodehouse |
Notable songs: "Anything Goes", "You're the Top" and "I Get a Kick out of You". |
| Applause |
1970 |
Broadway |
Charles Strouse |
Lee Adams |
Betty Comden and Adolph Green |
|
| Apple Blossoms |
1919 |
|
|
|
|
|
| The Apple Tree |
1966 |
Broadway |
Jerry Bock |
Sheldon Harnick |
Bock, Harnick and Jerome Coopersmith |
|
| April in Paris |
1952 |
Musical film |
Vernon Duke and LeRoy Prinz |
Various artists |
Jack Rose |
|
| April Love |
1957 |
Musical film |
Sammy Fain and Alfred Newman |
Various artists |
George Agnew |
|
| Arabian Nights |
1954 |
Off-Broadway |
Carmen Lombardo and John Jacob Lœb |
Lombardo and Lœb |
|
|
| The Ark |
1998 |
Off-Broadway |
Michael McLean |
McLean and Kevin Kelly |
McLean and Kelly |
|
| The Arcadians |
1909 |
West End |
Lionel Monckton and Howard Talbot |
Arthur Wimperis |
Mark Ambient and Alexander M. Thompson |
|
| Are You With It? |
1945 |
Broadway |
Harry Revel |
Arnold B. Horwitt |
Sam Perrin and George Balzer |
Based on the novel, Slightly Perfect by George Malcolm-Smith. |
| Argentine Nights |
1940 |
Musical film |
Frank Skinner |
Various artists |
J. Robert Bren and Gladys Atwater |
|
| The Aristocats |
1970 |
Animated film |
George Bruns |
Various Artists |
Ken Anderson, Larry Clemmons, Eric Cleworth, Vance Garry, Julius Svendsen, Frank Thomas, and Ralph Wright |
Based on characters created by Tom McGowan and Tom Rowe |
| Arms and the Girl |
1950 |
Broadway |
Morton Gould |
Dorothy Fields |
Herbert Fields and Fields |
|
| Around the World |
1946 |
Broadway |
Cole Porter |
Porter |
Orson Welles |
|
| Arthur! Arthur! |
1969 |
Musical film |
Harry Robertson |
Various artists |
Julian Symons |
A musical retelling of Dudley Moore's Arthur films. |
| Artists and Models |
1955 |
Musical film |
Harry Warren and Jack Brooks |
Various Artists |
Frank Tashlin, Herbert Baker, and Hal Kanter |
Notable song: "Innamorata". |
| As Long as They're Happy |
1954 |
Musical film |
Stanley Black |
Alan Melville |
Melville |
|
| As the Girls Go |
1948 |
Broadway |
Jimmy McHugh |
Harold Adamson |
William Roos |
|
| As Thousands Cheer |
1933 |
Broadway |
Irving Berlin |
Berlin |
Moss Hart |
|
| Aspects of Love |
1990 |
West End |
Andrew Lloyd Webber |
Don Black and Charles Hart |
Lloyd Webber |
Notable song: "Love Changes Everything". |
| Assassins |
1990 |
Off-Broadway |
Stephen Sondheim |
Sondheim |
John Weidman |
Premiered on Broadway in 2004. |
| At Home Abroad |
1935 |
Broadway revue |
Arthur Schwartz |
Howard Dietz |
N/A |
|
| At Long Last Love |
1975 |
Musical film |
Cole Porter |
Porter |
Peter Bogdanovich |
|
| At the Circus |
1939 |
Musical film |
Harold Arlen |
Arlen |
Irving Brecher |
|
| At the Drop of a Hat |
1956 |
Off-West End revue |
Donald Swann |
Michael Flanders |
Swann and Flanders |
Produced on Broadway in 1959. |
| At the Drop of Another Hat |
1963 |
Off-West End revue |
Donald Swann |
Michael Flanders |
Swann and Flanders |
Produced on Broadway in 1966. |
| At War with the Army |
1950 |
Musical film |
Joseph J. Lilley |
Lilley |
James Allardice and Fred Finklehoffe |
|
| Athena |
1954 |
Musical Film |
Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane |
Martin and Blane |
William Ludwig and Leonard Spigelgass |
|
| The Athenian Touch |
1964 |
Off-Broadway |
Willard Straight |
David Eddy |
J. Albert Fracht and Arthur Goodman |
|
| Aunt Sally |
1933 |
Musical film |
Harry M. Woods |
Woods |
Guy Bolton |
|
| Autant en emporte le vent |
2003 |
French musical |
Gérard Presgurvic |
Presgurvic |
|
Based on the novel Gone with the Wind |
| Avenue Q |
2003 |
Broadway |
Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx |
Lopez and Marx |
Jeff Whitty |
Notable songs: "It Sucks to Be Me", "Everyone's a Little Bit Racist" and "There's a Fine, Fine Line". |
| B |
| Production |
Year |
Venue/Type |
Music |
Lyrics |
Book |
Notes |
| Babes in Arms |
1937 |
Broadway |
Richard Rodgers |
Lorenz Hart |
Rodgers and Hart |
Notable songs: "Where or When", "My Funny Valentine", "The Lady Is a Tramp", "Johnny One Note" and "I Wish I Were in Love Again". |
| Babes in Toyland |
1903 |
Broadway |
Victor Herbert |
Glen MacDonough |
MacDonough |
|
| Babes on Broadway |
1941 |
Musical film |
Burton Lane and Roger Edens |
E.Y. Harburg and Ralph Freed |
|
|
| Babette |
1903 |
Broadway |
Victor Herbert |
Harry B. Smith |
Smith |
|
| Baby |
1983 |
Broadway |
David Shire |
Richard Maltby, Jr. |
Sybille Pearson |
|
| Baby It's You! |
2011 |
Broadway |
Various Artists |
Various Artists |
Floyd Mutrox and Colin Escott |
|
| Bad Girls: The Musical |
2006 |
West End |
Kath Gotts |
Gotts |
Maureen Chadwick and Ann McManus |
Based on the ITV1 television series Bad Girls. |
| Back to the 80's |
2004 |
Australian musical |
Neil Gooding |
Gooding |
Gooding |
|
| Bad Habits of 1926 |
1926 |
Broadway revue |
Manning Sherwin |
Arthur Herzog, Jr. |
N/A |
|
| Bajour |
1964 |
Broadway |
Walter Marks |
Marks |
Ernest Kinoy |
Based on Joseph Mitchell's short stories, The Gypsy Women and The King of the Gypsies. |
| Baker Street |
1965 |
Broadway |
Marian Grudeff, Raymond Jessel and Jerry Bock |
Grudeff, Jessel and Sheldon Harnick |
Jerome Coopersmith |
|
| The Baker's Wife |
1989 |
West End |
Stephen Schwartz |
Schwartz |
Joseph Stein |
Aimed at a Broadway run in 1976, but closed during try-outs. |
| The Balkan Princess |
1910 |
West End |
Paul Rubens |
Rubens and Arthur Wimperis |
Frederick Lonsdale and Frank Curzon |
|
| Ball im Savoy |
1932 |
German operetta |
Paul Abraham |
Alfred Grünwald and Fritz Löhner-Beda |
Abraham |
|
| Ballad for Bimshire |
1963 |
Off-Broadway |
Irving Burgie |
Burgie |
Burgie and Loften Mitchell |
|
| Ballroom |
1978 |
Broadway |
Billy Goldenberg |
Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman |
Jerome Kass |
|
| Bambi |
1942 |
Animated film |
Frank Churchill and Edward H. Plumb |
Churchill and Plumb |
Larry Morey |
|
| Band Geeks |
2014 |
Off-Off-Broadway |
Tommy Newman and Mark Allen |
Newman and Gaby Alter |
Alter |
|
| Band Waggon |
1940 |
Musical film |
Various artists |
Various artists |
|
|
| The Band Wagon |
1931 |
Broadway revue |
Arthur Schwartz |
Howard Dietz |
N/A |
Notable songs: "I Love Louisa", "Hoops" and "Dancing in the Dark". |
| Bandanna Land |
1908 |
Broadway |
Will Marion Cook |
Jesse A. Shipp and Alex Rogers |
Shipp and Rogers |
|
| Banjo Eyes |
1941 |
Broadway |
Vernon Duke |
John La Touche and Harold Adamson |
Joseph Quinlan and Izzy Ellinson |
|
| Bar Mitzvah Boy |
1978 |
West End |
Jule Styne |
Don Black |
Jack Rosenthal |
|
| Barbarella |
2004 |
Austrian musical |
Dave Stewart |
Stewart |
Stewart |
Based on the 1968 film. |
| Bare: A Pop Opera |
2000 |
Off-Broadway |
Damon Intrabartolo |
Jon Hartmere, Jr. |
Intrabartolo and Hartmere, Jr. |
Notable song: "Portrait of a Girl". |
| Bare Facts of 1926 |
1926 |
Broadway revue |
Charles M. Schwab |
Henry Myers |
Stuart Hamill |
|
| Barefoot Boy with Cheek |
1947 |
Broadway |
Sidney Lippman |
Sylvia Dee |
Max Shulman |
|
| The Barkleys of Broadway |
1949 |
Musical film |
Harry Warren and George Gershwin |
Ira Gershwin |
Betty Comden, Adolph Green and Sidney Sheldon |
|
| Barnum |
1980 |
Broadway |
Cy Coleman |
Michael Stewart |
Mark Bramble |
|
| Baron Trenck |
1912 |
Broadway |
Felix Albini |
Frederick F. Schrader |
Henry Blossom |
|
| The Baroness Fiddlesticks |
1904 |
Broadway |
Emil Bruguiere |
George De Long |
De Long |
|
| Bat Boy: The Musical |
2001 |
Off-Broadway |
Laurence O'Keefe |
O'Keefe |
Keythe Farley and Brian Flemming |
|
| Bats |
1983 |
Australian musical |
Ian Dorricott |
Simon Denver |
Dorricott and Denver |
|
| The Battle of Paris |
1929 |
Musical film |
Cole Porter, Jay Gorney and Dick Howard |
Howard Dietz and Porter |
Gene Markey |
|
| Be Yourself |
1930 |
Musical film |
Hugo Riesenfeld |
Riesenfeld |
Joseph Jackson |
|
| Beat the Band |
1942 |
Musical TV show |
Various artists |
Various artists |
N/A |
|
| Beatlemania |
1977 |
Broadway revue |
The Beatles |
The Beatles |
Bob Gill, Robert Rabinowitz and Lynda Obst |
|
| Beautiful: The Carole King Musical |
2014 |
Broadway |
Gerry Goffin, Carole King, Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil |
Goffin, King, Mann and Weil |
Douglas McGrath |
|
| Beautiful Dreamer |
1961 |
Off-Broadway |
|
|
|
|
| The Beautiful Game |
2000 |
West End |
Andrew Lloyd Webber |
Ben Elton |
Lloyd Webber and Elton |
|
Beauty and the Beast
- + film (1991)
|
1994 |
Broadway |
Alan Menken |
Howard Ashman and Tim Rice |
Linda Woolverton |
Based on animated Walt Disney film of the same name. Notable songs: "Be Our Guest" and "Beauty and the Beast". |
| The Beauty Shop |
1914 |
Off-Broadway |
Charles J. Gebest |
Rennold Wolf |
|
|
| The Beauty Spot |
1909 |
Off-Broadway |
Reginald De Koven |
Joseph W. Herbert |
Herbert |
|
| Beauty World |
1988 |
Singaporean musical |
Dick Lee |
Michael Chiang |
Chiang |
|
| Because You're Mine |
1952 |
Musical film |
Johnny Green |
Green |
Ruth Brooks Flippen and Sy Gomberg |
|
| Bedknobs and Broomsticks |
1971 |
Animated film |
Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman |
Irwin Kostal |
Bill Walsh and Don DaGradi |
Notable songs: "The Age of Not Believing" and "Substitutiary Locomotion". |
| A Bedtime Story |
1933 |
Musical film |
Ralph Rainger |
Rainger |
Benjamin Glazer and Nunnally Johnson |
|
| The Beggar Student |
1882 |
German operetta |
Carl Millöcker |
Camillo Walzel and Richard Genée |
Millöcker |
|
| Beggar's Holiday |
1946 |
Broadway |
Duke Ellington |
John La Touche |
La Touche |
|
| The Beggar's Opera |
1728 |
West End opera |
John Gay |
Gay |
Gay |
|
| Behind the Iron Mask |
2005 |
West End |
John Robinson |
Robinson |
Colin Scott and Melinda Walker |
The show draws inspiration from the Man in the Iron Mask. |
| Bel-Ami |
2014 |
Off-West End |
Alex Loveless |
Loveless |
Loveless |
A contemporary musical adaptation of the book of the same name. |
| Bell Bottom George |
1943 |
Musical film |
Harry Bidgood |
Bidgood |
Edward Dryhurst and Peter Fraser |
|
| Belles belles belles |
2003 |
French musical |
Claude François, Jean-Pierre Bourtayre, Carolin Petit |
Claude François, Daniel Moyne |
Daniel Moyne, Jean-Pierre Bourtayre |
Jukebox musical based on songs by Claude François. |
| La belle Hélène |
1864 |
Paris opera bouffe |
Jacques Offenbach |
Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy |
Offenbach |
|
| La Belle Meunière |
1948 |
Musical film |
Tony Aubin |
Aubin |
Marcel Pagnol |
|
| The Belle of Brittany |
1908 |
Opera |
Howard Talbot and Marie Horne |
Percy Greenbank et al. |
Leedham Bantock and P.J. Barrow |
|
| The Belle of New York |
1897 |
Broadway |
Gustave Kerker |
Hugh Morton |
Morton |
|
| Belle of the Nineties |
1934 |
Musical film |
Arthur Johnston |
Johnston |
Mae West |
|
| Belle of the Yukon |
1944 |
Musical film |
Arthur Lange |
Lange |
Houston Branch |
|
| Bells Are Ringing |
1956 |
Broadway |
Jule Styne |
Betty Comden and Adolph Green |
Comden and Green |
A film was released in 1960. |
| Belmont Varieties |
1932 |
Broadway revue |
Various artists |
Various artists |
N/A |
|
| The Beloved Vagabond |
1936 |
Musical film |
Darius Milhaud |
Milhaud |
William John Locke |
|
| Ben Franklin in Paris |
1964 |
Broadway |
Mark Sandrich, Jr. and Jerry Herman |
Sidney Michaels |
Michaels |
|
| Bernarda Alba |
2006 |
Off-Broadway |
Michael John LaChiusa |
LaChiusa |
LaChiusa |
|
| Bernardine |
1957 |
Musical film |
Lionel Newman and Johnny Mercer |
Newman and Mercer |
Mary Chase and Theodore Reeves |
|
| Besame Mucho El Musical |
2005 |
Mexican Jukebox musical |
José María Vitier (arranger) |
Various artists |
Consuelo Garrido, Lorena Maza and Victor Weinstock |
Based on Bolero songs of the 1920s Mexico. |
| Best Foot Forward |
1941 |
Broadway |
Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane |
Martin and Blane |
John Cecil Holm |
|
| The Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public |
1994 |
Broadway |
Carol Hall |
Hall |
Larry L. King and Peter Masterson |
|
| The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas |
1978 |
Broadway |
Carol Hall |
Hall |
Larry L. King and Peter Masterson |
|
| The Best Things in Life Are Free |
1956 |
Musical film |
Lionel Newman |
Lew Brown and Buddy DeSylva |
William Bowers and Phoebe Ephron |
|
| Betjemania |
1976 |
West End |
John Gould |
John Betjeman |
David Benedictus and Gould |
|
| Bette Midler's Clams on the Half Shell |
1975 |
Broadway revue |
Various artists |
Various artists |
Bruce Vilanch, Bill Hennessy and Jerry Blatt |
|
| Bette! Divine Madness |
1979 |
Broadway revue |
Various artists |
Various artists |
Jerry Blatt, Bette Midler and Bruce Vilanch |
|
| The Better 'Ole |
1917 |
West End |
Herman Darewski |
Percival Knight and James Heard |
Bruce Bairnsfather and Arthur Elliot |
|
| Better Tunes |
1922 |
Broadway revue |
|
|
|
|
| Betty |
1915 |
West End |
Paul Rubens and Ernest Steffan |
Adrian Ross and Rubens |
Frederick Lonsdale and Gladys Unger |
|
| Betty Blue Eyes |
2011 |
West End |
George Stiles |
Anthony Drewe |
Ron Cowen and Daniel Lipman |
Based on A Private Function by Alan Bennett and Malcolm Mowbray. |
| Between the Devil |
1937 |
Broadway |
Arthur Schwartz |
Howard Dietz |
Dietz |
|
| Betwixt! |
2008 |
Off West End |
Ian McFarlane |
Mcfarlane |
Mcfarlane |
|
| Beyond the Fringe |
1961 |
West End revue |
Various artists |
Various artists |
Alan Bennett, Peter Cook, Jonathan Miller and Dudley Moore |
|
| Bible Women |
1995 |
Off-Broadway |
Elizabeth Swados |
Swados |
Swados |
|
| Big: the musical |
1996 |
Broadway |
David Shire |
Richard Maltby, Jr. |
John Weidman |
|
| The Big Bad Musical |
2009 |
Off-Broadway |
Bill Francoeur |
Francoeur |
Alec Strum |
|
| The Big Beat |
1958 |
Musical film |
Henry Mancini |
Mancini |
David P. Harmon |
|
| Big Boy |
1925 |
Broadway |
James F. Hanley and Joseph Meyer |
Buddy DeSylva |
Harold R. Atteridge |
|
| The Big Broadcast |
1932 |
Musical film |
Various artists |
Various artists |
William Ford Manley |
|
| The Big Broadcast of 1936 |
1935 |
Musical film |
Various artists |
Various artists |
Walter DeLeon, Francis Martin and Ralph Spence |
|
| The Big Broadcast of 1937 |
1936 |
Musical film |
Various artists |
Various artists |
Walter DeLeon and Francis Martin |
|
| The Big Broadcast of 1938 |
1938 |
Musical film |
Various artists |
Various artists |
Walter DeLeon, Francis Martin and Ken Englund |
|
| Big Fella |
1937 |
Musical film |
G. H. Clutsam and Will Grosz |
Clutsam and Grosz |
Ingram D'Abbes and Fenn Sherie |
|
| Big Fish |
2013 |
Broadway |
Andrew Lippa |
Lippa |
John August |
Based on the film of the same name. |
| The Big Gay Musical |
2009 |
Musical film |
Rick Crom |
Crom |
Fred M. Caruso |
|
| Big River |
1985 |
Broadway |
Roger Miller |
Miller |
William Hauptman |
|
| Billboard Girl |
1932 |
Musical film |
|
|
Lewis R. Foster, Harry McCoy, Earle Rodney and John A. Waldron |
|
| Billie |
1928 |
Broadway |
George M. Cohan |
Cohan |
Cohan |
|
| Billie |
1965 |
Musical film |
Dominic Frontiere |
Frontiere |
Ronald Alexander |
|
| Billion Dollar Baby |
1945 |
Broadway |
Morton Gould |
Betty Comden and Adolph Green |
Comden and Green |
|
| Billy |
1974 |
West End |
John Barry |
Don Black |
Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais |
|
| Billy Elliot the Musical |
2004 |
West End
Broadway |
Elton John |
Lee Hall |
Hall |
|
| The Billy Barnes Revue |
1959 |
Off-Broadway revue |
Billy Barnes |
Barnes |
Bob Rodgers |
|
| Billy Noname |
1970 |
Off-Broadway |
Johnny Brandon |
Brandon |
William Wellington Mackey |
|
| The Bing Boys Are Here |
1916 |
West End revue |
Nat D. Ayer |
Clifford Grey |
George Grossmith, Jr. and Fred Thompson |
|
| The Bing Boys on Broadway |
1918 |
West End revue |
Nat D. Ayer |
Clifford Grey |
George Grossmith, Jr. and Fred Thompson |
|
| The Bing Girls Are There |
1917 |
West End revue |
Nat D. Ayer |
Clifford Grey |
George Grossmith, Jr. and Fred Thompson |
|
| The Biograph Girl |
1980 |
West End |
David Heneker |
Heneker and Warner Brown |
Brown |
|
| Birds of Paradise |
1987 |
Off-Broadway |
David Evans |
Winnie Holzman |
Evans and Holzman |
|
| Bitter Sweet |
1929 |
West End operetta |
Noël Coward |
Coward |
Coward |
|
| Black and Blue |
1985 |
French musical revue |
Various artists |
Various artists |
N/A |
|
| The Black Crook |
1866 |
Broadway |
Thomas Baker, Giuseppe Operti and George Bickwell |
Theodore Kennick |
Charles M. Barras |
|
| Blackbirds of 1928 |
1928 |
Broadway revue |
Jimmy McHugh |
Dorothy Fields |
N/A |
Notable song: "Doin' the New Low-Down". |
| The Black Rider |
1990 |
German musical |
Tom Waits |
Waits |
William S. Burroughs |
|
| Das Blaue Vom Himmel |
1932 |
Musical film |
Paul Abraham |
Abraham |
Max Kolpé and Billy Wilder |
|
| Bleach |
2005 |
Japanese anime musical |
Shoichi Tama |
Naoshi Okumura |
Okumura |
|
| Bless the Bride |
1947 |
West End |
Vivian Ellis |
A. P. Herbert |
Herbert |
|
| Bless You All |
1950 |
Broadway revue |
Harold Rome |
Rome |
N/A |
|
| Blitz! |
1962 |
West End |
Lionel Bart |
Bart |
Bart and Joan Maitland |
|
| The Blonde in Black |
1903 |
Broadway |
Gustav Kerker |
Harry B. Smith |
Smith |
|
| Die Blonde Nachtigall |
1930 |
Musical film |
Willy Kollo and Otto Stransky |
Kollo and Stransky |
Walter Schlee and Walter Wassermann |
|
| Blondel |
1983 |
West End |
Stephen Oliver |
Tim Rice |
Rice |
|
| Ein blonder Traum |
1932 |
Musical film |
Werner R. Heymann |
Heymann |
Walter Reisch and Billy Wilder |
|
| Blondie Goes Latin |
1941 |
Musical film |
Leo Arnaud |
Arnaud |
Karen DeWolf and Richard Flournoy |
|
| Blood Brothers |
1983 |
West End |
Willy Russell |
Russell |
Russell |
Notable songs: "Marilyn Monroe" and "Tell Me It's Not True". |
| Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson |
2008 |
Off-Broadway |
Michael Friedman |
Friedman |
Alex Timbers |
|
| Bloomer Girl |
1944 |
Broadway |
Harold Arlen |
E. Y. Harburg |
Sig Herzig and Fred Saidy |
|
| Blossom Time |
1921 |
Austrian operetta |
Franz Schubert |
Alfred Maria Willner and Heinz Reichert |
Willner and Reichert |
|
| The Blue Angel |
1930 |
Musical film |
Friedrich Hollaender |
Robert Liebmann |
Heinrich Mann |
|
| Bluebell in Fairyland |
1901 |
West End |
Walter Slaughter |
Aubrey Hopwood and Charles H. Taylor |
Seymour Hicks |
|
| Blue Hawaii |
1961 |
Musical film |
Joseph J. Lilley |
Lilley |
Allan Weiss |
|
| Blue Holiday |
1945 |
Broadway revue |
Al Moritz |
Mortiz |
N/A |
|
| The Blue Kitten |
1922 |
Broadway |
Rudolf Friml |
Otto Harbach and William Carey Duncan |
Harbach and Duncan |
|
| The Blue Mazurka |
1927 |
West End operetta |
Franz Lehár |
Leo Stein and Bela Jenbach |
Stein and Jenbach |
|
| Blue of the Night |
1933 |
Musical film |
Various artists |
Various artists |
|
|
| The Blue Paradise |
1915 |
Broadway |
Edmund Eysler and Sigmund Romberg |
Herbert Reynolds |
Edgar Smith |
|
| Blue Rhythm |
1931 |
Musical film |
W. C. Handy |
Handy |
|
|
| Blue Skies |
1946 |
Musical film |
Irving Berlin |
Berlin |
Berlin |
|
| Blues in the Night |
1941 |
Musical film |
Heinz Roemheld |
Roemheld |
Edwin Gilbert, Elia Kazan and Robert Rossen |
|
| Blues in the Night |
1982 |
Off-Broadway revue |
Various artists |
Various artists |
N/A |
|
| Boccaccio |
1936 |
Musical film |
Franz Doelle |
Doelle |
Emil Burri and Walter Forster |
|
| The Body Beautiful |
1958 |
Broadway |
Jerry Bock |
Sheldon Harnick |
Joseph Stein and Will Glickman |
|
The Bodyguard
- + film (1992)
|
2012 |
West End Jukebox musical |
Various artists |
Various artists |
Alexander Dinelaris |
Based on the film of the same name. |
| The Bohemian Girl |
1843 |
West End opera |
Michael William Balfe |
Alfred Bunn |
Balfe |
|
| Bombay Dreams |
2002 |
West End |
A. R. Rahman |
Don Black |
Meera Syal and Thomas Meehan |
|
| Bombo |
1921 |
Broadway |
Sigmund Romberg |
Harold R. Atteridge |
Atteridge |
|
| Bonnie and Clyde |
2009 |
Off-Broadway |
Frank Wildhorn |
Don Black |
Ivan Menchell |
|
| Boobs! The Musical |
2003 |
Off-Broadway |
Ruth Wallis |
Wallis |
Steve Mackes and Michael Whaley |
|
| Boogie Nights |
1998 |
West End |
Various artists |
Various artists |
Jon Conway |
|
| The Book of Mormon |
2011 |
Broadway |
Robert Lopez, Trey Parker and Matt Stone |
Lopez, Parker and Stone |
Lopez, Parker and Stone |
|
| Boots and Saddles |
1937 |
Musical film |
Raoul Kraushaar |
Kraushaar |
Jack Natteford |
|
| Boots! Boots! |
1934 |
Musical film |
|
|
Jack Cottrell and George Formby |
|
| Born to Dance |
1936 |
Musical film |
Cole Porter |
Porter |
Jack McGowan and Sid Silvers |
Notable song: "I've Got You Under My Skin". |
| Bottoms Up |
1934 |
Musical film |
Howard Jackson |
Jackson |
David Buster, Buddy DeSylva and Sid Silvers |
|
| Boy Meets Boy |
1975 |
Off-Broadway |
Bill Solly |
Solly |
Solly and Donald Ward |
|
| The Boy Friend |
1954 |
West End |
Sandy Wilson |
Wilson |
Wilson |
|
| The Boy from Oz |
2003 |
Broadway |
Peter Allen |
Allen |
Nick Enright and Martin Sherman |
|
| The Boy Who Heard Music |
2007 |
Workshop |
Pete Townshend and Rachel Fuller |
Townshend and Fuller |
Townshend |
Adaptation of The Who's rock opera Wire and Glass. |
| The Boys from Syracuse |
1938 |
Broadway |
Richard Rodgers |
Lorenz Hart |
George Abbott |
Notable songs: "Falling in Love with Love" and "This Can't Be Love". |
| Bran Nue Dae |
1990 |
Australian musical |
Jimmy Chi and Kuckles |
Chi and Kuckles |
Chi and Kuckles |
|
| Bravo Giovanni |
1962 |
Broadway |
Milton Schafer |
Ronny Graham |
A. J. Russell |
|
| Breakfast at Tiffany's |
1966 |
Broadway |
Bob Merrill |
Merrill |
Edward Albee |
Aimed at Broadway but closed during previews. |
| Brewster's Millions |
1935 |
Musical film |
Marr Mackie |
Mackie |
Arthur Wimperis |
|
| The Bridges of Madison County |
2014 |
Broadway |
Jason Robert Brown |
Brown |
Marsha Norman |
Based on the novel of the same name. |
| Brigadoon |
1947 |
Broadway |
Frederick Loewe |
Alan Jay Lerner |
Lerner |
Notable song: "Almost Like Being in Love". |
| Bright Eyes |
1934 |
Musical film |
Richard A. Whiting and Samuel Kaylin |
Whiting and Kaylin |
William Conselman |
|
| Bright Lights, Big City |
2004 |
Off-Broadway |
Paul Scott Goodman |
Goodman |
Goodman |
|
| Bright Lights of 1944 |
1943 |
Broadway revue |
Jerry Livingston |
Mack David |
Norman Anthony and Charles Sherman |
|
| Bandanna Land |
1908 |
Broadway |
Will Marion Cook |
Jesse A. Shipp and Alex Rogers |
Shipp and Rogers |
|
| Bright Star |
2016 |
Broadway |
Edie Brickell and Steve Martin |
Edie Brickell |
Steve Martin |
|
| Bring in 'da Noise, Bring in 'da Funk |
1996 |
Broadway revue |
Daryl Waters, Zane Mark and Ann Duquesnay |
Reg E. Gaines, George C. Wolfe and Duquesnay |
Gaines |
|
| Bring It On |
2012 |
Broadway |
Lin-Manuel Miranda and Tom Kitt |
Amanda Green and Miranda |
Jeff Whitty |
Based on the 2000 film. |
| Bring on the Girls |
1945 |
Musical film |
Robert E. Dolan |
Dolan |
Karl Tunberg, Darrell Ware and Pierre Wolff |
|
| Bring Your Smile Along |
1955 |
Musical film |
Paul Mason Howard |
Howard |
Blake Edwards and Richard Quine |
|
| Britannia of Billingsgate |
1933 |
Musical film |
Various artists |
Various artists |
Christine Jope-Slade and Sewell Stokes |
|
| Broadway Gondolier |
1935 |
Musical film |
Heinz Roemheld |
Roemheld |
Sig Herzig, Yip Harburg and Hanns Kräly |
|
| Broadway Hostess |
1935 |
Musical film |
Ray Heindorf and Heinz Roemheld |
Heindorf and Roemheld |
George Bricker |
|
| The Broadway Melody |
1929 |
Musical film |
Nacio Herb Brown, George M. Cohan and Willard Robison |
Brown, Cohan and Robison |
Edmund Goulding, Norman Houston and James Gleason |
|
| Broadway Melody of 1936 |
1935 |
Musical film |
Nacio Herb Brown |
Brown |
Harry W. Conn, Moss Hart, Jack McGowan and Sid Silvers |
|
| Broadway Melody of 1938 |
1937 |
Musical film |
Nacio Herb Brown |
Arthur Freed |
Jack McGowan |
|
| Broadway Melody of 1940 |
1940 |
Musical film |
Cole Porter, Roger Edens and Walter Ruick |
Porter, Edens and Ruick |
Jack McGowan and Dore Schary |
|
| Broadway Through a Keyhole |
1933 |
Musical film |
Alfred Newman |
Newman |
C. Graham Baker and Gene Towne |
|
| Brooklyn |
2004 |
Broadway |
Mark Schoenfeld and Barri McPherson |
Schoenfeld and McPherson |
Schoenfeld and McPherson |
|
| A Broken Idol |
1909 |
Broadway |
Egbert Van Alstyne |
Harry Williams |
Hal Stephens |
|
| Bronx Bombers |
2014 |
Broadway |
Lindsay Jones |
Eric Simonson |
Simonson |
|
| Bubbling Brown Sugar |
1976 |
Broadway revue |
Various artists |
Various artists |
Loften Mitchell |
|
| Buck Benny Rides Again |
1940 |
Musical film |
Victor Young |
Young |
Arthur Stinger, Edmund Beloin and William Morrow |
|
| Buck Privates |
1941 |
Musical film |
Charles Previn |
Previn |
Arthur T. Horman |
|
| Buddies |
1919 |
Broadway |
B. C. Hilliam |
Hilliam |
George V. Hobart |
|
| Buddy – The Buddy Holly Story |
1989 |
West End Jukebox musical |
Various artists |
Various artists |
N/A |
|
| Bugs Bunny on Broadway |
1990 |
Broadway |
Carl Stalling and Milt Franklyn |
Stalling and Franklyn |
George Daugherty |
Based on the TV series Looney Tunes. |
| Bugsy Malone |
1976 |
Musical film
West End |
Paul Williams |
Williams |
Alan Parker |
Notable songs: "Fat Sam's Grand Slam" and "So You Wanna Be a Boxer?". |
| Bullets Over Broadway |
2014 |
Broadway revue |
Various artists |
Various artists |
Woody Allen |
Based on the film of the same name. |
| Bundle of Joy |
1956 |
Musical film |
|
|
Robert Carson, Norman Krasna, Arthur Sheekman and Felix Jackson |
|
| Bus Stop |
1956 |
Musical film |
Ken Darby, Cyril J. Mockridge, Alfred Newman and Lionel Newman |
Darby, Mockridge, Newman and Newman |
George Axelrod and William Inge |
|
| By Jeeves |
1975 |
West End |
Andrew Lloyd Webber |
Alan Ayckbourn |
Lloyd Webber and Ayckbourn |
|
| By Jupiter |
1942 |
Broadway |
Richard Rodgers |
Lorenz Hart |
Rodgers and Hart |
Based on The Warrior's Husband by Julian F. Thompson. |
| By the Beautiful Sea |
1954 |
Broadway |
Arthur Schwartz |
Dorothy Fields |
Herbert Fields and Fields |
|
| By the Light of the Silvery Moon |
1953 |
Musical film |
Gus Edwards and Max Steiner |
Edwards and Steiner |
Booth Tarkington |
|
| By the Way |
1925 |
Off-Broadway revue |
Vivian Ellis |
Graham John |
N/A |
|
| Bye Bye Birdie |
1960 |
Broadway |
Charles Strouse |
Lee Adams |
Michael Stewart |
Notable songs: "A Lot of Livin' to Do", "Kids" and "Put On a Happy Face". |
| C |
| Production |
Year |
Venue/Type |
Music |
Lyrics |
Book |
Notes |
| Cab Calloway's Hi-De-Ho |
1933 |
Musical film |
Cab Calloway |
Calloway |
Milton Hockey and Fred Rath |
|
| Cabalgata |
1949 |
Broadway revue |
Ramon Bastida |
Bastida |
N/A |
|
Cabaret
- + film (1972)
|
1966 |
Broadway |
John Kander |
Fred Ebb |
Joe Masteroff |
Notable songs: "Cabaret", "Maybe This Time" and "Willkommen". |
Cabin in the Sky
- + film (1943)
|
1940 |
Broadway |
Vernon Duke |
John La Touche. |
Lynn Root |
|
| The Caddy |
1953 |
Musical film |
Joseph J. Lilley |
Lilley |
Danny Arnold and Edmund Hartmann |
|
| La Cage aux Folles |
1983 |
Broadway |
Jerry Herman |
Herman |
Harvey Fierstein |
Notable song: "I Am What I Am". |
| Calamity Jane |
1953 |
Musical film |
Sammy Fain |
Paul Francis Webster |
James O'Hanlon |
Notable song: "Secret Love". |
Call Me Madam
- + film (1953)
|
1950 |
Broadway |
Irving Berlin |
Berlin |
Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse |
Star vehicle for Ethel Merman. |
| Call Me Mister |
1946 |
Broadway revue |
Harold Rome |
Rome |
N/A |
|
| Call of the Flesh |
1930 |
Musical film |
William Axt |
Axt |
John Colton and Dorothy Farnum |
|
| Calypso Heat Wave |
1957 |
Musical film |
Arthur Morton |
Morton |
David Chandler |
|
Camelot
- + film (1967)
|
1960 |
Broadway |
Frederick Loewe |
Alan Jay Lerner |
Lerner |
Notable songs: "Camelot", "If Ever I Would Leave You", "I Loved You Once in Silence" and "The Lusty Month of May". |
| Camp |
2003 |
Musical film |
Various artists |
Various artists |
Todd Graff |
|
Can-Can
- + film (1960)
|
1953 |
Broadway |
Cole Porter |
Porter |
Abe Burrows |
Notable song: "I Am in Love". |
| Candide |
1956 |
Broadway |
Leonard Bernstein |
Richard Wilbur |
Lillian Hellman |
Notable song: "Glitter and Be Gay". |
| The Candy Shop |
1909 |
Broadway |
John L. Golden |
Golden |
George V. Hobart |
|
| Cannibal! The Musical |
1993 |
Musical film |
Trey Parker and Rich Sanders |
Parker and Sanders |
Parker |
Originally known as Alferd Packer: The Musical. |
| Can't Help Singing |
1944 |
Musical film |
Jerome Kern |
E. Y. Harburg |
Lewis R. Foster and Frank Ryan |
|
| Canticle of the Plains |
1997 |
Concept album |
Rich Mullins, Mitch McVicker and Beaker |
Mullins, McVicker and Beaker |
N/A |
|
| Canterbury Tales |
1968 |
West End |
John Hawkins and Richard Hill |
Nevill Coghill |
Martin Starkie and Coghill |
|
| Can't Stop the Music |
1980 |
Musical film |
Various artists |
Various artists |
Allan Carr and Bronte Woodard |
Starred the Village People, Steve Guttenberg, Valerie Perrine and Caitlyn Jenner (credited as Bruce Jenner).[a] |
| The Capeman |
1998 |
Broadway |
Paul Simon |
Simon and Derek Walcott |
Simon and Walcott |
|
| Le capitaine Craddock |
1931 |
Musical film |
Werner R. Heymann |
Heymann |
Hans Müller |
|
| El Capitan |
1896 |
Broadway |
John Philip Sousa |
Charles Klein and Tom Frost |
Klein |
|
| Captain January |
1936 |
Musical film |
Lew Pollack |
Pollack |
Sam Hellman, Gladys Lehman and Harry Tugend |
|
| Captain Jinks |
1925 |
Broadway |
Lewis E. Gensler and Stephen Jones |
B.G. DeSylva and Laurence Schwab |
Frank Mandel |
|
| Captain Louie |
1988 |
Off-Broadway |
Stephen Schwartz |
Schwartz |
Anthony Stein |
|
| Captain of the Guard |
1930 |
Musical film |
Charles Wakefield Cadman |
Cadman |
Houston Branch |
|
| The Card |
1973 |
West End |
Tony Hatch and Jackie Trent |
Hatch and Trent |
Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall |
|
| Carefree |
1938 |
Musical film |
Irving Berlin |
Berlin |
Allan Scott and Ernest Pagano |
Starred Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. |
| Carib Song |
1945 |
Broadway |
Baldwin Bergersen |
William Archibald |
Archibald |
|
| Carmelina |
1979 |
Broadway |
Burton Lane |
Alan Jay Lerner |
Joseph Stein and Lerner |
|
| Carmen |
2007 |
Czech musical |
Frank Wildhorn |
Jack Murphy |
Norman Allen |
|
| Carmen Cubana |
2006 |
Austrian musical |
Martin Gellner and Werner Stranka |
Kim Duddy, Gellner and Stranka |
Duddy |
|
| Carmen Jones |
1943 |
Broadway |
Georges Bizet |
Oscar Hammerstein II |
Hammerstein II |
Featured the music from the opera Carmen. |
| Carnival! |
1961 |
Broadway |
Bob Merrill |
Merrill |
Michael Stewart |
Notable song: "Love Makes the World Go 'Round". |
| Carnival in Flanders |
1953 |
Broadway |
Jimmy Van Heusen |
Johnny Burke |
Preston Sturges |
Notable song: "Here's That Rainy Day". |
| Carolina Blues |
1944 |
Musical film |
George Duning |
Duning |
Joseph Hoffman and Al Martin |
|
| Caroline, or Change |
2004 |
Broadway |
Jeanine Tesori |
Tony Kushner |
Kushner |
|
Carousel
- + film (1956)
|
1945 |
Broadway |
Richard Rodgers |
Oscar Hammerstein II |
Hammerstein II |
Notable songs: "Soliloquy", "You'll Never Walk Alone" and "If I Loved You". |
| Carrie |
1988 |
Broadway |
Michael Gore |
Dean Pitchford |
Lawrence D. Cohen |
|
| Casbah |
1948 |
Musical film |
Harold Arlen |
Leo Robin |
Leslie Bush-Fekete |
|
| The Casino Girl |
1900 |
Broadway |
Various artists |
Various artists |
Harry B. Smith |
|
| Castles in the Air |
1926 |
Broadway |
Percy Wenrich |
Raymond W. Peck |
Peck |
|
| The Cat and the Fiddle |
1931 |
Broadway |
Jerome Kern |
Otto Harbach |
Harbach |
|
| The Catch of the Season |
1904 |
West End |
Herbert Haines and Evelyn Baker |
Charles H. Taylor |
Seymour Hicks and Cosmo Hamilton |
|
| Catch Me If You Can |
2009 |
Broadway |
Mark Shaiman |
Scott Wittman and Shaiman |
Terrence McNally |
Notable songs: "Live in Living Color", and "Jet Set". |
| Catch My Soul |
1970 |
West End |
Ray Pohlman and Emil Dean Zoghby |
Jack Good |
William Shakespeare |
|
| A Catered Affair |
2008 |
Broadway |
John Bucchino |
Bucchino |
Harvey Fierstein |
|
Cats
- + film (1998)
|
1981 |
West End
Broadway |
Andrew Lloyd Webber |
T. S. Eliot |
Trevor Nunn |
Notable songs: "Memory", "Mr. Mistoffelees" and "Macavity: The Mystery Cat". |
| Cats Don't Dance |
1997 |
Musical Animated film |
Randy Newman |
Newman |
Roberts Gannaway, Cliff Ruby and Elana Lesser |
|
| Celebration |
1969 |
Broadway |
Harvey Schmidt |
Tom Jones |
Jones |
|
| Centennial Summer |
1946 |
Musical film |
Jerome Kern |
Oscar Hammerstein II |
Michael Kanin |
|
| The Century Girl |
1916 |
Broadway revue |
Victor Herbert and Irving Berlin |
Berlin and Henry Blossom |
N/A |
|
| Champagne Charlie |
1944 |
Musical film |
Billy Mayerl |
Lord Berners |
John Dighton, Angus MacPhail and Austin Melford |
Notable song: "Champagne Charlie". |
| Charlie and the Chocolate Factory |
2013 |
West End |
Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman |
Shaiman and Wittman |
David Greig |
|
| Charlie Girl |
1965 |
West End |
David Heneker and John Taylor |
Heneker and Taylor |
Hugh Williams, Margaret Vyner and Ray Cooney |
|
| Charlotte's Web |
1973 |
Musical Animated film |
Robert B. Sherman and Richard M. Sherman |
Sherman and Sherman |
Earl Hamner Jr. |
|
| Charlotte Sweet |
1982 |
Off-Broadway |
Gerald Jay Markoe |
Michael Colby |
Colby |
|
| Chasing Rainbows |
1930 |
Musical film |
Milton Ager |
Jack Yellen |
Al Boasberg and Robert E. Hopkins |
Notable song: "Happy Days Are Here Again". |
| Chee-Chee |
1928 |
Broadway |
Richard Rodgers |
Lorenz Hart |
Lew M. Fields |
|
| The Cheetah Girls |
2003 |
Musical film |
John Van Tongeren and Mark Mothersbaugh |
|
N/A |
Notable songs: "Cinderella", "Girl Power" and "Cheetah Sisters". |
| The Cheetah Girls 2 |
2006 |
Musical film |
|
|
N/A |
Notable songs: "The Party's Just Begun", "Strut", "Step Up" and "Amigas Cheetahs". |
| The Cheetah Girls: One World |
2008 |
Musical film |
David Nessim Lawrence |
|
N/A |
Notable songs: "Cheetah Love" and "One World". |
| Chess |
1986 |
West End
Broadway |
Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus |
Tim Rice and Ulvaeus |
Richard Nelson |
Notable songs: "One Night in Bangkok" and "I Know Him So Well". |
Chicago
- + film (2002)
|
1975 |
Broadway |
John Kander |
Fred Ebb |
Ebb and Bob Fosse |
Notable songs: "All That Jazz", "Cell Block Tango", "Mr. Cellophane" and "We Both Reached for the Gun". |
| Children of Eden |
1991 |
West End |
Stephen Schwartz |
Schwartz |
John Caird |
Notable song: "The Spark of Creation". |
| Children In The Playground |
2001 |
Soon To Tour |
Benjamin D. Smith |
Smith |
Smith |
Based on book written by Benjamin D. Smith about the aftermath of September 11, 2001 |
| Children's Letters to God |
2004 |
Off-Broadway |
David Evans |
Douglas J. Cohen |
Stoo Hample |
|
| Chin-Chin |
1914 |
Broadway |
Ivan Caryll |
Anne Caldwell and James O'Dea |
Caldwell and R. H. Burnside |
|
| A Chinese Honeymoon |
1899 |
West End |
Howard Talbot and Ivan Caryll |
Harry Greenbank |
George Dance |
|
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
- + film (1968)
|
2004 |
West End
Broadway |
Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman |
Sherman and Sherman |
Jeremy Sams |
Based on the film of the same name. |
| The Chocolate Dandies |
1924 |
Broadway |
Eubie Blake |
Noble Sissle |
Sissle and Lew Payton |
|
| The Chocolate Soldier |
1908 |
German musical |
Oscar Straus |
Stanislaus Stange |
Rudolf Bernauer and Leopold Jacobson |
|
A Chorus Line
- + film (1985)
|
1975 |
Broadway |
Marvin Hamlisch |
Edward Kleban |
James Kirkwood, Jr. and Nicholas Dante |
Notable songs: "What I Did for Love" and "One". |
| Chris and the Wonderful Lamp |
1900 |
Broadway |
John Philip Sousa |
Glen MacDonough |
MacDonough |
|
| Christine |
1960 |
Broadway |
Sammy Fain |
Paul Francis Webster |
Pearl S. Buck and Charles K. Peck, Jr. |
|
A Christmas Carol
- + film (2004)
|
1995 |
Off-Broadway |
Alan Menken |
Lynn Ahrens |
Mike Ockrent and Ahrens |
|
| The Christmas Schooner |
1995 |
Off-Off-Broadway |
Julie Shannon |
Shannon |
John Reeger |
|
| Chronicle of a Death Foretold |
1995 |
Broadway |
Bob Telson |
Graciela Daniele, Jim Lewis and Michael John LaChiusa |
Daniele, Lewis and LaChiusa |
|
Chu Chin Chow
- + film (1934)
|
1916 |
West End |
Frederic Norton |
Norton |
Oscar Asche |
|
| Church Basement Ladies |
2005 |
Off-Off-Broadway |
Drew Jansen |
Jansen |
Jim Stowell and Jessica Zuehlke |
|
| Cinderella |
1950 |
Musical Animated film |
Mack David, Al Hoffman and Jerry Livingston |
David, Hoffman and Livingston |
Various writers |
Notable songs: "A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes" and "Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo". |
Cinderella
- + film (1957)
+ film (1997)
|
2013 |
Broadway |
Richard Rodgers |
Oscar Hammerstein II |
Hammerstein II and Douglas Carter Beane |
Based on the original 1957 television special. Notable songs: "In My Own Little Corner" and "Ten Minutes Ago". |
| Cindy |
1964 |
Off-Broadway |
Johnny Brandon |
Brandon |
Joe Sauter and Mike Sawyer |
|
| Cindy: Cendrillon 2002 |
2002 |
French musical |
Romano Musumarra |
Musumarra |
Luc Plamondon |
|
| The Cingalee |
1904 |
West End |
Lionel Monckton and Paul Rubens |
Adrian Ross and Percy Greenbank |
James T. Tanner |
|
| City of Angels |
1989 |
Broadway |
Cy Coleman |
David Zippel |
Larry Gelbart |
Notable songs: "You're Nothing Without Me" and "Funny". |
| The Civil War |
1999 |
Broadway |
Frank Wildhorn |
Jack Murphy |
Gregory Boyd and Wildhorn |
Notable song: "Tell My Father". |
| Clambake |
1967 |
Musical film |
Various artists |
Various artists |
Arthur Browne Jr. |
|
| A Class Act |
2001 |
Broadway |
Edward Kleban |
Kleban |
Linda Kline and Lonny Price |
|
| Cleavage |
1982 |
Broadway revue |
Buddy Sheffield |
Sheffield |
Sheffield and David Sheffield |
|
| Close Harmony |
1929 |
Musical film |
Richard A. Whiting |
Leo Robin |
Elsie Janis and Gene Markey |
|
| Closer Than Ever |
1989 |
Off-Broadway revue |
David Shire |
Richard Maltby, Jr. |
N/A |
|
| Closer to Heaven |
2001 |
West End |
Pet Shop Boys |
Pet Shop Boys |
Jonathan Harvey |
|
| Clue |
1997 |
Off-Broadway |
Galen Blum, Wayne Barker and Vinnie Martucci |
Tom Chiodo |
Peter DePietro |
|
| Coco |
1969 |
Broadway |
André Previn |
Alan Jay Lerner |
Lerner |
Star vehicle for Katharine Hepburn. |
| The Cocoanut Grove |
1938 |
Musical film |
John Leipold |
Leo Shuken |
Sy Bartlett and Olive Cooper |
|
The Cocoanuts
- + film (1929)
|
1925 |
Broadway |
Irving Berlin |
Berlin |
George S. Kaufman |
|
| Colleen |
1936 |
Musical film |
Harry Warren |
Al Dubin |
Robert Lord |
|
| College Humor |
1933 |
Musical film |
Arthur Johnston |
Sam Coslow |
Claude Binyon and Frank Butler |
|
| Colma: The Musical |
2007 |
Musical film |
H.P. Mendoza |
Mendoza |
Mendoza |
|
| The Color Purple |
2005 |
Broadway |
Brenda Russell, Allee Willis and Stephen Bray |
Russell, Willis and Bray |
Marsha Norman |
Notable song: "I'm Here". |
| Come Summer |
1969 |
Broadway |
David Baker |
Will Holt |
Holt |
|
| Comin' Round the Mountain |
1951 |
Musical film |
Joseph Gershenson |
Gershenson |
Robert Lees and Frederic Riedel |
|
| Company |
1970 |
Broadway |
Stephen Sondheim |
Sondheim |
George Furth |
Notable songs: "The Ladies Who Lunch" and "Being Alive". |
| Coney Island |
1943 |
Musical film |
Ralph Rainger |
Leo Robin |
George Seaton |
|
| A Connecticut Yankee |
1927 |
Broadway |
Richard Rodgers |
Lorenz Hart |
Herbert Fields |
Notable song: "Thou Swell". |
| A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court |
1949 |
Musical film |
Jimmy Van Heusen |
Johnny Burke |
Edmund Beloin |
|
| The Conquering Hero |
1961 |
Broadway |
Mark Charlap |
Norman Gimbel |
Larry Gelbart |
|
| Contact |
2000 |
Broadway |
Various artists |
Various artists |
John Weidman |
|
| Conversation Piece |
1934 |
West End |
Noël Coward |
Coward |
Coward |
|
The Co-Optimists
- + film (1929)
|
1921 |
West End revue |
Various artists |
Various artists |
N/A |
|
| Copacabana |
1947 |
Musical film |
Edward Ward |
Ward |
László Vadnay, Allen Boretz and Howard Harris |
|
| Copacabana |
1994 |
West End revue |
Barry Manilow |
Manilow |
Manilo |
|
| Copper and Brass |
1957 |
Broadway |
David Baker |
David Craig |
Ellen Violett and Craig |
|
| Corpse Bride |
2005 |
Musical Animated film |
Danny Elfman |
John August |
August, Caroline Thompson and Pamela Pettler |
|
| Cotton Patch Gospel |
1988 |
N/A |
Harry Chapin |
Chapin |
Tom Key and Russell Treyz |
|
| The Count of Luxembourg |
1911 |
West End |
Franz Lehár |
Basil Hood and Adrian Ross |
Hood and Ross |
|
| Count To Ten |
2009 |
Off-Broadway |
Michael Blevins, Scott Knipe, Bruce Sakcs and David Wollenberger |
Blevins and Beth Clary |
Blevins and Clary |
|
| Countess Maritza |
1924 |
German musical |
Emmerich Kálmán |
Harry B. Smith |
Julius Brammer and Alfred Grünwald |
|
| The Court Jester |
1956 |
Musical film |
Sylvia Fine |
Sammy Cahn |
Melvin Frank and Norman Panama |
|
| Cover Girl |
1944 |
Musical film |
Jerome Kern |
Ira Gershwin and E.Y. Harburg |
Virginia Van Upp |
|
| Cowardy Custard |
1972 |
West End revue |
Noël Coward |
Coward |
Coward |
|
| Cowboy from Brooklyn |
1938 |
Musical film |
Leo F. Forbstein |
Adolph Deutsch |
Robert Sloane and Louis Pelletier |
|
| Coyote Tales |
1998 |
Off-Broadway |
Henry Mollicone |
Sheldon Harnick |
Harnick |
|
| The Cradle Will Rock |
1938 |
Broadway |
Marc Blitzstein |
Blitzstein |
Blitzstein |
|
| Cranks |
1956 |
Broadway revue |
John Addison |
John Cranko |
N/A |
|
| Crazy for You |
1992 |
Broadway |
George Gershwin |
Ira Gershwin |
Ken Ludwig |
A revised version of Girl Crazy |
Cry-Baby
- + film (1990)
|
2007 |
Broadway |
Adam Schlesinger |
David Javerbaum |
Mark O'Donnell and Thomas Meehan |
Based on the 1990 film of the same name. |
| Cry for Us All |
1970 |
Broadway |
Mitch Leigh |
William Alfred and Phyllis Robinson |
Alfred and Albert Marre |
|
| Cuban Love Song |
1931 |
Musical film |
Herbert Stothart |
Stothart |
C. Gardner Sullivan and Bess Meredyth |
|
| The Cuckoos |
1930 |
Musical film |
Harry Ruby |
Ruby |
Guy Bolton and Bert Kalmar |
| The Curious Case of the Human Being |
2016 |
British Musical |
Paul Flynn |
Paul Flynn |
Paul Flynn |
|
| Curley McDimple |
1967 |
Off-Broadway |
Robert Dahdah |
Dahdah |
Dahdah and Mary Boylan |
|
| Curly Top |
1935 |
Musical film |
Ray Henderson |
Ted Koehler |
Patterson McNutt and Arthur J. Beckhard |
|
| Curtains |
2007 |
Broadway |
John Kander |
Fred Ebb |
Rupert Holmes |
|
| Cyrano |
1973 |
Broadway |
Michael J. Lewis |
Anthony Burgess |
Burgess |
Based on Anthony Burgess's translation of the Edmond Rostand play Cyrano de Bergerac. |
| Cyrano: The Musical |
1993 |
Broadway |
Ad van Dijk |
Koen van Dijk, Peter Reeves and Sheldon Harnick |
van Dijk |
|
| D |
| Production |
Year |
Venue/Type |
Music |
Lyrics |
Book |
Notes |
| Daddy Cool |
2006 |
West End |
Boney M., Frank Farian |
Boney M., Frank Farian |
|
|
| Daddy Long Legs |
1955 |
Film |
Johnny Mercer |
Johnny Mercer |
Phoebe Ephron, Henry Ephron |
|
| Dames |
1934 |
Film |
Harry Warren, Sammy Fain, Allie Wrubel |
Al Dubin, Irving Kahal, Mort Dixon |
Robert Lord, Delmer Daves |
|
| Dames at Sea |
1966 |
Off-Off-Broadway |
Jim Wise |
George Haimsohn, Robin Miller |
George Haimsohn, Robin Miller |
|
| Damn Yankees |
1955 |
Broadway |
Richard Adler |
Jerry Ross |
George Abbott, Douglass Wallop |
Based on the novel The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant by Douglass Wallop. Notable songs: "Heart", "Whatever Lola Wants." |
| Dancer in the Dark |
2000 |
Film |
Björk |
Björk, Lars von Trier, Sjón |
Lars von Trier |
|
| A Damsel in Distress |
1937 |
Film |
George Gershwin |
Ira Gershwin |
P. G. Wodehouse |
Based on the novel of the same name by P. G. Wodehouse. Notable song: "A Foggy Day". |
| Dance a Little Closer |
1983 |
Broadway |
Charles Strouse |
Alan Jay Lerner |
Alan Jay Lerner |
Based on the play Idiot's Delight by Robert E. Sherwood. |
| The Dance of Life |
1929 |
Film |
Richard A. Whiting |
Sam Coslow and Leo Robin |
Benjamin Glazer |
|
| Dance of the Vampires |
1997 |
Vienna |
Jim Steinman |
Michael Kunze |
Michael Kunze |
Based on the film The Fearless Vampire Killers by Roman Polanski. |
| Dance with Me |
1975 |
Broadway |
Greg Antonacci |
Greg Antonacci |
Greg Antonacci |
|
| Dancin' |
1978 |
Broadway |
various |
various |
Bob Fosse |
|
| Dancing Lady |
1933 |
Film |
Louis Silvers and Burton Lane |
Harold Adamson |
Allen Rivkin and P. J. Wolfson |
|
| The Dancing Years |
1939 |
West End |
Ivor Novello |
Christopher Hassall |
Ivor Novello |
|
| Dangerous Games |
1989 |
Broadway |
Willian Finn |
Astor Piazzolla |
|
|
| Dangerous When Wet |
1953 |
Film |
Albert Sendrey and Georgie Stoll |
|
Dorothy Kingsley |
|
| Darby O'Gill and the Little People |
1959 |
Film |
Oliver Wallace |
Lawrence Edward Watkin |
Lawrence Edward Watkin |
Based on books Darby O'Gill and the Good People and The Ashes of Old Wishes And Other Darby O'Gill Tales by Herminie Templeton Kavanagh |
| Darling Lili |
1970 |
Film |
Henry Mancini |
Johnny Mercer |
William Peter Blatty and Blake Edwards |
|
| Darling of the Day |
1968 |
Broadway |
Jule Styne |
Yip Harburg |
Nunnally Johnson |
Based on the novel Buried Alive by Arnold Bennett. |
| A Date with Judy |
1948 |
Film |
Ernesto Lecuona |
|
Dorothy Kingsley |
Based on the radio series of the same name. |
| A Day at the Races |
1937 |
Film |
Bronisław Kaper and Walter Jurmann |
Gus Kahn |
Robert Pirosh, George Seaton, and George Oppenheimer |
|
| The Day Before Spring |
1945 |
Broadway |
Frederick Loewe |
Alan Jay Lerner |
Alan Jay Lerner |
|
| A Day in Hollywood / A Night in the Ukraine |
1979 |
West End |
Frank Lazarus and others |
Dick Vosburgh |
Dick Vosburgh |
Second act based on the one-act play The Bear by Anton Chekhov. |
| Dear Edwina |
2008 |
Off-Broadway |
Zina Goldrich |
Marcy Heisler |
Marcy Heisler |
|
| Dear World |
1969 |
Broadway |
Jerry Herman |
Jerry Herman |
Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee |
Based on the play The Madwoman of Chaillot by Jean Giraudoux. |
| Dearest Enemy |
1925 |
Broadway |
Richard Rodgers |
Lorenz Hart |
Herbert Fields |
|
| Debbie Does Dallas: The Musical |
2002 |
Off-Broadway |
Andrew Sherman, Tom Kitt, Jonathan Callicutt |
Andrew Sherman, Tom Kitt, Jonathan Callicutt |
Susan L. Schwartz |
|
| Deep in My Heart |
1954 |
Film |
Sigmund Romberg |
Oscar Hammerstein II, Otto Harbach, Dorothy Donnelly, Roger Edens, Cyrus D. Wood, Ballard MacDonald, Rida Johnson Young, Harold R. Atteridge, Herbert Reynolds |
Leonard Spigelgass, Elliott Arnold |
|
| Delicious |
1931 |
Film |
George Gershwin |
Ira Gershwin |
Guy Boltons, Sonya Levien |
|
| Delightfully Dangerous |
1945 |
Film |
Morton Gould |
Edward Heyman |
Walter DeLeon, Arthur Phillips |
|
| De-Lovely |
2004 |
Film |
Cole Porter |
Cole Porter |
Jay Cocks |
|
| Les Demoiselles de Rochefort |
1967 |
Film |
Michel Legrand |
Jacques Demy |
Jacques Demy |
|
| Departure Lounge |
2010 |
Off West End |
Douglas Irvine |
|
|
|
The Desert Song
- + film (1929)
|
1926 |
Broadway |
Sigmund Romberg |
Otto Harbach |
Oscar Hammerstein II, Otto Harbach, and Frank Mandel |
|
| Dessa Rose |
2005 |
Off-Broadway |
Stephen Flaherty |
Lynn Ahrens |
Lynn Ahrens |
Based on the novel of the same name by Sherley Anne Williams. |
| Destry Rides Again |
1939 |
Film |
Friedrich Hollaender |
Frank Loesser |
Felix Jackson |
Based on the novel of the same name by Max Brand. |
| Destry Rides Again |
1959 |
Broadway |
Harold Rome |
Harold Rome |
Leonard Gershe |
Based on the novel of the same name by George Marshall. |
| Devil-May-Care |
1929 |
Film |
Herbert Stothart |
Clifford Grey |
Richard Schayer |
|
| Diamonds |
1984 |
Off-Broadway |
Gerard Alessandrini, Craig Carnelia, Cy Coleman, Larry Grossman, John Kander, Doug Katsaros, Alan Menken, Jonathan Sheffer, Lynn Udall, Albert Von Tilzer, Jim Wann |
Gerard Alessandrini, Howard Ashman, Craig Carnelia, Betty Comden, Fred Ebb, Ellen Fitzhugh, Adolph Green, Karl Kennett, Jack Norworth, Jim Wann, David Zippel |
Bud Abbott, Ralph G. Allen, Roy Blount, Jr., Richard Camp, Jerry L. Crawford, Lou Costello, Lee Eisenberg, Jim Wann, John Lahr, Arthur Masella, Harry Stein, John Weidman, Alan Zweibel |
|
| Dick Tracy |
1990 |
Film |
Madonna, Patrick Leonard, Stephen Sondheim, Michael Kernan, Andy Paley, Jeff Lass, Ned Claflin, Jonathan Paley, Shep Pettibone, Danny Elfman |
Madonna, Stephen Sondheim, Andy Paley |
Jim Cash, Jack Epps, Jr. |
Based on the comic strip of the same name by Chester Gould. |
| Different Times |
1972 |
Broadway |
Michael Brown |
Michael Brown |
Michael Brown |
|
| Dimples |
1936 |
Film |
Jimmy McHugh |
Ted Koehler |
Nat Perrinn and Arthur Sheekman |
|
| Dirty Rotten Scoundrels |
2004 |
Broadway |
David Yazbek |
David Yazbek |
Jeffrey Lane |
Based on the film of the same name by Frank Oz. |
| Disco Inferno |
|
West End |
various |
various |
|
|
| The District Leader |
1906 |
Broadway |
Joseph E. Howard |
Joseph E. Howard |
Joseph E. Howard |
|
| Divorce Me, Darling! |
1965 |
West End |
Sandy Wilson |
Sandy Wilson |
Sandy Wilson |
Sequel to the musical The Boy Friend by Sandy Wilson. |
| Les Dix Commandements |
2000 |
French musical |
Pascal Obispo |
Lionel Florence and Patrice Guirao |
Élie Chouraqui and Pascal Obispo |
|
| Dixiana |
1930 |
Film |
Max Steiner |
|
Luther Reed |
|
| Dixie |
1943 |
Film |
Jimmy Van Heusen |
Johnny Burke |
Karl Tunberg, Darrell Ware, Claude Binyon |
|
| Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up? |
1979 |
Broadway |
James Quinn and Alaric Jans |
James Quinn and Alaric Jans |
John R. Powers |
|
| Do I Hear a Waltz? |
1965 |
Broadway |
Richard Rodgers |
Stephen Sondheim |
Arthur Laurents |
Based on the play The Time of the Cuckoo by Arthur Laurents. |
| Do Re Mi |
1960 |
Broadway |
Jule Styne |
Betty Comden and Adolph Green |
Garson Kanin |
|
| Doctor Dolittle |
1967 |
Film |
Leslie Bricusse, Lionel Newman, Alexander Courage |
Leslie Bricusse |
Leslie Bricusse |
Notable song: "Talk to the Animals". |
| Doctor Zhivago |
2011 |
Sydney |
Lucy Simon |
Michael Korie and Amy Powers |
Michael Weller |
Based on the novel of the same name by Boris Pasternak. |
| Dogfight |
2012 |
Off-Broadway |
Pasek and Paul |
Pasek and Paul |
Peter Duchan |
Based on the film of the same name by Nancy Savoca. |
| Doll |
|
|
Scott Frankel |
Michael Korie |
Michael Korie |
|
| Doll Face |
1945 |
Film |
Jimmy McHugh, Lionel Newman (The Parisian Trot) |
Harold Adamson, Charles E. Henderson (The Parisian Trot) |
Harold Buchman |
Based on the play The Naked Genius by Gypsy Rose Lee. |
| Die Dollarprinzessin |
1907 |
Operetta |
Leo Fall |
Alfred Maria Willner and Fritz Grünbaum |
Alfred Maria Willner and Fritz Grünbaum |
|
| A Doll's Life |
1982 |
Broadway |
Larry Grossman |
Betty Comden and Adolph Green |
Betty Comden and Adolph Green |
Based on the play A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen. |
| The Dolly Sisters |
1945 |
Film |
|
|
John Larkin and Marian Spitzer |
|
| Donnybrook! |
1961 |
Broadway |
Johnny Burke |
Johnny Burke |
Robert E. McEnroe |
Based on the film The Quiet Man by John Ford. |
| Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope |
1971 |
Broadway |
Micki Grant |
Micki Grant |
|
|
| Don't Play Us Cheap |
1972 |
Broadway |
Melvin Van Peebles |
Melvin Van Peebles |
Melvin Van Peebles |
|
| Doonesbury |
1983 |
Broadway |
Elizabeth Swados |
Garry Trudeau |
Garry Trudeau |
Based on the comic strip of the same name by Garry Trudeau. |
| Double or Nothing |
1937 |
Film |
Burton Lane, Arthur Johnston, Johnny Burke, John Leipold, Victor Young, Al Siegel, Sam Coslow, Sanford Green |
Burton Lane, Ralph Freed, Johnny Burke, Irving Kahal |
Duke Atteberry, Erwin Gelsey, John Moffitt, Charles Lederer |
|
| Double Trouble |
1967 |
Film |
Various Artists |
Various Artists |
Jo Heims |
Stars Elvis Presley |
| Down Argentine Way |
1940 |
Film |
Harry Warren and Jimmy McHugh |
Mack Gordon and Al Dubin |
Rian James, Ralph Spence, Karl Tunberg, Karl Tunberg, Darrell Ware |
|
| Down to Earth |
1947 |
Film |
George Duning and Heinz Eric Roemheld |
|
Harry Segall, Edwin Blum |
Sequel to the film Here Comes Mr. Jordan by Alexander Hall. |
| Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical |
1994 |
Broadway |
Mel Marvin and Albert Hague |
Timothy Mason and Dr. Seuss |
Timothy Mason |
Based on the children's story of the same name by Dr. Seuss. |
| Dracula – Entre l'amour et la mort |
2006 |
Quebec |
Simon Leclerc |
Roger Tabra |
Bruno Pelletier and Richard Ouzounian |
|
| Dracula, the Musical |
2001 |
Broadway |
Frank Wildhorn |
Don Black and Christopher Hampton |
Black and Hampton |
Based on the novel of the same name by Bram Stoker. |
| Dragons |
2003 |
|
Sheldon Harnick |
Harnick |
Harnick |
|
| Drat! The Cat! |
1965 |
Broadway |
Milton Schafer |
Ira Levin |
Levin |
Notable song: "She Touched Me". |
| Dream House |
1932 |
Film |
|
|
|
|
| Dream True |
2004 |
|
Ricky Ian Gordon |
Ricky Ian Gordon |
Ricky Ian Gordon |
|
Dreamgirls
- + film (2006)
|
1981 |
Broadway |
Henry Krieger |
Tom Eyen |
Tom Eyen |
Semi-based on The Supremes. Notable song: "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going". |
| Dreams Come True |
1936 |
Film |
Franz Lehár, Colin Wark, Ben Frankel |
Bruce Sevier |
Donald Bull |
|
| Die Drei von der Tankstelle |
1930 |
Film |
Werner R. Heymann |
|
Franz Schulz and Paul Frank |
|
| The Drowsy Chaperone |
2006 |
Broadway |
Lisa Lambert and Greg Morrison |
Lisa Lambert and Greg Morrison |
Bob Martin and Don McKellar |
|
| Dreamboats and Petticoats |
2009 |
West End |
Various |
Various |
Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran |
Based on the compilation album of the same name. |
| Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog |
2008 |
Web miniseries |
Joss Whedon, Maurissa Tancharoen, Jed Whedon |
Joss Whedon, Maurissa Tancharoen, Jed Whedon |
Joss Whedon, Zack Whedon, Maurissa Tancharoen, Jed Whedon |
|
| DuBarry Was a Lady |
1939 |
Broadway |
Cole Porter |
Cole Porter |
Herbert Fields and Buddy DeSylva |
Notable song: "Friendship." |
| The Duchess of Dantzic |
1903 |
London comic opera |
Ivan Caryll |
Henry Hamilton |
Henry Hamilton |
Based on the play Madame Sans-Gêne by Victorien Sardou and Émile Moreau. |
| Duchess of Idaho |
1950 |
Film |
Al Rinker, Floyd Huddleston, Henry Nemo, Lee Pearl |
Al Rinker, Floyd Huddleston, Henry Nemo, Lee Pearl |
Dorothy Cooper, Jerry Davis, Sid Fields |
|
| Duck Soup |
1933 |
Film |
Harry Ruby |
Bert Kalmar |
Harry Ruby, Bert Kalmar, Arthur Sheekman, Nat Perrin |
|
| Dude |
1972 |
Broadway |
Galt MacDermot |
Gerome Ragni |
Gerome Ragni |
|
| Ed Gardner's Duffy's Tavern |
1945 |
Film |
|
|
Abe Burrows and Matt Brook |
Based on the radio series of the same name. |
| Dumbo |
1941 |
Film |
Frank Churchill and Oliver Wallace |
Frank Churchill and Oliver Wallace |
Otto Englander, Joe Grant, Dick Huemer |
Based on the children story the same name. Notable song: "Baby Mine". |
| Dusty – The Original Pop Diva |
2005 |
Australian musical |
various |
various |
John-Michael Howson, David Mitchell, Melvyn Morrow |
Jukebox musical based on songs by Dusty Springfield. |
| E |
| Production |
Year |
Venue/Type |
Music |
Lyrics |
Book |
Notes |
| Eadie Was a Lady |
1945 |
Musical film |
George Duning |
Marlin Skiles |
Monte Brice |
Based on the musical Take a Chance. |
| Ebenezer Scrooge |
2015 |
British Musical |
Paul Flynn and John Reddel |
Paul Flynn |
Paul Flynn |
|
| The Earl and the Girl |
1903 |
West End |
Ivan Caryll |
Percy Greenbank |
Seymour Hicks |
|
| Earl Carroll Vanities of 1931 |
1931 |
Broadway |
Burton Lane |
Harold Adamson |
Ralph Spence and Eddie Welch |
|
| Earl of Ruston |
1971 |
Broadway |
Peter Link |
C.C. Courtney and Ragan Courtney |
Courtney and Courtney |
|
| Early to Bed |
1943 |
Broadway |
Fats Waller |
George Marion, Jr. |
Marion, Jr. |
|
| Earth Girls Are Easy |
1988 |
Musical film |
Ray Colcord and Nile Rodgers |
Julie Brown |
Brown, Charlie Coffey and Terrence E. McNally |
|
| The East Side of Heaven |
1939 |
Musical film |
Frank Skinner |
Skinner |
William Conselman and James V. Kern |
|
| Easter Parade |
1948 |
Musical film |
Johnny Green, Roger Edens and Irving Berlin |
Berlin |
Sidney Sheldon, Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett |
|
| Easter Rising |
2004 |
Off-Broadway |
Michael Arden |
Arden |
Isaac Oliver |
|
| Easy to Love |
1953 |
Musical film |
Georgie Stoll |
Robert Van Eps |
László Vadnay and William Roberts |
|
| Eating Raoul |
1992 |
Off-Broadway |
Jed Feuer |
Boyd Graham |
Paul Bartel and Richard Blackburn |
Based on the movie of the same name. |
| Ed Wynn Carnival |
1920 |
Broadway revue |
Ed Wynn |
Wynn |
Wynn |
|
| The Eddie Cantor Story |
1954 |
Musical film |
David Buttolph |
Buttolph |
Ted Sherdeman, Sidney Skolsky and Jerome Weidman |
|
| The Eddy Duchin Story |
1956 |
Musical film |
George Duning |
Duning |
Samuel A. Taylor |
|
| The Education of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N |
1968 |
Broadway |
Oscar Brand and Paul Nassau |
Brand and Nassau |
Benjamin Bernard Zavin |
|
| Eileen |
1917 |
Broadway |
Victor Herbert |
Henry Blossom |
Blossom |
|
| Einbrecher |
1930 |
Musical film |
Friedrich Hollaender and Franz Waxman |
Hollaender and Waxman |
Robert Liebmann |
|
| Elegies |
2003 |
Off-Broadway revue |
William Finn |
Finn |
Finn |
|
| Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens |
1993 |
Off-Broadway |
Janet Hood |
Bill Russell |
Russell |
|
| Elf |
2010 |
Broadway |
Matthew Sklar |
Chad Beguelin |
Bob Martin and Thomas Meehan |
Based on the 2003 Christmas film of the same name. |
| Elisabeth |
1992 |
Austrian musical |
Sylvester Levay |
Michael Kunze |
Kunze |
Based on the life of Empress Elisabeth of Austria. |
| Elixier |
1997 |
German musical |
Tobias Künzel and Wolfgang Lenk |
Kati Naumann |
Horst Königstein |
|
| Elsie |
1923 |
Broadway |
George Gershwin |
Ira Gershwin |
Charles W. Bell |
Originally entitled A Dangerous Maid. |
| Emir |
2010 |
Musical film |
Chino Toledo, Vin Dancel and Ebe Dancel |
Diwa de Leon and Gary Granada |
Jerry Gracio |
|
| The Emperor Waltz |
1948 |
Musical film |
Victor Young |
Young |
Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett |
|
| Enchanted |
2007 |
Musical film |
Alan Menken |
Stephen Schwartz |
Bill Kelly |
Disney film starring Amy Adams, Patrick Dempsey and James Marsden. |
| The Enchantress |
1911 |
Broadway |
Victor Herbert |
Fred de Gresac and Harry B. Smith |
de Gresac and Smith |
|
| Erminie |
1885 |
Off-West End |
Edward Jakobowski |
Claxson Bellamy and Harry Paulton |
N/A |
|
| Ernest in Love |
1960 |
Off-Broadway |
Lee Pockriss |
Anne Croswell |
Croswell |
|
| Eubie! |
1978 |
Broadway revue |
Eubie Blake |
Noble Sissle, Andy Razaf, Johnny Brandon, F. E. Miller and Jim Europe |
N/A |
|
| Evangeline, or The Belle of Acadia |
1874 |
Broadway |
Edward E. Rice |
J. Cheever Goodwin |
Goodwin |
|
| Evening Primrose |
1966 |
Television musical |
Stephen Sondheim |
Sondheim |
James Goldman |
|
| An Evening with Beatrice Lillie |
1952 |
Broadway revue |
Various |
Various |
N/A |
|
| An Evening with Max Morath at the Turn of the Century |
1969 |
Off-Broadway revue |
Various |
Various |
N/A |
|
| Ever Green |
1930 |
West End |
Richard Rodgers |
Lorenz Hart |
Benn Levy |
|
| Every Night at Eight |
1935 |
Musical film |
Frederick Hollander and Paul Mertz |
Clifford Vaughan |
C. Graham Barker and Stanley Garvey |
|
| Everybody Sing |
1938 |
Musical film |
William Axt |
Axt |
Florence Ryerson, Edgar Allan Woolf and James Gruen |
|
| Everybody's Welcome |
1931 |
Broadway |
Sammy Fain |
Irving Kahal |
Lambert Carroll |
|
| Everyday Rapture |
2009 |
Broadway |
Various |
Various |
Sherie Rene Scott and Dick Scanlan |
|
| Everyone Says I Love You |
1996 |
Musical film |
Dick Hyman |
Hyman |
Woody Allen |
|
| Everything I Have is Yours |
1952 |
Musical film |
David Rose |
Rose |
Ruth Brooks Flippen and George Wells |
|
| Everything Is Rhythm |
1936 |
Musical film |
N/A |
N/A |
Jack Byrd and Syd Courtenay |
|
| Evie and the Birdman |
2001 |
Australian musical |
John Field |
Field |
Field |
|
| Evil Dead: The Musical |
2003 |
Canadian musical |
Christopher Bond, Frank Cipolla, Melissa Morris and George Reinblatt |
Reinblatt |
Reinblatt |
|
Evita
- + film (1996)
|
1978 |
West End |
Andrew Lloyd Webber |
Tim Rice |
Lloyd Webber and Rice |
Based on Eva Perón. Notable songs: "Don't Cry for Me, Argentina" and "Another Suitcase in Another Hall". An additional song, "You Must Love Me", was added to the film. |
| F |
| Production |
Year |
Venue/Type |
Music |
Lyrics |
Book |
Notes |
| 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
- + film (1980)
+ film (2009)
|
1988 |
Off-Broadway |
Steve Margoshes |
Jacques Levy |
Jose Fernandez |
Based on the 1980 film version. |
| Fancy Nancy the Musical |
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 musical |
Martin Silvestri |
Joel Higgins |
Higgins |
Based on the 1970 film The Traveling Executioner. |
| Finding Nemo – The Musical |
2007 |
Disney musical |
Robert Lopez |
Kristen Anderson-Lopez |
Peter Brosius |
|
| 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". |
| 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 the Musical |
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 |
Musical 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
- + film (1984)
+ film (2011)
|
1998 |
Broadway |
Tom Snow |
Dean Pitchford |
Pitchford and Walter Bobbie |
Based on the 1984 film version. |
| Forever Plaid |
1990 |
Off-Broadway |
Various |
Various |
Stuart Ross |
|
| Forbidden Zone |
1980 |
Musical film |
Danny Elfman |
Elfman |
Richard Elfman |
|
| Forbidden Broadway |
1982 |
Off-Broadway revue |
Various |
Gerard Alessandrini |
Alessandrini |
|
| Fosse |
1999 |
Broadway revue |
Various |
Various |
N/A |
|
| The Four Musketeers |
1967 |
West End |
Laurie Johnson |
Herbert Kretzmera |
Michael Pertwee |
|
| Foxy |
1964 |
Broadway |
Robert Emmett Dolan |
Johnny Mercer |
Ian McLellan Hunter and Ring Lardner Jr. |
Based on Ben Jonson's play Volpone. |
| Frankenstein – A New Musical |
2007 |
Off-Broadway |
Mark Baron |
Jefferey Jackson |
Jackson and Gary P Cohen |
|
| Free as Air |
1957 |
West End |
Julian Slade |
Dorothy Reynolds and Slade |
Reynolds and Slade |
|
| 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 |
Musical film |
Greg Siff |
Michael Wandmacher |
Kim Fuller |
|
| Frozen |
2013 |
Musical Animated film |
Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez |
Lopez and Anderson-Lopez |
Jennifer Lee |
Starred Idina Menzel, Kristen Bell, Jonathan Groff, Josh Gad and Santino Fontana. |
| The Full Monty |
2000 |
Broadway |
David Yazbek |
Yazbek |
Terrence McNally |
Based on the 1997 film version. |
| Fun Home (musical) |
2000 |
Off-Broadway & 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 |
Musical 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". |
| H |
| Production |
Year |
Venue/Type |
Music |
Lyrics |
Book |
Notes |
| Hair |
1968 |
Broadway |
Galt MacDermot |
Gerome Ragni and James Rado |
Ragni and Rado |
Notable song: "Aquarius". |
Hairspray
- + film (2007)
|
2002 |
Broadway |
Marc Shaiman |
Scott Wittman and Shaiman |
Mark O'Donnell and Thomas Meehan |
Notable song: "You Can't Stop the Beat". |
Half a Sixpence
- + film (1967)
|
1963 |
West End |
David Heneker |
Heneker |
Beverley Cross |
|
| Hallelujah, Baby! |
1967 |
Broadway |
Jule Styne |
Betty Comden and Adolph Green |
Arthur Laurents |
|
| Hamilton |
2015 |
Broadway |
Lin-Manuel Miranda |
Miranda |
Miranda |
Based on Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
Opened on Broadway on 6 August 2015. |
| Hands on a Hardbody |
2013 |
Broadway |
Trey Anastasio and Amanda Green |
Green |
Doug Wright |
|
| Hans Christian Andersen |
1952 |
Musical film |
Frank Loesser |
Loesser |
Myles Connolly and Moss Hart |
|
| The Happiest Girl in the World |
1961 |
Broadway |
Jacques Offenbach |
E.Y. Harburg |
Fred Saidy |
|
| The Happiest Millionaire |
1967 |
Musical film |
Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman |
Sherman and Sherman |
Cordelia Drexel Biddle and A.J. Carothers |
Notable song: "Fortuosity". |
| Happiness |
2009 |
Off-Broadway |
Scott Frankel |
Michael Korie |
John Weidman |
|
| Happy Days |
1919 |
Broadway |
Raymond Hubbell |
R. H. Burnside |
Burnside |
|
| Happy Days |
2009 |
Off-Broadway |
Paul Williams |
Williams |
Gary Marshall |
|
| Happy End |
1929 |
German musical |
Kurt Weill |
Bertolt Brecht |
Elisabeth Hauptmann |
Notable songs: "Bilbao Song" and "Sailor's Tango". |
| Happy Go Lovely |
1951 |
Musical film |
Mischa Spoliansky |
Barbara Gordon, Mischa Spoliansky and Jack Fishman |
|
|
| Harmony |
1996 |
Off-Broadway |
Barry Manilow |
Bruce Sussman |
Bruce Sussman |
Notable song: "Stars in the Night". |
| Happy Hunting |
1956 |
Broadway |
Harold Karr |
Matt Dubey |
Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse |
Notable songs: "Mutual Admiration Society" and "A New-Fangled Tango". |
| The Happy Time |
1968 |
Broadway |
John Kander |
Fred Ebb |
N. Richard Nash |
|
| A Hard Day's Night |
1964 |
Musical film |
The Beatles and George Martin |
The Beatles and Martin |
Alun Owen |
|
| The Harvey Girls |
1946 |
Musical film |
Harry Warren |
Johnny Mercer |
Eleanore Griffin and William Rankin |
|
| The Hatpin |
2005 |
Australian musical |
Peter Rutherford |
James Millar |
Millar |
|
| Hazel Flagg |
1953 |
Broadway |
Jule Styne |
Bob Hilliard |
Ben Hecht |
|
| Heathers: The Musical |
2014 |
Off-Broadway |
Laurence O'Keefe and Kevin Murphy |
O'Keefe and Murphy |
O'Keefe and Murphy |
|
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
- + film (2001)
|
1998 |
Off-Broadway |
Stephen Trask |
Trask |
John Cameron Mitchell |
|
| Heart and Souls |
1993 |
Fantasy-comedy |
Ron Underwood |
|
|
|
Hello, Dolly!
- + film (1969)
|
1964 |
Broadway |
Jerry Herman |
Herman |
Michael Stewart |
Notable song: "Hello, Dolly!". |
Hellzapoppin
- + film (1941)
|
1938 |
Broadway revue |
Sammy Fain and Charles Tobias |
Fain and Tobias |
Harold Johnson and Ole Olsen |
|
| Help! |
1965 |
Musical film |
The Beatles, George Martin and Ken Thorne |
The Beatles, Martin and Thorne |
Charles Wood and Marc Behm |
|
| Henry, Sweet Henry |
1967 |
Broadway |
Bob Merrill |
Merrill |
Nunnally Johnson and Nora Johnson |
|
| Her First Roman |
1968 |
Broadway |
Ervin Drake |
Drake |
Drake |
|
| Hercules |
1997 |
Animated film |
Alan Menken |
David Zippel |
Ron Clements and John Musker |
|
| Here Comes the Groom |
1951 |
Musical film |
Joseph J. Lilley |
Lilley |
Virginia Van Upp and Liam O'Brien |
Featured the Academy Award winning song "In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening". |
| Here's Love |
1963 |
Broadway |
Meredith Willson |
Willson |
Willson |
|
| High Button Shoes |
1947 |
Broadway |
Jule Styne |
Sammy Cahn |
George Abbott and Phil Silvers |
|
| High Fidelity |
2006 |
Broadway |
Tom Kitt |
Amanda Green |
David Lindsay-Abaire |
|
| High School Musical |
2006 |
Musical film |
Various artists |
Various artists |
Peter Barsocchini |
|
| High School Musical 2 |
2007 |
Musical film |
Various artists |
Various artists |
Peter Barsocchini |
|
| High School Musical 3: Senior Year |
2008 |
Musical film |
Various artists |
Various artists |
Peter Barsocchini |
|
High Society
- + film (1956)
|
1998 |
Broadway |
Cole Porter |
Porter and Susan Birkenhead |
Arthur Kopit |
Adaptation of the 1956 film version. Notable song: "True Love". |
| High Spirits |
1964 |
Broadway |
Hugh Martin and Timothy Gray |
Martin and Gray |
Martin and Gray |
|
| The Hobbit |
1977 |
TV musical |
Maury Laws |
Jules Bass |
Romeo Muller |
|
| The Hoboken Chicken Emergency |
1988 |
Off-Off-Broadway |
Chad Henry |
Henry |
Daniel Pinkwater |
|
| Hold Everything! |
1928 |
Broadway |
Ray Henderson |
Lew Brown and B. G. De Sylva |
De Sylva and John McGowan |
|
| Holy Musical B@man! |
2012 |
Off-Off-Broadway |
Nick Gage and Scott Lamps |
Gage and Lamps |
Matt Lang and Nick Lang |
| Home Fires |
2014 |
British Musical |
Paul Flynn |
Paul Flynn |
Paul Flynn |
|
| Honk! |
1993 |
Off-West End |
George Stiles |
Anthony Drewe |
Drewe |
|
| Hooray for What! |
1937 |
Broadway |
Harold Arlen |
E. Y. Harburg |
Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse |
|
| The Hot Mikado |
1939 |
Broadway |
Arthur Sullivan |
W. S. Gilbert |
Mike Todd |
Based on Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado. |
| House of Flowers |
1954 |
Broadway |
Harold Arlen |
Truman Capote and Arlen |
Capote |
|
| How Now, Dow Jones |
1967 |
Broadway |
Elmer Bernstein |
Carolyn Leigh |
Max Shulman |
|
| How to Eat Like a Child |
1981 |
TV musical |
John Forster |
Forster |
Judith Kahan |
|
| How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying |
1961 |
Broadway |
Frank Loesser |
Loesser |
Abe Burrows, Jack Weinstock and Willie Gilbert |
Notable songs: "I Believe in You" and "Brotherhood of Man". |
| Hoy No Me Puedo Levantar |
2004 |
Spanish musical |
Nacho Cano and José María Cano |
Cano and Cano |
David Serrano |
|
| The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
1974 |
Musical film |
Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman |
Sherman and Sherman |
Sherman and Sherman |
Based on Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. |
| The Human Comedy |
1984 |
Broadway |
Galt MacDermot |
William Dumaresq |
Dumaresq |
|
| The Hunchback of Notre Dame |
1996 |
Musical Animated film |
Alan Menken |
Stephen Schwartz |
Tab Murphy, Irene Mecchi, Bob Tzudiker, Noni White, and Jonathan Roberts |
Based on The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo |
| The Hunting of the Snark |
1991 |
West End |
Mike Batt |
Batt |
Batt |
Based on Lewis Carroll's poem The Hunting of the Snark Notable song: The Snooker Song (Used as theme music for the TV show Big Break). |
| L |
| Production |
Year |
Venue/Type |
Music |
Lyrics |
Book |
Notes |
| Labyrinth |
1986 |
Musical film |
David Bowie |
Bowie |
Terry Jones |
|
| Ladies First |
1918 |
Broadway revue |
A. Baldwin Sloane |
Harry B. Smith |
Smith |
Featuring songs by James Brockmann and James Kendl. |
| Lady and the Tramp |
1955 |
Musical Animated film |
Sonny Burke and Peggy Lee |
Burke and Lee |
Erdman Penner, Joe Rinaldi, Ralph Wright and Don DaGradi |
Notable songs: "The Siamese Cat Song", "He's a Tramp" and "Bella Notte". |
| Lady, Be Good |
1924 |
Broadway |
George Gershwin |
Ira Gershwin |
Guy Bolton and Fred Thompson |
|
| The Lady Comes Across |
1942 |
Broadway |
Vernon Duke |
John La Touche |
Fred Thompson and Dawn Powell |
|
Lady in the Dark
- + film (1944)
|
1941 |
Broadway |
Kurt Weill |
Ira Gershwin |
Moss Hart |
Notable songs: "Tschaikowsky (and Other Russians)", "My Ship" and "The Saga of Jenny". |
| La Révolution Française |
1973 |
French musical |
Claude-Michel Schönberg and Raymond Jeannot |
Alain Boublil and Jean-Max Rivière |
Boublil and Rivière |
|
| The Last Empress |
1995 |
Korean musical |
Hee-Gap Kim |
In-Ja Yang and Georgina St George |
Mun-Yol Yi |
|
The Last Five Years
- + film (2014)
|
2003 |
Off-Broadway |
Jason Robert Brown |
Brown |
Brown |
Notable songs: "Still Hurting" and "I Can Do Better Than That". |
| The Last Session |
1997 |
Off-Broadway |
Steve Schalchlin |
Schalchlin, John Bettis and Marie Cain |
Jim Brochu |
|
| Laughing Room Only |
2003 |
Broadway |
Doug Katsaros |
Katsaros |
Dennis Blair and Digby Wolfe |
|
| Leader of the Pack |
1985 |
Broadway revue |
Ellie Greenwich |
Various artists |
Anne Beatts |
|
| Leben ohne Chris |
2009 |
German musical |
Wolfgang Böhmer |
Peter Lund |
Lund |
|
| Legally Blonde |
2007 |
Broadway |
Nell Benjamin and Laurence O'Keefe |
Benjamin and O'Keefe |
Heather Hach |
Notable songs: "Omigod You Guys", "Ireland" and "So Much Better". |
| Legs Diamond |
1989 |
Broadway |
Peter Allen |
Allen |
Harvey Fierstein and Charles Suppon |
|
| Lend Me a Tenor |
2011 |
West End |
Brad Carroll |
Peter Sham |
Sham |
|
| Lennon |
2005 |
Broadway |
John Lennon |
Lennon |
Don Scardino |
|
Leonard Sillman's New Faces of 1952
- + film (1954)
|
1952 |
Broadway revue |
Various artists |
Various artists |
N/A |
Notable song: "Boston Beguine". |
Les Misérables
- + film (2012)
|
1985 |
West End |
Claude-Michel Schönberg |
Alain Boublil and Herbert Kretzmer |
Schönberg, Boublil, Trevor Nunn and John Caird |
Notable songs: "I Dreamed a Dream", "On My Own" and "Do You Hear the People Sing?". |
| Lestat |
2006 |
Broadway |
Elton John |
Bernie Taupin |
Linda Woolverton |
Based on the vampire novels of Anne Rice. |
| Let It Ride |
1961 |
Broadway |
Jay Livingston and Ray Evans |
Livingston and Evans |
Abram S. Ginnes |
|
| Let My People Come |
1974 |
Broadway |
Earl Wilson, Jr. |
Wilson, Jr. |
Wilson, Jr. |
|
| Letters from Lehrer |
2006 |
Canadian musical |
Tom Lehrer |
Lehrer |
Richard Greenblatt |
|
| Die letzte Kommune |
2013 |
German musical |
Thomas Zaufke |
Peter Lund |
Lund |
|
| The Lieutenant |
1975 |
Broadway |
Gene Curty, Nitra Scharfman and Chuck Strand |
Curty, Scharfman and Strand |
Curty, Scharfman and Strand |
|
| The Life |
1997 |
Broadway |
Cy Coleman |
Ira Gasman |
David Newman, Gasman and Coleman |
|
| The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby |
1980 |
West End |
Stephen Oliver |
Oliver |
David Edgar |
|
| Life Begins at 8:40 |
1934 |
Broadway revue |
Harold Arlen |
Ira Gershwin and E.Y. Harburg |
N/A |
|
| The Light in the Piazza |
2005 |
Broadway |
Adam Guettel |
Guettel |
Craig Lucas |
|
| The Light Princess |
2013 |
Royal National Theatre |
Tori Amos |
Amos |
Samuel Adamson |
|
| Liberty: The Siege of The Alamo |
2003 |
Off-Off-Broadway |
Bernard J. Taylor |
Taylor |
Taylor |
|
| The Likes of Us |
1965 |
Off-West End |
Andrew Lloyd Webber |
Tim Rice |
Leslie Thomas |
|
Li'l Abner
- + film (1959)
|
1956 |
Broadway |
Gene De Paul |
Johnny Mercer |
Norman Panama and Melvin Frank |
|
The Lion King
- + film (1994)
|
1997 |
Broadway |
Elton John |
Tim Rice |
Roger Allers and Irene Mecchi |
Based on the film of the same name. Notable songs: "The Circle of Life", "Hakuna Matata" and "Can You Feel the Love Tonight". |
| Little by Little |
1999 |
Off-Broadway |
Brad Ross |
Ellen Greenfield and Hal Hackady |
Annette Jolles and Greenfield |
|
| Little Fish |
2003 |
Off-Broadway |
Michael John LaChiusa |
LaChiusa |
LaChiusa |
|
| Little Ham |
1987 |
Off-Broadway |
Judd Woldin |
Richard Engquist and Woldin |
Dan Owens |
|
| Little Johnny Jones |
1904 |
Broadway |
George M. Cohan |
Cohan |
Cohan |
|
| Little Mary Sunshine |
1959 |
Off-Broadway |
Rick Besoyan |
Besoyan |
Besoyan |
|
| Little Me |
1962 |
Broadway |
Cy Coleman |
Carolyn Leigh |
Neil Simon |
|
The Little Mermaid
- + film (1989)
|
2008 |
Broadway |
Alan Menken |
Glenn Slater and Howard Ashman |
Doug Wright |
Based on the film of the same name. Notable songs: "Part of Your World", "Kiss the Girl" and "Under the Sea". |
| Little Miss Sunshine |
2013 |
Off-Broadway |
William Finn |
Finn |
James Lapine |
Based on the film of the same name. |
| Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland |
1993 |
Musical Animated film |
Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman |
Sherman and Sherman |
Chris Columbus and Richard Outten |
|
| A Little Night Music |
1973 |
Broadway |
Stephen Sondheim |
Sondheim |
Hugh Wheeler |
Notable song: "Send in the Clowns". |
Little Shop of Horrors
- + film (1986)
|
1982 |
Broadway |
Alan Menken |
Howard Ashman |
Ashman |
Notable songs: "Suddenly, Seymour" and "Somewhere That's Green". |
| Little Tramp |
1995 |
Off-Off-Broadway |
David Pomeranz |
Pomeranz |
Pomeranz and Steven David Horwich |
|
| Little Women |
2005 |
Broadway |
Jason Howland |
Mindi Dickstein |
Allan Knee |
Notable song: "Astonishing". |
| Lizzie the Musical |
2009 |
American musical |
Steven Cheslik-DeMeyer and Alan Stevens Hewitt |
Cheslik-DeMeyer and Tim Maner |
Maner |
Focuses on the involvement of Lizzie Borden in the axe murders of her father and stepmother, for which she was tried and acquitted, in 1892. |
| Lock Up Your Daughters |
1959 |
West End |
Laurie Johnson |
Lionel Bart |
Bernard Miles |
|
| London Calling! |
1923 |
West End revue |
Noël Coward |
Coward |
André Charlot |
|
| London Road |
2011 |
Royal National Theatre |
Adam Cork |
Alecky Blythe |
Blythe |
|
| Lone Star Love |
2004 |
Off-Broadway |
Jack Herrick |
Herrick |
John L. Haber and Robert Horn |
|
| Look to the Lilies |
1970 |
Broadway |
Jule Styne |
Sammy Cahn |
Leonard Spigelgass |
|
| The Lord of the Rings |
2007 |
West End |
A. R. Rahman, Värttinä and Christopher Nightingale |
Matthew Warchus and Shaun McKenna |
Warchus and McKenna |
Based on the books by J. R. R. Tolkien. |
| Loserville |
2012 |
West End |
James Bourne and Elliot Davis |
Bourne and David |
|
Based on the Son of Dork album Welcome to Loserville. |
Lost in the Stars
- + film (1974)
|
1949 |
Broadway |
Kurt Weill |
Maxwell Anderson |
Anderson |
|
Louisiana Purchase
- + film (1941)
|
1940 |
Broadway |
Irving Berlin |
Berlin |
Morrie Ryskind |
|
| Love! at the Cafe! |
1993 |
Off-Broadway |
Karen Sokolof Javitch |
Javitch and James Spicer Conant |
Conant |
|
| Love from Judy |
1952 |
West End |
Hugh Martin |
Martin and Timothy Gray |
Eric Maschwitz and Jean Webster |
|
| Love, Janis |
2001 |
Off-Broadway revue |
Various artists |
Various artists |
N/A |
|
| Love Life |
1948 |
Broadway |
Kurt Weill |
Alan Jay Lerner |
Lerner |
|
| LoveMusik |
2007 |
Broadway |
Kurt Weill |
Various artists |
Alfred Uhry |
|
| Love Never Dies |
2010 |
West End |
Andrew Lloyd Webber |
Glenn Slater |
Ben Elton |
Sequel to the Lloyd Webber musical The Phantom of the Opera. |
| The Love Note |
2009 |
Curry College Theatre |
Gail Phaneuf |
|
|
|
| Love Story |
2010 |
West End |
Howard Goodall |
Goodall and Stephen Clark |
Clark |
|
| Lucky Stiff |
1988 |
Off-Broadway |
Stephen Flaherty |
Lynn Ahrens |
Ahrens |
Based on a novel by Mike Butterworth. |
| Ludwig II |
2000 |
German musical |
Franz Hummel |
Stephan Barbarino |
Barbarino |
|
| Lust 'n Rust |
2001 |
Off-Off-Broadway |
Frank Haney, Carol Kimball and Dave Stratton |
Haney, Kimball and Stratton |
Haney, Kimball and Stratton |
|