List of Broadway musicals

• 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue (1976) (Lyrics: Alan J. Lerner; Music: Leonard Bernstein) Notable flop (closed after only seven performances).
• 1776 (1969, revival 1997) (Sherman Edwards)
• 42nd Street (1980) (Harry Warren and Al Dubin) Notable songs: "42nd Street", "Shuffle Off to Buffalo", "Young and Healthy"

A

• Aida (2000) (Elton John and Tim Rice)
• A Little Night Music (1973) (Stephen Sondheim) Notable song: "Send in the Clowns"
• Annie (1977) (Strouse and Charnin) Notable songs: "Tomorrow", "A Hard-Knock Life"
• Annie Get Your Gun (1946) (Irving Berlin) Notable song: "There's No Business Like Show Business"
• Anyone Can Whistle (1964) (Stephen Sondheim)
• Anything Goes (1934) (Cole Porter) Featured Ethel Merman. Notable songs: "Anything Goes", "Blow, Gabriel Blow"
• Applause (1970) (Strouse and Adams)
• Aspects of Love (1990) (Andrew Lloyd Webber)
• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1951) (Music: Arthur Schwartz; lyrics: Dorothy Fields)
• Avenue Q off-Boardway, now on-Broadway

B

• Babes in Arms (1937) (Rodgers and Hart)
• Babes in Toyland
• Bajour (1964) (Walter Marks)
• Barnum (1980) (Coleman and Stewart)
• The Band Wagon (Dietz and Schwartz) Featured Fred and Adele Astaire. Notable songs: "I Love Louisa", "Hoops"
• (off-Broadway)
• The Beautiful Game (Andrew Lloyd Webber/Ben Elton)
• Beauty and the Beast (1994) (Music: Alan Menken; Lyrics: Howard Ashman, Tim Rice)
• Bells are Ringing (1956) (Music: Jules Styne; Lyrics: Comden and Green)
• Blackbirds of 1928 (1928), featured Bill “Bojangles” Robinson, notable song "Doin' the New Low Down"
• The Boyfriend (Sandy Wilson)
• Brigadoon (1947) (Lerner and Loewe) Notable song: "Almost Like Being in Love"
• The Boys from Syracuse (1938) (Rodgers and Hart) Notable songs: "Falling in Love with Love", "This Can't be Love"
• Bye Bye Birdie (1960) (Strouse and Adams) Notable songs: "A Lot of Livin' To Do", "Kids", "Put On A Happy Face"

C

• Cabaret (Kander and Ebb) Notable song: "Cabaret"
• Call Me Madam (Irving Berlin)
• Call Me Mister (Irving Berlin)
• Camelot (1960) (Lerner and Loewe)
• Candide (1956) (Music: Leonard Bernstein; Lyrics: Richard Wilbur)
• Carmen Jones
• Carnival (1961 (Bob Merrill)
• Carousel (1945) (Rodgers and Hammerstein) Notable songs: Bill's "Soliloquy", "When you Walk Through a Storm", "What's the Use of Wonderin"
• Cats (Andrew Lloyd Webber)
• Chess (Tim Rice/Benny Andersson/Bjorn Ulvaeus)
• Chicago (Kander and Ebb) Notable song: "All That Jazz"
• A Chorus Line
• Company (1970) (Stephen Sondheim)
• The Cradle will Rock (1937) (Marc Blitzstein) Federal Theatre project

D

• Damn Yankees (1955) (Adler and Ross)
• The Desert Song
• DuBarry was a Lady (1939) (Cole Porter)

E

• Evita (Andrew Lloyd Webber)

F

• The Fantasticks (Off-Broadway) (1960) (Music: Harvey Schmidt; Lyrics: Tom Jones) Run ended 2002 making it world's longest-running musical as of 2004 . Notable song: Try to Remember
• Fiddler on the Roof (1964) (Music: Jerry Bock, lyrics: Sheldon Harnick) Featured: Zero Mostel. Notable songs: Tradition, Sunrise, Sunset, If I Were a Rich Man
• Fings Ain't Wot They Used T'Be (West End) (Frank Norman and Lionel Bart)
• Finian's Rainbow (1947) (Music: Burton Lane; lyrics: E. Y. Harburg) Notable song: How are Things in Glocca Morra?
• Fiorello! (1959) (Music: Jerry Bock, lyrics: Sheldon Harnick) Notable song: Little Tin Box
• Flower Drum Song
• Follies (Stephen Sondheim)
• Funny Girl (1964) (Music: Jules Styne, lyrics: Bob Merrill) Featured Barbra Streisand; notable song: People
• A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1962) (Stephen Sondheim) Notable song: Comedy Tonight

G

• The Gay Divorce
• Gigi
• Girl Crazy (1930) (George and Ira Gershwin) Featured Ethel Merman; notable song: I've Got Rhythm
• Goldilocks (Music: Leroy Anderson, lyrics Jean Kerr, Joan Ford, Walter Kerr)
• Guys and Dolls (Music and lyrics: Frank Loesser) Notable songs: Luck, Be a Lady, A Bushel and a Peck
• Gypsy (1959) (Music: Jules Styne, lyrics: Stephen Sondheim). Featured Rosalind Russell. Notable songs: Everything's Coming up Roses, "Big Spender"

H

• Hello, Dolly (1964) (Jerry Herman) Featured Carol Channing; notable song, Hello, Dolly."
• Hair (1967) Notable song: Aquarius
• The Hot Mikado (1939) All-black cast featured Bill “Bojangles” Robinson.
• How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (Music and lyrics: Frank Loesser) Notable song: I Believe in You

I

• Into the Woods (1987) (Stephen Sondheim)

J

• Jesus Christ Superstar (Andrew Lloyd Webber)
• Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Andrew Lloyd Webber)

K

• The King and I (1951) (Rodgers and Hammerstein) Featured: Gertrudge Lawrence, Yul Brynner; notable songs: Shall We Dance, Getting to Know You
• Kiss Me, Kate
• Knickerbocker Holiday (1938) (Kurt Weill, Maxwell Anderson) Notable song: September Song

L

• Lady in the Dark (1941) (Kurt Weill, Ira Gershwin) Notable songs: My Ship (Gertrude Lawrence), Tschaikovsky (Danny Kaye)
• Les Miserables
• The Lion King (1997) (Music: Elton John; Lyrics: Tim Rice)
• Little Shop of Horrors
• Lost in the Stars (Music: Kurt Weill; lyrics: Maxwell Anderson)

M

• Martin Guerre
• Miss Saigon
• The Most Happy Fella (1956) (Frank Loesser)
• The Music Man (1957) (Meredith Willson) Notable songs: Seventy-Six Trombones, Till There was You, Ya Got Trouble (Right Here in River City),
• My Fair Lady (1956) (Lerner and Loewe) Featured: Rex Harrison, Julie Andrews, Stanley Holloway. Notable songs: Loverly, Accustomed to her Face, Get Me To the Church On Time"

N

• No, No Nanette
• Nymph Errant (Cole Porter)

O

• Of Thee I Sing (George and Ira Gershwin) Notable song: Love is Sweeping the Country
• Oh, Boy (1917) () Notable songs: Till the Clouds Roll By
• Oh, Kay (George and Ira Gershwin) Notable song: Someone to Watch Over Me
• Oh! What a Lovely War (West End)
• Oliver! (Lionel Bart) Notable songs: Consider Yourself
• Oklahoma! (1943) (Rodgers and Hammerstein) Notable songs: Oh! What a Beautiful Mornin', Oklahoma!, People will Say We're in Love
• On a Clear Day, You Can See Forever (Lerner and Loewe)
• Once Upon a Mattress (Music: Mary Rodgers, Lyrics: Marshall Barer) Featured Carol Burnett.
• One Touch of Venus (1943) (Kurt Weill, Ogden Nash Notable song: Speak Low
• On the Town (1944) (Music: Leonard Bernstein; Lyrics: Comden and Green) Notable song: New York, New York (It's A Wonderful Town)
• On Your Toes (Rodgers and Hart)

P

• Pacific Overtures (1976) (Stephen Sondheim)
• The Pajama Game (1954) (Adler and Ross)
• Pal Joey (1940) (Rodgers and Hart) Notable song: Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered
• Panama Hattie (1942) (Cole Porter)
• Peter Pan (1954) Featured: Mary Martin
• The Phantom of the Opera (Andrew Lloyd Webber)
• Pins and Needles (1937) (Political musical)
• Pippin
• Porgy and Bess
• The Producers

Q

R

• The Rocky Horror Show
• Rose-Marie (1924)

S

• Salad Days
• The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (1924) (Sigmund Romberg) Longest-running musical of the 1920s
• Show Boat (1927) (Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II) Notable songs: Old Man River, My Bill, Can't Help Lovin' That Man of Mine
• Snoopy!!! (Off-Broadway) (1975)
• The Sound of Music (1959) (Rodgers and Hammerstein) Notable songs: Do-Re-Mi, Climb Ev'ry Mountain, The Sound of Music, My Favorite Things
• South Pacific (1949) (Rodgers and Hammerstein) Notable songs: Bali Hai, Some Enchanted Evening
• Starlight Express (Andrew Lloyd Webber/Richard Stilgoe)
• Street Scene (1947) (Music Kurt Weill, lyrics Elmer Rice)
• Strike Up the Band (George and Ira Gershwin) Notable song: Strike Up the Band
• Sunday in the Park with George (1984) (Stephen Sondheim)
• Sunset Boulevard (Andrew Lloyd Webber)
• Sweeney Todd (1989) (Stephen Sondheim)
• The Swing Mikado (1938) (Chicago) All-black cast.

T

• The Threepenny Opera (Off-Broadway) Notable songs: Mack the Knife, Pirate Jenny
• Tommy
• Thouroughly Modern Millie Notable Songs: Thouroghly Modern Millie, Forget About the Boy

U

V

W

• The Wedding Singer (set to begin March 2004, based on the Adam Sandler romantic comedy feature film of the same name)
• West Side Story (1957) (Music: Leonard Bernstein, lyrics: Stephen Sondheim). Notable songs: Tonight, America, Gee, Officer Krupke
• Where's Charley? (1948) Featured Ray Bolger; notable song Once in Love with Amy
• Whoopee (1928) Featured Eddie Cantor, notable song Makin' Whoopee
• The Wild Party
• Wonderful Town (1953) (Music: Leonard Bernstein; lyrics: Comden and Green)
• The World of Suzie Wong

X

Y

• You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown (Off-broadway: 1967; Broadway revial: 1999)

Z

External Links

• The Internet Broadway Database

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