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1934 sheet music cover for the w:Cole Porter musical w:Anything Goes

Anything Goes: History and Key Facts

Anything Goes is a musical with music and lyrics by Cole Porter.

Photo of Lauren Bacall in a television presentation of the Broadway musical Applause. The program was first broadcast in 1973 and re-broadcast in 1974.

Applause (musical): History and Key Facts

Applause is a musical with a book by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, lyrics by Lee Adams, and music by Charles Strouse.

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As the Girls Go: History and Key Facts

As the Girls Go is a musical with music by Jimmy McHugh, lyrics by Harold Adamson and a book by William Roos.

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Assassins (musical): History and Key Facts

Assassins is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book by John Weidman, based on an original concept by Charles Gilbert Jr.

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Aspects of Love: History and Key Facts

Aspects of Love is a musical with music and book by Andrew Lloyd Webber, and lyrics by Don Black and Charles Hart.

Front cover of sheet music for the musical Aunt Hannah. Music by A. Baldwin Sloane, lyrics by Clay M. Greene, and a book by Matthew J. Royal.

Aunt Hannah: History and Key Facts

Aunt Hannah is a musical in three acts with music by A.

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Avenue Q: History and Key Facts

Avenue Q is a musical comedy featuring puppets and human actors with music and lyrics by Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx and a book by Jeff Whitty.

Sheet music from Babes in Toyland by Victor Herbert, 1903

Babes in Toyland (operetta): History and Key Facts

Babes in Toyland is an operetta composed by Victor Herbert with a libretto by Glen MacDonough, which wove together various characters from Mother Goose nursery rhymes into a musical extravaganza.

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Back to the Future: The Musical: History and Key Facts

Back to the Future: The Musical is a musical with music and lyrics by Alan Silvestri and Glen Ballard and a book by Bob Gale.

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The Band's Visit (musical): History and Key Facts

The Band's Visit is a stage musical with music and lyrics by David Yazbek and a book by Itamar Moses, based on the 2007 Israeli film of the same name.

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Bandstand (musical): History and Key Facts

Bandstand: The New American Musical (or simply Bandstand) is an original musical composed by Richard Oberacker with book and lyrics by Oberacker and Robert Taylor.

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Banjo Eyes: History and Key Facts

Banjo Eyes is a musical based on the play Three Men on a Horse by John Cecil Holm and George Abbott.

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Be More Chill (musical): History and Key Facts

Be More Chill is a musical with original music and lyrics by Joe Iconis, and a book by Joe Tracz, based on the 2004 novel of the same name by Ned Vizzini.

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Beaches (musical): History and Key Facts

Beaches is a stage musical with music by Mike Stoller, lyrics by Iris Rainer Dart, and a book by Dart and Thom Thomas.

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Beautiful: The Carole King Musical: History and Key Facts

Beautiful: The Carole King Musical is a jukebox musical with a book by Douglas McGrath with songs by Carole King with Gerry Goffin, Barry Mann with Cynthia Weil, and others.

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A Beautiful Noise (musical): History and Key Facts

A Beautiful Noise is a jukebox musical based on the life and music of Neil Diamond.

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Beauty and the Beast (musical): History and Key Facts

Beauty and the Beast is a musical, with music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Howard Ashman and Tim Rice, and book by Linda Woolverton.

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The Beauty Spot: History and Key Facts

The Beauty Spot was a 1909 musical comedy in two acts that played for 137 performances at the Herald Square Theatre in New York with music by Reginald De Koven, a book by Joseph W.

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Beetlejuice (musical): History and Key Facts

Beetlejuice The Musical.

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The Belle of New York (musical): History and Key Facts

The Belle of New York is a musical comedy in two acts, with book and lyrics by Hugh Morton and music by Gustave Kerker, about a Salvation Army girl who reforms a spendthrift, makes a great sacrif

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Best Foot Forward (musical): History and Key Facts

Best Foot Forward is a 1941 musical with songs by Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane, and a book by John Cecil Holm.

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The Better 'Ole: History and Key Facts

The Better 'Ole, also called The Romance of Old Bill, is an Edwardian musical comedy with a book by Bruce Bairnsfather and Arthur Elliot, music by Herman Darewski, and lyrics by Percival Knight a

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Big Fish (musical): History and Key Facts

Big Fish is a musical with music and lyrics by Andrew Lippa and book by John August.

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The Billionaire (musical): History and Key Facts

The Billionaire is a musical in three acts with music by Gustave Kerker, and both book and lyrics by Harry B.

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Billy Elliot the Musical: History and Key Facts

Billy Elliot: The Musical is a coming-of-age stage musical based on the 2000 film of the same name.

Poster of musical theatre The Black Crook, representing the finale in which the amazons crush the forces of evil.

The Black Crook: History and Key Facts

The Black Crook is a work of musical theatre first produced in New York City with great success in 1866.

Blackbirds of 1926 – Florence Mills, Johnny Hudgins and chorus girls rehearse on roof of the London Pavilion

Blackbirds of 1926: History and Key Facts

Blackbirds of 1926, also known as Lew Leslie's Blackbirds of 1926, was a musical revue with an all African American cast created and produced by impresario Lew Leslie that starred Florence Mills,

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Blast! (musical): History and Key Facts

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Blood Brothers (musical): History and Key Facts

Blood Brothers is a musical with book, lyrics, and music by Willy Russell and was produced by Bill Kenwright until his death in 2023 and the production was then picked up by Bill Kenwright Limite

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Blue Beard, Jr.: History and Key Facts

Bluebeard, Jr., or, Fatima and the Fairy is a musical in four acts with a libretto by Clay M.

Cover of the vocal score for the musical "The Blue Paradise" (1915), with music by Edmund Eysler, Sigmund Romberg and Leo Edwards, and lyrics by Herbert Reynolds. Published by G. Schirmer Inc.

The Blue Paradise: History and Key Facts

The Blue Paradise is a musical in a prologue and two acts, with music by Edmund Eysler, Sigmund Romberg and Leo Edwards, lyrics primarily by Herbert Reynolds, and a book by Edgar Smith, based on

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The Body Beautiful: History and Key Facts

The Body Beautiful is a musical with a book by Joseph Stein and Will Glickman, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, and music by Jerry Bock.

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Bombshell (musical): History and Key Facts

Bombshell is an American musical with music by Marc Shaiman and lyrics by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman based on the original fictitious musical from the first season of the NBC television serie

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Bonnie & Clyde (musical): History and Key Facts

Bonnie & Clyde is a musical with music by Frank Wildhorn, lyrics by Don Black and a book by Ivan Menchell.

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The Book of Mormon (musical): History and Key Facts

The Book of Mormon is an American musical comedy with music, lyrics, and book by Trey Parker, Robert Lopez, and Matt Stone.

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The Boy Friend (musical): History and Key Facts

The Boy Friend (sometimes misrepresented The Boyfriend) is a musical by Sandy Wilson.

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The Boys from Syracuse: History and Key Facts

The Boys from Syracuse is a musical by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Lorenz Hart, based on William Shakespeare's play The Comedy of Errors, as adapted by librettist George Abbott.

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Breakfast at Tiffany's (musical): History and Key Facts

Breakfast at Tiffany's is a musical with music and lyrics by Bob Merrill and a book originally by Abe Burrows but rewritten during pre-Broadway tryouts by Edward Albee.

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Brigadoon: History and Key Facts

Brigadoon is a musical with book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and score by Frederick Loewe.

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Bright Lights of 1944: History and Key Facts

Bright Lights of 1944 was a 1943 Broadway musical revue with music composed by Jerry Livingston and lyrics by Mack David.