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Death Becomes Her (musical): History and Key Facts

Death Becomes Her is a musical, with a book by Marco Pennette and music and lyrics by Julia Mattison and Noel Carey.

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The Desert Song: History and Key Facts

The Desert Song is an operetta with music by Sigmund Romberg and book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, Otto Harbach and Frank Mandel.

"In the Good Old Summer Time" 1902 sheet music cover, with insert photo of singer Blanche Ring

The Defender (musical): History and Key Facts

The Defender is a musical in three acts with music by Charles Dennée and both book and lyrics by Allen Lowe.

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Dew Drop Inn (musical): History and Key Facts

Dew Drop Inn is a musical with music by Alfred Goodman and Rudolf Friml, lyrics by Cyrus Wood, and a book by Walter DeLeon and Edward Delaney Dunn.

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Disaster! (musical): History and Key Facts

Disaster!

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Don't Play Us Cheap: History and Key Facts

Don't Play Us Cheap is a musical play with music, lyrics, and a musical book by Melvin Van Peebles.

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Doonesbury (musical): History and Key Facts

Doonesbury, also known as Doonesbury: A Musical Comedy, is a 1983 musical with a book and lyrics by Garry Trudeau and music by Elizabeth Swados.

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Dracula, the Musical: History and Key Facts

Dracula, the Musical is a musical based on the original 1897 Victorian novel by Bram Stoker.

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Dreamgirls: History and Key Facts

Dreamgirls is a Broadway musical, with music by Henry Krieger and lyrics and book by Tom Eyen.

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Das Dreimäderlhaus: History and Key Facts

Das Dreimäderlhaus (House of the Three Girls), adapted into English-language versions as Blossom Time and Lilac Time, is a Viennese pastiche operetta with music by Franz Schubert, rearranged by H

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The Drowsy Chaperone: History and Key Facts

The Drowsy Chaperone is a Canadian musical with music and lyrics by Lisa Lambert and Greg Morrison, and a book by Bob Martin and Don McKellar.

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Early to Bed (musical): History and Key Facts

Early to Bed is a musical produced by Richard Kollmar with music by Fats Waller, and lyrics and book by George Marion Jr.

Sheet music from Eileen, 1917

Eileen (opera): History and Key Facts

Eileen is a comic opera in three acts with music by Victor Herbert and lyrics and book by Henry Blossom, based loosely on the 1835 novel Rory O'More by Herbert's grandfather, Samuel Lover.

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Everybody's Welcome: History and Key Facts

Everybody's Welcome is a musical comedy with a book by Lambert Carroll, lyrics by Irving Kahal, and music by Sammy Fain.

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Evita (musical): History and Key Facts

Evita is a sung-through musical with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Tim Rice.

* Cover includes reproduction of a signed photograph of Theresa Vaughn costumed as Winnie the news-girl, wearing a hat and dark dress.
On cover: The one song of its kind...introduced and sung by Miss Theresa Vaughn in her famous impersonation of The New York soubrette news girl with Rice's Excelsior Jr. Co. at Hammerst

Excelsior, Jr.: History and Key Facts

Excelsior, Jr.

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Fade Out – Fade In: History and Key Facts

Fade Out – Fade In is a musical with a book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green and music by Jule Styne.

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Falsettos: History and Key Facts

Falsettos is a sung-through musical with a book by William Finn and James Lapine, and music and lyrics by Finn.

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Fiddler on the Roof: History and Key Facts

Fiddler on the Roof is a musical with music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, and book by Joseph Stein, set in the Pale of Settlement of Imperial Russia in or around 1905.

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Finding Neverland (musical): History and Key Facts

Finding Neverland is a musical with music and lyrics by Gary Barlow and Eliot Kennedy and a book by James Graham adapted from the 1998 play The Man Who Was Peter Pan by Allan Knee and its 2004 fi

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Finian's Rainbow: History and Key Facts

Finian's Rainbow is a musical with a book by E.

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The Firebrand of Florence: History and Key Facts

The Firebrand of Florence is a Broadway operetta in two acts, written by Kurt Weill (music), Ira Gershwin (lyrics), and Edwin Justus Mayer and Gershwin (book), based on Mayer's play.

Scan from piano/vocal score of The Firefly, published by Schirmer, New York in 1912.

The Firefly (operetta): History and Key Facts

The Firefly was the first operetta written by composer Rudolf Friml, with a libretto by Otto Harbach.

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The First (musical): History and Key Facts

The First is a musical with a book by critic Joel Siegel.

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The Five O'Clock Girl: History and Key Facts

The Five O'Clock Girl is a musical with a book by Guy Bolton and Fred Thompson, music by Harry Ruby, and lyrics by Bert Kalmar.

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The Floor Walkers: History and Key Facts

The Floor Walkers was a road musical that was created as a starring vehicle for the comedy duo of Hap Ward and Harry Vokes to feature their signature roles of the tramps Lord Percy Harden (portra

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Florodora: History and Key Facts

Florodora is an Edwardian musical comedy.

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Flower Drum Song: History and Key Facts

Flower Drum Song was the eighth musical by the team of Rodgers and Hammerstein.

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Flying High (musical): History and Key Facts

Flying High is a musical comedy with book by B.

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Follies: History and Key Facts

Follies is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book by James Goldman.

Front cover of sheet music for waltzes from the show Follies of 1907 
Copyright registered September 21, 1907 (page 1080)

Solomon, Frederick. Follies of 1907 Waltzes. Shapiro Music Publisher, New York, NY, 1907. Notated Music. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/ihas.200004336. (Accessed F

The Follies of 1907: History and Key Facts

The Follies of 1907 is a 1907 musical revue which was conceived and produced by Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.

Cover of the sheet music for the 1929 musical Follow Thru

Follow Thru (musical): History and Key Facts

Follow Thru is a musical comedy with book by B.

"Alice Nielsen's production of The Fortune Teller - Book by Harry B. Smith - Music by Victor Herbert - Direction: Milton & Sargent Aborn.", subcaptioned "The Drum Corps". 

A 1905 poster for Victor Herbert's The Fortune Teller (1898) showing the women's drum corps. Alice Nielsen's production was the first production of

The Fortune Teller (operetta): History and Key Facts

The Fortune Teller is an operetta in three acts composed by Victor Herbert, with a libretto by Harry B.

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Four Saints in Three Acts: History and Key Facts

Four Saints in Three Acts is an opera composed in 1928 by Virgil Thomson, setting a libretto written in 1927 by Gertrude Stein.

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Foxy (musical): History and Key Facts

Foxy is a musical with a book by Ian McLellan Hunter and Ring Lardner Jr., lyrics by Johnny Mercer, and music by Robert Emmett Dolan.

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The Frogs (musical): History and Key Facts

The Frogs is a musical "freely adapted" by Stephen Sondheim and Burt Shevelove from The Frogs, an Ancient Greek comedy by Aristophanes.

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Frozen (musical): History and Key Facts

Frozen is a musical with music and lyrics by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez, and book by Jennifer Lee, based on Walt Disney Animation Studios' 2013 animated film Frozen.

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Fun Home (musical): History and Key Facts

Fun Home is a musical theatre adaptation of Alison Bechdel's 2006 graphic memoir of the same name, with music by Jeanine Tesori, and book and lyrics by Lisa Kron.

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Funny Girl (musical): History and Key Facts

Funny Girl is a musical with score by Jule Styne, lyrics by Bob Merrill, and book by Isobel Lennart, that first opened on Broadway in 1964.

Funny Face 1927 poster

Funny Face (musical): History and Key Facts

Funny Face is a 1927 musical composed by George Gershwin, with lyrics by Ira Gershwin, and book by Fred Thompson and Paul Gerard Smith.