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1. : 1980 musical about a musical; 15. : 1982 musical Peggy Sawyer becomes a star; from Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot. "Lullaby of Broadway" The Jellicle cats : Rum Tum Tugger, Mr. Mistoffelees, Old 2. : 2000 & work based on Verdi Deuteronomy, a love triangle in ancient Egypt "Memory." Aida, Radames, Amneris 16. : 1975 musical with choreography by Bob , "Written in the Stars" based on a 1926 play by reporter Maurine Dallas Watkins about 3. Ain't Misbehavin': 1978 musical featuring the music of Fats corrupt courts during Prohibition Waller Velma Kelly, Roxie Hart, Billy Flynn a tribute to the musicians of the Harlem Renaissance "All that Jazz" "I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter", 17. : 1975 featuring music by "I Can't Give You Anything but Love" a group of performers auditioning for a Broadway show 4. : 2010 musical based on the album Don Kerr, Maggie Winslow, Mike Costa, Connie Wong Johnny, Will, Tunny, Whatsername "One", "What I Did for Love" "Jesus of Suburbia", "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" 18. Cinderella: 1957 Rogers and Hammerstein fairtale musical 5. : 1977 show inspired by comic strip written for television (CBS), starring Annie, Miss Hannigan, Oliver 'Daddy' Warbucks 19. : 1992 with music from George & "", "Hard-Knock Life" based on 1930 musical 6. Annie Get Your Gun: 1946 musical about Annie Bobby Child, Polly Baker, Bella Zangler, Roth Oakley "Someone to Watch Over ", "", "But Not for Me", Annie, Frank Butler, Chief Sitting Bull, Buffalo Bill "They Can't Take that Away from Me", "Nice Wrok if You Can Get "There's No Business Like Show Business", "Doin' What Comes It", "" Natur'lly", "You Can't Get a Man with a Gun", "They Say It's 20. : 1955 musical set during the 1950s in D.C., Wonderful", "Anything You Can Do." based Faust legend and on Douglass Wallop's novel The Year the 7. : 1934 show of antics on NY to Yankees Lost the Pennant ship Joe Boyd, Joe Hardy, Lola, Mr. Applegate, (The Devil in disguise as Billy Crocker, Reno Sweeney, Hope Harcourt, Moonface Martin a slick salesman), Meg Boyd "Anything Goes", "You're the Top", "." ", Lola Gets" 8. : 2003 musical that uses -like puppets 21. Dream Girls: 1981 story of The Dreams, a fictional all-girl R&B Kate Monster, Princeton, Nicky group "What Do You Do with a B.A. in English?", "It Sucks to Be Me" Effie White, Deena Jones, Lorrell Robinson, Curtis Taylor, Jr., James "Thunder" Early 9. : 2008 Elton John & based on a movie a young boy from a UK coal town becomes a ballet star "One Night Only" Billy, Michael Caffrey, Debbie Wilkinson 22. : 1978 musical Andrew Lloyd Webber & Tim Rice; "Electricity" Che Guevara narrates story of Eva Peron "Don't Cry for Me " 10. The : 2011 religious musical from 's creators and 23. Fantasticks: 1960 show with music by Tom Jones Two young missionaries in Uganda based on the Edmond Rostand play "The Romancers" Elder Kevin Price, Elder Arnold Cunningham, Nabulungi world's longest running musical (42 years off-Broadway) two fathers who trick their childreninto falling in love 11. : 1960 musical about teenagers and rock n' roll in the 50s Matt, Luisa, Hucklebee, Bellomy Albert Peterson, Conrad Birdie, Kim MacAfee "Try to Remember", "Soon It's Gonna Rain" "Kids", "Put on a Happy Face", "A Lot of Livin' to Do" 24. : 1964 musical about a Jewish family in czarist 12. : 1966 musical set in The Kit Kat Club of pre-Hitler Berlin Sally Bowles, Clifford Bradshaw, Fraulein Schneider from Tevye and his Daughters by Sholem Aleichem adapted from Goodbye to Berlin & I am a Camera Tevye, Tzeitel, Motel, Hodel, Perchik, Chava, Fyedka "If I Were a Rich Man", "Matchmaker", "Sunrise, Sunset," "The 13. : 1960 Lerner & Loewe musical Bottle Dance" based on The and Future King by T. H. White King Arthur, Queen Guenevere, Sir Lancelot, Merlyn 25. : 1971 musical "If Ever I Would Leave You" story about a reunion in a crumbling Ben, Sally, Phyllis and Buddy 14. : 1945 Rodgers & Hammerstein musical set in Maine "", "Broadway " adapted from Ferenc Molnár's 1909 play romance between carousel barker Billy Bigelow and millworker 26. Footloose: 1998 musical based on the 1984 film Julie ; Carrie Pipperidge, Enoch Snow city boy moves to a conservative small town "", "June Is Bustin' Out All Over" and "You'll Never Ren, Ariel, Reverend Shaw Moore Walk ". "Let's Hear It for the Boy", "Almost Paradise" 27. : 1964 musical about Ziegfeld Follies star Fanny Brice 41. and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat: 1982, A. Fanny, Nick Arnstein Lloyd Webber & Tim Rice (1st collaboration) "People", "You Are Woman, I Am Man", "Don't Rain on My based on story from the Book of Genesis " Jacob, Joseph, Potiphar, Joseph's 11 brothers, Pharoah 28. A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: 1962 "Any Dream Will Do", "" Stephen Sondheim musical comedy 42. : 1951 Rodgers & Hammerstein Inspired by the farces of Roman playwright Plautus based on 's 1944 novel of Siam Pseudolus, Hero, Philia, Senex Anna, the King, Tuptim, Lun Tha "Comedy Tonight" "Getting to Know You", "", "Hello Young 29. : 1976 show based on the Gospel of Matthew Lovers" Jesus, John the Baptist, Peter 43. : 2012 best musical with lyrics by "Day by Day", "Beautiful City" a struggling British shoe factory's young, straitlaced owner, 30. : 1971 musical about highschool in the 1950s Charlie, who forms an unlikely partnership with Lola, a drag Sandy, Danny, Kenickie, Frenchy queen, to save the business "Summer Nights", "We Go Together" 44. Kiss Me Kate: 1948 Cole Porter musical based on Taming of the 31. : 1950 musical from and Abe Shrew Burrows, Fred, Lilli, Lois, Bill gangsters, gamblers, and the NY underworld "Brush up Your Shakespeare", "", "Why Can't You Nathan Detroit, Miss , Sky Masterson, Sarah Brown Behave", "Tom, Dick or Harry" Based on short stories by Damon Runyon 45. Les Misérables: 1987 musical by Claude-Michel Schönberg, "Luck Be a Lady Tonight", "Sit Down, You're Rockin' the Boat" based on Victor Hugo novel 32. : 1959 about a stage mother, lyrics by Sondheim Jean Valjean, Javert, Cossette, Marius, Thenardiers based on the story of Gypsy Rose Lee "", "Master of the House" Rose, Baby June, Louise 46. : 1997 Elton John & Tim Rice version of the Disney "Everything's Coming Up Roses" film 33. : revolutionary 1968 of Vietnam-era hippies , Mufasa, , , Rafiki, Zazu Claude, Sheila, Berger, Woof "", "" "Hair", "Aquarius", "Good Morning Starshine" 47. : 1972 Stephen Sondheim production 34. : 2002 musical adapted from the 1988 Movie includes the song "" Tracy and Edna Turnblad, Amber and Velma von Tussle 48. Little Shop of Horrors: 1982 musical based on the1960 black "Good Morning ", "Welcome to the 60s", "The Madison" comedy film - a 60s dance Audry, Audry II, Seymour, Mushnik 35. Hello, Dolly: 1964 show based on Thorton Wilder's play The "Feed Me" Matchmaker 49. Mamma Mia!: 2001show using some of ABBA's greatest hits story of a meddlesome widow matchmaker a girl tries to find her father (set on a Greek island) Dolly, Horace, Cornelius, Barnaby, Irene Donna, Rosie, Tanya, Sam Carmichael "Hello, Dolly" (won a Grammy for Louis Armstrong) "Mamma Mia!", "Dancing Queen", other ABBA hits 36. H.M.S. Pinafore: 1878 comic opera by 50. : 1965 musical adaptation of Don Quixote about the marriage of the captain's daughter Quixote, Sancho Panza, Aldonza Sir Joseph Porter, Captain Corcoran, Josephine "The Impossible Dream", "To Each His Dulcinea" "I'm Called Little Buttercup" and "When I Was a Lad." 51. Meet Me in St. Louis: 1989 musical based on the 1944 film 37. How to Suceed in Business without Really Trying: 1961 set during the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair musical based on Shepherd Mead's 1952 book Katie the maid, Alonzo Smith, Esther Smith, John Truitt young man rises from window washer to chairman of the board of "The Boy Next Door", "The Trolley Song", "Have Yourself a Merry the World Wide Wicket Little Christmas" J. Pierrepont Finch, Rosemary Pilkington, J.B. Biggley, Bud Frump, 52. The Mikado: 1885 Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera Hedy LaRue The Emperor of Japa,n Ko-Ko, Nanki-Poo, 38. : 1987 work by Sondheim and Lapine, "Three Little Maids From School Are We." children's stories and what happens afterwards 53. Miss Saigon: 1991 show by Claude-Michel Schönberg Cinderella, Jack, Baker, Witch based on Puccini's opera Madame Butterfly 39. : 2005 docu-musical about The Four Seasons Kim, Christopher Scott, John Thomas , Tommy DeVito, , 54. : 1957 Meredith Wilson musical set in 1912 Iowa "", "Sherry", "Can't Take My Eyes Off of You" conman salesman tries to sell instruments to locals 40. : 1971 by Andrew Lloyd Professor Harold Hill, Marian Paroo, Marcellus Washburn, Webber & Tim Rice George Shinn Jesus, Judas, , Pilate "76 Trombones", "", "Trouble" "I Don't Know How to Love Him", "Everything's Alright" 55. : 1956 show by Lerner & Loewe, 68. : 1996 musical by Jonathon Larson, Adapted from Pygmalion by G.B. Shaw; lives of artists & musicians under the shadow of AIDS Eliza Dolittle, Henry Higgins Based on Puccini's opera La Bohème "The Rain in ," "I Could Have Danced All Night", "On the Mark, Maureen, Roger, Tom Collins, Benj. Coffin III Street Where You Live" "Seasons of Love (525,600 Minutes)" 56. No, No Nanette: 1925 musical based on the play My Lady 69. The Rocky Horror Show: 1973 comedic horror cult classic by Richard O'Brien, three couples in an Atlantic City blackmail scheme Brad Majors, Janet Weiss, Dr. Frank N Furter Jimmy Smith, Sue Smith, Nanette "The Time Warp" "Tea for Two", "I Want to Be Happy". 70. Seussical: 2000 musical amalgamation of Dr. Seuss stories 57. Oklahoma!: 1943 Rodgers & Hammerstein show often considered Horton, in the Hat, JoJo, Gertrude McFuzz considered the first modern book musical "Horton Hears a Who" Curly McLain,Laurey, Ado Annie, Will Parker 71. Showboat: 1927 show w/ music by & O. "Oh What a Beautiful Mornin'" and "Oklahoma," Hammerstein 58. Oliver!: 1963 musical based on a Dickens' novel Based on Edna Ferber's novel of the same name , Fagin, Nancy, Mr. Brownlow, Bill Sikes, Mr. Bumble, follows the story of workers on the Cotton Blossom The Artful Dodger "Make Believe", "Ol' Man River" "Food, Glorious Food", "" 72. Singin' in the Rain: 1985 adaptation of the 1952 movie 59. Once: 2012 musical based on 2006 independent film romantic tension surround a movie production the bittersweet romance of two strangers in Dublin Don Lockwood, Lina Lamont, Kathy Selden Guy, Girl "Singin' in the Rain" "" (Oscar-winning song) 73. : 1959 mucial by & Oscar 60. : 1954 musical based on the novel 7½ Cents by Hammerstein R. Bissell Maria, Captain von Trapp, the 7 von Trapp children labor troubles and love in a pajama factory "My Favorite Things," "Do-Re-Mi", "Edelweiss,"Climb Ev'ry Sid Sorokin, Catherine "Babe" Williams, Myron "Old Man" Hasler, Mountain" Gladys Hotchkiss 74. : 1950 Rogers and Hammerstein musical "", "" romance on a Pacific island during WWII 61. : 1940 Rodgers & Hart musical, novel by John O'Hara Nelly Forbush, Emile de Becque, Lt. Joe Cable, Joey schemes to open a night club "", Bali Hai", "Gonna Wash that Man Joey, Linda English, Vera Simpson Right Outta My Hair", "Happy Talk" "I Could Write a Book", "Bewitched, Bothered & Bewildered" 75. : 2005 musical of & the Holy 62. The Phantom of the Opera: 1986 musical by Andrew Lloyd Grail Webber, King Artur, Sir Lancelot, Lady in the Lake Adapted from novel by Leroux. "Always Look on the Bright Side", " of the Round Table" Longest running show in Broadway history. 76. : 2006 collaboration from & Christine Daae, the Phantom, Raoul , "Music of the Night", "Think of Me" A rock musical adaptation of the controversial 1891 German play 63. : 1972 Stephen Schwartz musical of the same title by . life of Pippin the Hunchback, son of Charlemagne Melchior, Wendla, Ilsa, Moritz Pippin, Charlemagne, Catherine 77. : 1979 horror/ comedy by Stephen Sondheim, "Magic to Do", "Morning Glow" Sweeney, Mrs. Lovett, Toby 64. Pirates of Penzance: 1879 Gilbert & Sullivan comic opera based on the 1973 play Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet love story about an indentured servant pirate Street by Christopher Bond. Frederic, Mabel, Major-General Stanley "Worst Pies in London" "I am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General" 78. Thoroughly Modern Millie: 2002 show where Kansas girl 65. : 1935 opera by George and Ira Gershwin becomes a NY flapper based on DuBose Heyward's novel and play Porgy Millie Dillmount , Jimmy Smith blacks living in the slums of Charleston, South Carolina Based on the 1967 film of the same name Porgy, Bess, Crown, Sportin' Life 79. Tommy: 1993 rock opera based on 1969 album by "Summertime", "It Ain't Necessarily So", "I Loves You Porgy" and Tommy, Captain Walker, Mrs. Walker "I Got Plenty o' Nuttin'". "Pinball Wizard", "Tommy Can You Hear Me" 66. : 2001 comedy based on his 1968 80. The Unsinkable Molly Brown: 1960 Meredith Wilson musical movie about Molly Brown Max Bialystock, Leopold "Leo" Bloom, Roger De Bris, Carmen Molly, J.J. "Leadville" Johnny Brown Ghia "I Ain't Down Yet" "Springtime for Hitler", "Heil Myself" 81. : 1957 musical By Bernstien and Sonheim; 67. : 1998 show based on E.L. Doctorow's novel Ragtime based on Romeo and Juilet Mother, Tateh, Coalhouse Walker, Jr. the Jets, the Sharks, Tony, Maria, Anita, Bernardo features jazz and from the early 1900s "," "America," "Tonight," , 82. : 2003 prequel to The Wizard of Oz the witches of Oz: Glinda, Elphaba loosely based on Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire "Popular", "For Good"