If you’re a big fan of musical films and theatre, this article is sure to delight you to the fullest. We’ve compiled a list of some of the most famous musicals that have pulled in the crowds for years.
The Black Crook played in 1866 is believed to be the first musical.
When we’re talking musical, we usually refer to either musical theatre or musical films. While the former is an amalgamation of music pieces, songs, dialogs, and dance, with the elements of drama, the latter is a genre of motion pictures that incorporate musical sequences as interwoven parts of the thematic narrative. Musicals have garnered tremendous fan following among cinema as well as theatre goers, and the cynosure of their appeal lies in the way the story and the central idea is conveyed by resting the dominant part of the narrative and much of the histrionics upon musical effects, songs, and artistic choreography.
Musical super hits like Moulin Rouge!, The Sound of Music, Chicago, and My Fair Lady have assumed a cult status among lovers of this genre of entertainment, and, in a way, they give you a feel of the bygone era of theatre and films, when most of the old-world-entertainment churned out by this media used to be in the form of musicals and ballads.
INDEX
► Theatre Musicals
► Famous Songs from Musicals
► Famous Quotes from Musicals
Film Musicals
The Smiling Lieutenant
- Director: Ernst Lubitsch
- Producer: Ernst Lubitsch
- Actors: Maurice Chevalier, Claudette Colbert, Miriam Hopkins
- Music: Oscar Straus
- Lyrics: Clifford Grey
- Released: 1931
- Running Time: 89 minutes
Love Me Tonight
- Director: Rouben Mamoulian
- Producer: Rouben Mamoulian
- Actors: Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Charles Ruggles, Charles Butterworth, Myrna Loy
- Music: Richard Rodgers
- Lyrics: Lorenz Hart
- Released: 1932
- Running Time: 104 minutes
Duck Soup
- Director: Leo McCarey
- Producer: Herman J. Mankiewicz
- Actors: Groucho Marx, Harpo Mar, Chico Mar, Zeppo Mar, Margaret Dumon
- Music: Bert Kalmer, Harry Rub
- Lyrics: Bert Kalmar
- Released: 1933
- Running Time: 68 minutes
Gold Diggers of 1933
- Director: Mervyn LeRoy
- Producer: Robert Lord, Jack L. Warner
- Actors: Warren William, Joan Blondell, Aline MacMahon, Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell
- Music: Harry Warren
- Lyrics: Al Dubin
- Released: 1933
- Running Time: 96 minutes
42nd Street
- Director: Lloyd Bacon, Busby Berkeley
- Producer: Darryl F. Zanuck
- Actors: Warner Baxter, Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell, Ginger Rogers
- Music: Harry Warren
- Lyrics: Al Dubin
- Released: 1933
- Running Time: 89 minutes
A Night at the Opera
- Director: Sam Wood
- Producer: Irving Thalberg
- Actors: Groucho Marx, Harpo Mar, Chico Mar, Kitty Carlisle, Allan Jones
- Music: Herbert Stothart
- Lyrics: Queen
- Released: 1935
- Running Time: 93 minutes
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
- Director: David Hand, William Cottrell, Wilfred Jackson, Larry Morey, Perce Pearce, Ben Sharpsteen
- Producer: Walt Disney
- Actors: Adriana Caselotti, Lucille La Verne, Harry Stockwell, Pinto Colvig, Roy Atwell
- Music: Frank Churchill, Paul Smith, Leigh Harline
- Lyrics: Frank Churchill
- Released: 1938
- Running Time: 83 minutes
The Wizard of Oz
- Director: Victor Fleming
- Producer: Mervyn LeRoy
- Actors: Judy Garland, Frank Morga, Ray Bolge, Bert Lah, Jack Hale
- Music: Herbert Stothart, Harold Arle
- Lyrics: E.Y. Harburg
- Released: 1939
- Running Time: 101 minutes
Hellzapoppin’
- Director: H.C. Potter
- Producer: Alex Gottlieb
- Actors: Ole Olsen, Chic Johnson
- Music: Frank Skinner, Ted Cain, Charles Previn
- Lyrics: Sammy Fain, Charles Tobias
- Released: 1941
- Running Time: 84 minutes
Yankee Doodle Dandy
- Director: Michael Curtiz
- Producer: Hal B. Wallis, Jack Warner
- Actors: James Cagney, Joan Leslie, Walter Huston, Richard Whorf
- Music: George M. Cohan
- Lyrics: George M. Cohan
- Released: 1942
- Running Time: 126 minutes
Good News
- Director: Charles Walters
- Producer: Arthur Freed
- Actors: June Allyson, Peter Lawford, Patricia Marshall
- Music: Conrad Salinger
- Lyrics: Lew Brown, Buddy G. DeSylva
- Released: 1947
- Running Time: 93 minutes
Annie Get Your Gun
- Director: George Sidney
- Producer: Arthur Freed, Roger Edens
- Actors: Betty Hutton, Howard Keel, Benay Venuta
- Music: Irving Berlin
- Lyrics: Irving Berlin
- Released: 1950
- Running Time: 107 minutes
Alice in Wonderland
- Director: Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske
- Producer: Walt Disney
- Actors: Ed Wynn, Richard Haydn, Sterling Holloway, Jerry Colonna, Verna Felton
- Music: Oliver Wallace
- Lyrics: Bob Hilliard
- Released: 1951
- Running Time: 75 minutes
Singin’ in the Rain
- Director: Gene Kelly, Stanley Done
- Producer: Arthur Freed
- Actors: Gene Kelly, Donald O’Conno, Debbie Reynold, Jean Hage, Millard Mitchel
- Music: Nacio Herb Brown
- Lyrics: Arthur Freed
- Released: 1952
- Running Time: 103 minutes
Kiss Me Kate
- Director: George Sidney
- Producer: Jack Cummings
- Actors: Kathryn Grayson, Howard Keel, Ann Miller
- Music: Cole Porter
- Lyrics: Cole Porter
- Released: 1953
- Running Time: 109 minutes
A Star Is Born
- Director: George Cukor
- Producer: Sidney Luft
- Actors: Judy Garland, James Mason, Jack Carson, Charles Bickford
- Music: Harold Arlen, Ira Gershwin
- Lyrics: Harold Arlen, Ira Gershwin
- Released: 1954
- Running Time: 176 minutes
Guys and Dolls
- Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
- Producer: Samuel Goldwyn
- Actors: Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra, Vivian Blaine, Stubby Kaye, Regis Toomey
- Music: Frank Loesser
- Lyrics: Frank Loesser
- Released: 1955
- Running Time: 150 minutes
The Court Jester
- Director: Melvin Frank, Norman Panama
- Producer: Melvin Frank, Norman Panama
- Actors: Danny Kaye, Glynis Johns, Basil Rathbone, Angela Lansbury, Cecil Parker
- Music: Vic Schoen
- Lyrics: Vic Schoen
- Released: 1956
- Running Time: 101 minutes
The King and I
- Director: Walter Lang
- Producer: Charles Brackett
- Actors: Deborah Kerr, Yul Brynner, Rita Moreno, Martin Benson, Rex Thompson
- Music: Richard Rodgers
- Lyrics: Pogo
- Released: 1956
- Running Time: 133 minutes
Damn Yankees
- Director: George Abbott, Stanley Donen
- Producer: George Abbott, Stanley Donen
- Actors: Tab Hunter, Gwen Verdon, Ray Walston
- Music: Richard Adler, Jerry Ross
- Lyrics: Jerry Ross
- Released: 1958
- Running Time: 111 minutes
West Side Story
- Director: Robert Wise, Jerome Robbins
- Producer: Robert Wise
- Actors: Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Rita Moreno, George Chakiris, Russ Tamblyn
- Music: Leonard Bernstein
- Lyrics: Leonard Bernstein
- Released: 1961
- Running Time: 152 minutes
The Music Man
- Director: Morton DaCosta
- Producer: Morton DaCosta
- Actors: Robert Preston, Shirley Jones, Buddy Hackett, Hermione Gingold, Paul Ford
- Music: Meredith Willson
- Lyrics: Meredith Willson
- Released: 1962
- Running Time: 151 minutes
My Fair Lady
- Director: George Cukor
- Producer: Jack Warner
- Actors: Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison, Stanley Holloway, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Gladys Cooper
- Music: Frederick Loewe
- Lyrics: Alan Jay Lerner
- Released: 1964
- Running Time: 170 minutes
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
- Director: Jacques Demy
- Producer: Mag Bodard
- Actors: Catherine Deneuve, Nino Castelnuovo
- Music: Michel Legrand
- Lyrics: Norman Gimbel
- Released: 1964
- Running Time: 91 minutes
Mary Poppins
- Director: Robert Stevenson
- Producer: Walt Disney
- Actors: Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke, David Tomlinson, Glynis Johns
- Music: Richard M. Sherman, Robert B. Sherman
- Lyrics: Richard M. Sherman, Robert B. Sherman
- Released: 1964
- Running Time: 139 minutes
The Sound of Music
- Director: Robert Wise
- Producer: Robert Wise
- Actors: Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer
- Music: Richard Rodgers
- Lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein II
- Released: 1965
- Running Time: 174 minutes
The Jungle Book
- Director: Wolfgang Reitherman
- Producer: Walt Disney
- Actors: Phil Harris, Sebastian Cabot, Louis Prima, George Sanders, Sterling Holloway
- Music: George Bruns, Terry Gilkyson, Richard M. Sherman, Robert B. Sherman
- Lyrics: Richard M. Sherman, Robert B. Sherman, Terry Gilkyson
- Released: 1967
- Running Time: 78 minutes
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
- Director: Ken Hughes
- Producer: Albert R. Broccoli
- Actors: Dick Van Dyke, Sally Ann Howes, Adrian Hall, Heather Ripley, Lionel Jeffries
- Music: Richard M. Sherman, Robert B. Sherman
- Lyrics: Richard M. Sherman, Robert B. Sherman
- Released: 1968
- Running Time: 144 minutes
Funny Girl
- Director: William Wyler
- Producer: Ray Stark
- Actors: Barbra Streisand, Omar Sharif, Kay Medford
- Music: Jule Styne
- Lyrics: Bob Merrill
- Released: 1968
- Running Time: 155 minutes
Oliver!
- Director: Carol Reed
- Producer: John Woolf
- Actors: Mark Lester, Ron Moody, Shani Wallis, Oliver Reed, Jack Wild
- Music: Lionel Bart, Johnny Green, Eric Rogers, Onna White
- Lyrics: Lionel Bart
- Released: 1968
- Running Time: 153 minutes
Hello, Dolly!
- Director: Gene Kelly
- Producer: Ernest Lehman
- Actors: Barbra Streisand, Walter Matthau, Michael Crawford, Marianne McAndrew, E.J. Peaker
- Music: Jerry Herman
- Lyrics: Jerry Herman
- Released: 1969
- Running Time: 148 minutes
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
- Director: Mel Stuart
- Producer: Stan Margulies, David L. Wolper
- Actors: Gene Wilder, Jack Albertson, Peter Ostrum, Roy Kinnear, Denise Nickerson
- Music: Leslie Bricusse, Anthony Newley
- Lyrics: Pure Imagination
- Released: 1971
- Running Time: 100 minutes
Man of La Mancha
- Director: Arthur Hiller
- Producer: Arthur Hiller, Saul Chaplin, Alberto Grimaldi
- Actors: Peter O’Toole, Sophia Loren, James Coco, Harry Andrews, John Castle, Ian Richardson
- Music: Mitch Leigh
- Lyrics: Joe Darion
- Released: 1972
- Running Time: 132 minutes
1776
- Director: Peter H. Hunt
- Producer: Jack L. Warner
- Actors: William Daniels, Howard Da Silva, Ken Howard, Donald Madden, John Cullum
- Music: Sherman Edwards
- Lyrics: Sherman Edwards
- Released: 1972
- Running Time: 141 minutes
Jesus Christ Superstar
- Director: Norman Jewison
- Producer: Norman Jewison, Robert Stigwood
- Actors: Ted Neeley, Carl Anderson, Yvonne Elliman, Barry Dennen
- Music: Andrew Lloyd Webber
- Lyrics: Tim Rice
- Released: 1973
- Running Time: 106 minutes
The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
- Director: John Lounsbery, Wolfgang Reitherman
- Producer: Wolfgang Reitherman
- Actors: Sterling Holloway, John Fiedler, Junius Matthews, Paul Winchell, Howard Morris
- Music: Richard M. Sherman, Robert B. Sherman, Buddy Baker
- Lyrics: Richard M. Sherman, Robert B. Sherman
- Released: 1977
- Running Time: 74 minutes
Grease
- Director: Randal Kleiser
- Producer: Robert Stigwood, Allan Carr
- Actors: John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Stockard Channing, Jeff Conaway
- Music: Jim Jacobs, Warren Casey
- Lyrics: John Farrar
- Released: 1978
- Running Time: 110 minutes
The Wiz
- Director: Sidney Lumet
- Producer: Rob Cohen
- Actors: Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, Nipsey Russell, Ted Ross, Lena Horne, Richard Pryor
- Music: Charlie Smalls, Nickolas Ashford, Valerie Simpson, Anthony Jackson, Luther Vandross, Quincy Jones
- Lyrics: Charlie Smalls
- Released: 1978
- Running Time: 134 minutes
The Blues Brothers
- Director: John Landis
- Producer: Bernie Brillstein, George Folsey, Jr., David Sosna, Robert K. Weiss
- Actors: John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd
- Music: Ira Newborn
- Lyrics: Blues Brothers
- Released: 1980
- Running Time: 133 minutes
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
- Director: Colin Higgins
- Producer: Colin Higgins
- Actors: Burt Reynolds, Dolly Parton
- Music: Carol Hall, Patrick Williams
- Lyrics: Carol Hall
- Released: 1982
- Running Time: 114 minutes
Beauty and the Beast
- Director: Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise
- Producer: Don Hahn
- Actors: Paige O’Hara, Robby Benson, Richard White, Jerry Orbach, David Stiers
- Music: Alan Menken
- Lyrics: Howard Ashman
- Released: 1991
- Running Time: 90 minutes
Aladdin
- Director: Ron Clements, John Musker
- Producer: Ron Clements, John Musker
- Actors: Scott Weinger, Jonathan Freeman, Robin Williams, Linda Larkin, Frank Welker
- Music: Alan Menken
- Lyrics: Howard Ashman
- Released: 1992
- Running Time: 90 minutes
The Lion King
- Director: Roger Allers, Rob Minkoff
- Producer: Don Hahn
- Actors: Matthew Broderick, James Earl Jones, Jeremy Irons, Jonathan Thomas, Moira Kelly
- Music: Hans Zimmer
- Lyrics: Tim Rice
- Released: 1994
- Running Time: 88 minutes
Evita
- Director: Alan Parker
- Producer: Alan Parker, Robert Stigwood, Andrew G. Vajna
- Actors: Madonna, Antonio Banderas, Jonathan Pryce, Jimmy Nail
- Music: Andrew Lloyd Webber
- Lyrics: Tim Rice
- Released: 1996
- Running Time: 134 minutes
Moulin Rouge!
- Director: Baz Luhrmann
- Producer: Fred Baron, Martin Brown, Baz Luhrmann
- Actors: Nicole Kidman, Ewan McGregor, Jim Broadbent, Richard Roxburgh, John Leguizamo
- Music: Craig Armstrong
- Lyrics: Craig Armstrong
- Released: 2001
- Running Time: 128 minutes
Chicago
- Director: Rob Marshall
- Producer: Martin Richards
- Actors: Renée Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Richard Gere, Queen Latifah, John C. Reilly
- Music: Danny Elfman
- Lyrics: Dorothy Fields
- Released: 2002
- Running Time: 113 minutes
The Phantom of the Opera
- Director: Joel Schumacher
- Producer: Andrew Lloyd Webber
- Actors: Gerard Butler, Emmy Rossum, Patrick Wilson, Miranda Richardson, Minnie Driver
- Music: Andrew Lloyd Webber
- Lyrics: Charles Hart
- Released: 2004
- Running Time: 143 minutes
The Producers
- Director: Susan Stroman
- Producer: Mel Brooks
- Actors: Nathan Lane, Matthew Broderick, Uma Thurman, Will Ferrell
- Music: Mel Brooks, Thomas Meehan
- Lyrics: Mel Brooks
- Released: 2005
- Running Time: 134 minutes
Dreamgirls
- Director: Bill Condon
- Producer: Laurence Mark
- Actors: Jamie Foxx, Beyoncé Knowles, Eddie Murphy, Danny Glover, Anika Noni Rose
- Music: Stephen Trask
- Lyrics: Siedah Garrett, Anne Preven
- Released: 2006
- Running Time: 130 minutes
Hairspray
- Director: Adam Shankman
- Producer: Craig Zadan, Neil Meron
- Actors: John Travolta, Michelle Pfeiffer, Christopher Walken, Amanda Bynes, James Marsden
- Music: Marc Shaiman
- Lyrics: Scott Wittman, Marc Shaiman
- Released: 2007
- Running Time: 116 minutes
Mamma Mia!
- Director: Phyllida Lloyd
- Producer: Judy Cramer, Gary Goetzman
- Actors: Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth, Stellan Skarsgård, Julie Walters, Dominic Cooper, Amanda Seyfried, Christine Baranski
- Music: ABBA
- Lyrics: ABBA
- Released: 2008
- Running Time: 109 minutes
Tangled
- Director: Nathan Greno, Byron Howard
- Producer: Roy Conli, John Lasseter, Glen Keane
- Actors: Mandy Moore, Zachary Levi, Donna Murphy
- Music: Alan Menken
- Lyrics: Glenn Slater
- Released: 2010
- Running Time: 100 minutes
Les Misérables
- Director: Tom Hooper
- Producer: Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Debra Hayward, Cameron Mackintosh
- Actors: Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway, Amanda Seyfried
- Music: Claude-Michel Schönberg
- Lyrics: Claude-Michel Schönberg
- Released: 2012
- Running Time: 158 minutes
Jersey Boys
- Director: Clint Eastwood
- Producer: Clint Eastwood
- Actors: John Lloyd Young, Erich Bergen, Michael Lamenda, Vincent Piazza, Christopher Walken
- Music: Bob Gaudio
- Lyrics: Bob Crewe
- Released: 2014
- Running Time: 134 minutes
Theatre Musicals
Show Boat
- Music: Jerome Kern
- Lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein II, P.G. Wodehouse
- Opening: 1927
Anything Goes
- Music: Cole Porter
- Lyrics: Cole Porter
- Opening: 1934
Me and My Girl
- Music: Noel Gay
- Lyrics: Douglas Furber, L. Arthur Rose
- Opening: 1927
Pins and Needles
- Music: Harold Rome
- Lyrics: Harold Rome
- Opening: 1937
Hellzapoppin’
- Music: Sammy Fain, Charles Tobias
- Lyrics: Sammy Fain, Charles Tobias
- Opening: 1927
Oklahoma!
- Music: Richard Rodgers
- Lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein II
- Opening: 1943
Annie Get Your Gun
- Music: Irving Berlin
- Lyrics: Irving Berlin
- Opening: 1927
Kiss Me, Kate
- Music: Cole Porter
- Lyrics: Cole Porter
- Opening: 1948
South Pacific
- Music: Richard Rodgers
- Lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein II
- Opening: 1927
Guys and Dolls
- Music: Frank Loesser
- Lyrics: Frank Loesser
- Opening: 1950
The King and I
- Music: Richard Rodgers
- Lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein II
- Opening: 1927
The Pajama Game
- Music: Richard Adler, Jerry Ross
- Lyrics: Richard Adler, Jerry Ross
- Opening: 1954
Damn Yankees
- Music: Richard Adler
- Lyrics: Jerry Ross
- Opening: 1927
My Fair Lady
- Music: Frederick Loewe
- Lyrics: Alan Jay Lerner
- Opening: 1956
The Music Man
- Music: Meredith Willson
- Lyrics: Meredith Willson
- Opening: 1927
West Side Story
- Music: Leonard Bernstein
- Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim
- Opening: 1957
The Sound of Music
- Music: Richard Rodgers
- Lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein II
- Opening: 1927
The Fantasticks
- Music: Harvey Schmidt
- Lyrics: Tom Jones
- Opening: 1960
Oliver!
- Music: Lionel Bart
- Lyrics: Lionel Bart
- Opening: 1927
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
- Music: Frank Loesser
- Lyrics: Frank Loesser
- Opening: 1961
Fiddler on the Roof
- Music: Jerry Bock
- Lyrics: Sheldon Harnick
- Opening: 1927
Funny Girl
- Music: Jule Styne
- Lyrics: Bob Merrill
- Opening: 1964
Hello, Dolly!
- Music: Jerry Herman
- Lyrics: Jerry Herman
- Opening: 1927
Man of La Mancha
- Music: Mitch Leigh
- Lyrics: Joe Darion
- Opening: 1964
Cabaret
- Music: John Kander
- Lyrics: Fred Ebb
- Opening: 1927
Mame
- Music: Jerry Herman
- Lyrics: Jerry Herman
- Opening: 1966
Hair
- Music: Galt MacDermot
- Lyrics: James Rado, Gerome Ragni
- Opening: 1927
Promises, Promises
- Music: Burt Bacharach
- Lyrics: Hal David
- Opening: 1968
1776
- Music: Sherman Edwards
- Lyrics: Sherman Edwards
- Opening: 1927
Oh! Calcutta!
- Music: Peter Schickele, Robert Dennis, Stanley Walden
- Lyrics: Peter Schickele, Robert Dennis, Stanley Walden
- Opening: 1969
Jesus Christ Superstar
- Music: Andrew Lloyd Webber
- Lyrics: Tim Rice
- Opening: 1927
Don’t Bother Me, I Can’t Cope
- Music: Micki Grant
- Lyrics: Micki Grant
- Opening: 1971
Grease
- Music: Jim Jacobs, Warren Casey
- Lyrics: Jim Jacobs, Warren Casey
- Opening: 1927
Pippin
- Music: Stephen Schwartz
- Lyrics: Stephen Schwartz
- Opening: 1972
Shenandoah
- Music: Gary Geld
- Lyrics: Peter Udell
- Opening: 1927
The Magic Show
- Music: Stephen Schwartz
- Lyrics: Stephen Schwartz
- Opening: 1974
The Wiz
- Music: Charlie Smalls, Timothy Graphenreed, Harold Wheeler, Luther Vandross
- Lyrics: Charlie Smalls, Zachary Walzer, Luther Vandross
- Opening: 1927
A Chorus Line
- Music: Marvin Hamlisch
- Lyrics: Edward Kleban
- Opening: 1975
Chicago
- Music: John Kander
- Lyrics: Fred Ebb
- Opening: 1927
Annie
- Music: Charles Strouse
- Lyrics: Martin Charnin
- Opening: 1977
Ain’t Misbehavin’
- Music: Fats Waller
- Lyrics: Various Artists
- Opening: 1927
Dancin’
- Music: Various Artists
- Lyrics: Various Artists
- Opening: 1978
Evita
- Music: Andrew Lloyd Webber
- Lyrics: Tim Rice
- Opening: 1927
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
- Music: Carol Hall
- Lyrics: Carol Hall
- Opening: 1978
They’re Playing Our Song
- Music: Marvin Hamlisch
- Lyrics: Carole Bayer Sager
- Opening: 1927
Sugar Babies
- Music: Jimmy McHugh
- Lyrics: Dorothy Fields, Al Dubin
- Opening: 1979
42nd Street
- Music: Harry Warren
- Lyrics: Al Dubin
- Opening: 1927
Cats
- Music: Andrew Lloyd Webber
- Lyrics: T.S. Eliot
- Opening: 1980
Les Misérables
- Music: Claude-Michel Schönberg
- Lyrics: Alain Boublil, Jean-Marc Natel, Herbert Kretzmer
- Opening: 1927
Dreamgirls
- Music: Henry Krieger
- Lyrics: Tom Eyen
- Opening: 1981
La Cage aux Folles
- Music: Jerry Herman
- Lyrics: Jerry Herman
- Opening: 1927
Blood Brothers
- Music: Willy Russell
- Lyrics: Willy Russell
- Opening: 1983
Starlight Express
- Music: Andrew Lloyd Webber
- Lyrics: Richard Stilgoe
- Opening: 1927
Big River
- Music: Roger Miller
- Lyrics: Roger Miller
- Opening: 1985
The Phantom of the Opera
- Music: Andrew Lloyd Webber
- Lyrics: Charles Hart
- Opening: 1927
Grand Hotel
- Music: Robert Wright, George Forrest, Maury Yeston
- Lyrics: Robert Wright, George Forrest, Maury Yeston
- Opening: 1989
Miss Saigon
- Music: Claude-Michel Schönberg
- Lyrics: Alain Boublil, Richard Maltby Jr.
- Opening: 1927
Buddy – The Buddy Holly Story
- Music: Various Artists
- Lyrics: Various Artists
- Opening: 1989
Jekyll & Hyde
- Music: Frank Wildhorn
- Lyrics: Frank Wildhorn, Leslie Bricusse, Steve Cuden
- Opening: 1927
Crazy for You
- Music: George Gershwin
- Lyrics: Ira Gershwin
- Opening: 1992
Beauty and the Beast
- Music: Alan Menken
- Lyrics: Howard Ashman, Tim Rice
- Opening: 1927
Rent
- Music: Jonathan Larson
- Lyrics: Jonathan Larson
- Opening: 1993
Smokey Joe’s Cafe
- Music: Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller
- Lyrics: Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller
- Opening: 1927
The Lion King
- Music: Elton John
- Lyrics: Tim Rice
- Opening: 1997
Aida
- Music: Elton John
- Lyrics: Tim Rice
- Opening: 1927
Mamma Mia!
- Music: Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson
- Lyrics: Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson, Stig Anderson
- Opening: 1999
The Producers
- Music: Mel Brooks
- Lyrics: Mel Brooks
- Opening: 1927
Bombay Dreams
- Music: A.R. Rahman
- Lyrics: Don Black
- Opening: 2002
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
- Music: Richard M. Sherman, Robert B. Sherman
- Lyrics: Richard M. Sherman, Robert B. Sherman
- Opening: 1927
Hairspray
- Music: Marc Shaiman
- Lyrics: Scott Wittman, Marc Shaiman
- Opening: 2002
Movin’ Out
- Music: Billy Joel
- Lyrics: Billy Joel
- Opening: 1927
Memphis
- Music: David Bryan
- Lyrics: David Bryan, Joe DiPietro
- Opening: 2002
We Will Rock You
- Music: Queen
- Lyrics: Queen
- Opening: 1927
Avenue Q
- Music: Robert Lopez, Jeff Mar
- Lyrics: Robert Lopez, Jeff Marx
- Opening: 2003
Wicked
- Music: Stephen Schwartz
- Lyrics: Stephen Schwartz
- Opening: 1927
Mary Poppins
- Music: Robert B. Sherman, Richard M. Sherman, George Stiles
- Lyrics: Robert B. Sherman, Richard M. Sherman, Anthony Drewe
- Opening: 2004
Spamalot
- Music: John Du Prez, Eric Idle, Neil Innes
- Lyrics: Eric Idle
- Opening: 1927
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
- Music: William Finn
- Lyrics: William Finn
- Opening: 2004
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
- Music: David Yazbek
- Lyrics: David Yazbek
- Opening: 1927
Jersey Boys
- Music: Bob Gaudio
- Lyrics: Bob Gaudio
- Opening: 2005
Lestat
- Music: Elton John
- Lyrics: Bernie Taupin
- Opening: 1927
Billy Elliot the Musical
- Music: Elton John
- Lyrics: Lee Hall
- Opening: 2005
Rock of Ages
- Music: Various Artists
- Lyrics: Various Artists
- Opening: 1927
In the Heights
- Music: Lin-Manuel Miranda
- Lyrics: Lin-Manuel Miranda
- Opening: 2007
Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark
- Music: Bono and The Edge
- Lyrics: Bono and The Edge
- Opening: 1927
The Book of Mormon
- Music: Trey Parker, Robert Lopez, Matt Stone
- Lyrics: Trey Parker, Robert Lopez, Matt Stone
- Opening: 2011
Famous Songs from Musicals
| Summer Nights ―Grease | He Lives in You ―The Lion King |
| Defying Gravity ―Wicked | Maybe ―Annie |
| Tomorrow ―Annie | A Change in Me ―Beauty and the Beast |
| That’s What Friends Are For ―The Jungle Book | Hakuna Matata ―The Lion King |
| Don’t Cry for Me Argentina ―Evita | Why Can’t the English? ―My Fair Lady |
| All I Ask of You ―The Phantom of the Opera | I Dreamed a Dream ―Les Misérables |
| For Good ―Wicked | Dulcinea ―Man of La Mancha |
| If I Can’t Love Her ―Beauty and the Beast | From the Dead ―Lestat |
| Welcome to the New World ―Lestat | One Day I’ll Fly Away ―Moulin Rouge! |
Famous Quotes from Musicals
| To love another person is to see the face of God. ―Les Misérables |
| Forget regret, or life is yours to miss. ―Rent |
| Never take a stranger’s advice, never let a friend fool you twice. Nobody’s on nobody’s side. ―Chess |
| I wasn’t looking, look what I found! ―Thoroughly Modern Millie |
| I ain’t got nothing, so I ain’t got nothing to lose… there’s gold in them there hills and I’m gonna get it or die trying! ―Thoroughly Modern Millie |
| Don’t be afraid that it won’t be perfect. The only thing to be afraid of really is that it won’t be. ―Company |
Musicals open the windows of the soul with their melodious renditions of the most intricate and poignant human emotions. Coupled with the narrative beauty, skillful performances, and the depth of artistic flair, musicals are the perfect getaways for those minds that seek enchanting escapades upon the wings of imagination and drama, that are not devoid of some intellectual feathers either!
