List of musicals: A to L
This is a general list of musicals, including Broadway musicals, West End musicals and film musicals. See also List of operettas and Gilbert and Sullivan.
- 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
- The Act
- Aida (2000) (Elton John and Tim Rice)
- Ain't Misbehavin'
- A Little Night Music (1973) (Stephen Sondheim) Notable song: "Send in the Clowns"
- All American
- Allegro
- Ambassador
- Amour
- And the World Goes 'Round (a revue of the work of Kander and Ebb)
- Ankles Aweigh
- Annie (1977) (Charles Strouse and Martin Charnin) Notable songs: "Tomorrow", "A Hard-Knock Life"
- Annie Get Your Gun (1946) (Irving Berlin) Notable song: "There's No Business Like Show Business"
- Anya
- Anyone Can Whistle (1964) (Stephen Sondheim)
- Anything Goes (1934) (Cole Porter) Notable songs: "Anything Goes", "You're the Top", "I Get a Kick out of You"
- Applause (musical) (1970) (Charles Strouse and Lee Adams)
- The Apple Tree
- archy and mehitabel
- Arms and the Girl
- Aspects of Love (1990) (Andrew Lloyd Webber) Notable song: "Love Changes Everything"
- Assassins (Stephen Sondheim)
- As Thousands Cheer
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1951) (Music: Arthur Schwartz; lyrics: Dorothy Fields)
- Avenue Q (2003)
B
- Babes in Arms (1937) (Rodgers and Hart)
- Babes in Toyland
- Baby
- Bajour (1964) (Walter Marks)
- Baker Street
- The Baker's Wife (Stephen Schwartz)
- Ballroom
- The Band Wagon (Howard Dietz and Arthur Schwartz) Featured Fred and Adele Astaire. Notable songs: "I Love Louisa", "Hoops"
- Barnum (1980) (Cy Coleman and Michael Stewart)
- Bat Boy: The Musical (Off-Broadway)
- The Beautiful Game (Andrew Lloyd Webber/Ben Elton)
- Beauty and the Beast (1994) (Music: Alan Menken; Lyrics: Howard Ashman, Tim Rice) Notable songs: "Be Our Guest", "Beauty and the Beast"
- Bells are Ringing (1956) (Music: Jule Styne; Lyrics: Comden and Green)
- Ben Franklin in Paris
- Best Foot Forward
- The Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public
- The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
- Big
- Big River (Roger Miller)
- Billion Dollar Baby
- Bitter Sweet (Noel Coward)
- Black and Blue
- Blackbirds of 1928 (1928), featured Bill “Bojangles” Robinson, notable song "Doin' the New Low Down"
- Blood Brothers
- Bloomer Girl
- Bombay Dreams
- Bounce (Stephen Sondheim)
- The Boy Friend (Sandy Wilson)
- The Boys from Syracuse (1938) (Rodgers and Hart) "Falling in Love with Love", "This Can't be Love"
- Bravo Giovanni
- Breakfast at Tiffany's
- Brigadoon (1947) (Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe) Notable song: "Almost Like Being in Love"
- Bring Back Birdie
- By Jeeves
- By Jupiter
- By the Beautiful Sea
- Bye Bye Birdie (1960) (Charles Strouse and Lee Adams) Notable songs: "A Lot of Livin' To Do", "Kids", "Put On A Happy Face"
C
- Cabaret (musical) (Kander and Ebb) Notable song: "Cabaret"
- Cabin in the Sky
- La Cage aux Folles (Jerry Herman)
- Call Me Madam (Irving Berlin)
- Call Me Mister (Harold Rome)
- Camelot (1960) (Lerner and Loewe) Notable song: "Camelot"
- Can-Can
- Candide (1956) (Music: Leonard Bernstein; Lyrics: Richard Wilbur)
- Carmen Jones
- Carnival (1961 (Bob Merrill)
- Caroline, or Change
- Carousel (1945) (Rodgers and Hammerstein) Notable songs: Bill's "Soliloquy", "You'll Never Walk Alone", "What's the Use of Wonderin'"
- Cats (Andrew Lloyd Webber) Notable song: "Memory"
- Celebration
- Chess (Tim Rice/Benny Andersson/Bjorn Ulvaeus) Notable song: "One Night in Bangkok"
- Chicago (Kander and Ebb) Notable song: "All That Jazz"
- Children of Eden (Stephen Schwartz)
- Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968) (Play: Roald Dahl) (Music: Sherman Brothers)
- A Chorus Line (Marvin Hamlisch and Edward Kleban) Notable songs: "What I Did for Love", "One"
- Christine
- Chu Chin Chow (1916)
- City of Angels (Cy Coleman and David Zippel) Notable song: "You're Nothing Without Me"
- A Class Act
- Closer Than Ever
- Coco
- Company (musical) (1970) (Stephen Sondheim) Notable song: "The Ladies Who Lunch"
- A Connecticut Yankee
- The Cradle will Rock (1937) (Marc Blitzstein) Federal Theatre project
- Crazy For You (compiled from songs by George and Ira Gershwin)
D
- Damn Yankees (1955) (Richard Adler and Jerry Ross) Notable songs: "Heart", "Whatever Lola Wants"
- The Desert Song
- DuBarry was a Lady (1939) (Cole Porter) Notable song: "Friendship"
E
- Elisabeth
- Eubie!
- Evita (Andrew Lloyd Webber) Notable song: "Don't Cry for Me, Argentina"
F
- Falsettos (William Finn)
- 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
- Fields of Ambrosia (1996) (Music: Martin Silvestri; Lyrics: Joel Higgins) (at London Aldwych Theatre, closed a few weeks later)
- 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 (Rodgers and Hammerstein)
- Follies (Stephen Sondheim) Notable song: "Losing My Mind"
- Funny Girl (1964) (Music: Jule 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 (Cole Porter)
- Gigi (Lerner and Loewe) Notable song: "Thank Heaven for Little Girls"
- Girl Crazy (1930) (George and Ira Gershwin) Featured Ethel Merman; notable song: I've Got Rhythm
- Godspell (Stephen Schwartz)
- Goldilocks (Music: Leroy Anderson, lyrics Jean Kerr, Joan Ford, Walter Kerr)
- Grease Notable song: "Summer Lovin'"
- Guys and Dolls (Music and lyrics: Frank Loesser) Notable songs: Luck, Be a Lady, A Bushel and a Peck
- Gypsy (1959) (Music: Jule Styne, lyrics: Stephen Sondheim). Notable songs: Everything's Coming up Roses"
H
- Hello, Dolly (1964) (Jerry Herman) Featured Carol Channing; notable song, Hello, Dolly."
- Hair (musical) (1967) Notable song: Aquarius
- Hairspray (2002)
- Half a Sixpence
- The Hot Mikado (1939)
- How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (Music and lyrics: Frank Loesser) Notable song: I Believe in You
I
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 of the Spider Woman (Kander and Ebb)
- Kiss Me, Kate (Cole Porter) Notable song: "Too Darn Hot"
- 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)
- The Last Five Years (Jason Robert Brown)
- The Lion King (1997) (Music: Elton John; Lyrics: Tim Rice) Notable songs: "The Circle of Life", "Hakuna Matata"
- Little Shop of Horrors (Alan Menken and Howard Ashman) Notable song: "Suddenly, Seymour"
- Lost in the Stars (Music: Kurt Weill; lyrics: Maxwell Anderson)
M
- The Maid of the Mountains (1917) (Harold Fraser-Simpson)
- Mamma Mia! (1999) (compiled from songs by ABBA)
- Martin Guerre (Claude-Michel Schonberg and Alain Boublil)
- Me And My Girl (1937, 1984) (Noel Gay)
- Merrily We Roll Along (Stephen Sondheim) Notable songs: "Good Thing Going", "Not a Day Goes By"
- Les Miserables (musical) (Claude-Michel Schonberg and Alain Boublil) Notable song: "I Dreamed a Dream"
- Miss Saigon (Claude-Michel Schonberg and Alain Boublil) Notable song: "Last Night of the World"
- The Most Happy Fella (1956) (Frank Loesser) Notable song: "Standin' on the Corner"
- 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) Notable songs: Wouldn't It Be Loverly? I've Grown Accustomed to her Face, I Could Have Danced All Night"
N
O
- Of Thee I Sing (George and Ira Gershwin) Notable song: Love is Sweeping the Country'
- Oh, Boy (1917) (Music: Jerome Kern; lyrics: P. G. Wodehouse) Notable song: 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 song: 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 the Twentieth Century
- On Your Toes (Rodgers and Hart)
- Our Miss Gibbs (1909) (Ivan Caryll) (Lionel Monckton)
P
- Pacific Overtures (1976) (Stephen Sondheim)
- The Pajama Game (1954) (Richard Adler and Jerry Ross)
- Pal Joey (1940) (Rodgers and Hart) Notable song: Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered
- Panama Hattie (1942) (Cole Porter)
- Parade (musical) (Jason Robert Brown)
- Perchance to Dream (1945) (Ivor Novello)
- Peter Pan (1954)
- The Phantom of the Opera (1986) (Andrew Lloyd Webber) Notable songs: "The Phantom of the Opera", "All I Ask of You"
- Pins and Needles (1937) (Political musical)
- Pippin (Stephen Schwartz)
- Porgy and Bess (George and Ira Gershwin)
- The Producers (Mel Brooks) Notable song: "Springtime for Hitler"
Q
R
- Rent(Jonathan Larson) Notable song: "Seasons of Love"
- Return to the Forbidden Planet
- The Rocky Horror Show (Richard O'Brien) Notable song: "The Time Warp"
- Rose-Marie (1924)
S
- Salad Days
- Scrooge (Anthony Newley)
- 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
- Side Show
- Sing as We Go (1934)
- The Slipper and the Rose (1976) (Sherman Brothers)
- 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)
- Starmania
- 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)
- Sweet Charity (Cy Coleman and Dorothy Fields) Notable songs: "Hey, Big Spender", "The Rhythm of Life"
- The Swing Mikado (1938) (Chicago) All-black cast.
- Swing Time (George and Ira Gershwin)
T
- Tick, Tick... Boom (Jonathan Larson)
- Titanic (Maury Yeston)
- Thoroughly Modern Millie Notable Songs: Thouroghly Modern Millie, Forget About the Boy
- The Threepenny Opera (Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht) (Off-Broadway) Notable songs: Mack the Knife, Pirate Jenny
- Tommy (The Who) Notable song: "Pinball Wizard"
U
V
W
- 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
- Wicked (Stephen Schwartz)
- The Wild Party
- Wonderful Town (1953) (Music: Leonard Bernstein; lyrics: Comden and Green)
X
Y
- You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown (1967, 1999) (Clark Gesner) Noteable song: "Happiness"