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Follies is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book by James Goldman, first produced on Broadway in 1971. Former performers from the fictional Weismann Follies reunite in a theater scheduled for demolition, accompanied onstage by younger versions of themselves. Centering on the...

A Little Night Music is a 1973 stage musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book by Hugh Wheeler. Inspired by Ingmar Bergman's film Smiles of a Summer Night, it follows intertwined romantic relationships among several couples in turn-of-the-century Sweden. Much of its score uses tri...

The Threepenny Opera is a 1928 musical play by dramatist Bertolt Brecht and composer Kurt Weill, with assistance from translator Elisabeth Hauptmann. Adapted from John Gay's The Beggar's Opera, it relocates a criminal underworld story to Victorian London and uses songs and satire to examine capitali...

Hadestown is a sung-through musical by Anaïs Mitchell that retells the Greek myths of Orpheus and Eurydice and of Hades and Persephone. Its score draws on folk, jazz, blues, and related American musical traditions, while its underworld is portrayed as an industrial society governed by labor and scar...

Merrily We Roll Along is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book by George Furth, adapted from the 1934 play by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart. The story moves backward in time from 1976 to 1957, tracing how the friendship of composer Franklin Shepard, writer Charley Kringas,...

The Book of Mormon is a satirical stage musical with book, music, and lyrics by Trey Parker, Matt Stone, and Robert Lopez. Premiered on Broadway in 2011, it follows two young missionaries sent to Uganda, where their expectations collide with poverty, disease, local skepticism, and their own limited...

Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 is a musical by Dave Malloy based on a section of Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace. Set in Moscow during the Napoleonic era, it follows Natasha Rostova's attraction to Anatole Kuragin and Pierre Bezukhov's search for meaning. The score combines Russian folk and c...

Pacific Overtures is a 1976 musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book by John Weidman. It dramatizes Japan's forced opening to Western trade beginning with Commodore Matthew Perry's arrival in 1853, then follows the political and cultural changes that accompany expanding foreign i...

How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying is a musical comedy with music and lyrics by Frank Loesser and a book by Abe Burrows, Jack Weinstock, and Willie Gilbert. First produced on Broadway in 1961, it follows window washer J. Pierrepont Finch as he uses a self-help manual to advance through...

Next to Normal is a rock musical with music by Tom Kitt and book and lyrics by Brian Yorkey. It follows a suburban family affected by the mother's bipolar disorder, exploring grief, psychiatric treatment, memory, marriage, and the effects of illness on relatives. The musical opened on Broadway in 20...

Anything Goes is a musical comedy with music and lyrics by Cole Porter, first produced on Broadway in 1934. Set aboard an ocean liner traveling from New York to London, its farcical plot involves romance, mistaken identities, social status, and a gangster traveling in disguise. Its score includes th...

Billy Elliot the Musical is a stage musical with music by Elton John and a book and lyrics by Lee Hall, adapted from the 2000 film Billy Elliot. Set in County Durham during the 1984-85 British miners' strike, it follows a working-class boy who pursues ballet despite family expectations and economic...

Avenue Q is a musical with music and lyrics by Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx and a book by Jeff Whitty. Set on a fictional New York street, it combines human performers with adult puppet characters while following Princeton, a recent graduate confronting work, relationships, money, and an uncertain sen...

Come From Away is a stage musical with book, music, and lyrics by Irene Sankoff and David Hein. It dramatizes how residents of Gander and nearby Newfoundland communities accommodated thousands of airline passengers whose flights were diverted after the September 11, 2001 attacks closed United States...

Kimberly Akimbo is a musical with music by Jeanine Tesori and a book and lyrics by David Lindsay Abaire, adapted from Lindsay Abaire's earlier play. It follows Kimberly Levaco, a New Jersey teenager whose rare medical condition causes her to age unusually quickly, as she negotiates school, family dy...

Once on This Island is a stage musical with music by Stephen Flaherty and book and lyrics by Lynn Ahrens. First produced on Broadway in 1990, it adapts Rosa Guy's novel My Love, My Love, which reworks the Little Mermaid story in a Caribbean setting. The musical follows Ti Moune, a peasant girl whose...

The Scottsboro Boys is a musical with music by John Kander, lyrics by Fred Ebb, and a book by David Thompson. It dramatizes the Scottsboro Boys case, in which nine Black teenagers were falsely accused of rape in Alabama in 1931 and subjected to repeated trials and convictions. The work uses the stru...

Kinky Boots is a stage musical with music and lyrics by Cyndi Lauper and a book by Harvey Fierstein. Adapted from the 2005 British film, it follows Charlie Price, who tries to save his family's struggling Northampton shoe factory by producing sturdy high-heeled boots for drag performers. His collabo...

Girl from the North Country is a play with music written by Conor McPherson using songs by Bob Dylan. Set in a boarding house in Duluth, Minnesota, during the Great Depression in 1934, it follows residents and visitors facing poverty, illness, strained families, and uncertain futures. Rather than pr...

“Moulin Rouge! The Musical” is a jukebox stage musical adapted from Baz Luhrmann's 2001 film. With a book by John Logan, it follows the romance between writer Christian and performer Satine within the Moulin Rouge nightclub in late-19th-century Paris, using songs drawn from several decades of popula...

Suffs is a musical written by Shaina Taub that chronicles the final years of the American suffrage movement and the campaign for the 19th Amendment. Premiering in 2022 at The Public Theater in New York, the production centers on the diverse coalition of women who fought for the right to vote. The na...

Ain't Too Proud is a jukebox biographical musical that premiered on Broadway in 2019, tracing the rise of The Temptations from their Detroit origins to international stardom. The musical features hit songs from The Temptations' catalog spanning the 1960s and 1970s, including classics such as 'My Gir...

School of Rock is a stage musical with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics by Glenn Slater, and a book by Julian Fellowes. Adapted from the 2003 film, it follows Dewey Finn, an unsuccessful rock musician who impersonates a substitute teacher and forms a band with his pupils. The musical premiered i...

Tina: The Tina Turner Musical is a biographical jukebox musical based on the life and career of singer Tina Turner. Written by Katori Hall with Frank Ketelaar and Kees Prins, it premiered in London in 2018 and uses songs associated with Turner's career to dramatize her childhood, partnership with Ik...

MJ the Musical is a jukebox musical about Michael Jackson that uses his songs to revisit parts of his public career. Conceived by Christopher Wheeldon, the 2022 stage production frames its action around rehearsals for Jackson's 1992 Dangerous World Tour. This rehearsal setting gives the show a defin...