The World of Musicals

Mark A. Robinson is a performing arts educator and an author.

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
VOLUME 1
A . . . My Name Is Alice
Abbott, George
Across the Universe
The Act
Actors Equity Association (AEA) and the Screen Actors Guild (SAG)
Adams, Lee
The Addams Family
Adler, Richard
Ahrens, Lynn
Aida
Aladdin (1958) (Television)
Aladdin (1992) (Animated Film)
Alexander's Ragtime Band
Alice in Wonderland (1951) (Animated Film)
Alice in Wonderland (1985) (Television)
All Shook Up
All That Jazz
Allegro
Amahl and the Night Visitors
American Idiot
An American in Paris
Anastasia
Anchors Aweigh
Andrews, Julie
Androcles and the Lion
Annie
Annie Get Your Gun
Annie Warbucks
Anyone Can Whistle
Anything Goes
Applause
The Apple Tree
Arlen, Harold
As Thousands Cheer
Ashman, Howard
Aspects of Love
Assassins
Astaire, Fred
Avenue Q
Babes in Arms
Babes in Toyland
Bajour
Baker Street
The Baker's Wife
Balanchine, George
Ballad
The Band Wagon (1931) (Broadway)
The Band Wagon (1953) (Film)
The Barkleys of Broadway
Barnum
Bat Boy
Beach Blanket Bingo
Beauty and the Beast (1991) (Animated Film)
Beauty and the Beast (1994) (Broadway)
Bedknobs and Broomsticks
Bells Are Ringing
Ben Franklin in Paris
Bennett, Michael
Berkeley, Busby
Berlin, Irving
Bernstein, Leonard
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
Big: The Musical
Big Broadcast of 1938
Big River
Billy Elliot
Birkenhead, Susan
The Black Crook
Blackbirds of 1928
Blitzstein, Marc
Blood Brothers
Bloody, Bloody, Andrew Jackson
Bloomer Girl
Blue Hawaii
Blue Skies
The Blues Brothers
Bock, Jerry
Bolton, Guy
Bonnie and Clyde
Book of Mormon
Book Writer
The Boy Friend
The Boys from Syracuse
Brice, Fanny
Brigadoon
Bring Back Birdie
Bring in 'da Noise, Bring in 'da Funk
Broadway
Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS
The Broadway Melody
The Broadway Melody of 1936
The Broadway Melody of 1938
The Broadway Melody of 1940
Broderick, Matthew
Brown, Jason Robert
Brynner, Yul
Buckley, Betty
Bugsy Malone
Burnett, Carol
Burrows, Abe
By Jeeves
By the Beautiful Sea
Bye, Bye, Birdie
Cabaret
Cabarets and Clubs
Cabin in the Sky
Calamity Jane
Call Me Madam
Camelot
Camp
Camp Rock
Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam
Can-Can
Candide
Can't Stop the Music
The Canterville Ghost
The Capeman
Cariou, Len
Carnival
Carnival in Flanders
Caroline, or Change
Carousel
Carrie
Cats
Channing, Carol
Charlotte's Web
Chenoweth, Kristin
Chess
Chicago
Children of Eden
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Choreographer
A Chorus Line
A Christmas Carol: The Musical
A Christmas Story
Cinderella (1950) (Animated Film)
Cinderella (1957) (Television)
City of Angels
The Civil War
A Class Act
Closer Than Ever
Cohan, George M.
Coleman, Cy
The Color Purple
Comden, Betty
Company
Composer
A Connecticut Yankee
Cook, Barbara
The Court Jester
Crazy for You
Crosby, Bing
Cryer, Gretchen
Curtains
Dames
Dames at Sea
Damn Yankees
Dance a Little Closer
The Dangerous Christmas of Red Riding Hood
Darling of the Day
A Day in Hollywood, A Night in the Ukraine
De Mille, Agnes
Dear World
The Desert Song
Designers: Costumes, Sets, Lighting
Destry Rides Again
DeSylva, B. G.
Dick Tracy
Dietz, Howard
Director
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Disney, Walt
Do Re Mi
Doctor Dolittle
A Doll's Life
Donen, Stanley
Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog
Dr. Seuss's How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Dracula
Drake, Alfred
Drama Books
Dreamgirls
The Drowsy Chaperone
DuBarry Was a Lady
Dubin, Al
Duke, Vernon
Dumbo
Durbin, Deanna
The Easter Bunny Is Comin' to Town
Easter Parade
Ebb, Fred
Elaine Stritch: At Liberty
Eleven O'Clock Number
Elf
Ellis, Scott
Enchanted
Encores!
Evening Primrose
Everyone Says I Love You
Evita
Falsettos
Fame
Fanny
The Fantasticks
Fela!
Fiddler on the Roof
Fields, Dorothy
Fierstein, Harvey
Finian's Rainbow
Finn, William
Fiorello!
Flaherty, Stephen
Flop Musicals
Flower Drum Song
Floyd Collins
Flying Down to Rio
Follies
Footloose
For Me and My Gal
Ford, Nancy
42nd Street(1933) (Film)
42nd Street(1980) (Broadway)
Fosse, Bob
Friml, Rudolf
The Frogs
The Full Monty
Funny Face
Funny Girl
Funny Lady
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
The Gang's All Here
Garland, Judy
The Gay Life
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Geppetto
Gershwin, George
Gershwin, Ira
Gigi
Gilbert, W. S.
Girl Crazy
Glee
Godspell
Going My Way
Gold Diggers of Broadway
Gold Diggers of 1933
Gold Diggers of 1935
The Golden Apple
Golden Boy
Goldilocks
Good News!
The Goodbye Girl
Grand Hotel—The Musical
The Grand Tour
The Grass Harp
Grayson, Kathryn
Grease
Grease 2
The Great Muppet Caper
Great Performances
Green, Adolph
Greenwillow
Grey Gardens
Grey, Joel
Grind
Guettel, Adam
Guys and Dolls
Gypsy
Hair
Hairspray
Haley, Jack
Hallelujah, Baby!
Hamlisch, Marvin
Hammerstein, Oscar, II
Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates
Hans Christian Andersen
Hansel and Gretel
The Happiest Millionaire
Happy Hunting
The Happy Time
Harbach, Otto
Harburg, E. Y.
Harnick, Sheldon
Hart, Lorenz
Hart, Moss
The Harvey Girls
Hazel Flagg
Hearn, George
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Hello Again
Hello, Dolly!
Henson, Jim
Herbert, Victor
Hercules
Here's Love
Herman, Jerry
High Button Shoes
High School Musical
High School Musical 2
High School Musical 3: Senior Year
High Society
High Spirits
High, Wide and Handsome
Higher and Higher
Hirschfeld, Al
H.M.S. Pinafore
Holiday Inn
Holliday, Jennifer
Hooray for What!
Horne, Lena
House of Flowers
How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
I Can Get It for You Wholesale
I Do! I Do!
I Love My Wife
Illya Darling
In the Good Old Summertime
In the Heights
Integrated Musical
Into the Woods
Is There Life after High School?
It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman
Jack and the Beanstalk(1965) (Television)
Jack and the Beanstalk(1966) (Television)
Jailhouse Rock
Jamaica
Jane Eyre
The Jazz Singer
Jekyll and Hyde
Jelly's Last Jam
Jennie
Jersey Boys
Jesus Christ, Superstar
john & jen
Jones, Shirley
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Journey Back to Oz
Jujamcyn Theatres
Jukebox Musicals
Jumbo
The Jungle Book
Juno
Kander, John
Kaufman, George S.
Keel, Howard
Keeler, Ruby
Kelly, Gene
Kern, Jerome
Kidd, Michael
The King and I
King of Hearts
Kismet
Kiss Me, Kate
Kiss of the Spider Woman
Knickerbocker Holiday
La Cage aux Folles
Lady, Be Good!
Lady in the Dark
Lahr, Bert
Lane, Burton
Lane, Nathan
Lansbury, Angela
Lapine, James
Larson, Jonathan
The Last 5 Years
Laurents, Arthur
Lawrence, Gertrude
Leap of Faith
Leave It to Jane
Legally Blonde
The Legend of Robin Hood
Legs Diamond
Lerner, Alan Jay
Les Girls
Les Misérables
Lestat
Librettist
The Life
The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus
The Light in the Piazza
Li'l Abner
Lillie, Beatrice
Lincoln Center Theater
The Lion King(1994) (Animated Film)
The Lion King(1997) (Broadway)
Lippa, Andrew
Little Johnny Jones
Little Mary Sunshine
Little Me
The Little Mermaid(1989) (Animated Film)
The Little Mermaid(2008) (Broadway)
A Little Night Music
Little Shop of Horrors
Little Women
Loesser, Frank
Loewe, Frederick
Lost in the Stars
Louisiana Purchase
Lucky Stiff
LuPone, Patti
Lyricist
VOLUME 2
Mack and Mabel
MacRae, Gordon
The Mad Show
The Magic Show
Mame
Mamma Mia
Man of La Mancha
Manhattan Theatre Club (MTC)
Marie Christine
Marshall, Kathleen
Marshall, Rob
Martin, Mary
Mary Poppins(1964) (Film)
Mary Poppins(2006) (Broadway)
Mazzie, Marin
McDonald, Audra
McNally, Terrence
Me and Juliet
Me and My Girl
The Me Nobody Knows
Meehan, Thomas
Meet Me in St. Louis(1944) (Film)
Meet Me in St. Louis(1989) (Broadway)
Memphis
Menken, Alan
Menzel, Idina
Merlin
Merman, Ethel
Merrick, David
Merrily We Roll Along
The Mikado
Milk and Honey
Miller, Marilyn
Million Dollar Mermaid
Minnelli, Vincente
Miranda, Carmen
Miss Liberty
Miss Saigon
Moon over Miami
The Most Happy Fella
Moulin Rouge
Movin' Out
Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol
Mr. President
Mr. Wonderful
Mrs. Santa Claus
Mulan
The Muppet Christmas Carol
The Muppet Movie
The Muppet Show
Muppet Treasure Island
The Muppets
The Muppets Take Manhattan
Music in the Air
The Music Man
Music Theatre International (MTI)
Musical Revues
My Fair Lady
My Favorite Year
My One and Only
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)
Naughty Marietta
Nederlander Organization
Neptune's Daughter
Neuwirth, Bebe
A New Brain
New Girl in Town
The New Moon
New York Musical Theatre Festival
New York, New York
Newsies(1992) (Film)
Newsies(2012) (Broadway)
Newton-John, Olivia
Next to Normal
Nick & Nora
The Nightmare before Christmas
Nine
9 to 5
Nixon, Marni
No, No, Nanette
No Strings
Nunsense
O'Brien, Jack
O'Connor, Donald
O'Donnell, Rosie
Of Thee I Sing
Off-Broadway
Oh, Boy!
Oh, Kay!
Oklahoma!
Oliver!
On a Clear Day You Can See Forever
On the Town
On the Twentieth Century
On Your Toes
Once
Once on This Island
Once Upon a Mattress
The One and Only, Genuine, Original, Family Band
110 in the Shade
One Touch of Venus
Operetta
Our Town
Out of This World
Pacific Overtures
Paint Your Wagon
The Pajama Game
Pal Joey
Pan, Hermes
Panama Hattie
Papp, Joseph
Parade
Passion
Patinkin, Mandy
Pennies from Heaven
Pete's Dragon
Peter Pan(1953) (Animated Film)
Peter Pan(1954) (Broadway)
Peters, Bernadette
The Phantom of the Opera
The Pied Piper of Hamelin
Pinocchio(1940) (Animated Film)
Pinocchio(1957) (Television)
Pipe Dream
Pippin
The Pirate
The Pirates of Penzance
Plain and Fancy
Play On!
PlaybillMagazine
Playwrights Horizons
Pocahontas
Polly!
Poor Little Rich Girl
Porgy and Bess
Porter, Cole
Powell, Jane
Presley, Elvis
Preston, Robert
Prince, Harold
The Prince of Egypt
The Princess and the Frog
The Producers
Promises, Promises
Public Theater
Pulitzer Prize for Drama
Purlie
Queen of the Stardust Ballroom
Ragtime
Raisin
Raitt, John
Rankin and Bass
Really Rosie
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
The Red Mill
Redhead
Regional Theatres
Rent
Return to Oz
Reynolds, Debbie
Rice, Tim
The Rink
Rivera, Chita
The Roar of the Greasepaint—The Smell of the Crowd
Robbins, Jerome
Roberta
Robin, Leo
Robin and the Seven Hoods
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Rodgers, Richard
Rodgers and Hammerstein Organization
Rogers, Ginger
Romance/Romance
Romberg, Sigmund
Rome, Harold
Rooney, Mickey
Rose-Marie
Ross, Jerry
The Roundabout Theatre Company
Royal Wedding
Royalties
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
Rudolph's Shiny New Year
Russell, Rosalind
Saidy, Fred
Sally
Samuel French, Inc.
Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Schoolhouse Rock
Schwartz, Arthur
Schwartz, Stephen
The Scottsboro Boys
Scrooge
The Secret Garden
Seesaw
Seussical
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
1776
Shall We Dance
She Loves Me
Shenandoah
Sherman, Richard, and Sherman, Robert
Show Boat
Shrek—The Musical
The Shubert Organization
Shuffle Along
Side by Side by Sondheim
Silk Stockings
Silvers, Phil
Simon, Neil
Sinatra, Frank
Singin' in the Rain
Sleeping Beauty
The Slipper and the Rose
Smokey Joe's Café
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
So Dear to My Heart
Sondheim, Stephen
Song & Dance
Song of the South
The Sound of Music
South Pacific
South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut
Spamalot
Spring Awakening
Springtime in the Rockies
A Star Is Born
Starlight Express
Starmites
State Fair
Stein, Joseph
Stewart, Michael
The Stingiest Man in Town
Stone, Peter
Stop the World—I Want to Get Off
Streisand, Barbra
Strike Up the Band
Stritch, Elaine
Stroman, Susan
Strouse, Charles
The Student Prince in Heidelberg
Styne, Jule
Sullivan, Arthur
Sullivan, Ed
Summer Magic
Summer Stock
Sunday in the Park with George
Sunny
Sunset Boulevard
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Sweet Charity
The Sweet Smell of Success
Swing!
Swing Time
Take Me Out to the Ballgame
Tamblyn, Russ
Tams-Witmark Music Library
Tangled
Tarzan
Taymor, Julie
Temple, Shirley
Tesori, Jeanine
That's Entertainment
Theatre Critics
Theatre Development Fund
There's No Business Like Show Business
13
This Is Spinal Tap
Thoroughly Modern Millie
Three Little Words
The Threepenny Opera
Till the Clouds Roll By
Tin Pan Alley
Titanic
[title of show]
TKTS Booth
Tommy
Tony Awards
Top Hat
Torch Song
Travolta, John
Tune, Tommy
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
Two Gentlemen of Verona
The Unsinkable Molly Brown
Urinetown
Van Heusen, Jimmy
Verdon, Gwen
Vereen, Ben
Victor/Victoria
Viva Las Vegas
Waiting for Guffman
Warner Brothers Studios
Warren, Harry
Webber, Andrew Lloyd
The Wedding Singer
Weill, Kurt
West Side Story
Wheeler, Hugh
Where's Charley?
White, George
White, Onna
White Christmas
Wicked
The Wild Party(2000) (Broadway)
The Wild Party(2000) (Off-Broadway)
Wildhorn, Frank
The Will Rogers Follies
Williams, Esther
Willson, Meredith
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
The Wiz
The Wizard of Oz(1903) (Operetta)
The Wizard of Oz(1939) (Film)
Wodehouse, P. G.
Wolfe, George C.
Woman of the Year
Wonderful Town
Words and Music
Working
Xanadu
Yankee Doodle Dandy
Yellow Submarine
Yentl
Yogi's First Christmas
You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown
Youmans, Vincent
Young Frankenstein
Zaks, Jerry
Zanuck, Darryl F.
Ziegfeld, Florenz
Ziegfeld Follies
Zorba
Appendix 1: Most Popular Musicals Performed by High Schools—A Teacher-Friendly Guide
Appendix 2: Musical Suggestions for Schools Looking for a Challenge
Appendix 3: Audition Songs
Appendix 4: Tony Award–Winning Best Musicals
Appendix 5: Theatrical Rights Licensing Agencies
Appendix 6: Broadway Theaters
Appendix 7: Academy Awards for "Best Song"
Appendix 8: Musicals at the Academy Awards
Appendix 9: Highest-Grossing Film Musicals (from highest grossing to lowest grossing, and adjusted for inflation)
Appendix 10: Longest-Running Broadway Musicals (as of June 23, 2013)
Bibliography
Index