MUSICALS DIRECTORY A-L

by Kenneth Lyen

===[#]===

1776 (1969). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/1776.htm]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/1776.html] Music and lyrics: Sherman Edwards, Book: Peter Stone.
:A musical comedy about the meeting of the founding fathers in 1776 leading up to the signing of the United States Declaration of Independence.
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvAoW7VVUCk YouTube]
[http://www.videodetective.com/default.asp?frame=http://www.videodetective.com/trailer-preview.asp?publishedid=526374 Movie Trailer]

25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (2005). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/bee.htm]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/putnamspellingbee.html] Music and lyrics: William Finn, Book: Rachel Sheinkin.
:Comedy based on a fictitious annual spelling competition held in Putnam County. Real
audience members invited on stage to participate.
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMB1x6KQGIA YouTube]
[http://www.broadwayworld.com/videoinfo.cfm?showid=443 Broadwayworld.com]

42nd Street (1980). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/42nd.htm]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/42ndstreet.html] Music: Harry Warren. Lyrics: Al Dubin.
:Musical set during the 1933 Depression. Peggy Sawyer arrives late for an audition but is helped by a fellow actor to get into the chorus. When the leading has an accident, Peggy takes over her role, and becomes a star.
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nw6QE1L_T80&mode=related&search= YouTube]

===[A]===

Aida (2000). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/aida.htm]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/aida.html] Music: Elton John, Lyrics: Tim Rice, Book: Linda Woolverton, Robert Falls, David Henry Hwang.
:Modern version of Verdi’s opera. Aida is an Egyptian slave who is captured by an Egyptian captain, Radames. He falls in love with her, and saves her from captivity by giving her as a handmaiden to Amneris his future bride.
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElzFYrAwgvo&mode=related&search= YouTube]

All Shook Up (2005). [http://www.allshookup.com/home_content.html]
[http://www.ibdb.com/production.asp?ID=383114] [http://www.musicalheaven.com/Detailed/18.html]  Songs of Elvis Presley, Book: Joe Di Pietro.
:Jukebox musical about pump attendant Natalie, who falls in love with a mysterious motorcyclist, Chad, but he does not reciprocate her feelings. Natalie disguises herself as an unskilled laborer, Ed, and Chad falls in love with Ed, unaware that she is Natalie.
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VMzOztEeWA&mode=related&search= YouTube]

Annie (1977). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/annie.htm]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/annie.html] Music: Charles Strouse, Lyrics: Martin Charnin, Book: Thomas Meehan.
:Set during the depression, Orphan Annie spends Christmas with millionaire Oliver Warbucks, bringing happiness. Mean-spirited orphanage matron, Miss Hannigan, has dastardly designs to trick Annie and Mr Warbucks.
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18vjU8_lpK8 YouTube]

Annie Get Your Gun (1946). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/anniegetyourgun.htm]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/anniegetgun.html] Music and lyrics: Irving Berlin, Book: Herbert and Dorothy Fields.
:Illiterate hillbilly Annie Oakley outshoots sharpshooter Frank butler at Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. They fall in love, but her brilliant shooting is a threat to Frank's masculine ego.
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqclpqbHbpQ YouTube]

Anyone Can Whistle (1964). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/anyonecanwhistle.htm]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/anyonecanwhistle.html]
Music and lyrics: Stephen Sondheim, Book: Arthur Laurents.
:An American small town facing bankruptcy, creates a fradulent miracle, claiming that water flowing from a rock has healing properties. Tourists attracted to this bogus site are accidentally joined by patients who have escaped from a nearby mental hospital. [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2922251202401352125&q=anyone+can+whistle Barbara Cook]

Anything Goes (1934). [http://broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/anythinggoes.htm]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/anythinggoes.html] Music and lyrics: Cole Porter, Book: Guy Bolton and PG Wodehouse, revised by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse. :Nightclub singer, Reno Sweeney, and her friend, Billy Crocker, sail to London on a steamship full of gangsters. Billy is in love with Hope Harcourt, but he is mistaken for a notorious killer. In the meantime Hope's fiancee, Sir Evelyn, falls in love with Reno.
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uAEL9ZV1nE&mode=related&search= YouTube]

Applause (1970). [http://broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/applause.htm]  [http://www.musicalheaven.com/Detailed/487.html] Music: Charles Strouse, Lyrics: Lee Adams, Book: Betty Comden and Adolph Green. Adapted from the film All About Eve.
:When successful mature actress Margo Channing gives Best Actress Award to young Eve Harrington, she flashes back to recall Eve's ruthless rise to stardom.

Apple Tree, The (1966). [http://www.answers.com/topic/the-apple-tree-musical]
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Apple_Tree]
Music: Jerry Bock, Lyrics: Sheldon Harnick, Book: Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick.
:Concept musical with three stories whose three main characters are the equivalent of Adam, Eve, and the serpent, and the unifying theme is that of leaving paradise.
[http://www.broadway.com/gen/Buzz_Video.aspx?ci=541960 Broadway.com]
[http://www.broadwayworld.com/videoinfo.cfm?showid=4199 Broadwayworld.com]

Aspects of Love (1990). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/aspects.htm]
[http://www.nodanw.com/shows_a/aspects_of_love.htm] Music: Andrew Lloyd Webber, Lyrics: Don Black and Charles Hart.
:Youthful and impetuous Alex becomes infatuated withJenny, the teenage daughter of an actress, Rose, with whom he had an affair many years ago. Jenny's father objects, but he does not carry much moral authority, as he himself is senior to his wife Rose by 40 years.
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVsAeOJT5Zg&mode=related&search= YouTube]

Assassins (1991). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/assassins.htm]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/assassins.html] Music and lyrics: Stephen Sondheim, Book: John Weidman.
:Theme musical about US presidents and their assassins, both the successful and the unsuccessful ones.
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7XRg8scL7o Tony’s]

Avenue Q (2003). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/avenueq.htm]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/avenueQ.html] Music and lyrics by Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx.
:Muppet-like puppet show for mature audiences, with songs about aids, homosexuality, pornography, and racial discrimination.
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azsg4hwpWt4 YouTube]
[http://www.theatre.com/video/id/3002972 Theatre.com]
[http://www.broadwayworld.com/videoinfo.cfm?showid=37 Broadwayworld.com]

===[B]===

Babes in Arms (1937). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/babes.htm]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/babes.html] Music: Richard Rodgers, Lyrics: Lorenz Hart, Book: Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart.
:Kids left at home when their parents go off on a touring holiday put on a musical to make money. Financial backer, Lee Calhoun, does not want two black children to perform, but he is thwarted by the youngsters.
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4VngeGWSRo YouTube]

Baby (1983). [http://wiki.stageagent.com/more_show_info.php?id=1591] [http://www.musicalheaven.com/Detailed/691.html] Music: David Shire, Lyrics: Richard Maltby Jr, Book: Sybille Pearson.
:Three couples... a pair of unmarried college students, a 40+ year-old hospital administrator and his wife, and two gym coaches in their 30s, all conceive a baby on the same day. The musical follows the pregnancy to the birth of the babies.
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ed2dijnOJ3A YouTube]

Baker's Wife (1976). [http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/bakerswife.html] [http://www.musicalheaven.com/Detailed/929.html] Music and lyrics: Stephen Schwartz, Book: Joseph Stein.
:Adaptation of the 1938 movie, La Femme Boulanger. Genevieve is the young wife of a French town's baker, who is older than her. She has an affair with Dominique, a young amorous villager.
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JROrWTAkfXU YouTube]

Barnum (1980). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/barnum.htm]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/barnum.html]  Music: Cy Coleman, Lyrics: Michael Stewart, Book: Mark Bramble.
:The musical follows the real-life self-styled showman, Phineas T Barnum, from his days as a circus entertainer, to his entry into US politics.
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJNMxviUMVw YouTube]

Bat Boy (1997). [http://www.batboy.co.uk/]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/batboy.html] Music and lyrics: Laurence O'Keefe, Book: Keythe Farley and Brian Fleming.
:A boy with pointed ears struggles to fit into a world that favors conformity. The townspeople fear him, and his foster father is jealous of him.
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isqKsCupwzk YouTube]

Beautiful Game (2000). [http://www.reallyuseful.com/rug/shows/beautifulgame/] [http://www.musicalheaven.com/Detailed/682.html] Music: Andrew Lloyd Webber, Book and lyrics: Ben Elton.
:Set in Belfast in the late 1960s, a period rife with sectarian violence, the young men and women playing in a local youth soccer team get caught up in the political and religious conflicts of the time.
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNb-XQ7bO10 YouTube]

Beauty and the Beast (1994). [http://disney.go.com/theatre/beautyandthebeast/index.html]
[http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/beautyandthebeast.htm]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/beautyandbeast.html] Music: Alan Mencken, Lyrics: Howard Ashman and Tim Rice, Book: Linda Woolverton.
:Disney musical based on the fairy tale of a beautiful daughter who agrees to be exchanged for her father who has been captured by a beast.
[http://www.broadwayworld.com/videoinfo.cfm?showid=4 Broadwayworld.com]
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7mO6cE1Vpk&mode=related&search= YouTube]
 
Bells Are Ringing (1956). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/bells.htm]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/bellsareringing.html] Music: Jule Styne, Book and lyrics: Betty Comden and Adolph Green.
:A shy telephone switchboard operator for an answering service, falls in love with a subscriber, an author who has writer's block.
[http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3032720282171603077&q=the+party%27s+over Judy Holliday]

Best Foot Forward (1941). [http://www.ibdb.com/production.asp?ID=1113] Music and lyrics: Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane. Book: John Cecil Holm.
:High school student Bud Hooper invites attractive movie star to his school prom. Complications arise when Bud's girlfriend becomes jealous.
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_KY-7yQdGc YouTube]

Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, The (1978). [http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/bestwhorehouse.html] Music: Carol Hall, Book:
Peer Masterson and Larry L King.
:Raunchy story about the closure of a Texan brothel after exposure by a slimy television reporter, Melvin P Thorpe.
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shBpfyjd2vQ&mode=related&search= YouTube]

Big River (1985). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/bigriver.htm]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/bigriver.html] Music and lyrics: Roger Miller. :Adaptation of Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6bcfPTZqto&mode=related&search= YouTube]

Billy (1974). [http://www.nodanw.com/shows_b/billy.htm] [http://www.musicalheaven.com/Detailed/655.html] Music: John Barry, Lyrics: Don Black, Book: Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais. :Adaptation of Keith Waterhouse's novel, Billy Liar. Billy Fisher, an undertaker's clerk, fantasizes about a life of luxury, which is in stark contrast to his actual dingy environment.

Billy Elliott (2005). [http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/billyelliot.html] [http://www.musicalheaven.com/Detailed/475.html] Music: Elton John, Book and lyrics: Lee Hall.
:Adaptation of the film about Billy Elliott, a boy living in a decaying mining village. He meets objections from his father when he refuses to follow his footsteps to become miner, and instead, he wants to become a ballet dancer.
[http://www.billyelliotthemusical.com/index1.html Video]
[http://www.theatre.com/video/id/3004848 Theatre.com]
 
Blood Brothers (1983). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/bloodbrothers.htm]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/bloodbrothers.html] Music, book, and lyrics: Willy Russell.
:Twin brothers separated at birth, grow up in completely opposite ends of the social spectrum. Years later, by chance they meet up again, and their lives are drawn inexorably towards tragedy.
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRuZHdduQng YouTube1]
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qf8WmBH69yk&mode=related&search= YouTube2]

Bloomer Girl (1944). [http://www.ibdb.com/production.asp?ID=1583] [http://www.musicalheaven.com/Detailed/636.html] Music: Harold Arlen, Book: Sig Herzig and Fred Saidy.
:Set during the American Civil War, the daughter of a hoop skirt manufacturer refuses to marry one of her father's salesman. Instead, she supports her aunt's crusade for women's rights, and she champions women's freedom to choose what to wear, including bloomers.

Bombay Dreams (2004). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/bombay.htm] [http://www.musicalheaven.com/Detailed/949.html] Music: AR Rahman, Lyrics: Don Black, Book: Meera Syal.
:Akaash, a young man living in the slums of Bombay, aspires to be a Bollywood star. A rich lawyer and his fiancee, Priya, arrive at Akaash's slum, trying to prevent its clearance. Akaash falls in love with Priya, who turns out to be an aspiring filmmaker.
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcEir6bIaD4 YouTube1]
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_TD6MGyorw&mode=related&search= YouTube2]

Boy From Oz, The (2003). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/boyoz.htm]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/boyfromoz.html] Music and lyrics by Peter Allen, Book: Martin Sherman.
:While giving a concert, Peter Allen, an entertainer, flashes back and relives his life from his youth as a performer in an Australian bush town in the 1950s.
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POmD7Ovje2Y YouTube1]
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNqUiwPeE-g&mode=related&search= YouTube2]

Boys From Syracuse, The (1938). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/boys.htm]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/boysfromsyracuse.html] Music: Richard Rodgers, Lyrics: Lorenz Hart, Book: George Abbott.
:Based on Shakespeare's A Comedy of Errors. Antipholus and Dramio of Syracuse are each looking for their respective twin brothers.

Brigadoon (1947). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/brigadoon.htm]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/brigadoon.html] Music: Frederick Loewe, Book and lyrics: Alan Jay Lerner.
:Two American tourists hiking in the Scottish highlands get mysteriously transported into fabled Scottish town, Brigadoon. One of them falls in love with a pretty girl living there.
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ik06JLka-ZA YouTube]

Bugsy Malone (1984). [http://www.toacorn.com/news/2006/0921/Dining_And_Entertainment/062.html] [http://www.musicalheaven.com/Detailed/611.html] Music and lyrics: Paul Williams, Book: Alan Parker.
:Gangster spoof where the entire cast is played by children. Adapted from the 1976 movie.
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOrgDbldcA4 YouTube]

By Jeeves (1975). [http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/byjeeves.html] [http://www.musicalheaven.com/Detailed/152.html] Music: Andrew Lloyd Webber, Book and lyrics: Alan Ayckbourn.
:Farcical story about PG Wodehouse characters, the bumbling aristocratic Bertie Wooster, and his astute loyal butler, Jeeves.
[http://www.reallyuseful.com/rug/shows/byjeeves/music/video.htm Video]

Bye Bye Birdie (1960). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/birdie.htm]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/byebyebirdie.html] Music: Charles Strouse, Lyrics: Lee Adams, Book: Michael Stewart.
:The musical tells of Albert Peterson, a flamboyant manager and promoter of rock and roll star, Conrad Birdie, who is about to be drafted into the US Army. Together with his girlfriend, Albert engineers Birdie to appear on the Ed Sullivan show.
[http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6727431257878882408&q=bye+bye+birdie Dick Van Dyke]

===[C]===

Cabaret (1966). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/cabaret.htm]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/cabaret.html] Music: John Kander, Lyrics: Fred Ebb, Book: Joe Masteroff.
:Adaptation of Christopher Isherwood's Berlin Stories. Cabaret is set in decadent pre-Hitler's Germany. Clifford Bradshaw, an American writer, meets Sally Bowles, an English nightclub singer, at the sleazy Kit Kat Klub in Berlin. which is hosted by an egregious emcee.
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48zhgiph9hA&mode=related&search= YouTube]
[http://trailers.warnerbros.com/web/play.jsp?trailer=cabaret_trailer Movie Trailer]
[http://www.theatre.com/video/id/3004728 Theatre.com]
 
Calamity Jane (1953). [http://www.musicalheaven.com/Detailed/937.html]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/calamityjane.html] Music: Sammy Fain, Lyrics: Paul Francis Webster.
:Unable to get the singing star Adelaide Adams as advertised, the saloon regulars are turning ugly. Calamity Jane steps in and promises to bring the star back from Chicago. However, she brings back the wrong person.
[http://youtube.com/watch?v=M98JF4TIVNw Doris Day]

Call Me Madam (1950). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/callmemadam.htm] [http://www.musicalheaven.com/Detailed/938.html] Music and lyrics: Irving Berlin. Book: Russel Crouse and Howard Lindsay.
:Satire on politics and foreign affairs, the musical, revolves around a well-meaning but ill-informed Washington hostess, Sally Adams, who is made ambassador to a fictional country, Lichtenberg. She falls in love with their suave foreign minister, Cosmo Constantine, who does not want his country Americanized, whereas his political opponents want to get aid from the USA.
[http://youtube.com/watch?v=i7CpAk-Z5wY Ruthie Henshall]

Camelot (1960). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/camelot.htm]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/camelot.html] Music: Frederick Loewe, Book and lyrics: Alan Jay Lerner.
:Based on TH White’s novel The Once and Future King, it centers around the love triangle between King Arthur, his wife Guinevere, and a knight of the round table, Sir Lancelot.
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGLYKJHpRbU Bryn Terfel]

Candide (1956). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/candide.htm]
[http://www.musicalheaven.com/Detailed/941.html] Music: Leonard Bernstein, Lyrics: Richard Wilbur, Book: Hugh Wheeler.
:Comic operetta based on Voltaire’s classic novel. Candide, the illegitimate nephew to the Baron is in love with his daughter, Cunegonde, much to the Baron’s displeasure, as he regards Candide as a social inferior. The two are parted and suffer catastrophic adventures, but they are always consoled by the words of their professor, Doctor Pangloss, who imbues in them an undiluted optimism.
[http://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/shows/candide/# Kristin Chenoweth]

Caroline or Change (2004). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/caroline.htm]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/carolineorchange.html] Music: Jeanine Tesori, Book and lyrics: Tony Kushner.
:A sung-though musical engaging in racial and social issues in Louisiana in 1963 during the height of the Civil Rights movement. It is about Caroline is a 39-year-old black woman, who works as a maid in a white Jewish household in Lousiana in 1963. She is persuaded to take the change left in the young white boy’s discarded trouser pocket, but this has tumultuous consequences.
[http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5420612676897816496&q=caroline+or+change&hl=en Tonya Pinkins]

Carousel (1945). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/carousel.htm]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/carousel.html] Music Richard Rodgers, Book and lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein II.
:Adapted from Ferenc Molnar's play, Liliom. A shy New England girl, Julie, falls in love with a fairground barker, Billy. When Julie becomes pregnant, Billy tries to get rich quick by organizing a robbery, but things go wrong and he kills himself to avoid capture.
[http://youtube.com/watch?v=lbbq2Mfbhsw&mode=related&search= Shirley Verrett]
[http://youtube.com/watch?v=OQ95_AfKUkU Regine]

Cats (1981). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/cats.htm]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/cats.html] Music: Andrew Lloyd Webber, Book and lyrics: TS Eliot.
:Concept musical based on the poetry of TS Eliot's Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats. At the end of each Jellicle Ball, a cat is chosen to ascend to the Heaviside Layer, and on this occasion it is the aged Grizabella, the Glamour Cat.
[http://www.reallyuseful.com/rug/shows/cats/music/video.htm Videos]

Chess (1984). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/chess.htm]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/chess.html] Music: Bjorn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersen, Book and lyrics: Tim Rice.
:Set during the cold war era, Anatoly, a Russian chess grandmaster, is challenged for the world title by Freddie, a truculent American. The Russian has an affair with Freddie's second, Florence,
and she helps him defect to the West.
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2IkLGFiKx0 Paige and Dickson]
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_PpwoRSSVo Murray Head]

Chicago (1975). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/chicago.htm]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/chicago.html] Music: John Kander, Book and lyrics: Fred Ebb.
:Set in Chicago in the 1920s, chorus girl Roxie Hart is imprisoned for killing her lover. Cunning, manipulative, exhibitionist lawyer, Billy Flynn, is the defense lawyer, and he successfully gets both Roxie and fellow inmate, Velma, off the hook.
[http://www.chicagothemusical.com/ Videos]
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1U-7jJzzvOE Ashlee Simpson]
[http://www.broadwayworld.com/videoinfo.cfm?showid=6 Broadwayworld.com]
[http://www.broadway.com/gen/Buzz_Video.aspx?ci=540921 Broadway.com1]
[http://www.broadway.com/gen/Buzz_Video.aspx?ci=514856 Broadway.com2]

Children of Eden (1991). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/eden.htm]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/childrenofeden.html] Music and lyrics: Stephen Schwartz, Book. John Caird.
:Recounting the Biblical story from the Creation until just after The Flood.
[http://youtube.com/watch?v=b7Cx1mQBsjY&mode=related&search= YouTube]

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (2002). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/chitty.htm]
[http://www.musicalheaven.com/Detailed/23.html] Music and lyrics: Richard M and Robert B Sherman, Book: Jeremy Sams.
:Adapted from the film. Eccentric inventor invents a self-driving car that can float, and fly. Baron Bomburst of Vulgaria uses skullduggery to kidnap the car.
[http://youtube.com/watch?v=Su_PBPDCRfM Trailer]

Chorus Line, A (1975). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/chorus.htm]
[http://www.musicalheaven.com/Detailed/967.html] [http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/achorusline.html] Music: Marvin Hamlisch, Lyrics: Ed Kleban, Book: James Kirkwood and Nicholas Dante.
:A group of chorus dancers audition for a show, and tell about themselves one by one.
[http://youtube.com/watch?v=fT7Sl2K9CEs Nightline]
[http://www.broadwayworld.com/videoinfo.cfm?showid=2981 Broadwayworld.com]
[http://www.broadway.com/gen/Buzz_Video.aspx?ci=538281 Broadway.com1]
[http://www.broadway.com/gen/Buzz_Video.aspx?ci=535563 Broadway.com2]
[http://www.broadway.com/gen/Buzz_Video.aspx?ci=528201 Broadway.com3]
 
Cinderella (1957). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/cinderella.htm]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/cinderella.html] Music: Richard Rodgers, Lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein II.
:Made-for-television musical of the fairy tale.
[http://youtube.com/watch?v=Dzp4UJnzhm4 Whitney Houston]

Civil War, The (1999). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/civilwar.htm]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/civilwar.html] Music: Frank Wildhorn, Lyrics: Jack Murphy, Book: Gregory Boyd and Frank Wildhorn.
:Musical revue inspired by letters, diaries and first-hand accounts of the American Civil War.

Color Purple, The (2005). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/colorpurple.htm]
[http://www.musicalheaven.com/Detailed/1611.html] [http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/colorpurple.htm] Music and lyrics: Brenda Russell, Allee Willis and Stephen Bray. Book: Marsha Norman.
:Adapted from the film, the story centers on Celie, a black girl living in the rural South during the early part of the 20th century. She is made pregnant by her father, who subsequently takes away the baby for adoption. Later, Celie marries a farmer who is a cruel philanderer. Despite all her hardships and suffering, Celie rises above them, and her inner strength and courage embodies the triumph of the human spirit.
[http://www.colorpurple.com/sightssounds.php# Video Featurette]
[http://youtube.com/watch?v=_sfGsWOqUQc&mode=related&search= Tony’s]
[http://www.broadwayworld.com/videoinfo.cfm?showid=944 Broadwayworld.com]
[http://www.broadway.com/gen/Buzz_Video.aspx?ci=522177 Broadway.com1]
[http://www.broadway.com/gen/show.aspx?SI=514820 Broadway.com2]
[http://www.broadway.com/Gen/Buzz_Video.aspx?ci=540024 Broadway.com3]
  
Company (1970). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/company.htm]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/company.html] [http://www.musicalheaven.com/Detailed/985.html] Music and lyrics: Stephen Sondheim, Book: George Furth.
:Concept musical with a nonlinear plot that revolves around Robert, a bachelor, who is being persuaded by five well-meaning friends, to consider settling down.
[http://youtube.com/watch?v=cbE_Y_9fMuU Patti Lupone]
[http://www.broadwayworld.com/videoinfo.cfm?showid=4200 Broadwayworld.com]
[http://www.broadway.com/gen/Buzz_Video.aspx?ci=541299 Broadway.com]
 
Contact (1999). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/contact.htm]
[http://www.imagi-nation.com/moonstruck/albm89.html] Creators: Susan Stroman and John Weidman.
:Three short stories told through dance, containing no original music, no singing, and minimal dialogue. The first piece is about an attractive girl with two men vying for her attention; the second is about a timid woman  married to a controlling husband both having a meal in an Italian restaurant; and the third story is about a middle-aged suicidal man trying to get the attention of a girl in a yellow dress.
[http://youtube.com/watch?v=gzP2gi-eGRU Tony’s]

===[D]===

Damn Yankees (1955). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/damnyankees.htm]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/damnyankees.html] [http://www.musicalheaven.com/Detailed/994.html] Music: Jerry Ross, Lyrics: Richard Adler.
:Senator Joe Boyd, a married middle-aged baseball fan, makes a faustian pact with the devil, selling his soul so that he can be rejuvenated and become a star performer in the Yankees baseball team.
[http://youtube.com/watch?v=HMY2GCjFHiI YouTube]

Dirty Dancing (2006). [http://www.dirtydancing.com.au/] Music and lyrics: Various, Book: Eleanor Bergstein.
:Based on the 1987 movie, this coming of age story is about Baby Houseman who is forced to spend her vacation with her parents in a holiday resort. Initially bored, she discovers a group of young people who devote their free time dancing, and she falls in love with a sexy dance instructor.
[http://www.theatre.com/video/id/3004768 Theatre.com]
  
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (2004). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/dirty.htm]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/dirtyrottenscoundrels.html] Music and lyrics: David Yazbek, Book: Jeffrey Lane.
:Based on the 1988 film, it is about 2 con men on the French Riviera placing a bet with each other, that the first to swindle a young heiress of $50,000 will win, and the loser would have to leave town.
[http://youtube.com/watch?v=04uNN7yMwMY&mode=related&search= Tony’s]
[http://www.broadway.com/gen/Buzz_Video.aspx?ci=526169 Broadway.com1]
[http://www.broadway.com/gen/Buzz_Video.aspx?ci=512808 Broadway.com2]

Dreamgirls (1981). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/dreamgirls.htm]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/dreamgirls.html] Music: Henry Krieger Tom Eyen. book Bennett. Story of a black singing group inspired by The Supremes. Lead singer Efie White relinquishes the spotlight to allow a more attractive colleague to take over. Later, Effie leaves the group and becomes her own star.
[http://www.movie-list.com/trailers.php?id=dreamgirls Movie Trailer1]
[http://www.ifilm.com/video/2781830 Movie Trailer2]
[http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0443489/trailers Movie Trailer3]

Drowsy Chaperone, The (2006).  [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/drowsychaperone.htm]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/drowsychaperone.html] Music and lyrics: Lisa Lambert and Greg Morrison, Book: Bob Martin and Don McKellar.
:While listening to a record of a fictitious 1920s-style musical called The Drowsy Chaperone, the show suddenly comes to life right in the listener’s apartment.
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0stOiGy0cE Trailer]
[http://www.broadwayworld.com/videoinfo.cfm?showid=2321 Broadwayworld.com]
[http://www.broadway.com/gen/Buzz_Video.aspx?ci=529136 Broadway.com1]
[http://www.broadway.com/gen/Buzz_Video.aspx?ci=530474 Broadway.com2]
 
===[E]===

Evita (1978). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/evita.htm]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/evita.html] Music: Andrew Lloyd Webber, Book and lyrics: Tim Rice.
:A sung-through musical based on the tragic life of Eva Peron, wife of Argentinian dictator, Juan Peron.
[http://youtube.com/watch?v=EkvKGhDl__U London Montage]
[http://www.movie-list.com/e/evita.shtml Movie Trailer]
[http://www.theatre.com/video/id/3003470 Theatre.com]

===[F]===

Falsettos, The (1992). [http://www.imagi-nation.com/moonstruck/albm62.html] [http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/falsettos.html] Music and lyrics: William Finn, Book: William Finn and James Lapine.
:This is a story about Marvin, a bisexual who leaves his wife Trina, for a male friend, Wizzer. Trina goes and marries Marvin's psychiatrist. Wizzer then leaves Marvin temporarily but they reconcile, only to discover that Wizzer is dying of aids.

Fame (1988). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/fame.htm]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/fame.html] [http://www.musicalheaven.com/Detailed/1370.html] Music: Steve Margoshes, Lyrics: Jacques Levy, Book: Jose Fernandez.
:Based on the movie, Fame is set in New York City's famous High School for Performing Arts. It follows a batch of new students, portraying their highs and lows, their romances, their sorrows, and triumphs.
[http://www.famenetwork.com/video.php]

Fantasticks (1960). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/fantasticks.htm]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/fantasticks.html] [http://www.musicalheaven.com/Detailed/1505.html] Music: Harvey Schmidt, Book and lyrics: Tom Jones.
:Longest running off-Broadway stage musical. Two neighbours use reverse psychology to help their respective offspring come to a romantic union.
[http://youtube.com/watch?v=huUmENpJ8p4&mode=related&search= Jerry Orbach]
[http://www.videodetective.com/default.asp?frame=http://www.videodetective.com/trailer-preview.asp?customerid=97135&publishedID=516212 Movie Trailer]
[http://www.broadway.com/gen/Buzz_Video.aspx?ci=541904 Broadway.com]
     
Fiddler on the Roof (1964). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/fiddler.htm]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/fiddler.html]  [http://www.musicalheaven.com/Detailed/1509.html] Music: Jerry Bock, Lyrics: Sheldon Harnick, Book: Joseph Stein.
:Set in rural Tzarist Russia during the early years of the 20th century with the escalating threat of anti-Semitism, it follows Tevye, a Jewish milkman, who wants his 5 daughters to get happily married.
[http://youtube.com/watch?v=Wb_ztw6pVhg Tony’s]
[http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2316079 Movie Trailer]

Finian's Rainbow (1947). [http://www.musicalheaven.com/Detailed/1547.html]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/finiansrainbow.html] Music: Burton Lane, Lyrics: EY 'Yip' Harburg, Book: EY 'Yip Harburg and Fred Saidy.
:Political satire about Finian, who steals a pot of gold from Glocca Morra in Ireland, and brings it to America, pursued by Og, a leprechaun. There is a subplot about white racist senator who becomes black following an accidental invocation of one of the leprechaun's magic wishes.
[http://videodetective.com/default.asp?frame=http://videodetective.com/trailer-preview.asp?publishedId=979641&customerID=97135 Movie Trailer]

Five Guys Named Moe (1990). [http://www.fiveguysnamedmoe.com/]
[http://www.musicalheaven.com/Detailed/1551.html] Music: Louis Jordan. Musical revue about
Nomax, who pines for love, and drowns his misery in alcohol.
Materializing from a radio that he is listening to, are the five Moes
who teach him, through song and dance, about life and love.
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiarcCS1-OU YouTube]

Flora the Red Menace (1965). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/flora.htm]
[http://www.musicalheaven.com/Detailed/1555.html] Music: John Kander, Lyrics: Fred Ebb, Book: George Abbott and Robert Russell. Set in the 1930s Depression, it is a story of Flora, a naive young girl, who joins the Communist party purely because of love for her boyfriend.

Flower Drum Song (1958). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/flowerdrum.htm]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/flowerdrumsong.html] Music: Richard Rodgers, Book and lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein II.
:Mail-order bride from Hong Kong, Mei Li, arrives in San Francisco, looking for her prospective husband, Sammy Fong, a middle-aged nightclub owner. However, she falls in love with a young student, Wang Ta, instead.
[http://www.nancy-kwan.com/fds.4.html Videos]

Follies (1971). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/follies.htm]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/follies.html] [http://www.musicalheaven.com/Detailed/1610.html] Music and lyrics: Stephen Sondheim. Book: James Goldman.
:It takes place during a 30th anniversary reunion of ex-showgirls from
the famous Follies revue. Many of them have married, and they
reminisce and confront the ghosts of their past, and in so doing,
solve their current unhappiness.
[http://youtube.com/watch?v=cxx0FMFVjiA Marin Mazzie]

Footloose (1998). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/footloose.htm]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/footloose.html] Creators: Dean Pitchford, Tom Snow, Walter Bobbie, and Kenny Loggins.
:Based on the 1984 movie, about Ren, a city boy who moves back to a backwater town in rural America, where dancing is banned.
[http://videodetective.com/default.asp?frame=http://videodetective.com/home.asp?PublishedID=2974 Movie Trailer]

Fosse (1999). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/fosse.htm]
[http://www.musicalheaven.com/Detailed/1744.html] Creators: Various.
:Musical dance revue showcasing pieces choreographed by the late Bob Fosse.

Full Monty, The (2000). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/fullmonty.htm]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/fullmonty.html]
[http://www.musicalheaven.com/Detailed/1747.html] Music and lyrics: David Yazbek, Book: Terrence McNally.
:Musical version of the movie, about a group of frustrated unemployed steel workers who decide to present a striptease act at a local club.
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoiupccSyy8 YouTube]

Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, A (1962). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/forum.htm]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/forum.html] Music and lyrics: Stephen Sondheim, Book: Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart.
:Musical burlesque set in ancient Rome, about dysfunctional Roman
families and their slaves.
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdAzlfCrVi0&mode=related&search= YouTube]

===[G]===

George M! (1968). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/georgem.htm]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/georgem.html] Music and lyrics: George M Cohan, Book: Michael Steward, John and Francine Pascal.
:The life of the entertainer, George M Cohan, starting from his days in vaudeville, to his final triumph as a Broadway star.
[http://youtube.com/watch?v=L3Opq_sp0sU YouTube]

Godspell (1971). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/godspell.htm]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/godspell.html] [http://www.musicalheaven.com/Detailed/1778.html] Music and lyrics: Stephen Schwartz.
:Set in contemporary New York, it is a modern retelling of the Gospel according to St
Matthew.
[http://videodetective.com/default.asp?frame=http://videodetective.com/trailer-preview.asp?customerid=97135&publishedID=890360 Movie Trailer1]
[http://www.rogersvideo.ca/movie.asp?mid=2860# Movie Trailer2]
  
Grease (1972). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/grease.htm]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/grease.html] Music and lyrics: Barry Gibb, John Farrar.
:Set in the rock and roll era of the 1950s, it follows the story of innocent Sandy Dumbrowski, and macho Danny Zuko who, after a brief summer romance, unexpectedly reunite in their high school.
[http://www.videodetective.com/default.asp?frame=http://www.videodetective.com/trailer-preview.asp?customerid=97135&publishedid=720 Movie Trailer1]
[http://www.movie-list.com/g/grease.shtml Movie Trailer2]
[http://www.nbc.com/Grease/ NBC]

Great American Trailer Park Musical, The (2004). [http://arts.monstersandcritics.com/reviews/article_10222.php] Music and lyrics: David Nehls, Book: Betsy Kelso. Norbert and Jeannie have been married for 20 years, and there is little electricity left in their relationship, a situation exacerbated by Jeannie’s agoraphobia, in which she refuses to leave their trailer. Norbert is drawn by Pippi the Stripper, who comes to town. His moral conundrum is commented by a Greek chorus of trailer park neighbors.
[http://www.broadway.com/gen/Buzz_Video.aspx?ci=518679 Broadway.com]
[http://www.trailerparkmusical.com/ Video Clips]

Guys and Dolls (1950). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/guysdolls.htm]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/guysndolls.html] Music and lyrics: Frank Loesser, Book: Abe Burrows and Jo Swerling.
:Based on Damon Runyon's New York short stories. Inveterate gambler, Nathan Detroit, runs a successful floating crap operation in New York, and makes a bet that his gambling colleague, Sky Masterson, cannot persuade Salvation Army stalwart, Miss Sarah Brown, to travel with him to Cuba.
[http://www.mgm.com/title_title.do?title_star=GUYSANDD Movie Trailer]

Gypsy (1959). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/gypsy.htm]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/gypsy.html] Music Jule Styne, Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim.
:Taken from the autobiography of Gypsy Rose Lee, the musical follows her life from a young entertainer, to her transition into a popular striptease artist.
[http://videodetective.com/default.asp?frame=http://videodetective.com/trailer-preview.asp?customerid=97135&publishedid=4220 Movie Trailer]

===[H]===

Hair (1968). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/hair.htm]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/hair.html] Music: Galt MacDermot, Book and lyrics: Gerome Ragni and James Rado.
:This musical revue is set in the hippie peace and love
movement of the 1960s, and shocks the audience through its use of strong language and nudity.
[http://videodetective.com/default.asp?frame=http://videodetective.com/trailer-preview.asp?customerid=97135&publishedID=386 Movie Trailer]

Hairspray (2002). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/hairspray.htm]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/hairspray.html]
Music: Marc Shaiman, Lyrics: Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman, Book: Mark O'Donnell and Thomas Meehan.
:Based on the 1988 movie. When Tracy Turnblad gets a chance to dance on the Corny Collins TV Show, she becomes an overnight teen celebrity. She then embarks on a mission to racially integrate the show.
[http://hairspraythemusical.com/ Videos]
[http://www.broadwayworld.com/videoinfo.cfm?showid=10 Broadwayworld.com]
[http://www.broadway.com/gen/Buzz_Video.aspx?ci=515073 Broadway.com]

Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/hedwig.htm]
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedwig_and_the_Angry_Inch]
 Music and lyrics: Stephen Trask, Book: John Cameron Mitchell.
:Hedwig Schmidt starts off as a boy brought up by an overly strict mother in Germany. He meets Luther, an American GI, who is prepared to take Hedwig back to the USA provided he undergoes a sex-change operation and becomes his bride. Unfortunately the operation is botched up, and not only is she left with a one-inch remnant of her past, but her new husband leaves her. She forms her own band and becomes a rock and roll superstar.
[http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2398040 Movie Trailer1]
[http://www.get-hed.com/# Movie Trailer2]

Hello Dolly (1964). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/hellodolly.htm]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/hellodolly.html] Music and lyrics: Jerry Herman, Book: Michael Stewart.
:Adapted from Thornton Wilder's play The Matchmaker, the musical is about Dolly Gallagher, a matchmaker, who puts herslf up as a candidate for marriage when she falls for the wealthy businessman, Horace Vandergelder.
[http://youtube.com/watch?v=pAuitCr-omA YouTube]

High Fidelity (2006). [http://www.topfivebreakups.com/] [http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,1971549,00.html] Music Tom Kitt, Lyrics: Amanda Green, Book: David Lindsay-Abaire.
:Adaptation of the Nick Hornby novel and 2000 film, this romantic comedy is set in New York, and is about a record-store owner who, when rejected yet again by another girlfriend, revisits his former relationships to ascertain where he went wrong.
[http://www.broadway.com/gen/Buzz_Video.aspx?ci=541640 Broadway.com]

High School Musical (2005). [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_School_Musical]
 Music: Peter Barsocchini.
:Made for TV movie about two high school students, Troy, captain of the basketball team, and Gabriella, an academically bright but shy transfer student. They audition for the leading roles in their high school musical. But they encounter opposition from an arrogant pair who resent inexperienced neophytes usurping their position.
[http://psc.disney.go.com/disneychannel/originalmovies/highschoolmusical/ Videos1]
[http://www.videocodezone.com/videos/h/high_school_musical/ Videos2]

High Society (1998). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/highsoc.htm]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/highsociety.html]
[http://www.musicalheaven.com/h/high_society.shtml] Music and lyrics: Cole Porter, Book: Arthur Kopit.
::Based on the 1940 film Philadelphia Story and the 1956 film High Society. Tracy Lord, a wealthy socialite, is planning to marry her second husband, when her first husband, Dexter Haven, plans to upset proceedings. In the meantime, a magazine reporter sent to cover the story also falls in love with Tracy.
[http://videodetective.com/default.asp?frame=http://videodetective.com/home.asp?PublishedID=218 Movie Trailer]

How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1961). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/howto.htm]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/howtosucceed.html] Music and lyrics: Frank Loesser, Book: Abe Burrows, Jack Weinstock and Willie Gilbert.
:Witty satire on climbing the corporate ladder. Young J Pierpont Finch starts off as a window-cleaner and following the advice given in a book with the same title as the musical, he eventually becomes Chairman of the Board.
[http://www.rogersvideo.ca/movie.asp?mid=20698# Movie Trailer]

===[I]===

I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change (1996). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/loveperfectchange.htm]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/iloveyouyoureperfect.html] Music: Jimmy Roberts, Book and lyrics: Joe DiPietro.
:A musical revue looking at relationships from the first date, marriage, and death.
[http://www.broadway.com/gen/Buzz_Video.aspx?ci=515954 Broadway.com]

Into the Woods (1987). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/intothewoods.htm]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/intothewoods.html] Music and lyrics: Stephen Sondheim, Book: James Lapine.
:The merging of several fairy tale characters leads to an exploration of the inner psyche of these people. The story centers around the baker, whose wife is infertile. A neighboring witch helps get her pregnant in exchange for some objects which the couple have to find. The second half of the musical changes into a much darker and somber tale.
[http://youtube.com/watch?v=KsFx5835Qrg Tony’s]

Irma la Douce (1958). [http://www.stageagent.com/shows.php?id=1031] [http://www.musicalheaven.com/i/irma_la_douce.shtml] Music: Marguerite Monnot, Book and lyrics: Julian More, Monty Norman, David Heneker. Irma, a prostitute, breaks up with her pimp because of his rough treatment. Nestor, a young student, helps Irma and they fall in love. But he is jealous of her other male clients, and masquerades as a fictitious sugar daddy to pay for her exclusive services.

It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman (1966). [http://www.musicalheaven.com/i/Its_A_Bird.shtml] Music: Charles Strouse, Lyrics: Lee Adams, Book: David Newman and Robert Benton. Comic strip superhero, Superman, thwarts the evil plans of mad scientist, Dr Sedgwick, who tries to blow up Metropolis.

===[J]===

Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris (1968) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Brel_is_Alive_and_Well_and_Living_in_Paris]
Music and lyrics: Jacques Brel.
:Musical review of the songs of Jacques Brel.
[http://www.broadway.com/gen/Buzz_Video.aspx?ci=535563 Broadway.com]

Jekyll and Hyde (1997). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/jekyllhyde.htm]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/jeckylhyde.html] Music: Frank Wildhorn, Book and lyrics: Leslie Bricusse.
:Based on the novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, it concerns the brilliant Dr Jekyll, who conducts an experiment on himself, and creates his evil alter ego, Mr Hyde.
[http://youtube.com/watch?v=9KiX2Wgo7hg Anthony Warlow]
[http://youtube.com/watch?v=R1_JQUy3Dq4&mode=related&search= Linda Eder]
[http://www.broadwayonline.com/ BroadwayOnline]
      
Jersey Boys (2005). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/jersey.htm]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/jerseyboys.html]
 Music: Bob Gaudio, Lyrics: Bob Crewe, Book: Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice. Jukebox musical about Franki Valli and the Four Seasons, four blue-collar boys who go from rags to riches.
[http://youtube.com/watch?v=WM4fMmMq1S0 Tony’s]
[http://www.broadwayworld.com/videoinfo.cfm?showid=954 Broadwayworld.com]
[http://www.broadway.com/gen/Buzz_Video.aspx?ci=520911 Broadway.com1]
[http://www.broadway.com/gen/Buzz_Video.aspx?ci=532752 Broadway.com2]
 
Jesus Christ Superstar (1971). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/jesuschrist.htm]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/jesusuperstar.htm] Music: Andrew Lloyd Webber, Book and lyrics: Tim Rice.
:Rock opera retelling of the life of Jesus seen through the eyes of Judas Iscariot.
[http://www.reallyuseful.com/rug/shows/jesus/music/video.htm Video]
[http://youtube.com/watch?v=7bA_J0vSNEs&mode=related&search= Tony’s]
[http://www.videodetective.com/default.asp?frame=http://www.videodetective.com/trailer-preview.asp?publishedId=837200&customerID=97135 2000 Movie Trailer1]
[http://youtube.com/watch?v=Zi1WhdcsVoU 1973 Movie Trailer2]
[http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0070239/trailers Movie Trailer3]

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (1968). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/joseph.htm]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/joseph.html] Music: Andrew Lloyd Webber, Book and lyrics: Tim Rice.
:A pastiche of songs relate the biblical story of Joseph who is sold into slavery by his brothers. By interpreting Pharaoh’s dream he is put in charge of the Egyptian granaries.
[http://www.reallyuseful.com/rug/shows/joseph/music/video.htm Videos]
[http://videodetective.com/default.asp?frame=http://videodetective.com/trailer-preview.asp?publishedId=225720&customerID=97135 Movie Trailer]
[http://youtube.com/watch?v=164DrxqyJRc&mode=related&search= Donny Osmond]

===[K]===

King and I, The (1951). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/kingandi.htm]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/kingni.html] Music: Richard Rodgers, Book and lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein II.
:English schoolteacher, Anna Leonowens, is employed by the King of Siam to teach the royal children. There is a clash of cultures, but in time, Anna and the King develop a mutual respect for each other.
[http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8448450733242898465&q=i+have+dreamed&hl=en George Lyons]
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdIgBc0K-GE&mode=related&search= Tony’s]

Kismet (1953). [http://www.reference.com/browse/wiki/Kismet_(musical)]  [http://www.musicalheaven.com/k/kismet.shtml] Music: Alexander Borodin, Lyrics: Goerge Forrest and Robert Wright, Book: Charles Lederer and Luther Davis.
:Set in the Arabian Nights, a public poet assumes the identity of a beggar, Hajj, and through a series of cons, curses, and mistaken identities, he becomes appointed Emir of Baghdad. He runs off with the beautiful Lalume, after getting rid of her husband, the wicked Wazir.
[http://youtube.com/watch?v=etGHmduZQyw Johnny Mathis]
[http://www.videodetective.com/default.asp?frame=http://www.videodetective.com/trailer-preview.asp?customerid=97135&publishedID=2093 Movie Trailer]

Kiss Me Kate (1948). [http://www.musicalheaven.com/k/kiss_me_kate.shtml] [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/kate.htm] [http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/kissmekate.html] Music and lyrics: Cole Porter, Book: Bella and Samuel Spewack.
:Fred Graham and his ex-wife Lilli Vanessi are members of a touring theatrical company and play the roles of Petruchio and Kate in Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew. There is parallel conflict both on stage as well as off, and, as in Shakespeare’s plot, all ends well.
[http://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/shows/kissmekate/kissmekate.html Great Performances]
[http://www.videodetective.com/default.asp?frame=http://www.videodetective.com/trailer-preview.asp?customerid=97135&publishedid=220 Movie Trailer]

Kiss of the Spider Woman (1992). [http://www.musicalheaven.com/k/kiss_of_the_spider_woman.shtml]
[http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/kiss.htm]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/kissofthespiderwoman.html] Music: John Kander, Lyrics: Fred Ebb, Book: Terrence McNally.
:Adapted from Manuel Puig’s novel, the story is about two prisoners in a Latin American jail, one a Marxist revolutionary, and the other a gay window dresser. The brutality and torture of prison life is contrasted with the fantasy world of movies that they dream of.
[http://youtube.com/watch?v=DQQ5K1tCh6M Tony Telecast]
[http://youtube.com/watch?v=Cc6BkgXNvZg YouTube]

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La Cage Aux Folles (1983). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/cage.htm]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/lacage.html] Music and lyrics: Jerry Herman. Book: Harvey Fierstein.
:Adaptation of the French play and film. Two ageing homosexual partners who perform as drag queens in the nightclub, La Cage Aux Folles, suddenly face a minor crisis when the son of one of them decides to bring his fiancee and her moralist parents to meet his gay father.
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=La_et81-Y7w&mode=related&search= YouTube]

Lady in the Dark (1941). [http://www.nodanw.com/shows_l/lady_in_the_dark.htm] [http://www.musicalheaven.com/l/lady_in_the_dark.shtml] [http://www.stageagent.com/shows.php?id=1057] Music: Kurt Weill, Lyrics: Ira Gershwin, Book: Moss Hart.
:This play with music concerns Liza Elliott, a magazine editor, who suffers from depression and consults her psychiatrist, Dr Brooks. Analysis of a series of her dreams enables Liza to gain insight and to make the right decisions both for her magazine as well as her own life.

Last Five Years, The (2002). [http://www.nodanw.com/shows_l/index.htm]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/lastfiveyears.html] Book, music and lyrics: Jason Robert Brown.
:The musical follows Cathy’s relationship with Jamie over the 5 years that it has lasted. With Cathy, the story is told backwards starting at the end. In contrast, Jamie’s story starts at the beginning and progresses forward in time.
[http://youtube.com/watch?v=JvH7be6oumk YouTube1]
[http://youtube.com/watch?v=26oQPsWGF7o Jason Robert Brown]
[http://youtube.com/watch?v=PXQ39IkiJ5Y&mode=related&search= YouTube2]

Lennon (2005). [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lennon_(musical)] [http://theater.about.com/od/broadwaymusicals/p/Lennon.htm] Music and lyrics: John Lennon, Book : Don Scardino.
:Jukebox musical biography of John Lennon’s life using his own words and songs.
[http://www.broadway.com/gen/Buzz_Video.aspx?ci=516583 Broadway.com]
   
Les Miserables (1980). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/lesmis.htm]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/lesmis.html] Music and book: Claude-Michel Schonberg and Alain Boublil, English lyrics: Herbert Kretzmer.
:An adaptation of Victor Hugo’s novel. Jean Valjean, condemned to 19 years’ hard labor for stealing a loaf of bread, breaks parole, only to be pursued by obsessional police inspector Javert. Valjean joins the doomed 1832 student uprising in Paris and saves the life of Marius, who is in love with his adopted daughter, Cosette.
[http://www.lesmis.com/pages/sights_sounds/video.htm Videos]
[http://youtube.com/watch?v=M1JO4p1FElw Lea Salonga]
[http://www.broadwayworld.com/videoinfo.cfm?showid=2357 Broadwayworld.com]
[http://www.broadway.com/gen/Buzz_Video.aspx?ci=542121 Broadway.com]
[http://www.theatre.com/video/id/3004586 Theatre.com]

Lestat (2006). [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lestat_(musical)]
[http://www.stageagent.com/shows.php?id=1060] Music: Elton John, Lyrics: Bernie Taupin, Book: Linda Woolverton.
:Inspired by Anne Rice’s The Vampire Chronicles,
[http://www.broadway.com/gen/Buzz_Video.aspx?ci=528568 Broadway.com1]
[http://www.broadway.com/gen/Buzz_Video.aspx?ci=530315 Broadway.com2]
[http://www.broadway.com/gen/General.aspx?ci=525345 Broadway.com3]
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYYocI8-0r8 Trailer]

Light in the Piazza, The (2005). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/light.htm]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/lightinthepiazza.html] Music and lyrics: Adam Guettel, Book: Craig Lucas.
:Clara Johnson, an American on holiday in Tuscany, falls in love with an Italian, Fabrizio Naccarelli. But her mother objects to this relationship.
[http://youtube.com/watch?v=_ikqeG4ab3Q Tony’s]
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUewIzN6Y08 Adam Guettel]
[http://www.broadway.com/gen/Buzz_Video.aspx?ci=514035 Broadway.com]
  
Li’l Abner (1956). [http://www.musicalheaven.com/l/lil_abner.shtml]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/lilabner.html] Music: Gene de Paul, Lyrics: Johnny Mercer, Book: Norman Panama and Melvin Frank.
:This hillbilly musical is based on Al Capp’s satirical comic strip. Daisy Mae wants Li’l Abner, and joins a race in which the prize is Li’l Abner. In the meantime, the US Government wants to evacuate there are to be used for atom bomb experiments.
[http://youtube.com/watch?v=aufaoTQ1nfo&mode=related&search= YouTube]

Lion King, The (1997). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/lionking.htm]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/lionking.html]
 Music: Elton John, Lyrics: Tim Rice, Book: Roger Allers and Irene Mecchi.
:Adaptation of Disney’s cartoon using Julie Taymor’s puppets. This is a coming of age story of Simba, the royal lion cub.     
[http://youtube.com/watch?v=Fn07ziEnAlk Tony’s]
[http://www.broadwayworld.com/videoinfo.cfm?showid=14 Broadwayworld.com]

Little Me (1962). [http://www.musicalheaven.com/l/little_me.shtml] [http://www.nodanw.com/shows_l/little_me.htm] Music: Cy Coleman, Lyrics: Carolyn Leigh, Book: Neil Simon.
:Musical burlesque featuring an old movie star writing her memoirs and recalling each of the 7 men in her life, all played by the same actor.

Little Night Music, A (1973). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/nightmusic.htm] [http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/alittlenitemusic.html] [http://wiki.stageagent.com/more_show_info.php?id=735] Music and lyrics: Stephen Sondheim, Book: Hugh Wheeler. Based on Ingmar Bergman’s 1956 film, Smiles of a Summer Night, it takes place over a weekend in the country in early 20th century Sweden. The story revolves around 3 couples. Middle-aged widowed lawyer, Fredrik Egerman, has remarried, but his young new wife Anne is still a virgin after 11 months of marriage. He meets up with his former mistress, Desiree, but the latter turns up unexpectedly with her current lover. In the meantime, Fredrik’s son has fallen in love with his father’s young wife.
[http://youtube.com/watch?v=e0tTCaFEEKI Barbra Streisand]

Little Shop of Horrors (1982). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/shophorrors.htm]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/littleshophorrors.html] Music: Alan Menken, Book and lyrics: Howard Ashman.
: Based on the film, this campy musical with an offbeat humor is about Seymour, a sales assistant at Mushnick’s flower shop, who brings a weird plant to work, but it turns out to be a man-eating monster.
[http://videodetective.com/default.asp?frame=http://videodetective.com/home.asp?PublishedID=2188 Movie Trailer]

Lord of the Rings (2006). [http://www.lotr.com/]
Music: Varttina and AR Rahman, Book and lyrics: Matthew Warchus and Shaun McKenna.
:Musical stage adaptation of JRR Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings.
[http://www.broadway.com/gen/Buzz_Video.aspx?ci=522858 Broadway.com]
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ngg7wcbwEU YouTube]