MUSICALS DIRECTORY M-Z

by Kenneth Lyen

 
===[M]===

Mack and Mabel (1974). [http://www.musicalheaven.com/m/mack__mabel.shtml] [http://www.stageagent.com/shows.php?id=1084] Music and lyrics: Jerry Herman, Book: Michael Stewart. Film director, Mack Sennett, recalls the days of the silent movies, and the occasion when a girl, Mabel Normand, accidentally enters the stage trying to obtain money for the sandwich she has delivered, when her performance is filmed. Mack and Mabel fall in love, but they separate and reunite several times over the years.
[http://youtube.com/watch?v=YgSATgDjoJA Michael Ball & Ruthie Henshall]
[http://www.theatre.com/video/id/3001963 Theatre.com]

Magic Show, The (1976). [http://www.musicalschwartz.com/magicshow.htm] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magic_Show] Music and lyrics: Stephen Schwartz, Book: Bob Randall. A failing entertainment establishment is saved from ruin when a magic show replaces its regular act.

Mame (1966) [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/mame.htm]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/mame.html] Music and lyrics: Jerry Herman, Book: Robert E Lee and Jerome Lawrence.
:Mame is one kookie aunt who attempts to pass on her unconventional lifestyle and philosophy to her orphaned nephew. The 1929 Wall Street Crash leaves her with financial difficulties, which she overcomes when is marries a wealthy ex-client.
[http://youtube.com/watch?v=ubDADcbS62U Marilyn Horne & Frederica von Stade]

Mamma Mia! (1999). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/mamma.htm]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/mamamia.html]
[http://www.musicalheaven.com/m/mamma_mia.html] Music and lyrics: Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus, Book: Catherine Johnson.
:Jukebox musical about Sophie who is preparing for her wedding on a Greek island. She wants to invite her father to attend, and by reading through her mother’s diary, she discovers that there are 3 potential candidates, and invites all 3 to come to the island.
[http://www.mamma-mia.com/video.asp?sec=show TV Commercials]
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2BT0POF-vM Charity Show]
[http://www.broadway.com/gen/Buzz_Video.aspx?ci=539411 Broadway.com]
[http://www.theatre.com/video/id/3003706 Theatre.com]
 
Man of La Mancha (1965). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/mancha.htm]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/manoflamancha.html] Music: Mitch Leigh, Lyrics: Joe Darion, Book: Dale Wasserman.
:Based on Miguel de Cervantes classic novel about Don Quixote who is best remembered as the knight who fought windmills. The musical interweaves Cervantes’ fictional character with his real life of frequent imprisonment.
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZLL8mBSRpc Commercial]
[http://youtube.com/watch?v=ci7e78Ss7kg Linda Eder]

Martin Guerre (1996). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/guerre.htm]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/martinguerre.html] [http://www.musicalheaven.com/m/martin_guerre.shtml] Music: Claude-Michel Schonberg, Lyrics: Alain Boublil, English lyrics: Edward Hardy and Stephen Clark. Based on a true story, the musical is set in 16th Century France. Martin Guerre, a Catholic, is married to Bertrande, but abandons her to fight the Protestants. Seven years later, severely wounded in battle and given up for dead, his friend Arnaud assumes his identity and deceives Bertrande into accepting him as her husband.
[http://youtube.com/watch?v=DqHjPMLPM78 David Campbell]
[http://youtube.com/watch?v=40i4SAoBqto YouTube]

Mary Poppins (1999). [http://www.nodanw.com/shows_m/index.htm]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/marypoppins.html]
Music and lyrics: Richard M and Robert R Sherman, Book by Julien Fellowes, New songs and additional music and lyrics by George Stiles and Anthony Drew.
:Adaptation of Disney’s movie, Mary is a magical governess who comes to the Bank’s home to look after the two children, and helps the family find love and understanding.
[http://www.marypoppinsthemusical.co.uk/poppins-video-quicktime.php?p=20 Video1]
[http://disney.go.com/theatre/marypoppins/ Video2]
[http://www.broadwayworld.com/videoinfo.cfm?showid=2184 Broadwayworld.com]
[http://www.broadway.com/gen/show.aspx?SI=524489 Broadway.com]
 
Merrily We Roll Along (1981). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/merrily.htm]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/merrilyweroll.html] Music and lyrics: Stephen Sondheim, Book: George Furth.
:Story told backwards, centers on Franklin Shepard, a successful composer, whose prodigal life includes betrayal of his wife and friends in pursuit of fame and wealth.
[http://youtube.com/watch?v=wwPIUMPAAuk Audra McDonald]

Miss Saigon (1989). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/misssaigon.htm]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/misssaigon.html] Music and book: Claude-Michel Schonberg and Alain Boublil, English lyrics: Richard Maltby Jr.
:A modern retelling of Puccini’s Madame Butterfly. Set in Saigon during the last days of American presence in Vietnam, Chris, a young marine, falls in love with Kim, a novice prostitute.
[http://youtube.com/watch?v=Qh_LOH9503o YouTube]

Most Happy Fella, The (1956). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/happyfella.htm]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/mosthappyfella.html] Book, music, and lyrics: Frank Loesser.
:Tony, attracted to Rosabelle, a waitress in a San Francisco restaurant, proposes to her by post. Thinking that he can increase his prospects, he includes a photograph not of himself, but of his handsome young foreman, Tony.
[http://youtube.com/watch?v=HNfVUB24jho Gloria Lynne]

Movin' Out (2002). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/movinout.htm]
[http://wiki.stageagent.com/more_show_info.php?id=1094] Music and lyrics: Billy Joel, Choreography: Twyla Tharp.
:Jukebox dance musical concerning five childhood friends who are affected by the Vietnam War. One of them is killed in Vietnam, another turns to drugs, and a third cannot establish a loving relationship.
[http://movingout.uvision.net/tour_feb/index.html#firstDRUM Trailer]
[http://www.theatre.com/video/id/3002310 Theatre.com]

Music Man (1957). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/musicman.htm]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/musicman.html] Book, music, and lyrics: Meredith Willson.
:Harold Hill, an itinerant con man, persuades a town that they need a boys band, and promises to supply the music instruments, which never arrive.
[http://www.videodetective.com/default.asp?frame=http://www.videodetective.com/trailer-preview.asp?customerid=97135&publishedid=420 Movie Trailer]
[http://youtube.com/watch?v=MDVUXL9DcgQ&mode=related&search= YouTube]

My Fair Lady (1956). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/myfairlady.htm]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/myfairlady.html] Music: Frederick Loewe, Book and lyrics: Alan Jay Lerner.
:An adaptation of George Bernard Shaw’s play Pygmalion. Henry Higgins, a phonetics expert, makes a bet with a friend, that he can transform the speech of a flower girl with a heavy cockney accent, into a lady who can speak proper English and pass off as a royal princess.
[http://videodetective.com/default.asp?frame=http://videodetective.com/trailer-preview.asp?publishedId=4261&customerID=97135 Movie Trailer]
[http://audrey1.com/lady.html Audrey Hepburn]
[http://youtube.com/watch?v=_JQ78BpYZS0 Ascot Gavotte]

===[N]===

Nick and Nora (1991). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/nicknora.htm]
 Music: Charles Strouse, Lyrics: Richard Maltby Jr, Book: Arthur Laurents.
:Based on Dashiell Hammett’s The Thin Man. Set in the film world of the 1930s, Nora Charles helps her old friend by trying to solve who murdered the studio book keeper, but her husband Nick decides to take over the investigation himself.

Nine (1963). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/nine.htm]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/nine.html]
 Music and lyrics: Maury Yeston, Book: Arthur Kopit.
:An adaptation of Frederico Fellini’s 1963 film, Eight and a Half. Movie director Guido Contini goes to a Venetian spa to rest, and to get away from his wife, his mistress, his mother, his producer, and his protege, all of whom he recalls as a series of flashbacks.
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCwHkuXGGmA&mode=related&search= YouTube]

No, No, Nanette (1925). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/nanette.htm]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/nononanette.html] [http://www.musicalheaven.com/n/no_no_nanette.shtml] Music: Vincent Youmans, Lyrics: Irving Caesar and Otto Harbach, Book: Otto Harbach and Frank Mandel.
:Married bible publisher, Jimmy Smith, is guardian to a young lady, Nanette, and has been surreptitiously supporting 3 pretty ladies in 3 different cities. When Jimmy is holidaying in Atlantic City with Nanette, all 3 ladies turn up unexpectedly, as does his jealous wife.

===[O]===

Oklahoma! (1943). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/oklahoma.htm]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/oklahoma.html] Music: Richard Rodgers, Book and lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein II.
:Based on Lynn Rigg’s 1931 play Green Grow the Lilacs. Two ranch hands, Curly and Judd Fry, have eyes for the same girl, Laurey. She actually prefers the handsome Curly, but to make him jealous, she flirts with Jud.
[http://www.videodetective.com/default.asp?frame=http://www.videodetective.com/trailer-preview.asp?customerid=97135&publishedID=2868 Movie Trailer]
[http://youtube.com/watch?v=jMoOusco5uA&mode=related&search= Michael Ball & Barbara Cook]

Oliver! (1960). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/oliver.htm]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/oliver.html] Book, music, and lyrics: Lionel Bart.
:Adaptation of Charles Dicken’s novel. Orphan Oliver dared to ask for more food at the workhouse, and is expelled into the inclement world of Victorian London, where he joins a group of young pickpockets, led by a benign scoundrel, Fagin.
[http://youtube.com/watch?v=n6d7jcXAOdU YouTube]

On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (1965.) [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/clear.htm]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/onaclearday.html] Music: Burton Lane, Book and lyrics: Alan Jay Lerner.
:Daisy asks Dr. Brockner to hypnotize her to quit smoking, but instead, she finds that she has the incredible talent to remember past lives, like the 18th Century Melinda Wells.
[http://youtube.com/watch?v=oZP66focZTc Shirley Bassey]

On the Town (1944). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/onthetown.htm]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/onthetown.html] Music: Leonard Bernstein, Book and lyrics: Betty Comden and Adolph Green.
:Three sailors on 24 hour leave, meet three girls and go on a tour of New York.
[http://youtube.com/watch?v=xs0Opngansw YouTube1]
[http://youtube.com/watch?v=FyL5AZ2sEzw&mode=related&search= YouTube2]
[http://videodetective.com/default.asp?frame=http://videodetective.com/home.asp?PublishedID=2 Movie Trailer]
          
On The Twentieth Century (1978), [http://www.musicalheaven.com/Detailed/221.html]
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Twentieth_Century]
Music: Cy Coleman, Book and lyrics: Betty Comden and Adolph Green.
:With 4 flops in succession and his theatre on the verge of foreclosure, producer Oscar Jaffee boards a luxury train named “Twentieth Century Limited”, hoping to entice back to the stage his star performer, Lily Garland.
[http://www.broadway.com/gen/Buzz_Video.aspx?ci=518671 Broadway.com]
 
Once Upon a Mattress (1996). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/onceuponmattress.htm]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/onceuponmattress.html]
Music: Mary Rodgers, Lyrics: Marshall Barer, Book: Jay Thompson, Dean Fuller, and Marshall Barer.
:Based on the fairy tale Princess and the Pea, where a princess is tested by seeing if she could feel a pea placed under her mattress. The young lady could not sleep, despite an ever increasing number of mattresses placed on top of the pea, thus proving she was a princess, and eligible to marry the prince.
[http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=940817702 MySpace]

===[P]===

Paint Your Wagon (1951). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/paintwagon.htm]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/paintyourwagon.html] Music: Frederick Loewe, Book and lyrics: Alan Jay Lerner.
:Gold is found in Californian mining camp in 1853, and this creates a gold rush and a new town is born. There are 400 men, and Jennifer is the only woman.
[http://videodetective.com/default.asp?frame=http://videodetective.com/home.asp?PublishedID=5048 Movie Trailer]

Pajama Game, The (1954). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/pajama.htm]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/pajamagame.html]
 Music: Richard Adler, Lyrics: Jerry Ross, Book: Richard Bissell and George Abbott.
:Based on Richard Bissel’s novel 7½ Cents. Union leader of a pajama factory, Babe Williams, leads a strike to extract a pay rise of 7½ cents from management. Sid Sorotkin, representing management, has to negotiate with the union, and falls in love with Babe Williams.
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGBztPSt9CA Tony’s]
[http://www.broadway.com/gen/Buzz_Video.aspx?ci=525672 Broadway.com]

Pal Joey (1940). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/paljoey.htm]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/paljoey.html] Music: Richard Rodgers, Lyrics: Lorenz Hart, Book: John O’Hara.
:Joey Evans, a night club singer, is a cad. He seduces Linda English, only to dump her for a wealthy widow, Vera Simpson.
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRVmGgwRZog Movie Trailer]

Parade (1998). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/parade.htm]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/parade.html]
[http://www.geocities.com/jason_robert_brown/parade.html] Music and lyrics: Jason Robert Brown, Book: Alfred Uhry.
:Leo Frank, a Jew, was convicted of rape and murder of 13-year-old Mary Phagan, but because doubts were raised that the verdict was based on insufficient evidence and distorted by anti-Semitism, his death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment. While being transferred to another prison, he was lynched and hung.
[http://youtube.com/watch?v=s1oHaKmhZFg YouTube]

Passion (1994). [http://www.nodanw.com/shows_p/passion.htm] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passion_%28musical%29] [http://www.justball.net/home/musicals/passion/plot.php] Music and lyrics: Stephen Sondheim, Book: James Lapine.
:Giorgio, a young soldier, is having an affair with a married woman, Clara. He is then transferred to a northern Italy outpost, where he meets a sickly and unattractive woman, Fosca. The latter falls obsessionally in love with Giorgio, who initially does not reciprocate her feelings. Then Clara finds out about Fosca.
[http://youtube.com/watch?v=atZi8EG0GLs Tony’s]
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FH-H9-YU8C0 YouTube]
 
Peter Pan (1954). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/peterpan.htm]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/peterpan.html] Music: Mark Charlap and Jule Styne, Lyrics: Carolyn Leigh, Betty Comden, and Adolph Green.
:Based on a novel by James M Barrie, Peter Pan is a boy who does not want to grow up, and he brings the Darling children to Neverland, where he defeats his adversary, Captain Hook,
[http://youtube.com/watch?v=1XQgQKwHus8 YouTube]

Phantom of the Opera (1986). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/phantom.htm]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/phantom.html] Music: Andrew Lloyd Webber, Lyrics: Charles Hart and Richard Stilgoe, Book: Andrew Lloyd Webber and Richard Stilgoe. Based on Gaston Leroux’s novel. Facially disfigured masked phantom, hiding in the bowels of the Paris Opera House, is obsessed with Christine, a beautiful young soprano, whose voice he trains. However, she is in love with an opera patron, Raoul.
[http://www.reallyuseful.com/rug/shows/phantom/music/Videoclips.htm Videos]
[http://www.broadwayworld.com/videoinfo.cfm?showid=21 Broadwayworld.com]
[http://www.broadway.com/gen/Buzz_Video.aspx?ci=524336 Broadway.com]
[http://youtube.com/watch?v=sacTha47_MA Tony’s]
[http://www.movie-list.com/trailers.php?id=phantomoftheopera Movie Trailer]
[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0293508/trailers Movie Trailer2]
[http://youtube.com/watch?v=hqKuKqmcMIk YouTube]
 
Pickwick (1963). [http://www.nodanw.com/shows_p/pickwick.htm] [http://www.musicalheaven.com/p/pickwick.shtml] Music: Cyril Ornadel, Lyrics: Leslie Bricusse, Book: Wolf Mankowitz.
:Musical comedy based on Charles Dickens’ Pickwick Papers.
[http://youtube.com/watch?v=uMiqpiAIBW8 YouTube]

Pippin (1972). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/pippin.htm]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/pippin.html]
Music and lyrics: Stephen Schwartz, Book: Roger O’Hirson. Pippin, the son of Emperor Charlemagne, seeks glory in war, but eventually decides to settle down with Catherine, a widow.
[http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7881702709721220599&q=chitty+chitty+bang+bang+musical Video]

Porgy and Bess (1935). Music: George Gershwin, Lyrics: Ira Gershwin and duBose Heyward, Book: duBose Heyward. Opera based on duBose Heward’s novel, the story is about Porgy, a crippled beggar and the seductive Bess.
[http://www.theatre.com/video/id/3004963 Theatre.com]
 
Producers, The (2001). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/producers.htm]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/producers.html] Music and lyrics: Mel Brooks, Book: Thomas Meehan and Mel Brooks.
:Adaptation from the 1960 film, Max Bialystock, the worst Broadway producer, is told by his accountant Leo Bloom that he could make more money from a flop show than a successful one. Together they set out to produce the biggest flop.
[http://sonypictures.co.uk/movies/theproducers/ Movie Trailer1]
[http://www.movie-list.com/trailers.php?id=producers Movie Trailer2]
[http://www.broadwayworld.com/videoinfo.cfm?showid=23 Broadwayworld.com]

===[R]===

Ragtime (1998). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/ragtime.htm]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/ragtime.html]
[http://www.musicalheaven.com/r/ragtime.shtml] Music: Stephen Flaherty, Lyrics: Lynn Ahrens, Book: Terrence McNally.
:Sung-through musical adaptation of EL Doctorow’s novel. Coalhouse Walker, a Harlem musician wants to win back the affections of his former girlfriend Sarah, by buying a new Ford model T to impress her. One day, while on a leisure drive, he asks directions from a group of white firemen, who harass him, vandalizes and destroys his car. Unable to find justice, Coalhouse burns down fire stations, and to blow up JP Morgan’s library.
[http://youtube.com/watch?v=ytueYx6HqVk YouTube1]
[http://youtube.com/watch?v=OIYL7KUhG-c YouTube2]
   
Rent (1996). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/rent.htm]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/rent.html]
 Book, music, and lyrics: Jonathan Larson.
:Inspired by Puccini’s La Boheme, this rock musical is about Roger and Mimi, both of whom suffer from Aids, and their bohemian friends living in Manhattan’s Lower East Side.
[http://www.movie-list.com/trailers.php?id=rent Movie Trailer]
[http://www.broadwayworld.com/videoinfo.cfm?showid=24 Broadwayworld.com]
[http://www.broadway.com/gen/Buzz_Video.aspx?ci=529131 Broadway.com1]
[http://www.broadway.com/gen/Buzz_Video.aspx?ci=521510 Broadway.com2]

Roar of the Greasepaint - The Smell of the Crowd, The (1965). [http://www.musicalheaven.com/r/roar_of_the_greasepaint.shtml] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Roar_of_the_Greasepaint%E2%80%94the_Smell_of_the_Crowd] Book, music, and lyrics: Anthony Newley and Leslie Bricusse.
:Cocky, a man who is ebullient in nature and always plays by the rules, engages in a Game of Life with cunning, imperious Sir, who always ignores rules.
[http://youtube.com/watch?v=cAFWuEDqB_g YouTube1]
[http://youtube.com/watch?v=7nVJmN8RM4s&mode=related&search= YouTube2]

Rocky Horror Show, The (1973). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/rocky.htm]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/rockyhorror.html]
Campy raunchy rock musical about a couple, Brad and Janet, who take shelter from a storm in a castle full of strange people.
[http://www.videodetective.com/default.asp?frame=http://www.videodetective.com/trailer-preview.asp?publishedId=5413&customerID=97135 Movie Trailer1] [http://youtube.com/watch?v=UPNVZewZX5A Movie Trailer2]

===[S]===

Saturday Night Fever (1999). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/fever.htm]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/saturdaynightfever.html]
[http://www.nodanw.com/shows_s/index.htm] Music and lyrics: Bee Gees, Book: Nik Cohn
:Adaptation of the 1977 film. Tony Manero, a troubled youth working in a dead end job, escapes into a world of disco music. He enters a competition hoping to become king of disco dancing.
[http://film.virgin.net/synopsis/synopsis.asp?filmid=3181&sec=syn&pgtitle=movietrailersarchive Movie Trailer1]
[http://www.videodetective.com/default.asp?frame=http://www.videodetective.com/trailer-preview.asp?customerid=97135&publishedID=1537 Movie Trailer2]
[http://youtube.com/watch?v=spBUUoBDS2I YouTube]

Scarlet Pimpernel, The (1997). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/pimp.htm]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/scarletpimp.html] [http://www.ronbohmer.com/sp.html] Music: Frank Wildhorn, Lyrics: Nan Knighton.
:Based on Baroness Orczy’s 1905 novel. Set during the Reign of Terror of the French Revolution, Sir Percy Blakeney, a rich English aristocrat, discovers that his newly married beautiful French actress Marguerite St. Just, has betrayed his friend to the Revolutionary Government, leading to his guillotine. To avenge his friend, Sir Percy disguises himself as the Scarlet Pimpernel, and rescues many innocent lives. French agent Chauvelin is instructed to seek and destroy the Scarlet Pimpernel and his followers.
[http://youtube.com/watch?v=vT5UQV8d4UQ YouTube]
 
Secret Garden, The (1991). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/secretgarden.htm]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/secretgarden.html]
 Music: Lucy Simon, Lyrics: Marsha Norman.
:Based on Frances Hodgson Burnett’s novel, orphaned Mary Lennox returns to England to stay with her uncle Archibald, a depressed widower, who has a sickly bedridden 10-year-old son. Discovery of a secret garden restores love and happiness to the household.
[http://youtube.com/watch?v=LubqFxh2SWY YouTube1]
[http://youtube.com/watch?v=PTQ58NjrkhA YouTube2]

Seussical (2000). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/seussical.htm]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/seussical.html] Music: Stephen Flaherty, Lyrics: Lynn Ahrens, Book: Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty.
:Based on the books by Dr Seuss. Horton the elephant, hears a small speck of dust speak, and learns that this speck is populated by people of Who-ville. The story is narrated by The Cat in the Hat.
[http://youtube.com/watch?v=ULLO4NtWWcc&mode=related&search= YouTube1]
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yo3uPJHNtbg YouTube2]

She Loves Me (1963). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/shelovesme.htm]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/shelovesme.html]
 Music: Jerry Bock, Lyrics: Sheldon Harnick, Book: Jose Masteroff.
:Based on the 19 film The Shop Around the Corner. Shop manager Georg constantly quarrels with the new sales assistent Amalie, unaware that they are one another’s good penfriend.
[http://youtube.com/watch?v=6oXKDEgr5qA YouTube]

Showboat (1927). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/showboat.htm]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/showboat.html]
[http://www.musicalheaven.com/s/showboat.shtml] Music: Jerome Kern, Book and lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein II.
:Adaptation of Edna Ferber’s novel. Magnolia, daughter of the owner of a showboat that plies the Mississipi river, falls in love with and marries Ravenal, a good-for-nothing gambler, who leaves her when he loses his money gambling. A subplot involves a mulatto, Julie, who is loyal to her man, Steve.
[http://www.videodetective.com/default.asp?frame=http://www.videodetective.com/trailer-preview.asp?customerid=97135&publishedID=210 Movie Trailer]

Side Show (1997). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/sideshow.htm]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/sideshow.html] [http://www.musicalheaven.com/s/side_show.shtml] Music: Henry Krieger, Book and lyrics: Bill Russell.
:A pair of female conjoined “siamese” twins joins a vaudeville act, where they are exploited. One likes being in the spotlight, whereas the other wants a quiet life. A boyfriend falls in love with one of them, but he hesitates on marriage.
[http://youtube.com/watch?v=yFuAO0SKUwA&mode=related&search= YouTube1]

Singin’ in the Rain (1983). [http://www.stageagent.com/shows.php?id=1139] [http://www.musicalheaven.com/s/singin_in_the_rain.shtml] Music: Nacio Herb Brown, Lyrics: Arthur Freed, Book: Betty Comden and Adolph Green.
:Based on the 1952 film musical. Lina Lamont is a star of the silent movies, but when the studio converts to sound, her high-pitched grating voice becomes a handicap. The film studio hires an overdub artist, and when leading man Don Lockwood falls in love with her, Lina becomes jealous.
[http://www.ifilm.com/video/2672755/channel/movies Movie Trailer]
[http://trailers.warnerbros.com/web/play.jsp?trailer=singin_in_the_rain_trailer Movie Trailer]

Smoky Joe's Café (1994). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/smoky.htm]
[http://www.musicalheaven.com/s/smokey_joes_cafe.shtml] Music and lyrics: Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller.
:Musical review celebrating the songs of Leiber and Stoller.
[http://youtube.com/watch?v=I8XEfPrt_Cw&mode=related&search= YouTube]

Sound of Music, The (1959). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/soundofmusic.htm]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/soundofmusic.html]
[http://www.musicalheaven.com/s/sound_of_music.shtml] Music: Richard Rodgers, Lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein II, Book: Howard Lindsey and Russel Crouse.
:Maria a novice nun in Saltzburg, is sent to work at Captain von Trapp’s as a governess to his 7 children. She falls in love with the captain and they marry, but their happiness is interrupted by the entry of the Nazi German army into Austria.
[http://www.theatre.com/video/id/3004931 Theatre.com]

South Pacific (1949). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/southpacific.htm]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/southpacific.html]
[http://www.musicalheaven.com/s/south_pacific.shtml] Music: Richard Rodgers, Lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein II, Book: Oscar Hammerstein II and Joshua Logan.
:Based on James Michener’s Tales of the South Pacific. Set in the south sea islands during World War II, American army nurse Nellie Forbush, falls in love with middle-aged French planter, Emil de Becque, but is disturbed when she discovers he has fathered 2 children by a Polynesian woman, who is now deceased. There is a subplot of Lieutenant Cable, a white American, who falls in love with a Polynesian girl.
[http://www.videodetective.com/trailer-preview.asp?publishedId=230374&customerID=97135

Spamalot (2005). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/spam.htm]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/spamalot.html] Music and lyrics: John DuPrez and Eric Idle, Book: Eric Idle.
:Monty Python’s absurdist humor in retelling of King Arthur’s quest for the Holy Grail.
[http://www.theatre.com/video/id/3004526 Theatre.com]
[http://www.broadway.com/gen/Buzz_Video.aspx?ci=536805 Broadway.com] 

Spring Awakening (2006). [http://www.springawakening.com/]
[http://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/reviews/springawakening106.htm]
Music: Duncan Sheik, Lyrics: Steven Sater.
:Based on Frank Wedekind’s play, and set in Germany of 1891. This is a coming of age story of Melchior, who learns about love when he meets Wendla in the woods. His friend Moritz commits suicide because of academic failure, and Melchior is blamed for it, leading to his expulsion from school.
[http://www.broadwayworld.com/videoinfo.cfm?showid=4203 Broadwayworld.com]
[http://www.broadway.com/Gen/Show.aspx?si=530146# Broadway.com1]
[http://www.broadway.com/gen/Buzz_Video.aspx?ci=538599 Broadway.com2]

Starlight Express (1994). [http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/starlightexpress.html] Music: Andrew Lloyd Webber, Lyrics: Richard Stilgoe.
:Sung-through rock opera about train carriages that pair up to enter a race. All the performers are on roller skates.
[http://www.reallyuseful.com/rug/shows/starlight/music/video.htm Videos]
      
Stop the World - I Want to Get Off (1962). [http://www.musicalheaven.com/s/stop_the_world_i_want_to_get_off.shtml] Book, music, and lyrics: Anthony Newley and Leslie Bricusse.   
:Littlechap has ambitions to be famous, and he travels through the Seven Ages of Man, from factory teaboy, finally to Earldom. But on reaching the final goal, he is disillusioned.
[http://youtube.com/watch?v=YDjmTExa1LI YouTube]

Student Prince, The (1924). [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Student_Prince] [http://musicaltheatreguide.com/composers/romberg/student_prince.htm] Music: Sigmund Romberg, Book and lyrics: Dorothy Donnelly.
:Prince Karl-Franz of Karlsberg goes to Heidelberg University and falls in love with a waitress. But when his father dies, he has decide on the right course of action.

Sunday in the Park with George (1984). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/sunday.htm]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/sundayinthepark.html] Music and lyrics: Stephen Sondheim, Book: James Lapine.
:George Seurat is painting his great work, Sunday Afternoon in the Island of La Grande Jatte. His relationship with his mistress who is also his model, and his mother, are explored.
[http://www.theatre.com/video/id/3003266 Theatre.com]

Sunset Boulevard (1993). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/sunset.htm]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/sunsetblvd.html] Music: Andrew Lloyd Webber, Book and lyrics: Don Black.
:Adapted from Billy Wilder's film. Norma Desmond, an ageing silent movie star, gets the help of Joe Gillis, a young screenwriter, to write her a screenplay for her to star in. They fall in love.
[http://www.reallyuseful.com/rug/shows/sunset/music/video.htm Videos]
 
Sweeney Todd (1979). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/sunset.htm]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/sweeneytodd.html] Music and lyrics: Stephen Sondheim, Book: Hugh Wheeler.
:Adaptation of Christopher Bond's play. Sweeney Todd, a barber, returns to London after an unjust imprisonment, to exact revenge on evil Judge Turpin. Renting a room for his barber practice above a meat pie shop, he slits the throat of unsuspecting customers, and the corpses are made into meatpies.
[http://www.broadway.com/gen/Buzz_Video.aspx?ci=520878 Broadway.com1]
[http://www.broadway.com/gen/Show.aspx?si=513979# Broadway.com2]

Sweet Charity (1966). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/sweetcharity.htm]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/sweetcharity.html] Music: Cy Coleman, Lyrics: Dorothy Fields, Book: Neil Simon.
:Based on Frederico Fellini's film Nights of Cabiria. Charity, a dance hall hostess, falls in love, first with an Italian movie star, then with a conservative neurotic accountant. Unfortunately Charity's unseemly job threatens to be the stumbling block to her marriage to the accountant.
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQ7fQD3FiTk Shirley Bassey]

===[T]===

Taboo (2002). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/taboo.htm]
[http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/Music/01/14/theater.tabooclosing.ap/]
Music and lyrics: Boy George, Kevan Frost, John Themis, and Richie Stevens, Book: Charles Busch.
:Set in 1980s London, it follows the life of a pop star.
[http://www.btinternet.com/~s.essom/taboovideo.htm Videos]

Tarzan (2006). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/tarzan.htm]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/tarzan.html]
Music and lyrics: Phil Collins, Book: David Henry Hwang.
Shipwrecked in a pacific island, infant Tarzan and his parents are the only survivors. Not long after, his parents are killed by a leopard. Found by gorillas, Tarzan is brought up by them. Several years later, a ship arrives, bringing humans to the island.
[http://disney.go.com/theatre/tarzan/theshow-video.html Video] [http://www.broadwayworld.com/videoinfo.cfm?showid=1050 Broadwaryworld.com]
[http://www.broadway.com/gen/Buzz_Video.aspx?ci=529382 Broadway.com1]
[http://www.broadway.com/gen/Buzz_Video.aspx?ci=534020 Broadway.com2]

They're Playing Our Song (1979). [http://www.stageagent.com/shows.php?id=1691] [http://www.musicalheaven.com/t/theyre_playing_our_song.shtml] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/They're_Playing_Our_Song] Music: Marvin Hamlisch, Lyrics: Carole Bayer Sager.
:Vernon, a composer, and Sonia, a lyricist, team up to write songs. Unfortunately, frequent telephone calls from Sonia's ex-boyfriends are jeopardizing the songwriting relationship.
[http://youtube.com/watch?v=m_7yHqYcxdQ YouTube]

Thoroughly Modern Millie (2002). [http://www.nodanw.com/shows_t/thoroughlymillie.htm]
[http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/modmil.htm]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/thoroughlymodern.html]
Music: Jeanine Tesori, Lyrics: Dick Scanlan, Book: Morris and Dick Scanlan.
:Adaptation of the 1967 movie. Millie Dillmont arrives in New York, coming from rural Kansas, finding a job and a husband. She forms a list of potential employers who, with a bit of luck, will also fall in love with her and become her husband. However, the person who loves her is the young handsome but not wealthy.
[http://youtube.com/watch?v=1GVVpzTNEpA&mode=related&search= YouTube] 

Threepenny Opera, The (1928). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/threepenny.htm]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/threepennyopera.html] Music: Kurt Weill, Lyrics: Bertolt Brecht, English book and lyrics: Marc Blitzstein.
:Based on John Gay's The Beggar's Opera. Outlaw Macheath, also known as Mack the Knife, marries Polly, the daughter of a Soho gangster, but he is betrayed by her family, and sentenced to jail. He is freed by the intervention of the police chief's daughter Lucy, but he is betrayed by Jenny the whore, and sentenced to death.
[http://www.broadway.com/gen/Buzz_Video.aspx?ci=527986 Broadway.com] 

Tick, Tick... BOOM! (2001). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/tickboom.htm]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/ticktickboom.html]
Book, music and lyrics: Jonathan Larson.
:Based on Jonathan Larson’s experience, where his girlfriend wants to get married and move to Cape Cod, while his best friend wants him to join corporate America. However, Jonathan wants to hang on to his dream of writing a successful musical, even though it means waiting at tables and barely able to make ends meet. The musical was produced posthumously.

Times They Are A-Changin’, The (2006). [http://www.playbill.com/news/article/97339.html]
[http://www.talkinbroadway.com/world/TimesChangin.html] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Times_They_Are_A-Changin'_(musical)] Music and lyrics: Bob Dylan, Choreography: Twyla Tharp.
:Jukebox dance musical using the words and music of Bob Dylan. A low-rent traveling circus has been stuck in one location for a bit too long, and the owner’s son needs to decide whether to leave, or stay and invigorate the company.
[http://www.broadway.com/Gen/Buzz_Video.aspx?ci=539552 Broadway.com]
[http://www.musicnetvision.com/video.php?play=191 Bob Dylan]
 
Titanic (1997). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/titanic.htm]
[http://www.stageagent.com/shows.php?id=844]
Music and lyrics: Maury Yeston, Book: Peter Stone.
:This musical follows the lives of real people who were on board the doomed Titanic. It includes  Kate McGowan who travels Third Class and dreams of a better life in America, and Chief Steward Etches who is awed by the millionaires he attends to.
[http://youtube.com/watch?v=mcUBvd8wUes YouTube]
[http://www.stagenoise.com/video/video.php?id=2 StageNoise.com1]
[http://www.stagenoise.com/video/video.php?id=4 StageNoise.com2] 

Tommy (1969). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/tommy.htm]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/tommy.html] Music: Pete Townshend, Book:  
:Rock opera about a deaf and blind boy who is molested by his uncle. He regains his sight and hearing, whereupon he discovers his innate skills in the game of pinball, and challenges the pinball wizard to become the world's champion.
[http://videodetective.com/default.asp?frame=http://videodetective.com/home.asp?PublishedID=886012 Movie Trailer]
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anq2G4xZHqM YouTube1]
[http://youtube.com/watch?v=V1Vsp4TG7_I YouTube2]
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fyOOr544nI&mode=related&search= Tony’s]
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-VkA9UrC0A&mode=related&search= The Who]

Two Gentlemen of Verona (1971). [http://www.nodanw.com/shows_t/two_gentlemen.htm] [http://www.stageagent.com/shows.php?id=1698] Music: Galt MacDermot, Lyrics: John Guare. Rock musical version of Shakespeare's play.
:Ignoble Proteous and his friend, noble Valentine, meet two ladies in Milan, Julia and Sylvia, and they fall in love.
[http://www.broadway.com/gen/Buzz_Video.aspx?ci=516846 Broadway.com]
[http://youtube.com/watch?v=FrFl_LLIasM YouTube]

===[U]===

Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964). [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Parapluies_de_Cherbourg]
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Parapluies_de_Cherbourg]
Music: Michel LeGrand, Book: Jacques Demy.
:Film musical about Genevieve, a young girl who works in her mother’s umbrella factory, and Guy, an auto mechanic, who she falls in love with, but it is a union which her mother objects to. Then Guy is called away to do his two years’ national military service.
[http://videodetective.com/default.asp?frame=http://videodetective.com/home.asp?PublishedID=6796 Movie Trailer]
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMSmny3qYTY&mode=related&search= YouTube]

Unsinkable Molly Brown, The (1960). [http://www.nodanw.com/shows_u/unsinkable.htm]  [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unsinkable_Molly_Brown] Music and lyrics: Meredith Willson, Book: Richard Morris.
:Molly Brown rises from poverty and her effervescent personality gets her the attention of Johnny, a successful prospector, whom she marries. Her gauche behavior while holidaying in Europe threatens her relationship. However, while returning to America on the ill-fated Titanic, she exhibits great heroism, and wins back the affections of her husband.

Urinetown (2001). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/urinetown.htm]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/urinetown.html]
Music and lyrics: Mark Hollmann, Book and lyrics: Greg Kotis.
:A town suffering from severe water shortage charges for visits to the town’s only toilet. The penalty for urinating in the street is exile. The owner operating the toilet facility is corrupt and unprincipled.
[http://youtube.com/watch?v=CZV431zhXA4&mode=related&search= Tony’s]
[http://youtube.com/watch?v=KVxYkce1NpA YouTube]
 
===[V]===

Victor/Victoria (1995).
[http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/victor.htm]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/victorvictoria.html]
Music: Henry Mancini and Frank Wildhorn, Lyrics: Leslie Bricusse, Book: Blake Edwards.
:Based on the 1982 film, it is about Victoria Grant, who is unable to find work. Her friend suggests that she might secure a job as female impersonator in a nightclub, by posing as a man pretending to be a woman.
[http://www.whvdirect.com/trailers/victor_victoria Movie Trailer]
[http://youtube.com/watch?v=tdwNoqFUGik YouTube]

===[W]===

Wedding Singer, The (2006). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/weddingsinger.htm]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/weddingsinger.html]
Music: Matthew Sklar, Lyrics: Chad Beguelin, Book: Chad Beguelin and Tim Herlihy
:Adapted from the 1998 film. Robbie, a wedding singer, and Julia, a waitress, are both engaged to be married to the wrong persons. Then they discover each other.
[http://www.broadway.com/gen/Buzz_Video.aspx?ci=528700 Broadway.com1]
[http://www.broadway.com/gen/Buzz_Video.aspx?ci=536054 Broadway.com2]
[http://youtube.com/watch?v=JKboiPjSr18&mode=related&search= Tony’s]
 
West Side Story (1957). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/westside.htm]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/westsidestory.html] Music: Leonard Bernstein, Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim, Book: Arthur Laurents.
:Retelling of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, set in New York. Maria, a Puerto Rican girl, falls in love with Tony, a white American. Unfortunately they belong to rival gangs, and their well-meaning attempts to stop the violence between the gangs end up tragically.
[http://www.videodetective.com/default.asp?frame=http://www.videodetective.com/trailer-preview.asp?customerid=97135&publishedID=474 Movie Trailer]
[http://www.ifilm.com/video/2672371 Movie Trailer2]

Where's Charley? (1948). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/charley.htm]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/wherescharley.html] Music and lyrics: Frank Loesser, Book: George Abbott.
:Based on Brandon Thomas’ 1892 farce, Charley’s Aunt. Charley and Jack are two undergraduates at Oxford University, and they need a chaperone in order to entertain two young ladies. Initially Charley’s aunt would serve as that role, but her visit is delayed, and so they persuade their friend, Lord Fancourt Babberly, to disguise himself as Charley’s aunt, and act as their chaperone instead. But this phoney aunt is also interested in the two girls.

Wicked (2003). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/wicked.htm]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/wicked.html]
Music and lyrics: Stephen Schwartz, Book: Winnie Holzman.
:Adaptation of Gregory Maguire’s novel, this is a retelling of the Wizard of Oz story from the point of view of the Wicked Witch of the East, redeeming her of the bad publicity propagated by Frank L Baum’s version.
[http://www.broadwayworld.com/videoinfo.cfm?showid=41 Broadwayworld.com]
[http://www.theatre.com/video/id/3004108 Theatre.com]
[http://www.broadway.com/gen/Buzz_Video.aspx?ci=507561 Broadway.com]
[http://youtube.com/watch?v=J72thWNW6PE Tony’s]

Wild Party, The (Lippa) (2000). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/lippawild.htm]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/wildparty.html]
Book, music, and lyrics: Andrew Lippa.
:Musical adaptation of Joseph Moncure March's 1928 poem. Queenie and Burrs throw a party in their Manhattan apartment, but it gets out of hand, becoming violent.
[http://youtube.com/watch?v=3fzt46kjclc YouTube]
[http://youtube.com/watch?v=KxL-GBS8y6E Idina Menzel]

Wild Party, The (LaChiusa) (2000). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/thewildparty.htm]
Music and lyrics: Michael John LaChiusa, Book: Michael John La Chiusa and George C Wolfe.
:Based on Joseph Moncure March's 1928 poem. Queenie and Burrs throw a party in their Manhattan apartment, but it goes out of control.
[http://youtube.com/watch?v=9JwpM97NB2s Tony’s]
        
Wiz, The (1975). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/wiz.htm]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/thewiz.html]
Music: Charlie Smalls, Book: William F. Brown.
:An all black version of Frank L Baum’s Wizard of Oz.
[http://youtube.com/watch?v=odxZqAVEKlE Tony’s]
[http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0078504/trailers Movie Trailer]

Wizard of Oz, The (1939). [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wizard_of_Oz_(1939_film)]  Music: Harold Arlen, Lyrics: EY 'Yip' Harburg.
:Film musical. Dorothy is caught in a Kansas tornado and mysteriously transported to a mythical place. She needs to find the Wizard of Oz to help her return home. On the way she meets  Scarecrow, Tinman, and the Cowardly Lion, who join her on the journey to the Emerald City.
[http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0032138/trailers Movie Trailer2]
 
Woman in White, The (2004). [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Woman_in_White_%28musical%29]
[http://www.stageagent.com/shows.php?id=1133]
Music: Andrew Lloyd Webber, Lyrics: David Zippel, Book: Charlotte Jones.
:Adaptation of Wilkie Collins’ 1860 novel. Late at night, while on the way to Limmeridge House as a drawing instructor, Walter Hartright meets a mysterious woman in white and saves her from her pursuers. At the house, Walter falls in love with his niece, Laura, but she is already engaged to Sir Percival Glyde.
[http://www.broadway.com/gen/Buzz_Video.aspx?ci=521667 Broadway.com]
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrUYxVRBc7g&search=the%20woman%20in%20white YouTube]
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4DQS3f07lo&search=WOMAN%20IN%20WHITE YouTube]

Wonderful Town (1953). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/wonderful.htm]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/wonderfultown.html] Music: Leonard Bernstein, Lyrics: Betty Comden and Adolph Green, Book: Joseph Field and Jerome Chodorov.
:Based on Ruth McKinney's New Yorker short stories. It follows the adventures of two sisters, one of whom is trying to get her stories accepted by a New York magazine.
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvYQ5nd6UkI Tony’s]

===[Y]===

You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown (1967). [http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/charliebrown.htm]
[http://www.musicaltheatreaudition.com/shows/goodmancharlie.html] Book, music, and lyrics: Clark Gesner.
:Inspired by Charles Schultz's comic strip Peanuts, the musical follows the adventures of Charlie Brown from Valentine's Day to the baseball season.
[http://youtube.com/watch?v=cJhurduFHbQ Tony’s]
[http://youtube.com/watch?v=0cJJyBnxKew YouTube]
[http://youtube.com/watch?v=tPc0Lj0V338&mode=related&search= YouTube]

===VIDEOS===
       
Interesting videos of musicals and film trailers can be found on YouTube.com and MySpace.com IMDB.com and the following websites:

Tony Awards
http://www.tonyawards.com/en_US/interactive/video/index.html

Broadway.com
http://www.broadway.com/gen/Buzz_Listing.aspx?ct=82

Broadwayworld.com
http://www.broadwayworld.com/videos.cfm

Broadway Online
http://www.broadwayonline.com/

Video Detective
http://www.videodetective.com/

iFilm
http://www.videodetective.com/

2nd January 2007