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Production | Year | Venue/Type | Music | Lyrics | Book | Notes |
Babes in Toyland | 1903 | Broadway | Victor Herbert | Glen MacDonough | MacDonough | |
Babes on Broadway | 1941 | Musical film | Burton Lane & Roger Edens | E.Y. Harburg & Ralph Freed | ||
Babette | 1903 | Broadway | Victor Herbert | Harry B. Smith | Smith | |
Baby | 1983 | Broadway | David Shire | Richard Maltby, Jr. | Sybille Pearson | |
Bad Girls: The Musical | 2006 | West End | Kath Gotts | Gotts | Maureen Chadwick & Ann McManus | Based on the ITV1 television series Bad Girls. |
Back to the 80's | 2004 | Australian musical | Neil Gooding | Gooding | Gooding | |
Bad Habits of 1926 | 1926 | Broadway Revue | Manning Sherwin | Arthur Herzog, Jr. | ||
Bajour | 1964 | Broadway | Walter Marks | Marks | Ernest Kinoy | Based on Joseph Mitchell's short stories, The Gypsy Women and The King of the Gypsies. |
Baker Street | 1965 | Broadway | Marian Grudeff, Raymond Jessel & Jerry Bock | Grudeff, Jessel & Sheldon Harnick | Jerome Coopersmith | |
The Baker's Wife | 1989 | West End | Stephen Schwartz | Schwartz | Joseph Stein | Aimed at a Broadway run in 1976, but closed during try-outs. |
The Balkan Princess | 1910 | West End | Paul Rubens | Rubens & Arthur Wimperis | Frederick Lonsdale & Frank Curzon | |
Ball im Savoy | 1932 | German operetta | Paul Abraham | Alfred Grünwald & Fritz Löhner-Beda | Abraham | |
Ballad for Bimshire | 1963 | Off-Broadway | Irving Burgie | Burgie | Burgie & Loften Mitchell | |
Ballroom | 1978 | Broadway | Billy Goldenberg | Alan Bergman & Marilyn Bergman | Jerome Kass | |
Bambi | 1942 | Animated film | Frank Churchill & Edward H. Plumb | Churchill & Plumb | Larry Morey | |
Band Waggon | 1940 | Musical film | Various artists | Various artists | ||
The Band Wagon | 1931 | Broadway revue | Arthur Schwartz | Howard Dietz | Notable songs: "I Love Louisa", "Hoops" & "Dancing in the Dark". | |
Bandanna Land | 1908 | Broadway | Will Marion Cook | Jesse A. Shipp & Alex Rogers | Shipp & Rogers | |
Banjo Eyes | 1941 | Broadway | Vernon Duke | John La Touche & Harold Adamson | Joseph Quinlan & Izzy Ellinson | |
Bar Mitzvah Boy | 1978 | West End | Jule Styne | Don Black | Jack Rosenthal | |
Barbarella | 2004 | Austrian musical | Dave Stewart | Stewart | Stewart | Based on the 1968 film. |
Bare: A Pop Opera | 2000 | Off-Broadway | Damon Intrabartolo | Jon Hartmere, Jr. | Intrabartolo & Hartmere, Jr. | Notable song: "Portrait of a Girl". |
Bare Facts of 1926 | 1926 | Broadway revue | Charles M. Schwab | Henry Myers | Stuart Hamill | |
Barefoot Boy with Cheek | 1947 | Broadway | Sidney Lippman | Sylvia Dee | Max Shulman | |
The Barkleys of Broadway | 1949 | Musical film | Harry Warren & George Gershwin | Ira Gershwin | Betty Comden, Adolph Green & Sidney Sheldon | |
Barnum | 1980 | Broadway | Cy Coleman | Michael Stewart | Mark Bramble | |
Baron Trenck | 1912 | Broadway | Felix Albini | Frederick F. Schrader | Henry Blossom | |
The Baroness Fiddlesticks | 1904 | Broadway | Emil Bruguiere | George De Long | De Long | |
Bat Boy: The Musical | 2001 | Off-Broadway | Laurence O'Keefe | O'Keefe | Keythe Farley & Brian Flemming | |
Bats | 1983 | Australian musical | Ian Dorricott | Simon Denver | Dorricott & Denver | |
The Battle of Paris | 1929 | Musical film | Cole Porter, Jay Gorney & Dick Howard | Howard Dietz & Porter | Gene Markey | |
Be Yourself | 1930 | Musical film | Hugo Riesenfeld | Riesenfeld | Joseph Jackson | |
Beat the Band | 1942 | Musical TV show | Various artists | Various artists | ||
Beatlemania | 1977 | Broadway revue | The Beatles | The Beatles | Bob Gill, Robert Rabinowitz & Lynda Obst | |
Beautiful Dreamer | 1961 | Off-Broadway | ||||
The Beautiful Game | 2000 | West End | Andrew Lloyd Webber | Ben Elton | Lloyd Webber & Elton | |
Beauty and the Beast | 1991 | Animated film | Alan Menken | Howard Ashman & Menken | Roger Allers, Brenda Chapman & Chris Sanders | |
Beauty and the Beast | 1994 | Broadway | Alan Menken | Howard Ashman & Tim Rice | Linda Woolverton | Notable songs: "Be Our Guest" & "Beauty and the Beast". |
The Beauty Shop | 1914 | Off-Broadway | Charles J. Gebest | Rennold Wolf | ||
The Beauty Spot | 1909 | Off-Broadway | Reginald De Koven | Joseph W. Herbert | Herbert | |
Beauty World | 1988 | Singaporean musical | Dick Lee | Michael Chiang | Chiang | |
Because You're Mine | 1952 | Musical film | Johnny Green | Green | Ruth Brooks Flippen & Sy Gomberg | |
Bedknobs and Broomsticks | 1971 | Animated film | Richard M. Sherman & Robert B. Sherman | Irwin Kostal | Bill Walsh & Don DaGradi | Notable songs: "The Age of Not Believing" & "Substitutiary Locomotion". |
A Bedtime Story | 1933 | Musical film | Ralph Rainger | Rainger | Benjamin Glazer & Nunnally Johnson | |
The Beggar Student | 1882 | German operetta | Carl Millöcker | Camillo Walzel & Richard Genée | Millöcker | |
Beggar's Holiday | 1946 | Broadway | Duke Ellington | John La Touche | La Touche | |
The Beggar's Opera | 1728 | West End opera | John Gay | Gay | Gay | |
Behind the Iron Mask | 2005 | West End | John Robinson | Robinson | Colin Scott & Melinda Walker | The show draws inspiration from the Man in the Iron Mask. |
Bell Bottom George | 1943 | Musical film | Harry Bidgood | Bidgood | Edward Dryhurst & Peter Fraser | |
La belle Hélène | 1864 | Paris opera bouffe | Jacques Offenbach | Henri Meilhac & Ludovic Halévy | Offenbach | |
La Belle Meunière | 1948 | Musical film | Tony Aubin | Aubin | Marcel Pagnol | |
The Belle of Brittany | 1908 | Opera | Howard Talbot & Marie Horne | Percy Greenbank et al. | Leedham Bantock & P.J. Barrow | |
The Belle of New York | 1897 | Broadway | Gustave Kerker | Hugh Morton | Morton | |
Belle of the Nineties | 1934 | Musical film | Arthur Johnston | Johnston | Mae West | |
Belle of the Yukon | 1944 | Musical film | Arthur Lange | Lange | Houston Branch | |
Bells Are Ringing | 1956 | Broadway | Jule Styne | Betty Comden & Adolph Green | Comden & Green | A film was released in 1960. |
Belmont Varieties | 1932 | Broadway revue | Various artists | Various artists | ||
The Beloved Vagabond | 1936 | Musical film | Darius Milhaud | Milhaud | William John Locke | |
Ben Franklin in Paris | 1964 | Broadway | Mark Sandrich, Jr. & Jerry Herman | Sidney Michaels | Michaels | |
Bernarda Alba | 2006 | Off-Broadway | Michael John LaChiusa | LaChiusa | LaChiusa | |
Bernardine | 1957 | Musical film | Lionel Newman & Johnny Mercer | Newman & Mercer | Mary Chase & Theodore Reeves | |
Besame Mucho El Musical | 2005 | Mexican Jukebox musical | José María Vitier | Various artists | Consuelo Garrido, Lorena Maza & Victor Weinstock | Based on Bolero songs of the 1920's Mexico. |
Best Foot Forward | 1941 | Broadway | Hugh Martin & Ralph Blane | Martin & Blane | John Cecil Holm | |
The Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public | 1994 | Broadway | Carol Hall | Hall | Larry L. King & Peter Masterson | |
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas | 1978 | Broadway | Carol Hall | Hall | Larry L. King & Peter Masterson | |
The Best Things in Life Are Free | 1956 | Musical film | Lionel Newman | Lew Brown & Buddy DeSylva | William Bowers & Phoebe Ephron | |
Betjemania | 1976 | West End | John Gould | John Betjeman | David Benedictus & Gould | |
Bette Midler's Clams on the Half Shell | 1975 | Broadway revue | Various artists | Various artists | Bruce Vilanch, Bill Hennessy & Jerry Blatt | |
Bette! Divine Madness | 1979 | Broadway revue | Various artists | Various artists | Jerry Blatt, Bette Midler & Bruce Vilanch | |
The Better 'Ole | 1917 | West End | Herman Darewski | Percival Knight & James Heard | Bruce Bairnsfather & Arthur Elliott | |
Better Tunes | 1922 | Broadway revue | ||||
Betty | 1915 | West End | Paul Rubens & Ernest Steffan | Adrian Ross & Rubens | Frederick Lonsdale & Gladys Unger | |
Betty Blue Eyes | 2011 | West End | George Stiles | Anthony Drewe | Ron Cowen & Daniel Lipman | Based on A Private Function by Alan Bennett & Malcolm Mowbray. |
Between the Devil | 1937 | Broadway | Arthur Schwartz | Howard Dietz | Dietz | |
Beyond the Fringe | 1961 | West End revue | Various artists | Various artists | Alan Bennett, Peter Cook, Jonathan Miller & Dudley Moore | |
Bible Women | 1995 | Off-Broadway | Elizabeth Swados | Swados | Swados | |
Big: the musical | 1996 | Broadway | David Shire | Richard Maltby, Jr. | John Weidman | |
The Big Bad Musical | 2009 | Off-Broadway | Bill Francoeur | Francoeur | Alec Strum | |
The Big Beat | 1958 | Musical film | Henry Mancini | Mancini | David P. Harmon | |
Big Boy | 1925 | Broadway | James F. Hanley & Joseph Meyer | Buddy DeSylva | Harold R. Atteridge | |
The Big Broadcast | 1932 | Musical film | Various artists | Various artists | William Ford Manley | |
The Big Broadcast of 1936 | 1935 | Musical film | Various artists | Various artists | Walter DeLeon, Francis Martin & Ralph Spence | |
The Big Broadcast of 1937 | 1936 | Musical film | Various artists | Various artists | Walter DeLeon & Francis Martin | |
The Big Broadcast of 1938 | 1938 | Musical film | Various artists | Various artists | Walter DeLeon, Francis Martin & Ken Englund | |
Big Fella | 1937 | Musical film | G. H. Clutsam & Will Grosz | Clutsam & Grosz | Ingram D'Abbes & Fenn Sherie | |
The Big Gay Musical | 2009 | Musical film | Rick Crom | Crom | Fred M. Caruso | |
Big River | 1985 | Broadway | Roger Miller | Miller | William Hauptman | |
Billboard Girl | 1932 | Musical film | Lewis R. Foster, Harry McCoy, Earle Rodney & John A. Waldron | |||
Billie | 1928 | Broadway | George M. Cohan | Cohan | Cohan | |
Billie | 1965 | Musical film | Dominic Frontiere | Frontiere | Ronald Alexander | |
Billion Dollar Baby | 1945 | Broadway | Morton Gould | Betty Comden & Adolph Green | Comden & Green | |
Billy | 1974 | West End | John Barry | Don Black | Dick Clement & Ian La Frenais | |
Billy Elliot the Musical | 2004 | West End | Elton John | Lee Hall | Hall | |
The Billy Barnes Revue | 1959 | Off-Broadway revue | Billy Barnes | Barnes | Bob Rodgers | |
Billy Noname | 1970 | Off-Broadway | Johnny Brandon | Brandon | William Wellington Mackey | |
The Bing Boys Are Here | 1916 | West End revue | Nat D. Ayer | Clifford Grey | George Grossmith, Jr. & Fred Thompson | |
The Bing Boys on Broadway | 1918 | West End revue | Nat D. Ayer | Clifford Grey | George Grossmith, Jr. & Fred Thompson | |
The Bing Girls Are There | 1917 | West End revue | Nat D. Ayer | Clifford Grey | George Grossmith, Jr. & Fred Thompson | |
Birds of Paradise | 1987 | Off-Broadway | David Evans | Winnie Holzman | Evans & Holzman | |
Bitter Sweet | 1929 | West End operetta | Noël Coward | Coward | Coward | |
Black and Blue | 1985 | French musical revue | Various artists | Various artists | ||
The Black Crook | 1866 | Broadway | Thomas Baker, Giuseppe Operti & George Bickwell | Theodore Kennick | Charles M. Barras | |
Blackbirds of 1928 | 1928 | Broadway revue | Jimmy McHugh | Dorothy Fields | Notable song: "Doin' the New Low-Down". | |
The Black Rider | 1990 | German musical | Tom Waits | Waits | William S. Burroughs | |
Das Blaue Vom Himmel | 1932 | Musical film | Paul Abraham | Abraham | Max Kolpé & Billy Wilder | |
Bleach | 2005 | Japanese anime musical | Shoichi Tama | Naoshi Okumura | Okumura | |
Bless the Bride | 1947 | West End | Vivian Ellis | A. P. Herbert | Herbert | |
Bless You All | 1950 | Broadway revue | Harold Rome | Rome | ||
Blitz! | 1962 | West End | Lionel Bart | Bart | Bart & Joan Maitland | |
The Blonde in Black | 1903 | Broadway | Gustav Kerker | Harry B. Smith | Smith | |
Die Blonde Nachtigall | 1930 | Musical film | Willy Kollo & Otto Stransky | Kollo & Stransky | Walter Schlee & Walter Wassermann | |
Blondel | 1983 | West End | Stephen Oliver | Tim Rice | Rice | |
Ein blonder Traum | 1932 | Musical film | Werner R. Heymann | Heymann | Walter Reisch & Billy Wilder | |
Blondie Goes Latin | 1941 | Musical film | Leo Arnaud | Arnaud | Karen DeWolf & Richard Flournoy | |
Blood Brothers | 1983 | West End | Willy Russell | Russell | Russell | Notable songs: "Marilyn Monroe" & "Tell Me It's Not True". |
Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson | 2008 | Off-Broadway | Michael Friedman | Friedman | Alex Timbers | |
Bloomer Girl | 1944 | Broadway | Harold Arlen | E. Y. Harburg | Sig Herzig & Fred Saidy | |
Blossom Time | 1921 | Austrian operetta | Franz Schubert | Alfred Maria Willner & Heinz Reichert | Willner & Reichert | |
The Blue Angel | 1930 | Musical film | Friedrich Hollaender | Robert Liebmann | Heinrich Mann | |
Bluebell in Fairyland | 1901 | West End | Walter Slaughter | Aubrey Hopwood & Charles H. Taylor | Seymour Hicks | |
Blue Hawaii | 1961 | Musical film | Joseph J. Lilley | Lilley | Allan Weiss | |
Blue Holiday | 1945 | Broadway revue | Al Moritz | Mortiz | ||
The Blue Kitten | 1922 | Broadway | Rudolf Friml | Otto Harbach & William Carey Duncan | Harbach & Duncan | |
The Blue Mazurka | 1927 | West End operetta | Franz Lehár | Leo Stein & Bela Jenbach | Stein & Jenbach | |
Blue of the Night | 1933 | Musical film | Various artists | Various artists | ||
The Blue Paradise | 1915 | Broadway | Edmund Eysler & Sigmund Romberg | Herbert Reynolds | Edgar Smith | |
Blue Rhythm | 1931 | Musical film | W. C. Handy | Handy | ||
Blue Skies | 1946 | Musical film | Irving Berlin | Berlin | Berlin | |
The Blues Brothers | 1980 | Musical film | Ira Newborn | Newborn | Dan Aykroyd & John Landis | |
Blues in the Night | 1941 | Musical film | Heinz Roemheld | Roemheld | Edwin Gilbert, Elia Kazan & Robert Rossen | |
Blues in the Night | 1982 | Off-Broadway revue | Various artists | Various artists | ||
The Boat That Rocked | 2009 | Musical film | Various artists | Various artists | Richard Curtis | |
Boccaccio | 1936 | Musical film | Franz Doelle | Doelle | Emil Burri & Walter Forster | |
The Body Beautiful | 1958 | Broadway | Jerry Bock | Sheldon Harnick | Joseph Stein & Will Glickman | |
The Bodyguard | 1992 | Musical film | Alan Silvestri | Silvestri | Lawrence Kasdan | |
The Bodyguard | 2012 | West End Jukebox musical | Various artists | Various artists | Alexander Dinelaris | |
The Bohemian Girl | 1843 | West End opera | Michael William Balfe | Alfred Bunn | Balfe | |
Bombay Dreams | 2002 | West End | A. R. Rahman | Don Black | Meera Syal & Thomas Meehan | |
Bombo | 1921 | Broadway | Sigmund Romberg | Harold R. Atteridge | Atteridge | |
Bonnie & Clyde | 2009 | Off-Broadway | Frank Wildhorn | Don Black | Ivan Menchell | |
Boobs! The Musical | 2003 | Off-Broadway | Ruth Wallis | Wallis | Steve Mackes & Michael Whaley | |
Boogie Nights | 1998 | West End | Various artists | Various artists | Jon Conway | |
The Book of Mormon | 2011 | Broadway | Robert Lopez, Trey Parker & Matt Stone | Lopez, Parker & Stone | Lopez, Parker & Stone | |
Boots and Saddles | 1937 | Musical film | Raoul Kraushaar | Kraushaar | Jack Natteford | |
Boots! Boots! | 1934 | Musical film | Jack Cottrell & George Formby | |||
Born to Dance | 1936 | Musical film | Cole Porter | Porter | Jack McGowan & Sid Silvers | Notable song: "I've Got You Under My Skin". |
Bottoms Up | 1934 | Musical film | Howard Jackson | Jackson | David Buster, Buddy DeSylva & Sid Silvers | |
Bounce | 2003 | Off-Broadway | Stephen Sondheim | Sondheim | John Weidman | Retitled Road Show. |
Boy Meets Boy | 1975 | Off-Broadway | Bill Solly | Solly | Solly & Donald Ward | |
The Boy Friend | 1954 | West End | Sandy Wilson | Wilson | Wilson | |
The Boy from Oz | 2003 | Broadway | Peter Allen | Allen | Nick Enright & Martin Sherman | |
The Boy Who Heard Music | 2007 | Workshop | Pete Townshend & Rachel Fuller | Townshend & Fuller | Townshend | Adaptation of The Who's rock opera Wire and Glass. |
The Boys from Syracuse | 1938 | Broadway | Richard Rodgers | Lorenz Hart | George Abbott | Notable songs: "Falling in Love with Love" & "This Can't Be Love". |
Bran Nue Dae | 1990 | Australian musical | Jimmy Chi & Kuckles | Chi & Kuckles | Chi & Kuckles | |
Bravo Giovanni | 1962 | Broadway | Milton Schafer | Ronny Graham | A. J. Russell | |
Breakfast at Tiffany's | 1966 | Broadway | Bob Merrill | Merrill | Edward Albee | Aimed at Broadway but closed during previews. |
Brewster's Millions | 1935 | Musical film | Marr Mackie | Mackie | Arthur Wimperis | |
Brigadoon | 1947 | Broadway | Frederick Loewe | Alan Jay Lerner | Lerner | Notable song: "Almost Like Being in Love". |
Bright Eyes | 1934 | Musical film | Richard A. Whiting & Samuel Kaylin | Whiting & Kaylin | William Conselman | |
Bright Lights, Big City | 2004 | Off-Broadway | Paul Scott Goodman | Goodman | Goodman | |
Bright Lights of 1944 | 1943 | Broadway revue | Jerry Livingston | Mack David | Norman Anthony & Charles Sherman | |
Bring Back Birdie | 1981 | Broadway | Charles Strouse | Lee Adams | Michael Stewart | A sequel to Bye Bye Birdie. |
Bring in 'da Noise, Bring in 'da Funk | 1996 | Broadway revue | Daryl Waters, Zane Mark & Ann Duquesnay | Reg E. Gaines, George C. Wolfe & Duquesnay | Gaines | |
Bring on the Girls | 1945 | Musical film | Robert E. Dolan | Dolan | Karl Tunberg, Darrell Ware & Pierre Wolff | |
Bring Your Smile Along | 1955 | Musical film | Paul Mason Howard | Howard | Blake Edwards & Richard Quine | |
Britannia of Billingsgate | 1933 | Musical film | Various artists | Various artists | Christine Jope-Slade & Sewell Stokes | |
Broadway Gondolier | 1935 | Musical film | Heinz Roemheld | Roemheld | Sig Herzig, Yip Harburg & Hanns Kräly | |
Broadway Hostess | 1935 | Musical film | Ray Heindorf & Heinz Roemheld | Heindorf & Roemheld | George Bricker | |
The Broadway Melody | 1929 | Musical film | Nacio Herb Brown, George M. Cohan & Willard Robison | Brown, Cohan & Robison | Edmund Goulding, Norman Houston & James Gleason | |
Broadway Melody of 1936 | 1935 | Musical film | Nacio Herb Brown | Brown | Harry W. Conn, Moss Hart, Jack McGowan & Sid Silvers | |
Broadway Melody of 1938 | 1937 | Musical film | Nacio Herb Brown | Arthur Freed | Jack McGowan | |
Broadway Melody of 1940 | 1940 | Musical film | Cole Porter, Roger Edens & Walter Ruick | Porter, Edens & Ruick | Jack McGowan & Dore Schary | |
Broadway Through a Keyhole | 1933 | Musical film | Alfred Newman | Newman | C. Graham Baker & Gene Towne | |
Brooklyn | 2004 | Broadway | Mark Schoenfeld & Barri McPherson | Schoenfeld & McPherson | Schoenfeld & McPherson | |
A Broken Idol | 1909 | Broadway | Egbert Van Alstyne | Harry Williams | Hal Stephens | |
Bubbling Brown Sugar | 1976 | Broadway revue | Various artists | Various artists | Loften Mitchell | |
Buck Benny Rides Again | 1940 | Musical film | Victor Young | Young | Arthur Stinger, Edmund Beloin & William Morrow | |
Buck Privates | 1941 | Musical film | Charles Previn | Previn | Arthur T. Horman | |
Buddies | 1919 | Broadway | B. C. Hilliam | Hilliam | George V. Hobart | |
Buddy – The Buddy Holly Story | 1989 | West End Jukebox musical | Various artists | Various artists | ||
Bugs Bunny on Broadway | 1990 | Broadway | Carl Stalling & Milt Franklyn | Stalling & Franklyn | George Daugherty | Based on the TV series Looney Tunes. |
Bugsy Malone | 1976 | Musical film | Paul Williams | Williams | Alan Parker | Notable songs: "Fat Sam's Grand Slam" & "So You Wanna Be a Boxer?". |
Bundle of Joy | 1956 | Musical film | Robert Carson, Norman Krasna, Arthur Sheekman & Felix Jackson | |||
Bus Stop | 1956 | Musical film | Ken Darby, Cyril J. Mockridge, Alfred Newman & Lionel Newman | Darby, Mockridge, Newman & Newman | George Axelrod & William Inge | |
By Jeeves | 1975 | West End | Andrew Lloyd Webber | Alan Ayckbourn | Lloyd Webber & Ayckbourn | |
By Jupiter | 1942 | Broadway | Richard Rodgers | Lorenz Hart | Rodgers & Hart | Based on The Warrior's Husband by Julian F. Thompson. |
By the Beautiful Sea | 1954 | Broadway | Arthur Schwartz | Dorothy Fields | Herbert Fields & Fields | |
By the Light of the Silvery Moon | 1953 | Musical film | Gus Edwards & Max Steiner | Edwards & Steiner | Booth Tarkington | |
By the Way | 1925 | Off-Broadway revue | Vivian Ellis | Graham John | ||
Bye Bye Birdie | 1960 | Broadway | Charles Strouse | Lee Adams | Michael Stewart | Notable songs: "A Lot of Livin' to Do", "Kids" & "Put On a Happy Face". |
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