Musical Theater
- Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death – Off-Broadway production
- Follies (Stephen Sondheim) – Broadway production
- Godspell (Stephen Schwartz) – Broadway and London productions (Off-Broadway from 1971, 572 performances on Broadway, 2,600 total NYC performances)
- Jalta, Jalta (Alfi Kabiljo and Milan Grgić) - premièred in Zagreb
- Jesus Christ Superstar (Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice) – Broadway production (eighteen months)
- Lolita, My Love (John Barry and Alan Jay Lerner) – closed in pre-Broadway tryout
- Prettybelle – ditto
- No, No, Nanette (Irving Caesar, Otto Harbach, Vincent Youmans) – Broadway revival
- On the Town Broadway revival
- Show Boat (Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II) – London revival
- To Live Another Summer, To Pass Another Winter – Broadway production of Jewish revue; opened at the Helen Hayes Theatre on October 21 and transferred to the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on January 10, 1972 for a total run of 173 performances.
- Two Gentlemen of Verona – Broadway production
Read more about this topic: 1971 In Music
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