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This is a general list of muscials, including Broadway musicals, West End musicals and film musicals. See also List of operettas and Gilbert and Sullivan.
- 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue (1976) (Lyrics: Alan J. Lerner; Music: Leonard Bernstein) Notable flop (closed after only seven performances).
- 1776 (1969, revival 1997) (Sherman Edwards)
- 42nd Street (1980) (Harry Warren and Al Dubin) Notable songs: "42nd Street", "Shuffle Off to Buffalo", "Young and Healthy"
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- Aida (2000) (Elton John and Tim Rice)
- A Little Night Music (1973) (Stephen Sondheim) Notable song: "Send in the Clowns"
- Annie (1977) (Strouse and Charnin) Notable songs: "Tomorrow", "A Hard-Knock Life"
- Annie Get Your Gun (1946) (Irving Berlin) Notable song: "There's No Business Like Show Business"
- Anyone Can Whistle (1964) (Stephen Sondheim)
- Anything Goes (1934) (Cole Porter) Featured Ethel Merman. Notable songs: "Anything Goes", "Blow, Gabriel Blow"
- Applause (1970) (Strouse and Adams)
- Aspects of Love (1990) (Andrew Lloyd Webber)
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1951) (Music: Arthur Schwartz; lyrics: Dorothy Fields)
- Avenue Q off-Boardway, now on-Broadway
B
- Babes in Arms (1937) (Rodgers and Hart)
- Babes in Toyland
- Bajour (1964) (Walter Marks)
- Barnum (1980) (Coleman and Stewart)
- The Band Wagon (Dietz and Schwartz) Featured Fred and Adele Astaire. Notable songs: "I Love Louisa", "Hoops"
- Batboy: The Musical (off-Broadway)
- The Beautiful Game (Andrew Lloyd Webber/Ben Elton)
- Beauty and the Beast (1994) (Music: Alan Menken; Lyrics: Howard Ashman, Tim Rice)
- Bells are Ringing (1956) (Music: Jules Styne; Lyrics: Comden and Green)
- Blackbirds of 1928 (1928), featured Bill “Bojangles” Robinson, notable song "Doin' the New Low Down"
- The Boyfriend (Sandy Wilson)
- Brigadoon (1947) (Lerner and Loewe) Notable song: "Almost Like Being in Love"
- The Boys from Syracuse (1938) (Rodgers and Hart) Notable songs: "Falling in Love with Love", "This Can't be Love"
- Bye Bye Birdie (1960) (Strouse and Adams) Notable songs: "A Lot of Livin' To Do", "Kids", "Put On A Happy Face"
C
- ''Cabaret (Kander and Ebb) Notable song: "Cabaret"
- Call Me Madam (Irving Berlin)
- Call Me Mister (Irving Berlin)
- Camelot (1960) (Lerner and Loewe)
- Candide (1956) (Music: Leonard Bernstein; Lyrics: Richard Wilbur)
- Carmen Jones
- Carnival (1961 (Bob Merrill)
- Carousel (1945) (Rodgers and Hammerstein) Notable songs: Bill's "Soliloquy", "When you Walk Through a Storm", "What's the Use of Wonderin"
- Cats (Andrew Lloyd Webber)
- Chess (Tim Rice/Benny Andersson/Bjorn Ulvaeus)
- Chicago (Kander and Ebb) Notable song: "All That Jazz"
- A Chorus Line
- Company (1970) (Stephen Sondheim)
- The Cradle will Rock (1937) (Marc Blitzstein) Federal Theatre project
D
- Damn Yankees (1955) (Adler and Ross)
- The Desert Song
- DuBarry was a Lady (1939) (Cole Porter)
E
F
- The Fantasticks (Off-Broadway) (1960) (Music: Harvey Schmidt; Lyrics: Tom Jones) Run ended 2002 making it world's longest-running musical as of 2004 . Notable song: Try to Remember
- Fiddler on the Roof (1964) (Music: Jerry Bock, lyrics: Sheldon Harnick) Featured: Zero Mostel. Notable songs: Tradition, Sunrise, Sunset, If I Were a Rich Man
- ''Fings Ain't Wot They Used T'Be (West End) (Frank Norman and Lionel Bart)
- Finian's Rainbow (1947) (Music: Burton Lane; lyrics: E. Y. Harburg) Notable song: How are Things in Glocca Morra?
- Fiorello (1959) (Music: Jerry Bock, lyrics: Sheldon Harnick) Notable song: Little Tin Box
- Flower Drum Song
- Follies (Stephen Sondheim)
- Funny Girl (1964) (Music: Jules Styne, lyrics: Bob Merrill) Featured Barbra Streisand; notable song: People
- A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1962) (Stephen Sondheim) Notable song: Comedy Tonight
G
- The Gay Divorce
- Gigi
- Girl Crazy (1930) (George and Ira Gershwin) Featured Ethel Merman; notable song: I've Got Rhythm
- Goldilocks (Music: Leroy Anderson, lyrics Jean Kerr, Joan Ford, Walter Kerr)
- Guys and Dolls (Music and lyrics: Frank Loesser) Notable songs: Luck, Be a Lady, A Bushel and a Peck
- Gypsy (1959) (Music: Jules Styne, lyrics: Stephen Sondheim). Featured Rosalind Russell. Notable songs: Everything's Coming up Roses, "Big Spender"
H
- Hello, Dolly (1964) (Jerry Herman) Featured Carol Channing; notable song, Hello, Dolly."
- Hair (1967) Notable song: Aquarius
- The Hot Mikado (1939) All-black cast featured Bill “Bojangles” Robinson.
- How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (Music and lyrics: Frank Loesser) Notable song: I Believe in You
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J
K
- The King and I (1951) (Rodgers and Hammerstein) Featured: Gertrudge Lawrence, Yul Brynner; notable songs: Shall We Dance, Getting to Know You
- Kiss Me, Kate
- Knickerbocker Holiday (1938) (Kurt Weill, Maxwell Anderson) Notable song: September Song
L
- Lady in the Dark (1941) (Kurt Weill, Ira Gershwin) Notable songs: My Ship (Gertrude Lawrence), Tschaikovsky (Danny Kaye)
- Les Miserables
- The Lion King (1997) (Music: Elton John; Lyrics: Tim Rice)
- Little Shop of Horrors
- Lost in the Stars (Music: Kurt Weill; lyrics: Maxwell Anderson)
M
- Martin Guerre
- Miss Saigon
- The Most Happy Fella (1956) (Frank Loesser)
- The Music Man (1957) (Meredith Willson) Notable songs: Seventy-Six Trombones, Till There was You, Ya Got Trouble (Right Here in River City),
- My Fair Lady (1956) (Lerner and Loewe) Featured: Rex Harrison, Julie Andrews, Stanley Holloway. Notable songs: Loverly, Accustomed to her Face, ''Get Me To the Church On Time"
N
- No, No Nanette
- Nymph Errant (Cole Porter)
O
- Of Thee I Sing (George and Ira Gershwin) Notable song: Love is Sweeping the Country
- Oh, Boy (1917) (Music: Jerome Kern; lyrics: P. G. Wodehouse) Notable songs: Till the Clouds Roll By''
- Oh, Kay (George and Ira Gershwin) Notable song: Someone to Watch Over Me
- Oh! What a Lovely War (West End)
- Oliver (Lionel Bart) Notable songs: Consider Yourself
- Oklahoma (1943) (Rodgers and Hammerstein) Notable songs: Oh! What a Beautiful Mornin', Oklahoma!, People will Say We're in Love
- On a Clear Day, You Can See Forever (Lerner and Loewe)
- Once Upon a Mattress (Music: Mary Rodgers, Lyrics: Marshall Barer) Featured Carol Burnett.
- One Touch of Venus (1943) (Kurt Weill, Ogden Nash Notable song: Speak Low
- On the Town (1944) (Music: Leonard Bernstein; Lyrics: Comden and Green) Notable song: New York, New York (It's A Wonderful Town)
- On Your Toes (Rodgers and Hart)
P
- Pacific Overtures (1976) (Stephen Sondheim)
- The Pajama Game (1954) (Adler and Ross)
- Pal Joey (1940) (Rodgers and Hart) Notable song: Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered
- Panama Hattie (1942) (Cole Porter)
- Peter Pan (1954) Featured: Mary Martin
- The Phantom of the Opera (Andrew Lloyd Webber)
- Pins and Needles (1937) (Political musical)
- Pippin
- Porgy and Bess
- The Producers
Q
R
- The Rocky Horror Show
- Rose-Marie (1924)
S
- Salad Days
- ''The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (1924) (Sigmund Romberg) Longest-running musical of the 1920s
- Show Boat (1927) (Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II) Notable songs: Old Man River, My Bill, Can't Help Lovin' That Man of Mine
- Snoopy (Off-Broadway) (1975)
- The Sound of Music (1959) (Rodgers and Hammerstein) Notable songs: Do-Re-Mi, Climb Ev'ry Mountain, The Sound of Music, My Favorite Things
- South Pacific (1949) (Rodgers and Hammerstein) Notable songs: Bali Hai, Some Enchanted Evening
- Starlight Express (Andrew Lloyd Webber/Richard Stilgoe)
- Street Scene (1947) (Music Kurt Weill, lyrics Elmer Rice)
- Strike Up the Band (George and Ira Gershwin) Notable song: Strike Up the Band
- Sunday in the Park with George (1984) (Stephen Sondheim)
- Sunset Boulevard (Andrew Lloyd Webber)
- Sweeney Todd (1989) (Stephen Sondheim)
- The Swing Mikado (1938) (Chicago) All-black cast.
T
- The Threepenny Opera (Off-Broadway) Notable songs: Mack the Knife, Pirate Jenny
- Tommy
- Thouroughly Modern Millie Notable Songs: Thouroghly Modern Millie, Forget About the Boy
U
V
W
- The Wedding Singer (set to begin March 2004, based on the Adam Sandler romantic comedy feature film of the same name)
- West Side Story (1957) (Music: Leonard Bernstein, lyrics: Stephen Sondheim). Notable songs: Tonight, America, Gee, Officer Krupke
- Where's Charley (1948) Featured Ray Bolger; notable song Once in Love with Amy
- Whoopee (1928) Featured Eddie Cantor, notable song Makin' Whoopee
- The Wild Party
- Wonderful Town (1953) (Music: Leonard Bernstein; lyrics: Comden and Green)
- The World of Suzie Wong
