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The Beggar’s Opera

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YEAR: 1728 
TYPE: ballad opera
COMPOSER: Johann Christoph Pepusch
WRITER: John Gay
HS: adapted to become Threepenny
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Die Fledermaus

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YEAR: 1872
TYPE: operetta
COMPOSER: Johann Strauss II
LIBRETTO: Karl Haffner & Richard Genee
HS: one of the important antecedents to Musical Theatre

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The Pirates of Penzance

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YEAR: 1879
COMPOSER: Arthur Sullivan
LIBRETTO: W.S. Gilbert
HS: First Major Musical to Open in USA

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The Mikado

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YEAR: 1885
COMPOSERS: Arthur Sullivan
LIBRETTO: W.S Gilbert
PLOT: Guy needs to find someone to execute, chosen guy falls in love

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H.M.S. Pinafore

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YEAR: 1878
COMPOSERS: Arthur Sullivan
LIBRETTO: W.S. Gilbert
PLOT: Love across class status on a boat

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Showboat

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YEAR: 1927
COMPOSR: Jerome Kern
BOOK/LYRICS: Oscar Hammerstein II
PRODUCER: Flo Ziegfeld
HS: First show with racially integrated cast

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Porgy and Bess

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YEAR: 1934
COMPOSER: George Gershwin
LIBRETTO: DuBois Hayward
HS: Portrayed African-American people (sterotype low-class) with opera stuff (stereotype high-class)

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Anything Goes

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YEAR: 1934
MUSIC + LYRICS: Porter
STARRING: Ethel Merman

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Pal Joey

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YEAR: 1940
BOOK: John O'Hara
COMPOSER: Richard Rogers
LYRICS: Lorenz Hart
DIRECTOR: George Abbott
PLOT: Joey Evans is a total man-whore
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Threepenny Opera

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YEAR: 1928
COMPOSER: Kurt Weill

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Oklahoma

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YEAR: 1943
COMPOSER: Richard Rogers
LYRICS: Oscar Hammerstein II
CHOREO: Agnes de Mille
STAR: Alfred Drake
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On the Town

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YEAR: 1944
COMPOSER: Bernstein
LYRICS: Betty Comden and Adolph Green
DIRECTOR: George Abbott
CHOREO: Jerome Robbins
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Carousel

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YEAR: 1945
COMPOSER: Richard Rogers
LYRICS: Oscar Hammerstein II
CHOREO: Agnes de Mille saved it at the last second

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Annie Get Your Gun

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YEAR: 1946
COMPOSER: Irving Berlin
BOOK: Dorothy and Herbert Fields
STAR: Ethel Merman
PLOT: Country sharpshooting woman has trouble falling in love with man ("You can't get a man with a gun")
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Brigadoon

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YEAR: 1947
COMPOSER: Frederick Loewe
BOOK + LYRICS: Alan J. Lerner
[DIRECTOR: Robert Lewis]
CHOREO: Agnes De Mille
PLOT: Americans in Scotland find weird enchanted place. One falls in love, decides to stay there forever
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Kiss Me Kate

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YEAR: 1948

MUSIC + LYRICS: Cole Porter

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South Pacific

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YEAR: 1949
MUSIC + LYRICS: Rodgers and Hammerstein
STAR: Mary Martin

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Guys and Dolls

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YEAR: 1950
MUSIC + LYRICS: Loesser
Book: Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows

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The King and I

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YEAR: 1951
MUSIC + LYRICS: R + H

STAR: Gertrude Lawrence; Yul Brynner

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Wonderful Town

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YEAR: 1953
BOOK: Joseph A Fields & Jerome Chodorov
MUSIC: Bernstein
LYRICS: Betty Comden & Adolph Green
DIRECTOR: George Abbot
PLOT: Attractive sister wants to be star; smart sister wants to be writer, they try to make it in New York

STAR (at the end) Carrol Channing

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Can-Can

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YEAR: 1953
MUSIC + LYRICS: Cole Porter
BOOK: Abe Burrows
STAR: Gwen Verdon

PLOT: Footloose before its time with a can-can and a nightclub

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The Pajama Game

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YEAR: 1954
BOOK: George Abbot and Richard Bissell
MUSIC + LYRICS: Adler and Ross
DIRECTORS: Jerome Robbins and George Abbot (whole pride issue there)
PRODUCER: Hal Prince (among others)
CHOREO: Bob Fosse
STAR: John Raitt [Janis Paige, Carol Haney]

(Steam Heat)– trios are the best

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Damn Yankees

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YEAR: 1955
BOOK: Geroge Abbot and Douglass Wallop
MUSIC + LYRICS: Adler and Ross
DIRECTOR: George Abbott
CHOREO: Bob  Fosse
STAR: Gwen Verdon, [Ray Walston]

PLOT: Guy makes deal with the devil to help the Washington Senators win the World Series. As he hits a home run over the fence, he shouts that he wants out of the deal (because he loves his wife so much and misses her), and he catches the ball as his ‘real’ self

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My Fair Lady

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YEAR: 1956
LYRICS + MUSIC: Lerner and Loewe
DIRECTOR: Moss Hart
STAR: Rex Harrison, Julie Andrews
PLOT: based on George Bernard Shaw's "Pygmalion'
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The Most Happy Fella

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YEAR 1956
BOOK, MUSIC, LYRICS: Frank Loesser

PLOT: Mail-order marriage proposal, but she looks at a really young photo of him. (Tinder musical)

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The Music Man

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YEAR: 1957
BOOK, MUSIC, LYRICS: Meredith Willson

STAR: Robert Preston, Barbara Cook

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The Sound of Music

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YEAR: 1959
MUSIC + LYRICS: R + H
STAR: Mary Martin

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Street Scene

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YEAR: 1946
MUSIC: Kurt Wiell
[LYRICS: Langson Hughes
BOOK: Elmer Rice]

a bit more opera-y

PLOT: 2 days on an East Side tenement in Manhattan

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Hello, Dolly!

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YEAR: 1964
MUSIC + LYRICS: Jerry Herman
[BOOK: Michael Stuart]
DIRECTOR: Gower Champion
STAR: Carrol Channing
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Camelot

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YEAR: 1960
LYRICS + MUSIC: Lerner and Loewe
DIRECTOR: Moss Hart
STAR: Richard Burton, Julie Andrews, Robert Goulet
PLOT: Love Triangle with King Arthur, his queen, and sir Lancelot. Based on “The Once And Future King” by T.H. White.
HS: Got associated with JFK cause his wife said that it was his favorite musical

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Candide

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YEAR: 1956
COMPOSER: Bernstein
LIBRETTO: Lillian Hellman

PLOT: based on Voltaire book. Pretty sure a bunch of bad stuff happens to people.
STAR: Barbara Cook

We don’t have a video of it, but “Let Your Garden Grow” is epic

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How to Succeed in Business without really trying

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YEAR: 1961

MUSIC + LYRICS: Frank Loesser
BOOK: Abe Burrows

STAR: Bobby Morse

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Call Me Madam

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YEAR: 1950
COMPOSER: Irving Berlin
DIRECTOR: George Abbott
CHOREO: Jerome Robbins
STAR: Ethel Merman

PLOT: Satire of American foreign policy and our need to lend billions to needy countries

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West Side Story

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YEAR: 1957
MUSIC + LYRICS: Bernstein and Sondheim
CONCEPTOR, DIRECTOR, CHOREOGRAPHOR: Jerome Robbins

PLOT: Romeo and Juliet with gangs.

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Gypsy

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YEAR: 1959
MUSIC: Jule Styne
LYRICS: Stephen Sondheim
BOOK: Arthur Laurents
PRODUCER: David Merrick
DIRECTOR/CHOREOGRAPHER: Jerome Robbins
STAR: Ethel Mermen

PLOT: Based on the memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee

(“Rose’s Turn”) has been done by like every star

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Cabaret

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YEAR: 1966
MUSIC: John Kander
LYRICS: Fred Ebb
DIRECTOR: Hal Prince

STARS:
Joel Grey as MC,
Lotte Lenya as Frau Schneider

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Chicago

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YEAR: 1975
MUSIC: John Kander
LYRICS: Fred Ebb
DIRECTOR: Bob Fosse (also had a hand in book-writing)

STARS:
Chita Rivera (Velma)
Gwen Verdon (Roxie)
Jerry Orbach (Billy)

(second-longest running show in Broadway History)

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A Chorus Line

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YEAR: 1975
MUSIC: Marvin Hamlisch
LYRICS: Edward Kleban
DIRECTOR/CHOREOGRAPHER: Michael Bennet
STAR: Donna McKechnie

won 12 Tonys (that’s nuts!)

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Dreamgirls

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YEAR: 1981
MUSIC: Henry Kreiger
BOOL + LYRICS: Tom Eyen
DIRECTOR / CHOREOGRAPHER: Michael  Bennett
STAR: Jennifer Holliday
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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

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YEAR: 1962
MUSIC + LYRICS: Stephen Sondheim
DIRECTOR: Geroge Abbot
(though Jerome Robbins doctored it)
CHOREOGRAPHY: Jack Cole
CSTAR: Zero Mostel
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Company

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YEAR: 1970
MUSIC + LYRICS: Sondheim
DIRECTOR: Hal Prince
CHOREO: Michael Bennett

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Sweeney Todd

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YEAR: 1979
MUSIC + LYRICS: Stephen Sondheim
DIRECTOR: James Lapine
STAR: Angela Lansbury (written for her)

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A Little Night Music

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YEAR: 1973
MUSIC + LYRICS: Stephen Sondheim
DIRECTOR: Hal Prince

PLOT: ???
(“Send In the Clowns”)

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Sunday in the Park with George

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YEAR: 1984
MUSIC + LYRICS: Stephen Sondheim
BOOK: James Lapine
DIRECTOR: James Lapine
STARS: Bernadette Peters, Mandy Patinkin

PLOT: Based on a painting by George Seurat and his real life

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Into the Woods

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YEAR: 1986
MUSIC + LYRICS: Stephen Sondheim
BOOK: James Lapine
DIRECTOR: James Lapine
STAR: Bernadette Peters (as the Witch)
PLOT: Fucked up fairly tales
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Pippin

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YEAR: 1972
MUSIC + LYRICS: Stephen Schwartz
DIRECTOR/CHOREOGRAPHER: Bob Fosse

STAR: Ben Vereen

(famous Manson Trio)

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Wicked

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YEAR: 2008
MUSIC + LYRICS: Stephen Schwartz

STARS:
Kristen Chenowith
Idina Menzel

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Evita

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YEAR: 1979
MUSIC: Andrew Lloyd Webber
LYRICS: Tim Rice
DIRECTOR: Hal Prince

STARS:
Patti Lupone
Mandi Patinkin

raised the belt

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Jesus Christ Superstar

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YEAR: 1970
MUSIC: Andrew Lloyd Webber
LYRICS: Tim Rice

STAR: Ben Vereen

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Hair

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YEAR: 1968
MUSIC: Galt McDermont
LYRICS: James Rado and Gerome Ragni

PLOT: Weird-af tribe of hippies

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Cats

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YEAR: 1981
MUSIC: Andrew Lloyd Webber
LYRICS: T.S. Eliot (all based on his works),
Richard Stilgoe, 
Trevor Nunn
DIRECTOR: Trevor Nunn
STAR: Betty Buckly
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The Phantom of the Opera

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YEAR: 1986
MUSIC: Andrew Lloyd Webber
LYRICS: Charles Hart and Richard Stilgoe
DIRECTOR: Hal Prince
PRODUCER: Cameron Macintosh

STAR:
Sarah Brightman
Michael Crawford

longest running Broadway show of all time

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Miss Saigon

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Year: 1991
MUSIC: Claude-Michel Schonberg
LYRICS: Alain Boublil and Richard Maltby, Jr.

PLOT: Based on the opera “Madame Butterfly”, but like set in Vietnam

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Les Miserables

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YEAR: 1987
MUSIC: Claude-Michel Schonberg
STAR: Colm Wilkinson
PLOT: Based on Victor Hugo book with same name

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The Lion King

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YEAR: 1997
MUSIC: Elton John
LYRICS: Tim Rice
DIRECTOR: Julie Traymor

PLOT: Based on the Disney movie of the same name

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Rent

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YEAR: 1996
MUSIC + LYRICS: Johnathan Larson
STAR: Idina Menzel

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Spring Awakening

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YEAR: 2006
MUSIC + LYRICS: Duncan Sheik

STAR:
Jonathan Groff, Lea Michele

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Hamilton

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YEAR: 2015
MUSIC + LYRICS: Lin-Manuel Miranda
DIRECTOR: Thomas Kail
CHOREO: Andy Blankenbuehler

STAR: Lin-Manuel Miranda

PLOT: Based on the book by Ron Chernow

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Fiddler On The Roof

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YEAR: 1964
MUSIC + LYRICS: Harnick and Bock
DIRECTOR/ CHOREOGRAPHER: Jerome Robbins

PLOT: Based on the book “Tevye and his Daughters” by Shalom Aleichem

STAR: Zero Mostel

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