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Broadway Musicals: The 101 Greatest Shows of All Time

by Ken Bloom and Frank Vlastnik (First Edition, 2004 & Second Edition, 2008)

1900

• Babes in Toyland (operetta)
• Little Johnny Jones
• The Red Mill
• The Merry Widow

1910

• Oh, Boy! (musical)
• Ziegfeld Follies of 1919

1920

• Sally (musical)
• Shuffle Along
• Lady, Be Good (musical) [sic: Lady, Be Good!]
• Rose-Marie
• The Student Prince
• No, No, Nanette
• The Desert Song
• Oh, Kay!
• A Connecticut Yankee (musical)
• Funny Face (musical)
• Good News (musical) [sic: Good News!]
• Show Boat
• The New Moon

1930

• Girl Crazy
• The Band Wagon
• George White's Scandals (1931 edition)
• Of Thee I Sing
• As Thousands Cheer
• Anything Goes
• Porgy and Bess
• Babes in Arms
• The Boys from Syracuse
• On Your Toes
• DuBarry Was a Lady

1940

• Pal Joey (musical)
• Lady in the Dark
• Oklahoma!
• One Touch of Venus
• Bloomer Girl
• On the Town (musical)
• Carousel (musical)
• Annie Get Your Gun (musical)
• Brigadoon
• Finian's Rainbow
• Kiss Me, Kate
• Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (musical)
• Lost in the Stars
• South Pacific (musical)

1950

• Guys and Dolls
• The King and I
• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (musical)
• Kismet (musical)
• Wonderful Town
• Fanny (musical)
• The Pajama Game
• Peter Pan (1954 musical)
• Damn Yankees

1950 (cont'd)

• Bells Are Ringing
• Li'l Abner
• The Most Happy Fella
• My Fair Lady
• The Music Man
• West Side Story
• Destry Rides Again
• Fiorello!
• Gypsy
• The Sound of Music

1960

• Bye Bye Birdie
• Do Re Mi
• Carnival!
• How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
• I Can Get It for You Wholesale
• A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
• Little Me
• She Loves Me
• Fiddler on the Roof
• Funny Girl
• Hello, Dolly!
• Man of La Mancha
• Cabaret
• Mame
• Sweet Charity
• Hair
• Promises, Promises
• Zorba
• 1776

1970

• Company
• Follies
• Grease
• A Little Night Music
• Chicago
• A Chorus Line
• Annie
• On the Twentieth Century
• Evita
• Sweeney Todd

1980

• Dreamgirls
• Cats
• La Cage aux Folles
• Sunday in the Park with George
• Les Misérables
• The Phantom of the Opera
• City of Angels
• Grand Hotel

1990

• Kiss of the Spider Woman
• Ragtime

2000

• The Full Monty
• Wicked
• Avenue Q
• The Drowsy Chaperone
• Grey Gardens

Performers

• Edith Adams
• Eddie Albert
• Julie Andrews
• Nancy Andrews (actress)
• Adele Astaire
• Fred Astaire
• Pearl Bailey
• Kaye Ballard
• Ray Bolger
• Larry Blyden
• Shirley Booth
• Fanny Brice
• Yul Brynner
• Betty Buckley
• David Burns (actor)
• Eddie Cantor
• Len Cariou
• Jack Cassidy
• Carol Channing
• Sydney Chaplin (actor)
• Bobby Clark (comedian)
• Barbara Cook
• Marilyn Cooper
• John Cullum
• Howard Da Silva
• Joan Diener
• Alfred Drake
• Sandy Duncan
• Todd Duncan
• Nancy Dussault
• Christine Ebersole
• Harvey Evans
• Nanette Fabray
• Lew Fields
• Sutton Foster
• Helen Gallagher
• William Gaxton
• Anita Gillette
• Hermione Gingold
• Randy Graff
• Dolores Gray
• Joel Grey
• Tammy Grimes
• Juanita Hall
• Carol Haney
• June Havoc
• George Hearn
• Florence Henderson
• Gregory Hines
• Judy Holliday
• Susan Johnson (actor)
• Al Jolson
• Maria Karnilova
• Danny Kaye
• Stubby Kaye
• Larry Kert
• Richard Kiley
• Dennis King
• Lisa Kirk
• Bert Lahr
• Nathan Lane
• Harold Lang
• Angela Lansbury
• Gertrude Lawrence
• Beatrice Lillie
• Dorothy Loudon
• Patti LuPone
• Mary Martin
• Carmen Mathews
• Mary McCarty (actor)
• Audra McDonald
• Donna McKechnie

Performers (cont'd)

• Kay Medford
• Ethel Merman
• Marilyn Miller
• Liza Minnelli
• Brian Stokes Mitchell
• David Montgomery (actor)
• Victor Moore
• Helen Morgan
• Anita Morris
• Karen Morrow
• Robert Morse
• Zero Mostel
• Donna Murphy
• Jerry Orbach
• Bernadette Peters
• Robert Preston (actor)
• John Raitt
• Cyril Ritchard
• Chita Rivera
• Vivienne Segal
• Phil Silvers
• Alexis Smith
• Pat Stanley
• Fred Stone
• Elaine Stritch
• Leslie Uggams
• Gwen Verdon
• Nancy Walker
• Ethel Waters
• Susan Watson
• David Wayne
• Robert Weede

Directors, choreographers

• George Abbott
• George Balanchine
• Gower Champion
• Jack Cole (choreographer)
• Agnes de Mille
• Ron Field
• Bob Fosse
• Peter Gennaro
• Michael Kidd
• Joe Layton
• Joshua Logan
• Jerry Mitchell
• Tom Moore (director)
• Trevor Nunn
• Harold Prince
• Jerome Robbins
• Herbert Ross
• Donald Saddler
• Susan Stroman
• Tommy Tune
• Onna White

Designers, orchestrators

• Theoni V. Aldredge
• Boris Aronson
• Lucinda Ballard
• Robert Russell Bennett
• Al Hirschfeld
• Florence Klotz
• Jo Mielziner
• Oliver Smith (designer)
• Jonathan Tunick
• Joseph Urban
• Robin Wagner (designer)
• Tony Walton

Producers

• Alex Aarons
• Robert E. Griffith
• Vinton Freedley
• Cameron Mackintosh
• David Merrick
• George White (producer)
• Florenz Ziegfeld

Writers, composers

• Lee Adams
• Richard Adler
• Harold Arlen
• Michael Bennett
• Irving Berlin
• Leonard Bernstein
• Jerry Bock
• Guy Bolton
• Eubie Blake
• Lew Brown
• Abe Burrows
• George M. Cohan
• Cy Coleman
• Betty Comden
• Noël Coward
• B. G. DeSylva
• Howard Dietz
• Fred Ebb
• Dorothy Fields
• Herbert Fields
• George Forrest (author)
• Rudolf Friml
• George Gershwin
• Ira Gershwin
• Adolph Green
• Larry Grossman (composer)
• Marvin Hamlisch
• Oscar Hammerstein II
• Otto Harbach
• E. Y. Harburg
• Sheldon Harnick
• Lorenz Hart
• Moss Hart
• Ray Henderson
• Victor Herbert
• Jerry Herman
• Tom Jones (writer)
• John Kander
• George S. Kaufman
• Jerome Kern
• Burton Lane
• Arthur Laurents
• Franz Lehár
• Carolyn Leigh
• Alan Jay Lerner
• Andrew Lloyd Webber
• Frank Loesser
• Frederick Loewe
• Galt MacDermot
• Bob Merrill
• Cole Porter
• Richard Rodgers
• Sigmund Romberg
• Harold Rome
• Jerry Ross (composer)
• Harvey Schmidt
• Arthur Schwartz
• Stephen Schwartz (composer)
• Neil Simon
• Noble Sissle
• Stephen Sondheim
• Michael Stewart (playwright)
• Peter Stone
• Charles Strouse
• Jule Styne
• Kurt Weill
• Meredith Willson
• P. G. Wodehouse
• Robert Wright (writer)

Broadway Musicals: Show by Show

by Stanley Green (Fifth Edition, 1996)

1800s

• The Black Crook
• Evangeline (1874 musical)
• The Mulligan Guard Ball
• Robin Hood (comic opera)
• A Trip to Chinatown
• The Fortune Teller (operetta)

1900

• Florodora
• The Wizard of Oz (1902 musical)
• Babes in Toyland (operetta)
• Little Johnny Jones
• Mlle. Modiste
• Forty-five Minutes from Broadway
• The Red Mill
• Follies of 1907
• The Merry Widow
• The Chocolate Soldier

1910

• Madame Sherry
• Naughty Marietta (operetta)
• The Pink Lady (musical)
• The Firefly (musical)
• Sweethearts (musical)
• The Girl from Utah
• Watch Your Step (musical)
• Ziegfeld Follies of 1915
• The Blue Paradise
• Very Good Eddie
• Oh, Boy! (musical)
• Maytime (musical)
• Leave It to Jane
• Oh, Lady! Lady!!
• Sinbad (musical)
• Ziegfeld Follies of 1918
• Ziegfeld Follies of 1919
• Greenwich Village Follies (1919 edition)
• Irene (musical)

1920

• Sally (musical)
• Shuffle Along
• Ziegfeld Follies of 1921
• Music Box Revue [disambiguate: 1921 edition]
• Das Dreimäderlhaus [a.k.a. Blossom Time]
• Ziegfeld Follies of 1922
• George White's Scandals (1922 edition)
• Poppy (1923 musical)
• Andre Charlot's Revue of 1924
• Rose-Marie
• Lady, Be Good (musical) [sic: Lady, Be Good!]
• The Student Prince
• The Garrick Gaieties [disambiguate: 1925 edition]
• No, No, Nanette
• Dearest Enemy
• The Vagabond King
• Sunny (musical)
• The Cocoanuts (musical)
• Tip-Toes
• George White's Scandals (1926 edition)
• Gräfin Mariza [a.k.a. Countess Maritza]
• Oh, Kay!
• The Desert Song
• Peggy-Ann
• Rio Rita (musical)
• Hit the Deck (musical)
• Good News (musical) [sic: Good News!]
• A Connecticut Yankee (musical)
• Funny Face (musical)
• Show Boat
• Rosalie (musical)
• The Three Musketeers (musical)
• Blackbirds of 1928
• The New Moon
• Hold Everything!
• Whoopee! [sic: Whoopee]
• Follow Thru (musical)
• The Little Show
• Sweet Adeline (musical)
• Bitter Sweet
• Fifty Million Frenchmen

1930

• Strike Up the Band (musical)
• Flying High
• Fine and Dandy (musical)
• Girl Crazy
• Three's a Crowd (musical)
• The New Yorkers
• The Band Wagon (musical)
• Earl Carroll Vanities (1931 edition)
• George White's Scandals (1931 edition)
• The Cat and the Fiddle (musical)
• Of Thee I Sing
• Face the Music (musical)
• Flying Colors (musical)
• Music in the Air
• Take a Chance (musical)
• Gay Divorce
• As Thousands Cheer
• Roberta
• Ziegfeld Follies of 1934
• New Faces (1934 edition)
• Life Begins at 8:40
• The Great Waltz
• Anything Goes
• At Home Abroad
• Porgy and Bess
• Jubilee (musical)
• Jumbo (musical)
• Ziegfeld Follies of 1936
• On Your Toes
• Red, Hot and Blue
• The Show Is On
• Babes in Arms
• I'd Rather Be Right
• Pins and Needles
• Hooray for What!
• The Cradle Will Rock
• I Married an Angel
• Hellzapoppin (musical)
• Knickerbocker Holiday
• Leave It to Me!
• The Boys from Syracuse
• Too Many Girls (musical) [dissociate 1940 film]
• DuBarry Was a Lady

1940

• Louisiana Purchase (musical)
• Cabin in the Sky (musical)
• Panama Hattie
• Pal Joey (musical)
• Lady in the Dark
• Best Food Forward (musical)
• Let's Face It!
• By Jupiter
• This Is the Army (musical)
• Oklahoma!
• One Touch of Venus
• Carmen Jones
• Mexican Hayride (musical)
• Follow the Girls
• Song of Norway
• Bloomer Girl
• On the Town (musical)
• Up in Central Park
• Carousel (musical)
• St. Louis Woman
• Call Me Mister
• Annie Get Your Gun (musical)
• Street Scene (opera)
• Finian's Rainbow
• Brigadoon
• High Button Shoes
• Allegro (musical)
• Make Mine Manhattan
• Inside U.S.A.
• Love Life (musical)
• Where's Charley?
• As the Girls Go
• Lend an Ear
• Kiss Me, Kate
• South Pacific (musical)
• Miss Liberty
• Lost in the Stars
• Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (musical)

1950

• Call Me Madam
• Guys and Dolls
• The King and I
• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (musical)
• Paint Your Wagon (musical)
• New Faces of 1952
• Wish You Were Here (musical)
• Wonderful Town
• Can-Can (musical)
• Me and Juliet
• Kismet (musical)
• The Threepenny Opera
• The Golden Apple (musical)
• The Pajama Game
• The Boy Friend
• Peter Pan (1954 musical)
• Fanny (musical)
• House of Flowers (musical)
• Plain and Fancy
• Silk Stockings
• Damn Yankees
• My Fair Lady
• The Most Happy Fella
• Li'l Abner (musical)
• Bells Are Ringing (musical)
• Candide (operetta)
• New Girl in Town
• West Side Story
• Jamaica (musical)
• The Music Man
• Flower Drum Song
• Redhead (musical)
• Destry Rides Again (musical)
• Once Upon a Mattress
• Gypsy: A Musical Fable [sic: Gypsy]
• Take Me Along
• The Sound of Music
• Little Mary Sunshine
• Fiorello!

1960

• Greenwillow
• Bye Bye Birdie (musical)
• The Fantasticks
• Irma La Douce (musical) [sic: Irma la Douce]
• The Unsinkable Molly Brown (musical)
• Camelot (musical)
• Do Re Mi (musical)
• Carnival! [sic: Carnival]
• Milk and Honey (musical)
• How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
• No Strings
• A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
• Stop the World – I Want to Get Off
• Little Me (musical)
• Oliver!
• She Loves Me
• 110 in the Shade
• Hello, Dolly! (musical)
• What Makes Sammy Run? (musical)
• Funny Girl (musical)
• High Spirits (musical)
• Fiddler on the Roof
• Golden Boy (musical)
• Do I Hear a Waltz?
• Half a Sixpence
• The Roar of the Greasepaint – The Smell of the Crowd
• On a Clear Day You Can See Forever
• Man of La Mancha
• Sweet Charity
• Mame (musical)
• The Apple Tree
• Cabaret (musical)
• I Do! I Do!
• You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown
• Your Own Thing
• The Happy Time (musical)
• George M!
• Hair (musical)
• Zorba (musical)
• Promises, Promises
• Dames at Sea
• 1776 (musical)

1970

• Purlie
• Applause (musical)
• Company (musical)
• The Rothschilds
• Follies
• Godspell
• Jesus Christ Superstar
• Two Gentlemen of Verona (musical)
• Grease (musical)
• Sugar (musical)
• Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope
• Pippin (musical)
• A Little Night Music
• Raisin (musical)
• The Magic Show
• The Wiz
• Shenandoah (musical)
• A Chorus Line
• Chicago (musical)
• Pacific Overtures
• I Love My Wife
• Annie (musical)
• On the Twentieth Century
• Dancin'
• The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
• Ain't Misbehavin' (musical)
• I'm Getting My Act Together and Taking It on the Road
• They're Playing Our Song
• Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
• Evita (musical)
• Sugar Babies

1980

• Barnum (musical)
• 42nd Street (musical)
• The Pirates of Penzance
• Sophisticated Ladies
• Woman of the Year (musical)
• Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
• Dreamgirls
• Nine (musical)
• Little Shop of Horrors (musical)
• Cats (musical)
• My One and Only
• La Cage aux Folles (musical)
• The Tap Dance Kid
• Sunday in the Park with George
• Big River (musical)
• Song and Dance
• Drood [sic: The Mystery of Edwin Drood]
• Me and My Girl
• Les Misérables (musical)
• Starlight Express
• Into the Woods
• The Phantom of the Opera (1986 musical)
• Chess (musical)
• Jerome Robbins' Broadway
• Grand Hotel (musical)
• City of Angels (musical)

1990

• Aspects of Love
• Once on This Island
• Miss Saigon
• The Secret Garden (musical)
• The Will Rogers Follies
• Crazy for You
• Five Guys Named Moe
• Jelly's Last Jam
• Falsettos
• The Who's Tommy [sic: Tommy]
• Kiss of the Spider Woman (musical)
• Beauty and the Beast (musical)
• Passion (musical)
• Sunset Boulevard (musical)
• Victor/Victoria (musical)
• Rent (musical)