Famous Musicals
If you're a big fan of musical films and theater, the following article enlisting famous musicals is sure to delight you. Check out the ones you may have missed and add them to your vintage collection of musicals.
It's strange, but it seems
A little - well - complicated
There's a kind of a sort of : cost
There's a couple of things get: lost
There are bridges you cross
You didn't know you crossed
Until you've crossed.
~ Gregory Maguire (for the Broadway musical Wicked)
When we're talking musical, we usually refer to either musical theater or musical films. While the former is an amalgamation of music pieces, songs, dialogs and dance with the elements of drama, the latter is a genre of motion pictures that incorporate musical sequences as interwoven parts of the thematic narrative. Musicals have garnered tremendous fan following among cinema as well as theater goers and the cynosure of their appeal lies in the way the story and the central idea is conveyed by resting the dominant part of the narrative and much of the histrionics upon musical effects, songs and artistic choreography.
Musical super hits like Moulin Rouge, The Sound of Music, Chicago and My Fair Lady have assumed a cult status among lovers of this genre of entertainment and, in a way, they give you a feel of the bygone era of theater and films when most of the old-world-entertainment churned out by this media used to be in the form of musicals and ballads. Check out the following list of noted musicals that illuminated the avenues for this entertainment genre, be it Broadway or the silver screen.
Famous Musicals on Broadway
The following famous Broadway musicals have wooed tremendous audiences and still continue to be regarded as some of the best histrionic pieces of entertainment. These musicals are classes in themselves and continue to inspire theatrical compositions to this day.
- Avenue Q
- A Chorus Line
- Cabaret
- Cat
- Hairspray
- Les Miserables
- Phantom of the Opera
- Fiddler on the Roof
- Oh! Calcutta!
- Beauty and the Beast
- Chicago
- Rent
- The Lion King
- Mamma Mia!
- Miss Saigon
- Life with Father
- 42nd Street
- Same Time, Next Year
- Wicked
- Tobacco Road
- My Fair Lady
- Hello, Dolly!
- Annie
- The Producers
- Abie's Irish Rose
- Man of La Mancha
- Jersey Boys
- Oklahoma!
- South Pacific
- Smokey Joe's Cafe
- Pippin
- The Magic Show
- Gemini
- Aida
- Deathtrap
- Dancin'
- Harvey
- Hair
- La Cage aux Folles
- The Wiz
- Mary Poppins
- Crazy for You
- Born Yesterday
- The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
- Ain't Misbehavin'
- Mary, Mary
- Spamalot
- The Voice of the Turtle
- Evita
- Barefoot in the Park
- Jekyll & Hyde
- Dreamgirls
- Same Time, Next Year
- Mame
- The Sound of Music
- Arsenic and Old Lace
- How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
- Me and My Girl
- The Music Man
- Hellzapoppin'
- Mummenschanz
- The Music Man
- Funny Girl
- Movin' Out
- Angel Street
- Brighton Beach memoirs
- Promises, Promises
- Lightnin'
- Cactus Flower
- The King and I
- Torch Song Trilogy
- Sleuth
- Equus
- 1776
- Guys and Dolls
- Sugar Babies
- Amadeus
- In the Heights
- Mister Roberts
- Annie Get Your Gun
- The Seven Year Itch
- Pins and Needles
- Butterflies are Free
- Kiss Me, Kate
- They're Playing Our Song
- Fosse
- Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope
- The Pajama Game
- Grand Hotel
- Damn Yankees
- Shenandoah
- Plaza Suite
- The Teahouse of the August Moon
- The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
- Anything Goes
- Bombay Dreams
- Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
- Dirty Rotten scoundrels
- Starlight Express
- Lestat
Most of the following famous Hollywood musicals are adapted from or based upon some of the best and most fondly remembered musical theater productions. The following list of movie musicals are worth checking out.
- The Wizard of Oz
- Duck Soup
- Singin' In the Rain
- The Lion King
- Tangled
- Gold Diggers of 1933
- Beauty and the Beast
- A Night at the Opera
- The Smiling Lieutenant
- Arabesque
- Love Me Tonight
- The Sound of Music
- My Fair Lady
- The Blues Brothers
- The Blue Angel
- Cabaret
- Aladdin
- Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
- Top Hat
- The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
- Fiddler on the Roof
- Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
- West Side Story
- Yankee Doodle Dandy
- A Star is Born
- 42nd Street
- The Jungle Book
- Swan Lake
- The Court Jester
- Show Boat
- Good News
- The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
- Mary Poppins
- Moulin Rouge
- Chicago
- Evita
- Alice in wonderland
- A Christmas Carol
- Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
- The Phantom of the Opera
We hear and use these quotes so many times in our mundane lives that sometimes we cease to realize that they are part of the scripts of some of the most noted musicals ever. Check out these quotes to know what I mean!
- To love another person is to see the face of God. - Les Miserables
- Forget regret, or life is yours to miss. - Rent
- Never take a stranger's advice, never let a friend fool you twice. Nobody's on nobody's side. - Chess
- I wasn't looking, look what I found! - Thoroughly Modern Millie
- I ain't got nothing, so I ain't got nothing to lose... there's gold in them there hills and I'm gonna get it or die trying! - Thoroughly Modern Millie
- Don't be afraid that it won't be perfect. The only thing to be afraid of really is that it won't be. - Company
Can we ever forget the likes of Honey Honey and All That Jazz? Not if we can help it! Check out the following great musical numbers from some of the most prominent musicals of all time!
- he Lives in You - Lion King
- Summer Nights - Grease
- Defying Gravity - Wicked
- Maybe - Annie
- Tomorrow - Annie
- Like No Man I've Ever Seen - Tarzan
- A Change in Me - Beauty and the Beast
- That's What Friends Are For - Jungle Book
- Hakuna Matata - Lion King
- Don't Cry for Me Argentina - Evita
- Why Can't the English? - My Fair Lady
- All I Ask of You - Phantom of the Opera
- I Dreamed a Dream - Les Miserables
- For Good - Wicked
- Dulcinea - Man of La Mancha
- If I Can't Love Her - Beauty and the Beast
- From the Dead - Lestat
- Welcome to the New World - Lestat
- One day I'll Fly Away - Moulin Rouge
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