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This article is about the 1996 Broadway rock opera. For the 2005 film, see Rent (film); for other uses, see Rent.Rent can be considered a rock musical or an Operetta, with music and lyrics by Jonathan Larson inspired by Giacomo Puccini's opera La Bohème. It tells the...

Waiting for Godot is a play by Samuel Beckett, in which the characters wait for Godot, who never arrives. Godot's absence, as well as many other aspects of the play, have led to many different interpretations since the play's premiere. Voted "the most significant...

Funny Girl is a musical with a book by Isobel Lennart, music by Jule Styne, and lyrics by Bob Merrill. The semi-biographical plot is based on the life and career of Broadway and film star and comedienne Fanny Brice and her stormy relationship with entrepreneur and...

Hello, Dolly! is a musical with lyrics and music by Jerry Herman and a book by Michael Stewart, based on Thornton Wilder's 1938 farce The Merchant of Yonkers, which Wilder revised and retitled The Matchmaker in 1955. Hello, Dolly! was first produced on Broadway by...

Chicago is a Kander and Ebb musical set in prohibition era Chicago. The book is by Ebb and Bob Fosse. The story is a satire on corruption in the administration of criminal justice, and the concept of the "celebrity criminal." The musical is based on a 1926 play of the...

Les Misérables (pronunciation ), colloquially known as Les Mis or Les Miz, is a musical composed in 1980 by the French composer Claude-Michel Schönberg with a libretto by Alain Boublil. Through-sung, it is perhaps the most famous of all French musical and one of the...

Sweet Charity is a musical with music by Cy Coleman, lyrics by Dorothy Fields and book by Neil Simon. It is based on Federico Fellini's screenplay for Nights of Cabiria. The original Broadway production, directed and choreographed by Bob Fosse, opened on January 29,...

Damn Yankees is a musical comedy with a book by George Abbott and Douglass Wallop and music and lyrics by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross. The story is a modern retelling of the Faust legend set during the 1950s in Washington, D.C., during a time when the New York Yankees...

Show Boat is a musical in two acts with music by Jerome Kern and book (based on a novel by Edna Ferber) and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. One notable exception is the song "Bill", which was originally written for Kern in 1918 by P. G. Wodehouse but reworked by...

The Age of Innocence (1920) is a novel by Edith Wharton, which won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize. The story occurs among New York City's upper class in the 1870s, before electricity, telephone, and automobiles; when there was a small cluster of old, "aristocratic"...

A Chorus Line is a musical with a book by James Kirkwood, Jr. and Nicholas Dante, lyrics by Edward Kleban, and music by Marvin Hamlisch. The original Broadway production was an unprecedented box office and critical hit, receiving 12 Tony Award nominations and winning...

''This article is about the John O'Hara novel. For the Frank Sinatra film, see Pal Joey (film).For the Broadway musical, see Pal Joey (musical).'' Pal Joey is a 1939 epistolary novel by John O'Hara, which became the basis of the 1940 stage musical comedy and 1957...

How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying is a musical with music and lyrics by Frank Loesser and book by Abe Burrows, Jack Weinstock, and Willie Gilbert, based on Shepherd Mead's popular 1952 book of the same name Playwright Willie Gilbert and neurosurgeon...

The Vagina Monologues is an Obie Award-winning episodic play written by Eve Ensler which ran at the off-Broadway Westside Theatre after a limited run at HERE Arts Center in 1996. Ensler originally starred in the production; when she left the play it was recast with...

Monty Python's Spamalot is a comedic musical "lovingly ripped off from" the film Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975). Like the film, it is a highly irreverent parody of the Arthurian Legend, but it differs from the film in many ways, especially in its parodies of...

Wicked is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and a libretto by Winnie Holzman. The story is based on the best-selling novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire, a re-imagining of L. Frank Baum's classic story...

Redhead is a Broadway musical set in London in the 1880s, around the time of Jack the Ripper. It is a murder mystery in the setting of a waxworks museum. The music was composed by Albert Hague and the lyrics by Dorothy Fields, who with her brother, Herbert, along with...

New Girl in Town is a musical with a book by George Abbott and music and lyrics by Bob Merrill based on Eugene O'Neill's 1921 gloomy play Anna Christie, about a prostitute who tries to live down her past. New Girl, unlike O'Neill's play, focuses on the jealousy of the...

I Can Get It For You Wholesale is a 1962 Broadway musical, which became notable as the Broadway debut of 19-year-old Barbra Streisand, who was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical. The book by Jerome Weidman was based on his own 1937...

Can-Can is a 1953 musical with music and lyrics by Cole Porter, with a book by Abe Burrows. It originally opened on Broadway at the Shubert Theatre on May 7, 1953, and played for 892 performances; it closed on June 25, 1955. The original production, which Burrows also...

Over Here! is a musical with a score by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman and book by Will Holt. The show was directed by Tom Moore and choreographed by Patricia Birch, with scenic design by Douglas W. Schmidt and costumes by Carrie F. Robbins. Over Here! was...

Finishing the Picture is Arthur Miller's final play. It was produced at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, Illinois in the autumn of 2004, just months before Miller's death on February 10, 2005. Humorous and poetic, it is thinly-veiled autobiographical examination of...

Epic Proportions is a play by Larry Coen and David Crane. Set in the 1930s, it tells the story of brothers Benny and Phil, who go to the Arizona desert to work as extras in the Biblical epic film Exeunt Omnes, directed by the mysteriously reclusive D.W. DeWitt. All...

Billion Dollar Baby is a musical set on Staten Island and in Atlantic City during the late 1920s. It follows the adventures of an ambitious young woman, Maribelle Jones, in her quest for wealth during the Prohibition era. Betty Comden and Adolph Green, fresh from their...

Call Me Mister is a revue with sketches by Arnold Auerbach and words and music by Harold Rome. The title refers to returning soldiers who expected to be addressed as civilians instead of by their military rank. Broadway production, directed by Robert H. Gordon,...

The Gin Game is a two-person, two-act play by D.L. Coburn. The play won the 1978 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Weller Martin and Fonsia Dorsey, two elderly residents at a nursing home for senior citizens, strike up an acquaintance. Neither seems to have any other friends...

Dancin' is a musical revue first produced in 1978, directed and choreographed by Bob Fosse, who won a Tony Award for the choreography. The show is a tribute to the art of dance, and the music is a collection of mostly American songs, many with a dance theme from a wide...

This production used a 2007 English translation by Paul Walsh.