Great Musicals for Film and Stage; Composers of Musicals and Music Theatre
A List of Top Websites about Musicals
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Animated musicals
Disney musicals
Disney Online
Wikipedia,
an extensive list of animated feature-length films.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Astaire, Fred
Fred Astaire, Wikipedia entry.
Auditions
Awards
Golden Globe Awards
Globe Awards for best filmed musical or comedy, Wikipedia
B
Broadway.com. Current Broadway productions.
British musicals, music theatre
British music theatre of the 50’s and 60’s.
Theatre Index
Broadway
Broadway theatre guide and tickets.
Absolute Broadway
Broadway Musical Home
From Rodgers and Hammerstein to Stephen Sondheim, from musical comedies to epic love sagas, from Tony Award-winners to flops, Broadway Musical Home is a site for Broadway news, tickets, merchandise and information.
Internet Broadway Database
BDB (Internet Broadway Database) archive is the official database for Broadway theatre information. IBDB provides records of productions from the beginnings of New York theatre until today. Details include pertinent people involved as well as interesting facts and production statistics.
Talkin’ Broadway
Discussion, interviews, reviews.
Carousel
Carousel
Guide to Musical Theatre
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Cabaret
Cabaret.
IMDB
Cabaret
(the film) Wikipedia
Cabaret
(stage musical)
Chicago
Chicago, The Musical, Official Website
Chicago, El Musical, Spanish Production Official Website
Links to information about Chicago.
The Cyber Encyclopedia of Musical Theatre, TV and Film
600+ pages and 2000+ illustrations. A beginners
course.
D
Directories of musicals
Definitive Musical Guide to West End Musicals
Searchable database of songwriters, productions, producers, stages.
Musical.net
A web guide to musicals.
WOS100: The top 100 Musicals of all time. WhatsOnStage.com
Musical Heaven
Synopses of musicals, alphabetically listed.
List of musicals: A to L Wikipedia
Candide
Candide. The Leonard Bernstein Website
A Guide to Leonard Bernstein’s Candide. The Sondheim Guide
In ‘Candide,’ Bernstein Fuses Philosophy And Comedy. Marin Alsop
Candide (Operetta) Plot & Characters. StageAgent
Bernstein’s Candide, review from Gramophone.co.uk
Evita
Evita
Internet Broadway Database
Evita
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Really Useful Group
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Fiddler on the Roof
Fiddler on the Roof. Wikipedia entry.
Filmed musicals
Classic Hollywood Movie Musicals
Class Act
Filmed musicals directory.
Golden Movie Musicals. Classical Musicals.com
Films based on plays or musicals. Wikipedia
Database of Movie Musicals
List of musical films by year.
Wikipedia.
Wikipedia entries on film musicals.
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German musicals, German productions
Green Panda Theatre
Green Panda Theatre publish two musicals available to license, Berlin and Rising Sun, the New Songs for Musical Theatre Songbooks and music for pantos.
H
Hairspray
Hairspray
Wikipedia entry.
Hamilton
What is Hamilton? A 12-step guide to your new musical obsession. The Telegraph
Revolutionary musical is thrilling salute to America’s past. The Guardian
Hello, Dolly
Hello, Dolly
Synopsis, review, credits, awards.
High School Musical
High School Musical
Official site for the Disney Channel Original High School Musical.
High School Musical
Fansite for High School Musical
High School Musical 3: Senior Year (2008)
IMDB
History of the musical
History of Musicals, stage and screen,from the 1920s to the present day. Musicals101.com.
The Black Crook
History of the Musical Stage 1860s: The Black Crook
Photos and drawings from The Black Crook.
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India/Musical films made in India
Bollywood
Wikipedia
J
Jesus Christ Superstar
Song Lyrics
Lyrics from the musical.
Jesus Christ Superstar. Wikipedia
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Les Misérables
Les Misérables, official site.
Libretti and lyrics. translations.
Lyrics
Lyrics and libretti for musicals.
Lyrics of classic musicals.
A web directory from Broadway Musical Home.
Synopses of musicals, alphabetically listed.
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Mamma Mia!
Mama Mia!
The film version.
Mamma Mia! (2008)
IMDB
MAMMA MIA!
The stage production.
Mama mia
Wikipedia entry.
Mary Poppins
Mary Poppins
Cast/credits plus additional information.
Musicals: lyrics, databases, directories, organizations
Musical Heaven
Synopses of musicals, alphabetically listed.
Musicals.net
Lyrics, song list, synopses, and other various information about musicals.
Musical Theatre,
Wikipedia entry.
Musicals.101
A Cyber Encyclopedia of Musical Theatre, TV and Film. How musicals are made. Getting the Idea, workshops, raising the money…
Musical Theatre International
One of the world’s major dramatic licensing agencies, specializing in Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End musicals.
Music Box International,
a not-for-profit company dedicated to finding and distributing affordable musicals and stage plays for middle schools, high schools, colleges and universities, community theatre groups, as wells as professional theatre companies.
Musical.net
A web guide to musicals.
List of musicals: A to L
Wikipedia
My Fair Lady
My Fair Lady
Detailed review, synopsis and discussion.
My Fair Lady
IMDB. Cast/credits plus additional information about the film.
Wikipedia
on My Fair Lady (the film)
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Netherlands musical productions.
New Musicals.com
An international website providing exposure for new musicals and their creative team to producers,directors, agents and producing organizations such as professional, regional, community and university theaters as well as schools.
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Oliver!
Oliver! (1968)
Cast/credits and other information for the film
Oliver!
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Phantom of the Opera
Phantom of the Opera Official site.
The Phantom of the Opera
Wikipedia
The Phantom of the Opera (The film, 2004)
IMDB
Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
R
Rock operas
List of rock musicals from Wikipedia.
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Official site.
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Internet Movie Database
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
AllMovie
S
Scripts and scores for musicals,
a site from the U.K.
Singin’ in the Rain
Singin’ In The Rain
Detailed review, synopsis and discussion.
Singin’ in the Rain
Cast/credits plus additional information.
The Sound of Music
Allwatchers
Review – The Sound of Music Analytical review of the plot, setting, theme, and structure of the Julie Andrews film, and links to similar movies.
The
Flick Filosopher/The Sound of Music. Review and discussion of the film.
Greatest Films – The Sound of Music (1965)
Detailed review, synopsis and discussion.
IMDb – The Sound of Music
Cast/credits plus information about the film.
The Sound of More Music
Fanpage with lyrics, production information, and pictures.
Synopses
Synopses of musicals, alphabetically listed.
V
Vienna
W
West End Theatre Guide, London
News and bookings.
West Side Story
West Side Story
Wikipedia entry.
West Side Story official website.
Wikipedia entry on Musical Theatre
The Wizard of Oz
The Judy Room (Judy Garland website)
Composers and lyricists of classic musicals
Berlin, Irving.
Irving Berlin
Irving Berlin Wikipedia entry.
The Irving Berlin Music Company
Bernstein. Leonard. Leonard Bernstein website.
Photographs, lectures, working notes, audio clips.
Berkeley, Busby. Busby Berkley
Gershwin, George. the George Gershwin website.
George and Ira Gershwin Website
Gilbert and Sullivan operettas.
Lloyd-Webber, Andrew.
The Official Andrew Lloyd-Webber Site
Andrew Lloyd Webber Tiretracks
Catalogue, news, discography.
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera Official film site by The Really Useful Group.
Offers photos, merchandising, music clips and reviews.
Phantom of the Opera, The official site.
Loewe, Frederick. Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
Naxos records (sign in for audio streams)
Rodgers and Hammerstein Organization
Archives. The Sound of Music, The King and I, etc.
The Sound of Music
IMDB
The Sound of Music Wikipedia entry.
Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound
New York Public Library
Sherman Brothers. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Mary Poppins, Jungle Book.
Richard M Sherman Wikipedia entry.
Schonberg, Michael. Michael Schonberg. Les Miserables
Sondheim, Stephen. Stephen Sondheim Stage
A comprehensive Stephen Sondheim site.
Weill, Kurt. The Kurt Weill Foundation for Music
Sandy Wilson
Wikipedia entry.