A century of productions

1927 · Gallery I · Researched Original

1927 | Music by Jerome Kern | Book and Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II | Based on the novel by Edna Ferber

1931 · Gallery I · Researched Original

1931 | Music by George Gershwin | Lyrics by Ira Gershwin | Book by George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind

1934 · Gallery I · Researched Original

1934 | Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter | Original Book by Guy Bolton and P. G. Wodehouse, revised by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse

1935 · Gallery I · Researched Original

1935 | Music by George Gershwin | Libretto by DuBose Heyward | Lyrics by DuBose Heyward and Ira Gershwin | Based on Heyward’s novel Porgy and the play by DuBose and Dorothy Heyward

1940 · Gallery I · Researched Original

1940 | Music by Richard Rodgers | Lyrics by Lorenz Hart | Book by John O’Hara | Based on O’Hara’s Pal Joey stories in The New Yorker

1943 · Gallery II · Researched Original

1943 | Music by Richard Rodgers | Book and Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II | Based on Lynn Riggs’s play Green Grow the Lilacs

1945 · Gallery II · Attended Revival

1945 | Music by Richard Rodgers | Book and Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II | Based on Ferenc Molnár’s play Liliom

1946 · Gallery II · Researched Original

1946 | Music and Lyrics by Irving Berlin | Book by Herbert and Dorothy Fields | Inspired by the life of Annie Oakley

1948 · Gallery II · Researched Original

1948 | Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter | Book by Samuel and Bella Spewack | Inspired by William Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew

1949 · Gallery II · Researched Original

1949 | Music by Richard Rodgers | Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II | Book by Oscar Hammerstein II and Joshua Logan | Based on James A. Michener’s Tales of the South Pacific

1950 · Gallery II · Researched Original

1950 | Music and Lyrics by Frank Loesser | Book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows | Based on stories and characters by Damon Runyon

1951 · Gallery II · Attended Revival

1951 | Music by Richard Rodgers | Book and Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II | Based on Margaret Landon’s novel Anna and the King of Siam, inspired by the memoirs of Anna Leonowens

1954 · Gallery II · Researched Original

1954 | Music and Lyrics by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross | Book by George Abbott and Richard Bissell | Based on Richard Bissell’s novel 7½ Cents

1956 · Gallery II · Attended Revival

1956 | Music by Frederick Loewe | Book and Lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner | Based on George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion

1957 · Gallery II · Attended Revival

1957 | Music by Leonard Bernstein | Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim | Book by Arthur Laurents | Conceived and Choreographed by Jerome Robbins | Inspired by William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet

1959 · Gallery II · Attended Revival

1959 | Music by Jule Styne | Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim | Book by Arthur Laurents | Suggested by the memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee

1959 · Gallery II · Attended Revival

1959 | Music by Richard Rodgers | Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II | Book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse | Based on Maria von Trapp’s memoir The Story of the Trapp Family Singers

1960 · Gallery III · Researched Original

1960 | Music by Charles Strouse | Lyrics by Lee Adams | Book by Michael Stewart

1961 · Gallery III · Researched Original

1961 | Music and Lyrics by Frank Loesser | Book by Abe Burrows, Jack Weinstock, and Willie Gilbert | Based on Shepherd Mead’s How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying

1964 · Gallery III · Researched Original

1964 | Music by Jerry Bock | Lyrics by Sheldon Harnick | Book by Joseph Stein | Based on Sholem Aleichem’s stories about Tevye and his daughters

1964 · Gallery III · Attended Revival

1964 | Music and Lyrics by Jerry Herman | Book by Michael Stewart | Based on Thornton Wilder’s The Matchmaker

1965 · Gallery III · Researched Original

1965 | Music by Mitch Leigh | Lyrics by Joe Darion | Book by Dale Wasserman | Inspired by Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quixote

1966 · Gallery III · Attended Revival

1966 | Music by John Kander | Lyrics by Fred Ebb | Book by Joe Masteroff | Based on John Van Druten’s I Am a Camera and Christopher Isherwood’s The Berlin Stories

1968 · Gallery III · Researched Original

1968 | Music by Galt MacDermot | Book and Lyrics by Gerome Ragni and James Rado

1969 · Gallery III · Researched Original

1969 | Music and Lyrics by Sherman Edwards | Book by Peter Stone

1970 · Gallery III · Attended Revival

1970 | Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim | Book by George Furth

1971 · Gallery III · Researched Original

1971 | Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber | Lyrics by Tim Rice

1972 · Gallery III · Researched Original

1972 | Music and Lyrics by Stephen Schwartz | Book by Roger O. Hirson | Originally Directed and Choreographed by Bob Fosse

1973 · Gallery III · Researched Original

1973 | Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim | Book by Hugh Wheeler | Inspired by Ingmar Bergman’s 1955 film Smiles of a Summer Night

1974 · Gallery IX · Attended Revival

Landmark Broadway Revivals: 1974, 1989, 2003, 2008 & 2024 | Music by Jule Styne | Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim | Book by Arthur Laurents | Original Broadway Production: 1959

1975 · Gallery III · Researched Original

1975 | Music by Marvin Hamlisch | Lyrics by Edward Kleban | Book by James Kirkwood Jr. and Nicholas Dante | Conceived, Directed, and Choreographed by Michael Bennett

1975 · Gallery III · Attended Revival

1975 | Music by John Kander | Lyrics by Fred Ebb | Book by Fred Ebb and Bob Fosse | Based on the play Chicago by Maurine Dallas Watkins

1979 · Gallery V · Attended Revival

1979 | Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber | Lyrics by Tim Rice | Originally Directed by Harold Prince

1979 · Gallery IV · Attended Revival

1979 | Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim | Book by Hugh Wheeler | Based on Christopher Bond’s 1973 play

1982 · Gallery V · Attended Revival

1982 | Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber | Based on T. S. Eliot’s Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats | Additional Lyrics by Trevor Nunn and Richard Stilgoe | Originally Directed by Trevor Nunn | Choreographed by Gillian Lynne

1984 · Gallery IV · Researched Original

1984 | Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim | Book by James Lapine | Inspired by Georges Seurat’s painting A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte

1987 · Gallery IV · Attended Revival

1987 | Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim | Book by James Lapine | Inspired by the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm and Charles Perrault

1987 · Gallery V · Attended Revival

1987 | Music by Claude-Michel Schönberg | Lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer | Original French Text by Alain Boublil and Jean-Marc Natel | Book by Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg | Based on Victor Hugo’s 1862 novel

1988 · Gallery V · Attended Revival

1988 | Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber | Lyrics by Charles Hart | Additional Lyrics by Richard Stilgoe | Book by Richard Stilgoe and Andrew Lloyd Webber | Based on Gaston Leroux’s 1910 novel Le Fantôme de l’Opéra | Originally Directed by Harold Prince

1990 · Gallery IV · Researched Original

1990 | Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim | Book by John Weidman | Based on an idea by Charles Gilbert Jr.

1991 · Gallery V · Researched Original

1991 | Music by Claude-Michel Schönberg | Lyrics by Richard Maltby Jr. and Alain Boublil | Original French Lyrics by Alain Boublil | Adapted from Giacomo Puccini’s Madama Butterfly

1994 · Gallery VI · Attended Original

1994 | Music by Alan Menken | Lyrics by Howard Ashman and Tim Rice | Book by Linda Woolverton | Based on Disney’s 1991 animated film and the traditional French fairy tale

1994 · Gallery V · Attended Revival

1994 | Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber | Book and Lyrics by Don Black and Christopher Hampton | Based on Billy Wilder’s 1950 film Sunset Boulevard

1996 · Gallery IX · Attended Revival

1996 Broadway Revival | Music by John Kander | Lyrics by Fred Ebb | Book by Fred Ebb and Bob Fosse | Original Broadway Production: 1975 | Revival Directed by Walter Bobbie | Choreographed “in the Style of Bob Fosse” by Ann Reinking

1996 · Gallery VII · Researched Original

1996 | Music, Lyrics, and Book by Jonathan Larson | Loosely based on Giacomo Puccini’s La Bohème | Originally Directed by Michael Greif

1997 · Gallery VI · Attended Original

1997 | Music by Elton John | Lyrics by Tim Rice | Book by Roger Allers and Irene Mecchi | Based on Disney's 1994 animated film

1998 · Gallery IX · Attended Revival

1998 / 2014 / 2024 Broadway Revivals | Music by John Kander | Lyrics by Fred Ebb | Book by Joe Masteroff | Original Broadway Production: 1966 | 1998 & 2014 Revivals Directed by Sam Mendes | 2024 Revival Directed by Rebecca Frecknall

1998 · Gallery VII · Attended Revival

1998 | Music by Stephen Flaherty | Lyrics by Lynn Ahrens | Book by Terrence McNally | Based on E. L. Doctorow’s 1975 novel Ragtime

2000 · Gallery VI · Researched Original

2000 | Music by Elton John | Lyrics by Tim Rice | Book by Linda Woolverton, Robert Falls, and David Henry Hwang | Based on Giuseppe Verdi’s 1871 opera Aida

2001 · Gallery VII · Researched Original

2001 | Music and Lyrics by Mel Brooks | Book by Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan | Based on Mel Brooks’s 1967 film The Producers | Originally Directed and Choreographed by Susan Stroman

2002 · Gallery VII · Researched Original

2002 | Music by Marc Shaiman | Lyrics by Scott Wittman and Marc Shaiman | Book by Mark O’Donnell and Thomas Meehan | Based on John Waters’s 1988 film Hairspray | Originally Directed by Jack O’Brien | Choreographed by Jerry Mitchell

2003 · Gallery VII · Researched Original

2003 | Music and Lyrics by Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx | Book by Jeff Whitty | Originally Directed by Jason Moore

2003 · Gallery VII · Attended Original

2003 | Music and Lyrics by Stephen Schwartz | Book by Winnie Holzman | Based on Gregory Maguire’s 1995 novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, inspired by L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

2005 · Gallery VII · Researched Original

2005 | Music by John Du Prez and Eric Idle | Lyrics by Eric Idle | Book by Eric Idle | Based on the 1975 film Monty Python and the Holy Grail | Originally Directed by Mike Nichols | Originally Choreographed by Casey Nicholaw

2006 · Gallery VI · Researched Original

2006 | Music and Lyrics by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman | New Songs and Additional Music and Lyrics by George Stiles and Anthony Drewe | Book by Julian Fellowes | Based on the stories of P. L. Travers and the 1964 Walt Disney film

2006 · Gallery VII · Researched Original

2006 | Music by Duncan Sheik | Book and Lyrics by Steven Sater | Based on Frank Wedekind’s 1891 play Frühlings Erwachen (Spring Awakening) | Originally Directed by Michael Mayer | Choreographed by Bill T. Jones

2008 · Gallery VII · Researched Original

2008 | Music by Elton John | Book and Lyrics by Lee Hall | Based on the 2000 film Billy Elliot | Originally Directed by Stephen Daldry | Choreographed by Peter Darling

2008 · Gallery VII · Researched Original

2008 | Music and Lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda | Book by Quiara Alegría Hudes | Conceived by Lin-Manuel Miranda | Originally Directed by Thomas Kail | Choreographed by Andy Blankenbuehler

2009 · Gallery VII · Researched Original

2009 | Music by Tom Kitt | Book and Lyrics by Brian Yorkey | Originally Directed by Michael Greif

2011 · Gallery VIII · Attended Original

2011 | Music, Lyrics, and Book by Trey Parker, Robert Lopez, and Matt Stone | Originally Directed by Casey Nicholaw and Trey Parker | Choreographed by Casey Nicholaw

2012 · Gallery VIII · Researched Original

2012 | Music by Alan Menken | Lyrics by Jack Feldman | Book by Harvey Fierstein | Based on Disney’s 1992 film Newsies | Inspired by the Newsboys’ Strike of 1899 | Originally Directed by Jeff Calhoun | Choreographed by Christopher Gattelli

2012 · Gallery VIII · Researched Original

2012 | Music and Lyrics by Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová | Book by Enda Walsh | Based on John Carney’s 2007 film Once | Originally Directed by John Tiffany | Movement by Steven Hoggett

2013 · Gallery VIII · Attended Original

2013 | Music and Lyrics by Tim Minchin | Book by Dennis Kelly | Based on Roald Dahl’s 1988 novel Matilda | Originally Directed by Matthew Warchus | Choreographed by Peter Darling

2015 · Gallery VIII · Researched Original

2015 | Music by Jeanine Tesori | Book and Lyrics by Lisa Kron | Based on Alison Bechdel’s 2006 graphic memoir Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic | Originally Directed by Sam Gold

2015 · Gallery VIII · Attended Original

2015 | Music, Lyrics, and Book by Lin-Manuel Miranda | Inspired by Ron Chernow’s 2004 biography Alexander Hamilton | Originally Directed by Thomas Kail | Choreographed by Andy Blankenbuehler

2016 · Gallery VIII · Attended Original

2016 | Music and Lyrics by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul | Book by Steven Levenson | Originally Directed by Michael Greif

2017 · Gallery VIII · Attended Original

2017 | Book, Music, and Lyrics by Irene Sankoff and David Hein | Based on the true events in Gander, Newfoundland, following the September 11, 2001 attacks | Originally Directed by Christopher Ashley | Musical Staging by Kelly Devine

2019 · Gallery VIII · Attended Original

2019 | Music and Lyrics by Eddie Perfect | Book by Scott Brown and Anthony King | Based on Tim Burton’s 1988 film Beetlejuice | Originally Directed by Alex Timbers | Choreographed by Connor Gallagher

2019 · Gallery VIII · Attended Original

2019 | Music, Lyrics, and Book by Anaïs Mitchell | Developed with and Originally Directed by Rachel Chavkin | Inspired by the Greek myths of Orpheus and Eurydice and Hades and Persephone

2021 · Gallery IX · Attended Revival

2021 Broadway Revival | Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim | Book by George Furth | Originally Produced on Broadway in 1970 | Revival Directed by Marianne Elliott | Choreographed by Liam Steel

2021 · Gallery IX · Attended Original

2021 | Music, Lyrics, and Book by Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss | Originally Directed by Lucy Moss and Jamie Armitage | Choreographed by Carrie-Anne Ingrouille

2022 · Gallery IX · Attended Revival

2022 Broadway Revival | Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim | Book by James Lapine | Originally Produced on Broadway in 1987 | 2022 Revival Directed by Lear deBessonet | Music Direction by Rob Berman

2022 · Gallery IX · Attended Original

2022 | Music by Jeanine Tesori | Book and Lyrics by David Lindsay-Abaire | Based on Lindsay-Abaire’s 2001 Play | Originally Directed by Jessica Stone | Choreographed by Danny Mefford

2022 · Gallery IX · Attended Original

2022 | Music from the Catalog of Michael Jackson | Book by Lynn Nottage | Originally Directed and Choreographed by Christopher Wheeldon

2022 · Gallery IX · Attended Original

2022 | Music by Marc Shaiman | Lyrics by Scott Wittman and Marc Shaiman | Book by Matthew López and Amber Ruffin | Based on the 1959 film Some Like It Hot | Originally Directed and Choreographed by Casey Nicholaw

2023 · Gallery IX · Researched Revival

2023 Broadway Revival | Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim | Book by George Furth | Based on the 1934 Play by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart | Originally Directed on Broadway by Harold Prince | 2023 Revival Directed by Maria Friedman

2023 · Gallery IX · Attended Original

2023 Broadway Revival | Music and Lyrics by Jason Robert Brown | Book by Alfred Uhry | Co-Conceived by Harold Prince | Originally Premiered on Broadway in 1998 | 2023 Revival Directed by Michael Arden

2023 · Gallery IX · Attended Revival

2023 West End / 2024 Broadway Revival | Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber | Book and Lyrics by Don Black and Christopher Hampton | Based on Billy Wilder’s 1950 Film | Original Musical Production: 1993 West End / 1994 Broadway | Revival Directed by Jamie Lloyd | Starring Nicole Scherzinger and Tom Francis

2023 · Gallery IX · Attended Revival

2023 Broadway Revival | Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim | Book by Hugh Wheeler | From an Adaptation by Christopher Bond | Original Broadway Production: 1979 | Revival Directed by Thomas Kail | Choreographed by Steven Hoggett | Starring Josh Groban and Annaleigh Ashford

2024 · Gallery IX · Attended Original

2024 | Music by Will Aronson | Lyrics by Hue Park | Book by Will Aronson and Hue Park | Originally Directed by Michael Arden | Based on the Korean Musical Maybe Happy Ending

2024 · Gallery IX · Researched Original

2024 | Book, Music, and Lyrics by Shaina Taub | Originally Directed by Leigh Silverman | Choreographed by Mayte Natalio

2024 · Gallery IX · Attended Original

2024 | Music and Lyrics by Jamestown Revival (Jonathan Clay and Zach Chance) and Justin Levine | Book by Adam Rapp with Justin Levine | Based on S. E. Hinton’s 1967 Novel and Francis Ford Coppola’s 1983 Film | Originally Directed by Danya Taymor | Choreographed by Rick Kuperman and Jeff Kuperman

2025 · Gallery IX · Researched Original

2025 | Music from the Grammy Award–Winning Album Buena Vista Social Club | Book by Marco Ramirez | Developed and Directed by Saheem Ali | Choreographed by Patricia Delgado and Justin Peck | Music Direction, Orchestrations, and Arrangements by Marco Paguia