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  Angels in America

  Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes is a play in two parts by American playwright Tony Kushner. It has been made into both a television miniseries and an opera by Peter Eötvös. The play is written for eight actors, each of whom plays two or more roles. Kushner's doubling, as...
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  Violet

  Violet is a musical with music by Jeanine Tesori and libretto by Brian Crawley. It tells the story of a young disfigured woman who embarks on a journey by bus from her farm in Spruce Pine, North Carolina, all the way to Tulsa, Oklahoma in order to be healed. It opened Off-Broadway at Playwrights...
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  The Goodbye Girl

  The Goodbye Girl is a musical with a book by Neil Simon, lyrics by David Zippel, and music by Marvin Hamlisch, based on Simon's original screenplay for the 1977 film of the same name. The production, directed by Michael Kidd and choreographed by Graciela Daniele, opened on Broadway on March 4, 1993...
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  Kiss of the Spider Woman

  Kiss of the Spider Woman is a musical with music by John Kander and Fred Ebb, book by Terrence McNally. It is based on the Manuel Puig novel El Beso de la Mujer Araña. The musical had runs in the West End (1992) and Broadway (1993) and won the 1993 Tony Award for Best Musical. The show opened in...
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  Funny Face

  Funny Face is a 1927 musical composed by George Gershwin, with lyrics by Ira Gershwin, and book by Fred Thompson and Paul Gerard Smith. Originally called Smarty, it opened in Philadelphia to poor reviews, and Robert Benchley, who had contributed to the script walked out. After a rewrite, it opened...
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  Thoroughly Modern Millie

  Thoroughly Modern Millie is a Tony Award-winning musical with music by Jeanine Tesori, lyrics by Dick Scanlan, and a book by Richard Morris and Scanlan. Based on the 1967 film of the same name, Thoroughly Modern Millie tells the story of a small-town girl, Millie Dillmount, who comes to New York...
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  The Cocoanuts

  The Cocoanuts is a musical with music and lyrics by Irving Berlin and a book by George S. Kaufman, with additional text by Morrie Ryskind. The musical was written for the Marx Brothers. The Marx Brothers' second Broadway hit (after I'll Say She Is, 1924) is set against the backdrop of the 1920s...
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  Prettybelle

  Prettybelle is a musical with a book and lyrics by Bob Merrill and music by Jule Styne. Adapted from the Jean Arnold novel of the same name, its central character is a Southern woman who, long abused by her recently deceased law officer husband, turns to alcohol for comfort, becomes a nymphomaniac...

• Blackbirds of 1928

  Blackbirds of 1928 is a revue with music by Jimmy McHugh and lyrics by Dorothy Fields. It contains the song "Diga Diga Do", the duo's first hit, "I Can't Give You Anything But Love", and "I Must Have That Man". Blackbirds of 1928 was the idea of impresario Lew Leslie, who planned to build a show...

• Via Galactica

  Via Galactica is a rock musical with a book by Christopher Gore and Judith Ross, lyrics by Gore, and music by Galt MacDermot. Originally entitled Up!, it offers a futuristic story of social outcasts living on an asteroid in the year 2972. Among them is Gabriel Finn, a space sanitation man who...