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- 13
- 1776
- 1789
- 21 Chump Street
- The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
- 35MM: A Musical Exhibition
- The Addams Family
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- Aida, based on Verdi's opera of the same name
- AKB Kagekidan Infinity (AKB48)
- Aladdin
- Allegro
- Alice
- Alice by Heart
- Allegiance (2012)
- All Shook Up
- Altar Boyz
- The Altos
- American Psycho
- Anastasia
- Anne of Green Gables
- Ani
- Animal Crackers
- Annie, based on the classic newspaper comic strip.
- Annie Get Your Gun
- Anyone Can Whistle
- Anything Goes
- Artus - Excalibur
- Aspects of Love
- Assassins
- Atlantis
- Avenue Q
- Back to the Eighties
- Back to the Future: The Musical
- Baddy
- Bandstand
- Bare: A Pop Opera
- Bat Boy: The Musical
- Batman: The Musical
- Bat Out of Hell
- The Beatles LOVE
- Beauty and the Beast
- Beetlejuice
- Bells Are Ringing
- Be More Chill
- Big Bad
- The Black Crook
- Blood Brothers
- Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson
- The Bonesetter's Daughter, the (Chinese/American) opera.
- Bonnie and Clyde, which was not adapted from the well-known film.
- The Book of Mormon
- Boo York, Boo York! A Monsterrific Musical
- The Boy Friend
- The Boy from Oz
- The Boys from Syracuse
- Bran Nue Dae
- The Bridges of Madison County
- Brigadoon
- Bright Star
- A Bronx Tale
- Bullets over Broadway
- But I'm a Cheerleader
- Bye Bye Birdie
- By Jeeves
- Cabaret
- La Cage aux folles
- Camelot
- Can-Can
- Carrie
- Caroline, or Change
- Carousel
- The Cat and the Fiddle
- Cats, until 2006 the longest-running show on Broadway.
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
- As well as the film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
- Chess
- Chicago
- Children of Eden
- A Chorus Line
- A Christmas Carol has at least three, including Scrooge (1970), The Muppet Christmas Carol, and the 1994 Madison Square Garden musical, which received a TV film adaptation in 2004 A Christmas Carol: The Musical
- Cinderella (Lloyd Webber)
- Cinderella (Rodgers and Hammerstein)
- City of Angels
- Closer Than Ever
- The Cocoanuts
- The Color Purple
- Coming Out of Their Shells
- Company
- Come from Away
- Crazy for You
- Curtains
- Damn Yankees
- Dear Evan Hansen
- Death Note: The Musical, composed by none other than Frank Wildhorn.
- Diana: The Musical
- Disaster!
- Disco Inferno
- Disney Dreams: An Enchanted Classic
- Disney's Believe
- Dogfight
- Dracula, the Frank Wildhorn musical.
- Dracula: A Love Stronger Than Death
- Dracula, Entre l'Amour et la Mort
- Dracula: the Musical
- Drakula
- Dreamgirls
- Drood
- The Drowsy Chaperone
- A dzsungel könyve
- Ebenezer
- Elisabeth
- EPIC: The Musical
- Escape to Margaritaville
- Everybody's Talking About Jamie
- Eugenius!
- Falsettos
- Fangirls
- The Fantasticks, off-Broadway but tops both Cats and Phantom with its 42-year run.
- Fiddler on the Roof
- Finale
- Finian's Rainbow
- Fiorello!
- The Fix
- Florodora
- Flower Drum Song
- Fly by Night
- Follies
- Forbidden Broadway, the Troperiffic ever-changing parody revue of classic and contemporary Broadway.
- Freewill in 2112, a fan-made Rush musical
- Frozen
- Funny Girl
- A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
G–L
- A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
- Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
- Ghost
- Godspell
- Greatest Days
- The Grinning Man
- Groundhog Day
- Guys and Dolls
- Gypsy
- HackPuntTool
- Hadestown, based on the concept album of the same name, in turn based on the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice.
- Hair, the original Tribal Love Rock Musical
- Hairspray
- Hallelujah, Baby!
- Hamilton
- Hands on a Hardbody
- Heathers: The Musical
- Hello, Dolly!
- The Hired Man
- Holy Musical B@man!
- HONK!
- How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
- How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
- I Can Get It For You Wholesale
- I Am from Austria
- If/Then
- I Married an Angel
- I'm Sorry the Bridge Is Out, You'll Have to Spend the Night
- Imagine This
- In the Heights
- Into the Woods
- Jasper in Deadland
- Jekyll & Hyde
- Jacques Brel Is Alive And Well And Living In Paris
- Jersey Boys, a musical biography of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons
- Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
- Jump Man - A Mario Musical (see here
): based on, of all things, the Mario Bros. characters. Actually sold out its entire first run and won a Best Musical award when it premiered at the 2014 NY Fringe Festival. - KANDELites, a fan-made musical for Paul Kandel
- Keating! The Musical, based on the life and times of Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating
- Kimberly Akimbo (2021)
- The King and I
- Kismet
- Kiss Me, Kate
- Kiss of the Spider Woman
- Knickerbocker Holiday
- Ladies in Black
- Lady in the Dark
- The Last Five Years
- The Last Trial
- Legally Blonde, based on the film of the same name.
- La Légende du Roi Arthur
- Lestat
- The Lightning Thief
- The Light Princess
- The Little Mermaid
- Like Dying Things Do
- The Likes of Us, a musical based on the true story of Thomas Barnardo, who founded homes for destitute children during the Victorian Era.
- Li'l Abner
- Lilium Shoujo Junketsu Kageki
- The Lion King (1997)
- A Little Night Music
- Little Shop of Horrors
- Lizzie
- The Lord of the Rings, the opera.
- Lost: The Musical, from the same creators of Shame of Thrones
M–R
- Mack & Mabel
- Made in Dagenham
- Majora
- Mame, a musical adaptation of Auntie Mame
- Mamma Mia! (ABBA)
- Man of La Mancha
- Marat/Sade
- Marie Antoinette (Musical)
- Martin Guerre
- Mary Poppins
- Matilda
- Me And Juliet
- Mean Girls
- Memphis, A New Musical
- Merrily We Roll Along
- Metropolis (1989)
- MID-LIFE! the Crisis Musical
- Midnight Channel: The Musical, a fan-produced adaptation of Persona 4.
- Minnie's Boys, about how the Marx brothers became the Marx Brothers.
- Les Misérables, the longest-running musical in the world, bar none - it's been running in London's West End since 1985.
- Miss Saigon
- Monsters - The Musical
- The Most Happy Fella
- Movin Out (Billy Joel)
- Mozart!
- Mozart L'Opera Rock
- The Musical of Musicals: The Musical!
- The Music Man
- Musical YoRHa 1.2, part of the YoRHa series of plays.
- My Fair Lady
- Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812
- Nerds: A Musical Software Satire
- A New Brain
- Newsies, the stage adaptation of the 1992 film.
- Next to Normal
- Nine (Musical), based on Felini's 8 1/2
- Notre-Dame de Paris
- Now. Here. This.
- Nunsense
- Of Thee I Sing
- Oklahoma!
- Oliver!, adapted from Oliver Twist
- On a Clear Day You Can See Forever
- On the Town
- Once on This Island
- Once Upon a Mattress
- Once Upon a Time in New Jersey
- One Touch of Venus
- Ordinary Days
- Pacific Overtures
- Paint Your Wagon
- The Pajama Game
- Parade
- Passing Strange
- Passion
- Peter Pan
- Phantom, Maury Yeston and Arthur Kopit's take on The Phantom of the Opera.
- Phantom of the Auditorium, adapted from the Goosebumps book of the same name.
- The Phantom of the Opera. London's second-longest running musical, opening in 1986, one year after Les Miserables, and Broadway's longest, opening in 1988.
- Pinocchio: The Musical, based on The Adventures of Pinocchio.
- Pippin
- The Pirate Queen.
- Pokémon Live!
- Pokémon: The Mew-sical
- Portal 2: The (Unauthorized) Musical
- Prince Kaguya
- The Prince of Egypt
- The Prince of Tennis
- The Prom
- Promises, Promises
- Ragtime, adapted by the composers of Anastasia, winner of several Tony awards.
- Rebecca
- Red: The Red Riding Hood Musical
- RENT, a loose Setting Update of the opera La Bohème as a Grunge Rock Opera.
- Return to the Forbidden Planet
- Ride the Cyclone
- The Robber Bridegroom
- Rock of Ages
- Rocky
- Rogers: The Musical
S–Z
- Say My Name
- The Scarlet Pimpernel
- The Scarlet Sails
- The Scottsboro Boys
- The Secret Garden
- Sera Myu
- Seussical
- Schikaneder
- She Loves Me
- Shlomo Hamelech Veshalmai Hasandlar (King Solomon and Shalmai The Shoemaker) is a combination between a biblical version of The Prince and the Pauper, and Ecclesiastes - the Musical.
- A Shoggoth on the Roof
- Show Boat, created by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein in 1927, is often seen as the first modern musical, although the innovative ideas it introduced (most prominently the idea of incorporating the book into the plot to provide a logical justification for the songs) didn't really become par for course until Rodgers and Hammerstein created Oklahoma! in 1942.
- Shrek: The Musical
- Shucked
- Side Show
- Silence! The Musical, based on The Silence of the Lambs.
- Six: The Musical
- Something Rotten!
- Somethings Afoot
- Sonny
- The Sound of Music
- South Pacific
- Spamalot, based on Monty Python and the Holy Grail, which gleefully parodies many of the tropes of Broadway musicals.
- Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark
- The SpongeBob Musical
- Spring Awakening
- Starlight Express
- Subways Are for Sleeping
- The Sultan of Sulu
- Sunday in the Park with George
- Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
- Sweet Charity, based on Fellini's Nights of Cabiria
- Taboo (Musical)
- Takarazuka Revue has a history of over 100 years of their own unique style of musicals. They perform both original musicals, and productions of international ones. They have also been adapting shows from manga going back to 1924, but their most famous has to be The Rose of Versailles, first performed in 1974. They have also done adaptations of Red River (1995), Black Jack, and Rurouni Kenshin. Elisabeth is also one of their most famous and frequent productions.
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- Titanic, which surprisingly is not based on the hit film from the same year.
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- Tripod Versus the Dragon, based on Dungeons & Dragons.
- Tuck Everlasting
- Turnabout Musical
- Twice Charmed
- Twisted: The Untold Story of a Royal Vizier
- Urinetown
- A Very Potter Musical and its sequels.
- Villains Tonight!
- Violet
- Viva Elvis
- Waitress
- We Are the Tigers
- Westeros: An American Musical
- Queens (technically a sequel of the above)
- West Side Story, another loose Setting Update of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
- We Will Rock You (based on the music of Queen)
- When Midnight Strikes
- Which Witch The Musical
- Wicked
- The Wild Party, two unrelated adaptations of the same poem, by Michael John LaChiusa and Andrew Lippa.
- Witches! The Musical
- The Wiz
- The Wizard of Oz (1902)
- The Wizard of Oz (2011)
- Wonderful Town
- Wonderland: A New Alice
- A Year with Frog and Toad
- You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, which in turn was adapted as an animated TV special.
- Young Frankenstein
- Zanna, Don't!
