This document provides a summary and recommendations for various musical theatre productions. It begins by mentioning some classic musicals from before the 1980s like Jesus Christ Superstar, The Music Man, and Funny Girl. It then discusses newer and more offbeat shows like Avenue Q, Assassins, and Urinetown. The document aims to introduce people to a wide range of musicals, both well-known and lesser-known, through brief descriptions and commentary.

1. Kat’s guide to
musical theatre
a bad comic sans ppt with recommendations
and too many not enough Josh Groban facts
created by princeofwittenberg

2. yo this is not everything because there are
so many good musicals and if I had to make
a slide for each one I would never be done,
so here’s the ones on the top of my head

3. recommendations

4. Starting with the “classics”
(musicals from before the
1980s)

5. Jesus Christ Superstar
• A retelling of the passion of
Christ set to boppin' rock
music
• Jesus is super emo and Judas
is kind of awesome
• Not overly religious and easy
to understand
• Andrew Lloyd Webber
Jesus being sad :(

6. The Music Man
• Kind of odd story about a con
man and a marching band
• painfully catchy and fun
• Knowing this one will make
you seem v knowledgable
• Meredith Willson
SEVNTY SIX
TROMBONES LED
THE BIG
PARADEEEEEEE

7. Funny Girl
• STREISAND
• This show has so many good
belt songs
• a Broadway show about a
Broadway star
• Bob Merrill
thinkin about onion rolls

8. The Rocky Horror (Picture)
Show
• This show is weird af
• IT'S AMAZING LIVE
• Tim Curry was so damn good
as Frank’n’Furter
• The movie is awesome too
• Richard O'Brien
i can make you a man ;)

9. The Pirates of Penzance
• This is honestly the original
bop
• it's such a great story
• A true classic
• My mom loves it
• Guess when it debuted?
• 1879!
• Gilbert and Sullivan

10. Chicago
• I think you know this one
• murder, jokes, and jazz
• The movie is good but the
live show is better
• Kander and Ebb
jazz hands!

11. Company
• BOBBY BOBBY BOBBY
• Forever stuck in my head
• I don't really like Sondheim
but this is a good one, ngl
• It's about growing up and
being in relationships and
being alive
• Stephen Sondheim
Bobby...Bobby...Bobby baby...Bobby
bubbi...Robby...Robert darling...
Bobby, we've been trying to call you.
Bobby...
Bobby...
Bobby baby...
Bobby bubbi...
Angel, I've got something to tell you.
Bob...
Robbo...
Bobby love...
Bobby honey...

12. Guys and Dolls
• HOT DAMN I LOVE THIS
ONE
• About some gamblers, true
love, and cons
• Sky Masterson is everything.
• Also a movie with Sinatra and
Brando
• REALLY GOOD MUSIC
• Frank Loesser
Brando was such a dick to
Sinatra tho

13. Cabaret
• About a Cabaret in Germany
during World War 2
• Starts sexy and funny, ends
so sadly
• Alan Cumming is perfect
• Kander and Ebb

14. Fiddler on the Roof
• A fiddler on the roof
• Sounds crazy, no?
• About the Russian town of Anatevka,
the Jewish citizens, and their
traditions
• I’m listening to this right now
• every cast is great, and the movie is
awesome too
• Josh Groban was in this in high school
• Jerry Bock
you raise me up

15. A Chorus Line
• Acting-ception
• A show about auditioning for shows
• Pretty sappy, honestly
• It’s so relatable and beautiful
though
• I sang a song from this for my first
audition so it means so much to me
• Prepare yourself for tears
• Marvin Hamlisch

16. Anything Goes
• it’s about crazy things happening
on a boat
• fun belt songs in this
• debuted in 1934!
• “The original idea for a musical
set on board an ocean liner came
from producer Vinton Freedley,
who was living on a boat, having
left the US to avoid his
creditors”
• Cole Porter
toot toot

17. The Wiz
• retelling of wizard of oz in
the context of African-
American culture
• y’all this musical is the shit
• they just recently did it live
on tv
• Charlie Smalls

18. My Fair Lady
• based on Pygmalion
• about Eliza Doolittle, a
Cockney girl who takes
speech lessons from
professor Henry Higgins so
she can be a lady
• Julie Andrews was in this
• there was a good movie too
• Frederick Loewe
the rine in spine sties minely on the pline

19. Sweeney Todd
• The other Sondheim show I like
• MURDER! BARBERS! PIES!
YOUNG LOVE! IT’S GOT
EVERYTHING!
• Yeah it’s about a vengeful barber
who kills people he shaves and
the lady who works downstairs
bakes them into pies
• You can watch the movie, but the
show is way better
• Stephen Sondheim
Josh Groban’s
dog is named
Sweeney
I have too many Josh Groban facts

20. Hair
• Set in the Age of Aquarius
(hippie times)
• About people fighting against
conscription in the Vietnam
War
• I didn’t think I was going to like
this musical but then I did
• Makes me want to practice
Wicca
• James Rado and Gerome Ragni

21. Godspell
• A retelling of various Gospel stories,
including the passion, with a rock
soundtrack
• Not Andrew Lloyd Webber even though
the synopsis sounds like Jesus Christ
Superstar
• One of my all-time fav musicals
• Meant to make the stories relatable for
everyone
• Turn Back O Man is WILD
• both old cast and new cast are fantastic
• Stephen Schwartz
hahahaha
godspell,
gospel, get it?

22. Sunday in the Park with George
• inspired by Georges Seurat’s A Sunday
Afternoon on the Island of La Grande
Jatte
• it’s about a fictional version of Seurat and
his great-grandson
• it’s actually kind of cool and I like the
inspiration
• let’s be real “Finishing the Hat” is GREAT
• so maybe I like more Sondheim than I say I
do
• I just get annoyed that ALL OF HIS
WOMEN ARE SOPRANOS
• Stephen Sondheim

23. The Fantasticks
• about two families who
pretend to fight so their
children will fall in love
• full of disillusion, not as
happy as you think it would be
• #memorable music
• big fav of high schools for
some reason???
• Tom Jones

24. Carousel
• a carousel barker loves a
millworker and he tries to
provide for their child but it
doesn’t really work out
• sappy af
• sometimes when companies
put this show on, they have a
lil carnival with it!
• Rodgers and Hammerstein
okay but
this set tho

25. How to Succeed in Business
Without Really Trying
• A hilarious satirical musical
based on a hilarious satirical
book
• exactly what it says on the tin
• huge dance numbers,
#relatable song about coffee
• Daniel Radcliffe was in this at
one point???
• Frank Loesser
accio Tony
award

26. Gypsy
• Based on memoirs of Gypsy
Rose Lee, a striptease artist
• also focuses on her mom who
is like THE SHOWMOM (her
name is Rose too)
• more acting-ception basically
• Everything is coming up
roses, bitch
• Stephen Sondheim
oh god
another
harry potter
actor

27. The Sound of Music
• DO A DEER A FEMALE DEER
• music, nannies, and nazis basically so
really what more could you want
• Based on Maria von Trapp’s
autobiography
• every song is good, and most of
them are standards at this point
• “Edelweiss,” “My Favorite Things,”
“Climb Every Mountain,” “Do-Re-Mi,”
“The Sound of Music”
• Rodgers and Hammerstein
the hills are
alive with
the sound of
nazis

28. A Funny Thing Happened on the
Way to the Forum
• this is like the title of a fall out
boy song honestly
• I usually just call it “a funny thing”
• inspired by Plautus, a roman who
wrote comedic plays
• v comedic story of a slave trying
to get his freedom by helping his
owner seduce the girl next door
• PUNS!
• Stephen Sondheim
shit… did I
leave the
iron on?

29. Hello, Dolly!
• okay so if you know anything about the
Tonys this year, then you will remember
bette miller’s insane speech
• so many young viewers were like wtf is this
what’s hello, dolly
• WELL LET’S GET SCHOOLED, OKAY?
• Based on a Thornton Wilder comedy about
Dolly Levi, a matchmaker, as she is trying to
find a match for this awful guy (who is
pretty rich)
• the music is real good and it’s quote
entertaining so before you trash it go listen
to it
• Jerry Herman

30. 1776
• Hamilton before Hamilton
• but actually I don’t like comparing things
to Hamilton because Hamilton is not
perfect and therefore should not be like
the end-all-be-all of our comparisons
• sit down john!
• obv this is about MERICA and the
signing of the Declaration of
Independence, focusing on John Adams
• I mean it’s not amazing, but it’s pretty
fun to listen to
• Sherman Edwards

31. Pippin
• OH MY GOD my love for this
musical is unending
• Very comedic musical about a
young man finding his way in
the world
• A little weird, a little sad
• Old cast and new cast are
both perfect
• Stephen Schwartz

32. Singin’ in the Rain
• I think everyone knows this
one
• Also awesome movie with Gene
Kelly and Debbie Reynolds
• Gene Kelly needs to sing me to
sleep every night pls thank you
• just go listen ya goof
• Betty Comden

33. The Best Little Whorehouse in
Texas
• this is exactly what it sounds like
• inspired by the Chicken Ranch, an
illegal brothel in Texas
• I wasn’t expecting this to be a
bop cuz it’s weird but yeah it’s
cool!
• Dolly Parton made one of the
songs in this popular cuz there
was a movie
• Carol Hall
what in tarnation

34. She Loves Me
• This is such a hidden gem
• The old casts are good but the
revival is the best
• About a Hungarian parfumerie
and two lovers who don’t know
they're in love with each other
• v cliche but it embraces it
• please listen to this I want to
talk about it
• Jerry Bock
that’s Jane Krakowski,
who plays Jacqueline in
Kimmy Schmidt

35. South Pacific
• Textbook classic musical
• American nurse stationed in
South Pacific island in WWII,
she falls in love with a
plantation owner
• deals with racial prejudice
• You’ve got to be carefully
taught if you talk you're gonna
get shot
• Rodgers & Hammerstein
gonna wash that man
right outta my hair

36. The King and I
• oh wow oh wow I love this one!
• About Anna Leonowens who
was basically the nanny to the
kids of King Mongkut of Siam
• It had Julie Andrews in it!
• “Shall We Dance?” and
“Getting To Know You” are my
favorites
• Rodgers and Hammerstein
my friend’s mom’s college did
this show but their whole cast
was white :(

37. Mame
• “Life is a banquet and most
poor sons of bitches are
starving to death”
• About this awesome wealthy
woman and some depression
• I sang one of the songs in
chorus in elementary school
• Jerry Herman
hahahah this musical is
impossible to pronounce

38. An American in Paris
• this was just revived on
Broadway and it literally just
toured in Atlanta
• It’s about an american in Paris
• was also a movie
• great dance numbers and fun
music
• v romantic
• George and Ira Gershwin
The first solo Josh Groban sang was a
Gershwin song, but it wasn’t from this
musical can you tell I’m running out of Josh
Groban facts…

39. Miss Saigon
• dude the performance from
the revival of this show at
the Tonys was BEAUTIFUL
• set during the Vietnam War
• tells the story of the
romance between an
American GI and a
Vietnamese bargirl
• Claude-Michel Schönberg and
Alain Boublil

40. Joseph and the Amazing
Technicolor Dreamcoat
• another biblical musical damn
• ALW needs to calm down
honestly
• exactly what it says on the
tin
• it was white and yellow and
white and yellow… wait that’s
Something Rotten
• Andrew Lloyd Webber
this is the happiest guy
ever

41. Man of La Mancha
• kind of a retelling of Don
Quixote…
• frame narrative about Don
Quixote who is performed by
an actor playing Cervantes
• not at all faithful to the
book but it doesn’t really try
to be
• Dale Wasserman

42. Candide
• Based on Voltaire’s Candide
which is super satirical
• about a young man who is
being taught to be an optimist
• the musical is SO vocally
impressive like wow
• glitter and be gay, aka the gay
anthem
• Leonard Bernstein
;)

43. Okay now some
new(er) ones

44. Little Shop of Horrors
• Dark comedy about a person-
eating plant
• Adorable, catchy, and
hilarious
• Also a good movie
• Alan Menken (yeah, he did so
many Disney movies!)
feed me, seymour

45. Into the Woods
• “Into the Woods takes place in
the woods” -Don, our director
for Charlotte’s Web
• into the woods to get the thing
to do the thing to find the thing
• this is pretty okay
• the first act is so uplifting, in
the second act everything goes
to shit real quick
• Stephen Sondheim
this is the creepiest
fucking song ever

46. The Lion King
• Honestly this show was
genre-changing
• somehow better than the
original movie
• has cool puppets
• like a religious experience
• Elton John & Tim Rice

47. The Hunchback of Notre Dame
• Holy lord this show is
amazing
• based on story by Victor
Hugo
• underrated Disney movie
• beautiful score, amazing
story
• Stephen Schwartz

48. Avenue Q
• Dude this won the Tony over Wicked
• It's a really adult show but it uses
muppets so it feels like Sesame
Street
• Honestly hilarious and a little heart-
breaking
• some bops include “Everyone’s A
Little Bit Racist,” “If You Were
Gay,” “The Internet is For Porn,” and
“Schadenfreude.”
• Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx
Jim Henson would approve

49. Assassins
• okay so I wanted this one to be
better than it was
• a musical about the assassins who
tried to assassinate our presidents
• “Another National Anthem” is good
• I mean, you can still listen to it, but
don’t prioritize it above other,
better musicals
• sometimes… things that are more
expensive… are worse
• Stephen Sondheim
pew pew

50. Matilda
• I saw this tour and it's
AMAZING
• The kids are the cutest
• the story is charming and
the music is awesome
• I hope you’ve at least seen
the movie or read the book
• Tim Minchin
me

51. Ragtime
• THIS SHOW IS EVERYTHING
• It's super long but it's also
woke af
• About turn of the century
America, the social cleavages,
and Ragtime music
• features Harry Houdini, Evelyn
Nesbit, Henry Ford, etc.
• Ahrens and Flaherty
it was the crime of the
century that this didn't
win the tony

52. La Cage Aux Folles
• AKA La Cage (pronounced la
cauzh)
• about a gay couple; Georges
manages a drag nightclub and
Albin dresses up in drag
• La cage aux folles means "the
cage of mad women” but folles is
also slang for homosexuals
• “I Am What I Am” is breath-
taking
• Jerry Herman

53. Urinetown
• You would love this one
• Very meta comedy that's
way more erudite than it
seems
• Just go listen to it
• Mark Hollmann
yes this musical is about
pee

54. Thoroughly Modern Millie
• About a girl in NYC in the
jazz age
• Gavin Creel is swoon-worthy
• Sutton foster!
• Based off a movie
• Jeanine Tesori

55. Rent
• This was my gateway musical
• Beautiful, moving, eye-
opening
• No more explanation needed
(I’m not even giving you a
synopsis)
• Jonathan Larson
met him
met him

56. The Mystery of Edwin Drood
• okay cool story time!
• So Charles Dickens wrote this book, but then
HE DIED. and he didn’t finish the book! so no
one knew how the book ended or who killed
this guy
• so they made a musical of it, and it’s
audience-interactive!
• so at the end of the musical, they ask the
audience who they think murdered Drood,
the audience votes, and the ending is
different every night!
• I LOVE INTERACTIVE THEATRE!
• it’s cool
• Rupert Holmes

57. Hedwig and the Angry Inch
• Okay stay with me here
• about a fictional rock and
roll band fronted by a
transgender East German
singer Hedwig Robinson
• SO GOOD, SO NICHE!
• Movie is awesome too
• Stephen Trask
sugar daddy here I come

58. Parade
• Prepare yourself for so many
tears
• About the Leo Frank case
• takes place in Marietta
• always makes me cry
• I can talk about this case and
this musical forever, I did an
enterprise story on it
• Alfred Uhry

59. 25th Annual Putnam County
Spelling Bee
• I was in this! (I played Logainne)
• exactly what it says on the tin
• a comedic musical with a ton of
improv and it’s audience interactive
as well!
• they bring audience members up to
compete in the spelling bee with the
actors
• great songs too, especially - I was
gonna list some but they’re all good
• William Finn

60. The Addams Family
• I was in this too! (I played Alice
Beineke)
• based on the movie that was based
on the tv show that was based on
the comic strip
• pretty comedic and a little
bittersweet
• the aesthetic is on point
• good music like damn, and awesome
costumes
• Rick Elice and Marshall Brickman

61. Falsettos
• THE REVIVAL WAS ROBBED
• about a man, his ex-wife, his
psychiatrist, his son, his gay lover,
and his neighbors
• I think this has the musical theatre
song with the most cuss words
• “Four Jews in a Room Bitching”
• it’s honestly a freaking triumph for
theatre
• William Finn
FALSETTOS WAS
ROBBED

62. The Producers
• Based on a movie
• About two producers who try to
get rich by overselling a really
bad broadway show
• no seriously, the show is called
Springtime for Hitler
• NATHAN LANE AND
MATTHEW BRODERICK
• hilarious
• Mel Brooks
Hahahah I’m Gomez Addams and I
voiced Timon

63. Little Women
• Based on the awesome story
• Sutton Foster kills it
• I always get “Off to
Massachusetts” stuck in my
head
• Jason Howland
please don’t die

64. The Drowsy Chaperone
• Parody of 1920s musical comedy
• kind of like those olds guys in
the muppets if they were
commenting on a fictional jazz
age musical
• really really good music
• also has sutton foster wow!
• Lisa Lambert and Greg Morrison

65. [title of show]
• ANOTHER HIDDEN GEM
• I LITERALLY LOVE JEFF BOWEN
AND HUNTER BELL SO MUCH
• AND SUSAN AND HEIDI ARE
PERF
• this is a musical about two guys
writing a musical about two guys
writing a musical
• it’s so ridiculously witty and chock
full of musical references
• Jeff Bowen and Hunter Bell
yes the brackets are in the
title

66. Now.Here.This.
• Also by Jeff Bowen and Hunter
Bell, with Susan and Heidi too
• great song cycle about those
moments where you really have
to connect with life
• hard to explain
• also super witty, awesome music
• The Golden Palace made me sob
the first time I listened
• Jeff Bowen and Hunter Bell
I thought Hunter was
Dave Malloy for a split
second here

67. In the Heights
• The other LMM musical
• I think this one is better than
Hamilton honestly
• About the hispanic population in
Washington Heights
• an emotional rollercoaster
• all of the Spanish I know is from
this show
• Usnavi is such a bean
• Lin-Manuel Miranda
relax que relax I’m
relaxed

68. The Little Mermaid
• Better than the movie!
• TITUSS PLAYS
SEBASTIAN AND SIERRA
IS ARIEL WOW!
• I mean obv this is good duh
• Alan Menken
peeno noir,
caviar,
Myanmar, mid-
sized car

69. Next to Normal
• Oh dear lord almighty
• Are you ready for tears?
• natalie is so me it’s scary; like honestly she
is the theatre character I relate to most
(her or Pierre)
• Won the Pulitzer Prize and totes deserved
it
• Aaron Tveit is bae
• Alice Ripley kills it
• PLEASE WATCH ALL THE WAY
THROUGH AND YOU WIL HURT
• Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey

70. Spring Awakening
• sadness x 100
• it’s based off of a German play
• about some kids growing up in
germany and they learn about life
and sex and wow boy it gets wild
• awesome awesome awesome music
• also there’s a deaf version of this
show, where they sign
everything!!! it’s amazing!!!
• Duncan Sheik
there’s a
moment you
know you’re
fucked

71. Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson
• Oh boy are you ready for
something niche?
• This hasn’t even been to
Broadway yet
• It’s a satirical musical about
Andrew Jackson, who is the
literally worst
• It’s punk rock music
• Michael Friedman
this is the worst quality pic sorry

72. Memphis
• This one is also woke af and so
good
• my ex-boyfriend was in it so
it’s weird to me
• about the motown music scene
in Memphis
• deals a lot with race relations
• Adam Pascal was in it!
• David Bryan
Not my ex-bf

73. Book of Mormon
• SO FUNNY
• I saw it live and it was just the best
• About two Mormon missionaries in
Uganda
• Okay so everyone thinks its v offensive
and it’s v crude humor but you can tell
that the writers really do respect the
religion
• They write this song called “I Believe”
and it’s littered with humor but it is a
testament to the faith
• Trey Parker, Robert Lopez, and Matt
Stone
Josh Gad and Josh Groban were in
the same college freshman class,
haha there’s another fact

74. Catch Me If You Can
• Cue me swooning because I love
Frank Abagnale, Jr.
• Based on that Leo DiCaprio movie
that was based on the
autobiography
• About the awesome con-man Frank
Abagnale, Jr.
• A gorgeous musical, so fun and
sweet
• Aaron Tveit murders me
• Terrence McNally
werk

75. Phantom of the Opera
• Okay I think you know this one too
• based on the book by Gaston Leroux
(so good pls read)
• About the phantom and Christine,
there’s some murder and some
kidnapping
• The 25th Anniversary Cast with Ramin
Karimloo (an actual angel), Sierra
Boggess, and Hadley Fraser is the best
• DON’T WATCH THE MOVIE. IT’S SO
BAD. DON’T DO IT.
• Andrew Lloyd Webber

76. Bonnie & Clyde
• Super underrated
• Closed on Broadway after like a
month :(
• Has Jeremy Jordan and Laura
Osnes in it!!!!!
• About Bonnie & Clyde, obv
• A country musical? It’s actually
good
• I love it so much
• Frank Wildhorn
damn he’s hot

77. Les Miserablessqwdxref
• Okay do I even need to explain this
one?
• If you haven't seen it or listened,
just do that shit
• The movie was kind of okay
• Ramin Karimloo was in this too
*swoon*
• The book is a fucking brick (like war
and peace) but it’s awesome
• Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel
Schönberg
I drink too much, right
now my friend fights
and bleeds

78. Newsies
• Dude this musical has
everything: jeremy jordan, the
best choreo, strikes,
newspapers, etc.
• I am in it; literally katherine is
me
• based off movie with Christian
Bale
• listen listen listen
• Alan Menken
this guy was in Newsies!

79. Heathers
• If you haven't seen the movie,
go watch it now
• did you watch it? good.
• Dark comedy
• awesome music
• never been on Broadway
• for some reason it just got really
popular with tumblr kids????
• Laurence O’Keefe
well fuck me gently with a chainsaw

80. If/Then
• Saw this live, met Anthony
Rapp, died and nearly cried
• It’s this cool story about a
girl who has like two possible
pathways her life can go and
you get to see them both
• funny, sweet, sad, etc.
• real good
• Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey

81. Once
• based on a film from 2007
• the cast is the orchestra too
(like ghost quartet kind of)
• listen to this and cry
• “Falling Slowly” is a little bit
overdone but still good
• Glen Hansard and Marketa
Irglova

82. Kinky Boots
• I was so confused when this musical
came out bc it’s Cyndi Lauper and like
wtf is the title???
• but it totally surprised me!
• a LOT of good people have been in it
• a guy inherits a shoe factory and
starts a partnership with a drag
queen to save the business
• based on a true story!
• it has great costumes (obv)
• Cyndi Lauper
lemme hear
you say
yeeeaaaahhhh
(yeeeaaaahhhh)

83. A Gentleman’s Guide to Love
and Murder
• about love and murder
• based on the autobiography of a
criminal!
• “I’ve Decided to Marry You” is
constantly stuck in my head, it’s a
true bop
• it’s like a frame narrative too
• winner of Best Musical, closed too
soon
• RIP
• Robert L. Freedman

84. Finding Neverland
• okay I’m getting so tired
• this one is really good pls
listen
• about JM Barrie and Peter
Pan
• beautiful beautiful beautiful
• James Graham

85. Fun Home
• DUDE
• Alison Bechdel, sadness,
homosexuality, funeral homes
• Tony award winner
• makes me want to die (in a good
way)
• pls listen to Changing My Major
• so so so so so good
• Jeanine Tesori

86. The Last Five Years
• Follows two people in a five-year
relationship
• but it’s cool because you see the guy’s
POV in chronological order and the
girl’s POV backwards!
• really good
• you will fucking hate Jamie
Wellerstein
• I know I do
• the movie was actually good
• Jason Robert Brown

87. Something Rotten
• Hmmmm
• it’s about a guy writing a musical
during the Renaissance trying to
compete with Shakespeare, and
he writes a musical about eggs
• I saw it ON BROADWAY! met
adam pascal!
• it’s fucking hilarious
• John O’Farrell and Karen
Kirkpatrick

88. Come From Away
• welcome to the rock
• super new, came out on Broadway this
year!
• JUSTIN TRUDEAU CAME TO THE
SHOW!!!!!
• it is about the week after 9/11 when 38
planes had to land unexpectedly in a
Newfoundland town
• the musical is BEAUTIFUL; the music is
all rock/folk
• JENN COLELLA RFIOEHRFIHW
• Irene Sankoff and David Hein

89. Tuck Everlasting
• This one previewed in
Atlanta!
• Didn’t do well on Broadway :(
• Based on that movie which I
think is based on a book
• great music, cute story, love
love love it
• Claude Shear and Tim
Federle
the cutest bbys

90. Anastasia
• I bought this soundtrack the day
it came out
• it’s based off of the movie from
like 1999
• BUT IT’S SO MUCH BETTER
• about Anastasia Romanov obviously
• my second favorite Russian musical
• Ramin Karimloo please kill me
• Ahrens and Flaherty

91. Starlight Express
• Okay this is my guilty pleasure musical
• It’s so bad but so good
• about toy trains that come alive at night (like if
you mixed toy story and cars but if the cars
were trains)
• the music is bad 80s music but it’s full of bops
• listen to “Call Me Rusty,” “Rolling Stock,” He
Whistled at Me,” “Starlight Express,” and
“Light at the End of the Tunnel”
• THEY PERFORM IT ON ROLLER SKATES
• it’s Germany’s most popular musical
• pls I wanna talk about this
• Andrew Lloyd Webber
too many innuendoes in
this show

92. Bright Star
• COUNTRY MUSICAL!
• set in the Blue Ridge Mountains in
the 1940s
• some flashbacks to the 1920s
• a literary editor is in love with a
soldier just home from World War
2 and she looks for the child she
once lost
• I love all the music it really took me
by surprise
• Steve Martin and Edie Brickell
*Banjo plays in the
background*

93. Nevermore: The Imaginary Life and
Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe
• Hahahhaha good luck ever
finding this fucking musical
• it’s never been on broadway
• it’s a retelling of Edgar Allan
Poe’s life
• it’s so weird, it’s operatic,
AND I LOVE IT
• the costumes are sooooo cool!
• Jonathan Christenson
me, looking for
this damn cast
album

94. so, I didn’t put Great Comet on here
because I can’t just give it one slide, I
would have to make a t least 1812 slides
about it so I’m just gonna leave this here

95. okay i am sure I missed some
but that’s at least a start.
and now for…

96. Stay away from this
shit
no seriously, don’t do it

97. Cats
• Look, I don’t mind the original
story
• I can even put up with some of
the ridiculous music
• but you know what I can't put up
with?
• what makes this show the worst?
• the FUCKING COSTUMES
• ANDREW WHY
meow

98. Chess
• written by the guys from
ABBA
• so it should be good right?
• WRONG!
• it’s about a chess tournament
• it was actually pretty
successful
• but it’s awful and boring and
depressing af
Josh is offended
that I put Chess
on this list
okay but I think Josh
Groban likes this show…
oh shit I just looked it up
he was in the concert
version!!!! SORRY JOSH!

99. Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark
• this show closed really early
and lost a ton of money
• it caused a lot of people to
be injured
• the music was by Bono!
• it’s really really bad
sorry it’s not Tom
Holland
is there a
frog in
there?

100. Lestat
• this is based off The Vampire
Chronicles which inspired the
movie Interview With A Vampire
• the books are actually really
good but this musical is shit
• not the shit, it’s just shit
• music by Elton John???
• the music is weird af
• it only had 39 performances
wtf is this

101. American Idiot
• so this is the Green Day musical
• the plot makes NO SENSE like
wtf
• it’s as crazy and Billie Joe
Armstrong is
• but it’s had A LOT of
productions? especially outside
of the US
• I’m just not a fan

102. Annie
• no
• all of these orphans need to GET
OFF MY STAGE
• I don’t know why I hate this show
so much but I really really do
• it’s so sappy UGH
• the sun will come out tomorrow
like no shit that’s how the sun
works
• bye felicia

103. Waitress
• okay don’t murder me
• So I’ve never really liked Sara Bareilles, and
I really am not a fan of the musical style
• country musicals are hit or miss for me
• it’s also like… sad? and I think a lil sappy
• about a waitress, that’s all I’m gonna tell
you
• a lot of people like it, so you should actually
make up your own mind about it
• actually you should make up your own mind
about all of these musicals
• there’s pie involved
remember who you are, Simba

104. Ghost
• it’s based off a bad romantic
drama
• this girl’s bf dies and she is
haunted by him
• the music is dumb
• not a fan
?????????????

105. Dear Evan Hansen
• oh shit SHOTS FIRED BY KAT
• it’s time for this show to die
• (look I have nothing against the cast, I
think they’re wonderful)
• (Ben platt is a sweetheart and so talented)
• but the story is not good like wtf and the
music is forgettable and derivative
• and i am so salty about the tonys
• sorry sorry I don’t really hate it and it’s
def not shit
• ugh
go to the devil,
eh

106. The end, bitch!
sorry i ran out of Josh
Groban facts…