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Musicals
| Musical | Key Words |
|---|---|
| West Side Story | Rival gangs, Jets, Sharks, Tony, Bernardo, Maria, kills Bernardo, "rumble", Chino shoots Tony, Romeo and Juliet |
| The Phantom of the Opera | Christine Daae, Raoul, drops a chandelier, white mask, Gaston Leroux |
| My Fair Lady | Colonel Pickering, phonetics professor Henry Higgins, Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle, proper lady, Freddy Eynsforth-Hill, George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion |
| Cats | Jellicle, Rum Tum Tugger, Mungojerrie, Rumpleteazer, Mr. Mistoffeless, Old Deuteronomy, reborn, Grizabella, Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats |
| Evita | Che, Eva "Evita" Peron, Juan Peron, death from cancer, "Don't Cry For Me Argentina", Madonna, Antonia Banderas |
| The Mikado | Emperor of Japan, flirting, Titipu, Ko-Ko, Yum-Yum, Nanki-Poo, fake their execution |
| The Sound of Music | Maria, nun, Nazi-occupied Austria, Captain von Trapp, teaches the children to sing, married, concert for the Nazis, Julie Andrews |
| Fiddler on the Roof | Tevye, Jewish milkman, tsarist Russia, Tzeitel, Motel, Hodel Anatevka, pogrom, Tevye and his Daughters, Sholem Aleichem |
| Oklahoma! | Curly McLain, Judd, Aunt Eller, Laurey, falls on his own knife, attacking Curly, married, Ado Annie, Will Parker, Ali Hakim, first modern book musical |
| Cabaret | Kit-Kat Club, Berlin, Weimer era, Master of Ceremonies, Sally Bowles, Cliff Bradshaw, Nazis come to power, Liza Minelli, Joel Grey, Christopher Isherwood, Goodbye to Berlin |
| The Music Man | Harold Hill, River City (Iowa), boys' band, librarian Marian Paroo, "trouble in River City" |
| Rent | Impoverished artists ("bohemians"), East Village of New York City, AIDS crisis, Mark Cohen, Maureen, Joanne, heroin-addict, Roger, Mimi, Collins, Angel, Benny, evict, boheme, Pulitzer Prize for Drama |
| Guys and Dolls | Nathan Detroit, craps game, Biltmore garage, Sky Materson, Havana, Sarah Brown, revival meeting, Adelaide, against the gambler's souls, Damon Runyon |
| Les Misérables | Victor Hugo, Jean Valjean, stealing a load of bread to feed his starving niece, parole, Inspector Javert, adopted daughter Cosette, Marius, Eponine, barricades, student rebellion |
| Annie Get Your Gun | Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, Frank Butler, shooting contest Annie Oakley, fall in love, Ethel Merman |
| The Pirates of Penzance | Frederic, turned 21, apprenticeship, Mabel, Major-General Stanley, 21st birthday, February 29, surrender, light opera, patter song |
| H.M.S. Pinafore | Josephine, Sir Joseph Porter, Ralph Rackstraw, Buttercup, switched the captain and Ralph at birth, The Pirates of Penzance |
| The King and I | Anna Leonowens, schoolteacher, Siam, teach English, children and wives, Lun Tha, Tuptim, chauvinistic King, abolishes the practice of kowtowing, Anna and the King of Siam, Yul Brynner |
| Jesus Christ Superstar | Crucifixion, Judas, Christ, divinity, Mary Magdalene, hangs himself, accepts his fate |
| Sweeney Todd: the Demon Barber of Fleet Street | Barber, London, Australia, Judge Turpin, Joanna, Anthony Hope, murdering his customers, Mrs. Lovett, bakes them into meat-pies, kills the Judge, kills a mad beggar woman, Tobias, kills Sweeney |
| South Pacific | Pacific Theater of World War II, Nellie Forbush, Emile, plantation owner, Lieutenant Cable, espionage mission, James Michener's Tales of the South Pacific |