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Melissa: Josh, that's how musicals work. When you're too emotional to talk, you sing; when you're too emotional to sing, you dance.
Josh: What happens when you're too emotional to dance? Does it loop back around to talking? Because that's where I'm at right now.

A musical is any presentation in which a major part of the exposition and/or action comes through the medium of song (and often, but not necessarily, dance as well). This sounds simple, but it has so many permutations that it is a loaded term for most people. For example, if you were to say that the only real difference between an Opera and a musical is in what theaters they're showing it in, expect vehement protests—and yet, trying to come up with definitions that will perfectly separate one from the other is just about impossible. It doesn't help that musicals were influenced by opera—specifically the comic genre of "light" opera or operetta—and that many late-19th and early-20th century plays-with-singing could easily be classified as either. A prime example is the works of Gilbert and Sullivan: at the time they were called operas (they didn't call the company and theatre G&S wrote for the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company playing at the Savoy Opera for nothing), but today they are often considered to be the earliest notable examples of musicals.

By far the most common perception of a musical is properly termed "musical theater", in which a play is performed with several songs interspersed at major plot points in the story. In the United States, these are most often associated with Broadway and Off-Broadway plays, and can be either original material or adapted from any number of sources (though adaptations are far more common than original musicals; see All Musicals Are Adaptations).

A distinction is made between "book musicals", in which songs are interspersed between chunks of spoken dialogue and action (the spoken dialogue being referred to as the "book"), and musicals that are "sung through" like an Opera, i.e. nearly every word is sung from curtain-up to curtain-down, with only occasional spoken lines. ^note Note that this is not actually true of Opera to begin with; some of Mozart's most celebrated operas have spoken dialogue, for example (like The Magic Flute). Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street and Guys and Dolls are examples of book musicals; Cats and Les Misérables are sung through. Each variety has its advantages and disadvantages: with a sung through musical, there's the danger of having too much utterly mundane dialogue set to music in a way that draws the audience's attention to the blatant artificiality of the concept; with a book musical, the transitions from musical scenes to spoken dialogue and vice versa can be awkward and forced if they're not handled carefully.

In the West, musical films are often either animated, like classic Disney films, or adapted from stage musicals. Film adaptations of stage musicals have to deal with two major issues:

• First, theatre is typically more forgiving of grand, melodramatic gestures, such as… well, bursting into song at highly emotional moments… that just look silly on film. Directors often deal with this by adding in some sort of frame story to justify all the singing (as in Chicago, where the songs are envisioned as taking place inside Roxie's head; the song "Class" had to be cut because there was no way to fit that scheme); alternatively, they can just go with the inherent high camp of the genre and hope they get away with it.
• Second, films have bigger budgets than stage plays and often need to have "big names" to make sure of having an audience to justify the budget — but most Hollywood-standard "big names" can't carry a tune in a bucket. There was a time when the standard solution was to hire a real singer to dub over the "name" (as, for instance, with Natalie Wood being dubbed by Marni Nixon in West Side Story — Nixon also dubbed Deborah Kerr in The King and I and Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady), but this has fallen out of favour — with the result that many "musical" films are distinctly unmusical. The alternative solution of hiring popular singers to play the roles brings with it the possibility that they can't act, which can be equally painful to watch.

There's also the problem that film and theater are very different media (as are television and film) and there are important differences that don't always translate well:

• Film can zoom in and pan out to control the audience's focus. Theatre controls this with dialogue and blocking (how actors and props are positioned). No less a luminary than Stephen Sondheim has said that one reason why it's hard to adapt a stage musical to film is that in film a close-up can tell you everything that a song can — so why bother with the song?
• Film is image-driven, whereas theater is dialogue-driven. Film can have little or no dialogue and tell the story with pictures; theater can have very little physical movement and tell the story with verbal images.
• Theater is more artificial and can be effective with very sparse or abstract sets, while film is more naturalistic and demands detailed and authentic backgrounds.
• Singing well requires the sort of physical movement and concentration that, on film, looks like overacting.

However, film and theater have one thing in common: you get 90 minutes of butt time, and if you run longer than that, you'd BETTER be good.

The movie/musical adaptation cycle goes both ways, with many examples of Recursive Adaptation (e.g. The Producers, Hairspray, Little Shop of Horrors).

There's also the trend of the Jukebox Musical, and also the Rock Opera, which often starts as a Concept Album.

Since far more people can see a Hollywood film than a Broadway musical (even one that runs for years), films adapting stage musicals are especially prone to Adaptation Displacement. In the Indian Hindi-language film industry known colloquially as Bollywood, musicals are the default genre, but it is very rare in the West for live-action musical films to be original, rather than adaptations.

Japan, South Korea, France, and Germany also have strong musical theatre scenes that don't always overlap with those of the US and UK. Elisabeth is one of the most popular musicals in these countries, but most English-speaking theatre fans have barely heard of it. The Japanese troupe Takarazuka Revue has also created their own unique brand of musicals, 100 years strong.

When this is incorporated into a TV show, see Musical Episode. A frequent sufferer of Title: The Adaptation, probably because All Musicals Are Adaptations.

If you were wondering just where all that singing was coming from, see Musical World Hypotheses. Compare Hollywood Darkness, Musicalus Interruptus.

For a list of tropes related to Musical Drama and Songs you get to sing, see Musical Number Index .

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    Anime, Manga, and 2. 5 D Theatre

• Stage adaptations of anime that are aimed squarely at those who are already fans of the series are known as 2.5D Theater. The phenomenon started in the 1990's, but it exploded in popularity in the late 2010's, with 194 2.5D plays produced in 2018. Listed here are 2.5D musicals. For 2.5D non-musical plays, please see Screen-to-Stage Adaptation.
  • Sera Myu
  • The Prince of Tennis, the producer of which coined the term 2.5D.
  • Tou Myu, one of the cornerstones of the late 2010's wave of 2.5D.
  • Persona 3: The Weird Masquerade is based on Persona 3 and features the male and female protagonists in separate performances.

Musical Anime:

• Interstella 5555
• Love Live!: The School Idol Movie, befitting the story of the girls' trip to New York, features non-diegetic music alongside the series' usual diegetic music.
• Nerima Daikon Brothers
• High School Star Musical is a full TV anime series in musical format, with a story about boys in a musical theatre high school.

    Audio Plays

• 36 Questions — The Podcast Musical

    Fan Fiction

• Bride of Discord audio version (My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic)
• Princess Trixie Sparkle audio version (My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic); even has an opening theme for each episode.

    Film

• 8 Mile
• 8 Women
• 42nd Street
• Absolute Beginners
• Across the Universe (The Beatles)
• Aladdin (1990 Made-for-TV Movie)
• Aladdin (1992)
  • The Return Of Jafar
  • Aladdin and the King of Thieves
  • Aladdin, the 2019 live-action remake.
• Allegro
• An American in Paris
• Anchors Aweigh
• Annette
• Applause
• The Apple
• The Apple Tree
• At Long Last Love, one of the most notorious flops in film history.
• The Band Wagon
• Beauty and the Beast (1991)
  • Beauty and the Beast, the 2017 live-action remake.
• Bedknobs and Broomsticks
• The Bells of St. Mary's
• The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
• The Big Gay Musical
• Big River
• Bill & Ted's Excellent Musical Adventure

• The Blues Brothers
• Bugsy Malone
• Burlesque
• Cabin in the Sky
• Calamity Jane
• Cannibal! The Musical
• Can't Stop the Music
• Carefree
• Carmen Jones
• Chicago: Started as a series of newspaper articles before being adapted to film (twice), then as a stage musical before being filmed again.
• Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
• A Christmas Carol: The Musical
• The Cocoanuts
• Cover Girl
• Creating Rem Lezar
• Cyrano
• Daddy Long Legs
• Dames
• Dancer in the Dark
• Darling Lili
• Dear Evan Hansen
• The Devil's Carnival
• Dimples
• Down Argentine Way
• Easter Parade
• Emo the Musical
• Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga
• Everyone Says I Love You
• Fame
• Fashions of 1934
• The Fearless Vampire Killers was adapted for those musical-thirsty Germans. Why else would it be known world-wide under a German title, namely Tanz Der Vampire, which is the title of the film's German dub.
• Flirtation Walk
• Flying Down to Rio
• Follow the Fleet
• Footlight Parade
• From Justin to Kelly
• Frozen
  • Frozen
  • Frozen Fever
  • Olaf's Frozen Adventure
  • Frozen II
• Fun Home
• Funny Face
• The Gang's All Here
• The Gay Divorcee
• Get On Up
• Gigi
• God Help the Girl
• Going My Way
• Gold Diggers of 1933
  • Gold Diggers of 1935
  • Gold Diggers of 1937
• Good Vibrations
  • Surf, a The Beach Boys Jukebox Musical in Las Vegas
• Grease
  • Grease 2
• The Greatest Showman
• Hairspray (2007)
• Hallelujah!
• Hans Christian Andersen
• The Harry Hill Movie
• The Harvey Girls
• High School Musical
  • High School Musical 2
  • High School Musical 3: Senior Year
  • Sharpay's Fabulous Adventure
• High Society
• Hillbillys in a Haunted House
• Holiday Inn
• The Hollywood Revue of 1929
• Homebrewed
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame
  • And the unrelated French production Notre-Dame de Paris
• It's Always Fair Weather
• Jeanne and the Perfect Guy
• Labyrinth
• La La Land
• The Little Mermaid (1989)
• Little Miss Sunshine
• The Loud House Movie
• Love Me Tonight
• Love Songs
• The Love Parade
• Madam Satan
• Marianne
• Mary Poppins
  • Mary Poppins Returns
• Meet Me in St. Louis
• Le Million
• Monster Mash
• Monster Mash (2000)
• Monte Carlo
• Moon over Miami
• Moulin Rouge!, a Setting Update of Verdi's La Traviata, based on La Dame aux Camelias by Alexandre Dumas, fils
• (Almost) all films featuring The Muppets:
  • The Muppet Movie
  • The Great Muppet Caper
  • The Muppets Take Manhattan
  • The Muppet Christmas Carol
  • Muppet Treasure Island
  • The Muppets' Wizard of Oz (Made-for-TV Movie)
  • The Muppets
  • Muppets Most Wanted
• My Depression
• My Week with Marilyn (one song at the end)
• Neptune's Daughter
• New York, New York
• Newsies
• Not the Messiah (He's a Very Naughty Boy)
• Nudist Colony of the Dead
• Office
• Oh! What a Lovely War
• Once
• The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band
• One Hour with You, one of the first musicals to be based on a film
• On Moonlight Bay
• Pal Joey, notable for introducing the first Broadway Anti-Hero.
• Pennies from Heaven
• The Pirate
• The Pirate Movie
• Popeye
• Porgy and Bess
• Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
• The Producers (the 1968 film is a comedy with musical elements, while the 2005 adaptation is a full-on musical)
• Rags
• Reefer Madness: The Musical
• Repo! The Genetic Opera
• Roberta
• Robin and the Seven Hoods
• Rock of Ages
• Rocketman
• The Rocky Horror Picture Show
  • Shock Treatment
  • The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp Again
• Romance And Cigarettes
• Scrooge
• Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
• Sextette
• Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
• Shall We Dance? (1937)
• Sherina's Adventure
• Silk Stockings
• Sing
  • Sing 2
• Singin' in the Rain
• Sing Street
• The Slipper and the Rose
• The Smiling Lieutenant
• Sonic: Live in Sydney
• Stage Fright
• A Star Is Born
  • A Star Is Born
  • A Star Is Born
• State Fair
• Stilyagi
• Stormy Weather
• Summer Holiday
• Sunny Side Up
• Sunset Boulevard
• Swing Time
• Tarzan
• Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny
• This is the Night
• Thoroughly Modern Millie
• Top Hat
• Torch Song
• Trolls
  • Trolls Holiday
  • Trolls: World Tour
• The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
• Veronica Dilogy
• Voyage of the Rock Aliens
• Walking on Sunshine
• Were the World Mine
• West Bank Story
• West Side Story (1961)
• West Side Story (2021)
• The Wizard of Oz
• Xanadu
• Yankee Doodle Dandy
• Yentl
• Young at Heart
• The Young Girls of Rochefort
• The Young Ones
• Ziegfeld Follies
• Ziegfeld Girl
• Zoeys Extraordinary Christmas
• Zoot Suit

    Live-Action TV

• Ants in Your Pants
• Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
• Cop Rock
• Galavant
• Glee
• Jerry Springer: The Opera
• The Noddy Shop has at least one musical number in every episode that's almost always related to the episode's moral or is about something that happens in the plot. Some episodes have two or more songs, and at least one was a Clip Show comprised of past songs from the show.
• Our Gay Wedding: The Musical
• Rags to Riches
• Schmigadoon! provides the page quote.
• Smash is an odd case in that it features characters performing in in-universe musicals, characters spontaneously bursting into "real-life" choreographed numbers, characters singing in neither context and "mind palace" choreographed numbers.
• X-Play: The Musical
• Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist

    Music

• American Idiot
• Der Fluch des Drachen: Dubbed a "Fantastical", this fantasy-story was simultaneously released as a combination of audio book and Rock Opera and as a live Musical.
• Evita
• Jesus Christ Superstar
• Juno and Avos
• Omaha!
• The Silent City
• Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, based on the album by The Flaming Lips with selections from their other albums.
• Musicals dedicated to deceased (sometimes also living) musicians or disbanded music groups, telling their stories with their own music. These seem to be particularly popular in Europe and especially in German-speaking nations, no matter the nationality of the subject, and some of them never make it across the pond. One advantage of this format is that you don't necessarily have to hide the musicians in a pit, but you can and often have to put them on stage with the actors. A frequent case of Artist: The Adaptation. Examples include:
  • ABBA. No, not Mamma Mia!. There is also a musical with ABBA's music that is about ABBA. It's named Thank You for the Music.
  • The Beatles: All You Need Is Love!
  • Boney M.: Boney M. - The Musical
  • Gloria Estefan: On Your Feet
  • Falco: Falco - The Musical
  • Buddy Holly: Buddy!
  • Michael Jackson: Thriller - Live
  • Elvis Presley: Elvis - The Musical
  • Queen: Queenmania - A Special Kind Of Magic
  • Tina Turner: Simply The Best

    Podcasts

• In Strange Woods

    Theatre

• 13
• 21 Chump Street
• The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
• 35MM: A Musical Exhibition
• 1776
• 1789
• The Addams Family
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
• Aida, based on Verdi's opera of the same name
• AKB Kagekidan Infinity (AKB48)
• Aladdin
• Alice
• Alice By Heart
• Allegiance
• 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
• Aspects of Love
• Assassins
• Atlantis
• Avenue Q
• Back to the Eighties
• Baddy
• Bandstand
• Bare: A Pop Opera
• Batman The Musical
• Bat Out of Hell
• The Beatles LOVE
• 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
• Camelot
• Can-Can
• Carrie
• 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 recieved a TV film adaptation in 2004 A Christmas Carol: The Musical
• Cinderella (Rodgers and Hammerstein)
• City of Angels
• Closer Than Ever
• The Cocoanuts
• The Color Purple
• Company
• Come From Away
• Crazy for You
• Damn Yankees
• Dear Evan Hansen
• Death Note: The Musical, composed by none other than Frank Wildhorn.
• 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
• 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
• A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
• Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
• Ghost
• Godspell
• Hairspray
• How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
• 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
• Hallelujah, Baby!
• Hamilton
• Hands on a Hardbody
• Heathers
• Hello, Dolly!
• The Hired Man
• Holy Musical B@man!
• HONK!
• 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
• The King and I
• Kismet
• Kiss Me, Kate
• Kiss of the Spider Woman
• Knickerbocker Holiday
• La Cage aux folles
• Ladies in Black
• Lady in the Dark
• The Last Five Years
• 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
• A Little Night Music
• Little Shop of Horrors
• The Lord of the Rings, the opera.
• Lost: The Musical , from the same creators of Shame of Thrones
• Mack & Mabel
• Majora
• Mame, a musical adaptation of Auntie Mame
• Mamma Mia! (ABBA)
• Man of La Mancha
• Marat/Sade
• Martin Guerre
• Matilda
• Me And Juliet
• Mean Girls
• Memphis, A New Musical
• Merrily We Roll Along
• Metropolis
• MID-LIFE! the Crisis Musical
• Midnight Channel The Musical, a fan-produced adaptation of Persona 4.
• Les Misérables, the longest-running musical in the world, bar none - it's been running in London's West End since 1985.
• Minnie's Boys, about how the Marx brothers became the Marx Brothers.
• Lizzie
• Marie Antoinette (Musical)
• 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
• 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.
  • Love Never Dies
• Pippin
• The Pirate Queen.
• Pokémon Live!!.
• Pokémon: The Mew-sical
• Portal 2: The (Unauthorized) Musical
• Prince Kaguya
• 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
• 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
• 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.
• Violet
• Viva Elvis
• Waitress
• We Are The Tigers
• Westeros: An American Musical
• 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
• 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
• 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!

    Video Games

• Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two, — all the songs are sung by the Big Bad.
• Mother Chef: The Musical! is a musical Black Comedy game where most scenes involve characters singing to the player.
• The Nightmare Before Christmas: Oogie's Revenge has musical numbers during boss battles.

    Web Original

• The Battery's Down
• Chrono Trigger: The Musical
• "Deadpool: The Musical"
• Doppelgänger
• Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog
• Five Nights at Freddy's: The Musical
• Game Grumps: The Musical
• Human Centipede: The Musical
• Of Weasels And Chickens
• Undertale Genocide The Musical
• Undertale the Musical

    Western Animation

• A Treasure In My Garden
• The Adventures of Teddy Ruxpin
• Babar: The Movie
• Centaurworld
• Central Park
• Doug Live!
• Freaknik: The Musical
• The Ghost and Molly McGee
• The Hobbit (1977)
• The Jungle Show
• Mumfie's Quest
• Mamemo
• Monster High: Boo York, Boo York
• The Nightmare Before Christmas
• Really Rosie
• South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
• Steven Universe: The Movie
• HBO Storybook Musicals is an HBO Family Original series that adapts various children's stories such as The Tale of Peter Rabbit and Mike Mulligan And His Steam Shovel into a 25 minute animated musical.
• Toon Bops
• Total Drama World Tour
• The Tune
• Yes Virginia: The Musical

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