Musicals Throughout the Post Golden Age

  • The Unsinkable Molly Brown

    The Unsinkable Molly Brown
    With lyrics by Meredith Willson and book by Richard Morris: The Unsinkable Molly Brown is a story that follows the life of Margaret Brown, who survived the sinking of the Titanic to get back to her lover.
  • How To Survive Business Without Really Trying

    How To Survive Business Without Really Trying
    With music by Frank Loesser, How to Survive Business Without Really Trying is about J. Pierrepoint Finch going from a normal window washer to the chairman of a very successful business because of a book he read on "How to Survive Business Without Really Trying."
  • Blitz!

    Blitz!
    Music: Lionel Bart
    Blitz! Is the classic Romeo and Juliet type of story but takes place in the East End of London during the aerial bombings of WWII. It follows the love story of Georgie Locke and Carol Blitzen. Their problem is that Georgie’s family is Cockney while Carol’s family is Jewish, and the families hate each other.
  • Tovarich

    Tovarich
    Music: Lee Pockriss
    This musical follows two refugees from the Russian Aristocracy, Tina and Michel, that were hired to be a maid and butler for an American upper-class family living in Paris. They try to keep their identities a secret, but one night, a Russian officer come over for dinner.
  • Hello, Dolly

    Hello, Dolly
    Music: Jerry Herman
    Hello, Dolly is about the very determined matchmaker, Dolly Gallagher Levi, trying her hardest to find a good match for Horace Vandergelder, who is known to be the lonely half-a-millionaire.
  • Fiddler on the Roof

    Fiddler on the Roof
    Music: Jerry Bock
    Fiddler on the Roof takes place in pre-revolutionary Russia, where a poor Jewish father, Tevye, works as a milkman. He tries to find suitable husbands for his five daughters that want to marry for love.
  • Ben Franklin in Paris

    Ben Franklin in Paris
    Music: Jerry Herman, Mark Sandrich Jr.
    Ben Franklin in Paris tells a fictionalized story of when Ben Franklin and his two sons had to travel to Paris in order to gain France's help in the American Revolution. In order to get to King Louis the XIV, Ben realizes he has to seduce the king's trusted advisor.
  • Baker

    Baker
    Music: Marian Grudeff, Raymond Jessel, Jerry Bock
    Baker is a musical adaptation of a Sherlock Holmes adventure. In the musical, Sherlock has to stop his nemesis, Moriarty, from detonating a bomb at the Queen’s Jubilee celebration.
  • Cabaret

    Cabaret
    Music: John Kander
    Set in Berlin just prior to WWII when the Nazis were on the rise, Cabaret focuses on the nightlife at the Kit Kat Klub where there is plentiful of self-indulgences.
  • You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown

    You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown
    Music: Clark Gesner
    The musical is based on the characters from the popular comics, The Peanuts. The cast keeps telling Charlie Brown that he is a good man, so throughout the musical, Charlie tries to figure out what being a good man means.