Particular musicals that have yielded popular “show tunes” include: •
Richard Rodgers and
Oscar Hammerstein's
Oklahoma!, Carousel, South Pacific, The King and I, Flower Drum Song, The Sound of Music •
Jerome Kern and Hammerstein's
Show Boat •
Rudolf Friml,
Herbert Stothart,
Otto Harbach and Hammerstein's
Rose-Marie • Rodgers and
Lorenz Hart's
Pal Joey and
Babes in Arms •
Irving Berlin's
Annie Get Your Gun, As Thousands Cheer, Call Me Madam •
Cole Porter's
Anything Goes, Kiss Me, Kate, Can-Can •
George and
Ira Gershwin's
Girl Crazy, Oh, Kay! •
Jerry Bock and
Sheldon Harnick's
Fiddler on the Roof •
Alan Jay Lerner and
Frederick Loewe's
Brigadoon, Paint Your Wagon, My Fair Lady, Gigi, Camelot •
Meredith Willson's
The Music Man •
Frank Loesser's
Guys and Dolls,
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying •
Leonard Bernstein and
Stephen Sondheim's
West Side Story •
Leslie Bricusse and
Anthony Newley's
Stop the World – I Want to Get Off,
The Roar of the Greasepaint – The Smell of the Crowd •
Lin-Manuel Miranda's
Hamilton • Bricusse,
Frank Wildhorn and
Steve Cuden's
Jekyll & Hyde •
Jerry Herman's
Milk and Honey, Hello, Dolly!, Mame, Dear World, Mack and Mabel, La Cage aux Folles •
Stephen Sondheim's
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Company, Follies, Sunday in the Park with George, Sweeney Todd, A Little Night Music and
Into the Woods •
John Kander and
Fred Ebb's
Cabaret, and
Chicago •
Andrew Lloyd Webber's
Evita, Jesus Christ Superstar, Cats, The Phantom of the Opera, Starlight Express, Sunset Boulevard, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat •
Stephen Schwartz's
Pippin,
Godspell, and
Wicked •
Jonathan Larson's
Rent •
Claude-Michel Schönberg's
Les Misérables, Miss Saigon •
Charles Strouse's
Bye Bye Birdie (with
Lee Adams) and
Annie (with
Martin Charnin) •
Jim Jacobs and
Warren Casey's
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