Musical Theater


Hamilton: The Revolution
Finishing the Hat: Collected Lyrics, 1954-1981, With Attendant Comments, Principles, Heresies, Grudges, Whines, and Anecdotes
Look, I Made a Hat: Collected Lyrics, 1981-2011, With Attendant Comments, Amplifications, Dogmas, Harangues, Digressions, Anecdotes, and Miscellany
Will Grayson, Will Grayson
Stephen Sondheim: A Life
Fiddler on the Roof Full Text and lyrics
Wicked: The Grimmerie
Working on a Song: The Lyrics of HADESTOWN
Writing Musical Theater
Song of Spider-Man: The Inside Story of the Most Controversial Musical in Broadway History
Rent: The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Musical―Complete Libretto and Oral History
Not Since Carrie: Forty Years of Broadway Musical Flops
A Little Bit Wicked: Life, Love, and Faith in Stages
Everything Was Possible: The Birth of the Musical Follies (Applause Books)
Into the Woods
The Emperor by Robert         ReidHeaven Official's Blessing by Mò Xiāng Tóng XiùYumi and the Nightmare Painter by Brandon SandersonThe Sword of Kaigen by M.L. WangThe Burning God by R.F. Kuang
Great American Songbook
193 books — 18 voters
Les Misérables by Victor HugoWicked by Gregory MaguireThe Phantom of the Opera by Gaston LerouxThe Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank BaumAlexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
Books that Inspired Musicals
100 books — 32 voters

West Side Story by Irving ShulmanThe Prom by Saundra MitchellDear Evan Hansen by Val EmmichThe Rocky Horror Picture Show by Kevin VanHookHairspray by Tracey West
Musicals Adapted Into Books
37 books — 4 voters
Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John  GreenEyes Like Stars by Lisa MantchevPerchance to Dream by Lisa MantchevMeet Me Under the Lights by Cassie  MillerDrama by Raina Telgemeier
YA Theater
73 books — 62 voters

Meet Me Under the Lights by Cassie  MillerRoomies by Christina LaurenWill Grayson, Will Grayson by John  GreenAnd The Next Thing You Know... by Chase Taylor HackettSimon vs the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli
Performing Arts Fiction
188 books — 41 voters
Working on a Song by Anaïs MitchellTom Foolery by Tom Lehrer
Best Theatre/Musical Books
2 books — 3 voters

Emma Straub
“ The magazine had run an interview with a neuroscientist some years ago, a guy who studied the effects of music on the brain, and it had shown that the music one loved in one's youth imprinted on the brain, literally making its own dopamine pathways, which was why people were always dancing in grocery store aisles. They weren't just happy; they were actually high on their own brains. Maybe that was why opera had fewer fans than musical theater---almost no one started listening to opera when they ...more ”
― Emma Straub, American Fantasy

Dave Eggers
“ She spent her idle time conceiving of musicals that would never be. It was the only medium that could properly express our true madness and hypocrisy---our collective ability to sit in a theater watching lunatics sing nonsense while the world outside burns. ”
― Dave Eggers

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