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
Not Since Carrie: Forty Years of Broadway Musical Flops
A Little Bit Wicked: Life, Love, and Faith in Stages
Into the Woods
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (The Wicked Years, #1)
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
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
72 books — 61 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
187 books — 40 voters
Drama by Raina TelgemeierWill Grayson, Will Grayson by John  GreenTake a Bow by Elizabeth EulbergMeet Me Under the Lights by Cassie  MillerHarlequin's Riddle by Rachel Nightingale
YA Books about Performing Arts
236 books — 103 voters

On The Roof by Samantha   HahnThe Black Opera by Mary GentleBroken Strings by Eric WaltersBroadway Nights by Seth RudetskySkinny by Donna Cooner
Novels About Musical Theatre
99 books — 9 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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