19 books
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Musical Theater Books
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Hamilton: The Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as musical-theater)
avg rating 4.45 — 55,167 ratings — published 2015
Finishing the Hat: Collected Lyrics, 1954-1981, With Attendant Comments, Principles, Heresies, Grudges, Whines, and Anecdotes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as musical-theater)
avg rating 4.54 — 2,150 ratings — published 2009
Look, I Made a Hat: Collected Lyrics, 1981-2011, With Attendant Comments, Amplifications, Dogmas, Harangues, Digressions, Anecdotes, and Miscellany (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as musical-theater)
avg rating 4.57 — 1,121 ratings — published 2011
Will Grayson, Will Grayson (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as musical-theater)
avg rating 3.69 — 413,700 ratings — published 2010
Stephen Sondheim: A Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as musical-theater)
avg rating 4.15 — 899 ratings — published 1998
Fiddler on the Roof Full Text and lyrics (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as musical-theater)
avg rating 4.22 — 16,369 ratings — published 1964
Working on a Song: The Lyrics of HADESTOWN (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as musical-theater)
avg rating 4.56 — 2,947 ratings — published 2020
Rent: The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Musical―Complete Libretto and Oral History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as musical-theater)
avg rating 4.16 — 11,361 ratings — published 1996
Not Since Carrie: Forty Years of Broadway Musical Flops (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as musical-theater)
avg rating 3.94 — 592 ratings — published 1991
A Little Bit Wicked: Life, Love, and Faith in Stages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as musical-theater)
avg rating 3.84 — 11,782 ratings — published 2009
Into the Woods (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as musical-theater)
avg rating 4.25 — 11,946 ratings — published 1987
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (The Wicked Years, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as musical-theater)
avg rating 3.50 — 691,411 ratings — published 1995
Les Misérables (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as musical-theater)
avg rating 4.21 — 851,458 ratings — published 1862
Wicked: The Grimmerie (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as musical-theater)
avg rating 4.19 — 48,918 ratings — published 2005
Come From Away: Welcome to the Rock: An Inside Look at the Hit Musical (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as musical-theater)
avg rating 4.54 — 698 ratings — published 2019
Putting It Together: How Stephen Sondheim and I Created "Sunday in the Park with George" (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as musical-theater)
avg rating 4.48 — 1,545 ratings — published 2021
Writing Musical Theater (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as musical-theater)
avg rating 3.98 — 58 ratings — published 2006
Next to Normal (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as musical-theater)
avg rating 4.42 — 3,402 ratings — published 2009
Song of Spider-Man: The Inside Story of the Most Controversial Musical in Broadway History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as musical-theater)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,547 ratings — published 2013
How Sondheim Found His Sound (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as musical-theater)
avg rating 3.93 — 46 ratings — published 2005
Without You: A Memoir of Love, Loss and the Musical 'Rent' (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as musical-theater)
avg rating 4.03 — 6,195 ratings — published 2006
Not Otherwise Specified (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as musical-theater)
avg rating 3.80 — 1,636 ratings — published 2015
Roadshow!: The Fall of Film Musicals in the 1960s (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as musical-theater)
avg rating 3.80 — 125 ratings — published 2013
Broadway Musicals: The 101 Greatest Shows of All Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as musical-theater)
avg rating 4.34 — 283 ratings — published 2004
Let's Put on a Musical!: "How to Choose the Right Show for Your School, Community, or Professional Theate r" (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as musical-theater)
avg rating 4.22 — 18 ratings — published 1993
Sondheim on Music: Minor Details and Major Decisions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as musical-theater)
avg rating 4.43 — 212 ratings — published 2002
Follies (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as musical-theater)
avg rating 4.26 — 460 ratings — published 1971
Sunday in the Park with George (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as musical-theater)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,405 ratings — published 1983
A Little Night Music (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as musical-theater)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,434 ratings — published 1973
Assassins (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as musical-theater)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,802 ratings — published 1991
Company: A Musical Comedy (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as musical-theater)
avg rating 4.21 — 3,178 ratings — published 1970
Urinetown: The Musical (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as musical-theater)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,032 ratings — published 1998
1776 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as musical-theater)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,401 ratings — published 1970
Passion (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as musical-theater)
avg rating 4.06 — 220 ratings — published 1994
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as musical-theater)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,670 ratings — published 1961
Everything Was Possible: The Birth of the Musical Follies (Applause Books)
by (shelved 2 times as musical-theater)
avg rating 4.51 — 774 ratings — published 2003
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as musical-theater)
avg rating 4.18 — 14,725 ratings — published 1979
Second Act Romance (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as musical-theater)
avg rating 3.22 — 26,001 ratings — published 2026
Dear Evan Hansen: Through the Window (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as musical-theater)
avg rating 4.51 — 1,289 ratings — published
Reasons to Hate Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as musical-theater)
avg rating 4.34 — 146 ratings — published 2025
H.M.S. Pinafore (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as musical-theater)
avg rating 3.90 — 177 ratings — published 1878
Anyone Can Whistle: A Musical Fable (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as musical-theater)
avg rating 3.77 — 26 ratings — published 1965
Acting in Film: An Actor's Take on Movie Making (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as musical-theater)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,943 ratings — published 1989
Just Add Salt: A Single Mother’s Quest to Save Her Daughter’s Life and Feed Her Soul (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as musical-theater)
avg rating 4.33 — 6 ratings — published
Sondheim (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as musical-theater)
avg rating 4.02 — 59 ratings — published 1993
Fanny: A Musical Play -- Music and Lyrics By Harold Rome -- Based on the Trilogy of Marcel Pagnol (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as musical-theater)
avg rating 4.00 — 2 ratings — published
Dear Evan Hansen (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as musical-theater)
avg rating 4.27 — 6,173 ratings — published 2017
In the Heights: Finding Home (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as musical-theater)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,961 ratings — published 2021
Beating Broadway: How to Create Stories for Musicals That Get Standing Ovations (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as musical-theater)
avg rating 3.62 — 32 ratings — published 2013
Louder Than Hunger (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as musical-theater)
avg rating 4.40 — 8,195 ratings — published 2024
“You are sunlight and I am moonlight. That's what Kim said to Chris.”
― Hearts On A Page, Volume Two
― Hearts On A Page, Volume Two
“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.”
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