The 25 Broadway Musicals Everyone Should See

by Tom Williams
1. Show Boat by Jerome Kern & Oscar Hammerstein II
2. Les Miserables by Alain Boublil, Claude-Michel Schonberg & Herbert Kretzmer
3. My Fair Lady by Frederick Loewe & Alan Jay Lerner
4. Gypsy by Jule Styne & Stephen Sondheim
5. Oklahoma by Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein II
6. Crazy For You by George & Ira Gershwin
7. The Sound of Music by Richard Rodgers
& Oscar Hammerstein II
8.  South Pacific by Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein II
9. The Fantasticks by Harvey Schmidt & Tom Jones
10.  Hello, Dolly by Jerry Herman
11.  A Chorus Line by Marvin Hamlish & Edward Kleban
12.  Anything Goes by Cole Porter
13.  The Producers by Mel Brooks
14. 42nd Street by Harry Warren & Al Dubin
15.  Company by Stephen Sondheim & George Furth
16.  The Secret Garden by Lucy Simon & Marsha Norman
17.  Fiddler On The Roof by Jerry Bock, Sheldon Harnick
& Joseph Stein
18. West Side Story by Leonard Bernstein & Stephen Sondheim
19.  Annie Get Your Gun by Irving Berlin
20.  A Little Night Music by Stephen Sondheim & Hugh Wheeler
21.  The Music Man by Meredith Willson
22.  The King and I by Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein II
23.  Sweeney Todd by Stephen Sondheim & Hugh Wheeler
24. Phantom by Arthur Kopit & Maury Yeston
25.  Oliver by Lionel Bart