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The following is a list of the top 25 highest-grossing Broadway musicals since 1982, based on data collected by the Broadway League.These grosses do not take into account the effects of inflation and as such the list is heavily skewed in favor of more recent Broadway shows.
My Fair Lady is a musical with a book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe.The story, based on George Bernard Shaw's 1913 play Pygmalion and on the 1938 film adaptation of the play, concerns Eliza Doolittle, a Cockney flower girl who takes speech lessons from professor Henry Higgins, a phonetician, so that she may pass as a lady.
William Ruhlmann of AllMusic noted that "Williams may have been going for a more swinging, up-tempo mood, but the busy charts, full of pizzicato strings, vocal choruses, and competing counter-melodies, distracted attention from the songs. an essentially comic song like "Get Me to the Church on Time," and a few of the arrangements did work, notably the bossa nova treatment of "Begin the Beguine ...
Pretty Woman is a musical with music and lyrics by Bryan Adams and Jim Vallance, and a book by Garry Marshall and J. F. Lawton. [1] The musical is based on the 1990 film of the same name written by Lawton and directed by Marshall.
I Am What I Am (Broadway musical song) I Believe in You (Frank Loesser song) I Dreamed a Dream; I Found a Million Dollar Baby (in a Five and Ten Cent Store) I Lost My Heart in Heidelberg (song) I Love a Piano; I Wanna Be Loved by You; I Wish It So; I'll Be Seeing You (song) I'll Never Fall in Love Again; I'll Put You Together Again; I'll See ...
The Denver Center Theater Company produced the world premiere of Quilters in 1982. [1] The musical then was produced at the Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles, California, in December 1983; [2] the Pittsburgh Public Theater from December 16, 1983 to January 30, 1984; [3] and for 7 weeks at the Kennedy Center, Washington, DC, running from August 4, 1984 to September 1984. [4]
Woman of the Year is a musical with a book by Peter Stone and score by John Kander and Fred Ebb.. Based on the Ring Lardner Jr.-Michael Kanin written, Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy starring 1942 film, the musical changes the newspaper reporters of the original to television personality Tess Harding and cartoonist Sam Craig, who experience difficulty merging their careers with their marriage.
"People" is a song composed by Jule Styne with lyrics by Bob Merrill for the 1964 Broadway musical Funny Girl starring Barbra Streisand, who introduced the song. The song was released as a single in 1964 with "I Am Woman", a solo version of "You Are Woman, I Am Man", also from Funny Girl.