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The Sound of Music and Fiorello! are the only two musicals to date to have ever tied for the Best Musical award (in 1960). Passion is the shortest-running winner, with 280 performances. (If preview performances are included, then that distinction belongs to A Strange Loop .)
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart.. Inspired by the farces of the ancient Roman playwright Plautus (254–184 BC), specifically Curculio, Pseudolus, Miles Gloriosus, and Mostellaria, the musical tells the bawdy story of a slave named Pseudolus and his attempts to win his freedom by ...
also: Theatre: Genres: Musical theatre: Songs from musicals Articles about songs that are part of a musical . For songs written for musical films , see Category:Songs written for films .
Horn, who won a Tony for his book for the musical “Tootsie,” is without a doubt one of the funniest musical theater writers working today. The corny setup for “Shucked” involves a crop crisis.
Ever since song and dance first hit the silver screen with the invention of sound technology in the early 20th century, musical movies have long been a part of cinematic history.
The song "One Sweet Day", performed by Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men, spent 16 weeks on top of the chart and became the longest-running number-one song in history, until surpassed in 2019 by "Old Town Road". Janet Jackson earned six number-one songs on the Billboard Hot 100 chart during the 1990s.
Funny Girl is a musical with score by Jule Styne, lyrics by Bob Merrill, and book by Isobel Lennart, that first opened on Broadway in 1964.The semi-biographical plot is based on the life and career of comedian and Broadway star Fanny Brice, featuring her stormy relationship with entrepreneur and gambler Nicky Arnstein.
The list differs from the 2004 version, with 26 songs added, all of which are songs from the 2000s except "Juicy" by The Notorious B.I.G., released in 1994. The top 25 remained unchanged, but many songs down the list were given different rankings as a result of the inclusion of new songs, causing consecutive shifts among the songs listed in 2004.