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introduced by Harold Curman (New York: Dell Publishing Co., 1959). [play]

Published Libretto: Frank Music Corp., 1956, 1957 [included with the Vocal Score]; reprinted in Theatre Arts October 1958), 26–53.

Published Vocal Score: Frank Music Corp., 1956, 1957.

My Fair Lady (1956)

Source: Pygmalion (1913) by George Bernard Shaw; reprinted in Pygmalion/My Fair Lady (New York: Signet, 1975). [play]. See also published Libretto.

Published Libretto: Pygmalion/My Fair Lady (New York: Signet, 1975).

Published Vocal Score: Chappell & Co., 1956.

On Your Toes (1936)

Source: Original book by Rodgers and Hart and George Abbott.

Published Libretto: None (rental available from The Rodgers & Hammerstein Theatre Library).

Published Vocal Score: Chappell & Co., 1985 (Broadway 1983).

One Touch of Venus (1943)

Source: The Tinted Venus (1885) by F. Anstey (Thomas Anstey Guthrie); reprinted in Humour & Fantasy (New York: Arno Press, 1978). [novel]

Published Libretto: Great Musicals of the American Theatre Volume One, ed. Stanley Richards (Radnor, Pa.: Chilton Book Company, 1973).

Published Vocal Score: None (rental score available from the Rodgers and Hammerstein Theatre Library); vocal selections, The Richmond Organization, 1944; renewed by Hampshire House Publishing Corp. and Chappell & Co., 1972.

Pal Joey (1940)

Source: Pal Joey by John O’Hara; Pal Joey: The Novel and The Libretto and Lyrics (New York: Vintage, 1983). [novel based on short stories in the form of letters first published in the New Yorker from 1938 to 1940]. See also published Libretto.

Published Libretto: Pal Joey: The Novel and the Libretto and Lyrics.

Published Vocal Score: Chappell & Co, 1962.

The Phantom of the Opera (London 1986, New York, 1988)

Sources: Le Fantöme de L’Opéra, daily installments in Le Gaulois. Collected and republished. Paris: Pierre Lafitte et Cie, June, 1910; published in English as The Phantom of the Opera. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1911; modern edition: The Essential Phantom of the Opera, ed. Leonard Wolf. New York: ibooks: 1996. [novel]

Published Librettos: The Complete Phantom of the Opera by George Perry, pp. 139–67. New York: Holt, 1987 [musical]; Perry, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera Companion. Contains Original Screenplay. London: Pavilion, 2004. [screenplay]

Published Vocal Score: Vocal Selections, Hal Leonard, 1987.

Porgy and Bess (1935)

Sources: Porgy by DuBose Heyward (New York: George H. Doran Company, 1925) [novel]; Porgy, A Play in Four Acts by DuBose and Dorothy Heyward (New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1928); reprinted in Famous American Plays of the 1920s, selected and introduced by Kenneth MacGowan (New York: Dell Publishing Co., 1959). [play]

Published Librettos: London OSA-13116 (1976); RCA ARL 3–2109 (1977); EMI/Angel CDCC-49568 (1986); Columbia OSL 162; reissued on Odyssey Stereo 32-36-0018 (1951), also published in Great Musicals of the American Theatre Volume One, ed. Stanley Richards (Radnor, Pa: Chilton Book Company, 1973); see also the published Vocal Score.

Published Vocal Score: Gershwin Publishing Corp./Chappell & Co., 1935.

Show Boat (1927)

Source: Show Boat by Edna Ferber (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1926). [novel]

Published Librettos: Chappell, 1934 (London 1928); act I, scenes 1, 2, 4, 7, and 8, and act II, scene 3 [virtually complete] and scenes 4 and 9 [well represented] in EMI/Angel CDS-7-49108-2 (1988).

Published Vocal Scores: Harms Co., 1927 (Broadway 1927); Chappell & Co. and T. B. Harms Co., 1928 (London 1928); The Welk Music Group, 1927 (Broadway 1946).

Sunday in the Park with George (1984)

Source: Based on the life of the painter Georges Seurat (1859–1891) and the creation of his painting Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (1884–1886).

Published Libretto: New York: Dodd, Mead, 1986; reprinted in Four by Sondheim. New York: Applause, 2000.

Published Vocal Score: New York: Alfred, 1987.

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1979)

Sources: The String of Pearls: A Romance by Thomas Peckett Prest, 1846–47 [serialized novel]; The String of Pearls, or the Fiend of Fleet Street (produced as Sweeney Todd) by George Dibdin Pitt, 1847 [play]; Sweeney Todd by Christopher Bond, 1973 [play]. [Hugh Wheeler’s book for Sweeney Todd includes the following credit on the title page: “Based on a version of ‘Sweeney Todd’ by Christopher Bond.”]

Published Libretto: New York: Dodd, Mead, 1979; reprinted in Four by Sondheim. New York: Applause, 2000.

Published Vocal Score: New York: Rilting Music and Alfred, 1999.

West Side Story (1957)

Source: Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare (1595). [play]. See also published librettos.

Published Librettos: Romeo and Juliet/West Side Story (New York: Dell Publishing Co., 1965); Great Musicals of the American Theatre Volume One, ed. Stanley Richards (Radnor, Pa.: Chilton Book Company, 1973).

Published Vocal Score: G. Schirmer and Chappell & Co., 1957 and 1959.

Appendix B: Long Runs: Decade by Decade 1920s–2000s

1920s

1. The Student Prince in Heidelberg (1924) (Romberg and Donnelly)

608

2. Blossom Time (1921) (Romberg and Donnelly)

592

3. Show Boat (1927) (Kern and Hammerstein)*

575

4. Sally (1920) (Kern, Bolton, and Grey)

570

5. Rose-Marie (1924) (Friml, Harbach, and Hammerstein)

557

6. Good News (1927) (Henderson, DeSylva, and Brown)

551

7. Sunny (1925) (Kern, Harbach, and Hammerstein)

517

8. The Vagabond King (1925) (Friml and Hooker)

511

9. The New Moon (1928) (Romberg and Hammerstein)

509

10. Rio Rita (1927) (Tierney and McCarthy)

494

11. Wildflower (1923) (Youmans, Stothart, Harbach, and Hammerstein)

477

12. The Desert Song (1924) (Romberg, Harbach, and Hammerstein)

471

1930s

1. Hellzapoppin’ (1938) (Fain, Olsen, and Johnson)

1,404

2. Pins and Needles (1937) (Rome)

1,108

3. Of Thee I Sing (1931) (G. and I. Gershwin)

441

4. Anything Goes (1934) (Porter)

420

5. DuBarry Was a Lady (1939) (Porter)

408

6. The Cat and the Fiddle (1931) (Kern and Harbach)

395

7. Flying High (1930) (Henderson, DeSylva, and Brown)

357

8. Music in the Air (1932) (Kern and Hammerstein)

342

9. I Married an Angel (1938) (Rodgers and Hart)

338

10. On Your Toes (1936) (Rodgers and Hart)

315

11. The Great Waltz (1934) (Johann Strauss Jr. and Carter)

298

12. Roberta (1933) (Kern and Harbach)

295

13. I’d Rather Be Right (1937) (Rodgers and Hart)

290

14. Babes in Arms (1937) (Rodgers and Hart)

289

1940s

1. Oklahoma! (1943) (Rodgers and Hammerstein)

2,212

2. South Pacific (1949) (Rodgers and Hammerstein)

1,925

3. Annie Get Your Gun (1946) (Berlin and H. and D. Fields)

1,147

4. Kiss Me, Kate (1948) (Porter and B. and S. Spewack)

1,070

5. Carousel (1945) (Rodgers and Hammerstein)

890

6. Follow the Girls (1944) (Shapiro, Pascal, and Charig)

882

7. Song of Norway (1944) (Wright and Forrest)

860

8. Where’s Charley? (1948) (Loesser and Abbott)

792

9. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1949) (Styne and Robin)

740

10. High Button Shoes (1947) (Styne, Cahn, and Abbott)

727

11. Finian’s Rainbow (1947) (Lane and Harburg)

725

12. Bloomer Girl (1944) (Arlen and Harburg)

654

13. Brigadoon (1947) (Lerner and Loewe)

581

14. One Touch