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1. Oklahoma!

2. Fiddler on the Roof
Che Guevara narrates the life story of Eva Peron - a singer and film actress who marries Juan Peron. Juan is elected President of Argentina - and Eva's charity work makes her immensely popular among her people before her death from cancer.
Tevye is a lowly Jewish milkman in Tsarist Russia - and his daughters are anxious to get married. Tzeitel marries the tailer Motel - Hodel gets engaged to the radical student Perchik - and Chava falls in love with a Russian named Fyedka. The families
The title character has made flirting a capital crime in Titipu - so the people have appointed an ineffectual executioner named Ko-Ko. Ko-Ko's ward - Yum-Yum - marries the wandering musician Nanki-Poo - and the two lovers fake their execution. The ti
Riff and Bernardo lead two rival gangs: the blue-collar Jets and the Sharks from Puerto Rico. Tony - a former Jet - falls in love with Bernardo's sister Maria - and vows to stop the fighting - but he kills Bernardo after Bernardo kills Riff in a rumb

3. Cats
Oklahoma!
The Jellicle tribe of cats roams the streets of London. They introduce the audience to various members - including: Rum Tum Tugger - Mungojerne - Rempleteazer - Mr. Mistoffelees - and Old Deuteronomy.
Riff and Bernardo lead two rival gangs: the blue-collar Jets and the Sharks from Puerto Rico. Tony - a former Jet - falls in love with Bernardo's sister Maria - and vows to stop the fighting - but he kills Bernardo after Bernardo kills Riff in a rumb
Tevye is a lowly Jewish milkman in Tsarist Russia - and his daughters are anxious to get married. Tzeitel marries the tailer Motel - Hodel gets engaged to the radical student Perchik - and Chava falls in love with a Russian named Fyedka. The families

4. West Side Story

5. The Phantom of the Opera

6. Who composed the Sound of Music?
Maria - a young woman studying to be a nun in Nazi-occupied Austria - becomes governess to the seven children of Captain von Trapp. She teaches the children to sin - and she and the Captain fall in love and get married.
The title character has made flirting a capital crime in Titipu - so the people have appointed an ineffectual executioner named Ko-Ko. Ko-Ko's ward - Yum-Yum - marries the wandering musician Nanki-Poo - and the two lovers fake their execution. The ti
The title character has made flirting a capital crime in Titipu - so the people have appointed an ineffectual executioner named Ko-Ko. Ko-Ko's ward - Yum-Yum - marries the wandering musician Nanki-Poo - and the two lovers fake their execution. The ti
Richard Rodgers

7. Which play is 'My Fair Lady' adapted from?
Pygmalion
Riff and Bernardo lead two rival gangs: the blue-collar Jets and the Sharks from Puerto Rico. Tony - a former Jet - falls in love with Bernardo's sister Maria - and vows to stop the fighting - but he kills Bernardo after Bernardo kills Riff in a rumb
Cowboy Curly McLain and sinister farmhand Judd compete for the love of Aunt Eller's niece - Laurey. Judd falls on his own knife after attacking Curly - and Curly and Laurey get married.
The title character has made flirting a capital crime in Titipu - so the people have appointed an ineffectual executioner named Ko-Ko. Ko-Ko's ward - Yum-Yum - marries the wandering musician Nanki-Poo - and the two lovers fake their execution. The ti

8. The Mikado

9. My Fair Lady
Maria - a young woman studying to be a nun in Nazi-occupied Austria - becomes governess to the seven children of Captain von Trapp. She teaches the children to sin - and she and the Captain fall in love and get married.
Oklahoma!
Riff and Bernardo lead two rival gangs: the blue-collar Jets and the Sharks from Puerto Rico. Tony - a former Jet - falls in love with Bernardo's sister Maria - and vows to stop the fighting - but he kills Bernardo after Bernardo kills Riff in a rumb
As part of a bet with his friend Colonel Pickering - phonetics professor Henry Higgins transforms cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle into a proper lady. After Eliza falls for Freddy Eynsforth-Hill - Higgins realizes he is in love with Eliza

10. West Side Story

11. Who composed the Sound of Music?
Richard Rodgers
Tevye is a lowly Jewish milkman in Tsarist Russia - and his daughters are anxious to get married. Tzeitel marries the tailer Motel - Hodel gets engaged to the radical student Perchik - and Chava falls in love with a Russian named Fyedka. The families
Tevye is a lowly Jewish milkman in Tsarist Russia - and his daughters are anxious to get married. Tzeitel marries the tailer Motel - Hodel gets engaged to the radical student Perchik - and Chava falls in love with a Russian named Fyedka. The families
As part of a bet with his friend Colonel Pickering - phonetics professor Henry Higgins transforms cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle into a proper lady. After Eliza falls for Freddy Eynsforth-Hill - Higgins realizes he is in love with Eliza

12. Cabaret
Richard Rodgers
Set in the seedy Kit-Kat Club in Weimar Berlin - the risqua Master of Ceremonies presides over the action. The British lounge singer Sally Bowles falls in love with the American writer Cliff Bradshaw - but the two break up as the Nazis come to power.
Oklahoma!
Che Guevara narrates the life story of Eva Peron - a singer and film actress who marries Juan Peron. Juan is elected President of Argentina - and Eva's charity work makes her immensely popular among her people before her death from cancer.

13. My Fair Lady
As part of a bet with his friend Colonel Pickering - phonetics professor Henry Higgins transforms cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle into a proper lady. After Eliza falls for Freddy Eynsforth-Hill - Higgins realizes he is in love with Eliza
The Jellicle tribe of cats roams the streets of London. They introduce the audience to various members - including: Rum Tum Tugger - Mungojerne - Rempleteazer - Mr. Mistoffelees - and Old Deuteronomy.
Cowboy Curly McLain and sinister farmhand Judd compete for the love of Aunt Eller's niece - Laurey. Judd falls on his own knife after attacking Curly - and Curly and Laurey get married.
Pygmalion

14. Evita

15. Cats
The Jellicle tribe of cats roams the streets of London. They introduce the audience to various members - including: Rum Tum Tugger - Mungojerne - Rempleteazer - Mr. Mistoffelees - and Old Deuteronomy.
The title character has made flirting a capital crime in Titipu - so the people have appointed an ineffectual executioner named Ko-Ko. Ko-Ko's ward - Yum-Yum - marries the wandering musician Nanki-Poo - and the two lovers fake their execution. The ti
Christine - the soprano at the Paris Opera in 1881 - falls in love with the opera's new patron - Raoul - and consequently is kidnapped by the title character
Richard Rodgers

16. What is considered the first modern book musical?
The title character has made flirting a capital crime in Titipu - so the people have appointed an ineffectual executioner named Ko-Ko. Ko-Ko's ward - Yum-Yum - marries the wandering musician Nanki-Poo - and the two lovers fake their execution. The ti
Christine - the soprano at the Paris Opera in 1881 - falls in love with the opera's new patron - Raoul - and consequently is kidnapped by the title character
Tevye is a lowly Jewish milkman in Tsarist Russia - and his daughters are anxious to get married. Tzeitel marries the tailer Motel - Hodel gets engaged to the radical student Perchik - and Chava falls in love with a Russian named Fyedka. The families
Oklahoma!

17. Fiddler on the Roof
Richard Rodgers
Christine - the soprano at the Paris Opera in 1881 - falls in love with the opera's new patron - Raoul - and consequently is kidnapped by the title character
As part of a bet with his friend Colonel Pickering - phonetics professor Henry Higgins transforms cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle into a proper lady. After Eliza falls for Freddy Eynsforth-Hill - Higgins realizes he is in love with Eliza
Tevye is a lowly Jewish milkman in Tsarist Russia - and his daughters are anxious to get married. Tzeitel marries the tailer Motel - Hodel gets engaged to the radical student Perchik - and Chava falls in love with a Russian named Fyedka. The families

18. The Sound of Music
Richard Rodgers
The title character has made flirting a capital crime in Titipu - so the people have appointed an ineffectual executioner named Ko-Ko. Ko-Ko's ward - Yum-Yum - marries the wandering musician Nanki-Poo - and the two lovers fake their execution. The ti
Maria - a young woman studying to be a nun in Nazi-occupied Austria - becomes governess to the seven children of Captain von Trapp. She teaches the children to sin - and she and the Captain fall in love and get married.
Oklahoma!

19. Oklahoma!

20. The Sound of Music
The Jellicle tribe of cats roams the streets of London. They introduce the audience to various members - including: Rum Tum Tugger - Mungojerne - Rempleteazer - Mr. Mistoffelees - and Old Deuteronomy.
Richard Rodgers
Set in the seedy Kit-Kat Club in Weimar Berlin - the risqua Master of Ceremonies presides over the action. The British lounge singer Sally Bowles falls in love with the American writer Cliff Bradshaw - but the two break up as the Nazis come to power.
Maria - a young woman studying to be a nun in Nazi-occupied Austria - becomes governess to the seven children of Captain von Trapp. She teaches the children to sin - and she and the Captain fall in love and get married.

21. The Phantom of the Opera

22. The Mikado

23. What is considered the first modern book musical?
Oklahoma!
The title character has made flirting a capital crime in Titipu - so the people have appointed an ineffectual executioner named Ko-Ko. Ko-Ko's ward - Yum-Yum - marries the wandering musician Nanki-Poo - and the two lovers fake their execution. The ti
Christine - the soprano at the Paris Opera in 1881 - falls in love with the opera's new patron - Raoul - and consequently is kidnapped by the title character
The title character has made flirting a capital crime in Titipu - so the people have appointed an ineffectual executioner named Ko-Ko. Ko-Ko's ward - Yum-Yum - marries the wandering musician Nanki-Poo - and the two lovers fake their execution. The ti

24. Cabaret
Set in the seedy Kit-Kat Club in Weimar Berlin - the risqua Master of Ceremonies presides over the action. The British lounge singer Sally Bowles falls in love with the American writer Cliff Bradshaw - but the two break up as the Nazis come to power.
Oklahoma!
Che Guevara narrates the life story of Eva Peron - a singer and film actress who marries Juan Peron. Juan is elected President of Argentina - and Eva's charity work makes her immensely popular among her people before her death from cancer.
Maria - a young woman studying to be a nun in Nazi-occupied Austria - becomes governess to the seven children of Captain von Trapp. She teaches the children to sin - and she and the Captain fall in love and get married.

25. Evita

26. Which play is 'My Fair Lady' adapted from?
Maria - a young woman studying to be a nun in Nazi-occupied Austria - becomes governess to the seven children of Captain von Trapp. She teaches the children to sin - and she and the Captain fall in love and get married.
The title character has made flirting a capital crime in Titipu - so the people have appointed an ineffectual executioner named Ko-Ko. Ko-Ko's ward - Yum-Yum - marries the wandering musician Nanki-Poo - and the two lovers fake their execution. The ti
The title character has made flirting a capital crime in Titipu - so the people have appointed an ineffectual executioner named Ko-Ko. Ko-Ko's ward - Yum-Yum - marries the wandering musician Nanki-Poo - and the two lovers fake their execution. The ti
Pygmalion