by Jack Viertel
Herbert, Victor
“Here in My Arms”
“Here’s to Us”
Here’s Where I Belong
Herman, Jerry
“He’s a Rebel”
“Hey, Look Me Over!”
“Hey There”
hip-hop, see rap (hip-hop)
“History Has Its Eyes on You”
Hitchcock, Alfred
Holiday, Bob
Hollander, Jane
Holloway, Stanley
Hollywood, Calif.
Holzman, Winnie
“Honey Bun”
House of Flowers
Houston Grand Opera
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Hwang, David
“Hymn to Him, A”
Hytner, Nick
“I Cain’t Say No”
“I Can’t Get Started”
“Ice Cream”
“I Could Have Danced All Night”
“If I Loved You”
“If I Were a Bell”
“If I Were a Rich Man”
“I Got Life”
“I Hope I Get It”
“I Know Where I’ve Been”
“I’ll Know”
“I’m an Ordinary Man”
“Impossible Dream, The”
intermission
In the Good Old Summertime (film)
In the Heights
Into the Light
Into the Woods
“It Ain’t Necessarily So”
Italy
“It Couldn’t Please Me More”
It’s a Bird … It’s a Plane … It’s Superman
“It’s Hot up Here”
“It Takes a Woman”
“I’ve Got Your Number”
“I’ve Grown Accustomed to Her Face”
“I’ve Never Been in Love Before”
“I Want” songs; conditional love songs merged with; as opening numbers
“I Wonder What the King Is Doing Tonight”
Jackman, Hugh
Jazz Age
Jefferson, Thomas
Jelly’s Last Jam
Jersey Boys
“Jet Song”
jitterbug
Joel, Billy
“Johanna”
John, Elton
Johns, Glynis
Johnson, Susan
Jones, Dean
Joplin, Janis
“Joseph Smith American Moses”
Jovanovich, Brandon
“Jubilation T. Cornpone”
Judaism
Jujamcyn Theaters
Julius Caesar (Shakespeare)
Kander, John
Karnilova, Maria
Kaufman, George S.
Kay, Hershy
Kaye, Danny
Kaye, Stubby
“Keep It Gay”
Kelly, Glen
Kelton, Pert
Kennedy, John F.; assassination of
Kern, Jerome
Kert, Larry
King, Carole
King and I, The; original cast and album of; story and characters of
Kingston Trio
Kinky Boots
Kirkwood, James
“Kiss the Girl”
“Kiss Me”
Kiss Me, Kate
Kleban, Edward
Klugman, Jack
Kostal, Irwin
Kushner, Tony, xn
Kyd, Thomas
Lacamoire, Alex
LaChiusa, Michael John
“Ladies Who Lunch, The”
Lady, Be Good!
Lambeth Walk
Landesman, Rocco
Lane, Burton
Lane, Nathan
Lang, Harold
Lansbury, Angela
Lapine, James
Larson, Jonathan
Lasky, Floria
“Last Midnight, The”
László, Miklós
Lauper, Cyndi
Laurents, Arthur
Lavin, Linda
Lawrence, Gertrude
Lee, Gypsy Rose
Legally Blonde
Leigh, Carolyn
Lennon, John
Lenya, Lotte
Lerner, Alan Jay
“Let Me Entertain You”
Levene, Sam
Levin, Harry
Lewis, Jerry Lee
Liberatti, Alessandro
Libin, Paul
Lieberson, Goddard
Life
lighting
Light in the Piazza, The
Li’l Abner
Liliom (Molnár)
Lillie, Beatrice
Lincoln Center
Lincoln Center Theater
lindy hop
Lion, Margo
Lion King, The
Lion King, The (film)
Lithgow, John
“Little Girls”
Little Lord Fauntleroy (Burnett)
Little Me
Little Mermaid, The (film)
Little Night Music, A; original cast album of; story and characters of
“Little Old Lady Land”
“Little Priest, A”
Little Shop of Horrors; characters and story of; music and lyrics of; original cast album of
Little Shop of Horrors (film)
Loesser, Frank
Loewe, Frederick
“Lonely Room”
Look
“Look What Happened to Mabel”
Lopez, Robert
“Lot’s Wife”
Loudon, Dorothy
“Love Is in the Air”
“Lovely”
“Lover, Come Back to Me”
“Luck Be a Lady”
Luker, Rebecca
LuPone, Patti
M*A*S*H (TV series)
Mack and Mabel
Mackintosh, Cameron
“Make Believe”
“Mama, I’m a Big Girl Now”
Mame
Mamma Mia!
Manhattan Transfer
Man of La Mancha
Mark Taper Forum
Marmorstein, Gary
“Marry the Man Today”
Marshall, Rob
Martin, Mary
Martin, Virginia
Marx Brothers
Massey, Daniel
Masteroff, Joe
“Matchmaker, Matchmaker”
“Maybe”
Mayer, Michael
“May We Entertain You”
Mazzie, Marin
M. Butterfly
McArdle, Andrea
McCartney, Paul
McCollum, Kevin
McDonald, Audra
McGlinn, John
McKee, Robert
McMartin, John
Me and My Girl
Meehan, Thomas
melodrama
melody
Memphis
Mendes, Sam
Menken, Alan
Menzel, Idina
Mercer, Johnny
Merman, Ethel
Merrick, David
Merrill, Bob
Merrily We Roll Along
Meyer, Danny
Midler, Bette
Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (Shakespeare)
Miller, Ann
Miller, Roger
Minnelli, Liza
Miranda, Lin-Manuel
Misérables, Les
Miss Saigon
Mitchell, Brian Stokes
Molnár, Ferenc
“More I Cannot Wish You”
Morison, Patricia
Mormonism
Morse, Robert
Mostel, Zero
Most Happy Fella, The; original cast and album of; story and characters of
Mother Courage and Her Children (Brecht)
“Motherhood March”
“Mr. Goldstone”
Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare)
Murphy, Donna
musical comedy
musical scores; orchestrat
ions of
Music Man, The; music and lyrics of; opening number of; original cast album of; story, theme, and characters of
“Mutual Admiration Society”
Myers, Pamela
My Fair Lady; music and lyrics of; original cast album of; story and characters of; structure of
“My Hometown”
“My Lord and Master”
“My Shot”
My Sister Eileen (McKenney)
My So-Called Life (TV series)
“My Time of Day”
Nadel, Norman
Nashville (film)
National Endowment for the Arts
National Theatre
National Theatre of Great Britain
Naughton, James
New Age of Broadway
New Amsterdam Theatre
New Moon, The
“New Town Is a Blue Town, A”
New York, N.Y.; Broadway in; Times Square in
New York City Ballet
New York City Center: Encores! concert musical series at
New York Theatre Workshop
New York Times; Arts and Leisure section of
Next to Normal
Nicholaw, Casey
Nichols, Mike
Nine
“No Life”
Noll, Christiane
“No One Mourns the Wicked”
Normand, Mabel
Nunn, Trevor
“N.Y.C.”
Obama, Barack
O’Brien, Jack
Ockrent, Mike
off-Broadway shows; transfers to Broadway of
“Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin’”
O’Hara, Kelli
Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama’s Hung You in the Closet and I’m Feelin’ So Sad (Kopit)
Oklahoma!; characters and story of; music and lyrics of; national tour of; opening number of; original cast album of; revivals of; revolutionary nature of
“Oklahoma”
“Old Fashioned Wedding, An”
Oliver
Once in a Lifetime (Kaufman and Hart)
“One Hundred Easy Ways”
O’Neill, Eugene, xn
“One Short Day”
“On the Steps of the Palace”
“On the Street Where You Live”
On the Town
On the Twentieth Century
“Ooh, My Feet”
opening numbers; danced; duet; importance of; “I Want” songs as; solo; two forms of; writing of
operas
operettas
original cast albums; London cast albums vs.; studio albums vs.
Ostrow, Stuart
Our Town (Wilder)
“Over the Rainbow”
overtures; as medleys; setting the tone with; writing of
Pacific Overtures
Paint Your Wagon
Pajama Game, The
Pal Joey
Parker, Trey
“Part of Your World”
Passing Strange
“Past My Prime”
Patinkin, Mandy
Pennebaker, D. A.
“People Will Say We’re in Love”
performance anxiety
Peter Pan
Peters, Bernadette
Phantom of the Opera
Philadelphia, Pa.
Piano Lesson, The (Wilson)
pianos
“Pick-a-Little, Talk-a-Little”
Pinkins, Tonya
Pinter, Harold
Pinza, Ezio
Pipe Dream
Plautus
plays; light; musical; plays within
Playwrights Horizons
“Poor Unfortunate Souls”
pop charts
pop culture
Porgy and Bess
Porter, Cole
Presley, Elvis
Press, Red
Preston, Robert
Prince, Faith
Prince, Harold; directing of
producers
Producers, The; original cast album of; story and characters of
Producers, The (film)
production numbers
Promises, Promises
Public Theater
Puccini, Giacomo
Pulitzer Prize
“Put On a Happy Face”
“Put On Your Sunday Clothes”
“Putting It Together”
Pygmalion (Shaw)
“race” music
radio
Rado, James
Ragni, Gerome
Ragtime
Ragtime (Doctorow)
“Rain in Spain, The”
Raitt, Bonnie
Raitt, John
Ramin, Sid
rap (hip-hop)
record business
Reilly, Charles Nelson
Rent
“Revenge”
Revolutionary War
rhymes
rhythm
rhythm and blues (R&B)
“Ribbons Down My Back”
Rich, Frank
Richardson, Natasha
Riggs, Lynne
Rivera, Chita
Robards, Jason
Robbins, Jerome
Roberts, Flora
Rockabye Hamlet
rock-and-roll; folk; musicals; pop; punk
“Rock Island”
Rock of Ages
Rockwell, Norman
Rodgers, Richard
Rodgers and Hammerstein
Rodgers and Hart
Rolling Stones
Romberg, Sigmund
“Rosabella”
“Rose’s Turn”
Ross, Jerry
Roth, Jordan
Royal Family, The
Rudin, Scott
“Run and Tell That!”
Runyon, Damon
“Runyonland”
Sahl, Mort
St. James Theatre
Saratoga
Sater, Steven
Sauter, Eddie
Sauter-Finegan Orchestra
Schneider, Anne Kaufman
Schwartz, Stephen
Season, The (Goldman)
second acts; entr’actes before; finales of; penultimate scenes in; showpieces in; “trouble” in
Seeger, Pete
Segal, Vivienne
Selden, Al
Sennett, Mack
Sesame Street (TV show)
set design
Seurat, Georges
1776
“Seventy-six Trombones”
Shaiman, Marc
Shakespeare, William
“Shall We Dance?”
Shaw, George Bernard
Sheik, Duncan
She Loves Me; music and lyrics of; original cast album of; story and characters of
Shelton, Reid
Shepard, Sam
Shepard, Thomas Z.
Shevelove, Burt
“Shipoopi”
“Shoeless Joe from Hannibal, Mo.”
Shop Around the Corner, The (film)
Shore, Dinah
Show Boat
Show Boat (Ferber)
show business
“Show Me”
Shroud of Turin
“Side by Side by Side”
Simon, Neil
Simon, Paul
“Simple Joys of Maidenhood, The”
Simpsons, The (TV show)
Sinatra, Frank
“Sit Down, You’re Rockin’ the Boat”
Sklar, Matt
“Small House of Uncle Thomas, The”
“Small World”
Smile
Smile (film)
Smiles of a Summer Night (film)
Smith, Joseph
“Soliloquy”
“Some Enchanted Evening”
“Someone Is Waiting”
“Some People”
“Something’s Coming”
“Somewhere That’s Green”
Sondheim, Stephen; complete lyrics published
by; expansion of the musical form by; lyrics-only shows of; rhyming of
“song plot”
songs: as ballads; blues; “book”; character; charm; commentary on action in; hit; integration of story and; interludes in; internal monologues in; list; as production numbers; protest; remembrance of; reprise of; second; second-couple; sheet music of; showstopper; solo; as star vehicles; tent-pole; third or fourth; title; Top 40; villain; see also conditional love songs; “I Want” songs; opening numbers
Sound of Music, The
“Sound of Music, The”
Sousa, John Philip
South Pacific; characters and story of; opening number of; original cast album of; overture to
South Park (TV show)
“So What?”
Spanish Tragedy, The (Kyd)
special effects
Spialek, Hans
Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark
“Spooky Mormon Hell Dream”
Spring Awakening
Spring Awakening (Wedekind)
“Springtime for Hitler”
Stadlen, Lewis J.
stage directions
stage sets
“Standing on the Corner”
Starobin, Michael
“Star-Spangled Banner, The”
“Steam Heat”
Stein, Joseph
“Step On Up”
Sting
Stone, Matt
Stone, Peter
Stowe, Harriet Beecher
Streisand, Barbra
Stritch, Elaine
Stroman, Susan
“Strongest Man in the World, The”
Strouse, Charles
Strunsky, Michael
Styne, Jule
“Suddenly Seymour”
“Sue Me”
Sullivan, Jo
Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grand Jatte, A (Seurat)
Sunday in the Park with George; music and lyrics of; original cast album of; reviews of; story and characters of
Swan Lake (ballet)
Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street; book of; characters and story of; music and lyrics of; original cast album of
Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Bond)
Sweet Charity
“Sweet Thursday”
Swenson, Swen
Szot, Paulo
“Take Back Your Mink”
Taylor, Elizabeth
Taymor, Julie
Te Kanawa, Kiri
television
“Tennis Song, The”
Tesori, Jeanine
“Tevye’s Dream”
“Then I’d Be Satisfied with Life”
“There Is Nothin’ Like a Dame”
“This Land Is Your Land”
“This Nearly Was Mine”
“This Was a Real Nice Clambake”
Thompson, Amir “Questlove”
Thompson, Eric
Thousand Clowns, A (Gardner)
Threepenny Opera
Time and Again (Finney)
“Time Heals Everything”
Titanic
“Together, Wherever We Go”
“To Life”
“Tom, Dick or Harry”
“Tom Dooley”
“Tomorrow”
“Tomorrow Is a Latter Day”
“Tonight”
“Tonight Quintet”
Tony Awards
“Too Darn Hot”
Tootsie (film)
“Totally Fucked”
Towers, Constance
“Tradition”
