I decided to give a comprehensive list of all the musicals I’ve seen spanning my lifetime so far (23 years). WARNING: Only read this if a) you have time to read a long list and b) are willing to look up any musicals you don’t know. The ones with links are either significant to me in one way or another or just one of my favorites.
- 42nd Street (my first musical ever)
- The Addams Family
- Aladdin (friend was Aladdin on Broadway)
- All Shook Up
- Anastasia (TWICE)
- Annie
- Annie Get Your Gun
- Babes in Arms
- Beautiful: The Carol King Musical (friend was was nominated for a Tony)
- Beauty and the Beast
- Big River (THREE times: once at Roudabout Theater, read a review or program, and twice at Ford’s Theater)
- Billy Elliot
- Bring it On (TWICE)
- Brooklyn
- Bye Bye Birdie
- Captain Louie
- Carousel
- Chicago
- Cinderella (THRICE—not counting Julie Andrews movie version)
- A Chorus Line
- A Christmas Carol
- Come From Away
- Crazy For You
- Evita
- Fiddler On the Roof (TWICE: Years apart, different revivals)
- Fiddler On the Roof in Yiddish (TWICE)
- Finding Neverland (TWICE: ART in Boston and Broadway)
- Footloose
- Godspell
- Guys and Dolls
- Hadestown (THRICE)
- Hamilton (THRICE: Public Theater, Original Broadway Cast, On Broadway—with a friend playing Burr)
- Hairspray
- High School Musical, the Musical (friend was doing the costumes)
- How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (TWICE)
- Hugh Jackman, Back on Broadway
- In The Heights
- Jersey Boys (TWICE)
- Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
- La Cage aux Folles
- Les Misérables (FOUR times; twice in London, twice on Broadway—not counting movie)
- The Lion King (FOUR times)
- Little Women
- Love Never Dies (in London)
- Mamma Mia!
- Mary Poppins
- Matilda! (THRICE: once in London’s West End and twice on Broadway)
- Memphis
- The Music Man
- My Fair Lady (I saw the 2007 New York Philharmonic concert)
- Nice Work If You Can Get It
- Oklahoma!
- Oliver!
- Once
- Once Upon A Mattress
- Peter Pan (TWICE with Cathy Rigby)
- Peter and the Starcatcher
- The Phantom of the Opera (THRICE: on Broadway, in London’s West End, in Boston)
- The Prince and the Pauper
- Seussical!
- Shafrika! The White Girl
- Singing in the Rain
- Sister Act!
- South Pacific (I saw the 2008 Broadway Revival at Lincoln Center)
- Spring Awakening (saw the LIVE Asbury Park production)
- Story of My Life (Lost Count)
- Tarzan
- Thoroughly Modern Millie
- Urinetown
- Waitress (THRICE: once with Jessie Mueller, twice with Sara Bareilles)
- We Will Rock You
- Wicked (TWELVE times on Broadway)
- Xanadu
- A Year With Frog and Toad
- Young Frankenstein
- Zanna, Don’t! (opened on my 6th Birthday and introduced me to my love of musical theater; seen too many times to count)