Musicals by Wikipedia description

[musical] is the longest running show in Broadway history, and celebrated its 10,000th performance on 11 February 2012, becoming the first Broadway production in history to do so.

Inspired by William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet, the story is set in the mid-1950s on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City, then a multiracial, blue-collar neighborhood.

It is based on the play I Am a Camera by John Van Druten, premiered in 1951, which in turn was based on the 1939 novel Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood.

The musical's plot relates the experiences of Anna, a British schoolteacher who is hired as part of the King's drive to modernize his country.

Although the protagonists were not intended to represent any real individuals, the character of the American grandmaster was loosely based on Bobby Fischer

[musical] is the first musical written by the duo of Rodgers and Hammerstein.

It was not until 1996 that [musical] came to the big screen. Alan Parker directed the film, with Madonna in the title role

[musical] is set in the fictional town of River City, Iowa, in 1912. The town is based in large part on Willson's birthplace, Mason City, Iowa, and many of the musical's characters are based on people that Willson observed in the town.

[musical] provides a glimpse into the personalities of the performers and the choreographer, as they describe the events that have shaped their lives and their decisions to become dancers.

The show is structured as a series of parables, primarily based on the Gospel of Matthew, interspersed with music mostly set to lyrics from traditional hymns, with the passion of Christ appearing briefly near the end

It is loosely based on the 1995 novel of the same name by Gregory Maguire, which itself was based on the 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum and its 1939 film adaptation.

Fosse directed and choreographed the original production, and his style is strongly identified with the show.

It is based on "Tevye the Dairyman" and other short stories by Sholem Aleichem.

It was adapted as a 1965 film starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer, which won five Academy Awards, including Best Picture.

Reviewers gave the original production uniformly glowing reviews; one critic called it "South Terrific".