Tragic Musicals

Tragic Musicals

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21 Chump Street

Music/Lyrics: Lin-Manuel Miranda

Musical Type: Contemporary (2014)

Genre: Comedy / Drama

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Bat Boy

Music/Lyrics: Laurence O’Keefe  Book: Keythe Farley, Brian Flemming

Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1997)

Genre: Comedy / Fantasy / Horror

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Blood Brothers

Music/Lyrics/Book: Willy Russell

Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1983)

Genre: Drama

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Bonnie & Clyde

Music: Frank Wildhorn  Lyrics: Don Black  Book: Ivan Menchell

Musical Type: Contemporary (2009)

Genre: Drama

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Cabaret

Music: John Kander  Lyrics: Fred Ebb  Book: Joe Masteroff

Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1966)

Genre: Drama

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Carmen Jones

Music: Georges Bizet  Lyrics/Book: Oscar Hammerstein II

Musical Type: Golden Age (1943)

Genre: Drama

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Carousel

Music: Richard Rodgers  Lyrics/Book: Oscar Hammerstein II

Musical Type: Golden Age (1945)

Genre: Drama / Romance

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Cruel Intentions

Music/Lyrics: Various  Book: Roger Kumble, Lindsey Rosin, Jordan Ross

Musical Type: Contemporary (2015)

Genre: Dark Comedy / Drama

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Cyrano

Music: Michael J. Lewis  Lyrics/Book: Anthony Burgess

Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1973)

Genre: Drama / Romance

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Falsettos

Music/Lyrics/Book: William Finn  Book: James Lapine

Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1992)

Genre: Drama

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Fame

Music: Steve Margoshes  Lyrics: Jacques Levy  Book: José Fernandez

Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1988)

Genre: Drama

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Floyd Collins

Music/Lyrics: Adam Guettel  Book: Tina Landau

Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1994)

Genre: Drama

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Fly By Night

Music/Lyrics/Book: Kim Rosenstock, Will Connolly, Michael Mitnick

Musical Type: Contemporary (2014)

Genre: Dark Comedy

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Frankenstein

Music: Mark Baron  Lyrics/Book: Jeffrey Jackson

Musical Type: Contemporary (2007)

Genre: Drama / Horror

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Hadestown

Music/Lyrics/Book: Anaïs Mitchell

Musical Type: Contemporary (2006)

Genre: Fantasy / Romance

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Hamilton

Music/Lyrics/Book: Lin-Manuel Miranda

Musical Type: Contemporary (2015)

Genre: Biography / Historical

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Hannah…1939

Music/Lyrics/Book: Bob Merrill

Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1990)

Genre: Drama

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Into the Woods

Music/Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim  Book: James Lapine

Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1986)

Genre: Fantasy

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Jesus Christ Superstar

Music: Andrew Lloyd Webber  Lyrics: Tim Rice

Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1970)

Genre: Religious Drama

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Juno

Music/Lyrics: Marc Blitzstein  Book: Joseph Stein

Musical Type: Golden Age (1959)

Genre: Drama

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Kiss of the Spider Woman

Music: John Kander  Lyrics: Fred Ebb  Book: Terrence McNally

Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1992)

Genre: Drama

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Les Misérables

Music/Lyrics: Claude-Michel Schönberg  Lyrics: Alan Boublil, Herbert Kretzmer, Jean-Marc Natel

Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1980)

Genre: Drama

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Love Never Dies

Music/Book: Andrew Lloyd Webber  Lyrics/Book: Glenn Slater  Book: Ben Elton, Frederick Forsyth

Musical Type: Contemporary (2010)

Genre: Drama

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Love Story

Music/Lyrics: Howard Goodall  Lyrics/Book: Stephen Clark

Musical Type: Contemporary (2010)

Genre: Drama / Romance

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Mack & Mabel

Music/Lyrics: Jerry Herman  Book: Michael Stewart

Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1974)

Genre: Drama

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Maggie May

Music/Lyrics: Lionel Bart  Book: Alun Owen

Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1964)

Genre: Drama / Romance

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Miss Saigon

Music: Claude-Michel Schönberg  Lyrics: Alain Boublil, Richard Maltby, Jr.

Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1989)

Genre: Drama

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Parade

Music/Lyrics: Jason Robert Brown  Book: Alfred Uhry

Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1998)

Genre: Drama / Historical

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Rent

Music/Lyrics/Book: Jonathan Larson

Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1996)

Genre: Drama

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Shenandoah

Music: Gary Geld  Lyrics/Book: Peter Udell  Book: Philip Rose, James Lee Barrett

Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1974)

Genre: Drama

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Spring Awakening

Music: Duncan Sheik  Lyrics/Book: Steven Sater

Musical Type: Contemporary (2006)

Genre: Drama

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Summer of ’42

Music/Lyrics: David Kirshenbaum  Book: Hunter Foster

Musical Type: Contemporary (2000)

Genre: Drama / Romance

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Sunset Boulevard

Music: Andrew Lloyd Webber  Lyrics/Book: Don Black, Christopher Hampton

Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1991)

Genre: Drama

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Sweeney Todd

Music/Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim  Book: Hugh Wheeler

Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1979)

Genre: Horror / Thriller

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Swept Away

Music/Lyrics: The Avett Brothers  Book: John Logan

Musical Type: Contemporary (2022)

Genre: Drama

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The Great Gatsby

Music: Jason Howland  Lyrics: Nathan Tysen  Book: Kait Kerrigan

Musical Type: Contemporary (2023)

Genre: Drama

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The Hatpin

Music: Peter Rutherford  Lyrics/Book: James Millar

Musical Type: Contemporary (2008)

Genre: Drama

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The Last Five Years

Music/Lyrics/Book: Jason Robert Brown

Musical Type: Contemporary (2001)

Genre: Drama / Romance

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Titanic

Music/Lyrics: Maury Yeston  Book: Peter Stone

Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1997)

Genre: Drama

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West Side Story

Music: Leonard Bernstein  Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim  Book: Arthur Laurents

Musical Type: Golden Age (1957)

Genre: Drama / Romance

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Zorba!

Music: John Kander  Lyrics: Fred Ebb  Book: Joseph Stein

Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1968)

Genre: Drama