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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Manon Lescaut	Abbé Prévost	Set in France and Louisiana in the early 18th century, the story follows the hero, the Chevalier des Grieux, and his lover, Manon Lescaut. Des Grieux comes from noble and landed family, but forfeits …	OL1132652W
The full monty	Terrence McNally,David Yazbek,David Yazbek	"Adapted from the screenplay by four-time Tony Award-winner Terrence McNally, and with an award-winning original score by David Yazbek, The Full Monty is a lively and poignant story that captivated B…	OL11637347W
Madama Butterfly	Daniel S. Brink	Contains the complete libretto in Italian and English, with annotations in English, and a critical historical commentary. The text also includes the background of the composer, biographies of the pri…	OL13740683W
The gingerbread man	Wood, David	A musical play in two acts about the nighttime activities of various objects that reside on a kitchen counter. Includes parts for four men and two women.	OL145303W
My Fair Lady / Pygmalion	George Bernard Shaw,Alan Jay Lerner	The ancient Greeks tell the legend of the sculptor Pygmalion, who created a statue of a woman of such surpassing beauty that he fell in love with his own creation. Then Aphrodite, taking pity on this…	OL15013928W
Over the Moon	Jodi Picoult	Master storyteller and bestselling author Jodi Picoult teams up with Jake van Leer and Ellen Wilber to bring you an original musical, sure to breathe life into any middle-school and high school drama…	OL15621285W
Next to normal	Tom Kitt	"A contemporary musical that explores how one suburban household copes with crisis. With provocative lyrics and an electrifying score of more than thirty original songs, Next to normal shows how far …	OL16113251W
Meg and Mog show	Wood, David	Presents in a two-act play the adventures of Meg, a rather unsuccessful witch, and her mute cat, Mog, who has to communicate with mime.	OL16574895W
The complete book of Les misérables	Behr, Edward	"After opening on October 5, 1985, Les Miserables remains the world's longest running and most beloved musical. Productions have played in 319 cities across forty-two countries, it has won more than …	OL1673698W
Hamilton	Lin-Manuel Miranda,Jeremy McCarter	Lin-Manuel Miranda's groundbreaking musical Hamilton is as revolutionary as its subject, the poor kid from the Caribbean who fought the British, defended the Constitution, and helped to found the Uni…	OL17366209W
Loris Graud Cellar Door An Opera In Almost One Act	Loris Graud	An opera in (almost) one act, "Cellar Door" features some ten characters on the fringes of a variety of practices, disciplines, and areas of knowledge. Together they conjure up the outlines of a uniq…	OL17487561W
Into the Woods	Stephen Sondheim	Into the Woods brings to musical life Cinderella, Jack and the Beanstalk, Little Red Riding hood and other well-known fairy-tale characters. Interwoven with these classic tales is the story of the …	OL1867317W
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day	Judith Viorst	On a day when everything goes wrong for him, Alexander is consoled by the thought that other people have bad days too.	OL1932036W
Houdini	David Spangler,Muriel Rukeyser	"This previously unpublished verse-drama presents the life of world-renowned escape artist and illusionist, Harry Houdini. Part biography, part fantasy, the musical leads us from Houdini's childhood …	OL1947099W
Fedora: dramma di V. Sardou, ridotto in tre atti per la scena lirica da ...	Umberto Giordano ,Arturo Colautti	Book digitized by Google and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.	OL19807923W
Into the woods	Stephen Sondheim	Interwoven with such classics as Cinderella, Jack and the Beanstalk, and Little Red Ridinghood, is the story of the baker and his wife, whose longing for a child is thwarted by a mischievous witch wh…	OL19989703W
Crush	Maureen Chadwick	"It's 1963 and the Dame Dorothea Dosserdale School for Girls has a proud tradition of fostering free spirits from all walks of life. So it's a crushing blow when the new headmistress turns out to be …	OL20059305W
Lucrezia Borgia	Gaetano Donizetti	Da rappresentarsi al teatro di Varese, l'autunno 1856	OL2215612W
Blood Brothers	Willy Russell	Twin brothers are separated at birth. One is given to wealthy Mrs. Lyons and they grow up as friends in ignorance of their fraternity until the inevitable quarrel unleashes a blood-bath.	OL2425261W
For you	Michael Berkeley	Charles Frieth, preeminent composer, conductor and prodigious womaniser, is preparing for a performance of one of his early works, and the world premiere of Demonic Aubade. Obstinate and myopic, he i…	OL24265776W