Best Books About Musical Theatre Dance: 40 Titles
The most widely held books on musical theatre dance in libraries, from Open Library's catalog of 5,640 titles on the subject. Many have free borrowable digital editions.

She Stoops To Conquer
Oliver Goldsmith · 1773

Fairy Tales and Stories
Hans Christian Andersen · 1850

Le fantôme de l'opéra
Gaston Leroux · 1911

Thurber Carnival
James Thurber · 1940

The recruiting officer
George Farquhar · 1706

Die Dreigroschenoper:= The Threepenny Opera
Bertolt Brecht · 1955

Miserables
Alain Boublil, Claude-Michael Schonberg · 1991

Patience
Sir William Schwenck Gilbert, Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan · 1881

The complete operas of Gilbert and Sullivan
Sir William Schwenck Gilbert, Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan · 1900

Gondoliers
Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan, Sir William Schwenck Gilbert, Gilbert & Sullivan · 1800

The Phantom of the Opera
Gaston Leroux, K. Hill · 1994

Original plays
Sir William Schwenck Gilbert · 1876

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
Judith Viorst, Ray Cruz · 1972

Working
Studs Terkel · 1972

Impro
Keith Johnstone · 1979

Hans Christian Andersen's The Fir Tree
Hans Christian Andersen, Sanna Annukka, Sanna Annukka Ltd Staff · 1960
Chrononhotonthologos
Henry Carey · 1734

Midas
Kane O'Hara · 1764

An old man taught wisdom
Henry Fielding · 1735

Toad of Toad Hall
A. A. Milne · 1929

Rent
Jonathan Larson · 1996
The romp
Isaac Bickerstaff · 1700

Babymouse
Jennifer L. Holm, Jennifer Holm, Matt Holm · 2005
The rendezvous
Richard Ayton · 1800
No song no supper
Prince Hoare · 1790

Jill the reckless
P. G. Wodehouse · 1921

Fiddler on the roof
Jerry Bock, Joseph Stein, Sheldon Harnick · 1964
The adopted child
Samuel Birch · 1795

What Would Barbra Do?
Emma Brockes · 1998

My Fair Lady
Michael Lefferts, Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe · 1956

Spunk
Zora Neale Hurston, Chic Street Man · 1985

The Little Warrior
P. G. Wodehouse · 1920

Handbook of pest control
Arnold Mallis · 1945

Wicked
Stephen Schwartz · 2004
The review, or, The wags of Windsor
George Colman · 1800

Broadway musicals, show by show
Stanley Green, Kay Green · 1985
Thomas and Sally: or, the sailor's return
Isaac Bickerstaff · 1760
The golden pippin
Kane O'Hara · 1773

Hans Christian Andersen
Hans Christian Andersen · 1942

The Sound of Music
Hal Leonard Corp. · 1992
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