Broadway Musicals by Setting
This musical performed at Green Acres in 1977, 1983, 1996, 2005 is set in the fictional town of River City, Iowa, in 1912 about a traveling con artist Harold Hill.
What is The Music Man?
This musical performed at Green Acres in 1987, 2003, 2016 Is a musical and movie about an orphan girl who finds hope and a new family in the 1930s.
What is Annie?
This musical performed at Green Acres in 1991, 1998, 2010 was the first Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice musical to ever be performed and is in The Guinness Book of Records as the longest-running touring stage musical of all time.
What is Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat?
This musical performed at Green Acres in 1985 starred Robert Morse as “J.P. Finch” in the original Broadway cast member in 1961. Morse reprised his role in the 1967 film adaptation. Morse won a Tony Award for his performance.
What is How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying?
This musical performed at Green Acres in 2023 Has a lyric: “Oh if life were made of moments / Even now and then a bad one--! / But if life were only moments, / Then you'd never know you had one.”
What is Into the Woods?
This musical performed at Green Acres in 1998, 2013 is the world of the Peanuts comic characters created by Charles Schultz.
What is You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown
This musical performed at Green Acres in 2019 is about the Banks family, who live in London and are taken care of by the magical nanny.
What is Mary Poppins?
This musical performed at Green Acres in 2020, 2009, 1995 was the first full-length Broadway production to air on color TV in March 7, 1955, with its original Broadway cast as part of NBC’s Producers’ Showcase series.
What is Peter Pan?
This musical performed at Green Acres in 2012 starred Carol Burnett playing Princess Winnifred in the original 1959 Off-Broadway production, which later moved to Broadway and then to TV.
What is Once Upon A Mattress?
This musical performed at Green Acres in 2024, 2011 Has a lyric: "If you open your mind, oh, the thinks you will find lining up to get loose! Oh, the thinks you can think!"
What is Seussical?
This musical performed at Green Acres in 1975 set in Victorian England, and follows the story of an orphan boy.
What is Oliver?
This musical performed at Green Acres in 2000 features two American tourists who stumble upon a mysterious Scottish village that appears for only one day every 100 years.
What is Brigadoon?
This musical performed at Green Acres in 2017 is a stage adaptation of the Disney animated film and the Lewis Carroll stories.
What is Alice In Wonderland?
This musical performed at Green Acres in 2001 had a TV version, with Gene Kelly dancing and singing the title song while spinning an umbrella, splashing through puddles and getting soaked with rain.
What is Singin’ in The Rain?
This musical performed at Green Acres in 2008 Has a lyric: “Sunrise, sunset / Sunrise, sunset / Swiftly fly the years / One season following another / Laden with happiness and tears.”
What is Fiddler on the Roof?
This musical performed at Green Acres in 1984, 1994 set in farm country outside of Claremore, Oklahoma Territory, in 1906 and tells the story of Laurey Williams, a farm girl, and cowboy Curly McLain.
What is Oklahoma?
This musical performed at Green Acres in 1999 concerns Frederic, who, having completed his 21st year, is released from his apprenticeship to a band of tender-hearted pirates.
What is Pirates of Penzance?
This musical performed at Green Acres in 2021 is based on Roald Dahl's 1961 children's book of the same name. It tells the story of a boy who discovers a magic potion that turns a fruit tree into a giant peach, which he then enters to meet human-sized insects.
What is James and the Giant Peach?
This musical performed at Green Acres in 2022 was inspired by Charles Addams' comic creations that were then licensed to serve as the basis for a stage production.
What is The Addams Family?
This musical performed at Green Acres in 2015 Has a lyric: “Certain as the sun / Certain as the sun / Rising in the east / Tale as old as time /Song as old as rhyme.”
What is Beauty and the Beast?