One Word Title / Theatre

• 1776
• 9
• Aida
  • Aida (Verdi)
  • Aida (John/Rice)
• Aladdin
• Alegría
• Allegiance (2012)
• Allegro
• Amour
• Annie
• Applause
• Arcadia
• Art
• Assassins: The main characters are people who have killed, or tried to kill, an American president.
• Atlantis: Also The Place. The play is based on the myth of Atlantis.
• Baby
• Ballroom
• Bandstand
• Barnum
• Bash
• Beetlejuice
• Betrayal
• Brigadoon
• Cabaret
• Camelot
• Candide
• Carousel
• Cats: All of the characters are cats, based on poems from T. S. Eliot's Old Possum's book of Practical Cats
• Chess: A major part of the plot focuses on an international chess championship.
• Chicago
• Coco
• Company (Sondheim)
• Company (Takarazuka Revue)
• Comus: The full title is thirty-three words long, but is obviously more commonly known by the name of the antagonist.
• Contact
• Cosi: About the staging of Mozart's opera Cosi Fan Tutte in a mental hospital.
• Curtains
• Dancin
• Dogfight: A musical centering around a competition to bring the least desirable date to a party, which is known as a dogfight.
• Drakula
• Dreamgirls
• Drood
• Equus
• Eugenius!
• Evita: The main character Eva Perón's pseudonym.
• Falsettos
• Fangirls
• Fela
• Fences
• Finale
• Fiorello!
• Follies
• Fools: A play about a town cursed with stupidity.
• Fosse
• Frozen
• Godspell
• Grease
• Grind
• Gypsy
• Hadestown
• Hair
• Hairspray
• Hamilton^note Sometimes accompanied by the sub-title An American Musical: The main character's last name.
• HONK!
• Icebound
• Jamaica
• Kismet
• Luv
• Macbeth
• Mame
• Majora
• Manfred
• Merlin
• Nerds
• Newsies
• Nunsense
• Oklahoma!
• Oliver!
• Once
• Parade
• Passion
• Picnic
• Pippin
• Purlie
• Quilters
• Rags
• Ragtime
• Raisin
• Redhead
• RENT: One of the major plotlines involves Mark and Roger being forced to pay rent on the apartment in which they have formerly lived rent-free.
• Rhinoceros: Over the course of three acts, the inhabitants of a small, provincial French town turn into rhinoceroses.
• Rumors
• Runaways
• Sarafina
• Seascape
• Schikaneder
• Seesaw
• Seussical: A musical based on the works of Dr. Seuss.
• Shenandoah
• Sinderella: An adults-only version of Cinderella.
• Six
• Skyscraper
• Sleuth
• Sonny
• Spamalot
• Starmites: The Starmites are the punk guardians of the universe. No, really.
• Starship
• Sugar
• Swing
• Tintypes
• Titanic
• Tootsie
• Urinetown
• Waitress: Refers to the protagonists's profession.
• Wicked
• Winterset
• Wit
• Xanadu
• Zorba

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