LibGuides: Theatre: Find Musical Theatre Resources

Best Bets for Musical Theatre:

Musical Theater Songs This link opens in a new window Allows users to search 150 years of musical theater repertoire by over 20 parameters (voice type, character age, range, ease for accompanist, descriptive characteristics, etc.) to generate a list of songs tailored to specific needs. Terms of Use.
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The Leatherby Libraries has a large collection of musical theatre scores, which you will primarily find in the Music Library and will have a call number in the range of M1508. To browse online, try searching by SUBJECT and copy/paste "Musicals -- Excerpts -- Vocal scores with piano." You may also just search titles, authors, composers, etc. using KEYWORD.

We also have many books on the topic of musical theatre.

Search the Leatherby Libraries catalog to explore.

New Musical Theatre Items

Theatre

New Musical Theatre Items

Auditioning for Musical Theatre

21st Century Musical Theatre: Women's Edition

Hamilton

Songwriters of the American musical theatre: a style guide for singers

The Secret Life of the American Musical