The following is a list of rock musicals organized chronologically by the start date of the original run. The author of the book , lyrics, and music of each piece is also noted.
1966 On the Flip Side ABC Stage 67 by Burt Bacharach and Hal David
1966 The Golden Screw Tom Sankey
1967 Hair James Rado , Gerome Ragni and Galt MacDermot .[ 1] [ 2] [ 3]
1968 Your Own Thing
1969 Salvation Peter Link and C.C. Courtney
1970 Jesus Christ Superstar Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber [ 1] [ 3]
1970 The Survival of St. Joan
1971 Godspell Stephen Schwartz and John-Michael Tebelak .[ 1]
1971 Soon
1971 Two Gentlemen of Verona John Guare , Mel Shapiro and Galt MacDermot [ 1] [ 3]
1972 Grease Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey [ 1] [ 3]
1972 Dude Galt MacDermot
1972 Pippin Stephen Schwartz , Roger O. Hirson and Bob Fosse [ 2]
1973 The Rocky Horror Show Richard O'Brien [ 3]
1973 La Révolution Française Claude-Michel Schönberg and Raymond Jeannot, book by Alain Boublil and Jean-Max Rivière[ 4]
1973 An Imaginary Report on an American Rock Festival Tibor Déry and music by Locomotiv GT
1974 Phantom of the Paradise Brian De Palma and Paul Williams
1975 The Lieutenant Chuck Strand
1975 The Wiz Charlie Smalls [ 1]
1976 Evita Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber [ 2]
1976 Rockabye Hamlet
1978 Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds Jeff Wayne
1978 Working Stephen Schwartz and Nina Faso, music and lyrics by Schwartz, Craig Carnelia , Micki Grant , James Taylor and others
1979 Pink Floyd – The Wall Roger Waters , based on Pink Floyd 's album, The Wall
1979 Starmania Michel Berger and Luc Plamondon
1979 In Trousers William Finn
1981 Dreamgirls Henry Krieger and Tom Eyen
1982 Little Shop of Horrors Howard Ashman and Alan Menken [ 2]
1983 The Human Comedy Galt MacDermot
1983 István, a király Stephen, the King ) by János Bródy and Levente Szörényi
1984 Chess Tim Rice , Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson [ 2]
1984 Starlight Express Andrew Lloyd Webber
1986 Time Dave Clark , David Soames and Jeff Daniels and additional songs by David Pomeranz
1988 Lāčplēsis Zigmārs Liepiņš and Māra Zālīte
1989 Miss Saigon Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil , with Richard Maltby Jr. , based on Giacomo Puccini 's opera Madame Butterfly
1989 Return to the Forbidden Planet
1989 The Iron Man Pete Townshend , based on Ted Hughes ' book The Iron Man [ 3]
1990 Paris Jon English and David Mackay
1993 Randy Newman's Faust Randy Newman
1993 The Who's Tommy The Who 's rock opera
1994 The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne novel
1995 Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story Buddy Holly and others
1995 An American Tragedy Charles Strouse and Lee Adams
1996 Rent Jonathan Larson [ 3]
1997 Bat Boy Laurence O'Keefe [ 2]
1997 Tanz der Vampire Jim Steinman (2002 as Dance of the Vampires )
1998 Hedwig and the Angry Inch John Cameron Mitchell , music and lyrics by Stephen Trask [ 3]
1998 Kat and the Kings Taliep Petersen and David Kramer
1998 Quadrophenia The Who 's rock opera
1998 The Capeman Paul Simon
1999 Rasputin – Miracles Lie in the Eye of the Beholder
2000 Bare: A Pop Opera Damon Intrabartolo , lyrics by Hartmere and music by Intrabartolo
2000 Aida Elton John and Tim Rice , based on Giuseppe Verdi 's classical opera Aida [ 2]
2000 Machina/The Machines of God Machina II/The Friends & Enemies of Modern Music The Smashing Pumpkins
2001 tick, tick... BOOM! Jonathan Larson and David Auburn
2001 Peggy Sue Got Married Bob Gaudio and Jerry Leichtling
2002 Movin' Out Billy Joel
2002 Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Pt. 1 The Flaming Lips
2002 Hairspray Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman
2002 We Will Rock You Queen , book by Ben Elton
2003 Jerry Springer: The Opera Stewart Lee and Richard Thomas , based on the television show The Jerry Springer Show
2003 Taboo Boy George based on the New Romantic club scene in London in the 1980s.
2005 Bleach Studio Pierrot based on Bleach Tite Kubo
2005 Jersey Boys Bob Gaudio and Bob Crewe
2005 Lestat Elton John and Bernie Taupin
2005 Rock of Ages
2006 Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny Jack Black and Kyle Gass
2006 Spring Awakening Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater , based on the play by Frank Wedekind.
2006 Passing Strange Stew
2006 Tarzan Phil Collins and David Henry Hwang
2006 High Fidelity Tom Kitt and Amanda Green
2007 Moon Landing
2007 Sunshine on Leith Stephen Greenhorn
2008 Lovelace: A Rock Musical Anna Waronker and Charlotte Caffey
2008 Once Upon a Midnight
2008 Repo! The Genetic Opera Darren Smith and Terrance Zdunich
2008 Rockford's Rock Opera Steve Punt and Matthew Sweetapple
2008 Next to Normal Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey
2008 Razia's Shadow
2009 Second Chance
2009 Memphis Joe DiPietro and David Bryan
2009 The Toxic Avenger Joe DiPietro and David Bryan
2010 Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson Alex Timbers and music by Michael Friedman .[ 5]
2010 American Idiot Green Day
2011 Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark [ 6] Bono and The Edge
2012 The Devil's Carnival Darren Smith and Terrance Zdunich
2012 Raiding the Rock Vault John Payne and David Kershenbaum [ 7] [ 8]
2013 Metalocalypse: The Doomstar Requiem Brendon Small
2013 American Psycho Duncan Sheik
2014 Heathers Laurence O'Keefe and Kevin Murphy
2014 The Island of Doctor Moron
2014 Rockville 2069: A Rock Musical
2014 The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical Rob Rokicki [ 9]
2015 School of Rock Andrew Lloyd Webber , Glenn Slater and Julian Fellowes
2015 That Bloody Woman Luke Di Somma and Gregory Cooper[ 10]
2017 Bat Out of Hell Jay Scheib and Jim Steinman [ 11]
2017 The Band Tim Firth and Take That
2017 Head over Heels The Go-Go's [ 12]
2018 Moulin Rouge John Lohan
2018 All Out of Love Air Supply
2019 Jagged Little Pill Diablo Cody , lyrics by Alanis Morissette and music by Alanis Morissette and Glen Ballard .[ 13]
See also
Notes
^ a b c d e f Kenrick, John, "The 1970s: Part I – Rock Musicals" article at the Musicals101 website ^ a b c d e f g Wollman, Elizabeth Lara, The Theatre Will Rock: A History of the Rock Musical from Hair to Hedwig (University of Michigan Press, 2006)
^ a b c d e f g h Brasor, Philip, "A thumbnail history of the rock musical, March 9, 2006 ^ Jones, Chris (2015-09-03). "A 'Les Miz' prequel? Boublil and Schonberg are in town" . chicagotribune.com . Retrieved 2015-11-27 . ^ " 'Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson' production history" , lesfreres.org, retrieved August 20, 2010^ Gans, Andrew. "Spider-Man Turn Off The Dark Will Now Open in February 2011" Archived 2011-01-20 at the Wayback Machine . Playbill.com. December 17, 2010. Retrieved December 18, 2010.
^ John Katsilometes (July 16, 2016). " . Las Vegas Sun . Retrieved 2018-10-22 . ^ Mike Weatherford (April 12, 2013). " . Las Vegas Review-Journal – via NewsBank. ^ "The Lightning Thief" . www.lightningthiefmusical.com . Retrieved 2021-07-08 .^ Macandrew, Ruby. "Theatre review: That Bloody Woman " , Stuff , September 14 2017
^ "BAT OUT OF HELL flies into London" . www.londonboxoffice.co.uk . Retrieved 2017-02-14 .^ "Head Over Heels by Go-Gos to open on Broadway in 2018" .^ Paulson, Michael. "Jagged Little Pill to Close on Broadway, Citing Omicron" , The New York Times , December 20, 2021
References
Everett, William A. and Paul R. Laird, The Cambridge Companion to the Musical (2002) Cambridge University Press, pp. 231–33 ISBN 0-521-79639-3 .