The next great musical will be an original book with original music and lyrics.

Over five decades, the theater has championed many playwrights, some political theater and a few great musicals.

Speaking of great musicals, if you enjoyed "Oliver!"

These are not the words one ordinarily associates with lyrics for great musicals.

But now television is stepping into the breach, with prime-time revivals of the great musicals.

Nobody would enlist "The Fantasticks" in the canon of great musicals.

An instant nostalgia for the heyday of the great American musical has suddenly made her its most dazzling symbol.

And by then, as luck would have it, the era of the great musicals had peaked, and was beginning its decline.

We're doing it because it's one of the great modern musicals..

All the great musicals have been adapted from play scripts.