1971 in Music - Musical Theater

Musical Theater

  • Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death – Off-Broadway production
  • Follies (Stephen Sondheim) – Broadway production
  • Godspell (Stephen Schwartz) – Broadway and London productions (Off-Broadway from 1971, 572 performances on Broadway, 2,600 total NYC performances)
  • Jalta, Jalta (Alfi Kabiljo and Milan Grgić) - premièred in Zagreb
  • Jesus Christ Superstar (Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice) – Broadway production (eighteen months)
  • Lolita, My Love (John Barry and Alan Jay Lerner) – closed in pre-Broadway tryout
  • Prettybelle – ditto
  • No, No, Nanette (Irving Caesar, Otto Harbach, Vincent Youmans) – Broadway revival
  • On the Town Broadway revival
  • Show Boat (Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II) – London revival
  • To Live Another Summer, To Pass Another Winter – Broadway production of Jewish revue; opened at the Helen Hayes Theatre on October 21 and transferred to the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on January 10, 1972 for a total run of 173 performances.
  • Two Gentlemen of Verona – Broadway production

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