Research Guides: Theatre & Performance Studies Research Guide: Musical Theatre Resources

Musical Theatre Resources

Sheet Music for Musical Theatre (LOC)
Sheet Music of the Musical Theater is a collection of more than 16,000 pieces of sheet music published between 1880 and 1922. These songs, specified as “M1508” items in the Library’s classification system, were taken from musicals, revues and operettas primarily of the American and British stage. They are arranged for piano and voice, sometimes simultaneously in arrangements for lower and higher voice.
Singer's Musical Theatre Anthology
The link above goes to ONE of the MANY volumes that contains songs from musicals. The selections are presented in their authentic settings, excerpted from the original vocal scores. This series is perfect for auditions. Go to M1507 .S62 2000 in the FOLIO section on our 2nd floor.
BroadwayHD
This collection always has a few musicals on streaming video. (This is the institutional subscription and while the commercial version has many more we, unfortunately, are not allowed to subscribe to that.)

Do you want to browse the book or lyrics to a musical? Check out our ML 49 or ML 50 section in stacks on our 2nd floor.

Also, don't forget that we have some musicals on CD or DVD in our paged collection (you must ask the front desk for those items), and in our WAPAVA collection.