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| The first team where lyricist and composer were credited equally. |
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| The First Poet of Broadway |
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| Introduced Rodgers & Hart |
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| Richard Rodgers' first song on Broadway |
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| Rodgers and Hart's first Broadway Musical Score |
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| The oldest producing organization in America, Introduced America to Shaw |
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| Included the song "Manhattan", Rodgers and Hart's first big hit. |
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| Rodgers and Hart's first collaboration with Herbert Fields, nicknamed the "The Young Trio" |
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| Innovative for its time; Freudian overtones, first and last scenes in darkness, no music for the first 20 minutes, scene and costume changes in front of the audience |
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| First show that ballet was integral to the plot, George Balanchine choreographed |
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| Produced an unprecedented 5 hits |
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| The show for which George M Cohan returned to Broadway after 10 years. |
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| The first Broadway musical based on a Shakespeare play |
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| Realistic, no redeeming characters |
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| The last full scale collaboration between R&H |
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| Revised Revival produced by Richard Rodgers, 6 new songs were written including "To Keep my Love Alive", Hart removed from theatre after drunkenly heckling the actors, died of pneumonia 5 days later. |
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| Married to Cole Porter even though he was a notorious homosexual, came from an abusive relationship. |
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| Let's Do it, Let's Fall in Love |
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| Originally titled "Let's Do It" and was banned from radio broadcast until "Let's fall in love" was added. Porter's first smash. |
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| Did well despite the stock market crash |
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| The first show that Fred Astaire was without his sister Adele |
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| The longest running show of the 1930s, made Ethel Merman a star. |
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| Porter went on a cruise around the world for inspiration |
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| Caused a famous billing war between Ethel Merman, Bob Hope and Jimmy Durante |
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| The location of the home of Countess Edith di Zoppola, where Porter fell of a horse and fractured both of his legs |
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| The show that marks the start of Porter falling out of fashion |
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| The end of Porter's 'dry period' and was the first musical to win a tony award |
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| British theatre's most successful composer, lyricist, librettist, actor and director |
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| Ran 2 and a half years, the longest running show in the history of Broadway to that time. |
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| Based on The Beggar's Opera, translated into 18 different languages, played over 10,000 performances across Europe and on Broadway. |
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| The Rise and Fall of Mahagonny |
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| A parable about the rise of Nazism, caused Weill's works to be banned by the Nazis which caused Weill to flee to France |
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| One of the few "foreigners" to compose for Broadway, one of the most influential and admired, often credited for widening the scope of the Broadway musical. |
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| Weill's first Broadway show. |
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| Marks the first time that a historical person or situation was used in a satiric sense to comment on the current times |
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| Includes showstoppers "Tchaikovsky" and "Jenny". Fully integrates music, dance and plot - 2 years before "Oklahoma!" |
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