# The best Broadway musicals of all time

The shows that top every ranking of Broadway's greatest, from West Side Story and Fiddler to Hamilton and Hadestown.

- 63 votes · 21 items
- Jan 28, 2025 · vinylhead_grumpy
- https://even.best/en/l/3107/the-best-broadway-musicals-of-all-time

## Top 21

1. **Les Misérables** (6 · ▲6 ▼0) — 1987 on Broadway. Victor Hugo's novel sung from start to finish.
2. **Hamilton** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — 2015. Lin-Manuel Miranda tells the founding fathers' story through hip-hop.
3. **A Chorus Line** (3 · ▲4 ▼1) — 1975. The lives of dancers at an audition.
4. **Wicked** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — 2003. The untold story of the witches of Oz.
5. **Chicago** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — 1975, revived in 1996. Murder, jazz and celebrity; the longest-running American musical.
6. **Rent** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — 1996. Young artists in New York in the time of AIDS.
7. **My Fair Lady** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — 1956. Eliza Doolittle and Professor Higgins.
8. **Into the Woods** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — 1987. Fairy tales after "happily ever after".
9. **Guys and Dolls** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — 1950. Gamblers and missionaries on Broadway.
10. **The Phantom of the Opera** (2 · ▲5 ▼3) — 1988. Andrew Lloyd Webber; Broadway's longest-running show.
11. **The Lion King** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — 1997. Julie Taymor's puppets and the highest-grossing show ever.
12. **West Side Story** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 1957. Romeo and Juliet in New York, by Bernstein and Sondheim.
13. **Cabaret** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 1966. Berlin's Kit Kat Club as the Nazis rise.
14. **The Book of Mormon** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 2011. The South Park creators' irreverent hit.
15. **Oklahoma!** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 1943. Rodgers and Hammerstein's first, which changed the musical.
16. **Fiddler on the Roof** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — 1964. Tevye, tradition and "If I Were a Rich Man".
17. **The Sound of Music** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — 1959. The von Trapp family and "Do-Re-Mi".
18. **Hadestown** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 2019. Orpheus and Eurydice in a folk-jazz underworld; Tony for best musical.
19. **Sweeney Todd** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — 1979. Sondheim's demon barber of Fleet Street.
20. **Hairspray** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 2002. Tracy Turnblad and 1960s Baltimore.
21. **Cats** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — 1982. T. S. Eliot's cats and "Memory".

How is this ranking ordered? By people's votes: each ▲ adds a point and each ▼ takes one away. Anyone can vote and add what is missing.