Jesus Christ Superstar (1973)

The Last Five Years (2014)

Summary: A struggling actress and her novelist lover each illustrate the struggle and deconstruction of their love affair.

Release Date: February 12, 2015

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Musical

Director: Richard LaGravenese

Writers: Jason Robert Brown

, Richard LaGravenese

Runtime: 1 h 34 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Lucky Monkey Pictures, Sh-K-Boom Records, Grand Peaks Entertainment

Distributor: RADiUS-TWC, KVH Media Group

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 3,500,000

Domestic: $ 145,427

International: $ 146,665

1776 (1972)

Summary: A musical retelling of the American Revolution's political struggle in the Continental Congress to declare independence.

Release Date: November 17, 1972

Genres: Drama, Family, History

Director: Peter H. Hunt

Writers: Peter Stone

, Sherman Edwards

Runtime: 2 h 21 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Columbia Pictures

Distributor: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 4,000,000

Little Shop of Horrors (1986)

Summary: A nerdy florist finds his chance for success and romance with the help of a giant man-eating plant who demands to be fed.

Release Date: December 19, 1986

Genres: Comedy, Musical, Horror

Director: Frank Oz

Writers: Howard Ashman

, Roger Corman

, Charles B. Griffith

Runtime: 1 h 34 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: The Geffen Company

Distributor: Fathom Events, HBO Max

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 25,000,000

Domestic: $ 39,032,001

International: $ 785

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)

Summary: The legendary tale of a barber who returns from wrongful imprisonment to 1840s London, bent on revenge for the rape and death of his wife, and resumes his trade while forming a sinister partnership with his fellow tenant, Mrs. Lov...

Release Date: December 21, 2007

Genres: Drama, Musical, Horror

Director: Tim Burton

Writers: John Logan

, Hugh Wheeler

, Christopher Bond

Runtime: 1 h 56 min

MPAA: R

Production: Dreamworks Pictures, Warner Bros., Parkes/MacDonald Image Nation, Tim Burton Productions

Distributor: Paramount Pictures, DreamWorks Home Entertainment

Countries: United States, United Kingdom

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 50,000,000

Domestic: $ 52,898,073

International: $ 100,485,554

The Band Wagon (1953)

Summary: A pretentiously artistic director is hired for a new Broadway musical and changes it beyond recognition.

Release Date: August 07, 1953

Genres: Comedy, Musical, Romance

Director: Vincente Minnelli

Writers: Betty Comden

, Adolph Green

, Norman Corwin

Runtime: 1 h 52 min

MPAA: G

Production: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Distributor: National Broadcasting Company (NBC), MGM/UA Home Entertainment, Warner Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 2,169,120

Paint Your Wagon (1969)

Summary: Two unlikely prospector partners share the same wife in a California gold rush mining town.

Release Date: October 15, 1969

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Musical

Director: Joshua Logan

Writers: Alan Jay Lerner

, Paddy Chayefsky

Runtime: 2 h 44 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Alan Jay Lerner Productions, The Malpaso Company

Distributor: American Broadcasting Company (ABC), Paramount Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 20,000,000

Domestic: $ 14,500,000

Jersey Boys (2014)

Summary: The story of four young men from the wrong side of the tracks in New Jersey who came together to form the iconic 1960s rock group The Four Seasons.

Release Date: June 20, 2014

Genres: Drama, Music, Biography

Director: Clint Eastwood

Writers: Marshall Brickman

, Rick Elice

Runtime: 2 h 14 min

MPAA: R

Production: Four Seasons Partnership, GK Films, Malpaso Productions, RatPac Entertainment, RatPac-Dune Entertainment, Warner Bros.

Distributor: Warner Bros., KVH Media Group, Warner Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 40,000,000

Domestic: $ 47,047,013

International: $ 20,600,000

The Phantom of the Opera (2004)

Summary: A young soprano becomes the obsession of a disfigured and murderous musical genius who lives beneath the Paris Opéra House.

Release Date: January 21, 2005

Genres: Drama, Musical, Romance

Director: Joel Schumacher

Writers: Gaston Leroux

, Andrew Lloyd Webber

, Joel Schumacher

Runtime: 2 h 23 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Warner Bros., Odyssey Entertainment, Really Useful Films

Distributor: Warner Bros., HBO Max, Warner Home Video

Countries: United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 70,000,000

Domestic: $ 51,293,931

International: $ 103,380,310

Oliver! (1968)

Summary: After being sold to a mortician, young orphan Oliver Twist runs away and meets a group of boys trained to be pickpockets by an elderly mentor in 1830s London.

Release Date: September 27, 1968

Genres: Drama, Family, Musical

Director: Carol Reed

Writers: Lionel Bart

, Vernon Harris

, Charles Dickens

Runtime: 2 h 33 min

MPAA: G

Production: Romulus Films, Warwick Film Productions

Distributor: Columbia Pictures, American Broadcasting Company (ABC), RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video, Pioneer Entertainment, Columbia TriStar Home Video, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Twilight Time, The Criterion Channel

Countries: United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 10,000,000

Nine (2009)

Summary: Famous film director Guido Contini struggles to find harmony in his professional and personal lives, as he engages in dramatic relationships with his wife, his mistress, his muse, his agent, and his mother.

Release Date: December 25, 2009

Genres: Drama, Musical, Romance

Director: Rob Marshall

Writers: Michael Tolkin

, Anthony Minghella

, Arthur Kopit

Runtime: 1 h 58 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: The Weinstein Company, Relativity Media, Marc Platt Productions, Lucamar Productions, Jac Film and Television, Guido Contini Films

Distributor: The Weinstein Company, Showtime Networks, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Lantern Entertainment

Countries: United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 80,000,000

Domestic: $ 19,676,965

International: $ 34,327,985

Flower Drum Song (1961)

Summary: A young woman arrives in San Francisco's Chinatown from Hong Kong with the intention of marrying a rakish nightclub owner, unaware he is involved with one of his singers.

Release Date: March 28, 1962

Genres: Comedy, Musical, Romance

Director: Henry Koster

Writers: Joseph Fields

, C.Y. Lee

, Oscar Hammerstein II

Runtime: 2 h 13 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Ross Hunter Productions, Fields Productions

Distributor: National Broadcasting Company (NBC), MCA Home Video, MCA/Universal Home Video, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (UPHE), NBC Universal Television Distribution, Kino Lorber, The Criterion Channel

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 4,000,000

The King and I (1956)

Summary: A widow accepts a job as a live-in governess to the King of Siam's children.

Release Date: June 29, 1956

Genres: Drama, Musical, Biography

Director: Walter Lang

Writers: Ernest Lehman

, Oscar Hammerstein II

, Margaret Landon

Runtime: 2 h 13 min

MPAA: G

Production: Twentieth Century Fox, Polyphony Digital

Distributor: American Broadcasting Company (ABC), Magnetic Video, 20th Century Fox Video, CBS/Fox, Fox Video, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, Fathom Events, The Walt Disney Company

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 4,550,000

Domestic: $ 21,300,000

International: $ 20,209

Cyrano (2021)

Summary: Too self-conscious to woo Roxanne himself, wordsmith Cyrano de Bergerac helps young Christian nab her heart through love letters.

Release Date: February 25, 2022

Genres: Drama, Musical, Romance

Director: Joe Wright

Writers: Erica Schmidt

, Edmond Rostand

Runtime: 2 h 03 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Working Title Films, BRON Studios

Distributor: Studio Distribution Services (SDS), Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (UPHE)

Countries: United Kingdom, Canada, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 30,000,000

Domestic: $ 3,873,124

International: $ 2,523,988

Cats (2019)

Summary: A tribe of cats called the Jellicles must decide yearly which one will ascend to the Heaviside Layer and come back to a new Jellicle life.

Release Date: December 20, 2019

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Family

Director: Tom Hooper

Writers: Lee Hall

, Tom Hooper

, Andrew Lloyd Webber

Runtime: 1 h 50 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Working Title Films, Amblin Entertainment, Perfect World Pictures, The Really Useful Group

Distributor: HBO Max, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (UPHE)

Countries: United Kingdom, United States, Canada, Australia, Japan, China

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 95,000,000

Domestic: $ 27,166,770

International: $ 48,392,155

Into the Woods (2014)

Summary: A witch tasks a childless baker and his wife with procuring magical items from classic fairy tales to reverse the curse put on their family tree.

Release Date: December 25, 2014

Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Drama

Director: Rob Marshall

Writers: James Lapine

, Stephen Sondheim

Runtime: 2 h 05 min

MPAA: PG

Production: BBL Motion Picture Studios, Lucamar Productions, Marc Platt Productions, Walt Disney Pictures

Distributor: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment, Disney+

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 50,000,000

Domestic: $ 128,002,372

International: $ 84,900,000

Mamma Mia! (2008)

Summary: The story of a bride-to-be trying to find her real father told using hit songs by the popular 1970s group ABBA.

Release Date: July 18, 2008

Genres: Comedy, Musical, Romance

Director: Phyllida Lloyd

Writer: Catherine Johnson

Runtime: 1 h 48 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Universal Pictures, Relativity Media, Littlestar

Distributor: Universal Pictures, American Broadcasting Company (ABC), Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (UPHE)

Countries: United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Language: English

Franchise: Mamma Mia!

Movie budget: $ 52,000,000

Domestic: $ 144,169,664

International: $ 550,308,728