Musical Theatre

Reviews & more of original broadway productions

ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times
Offers full-text and full-image articles for the New York Times back to 1851 (excludes most current 4 years)
Music Index
Includes Variety (1970-2013), Billboard (1971-present) and the New Yorker (1971-2013).

The Music Index (print version)
Call Number: Music Library Stacks - In-Library Use Only ML118.M96
Publication Date: 1949-1969
Print version of the Music Index, covering 1949-1969. Includes citations for reviews and articles in Variety, Billboard and the New Yorker. Note: for some of these publications, Western Libraries only has microfilm for this time period.

Playbill.com
See the "Playbill Vault" www.playbill.com/category/playbill-vault in particular for musical theatre history.
Internet Broadway Database
Search for shows, characters, songs, people, awards, theatres, organizations, seasons and statistics.

Opening night on Broadway : a critical quotebook of the golden era of the musical theatre, Oklahoma! (1943) to Fiddler on the roof (1964) by Steven Suskin
Call Number: Music Library, Stacks - Regular Loan ML1711.8.N3S9 1990
ISBN: 0028726251
Publication Date: 1990
This is an an assemblage of first-night reviews from a variety of theatre critics, including Brooks Atkinson and Walter Kerr, on shows such as Brigadoon, Peter Pan and West Side Story. Over 300 musicals are described, and credits are provided for each. Each show's initial critical reception is gauged, and the financial profits or losses calculated.
More opening nights on Broadway : a critical quotebook of the musical theatre, 1965 through 1981 by Steven Suskin
Call Number: Music Library, Stacks - Regular Loan ML1711.8.N3M8 1997
ISBN: 0028645715
Publication Date: 1997
A compilation of excerpts from reviews of over two hundred productions, including Annie, Barnum, Cabaret, Evita, Godspell, A little night music, Pippin, Sugar babies, and Zorba.

Subjects: Music