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MUSICAL NUMBERS & CHARACTERS BREAKDOWN

THE MUSICALS

Musical Play Musical Numbers Character Breakdown

The Producers LEO BLOOM


Max Bialystock, the [Male Lead, Tenor]
one time king of
Broadway
producers hungry
to strike it rich, and
Leo Bloom, an I Wanna Be A Producer
accountant with
dreams of someday
becoming a theatre
producer, discover ACCOUNTANTS/ COMPANY
that they could get
richer by producing
a flop than a hit and
start by finding the
worst show, worst
director, and worst
actors.

A Chorus Line Zach


A Chorus Line [Male Lead,
examines one day Non-singer]
in the lives of
seventeen dancers, Tricia
all vying for a spot I Hope I Get It [Female Featured,
in the “chorus line” Mezzo-Soprano]
of a Broadway
musical. After the Paul San Marco
first round of cuts, [Male Supporting,
Zach, the director Baritone]
and choreographer,
asks each dancer
to speak about One Scene
themselves.
Newsies Jack Kelly
New York City, [Male Lead,
1899. Jack Kelly Tenor]
and his ragtag team
of newsboys make Davey Jacobs
a meager living [Male Supporting
selling newspapers Tenor]
on the city streets.
But when the prices Crutchie
of “papes” are [Male Supporting
hiked and the Tenor]
newsies are hung Seize The Day
out to dry, there is Race
nothing left to do [Male Ensemble
but “open the gates Tenor]
and seize the day!”
Led by charismatic Other Newsies
Jack and [Male Ensemble
independent, young Tenor]
newspaper reporter
Katherine Plummer,
the Newsies form a
union and organize
a strike against the
greedy publisher of
the New York
World.

Mamma Mia Donna


A daughter's quest Mamma Mia” Here We go [Female, Lead, Mezzo-Soprano, Alto]
to discover the again Tanya
[Female, Supporting Mezzo-Soprano,
identity of her
Alto]
father brings three
men from her Rosie
mother's past back [Female, Supporting, Alto]
to the island they Sophie
last visited 20 years Dancing Queen [Female Lead, Soprano,
ago.. Mezzo-Soprano]
Tick Tick Boom Jonathan
It's the story of an Therapy [ Male, Lead, Tenor]
aspiring composer & Susan
in New York City [Female Lead, Mezzo-Soprano, Alto]
who is worried he
made the wrong
career choice, Jonathan
whilst navigating [Male lead, Tenor]
the pressures of Sunday Diner’s Patron.
love and friendship.

They’re Playing Vernon Gersch


Our Song [Male Lead
This romantic Fallin’ Baritone]
comedy explores
Sonia Walsk
the ups and downs [Female Lead
of the professional Mezzo-Soprano]
and personal
relationship of
songwriters Vernon
and Sonia.

Aladdin Aladdin
In Agrabah, City of Proud Of Your Boy [Male Lead, Tenor, Baritone]
Enchantment, every
beggar has a story
and every camel
has a tail! Aladdin,
a kind but wily
street urchin, falls
in love with the
beautiful Princess
Jasmine, whom he
knows is way out of
his league.
Joseph Close Every Door Joseph
The biblical story of [Male Lead
Joseph and his Tenor]
coat of many colors
comes alive in the
musical retelling. Ensemble
Joseph -- the [Either Gender Ensemble Contralto]
favorite son of
Jacob -- is blessed
with vivid dreams
that foretell the
future.

Fiddler on the Fiddler


Roof [Male Featured
Based on Sholom Silent]
Aleichem’s Tevye
and his Daughters,
Fiddler on the Roof Tevye
is the beloved story [Male Lead
of the small, Bass-Baritone]
tradition-steeped Prologue
town of Anatevka, Avram
Russia, where [Male Featured
Jews and Russians
Baritone]
live in delicate
balance.
Yente
[Female Supporting
Alto]

Nachum
[Male Featured
Spoken]

Lazar Wolf
[Male Supporting
Baritone][

Dear Evan Hansen Waving Through A Window Evan Hansen


Dear Evan Hansen [Male Lead
tells the story of a Tenor]
young man with
social anxiety Alana Beck
disorder who so You Will Be Found [Female Featured
yearns to make a Soprano]
connection with his
peers that he Jared Kleinman
fabricates a [Male Supporting
relationship with a Tenor]
deceased student
to become closer to Cynthia Murphy
the boy’s family. [Female Supporting
Soprano, Mezzo-Soprano]

Zoe Murphy
[Female Lead
Soprano]

Company/Ensemble

La La Land Mia
While stuck in Los City Of Stars [Female Lead, Mezzo Soprano]
Angeles traffic,
aspiring actress A Lovely Night Sebastian
Amelia "Mia" Dolan
has a moment of road
[Male Lead, Tenor]
rage directed at
Sebastian "Seb"
Wilder, a jazz pianist.
After a hard day at
work, Mia's
subsequent audition
goes awry when the
casting director takes
a phone call during an
emotional scene.
Dream Girls And I Am Telling You I’m Not Effie White
In 1962 Detroit, Going [Jennifer Hudson]
Michigan, young
car salesman Curtis Deena Jones
Taylor Jr. meets a Dream Girls [Jamie Foxx]
Black girl group
known as "The Lorrel Robinson
Dreamettes", [Beyoncé Knowles]
consisting of lead
singer Effie White
and backup singers
Deena Jones and
Lorrell Robinson, at
an R&B amateur
talent show at the
Detroit Theatre.

Les Miserables Jean Valjean


Les Misérables tells [Male Lead
the story of Jean Tenor]
Valjean, a former
convict who spends Marius
a lifetime seeking [Male Lead
redemption. Tenor]

Cosette
[Female Lead
Soprano]
One Day More
Javert
[Male Lead
Bass-Baritone]

Éponine
[Female Lead
Mezzo-Soprano]

Enjolras
[Male Supporting
Baritone]
Madame Thenardier
[Female
Supporting
Mezzo-Soprano]
Phantom of the Phantom of the Opera. Christine,
Opera Phantom of the [Female, Lead, Soprano]
Below the Paris
Opera lives a The Phantom,
lonely, talented, [Male, Lead, Baritone]
horribly disfigured Christine
man who revels in
terrorizing the
theater's
employees as The
Opera

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