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| Overture Beginning In The Middle | |
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| Oklahoma! | |
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| Ancestors And Antecedents | |
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| Ancestors: Opera and French and Viennese Operetta | |
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| Beginning Song Forms Antecedents: The Minstrel Show, Variety/Vaudeville, The Black Crook and British Burlesque | |
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| Ancestors: Ballad Operas and English Operetta, or Gilbert and Sullivan | |
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| Antecedents: American Burlesque, Farce-Comedy | |
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| The Early 1890s: Tin Pan Alley, A Gaiety Girl and Florodora | |
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| The Late 1890s: Burlesque-Extravaganzas | |
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| Early American Musical Comedies, Operettas And Revues: 1901-1924 | |
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| Early American Musical Comedies: George M. Cohan | |
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| American Operettas: Victor Herbert | |
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| Revues: Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr. | |
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| 1901-1911: From Babes in Toyland to "Alexander's Ragtime Band" | |
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| Irving Berlin Jerome Kern and the Princess Musicals Rudolf Friml and Sigmund Romberg 1912-1918: From The Firefly to Yip-Yip-Yaphank | |
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| Vincent Youmans Ziegfeld's Imitators 1919-1923: From The Scandals of 1919 to the Cotton Club | |
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| George and Ira Gershwin 1924: Lady, Be Good! to Rose-Marie | |
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| The Golden Age Of The Broadway Song: 1925-1939 | |
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| More on Song Forms Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart and Herbert Fields Ray Henderson, B.G. DeSylva and Lew Brown 1925-1927: The Garrick Gaieties to Strike Up the Band | |
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| Show Boat | |
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| Cole Porter Crooners 1928-1929: The New Moon to The Little Show | |
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| The Gershwins and Irving Berlin in the 30s The Intimate Revue - The Bandwagon | |
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| Kern in the 30s Rodgers and Hart and George Abbott Porter in the 30s | |
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| The Rise of Big Bands and Swing 1930-1934 Marc Blitzstein and Kurt Weill 1935-1939 | |
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| The Transitional Years: 1940-1945 | |
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| Movie Musicals 1940-1941: Pal Joey to Lady in the Dark | |
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| 1942-1945: The War Years This Is the Army to Carousel | |
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| The Golden Age Of The Broadway Musical: 1945-1964 | |
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| The Last Half of the 40s, Part 1 1946 to 1947: Annie Get Your Gun to Brigadoon | |
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| The Last Half of the 40s, Part 2 1947 to 1949: Kiss Me Kate to South Pacific | |
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| 1950 to 1954: Guys and Dolls to Peter Pan | |
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| The Last Half of the 50s, Part 1 1955-1956: Damn Yankees to My Fair Lady | |
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| The Last Half of the 50s, Part 2 1957-1959: West Side Story to The Sound of Music | |
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| The First Half of the 60s, Part 1 1960-1962: Bye Bye Birdie to A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum | |
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| The First Half of the 60s, Part 2 1963-1964: She Loves Me to Fiddler on the Roof | |
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| Fade Out-Fade In: 1965-1969 | |
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| The Last Half of the 60s, Part 1 1965-1966: Kelly to Cabaret | |
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| The Last Half of the 60s, Part 2 1967-1969: Hair to 1776 | |
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| The Splintering Of The Form: 1970-1999 | |
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| Stephen Sondheim 1970-1971: Company to Jesus Christ Superstar | |
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| Director/Choreographers 1972-1975: Grease to A Chorus Line | |
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| 1976-1979: Pacific Overtures to Evita | |
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| The 1980s, Part 1 1980-1982: 42nd Street to Cats | |
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| The 1980s, Part 2 1983-1989: La Cage aux Folles to City of Angels | |
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| The 1990s Assassins to Ragtime | |
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| Exit Music | |