15 must-read plays books like The Music Man by Meredith Willson

Cover of The Music Man by Meredith Willson

The Music Man

By: Meredith Willson

3.80

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Novel form of the musical

"There were birds in the sky, but I never saw them winging, No I never saw them at all, Until there was you."

-Meredith Willson, The Music Man

"There were birds in the sky, but I never saw them winging, No I never saw them at all, Until there was you."

-Meredith Willson, The Music Man

If you liked the plays plot in The Music Man by Meredith Willson , here is a list of 15 books like this:

Cover of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee

1. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

By: Edward Albee

4.06

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

"Twelve times a week," answered Uta Hagen when asked how often she'd like to play Martha in Who's A… read more

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  • plays
  • fiction
  • drama
"Honey: I know these people ..."

-Edward Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

"You want to dance with me, angel tits?"

-Edward Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

"Musical beds is the faculty sport around here."

-Edward Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

"George: Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf? Martha: I am, George. I am."

-Edward Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Cover of The Humans by Stephen Karam

2. The Humans

By: Stephen Karam

3.91

Format: 164 pages, Paperback

Breaking with tradition, Erik Blake has brought his Pennsylvania family to celebrate Thanksgiving a… read more

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  • plays
  • fiction
  • drama
Cover of Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare, Folger Shakespeare Library

3. Twelfth Night

By: William Shakespeare , Folger Shakespeare Library

3.95

Format: 272 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Named for the twelfth night after Christmas, the end of the Christmas season, Twelfth Night plays w… read more

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  • plays
  • fiction
"a raven's heart within a dove."

-William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

"I pity you That's a degree to love"

-William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

"Better a witty fool, than a foolish wit."

-William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

"Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage."

-William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

Cover of Our Town by Thornton Wilder, Donald Margulies, Tappan Wilder

4. Our Town

By: Thornton Wilder , Donald Margulies , Tappan Wilder

4.35

Format: 26 pages, Paperback

Our Townwas first produced and published in 1938 to wide acclaim. This Pulitzer Prize-winning drama… read more

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  • plays
  • fiction
  • drama
Cover of The Play That Goes Wrong by Henry Lewis, Henry Shields, Jonathan Sayer

5. The Play That Goes Wrong

By: Henry Lewis , Henry Shields , Jonathan Sayer

4.00

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

Good evening. I'm Inspector Carter. Take my case. This must be Charles Haversham! I'm sorry, this m… read more

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  • plays
  • fiction
  • drama
Cover of The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Nina Baym, Thomas E. Connolly

6. The Scarlet Letter

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne , Nina Baym , Thomas E. Connolly

3.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

Set in the harsh Puritan community of seventeenth-century Boston, this tale of an adulterous entang… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Urinetown: The Musical by Greg Kotis, David Auburn, Mark Hollmann

7. Urinetown: The Musical

By: Greg Kotis , David Auburn , Mark Hollmann

4.22

Format: None pages, Paperback

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  • plays
  • fiction
  • drama
Cover of Travels with Charley: In Search of America by John Steinbeck

8. Travels with Charley: In Search of America

By: John Steinbeck

4.37

Format: None pages, Paperback

An intimate journey across and in search of America, as told by one of its most beloved writers, in… read more

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Cover of Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen, William Archer

9. Hedda Gabler

By: Henrik Ibsen , William Archer

3.93

Format: None pages, Paperback

Hedda Gabler, the daughter of a deceased General, marries dull George Tesman and foresees a life of… read more

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  • plays
  • fiction
  • drama
Cover of Richard III by William Shakespeare, John Jowett

10. Richard III

By: William Shakespeare , John Jowett

3.37

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Richard III is one of Shakespeare's most popular plays on the stage and has been adapted successful… read more

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  • plays
  • drama
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Disgraced by Ayad Akhtar

11. Disgraced

By: Ayad Akhtar

4.83

Format: 28 pages, Paperback

The story of Amir Kapoor (Aasif Mandvi), a successful Pakistani-American lawyer who is rapidly movi… read more

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  • plays
  • fiction
  • drama
Cover of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street by Hugh Wheeler, Stephen Sondheim, Christopher Godfrey Bond

12. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

By: Hugh Wheeler , Stephen Sondheim , Christopher Godfrey Bond

2.77

Format: 130 pages, Paperback

According to legend, Sweeney Todd had his barber shop at number 186 Fleet Street, next door to St. … read more

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  • plays
  • fiction
  • drama
Cover of Blithe Spirit by Noël Coward

13. Blithe Spirit

By: Noël Coward

3.97

Format: 130 pages, Paperback

"An insane farce that is also uproarious."--NY Times "I will ever be grateful for the almost psych… read more

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  • plays
  • fiction
  • drama
"Time is the reef upon which all our mystic ships are wrecked."

-Noël Coward, Blithe Spirit

"It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit."

-Noël Coward, Blithe Spirit

Cover of Stardust by Neil Gaiman

14. Stardust

By: Neil Gaiman

3.37

Format: None pages, Paperback

Life moves at a leisurely pace in the tiny town of Wall - named after the imposing stone barrier wh… read more

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  • fiction

15. La casa de Bernarda Alba

By: Federico García Lorca , None , None

4.06

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Focus Student Editions are designed for Spanish language courses in literature and culture. Pre… read more

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16. The 39 Steps

By: John Buchan , Patrick Barlow

3.69

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

John Buchan's The Thirty-Nine Steps was the novel that introduced readers to the cunning Richard Ha… read more

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17. The Odd Couple

By: Neil Simon

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Comedy / 6m, 2f / Int. This classic comedy opens as a group of the guys assembled for cards in the … read more

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18. A Raisin in the Sun

By: Lorraine Hansberry

4.20

Format: 24 pages, Hardcover

"Never before, in the entire history of the American theater, has so much of the truth of black peo… read more

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19. Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches

By: Tony Kushner

4.11

Format: None pages, Paperback

Pulitzer Prize-winner for Drama, 1993. The first part of Tony Kushner's epic drama of America in th… read more

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20. The Crucible

By: Arthur Miller , Christopher Bigsby

3.60

Format: 137 pages, Paperback

"I believe that the reader will discover here the essential nature of one of the strangest and most… read more

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21. Spring's Awakening

By: Eric Bentley , Frank Wedekind

4.03

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

Spring's Awakening is a tragi-comedy of teenage sex. Its fourteen-year-old heroine, Wendla, is kill… read more

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Cover of The Beauty Queen of Leenane by Martin McDonagh

22. The Beauty Queen of Leenane

By: Martin McDonagh

4.08

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Set in the mountains of Connemara, County Galway, The Beauty Queen of Leenane tells the darkly comi… read more

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  • plays
  • fiction
  • drama

23. The Red Badge of Courage

By: Stephen Crane

3.68

Format: 330 pages, Paperback

During an unnamed battle, 18-year-old private Henry Fleming survives what he considers to be a lost… read more

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24. Much Ado About Nothing

By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine , Gail Kern Paster , None

3.92

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

The action is set in Sicily, where Don Pedro, Prince of Aragon, has recently defeated his half-brot… read more

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Cover of The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (The Herdmans, #1) by Barbara Robinson

25. The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (The Herdmans, #1)

By: Barbara Robinson

4.22

Format: 128 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Laughs abound in this bestselling Christmas classic by Barbara Robinson! The Best Christmas Pageant… read more

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  • fiction
"I've got the baby here," Imogene barked at the Wise Men. "Don touch him! I named him Jesus."

-Barbara Robinson, The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (The Herdmans, #1)

"When they got to the part about swaddling clothes and the manger, Imogene asked, “You mean they tied him up and put him in a feedbox? Where was the Child Welfare?"

-Barbara Robinson, The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (The Herdmans, #1)

26. Rhinoceros and Other Plays

By: Eugène Ionesco , Derek Prouse

3.75

Format: 263 pages,

In Rhinoceros,as in his early plays, Ionesco startles audiences with a world that invariably erupts… read more

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27. Twelve Angry Men

By: David Mamet , Reginald Rose

4.79

Format: None pages, Paperback

A landmark American drama that inspired a classic film and a Broadway revival--featuring an introdu… read more

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Cover of The Lehman Trilogy by Stefano Massini

28. The Lehman Trilogy

By: Stefano Massini

4.25

Format: 720 pages, Hardcover

Magnificent in scope,  internationally lauded, and transcendent, the novel in verse that inspired t… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Girl from the North Country (NHB Modern Plays) by Conor McPherson

29. Girl from the North Country (NHB Modern Plays)

By: Conor McPherson

3.48

Format: 133 pages, Kindle Edition

Duluth, Minnesota. 1934. A community living on a knife-edge. Lost and lonely people huddle together… read more

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  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
Cover of Hand to God: A Play by Robert Askins

30. Hand to God: A Play

By: Robert Askins

3.87

Format: 96 pages, Kindle Edition

"The freshest and funniest Broadway comedy in years... Hand to God is to plays as The Book of Mormo… read more

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  • plays
  • drama
Cover of The Music Man by Meredith Willson

31. The Music Man

By: Meredith Willson

3.80

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Novel form of the musical read more

Similar categories in Meredith Willson's The Music Man book and Meredith Willson's The Music Man

  • music
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • plays
  • drama
"There were birds in the sky, but I never saw them winging, No I never saw them at all, Until there was you."

-Meredith Willson, The Music Man

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Edward Albee

4.06

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Stephen Karam

3.91

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William Shakespeare , Folger Shakespeare Library

3.95

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Our Town

Thornton Wilder , Donald Margulies , Tappan Wilder

4.35

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Jack Kerouac

3.61

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