Get ready to roll out the red carpet and host a Broadway event in your own home! Alachua County Library District (ACLD) offers scripts and CD recordings of popular theatrical plays, as well as DVDs of film adaptations. Search our catalog for your favorite titles, or check out some of these well-known shows:
An acclaimed musical about the scrappy young immigrant Alexander Hamilton, the $10 bill Founding Father who forever changed America with his revolutionary ideas and actions. During his life cut too short, he served as George Washington's chief aide, was the first Treasury Secretary of the United States of America, a loving husband and father, despised by his fellow Founding Fathers, and shot to death by Aaron Burr in a legendary duel.
Read: Hamilton: the Revolution
Listen: Hamilton: Original Broadway Cast Recording
Wicked: The Untold History of the Witches of Oz
Based on Gregory Maguire's novel of the same name, the Broadway musical creates a history for the two witches from L. Frank Baum's OZ books.
Read: Original novel and accompanying materials for the show.
Listen: Wicked, a New Musical: Original Broadway Cast Recording
Cats is a sung-through musical composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber, based on the 1939 poetry collection Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot.
Watch: Film adaptations from 1998 and 2020
Listen: Broadway and film adaptation recordings
Hadestown is a musical with music, lyrics, and book by Anaïs Mitchell. It tells a version of the ancient Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice.
Read: Working on a Song: The Lyrics of Hadestown by Anaïs Mitchell
Listen: Broadway recordings
If you're interested in finding scripts to act out your favorites, stop by your local library branch where a staff member will be happy to help you find the perfect script. If you'd rather browse, search the nonfiction shelves for call numbers in the 800s. You can also search our online catalog for keywords, titles, or author's names. Try searching for the subject "plays", title "Angels in America", or author "Tennessee Williams".
Don't forget our downloadables! Putnam, Alachua, and Levy County residents have access to a vast selection of eBooks through Overdrive. Included in those books are plays from well-known playwrights like William Shakespeare, Henry James, Jane Austen, and more. Library card holders also have access to online databases like O'Reilly and MasterFILE, which both offer excerpts of scripts.
Visiting a local playhouse? Posting a dramatic reading to social media? Make sure to tag us @AlachuaLibrary!