During the twentieth century more than two thousand productions were staged in Broadway theatres, of which fifty or so enjoyed initial runs of over five hundred performances. This collection features orchestral arrangements of themes from Broadway musicals dating from the second half of the twentieth century. The earliest is West Side Story which opened in 1957, the same year as Meredith Willson’s hugely popular The Music Man. Fiddler on the Roof became Broadway’s longest-running musical of the 1960s only to be superseded in the 1970s by Marvin Hamlisch’s A Chorus Line which not only won a Pulitzer Prize but was the longest-running musical in the history of Broadway.