big: the Musical

• Original Broadway Production (1996)
  New York, NY
• First National Tour (1997)
• Non-Equity Tour (1998)
• UK Tour (2011) [cancelled]
• Plymouth / Dublin Production (2016)
  Plymouth, UK

Click on the title for info on the song.

Original score

• Can't Wait
• Talk to Her
• Carnival, The
• Zoltar Speaks
• This Isn't Me
• I Want to Go Home
• The Time of Your Life
• Fun
• Dr. Deathstar
• Josh's Welcome
• Here We Go Again
• Do You Wanna Play Games?
• Stars, Stars, Stars
• Tavern Foxtrot
• Cross the Line
• It's Time
• Stop, Time
• Happy Birthday, Josh
  • aka Nightmare, The [no note]
• Dancing All the Time
• I Want to Know
• Coffee, Black
• The Real Thing
• One Special Man
• When You're Big
• Skateboard Romance
  • aka Skateboard Ballet [no note]
• Your Wish is Granted

Cut but reinstated for tour

• Welcome to MacMillan Toys
• My Secretary's in Love
• Let's Not Move Too Fast
• Little Susan Lawrence
• We're Gonna Be Fine

Cut during rehearsal

• I'm a Kid
• I'm a Kid (ii)
• I'm a M-O-T-H-E-R
• No Problem
• There Goes That Music Again
• The Product
• Little Yellow Duck
• A Little Fun
• Office Quartet
• My Very Best Friend
• Turn Into Something
• Not Quite in Love
• March to the Music
• You're Only Young Once
• Cross Over the Line
• Wha' Da Kids Want?
  • aka Whadda Kids Want? [no note]
  • aka What Do Kids Want? [no note]
• At the Mall
• Happy as I'll Ever Be
• Your Choice
• The Ballad of Pound Ridge
• The Twelve Toys of Christmas
• What is This?
• At the Right Time
• To Be a Man
• Through the Eyes of a Child
• Growing Pains
• Now I Really Know
• Like a Grown-Up
• Office Romance
• She Kissed Me
• Move

Cut during Detroit tryout

• Say Good Morning to Mom
• I'll Think About It Later
• You Don't Want to Know
• Dish at the Dance
• Thirteen

Cut after Detroit

• Isn't It Magic?
• Big

Added to 1997 tour

• Port Authority Shuffle
• Big Boys
• Outta Here!

Based the 1988 film with a screenplay by Gary Ross and Anne Spielberg

A frustrated adolescent Josh Baskin wishes he were  “big" and wakes up the next morning a 30 year-old man. He discovers there's much more to being an adult than he had bargained for, and learns that we must all grow up at our own pace, in our own time.

The show underwent heavy revisions after it flopped in New York.  With most of the songs in the first act being entirely replaced by songs that had been cut prior to the original production begining rehearsals.  The revised version was highly successful, and discussion of bringing the show back into New York happened, but it was ultimately decided against.

• Big (alternate title)
• big (alternate title)