1.   And although the new theater is not scheduled to open for a year, the first musical to be presented there has already opened in Toronto.

2.   But in stitching together his first major musical, he was left disastrously to his own devices.

3.   For a first musical, you usually are inundated by ballads.

4.   He wrote his first musical as a teen-ager.

5.   It was not the first integrated musical, as some seem to think.

6.   Luhrmann has made the first musical that trumps the achievement of MTV, producing whirlwind excitement on a steady schedule.

7.   The production was successfully staged in many major cities, including Istanbul, where it was the first Broadway musical ever to be presented.

8.   It was the first musical to win an Oscar for Best Picture.

9.   Rex Harrison, who was himself unnerved by appearing in his first musical, wanted her replaced.