"Oklahoma!" and "Sound of Music" were the best-selling shows I was ever part of but a wonderful musical that is funny and sweet and never done is  Frank Loesser's version of "Charley's Aunt" called "Where's Charley?"  It was a great movie, if you can find it, with the great Ray Bolger and has been revived a few times.  Check it out!  I've only seen it once and it's too bad it's not done more because the music is great and it's so doggone funny. 

Our big sell out show was Annie

Joseph..., Man of La Mancha, The Wizard of Oz, Guys and Dolls, 42nd Street, Pirates of Penzance, Once Upon a Mattress, Forever Plaid,Grease, Annie, Oklahoma, Pajama Game, Fiddler, Music Man, Sound of Music, Camelot, Bye Bye Birdie Pippin (with the newer ending).

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You can't go wrong with the oldies but goodies.  If you need to raise money, ALWAYS do a show the audience knows and loves.  Save the newer shows for a time when making a buck is not as important to your theater. (Yeah right...like that would ever happen in theater!!!)

One show I have never seen fail is Nunsence.  It has been a money maker every time I have ever  been involved in it (7x).

And they don't call The Sound of Music , the Sound of Money for nothing. 

I think the new shows will eventually become classics like this but they have to be done and done again for the audience to embrace them.  Of course us theater folks know and love these shows, but then not everyone is as theater savy as we are.