Applause

• Original Broadway Production (1970)
  New York, NY
• 1st National Tour (1971)
• London Production (1972)
  London, England
• Television Production (1973)
• Australian Production (1975)
  Sydney, Australia
• Equity Library Theatre Revival (1982)
  New York, NY
• Pre-Broadway Tour (Closed on the Road) (1996)
• Encores! Concert (2008)
  New York, NY

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Original score

• Backstage Babble
• Think How It's Gonna Be
• But Alive
• The Best Night of My Life
• Who's That Girl?
• Applause
• Montage
• Hurry Back
• Fasten Your Seat Belts
• Welcome to the Theatre
• Inner Thoughts
• Good Friends
• She's No Longer a Gypsy
• One of a Kind
• One Halloween
  • aka One Hallow'een [Title in opening night Broadway playbill]
• Something Greater

Cut during Baltimore tryout

• It Was Always You
• Love Comes First
• It's a Hit, It's a Flop
  • aka It's a Hit It's a Flop [no note]
  • aka Well Wishers, The [no note]
• Disco for Margo
• Smashing New York Times
  • aka What You Go Through [no note]
• Fairfield County

Cut prior to/during rehearsals [unconfirmed]

• Tell Your Friends
• I'm Still Me
• God Bless
• Nothing Can Get to Me Now
• Get Her Away from Me
• Loneliest Man in Town
• It'll Be Good for Me

Added to 1996 revival

• She Killed Them!
• I Don't Want to Grow Old

• Composer Demo [audio]
• Demo Recording [audio]

Based on the 1950 film All About Eve and the story from which it was adapted, "The Wisdom of Eve," by Mary Orr.

It is sometimes incorrectly stated that the producers were never able to get the rights to All About Eve and that consequently the musical was based only on the story The Wisdom of Eve by Mary Orr. In fact, the producers did get the rights to All About Eve. Not only was it credited in the playbill as one of the two sources, it was credited ahead of The Wisdom of Eve.

Although some elements of All About Eve were not used, perhaps in part because the rights to the screenplay were not obtained until fairly late in the writing process, there is nonetheless a great deal in the musical that is not in Mary Orr's original story and that is also not in the radio play she wrote soon after (and before All About Eve). She did add characters and plot elements to the radio play that were used in both the film and the musical, but still a comparison of all three sources with the musical reveals that the musical uses a great deal found only in the film.

• All About Eve (source material)
• Applause, Applause (working title)
• Applause: The Musical All About Eve (1996 Tour title)
• Make Believe (working title)
• Welcome to the Theatre (working title)