How to Stream Broadway Shows at Home

The curtain has closed on Broadway—for now—but that doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy your favorite story lines and show tunes.

The following streaming services allow you to bring the magic of the stage to your living room—in some cases, for free. Enjoy a glass of wine (because it’s much cheaper to do that at home than it is at the theater!), turn on the popcorn machine, and stream your favorite live Broadway shows on Amazon Prime Video, Vudu and more.

Amazon Prime Video

On Amazon Prime Video, you can stream select musicals for free with a seven-day trial of Broadway HD. Free musicals include:

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Falsettos
Kiss Me, Kate
Miss Saigon
She Loves Me
The Nutcracker
The Sleeping Beauty

Other live musicals, such as Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, are available to rent or buy for a fee on Amazon Prime.

Broadway HD

After the free seven-day trial, Broadway HD costs $8.99 a month or $99.99 for a year, plus applicable taxes, and provides unlimited access to the above musicals, plus other Broadway hits including:

42nd Street
An American in Paris
Bye Bye Birdie
Carousel
Cats
Disney’s Broadway Hits
Kinky Boots
Oklahoma!
Peter Pan

Google Play

Google Play allows you to download movies and TV shows to any Android phone or tablet. Movies and TV shows (plus music, books and apps) can be purchased on an individual basis. These are the live musicals you can stream on Google Play:

Billy Elliot the Musical Live
Newsies
Rent

iTunes

With iTunes, you can rent or buy movies, with prices starting at $4.99 per movie and ranging between $14.99 and $19.99 for movies in HD. Movies on iTunes include the following live Broadway shows:

Billy Elliot the Musical Live
Into the Woods
Newsies: The Broadway Musical
Rent

Vudu

Vudu doesn’t require a monthly subscription fee; instead, you’re charged by individual movie or TV shows, both of which are available to rent or buy. Prices start at $0.99. Currently, you can stream one live musical on Vudu: Billy Elliot the Musical Live.

YouTube

Musical theater fans, rejoice: you can now stream full-length recordings of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musicals on a new YouTube channel called The Shows Must Go On. Shows include Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and Jesus Christ Superstar, with a different musical being released each week.

You also can rent or buy any of the following musicals on YouTube:

Billy Elliot the Musical Live
Into the Woods
Newsies
Rent

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