Chaired by Elea Proctor, this panel featured four lectures: Amanda Lee Morrill: Every Tudor Rose Has Its Thorns", PhD student in Ethnomusicology at Columbia University: Whitestream, Mean Girl Feminism in SIX; Catherine M. Young, Theater Historian: Sex and 'Stuckness': The Mobility and Immobilization of Women in In the Heights; Samuel Yates, Resident Dramaturg and Assistant Professor of Theatre at Pennsylvania State University: "Stealing from the Cookie Jar": Women Modeling Disability in Sondheim's Anyone Can Whistle; Donatella Galella, Associate Professor of Theatre History at the University of California, Riverside: "They Don't Know": Thoroughly Modern Millie and Ironic Racism Part of the sixth StageStruck! Conference: "Women and the American Musical," a three-day conference May 14-16, 2025, hosted by the Music Division of the Library of Congress.

The centrality of women to the American musical on stage and screen has long been acknowledged by scholarship. This special edition of StageStruck! at the Library of Congress focused on the latest research related to women in and around the American musical in all formats and media, and showcased the Library's rich collections related to the subject.