List of musicals: M to Z
This is a general list of musicals, including Broadway musicals, West End musicals, and musicals that premeried in other places, as well as film musicals, whose titles fall into the M-Z alphabetic range. (See also List of notable musical theatre productions, List of operettas, List of Bollywood films, List of rock musicals.)
See List of musicals: A to L for additional titles. Please list the name, year, venue, composer, and author of the musical.
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Production | Year | Venue/Type | Music | Lyrics | Book | Notes |
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Mack & Mabel | 1974 | Broadway | Jerry Herman | Herman | Michael Stewart | |
The Mad Show | 1966 | Off-Broadway | Mary Rodgers | Various artists | Larry Siegel and Stan Hart | |
Made in Dagenham | 2014 | West End | David Arnold | Richard Thomas | Richard Bean | Based on the film of the same name |
The Madwoman of Central Park West | 1979 | Broadway | Various artists | Various artists | Arthur Laurents and Phyllis Newman | |
Maggie May | 1964 | West End | Lionel Bart | Bart | Alun Owen | |
The Magic Basket | 1940 | Australia | Alfred Wheeler | Thirty eight revivals | ||
Magic Gum Tree | 1934 | Australia | Arline Sauer | Arline Sauer | Twenty six revivals | |
The Magic Mrs. Piggle Wiggle | 2001 | Off-Off-Broadway | Chad Henry | Henry | Henry | |
The Magic of Lassie | 1978 | Film | Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman | Sherman and Sherman | Sherman, Sherman and Jean Holloway | |
The Maid of the Mountains | 1917 | West End | Harold Fraser-Simson | Harry Graham | Frederick Lonsdale | |
Make a Wish | 1951 | Broadway | Hugh Martin | Martin | Preston Sturges | |
Make Me a Song | 2007 | Off-Broadway revue | William Finn | Finn | N/A | |
Making Tracks | 1999 | Off-Broadway | Woody Pak | Brian Yorkey | Welly Yang | |
Mame + film (1974) |
1966 | Broadway | Jerry Herman | Herman | Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee | Notable songs: "Mame", "We Need a Little Christmas" and "If He Walked Into My Life". |
Mamma Mia! + film (2008) |
1999 | West End | Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson | Ulvaeus, Andersson, and Stig Anderson | Catherine Johnson | Compiled from songs by ABBA. Notable songs: "Dancing Queen", "Does Your Mother Know", and "Mamma Mia". |
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again | 2018 | Film | Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson | Ulvaeus, Andersson, and Stig Anderson | Ol Parker | Compiled from songs by ABBA. Sequel to the 2008 film Mamma Mia!. |
Mam'zelle Champagne | 1906 | Broadway revue | Cassius Freeborn | Edgar Allan Woolf | Woolf | Noted for Harry K. Thaw murdering Stanford White during the opening night performance. |
The Man from Snowy River: Arena Spectacular | 2002 | Australian | Bruce Rowland, Lee Kernaghan and Garth Porter | Kernaghan and Porter | David Atkins and Ignatius Jones | |
Man of La Mancha | 1965 | Broadway | Mitch Leigh | Joe Darion | Dale Wasserman | Notable song: "The Impossible Dream". |
A Man of No Importance | 2002 | Off-Broadway | Stephen Flaherty | Lynn Ahrens | Terrence McNally | Based on the 1994 Film of the same name. |
The Man With a Load of Mischief | 1966 | Off-Broadway | John Clifton | Ben Tarver and Clifton | Tarver | |
The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh | 1977 | Animated film | Richard M. Sherman, Robert B. Sherman and Buddy Baker | Sherman and Sherman | Various writers | |
March of the Falsettos | 1981 | Off-Broadway | William Finn | Finn | Finn | It would later be half of Falsettos. |
Margie | 1946 | Film | Alfred Newman | Newman | F. Hugh Herbert, Ruth McKenney and Richard Bransten | |
Marguerite | 2008 | West End | Michel Legrand | Alain Boublil and Herbert Kretzmer | Claude-Michel Schönberg, Boublil and Jonathan Kent | |
Marie Christine | 1999 | Broadway | Michael John LaChiusa | LaChiusa | LaChiusa | |
Marinka | 1945 | Broadway | Emmerich Kálmán | George Marion, Jr. | Marion, Jr. and Karl Farkas | |
Marry Me a Little | 1981 | Off-Broadway revue | Stephen Sondheim | Sondheim | N/A | |
Martin Guerre | 1997 | West End | Claude-Michel Schönberg | Alain Boublil and Stephen Clark | Schönberg and Boublil | |
Mary Poppins + film (1964) |
2004 | West End | Richard M. Sherman, Robert B. Sherman and George Stiles | Sherman, Sherman and Anthony Drewe | Julian Fellowes | Based on the film of the same name. Notable songs: "Chim-Chim-Cheree" and "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious". |
Mary Poppins Returns | 2018 | Film | Marc Shaiman | Scott Wittman | David Magee | Sequel to the 1964 film Mary Poppins. |
Mascherato: The Musical | 2017 | Barbican Centre, London | Michael Elderkin | Michael Elderkin | James Willett | |
Matador | 1987 | West End | Mike Leander and Edward Seago | Leander and Seago | Peter Jukes | Notable song: "A Boy from Nowhere". |
Matilda | 2011 | West End | Tim Minchin | Minchin | Dennis Kelly | Based on a children's novel (Matilda) by Roald Dahl. Had its Broadway premiere in 2013. |
Maytime | 1917 | Broadway | Sigmund Romberg | Rida Johnson Young | Young | |
Me and Juliet | 1953 | Broadway | Richard Rodgers | Oscar Hammerstein II | Hammerstein | |
Me and My Dick | 2009 | University of Michigan | A.J. Holmes, Carlos Valdes and Darren Criss | Holmes, Valdes and Criss | Matt Lang, Nick Lang, Brian Holden and Eric Kahn Gale | Performed by StarKid Productions. |
Me and My Girl | 1937 | West End | Noel Gay | Douglas Furber and L. Arthur Rose | Furber and Rose | Notable song: "The Lambeth Walk". |
The Me Nobody Knows | 1970 | Broadway | Gary William Friedman | Will Holt | Robert H. Livingston, Herb Schapiro and Stephen M. Joseph | |
Mean Girls | 2017 | Broadway | Jeff Richmond | Nell Benjamin | Tina Fey | Based on the 2004 film of the same name. |
Meet Me in St. Louis + film (1944) |
1989 | Broadway | Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane | Martin and Blane | Hugh Wheeler | Based on the film of the same name. Notable song: "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas". |
Meet Mister Future | 2006 | Off-Broadway | Scott Frankel | Michael Korie | Korie | |
Meet the Feebles | 1989 | Film | Peter Dasent | Dasent | Various writers | |
Mein Freund Bunbury | 1964 | German | Gerd Natschinski | Jürgen Degenhardt | Helmut Bez and Jürgen Degenhardt | based on Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest |
Memphis | 2009 | Broadway | David Bryan | Bryan and Joe DiPietro | DiPietro | |
Menopause | 2001 | Off-Off-Broadway | Various artists | Jeanie Linders | Linders | |
Merlin | 1983 | Broadway | Elmer Bernstein | Don Black | Richard Levinson and William Link | |
Merrily We Roll Along | 1981 | Broadway | Stephen Sondheim | Sondheim | George Furth | Notable songs: "Good Thing Going" and "Not a Day Goes By". |
Metropolis | 1989 | West End | Joseph Brooks | Dusty Hughes and Brooks | Hughes | Based on the 1927 movie. |
Mexican Hayride | 1944 | Broadway | Cole Porter | Porter | Herbert Fields and Dorothy Fields | |
The Mighty Kong | 1998 | Film | Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman | Sherman and Sherman | William J. Keenan | |
Milk and Honey | 1961 | Broadway | Jerry Herman | Herman | Don Appell | |
Million Dollar Quartet | 2010 | Broadway | Various artists | Various artists | Colin Escott and Floyd Mutrux | |
Minimum Wage | 2007 | Off-Broadway | Sean Altman, Charlie LaGreca, Jeff LaGreca, Michael Gribbin, and Rob Utesch | Sean Altman, Charlie LaGreca, and Jeff LaGreca | Charlie LaGreca and Jeff LaGreca | Notable songs:"All These Dreams", "Kooky, The Happy Burger Clown" and "Minimum Wage Theme" |
A Minister's Wife | 2011 | Off-Broadway | Joshua Schmidt | Jan Tranen | Austin Pendleton | Based on George Bernard Shaw's Candida. |
Les Misérables | 1980 | French | Claude-Michel Schönberg | Alain Boublil and Jean-Marc Natel | Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil | |
Les Misérables | 1985 | West End | Claude-Michel Schönberg | Alain Boublil and Herbert Kretzmer | Schönberg, Boublil, Trevor Nunn, and John Caird | Notable songs: "I Dreamed a Dream", "On My Own" and "Do You Hear the People Sing?". |
Les Misérables
+ film (2012) |
1987 | Broadway | Claude-Michel Schönberg | Alain Boublil and Herbert Kretzmer | Schönberg, Boublil, Trevor Nunn, and John Caird | |
Miss 1917 | 1917 | Broadway revue | Various artists | Various artists | Guy Bolton and P. G. Wodehouse | |
Miss Liberty | 1949 | Broadway | Irving Berlin | Berlin | Robert E. Sherwood | |
Miss Saigon | 1989 | West End | Claude-Michel Schönberg | Alain Boublil and Richard Maltby, Jr. | Schönberg and Boublil | Notable song: "Last Night of the World". |
MJ: The Musical | 2020 | Broadway | Michael Jackson | Jackson | Lynn Nottage | |
Moana | 2016 | Animated film | Lin-Manuel Miranda and Opetaia Foa'i | Miranda and Foa'i | Jared Bush | |
Moby Dick | 1992 | West End | Robert Longden and Hereward Kaye | Longden and Kaye | Longden | |
2009 | Off-Off-Broadway | Ronnie L. McGhee | McGhee | McGhee | ||
Moon Landing | 2007 | Off-Off-Broadway | Stephen Edwards | Edwards | Edwards | |
More Than You Deserve | 1973 | Off-Broadway | Jim Steinman | Steinman | Michael Weller | |
The Most Happy Fella | 1956 | Broadway | Frank Loesser | Loesser | Loesser | Notable song: "Standin' on the Corner". |
Motown: The Musical | 2013 | Broadway | Various artists | Various artists | Berry Gordy | |
Moulin Rouge! + film (2001) |
2018 | Broadway | Various artists | Various artists | John Logan | Based on the 2001 film of the same name. |
Movin' Out | 2002 | Broadway | Billy Joel | Joel | Joel | |
Mozart! | 1999 | Austrian | Sylvester Levay | Michael Kunze | Kunze | |
Mozart, l'opéra rock | 2009 | French | Dove Attia, Jean-Pierre Pilot, Olivier Schultheis, William Rousseau, Nicolas Luciani, Rodrigue Janois and François Castello | Vincent Baguian and Patrice Guirao | Dove Attia and François Chouquet | Notable songs: "Tatoue-moi", "Vivre à en crever", "L'Assasymphonie", "Le bien qui fait mal", "J'accuse mon père" and "C'est bientôt la fin". |
Mr. Cinders | 1929 | West End | Vivian Ellis and Richard Myers | Clifford Grey and Greatorex Newman | Grey and Newman | |
Mr. President | 1962 | Broadway | Irving Berlin | Berlin | Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse | |
Mr. Wonderful | 1956 | Broadway | Jerry Bock, Larry Holofcener and George David Weiss | Bock, Holofcener and Weiss | Joseph Stein and Will Glickman | |
Mrs Henderson Presents | 2015 | West End | George Fenton and Simon Chamberlin | Don Black | Terry Johnson | Based on the film of the same name |
Mrs. Patterson | 1954 | Broadway | James Shelton (songwriter) | Shelton | Charles Sebree and Greer Johnson | |
Mrs. Santa Claus | 1996 | Film | Jerry Herman | Herman | Mark Saltzman | Choreography by Rob Marshall |
Much Ado | 1997 | Off-West End | Bernard J. Taylor | Taylor | Taylor | |
Mulan | 1998 | Film | Jerry Goldsmith and Matthew Wilder | Goldsmith and Wilder | Robert D. San Souci | |
Mulan II | 2004 | Film | Joel McNeely | Joel McNeely | Michael Lucker, Chris Parker, and Roger S. H. Schulman | |
The Muppet Movie | 1979 | Film | Paul Williams and Kenny Ascher | Williams and Ascher | Jack Burns and Jerry Juhl | Notable song: "The Rainbow Connection" |
Murder Ballad | 2012 | Off-Broadway | Juliana Nash | Nash and Julia Jordan | Jordan | |
Murder for Two | 2011 | Off-Broadway | Joe Kinosian | Kellen Blair | Kinosian and Blair | |
Muriel's Wedding (musical) | 2017 | Roslyn Packer Theatre, Sydney | Kate Miller-Heidke, Keir Nuttall, ABBA | Miller-Heidke, Nuttall, ABBA | P. J. Hogan | Based on the 1994 film of the same name |
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Film | Sia, Labrinth, Craig DeLeon | Sia | ||
The Music Man + film (1962) |
1957 | Broadway | Meredith Willson | Willson | Willson and Franklin Lacey | Notable song: "Seventy-Six Trombones". |
Mutiny! | 1985 | West End | David Essex | Richard Crane | Crane | |
My Fair Lady + film (1964) |
1956 | Broadway | Frederick Loewe | Alan Jay Lerner | Lerner | Notable songs: "I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face" and "I Could Have Danced All Night". |
My Favorite Year | 1992 | Broadway | Stephen Flaherty | Lynn Ahrens | Joseph Dougherty | |
My Life With Albertine | 2003 | Off-Broadway | Ricky Ian Gordon | Gordon and Richard Nelson | Nelson | |
My Little Pony: The Movie | 2017 | Film | Daniel Ingram | Ingram and Michael Vogel | G. M. Berrow | Based on the television series My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic. Notable songs: "We Got This Together", "I'm The Friend You Need", "Time to Be Awesome", "One Small Thing", "Open Up Your Eyes" and "Rainbow". |
My Name Is Ben | 2019 | Regional | Claire McKenzie | Scott Gilmour | Gilmour | |
My One and Only | 1983 | Broadway | George Gershwin | Ira Gershwin | Peter Stone and Timothy S. Mayer | A revised version of the Gershwins' 1927 musical Funny Face. |
My Scary Girl | 2008 | South Korean | Will Aronson | Kyoung-Ae Kang | Kang | |
My Son Pinocchio | 2006 | Kansas City | Stephen Schwartz | Stephen Schwartz | David Stern | A retelling of the classic tale of Pinocchio, told from the perspective of his maker and father Geppetto |
The Mystery of Edwin Drood | 1985 | Broadway | Rupert Holmes | Holmes | Holmes | Notable song "The Writing on the Wall". |
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Production | Year | Venue/Type | Music | Lyrics | Book | Notes |
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Napoleon | 2000 | Canadian | Timothy Williams | Andrew Sabiston | Williams and Sabiston | |
Narnia | 1985 | Off-Off-Broadway | Thomas Tierney | Ted Drachman | Jules Tasca | |
Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 | 2012 | Off-Broadway | Dave Malloy | Malloy | Malloy | Electropop opera, Based on Leo Tolstoy's War & Peace |
Nate the Great | 2018 | Regional | Brett Ryback | Ryback and John Maclay | Maclay | |
Nativity! | 2017 | Birmingham | Debbie Isitt and Nicky Ager | Isitt | Isitt | Based on the 2009 film Nativity! |
Ned Kelly | 1970 | Film | Shel Silverstein | Silverstein | Ian Jones and Tony Richardson | |
Netru, Indru, Naalai | 2006 | Indian | A. R. Rahman | Rahman | Rahman | |
Never Forget | 2008 | West End | Gary Barlow | Barlow | Guy Jones and Ed Curtis | |
Never Gonna Dance | 2003 | Broadway | Jerome Kern | Various artists | Jeffrey Hatcher | Based on the 1936 RKO film Swing Time. |
Nevermore: The Imaginary Life and Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe | 2009 | Canadian | Jonathan Christenson | Jonathan Christenson | Jonathan Christenson | Staged Off-Broadway in 2015 |
A New Brain | 1998 | Off-Broadway | William Finn | Finn | Finn and James Lapine | |
New Faces of 1952 | 1952 | Broadway revue | Various artists | Various artists | N/A | |
New Girl in Town | 1957 | Broadway | Bob Merrill | Merrill | George Abbott | |
Newsical | 2004 | Off-Broadway | Rick Crom | Crom | Crom | |
Newsies + film (1992) + film (2017) |
2012 | Broadway | Alan Menken | Jack Feldman | Harvey Fierstein | Based on the film of the same name. |
Next to Normal | 2009 | Broadway | Tom Kitt | Brian Yorkey | Yorkey | |
Nice Work If You Can Get It | 2012 | Broadway | George Gershwin | Ira Gershwin | Joe DiPietro | |
A Night with Janis Joplin | 2013 | Broadway | Janis Joplin | Joplin | Randy Johnson | Jukebox musical detailing the life and music of Janis Joplin. |
Night of the Living Dead! The Musical! | 2018 | Off-Broadway | Jordan Wolfe | Wolfe | Wolfe | Based on the 1968 film of the same name.[1] |
Nightingale | 1982 | Off-West End | Charles Strouse | Strouse | Strouse | |
The Nightmare Before Christmas | 1993 | Film | Danny Elfman | Elfman | Caroline Thompson and Michael McDowell | Notable songs: "What's This?", "This Is Halloween", and "Making Christmas". |
Nine + film (2009) |
1982 | Broadway | Maury Yeston | Yeston | Arthur Kopit | |
No Strings | 1962 | Broadway | Richard Rodgers | Rodgers | Samuel A. Taylor | |
No, No, Nanette | 1925 | Broadway | Vincent Youmans | Irving Caesar and Otto Harbach | Harbach and Frank Mandel | Notable songs: "Tea for Two" and "I Want to Be Happy". |
Nobody's Boy | 1919 | West End | Edward A. Horan | John P. Wilson | William Lestocq | |
Nord-Ost | 2001 | Russian | Aleksei Ivaschenko and Georgii Vasilyev | Ivaschenko and Vasilyev | Veniamin Kaverin | |
Nosferatu the Vampire | 1994 | Off-Off-Broadway | Bernard J. Taylor | Taylor | Taylor | |
Notre-Dame de Paris | 1998 | French | Riccardo Cocciante | Luc Plamondon | Plamondon | Notable songs: "Les temps des cathedrales", "Belle" and "Vivre". |
Now Is the Time for All Good Men | 1967 | Off-Broadway | Nancy Ford | Gretchen Cryer | Cryer | |
Now. Here. This. | 2012 | Off-Broadway | Jeff Bowen | Bowen | Hunter Bell and Susan Blackwell | |
Nunsense | 1985 | Off-Broadway | Dan Goggin | Goggin | Goggin | |
Nymph Errant | 1933 | West End | Cole Porter | Porter | Romney Brent |
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Production | Year | Venue/Type | Music | Lyrics | Book | Notes |
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O Marry Me! | 1961 | Off-Broadway | Robert Kessler | Lola Pergament | Pergament | |
O Pioneers! | 2001 | Off-Broadway | Mel Atkey | Atkey | Robert Sickinger | |
O Say Can You See! | 1962 | Off-Broadway | Jack Holmes | Bill Conklin and Bob Miller | Conklin and Miller | |
October Sky | 2016 | Regional | Michael Mahler | Mahler | Brian Hill and Aaron Thielen | Based on the 1999 film of the same name. |
Of Thee I Sing | 1931 | Broadway | George Gershwin | Ira Gershwin | George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind | Notable song: "Love is Sweeping the Country". |
Of V We Sing | 1942 | Broadway revue | Various artists | Various artists | Sam Locke, Mel Tolkin and Al Geto | |
The Office! A Musical Parody | 2018 | Off-Broadway | Assaf Gleizner | Bob and Tobly McSmith | Bob and Tobly McSmith | A musical parody of the television series The Office.[2] |
Oh, Boy! | 1917 | Broadway | Jerome Kern | Guy Bolton and P. G. Wodehouse | Bolton Wodehouse | Notable song: "Till the Clouds Roll By". |
Oh! Calcutta! | 1969 | Off-Broadway revue | Peter Schickele, Robert Dennis, and Stanley Walden | Schickele, Dennis, and Walden | Various | |
Oh, Captain! | 1958 | Broadway | Jay Livingston and Ray Evans | Livingston and Evans | Al Morgan and José Ferrer | |
Oh, Kay! | 1926 | Broadway | George Gershwin | Ira Gershwin | Guy Bolton and P. G. Wodehouse | Notable song: "Someone to Watch Over Me". |
Oh, What a Lovely War! + film (1969) |
1963 | West End | Various artists | Various artists | Joan Littlewood and Theatre Workshop | |
Oil City Symphony | 1987 | Off-Broadway | Various artists | Various artists | Mike Craver, Mark Hardwick, Debra Monk and Mary Murfitt | |
Oklahoma! + film (1955) |
1943 | Broadway | Richard Rodgers | Oscar Hammerstein II | Hammerstein | Notable songs: "Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin'", "Oklahoma!" and "People Will Say We're in Love". |
Olaf's Frozen Adventure | 2017 | Featurette | Elyssa Samsel and Kate Anderson | Samsel and Anderson | Jac Schaeffer | |
Oliver & Company | 1988 | Film | J.A.C. Redford | Redford | Jim Cox, Tim Disney and James Mangold | |
Oliver! + film (1968) |
1960 | West End | Lionel Bart | Bart | Bart | Notable songs: "Consider Yourself", "Where is Love?", "As Long As He Needs Me" and "Food, Glorious Food". |
Olympus on My Mind | 1986 | Off-Broadway | Grant Sturiale | Barry Harman | Harman | |
On a Clear Day You Can See Forever + film (1970) |
1965 | Broadway | Burton Lane | Alan Jay Lerner | Lerner | |
On the Level | 1966 | West End | Ron Grainer | Grainer | Ronald Millar | |
On the Record | 2004 | US Tour | Various artists | Various artists | N/A | |
On the Town + film (1949) |
1944 | Broadway | Leonard Bernstein | Betty Comden and Adolph Green | Comden and Green | Notable song: "New York, New York". |
On the Twentieth Century | 1978 | Broadway | Cy Coleman | Betty Comden and Adolph Green | Comden and Green | |
On Your Feet! | 2015 | Broadway | Emilio Estefan, Gloria Estefan, and Miami Sound Machine | Emilio Estefan and Gloria Estefan | Alexander Dinelaris | Jukebox musical based on the lives and music of Gloria and Emilio Estefan. |
On Your Toes | 1936 | Broadway | Richard Rodgers | Lorenz Hart | Rodgers, Hart and George Abbott | |
Once + film (2006) |
2012 | Broadway | Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova | Hansard and Irglova | Enda Walsh | Notable song: "Falling Slowly". |
Once on This Island | 1990 | Broadway | Stephen Flaherty | Lynn Ahrens | Ahrens | |
Once Upon a Mattress | 1959 | Off-Broadway | Mary Rodgers | Marshall Barer | Jay Thompson, Barer and Dean Fuller | |
Once Upon a Time at the Adelphi | 2008 | British | Elliot Davis and Phil Willmott | Davis and Willmott | Davis and Willmott | |
One and One | 1978 | Off-Broadway | Dianne Adams and Richard O'Donnell. | Adams and O'Donnell | Fred Bennett and O'Donnell | |
The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band | 1968 | Film | Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman | Sherman and Sherman | Lowell S. Hawley | |
One Touch of Venus | 1943 | Broadway | Kurt Weill | Ogden Nash | S. J. Perelman and Nash | Notable song: "Speak Low". |
Only Fools and Horses The Musical | 2019 | West End | Paul Whitehouse and Jim Sullivan | Whitehouse and Sullivan | Whitehouse and Sullivan | |
Only the Lonely - The Roy Orbison Story | 1995 | Off-Broadway | Various artists | Various artists | N/A | |
Ordinary Days | 2009 | Off-Broadway | Adam Gwon | Gwon | Gwon | |
Our House | 2002 | West End | Madness | Madness | Tim Firth | |
Our Miss Gibbs | 1909 | West End | Ivan Caryll and Lionel Monckton | Adrian Ross and Percy Greenbank | Cryptos and James T. Tanner | |
Out of This World | 1950 | Broadway | Cole Porter | Porter | Dwight Taylor and Reginald Lawrence | |
Over Here! | 1974 | Broadway | Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman | Sherman and Sherman | Will Holt |
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Production | Year | Venue/Type | Music | Lyrics | Book | Notesfilm |
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Pacific 1860 | 1946 | West End | Noël Coward | Coward | Coward | |
Pacific Overtures | 1976 | Broadway | Stephen Sondheim | Sondheim | John Weidman | |
Paint Your Wagon + film (1969) |
1951 | Broadway | Frederick Loewe | Alan Jay Lerner | Lerner | Notable song: "Wand'rin' Star". |
The Pajama Game + film (1957) |
1954 | Broadway | Richard Adler and Jerry Ross | Adler and Ross | George Abbott and Richard Bissell | Notable songs: "Steam Heat" and "Hernando's Hideaway". |
Pal Joey + film (1957) |
1940 | Broadway | Richard Rodgers | Lorenz Hart | John O'Hara | Notable song: "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered". |
Panama Hattie | 1940 | Broadway | Cole Porter | Porter | Herbert Fields and B. G. DeSylva | |
Parade | 1998 | Broadway | Jason Robert Brown | Brown | Alfred Uhry | |
Paramour | 2016 | Broadway | Guy Dubuc, Marc Lessard, and Andreas Carlsson | Carlsson | Philippe Decouflé | |
Paris | 1928 | Broadway | Cole Porter, Walter Kollo, and Louis Alter | Porter, E. Ray Goetz, and Roy Turk | Martin Brown | |
Paris | 2003 | Australian | Jon English and David MacKay | English and MacKay | English and MacKay | |
Passing Strange | 2008 | Broadway | Stew and Heidi Rodewald | Stew | Stew | |
Passing Through | 2019 | Regional | Brett Ryback | Ryback | Eric Ulloa | |
Passion | 1994 | Broadway | Stephen Sondheim | Sondheim | James Lapine | |
The Passion Flower Hotel | 1965 | West End | John Barry | Trevor Peacock | Wolf Mankowitz | |
Pegados, El Musical | 2010 | Spanish | Ferran Gonzalez and Alicia Serrat | Gonzalez and Serrat | Gonzalez | |
Pennies from Heaven | 1981 | Film | Various artists | Various artists | Dennis Potter | |
Perchance to Dream | 1945 | West End | Ivor Novello | Novello | Novello | |
The Perfect City | 2014 | Ross Clark | ||||
Perfect Harmony | 2010 | Off-Broadway | Various artists | Various artists | Andrew Grosso and The Essentials | |
The Perils of Pauline | 1947 | Film | Robert Emmett Dolan | Dolan | P.J. Wolfson and Frank Butler | |
Peter Pan | 1950 | Broadway | Leonard Bernstein | Bernstein | J. M. Barrie | |
Peter Pan | 1953 | Animated film | Frank Churchill and Sammy Fain | Various artists | Various writers | |
Peter Pan | 1954 | Broadway | Mark Charlap and Jule Styne | Betty Comden, Adolph Green, and Carolyn Leigh | J. M. Barrie | |
Peter Pan: A Musical Adventure | 1996 | Danish | George Stiles and Anthony Drewe | Stiles and Drewe | Willis Hall | |
Pete's Dragon | 1977 | Animated film | Al Kasha and Joel Hirschhorn | Kasha and Hirschhorn | Malcolm Marmorstein | Notable song: "Candle on the Water". |
Le Petit Prince | 2002 | French | Richard Cocciante | Cocciante | Cocciante | |
Phantom of the Opera | 1976 | West End | Ken Hill | Hill | Hill | |
The Phantom of the Opera + film (2004) |
1986 | Broadway | Andrew Lloyd Webber | Charles Hart | Lloyd Webber and Richard Stilgoe | Notable songs: "The Phantom of the Opera" and "The Music of the Night". |
The Phantom Tollbooth | 1995 | Off-Broadway | Arnold Black | Sheldon Harnick | Norton Juster and Harnick | |
Phi-Phi | 1918 | French | Henri Christiné | Albert Willemetz and Fabien Solar | Willemetz and Solar | |
Pickwick | 1963 | West End | Cyril Ornadel | Leslie Bricusse | Wolf Mankowitz | |
Pieces of Eight | 1985 | Off-West End | Jule Styne | Susan Birkenhead | Michael Stewart and Mark Bramble | |
Pink Floyd – The Wall | 1982 | Film | Pink Floyd, Bob Ezrin and Michael Kamen | Floyd, Ezrin and Kamen | Roger Waters | |
Pinocchio | 1940 | Animated film | Leigh Harline and Paul J. Smith | Harline and Smith | Various writers | Notable song: "When You Wish Upon a Star". |
Pins and Needles | 1937 | Broadway revue | Harold Rome | Rome | Various writers | |
Pipe Dream | 1955 | Broadway | Richard Rodgers | Oscar Hammerstein II | Hammerstein | |
Pippin | 1972 | Broadway | Stephen Schwartz | Schwartz | Roger O. Hirson | |
The Pirate Queen | 2007 | Broadway | Claude-Michel Schönberg | Alain Boublil and Richard Maltby, Jr. | Schönberg, Boublil and Maltby, Jr. | Notable song: "Woman". |
The Pirates of Penzance | 1879 | Fifth Avenue Theatre | Arthur Sullivan | W.S. Gilbert | Notable song: "I am the very model of a modern Major-General". | |
Pitch Perfect | 2012 | Film | Christophe Beck and Mark Kilian | Beck and Kilian | Kay Cannon | |
Pitch Perfect 2 | 2015 | Film | Mark Mothersbaugh | Mothersbaugh | Kay Cannon | |
Pitch Perfect 3 | 2017 | Film | Christopher Lennertz | Lennertz | Kay Cannon and Mike White | |
Plain and Fancy | 1955 | Broadway | Albert Hague | Arnold Horwitt | Joseph Stein and Will Glickman | |
Platinum | 1978 | Broadway | Gary William Friedman | Will Holt | Holt and Bruce Vilanch | |
Play On! | 1997 | Broadway | Duke Ellington | Various artists | Cheryl West | |
La Plume de Ma Tante | 1958 | Broadway revue | Gérard Calvi | Ross Parker and Francis Blanche | Robert Dhéry | |
Pocahontas | 1995 | Animated film | Alan Menken | Stephen Schwartz | Carl Binder, Susannah Grant and Philip LaZebnik | Notable song: "Colors of the Wind". |
Pokémon Live! | 2001 | US Tour | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | |
Poor Little Rich Girl | 1936 | Film | Mack Gordon and Harry Revel | Gordon and Revel | Sam Hellman, Gladys Lehman and Harry Tugend | |
Popeye | 1980 | Film | Harry Nilsson and Tom Pierson | Nilsson and Pierson | Jules Feiffer | |
Porgy and Bess + film (1959) |
1935 | Broadway | George Gershwin | DuBose Heyward and Ira Gershwin | Heyward | Notable song: "Summertime". |
Portofino | 1958 | Broadway | Louis Bellson and Will Irwin | Richard Ney and Sheldon Harnick | Ney | |
Pretty Woman | 2018 | Broadway | Bryan Adams and Jim Vallance | Bryan Adams and Jim Vallance | Garry Marshall and J. F. Lawton | |
Pride and Prejudice | 1993 | Off-Off-Broadway | Bernard J. Taylor | Taylor | Taylor | |
Prince of Broadway | 2015 | Broadway revue | Jason Robert Brown | Brown | David Thompson | |
The Prince of Egypt + film (1998) |
2017 | West End | Stephen Schwartz | Schwartz | Philip LaZebnik | |
The Prince and the Pauper | 2002 | Off-Broadway | Neil Berg | Berg | Mark Twain | |
The Princess and the Frog | 2009 | Animated film | Randy Newman | Newman | Ron Clements, John Musker, and Rob Edwards | |
Priscilla, Queen of the Desert | 2006 | Sydney Lyric | Various artists | Various artists | Stephan Elliott and Allan Scott | |
The Producers + film (2005) |
2001 | Broadway | Mel Brooks | Brooks | Brooks and Thomas Meehan | Notable songs: “Springtime for Hitler”, “I Wanna Be a Producer”, and “Keep It Gay” |
The Prom + film (2020) |
2016 | Broadway | Matthew Sklar | Chad Beguelin | Bob Martin and Chad Beguelin | |
Promenade | 1969 | Off-Broadway | Al Carmines | María Irene Fornés | Fornés | |
Promises, Promises | 1968 | Broadway | Burt Bacharach | Hal David | Neil Simon | Notable song: "I Say a Little Prayer". |
Pump Boys and Dinettes | 1982 | Broadway | Various artists | Various artists | Various writers | |
Purlie | 1970 | Broadway | Gary Geld | Peter Udell | Ossie Davis, Philip Rose and Udell | |
Puteri Gunung Ledang | 2006 | Malaysian | Dick Lee | Adlin Aman Ramlie | Saw Teong Hin, Zahim Albakri and Ramlie |
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Production | Year | Venue/Type | Music | Lyrics | Book | Notes |
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Quadrophenia | 1996 | Off-Broadway | Pete Townshend | Townshend | Townshend | Notable song: "Love Reign O'er Me". |
Queen O' Hearts | 1922 | Broadway | Lewis E. Gensler and Dudley Wilkinson | Oscar Hammerstein II | Hammerstein and Frank Mandel | |
Queen of the Mist | 2011 | Off-Broadway | Michael John LaChiusa | |||
Quilters | 1984 | Broadway | Barbara Damashek | Damashek | Molly Newman and Damashek |
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Production | Year | Venue/Type | Music | Lyrics | Book | Notes |
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The Race to Urga | 1969 | Workshop | Leonard Bernstein | Stephen Sondheim | John Guare | |
Rachael Lily Rosenbloom (And Don't You Ever Forget It) | 1973 | Broadway | Paul Jabara | Jabara | Jabara and Tom Eyen | |
Rags | 1986 | Broadway | Charles Strouse | Stephen Schwartz | Joseph Stein | |
Ragtime | 1998 | Broadway | Stephen Flaherty | Lynn Ahrens | Terrence McNally | Notable songs: "Wheels of a Dream" and "Your Daddy's Son". |
Rain: A Tribute to the Beatles | 2010 | |||||
Raise Your Voice | 2004 | Film | Aaron Zigman and Machine Head | Aaron Zigman and Machine Head | Mitch Rotter | |
Raisin | 1973 | Broadway | Judd Woldin | Robert Brittan | Robert B. Nemiroff and Charlotte Zaltzberg | |
Randy Newman's Faust | 1995 | Off-Broadway | Randy Newman | Newman | Newman | |
Ratatouille the Musical | 2021 | Benefit concert | Various | Various | Michael Breslin and Patrick Foley | |
Rebecca | 2006 | Austrian | Sylvester Levay | Michael Kunze | Kunze | |
Red Pepper | 1922 | Broadway | Owen Murphy and Albert Gumble | Howard Rogers and Murphy | Edgar Smith and Emily Young | |
The Red Shoes | 1993 | Broadway | Jule Styne | Marsha Norman and Bob Merrill | Norman | |
Red, Hot and Blue | 1936 | Broadway | Cole Porter | Porter | Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse | Star vehicle for Ethel Merman and Jimmy Durante. |
Red, White and Maddox | 1969 | Broadway | Don Tucker | Tucker | Jay Broad and Tucker | |
Redhead | 1959 | Broadway | Albert Hague | Dorothy Fields | Herbert Fields, Sidney Sheldon, David Shaw and Fields | |
Reefer Madness + film (2005) |
2004 | Off-Broadway | Dan Studney | Kevin Murphy | Murphy | |
Rent + film (2005) |
1996 | Off-Broadway | Jonathan Larson | Larson | Larson | Notable songs: "Seasons of Love", "La Vie Bohème" and "Take Me or Leave Me". |
Repo! The Genetic Opera | 2008 | Film | Terrance Zdunich and Darren Smith | Zdunich and Smith | Zdunich and Smith | Notable songs: "Zydrate Anatomy", "Mark it Up" and "Seventeen". |
Return to the Forbidden Planet | 1989 | West End jukebox | Various artists | Various artists | Bob Carlton | |
La Révolution Française | 1973 | French | Claude-Michel Schönberg and Raymond Jeannot | Alain Boublil and Jean-Max Rivière | Boublil and Rivière | |
Revolution in the Elbow of Ragnar Agnarsson Furniture Painter | 2014 | Off-Broadway | Ívar Páll Jónsson | Jónsson | Jónsson | |
Rex | 1976 | Broadway | Richard Rodgers | Sheldon Harnick | Sherman Yellen | |
The Rink | 1984 | Broadway | John Kander | Fred Ebb | Terrence McNally | |
Riverwind | 1962 | Off-Broadway | John Jennings | Jennings | Jennings | |
Road Show | 2003 | Off-Broadway | Stephen Sondheim | Sondheim | John Weidman | Retitled from Bounce |
Road to Morocco | 1942 | Film | Jimmy Van Heusen | Johnny Burke | Frank Butler and Don Hartman | |
Road to Singapore | 1940 | Film | James V. Monaco and Victor Schertzinger | Johnny Burke | Frank Butler, Don Hartman and Harry Hervey | |
Road to Utopia | 1945 | Film | Jimmy Van Heusen | Johnny Burke | Melvin Frank and Norman Panama | |
Road to Zanzibar | 1941 | Film | Jimmy Van Heusen and D. Costa | Johnny Burke and John Howard Payne | Sy Bartlett, Frank Butler and Don Hartman | |
The Roar of the Greasepaint – The Smell of the Crowd | 1965 | UK Tour | Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley | Bricusse and Newley | Bricusse and Newley | |
The Robber Bridegroom | 1975 | Broadway | Robert Waldman | Alfred Uhry | Uhry | |
Robert and Elizabeth | 1964 | West End | Ron Grainer | Ronald Millar | Millar | |
Roberta + film (1935) |
1933 | Broadway | Jerome Kern | Otto Harbach | Harbach | |
Robinson Crusoe | 1917 | Australia | Herbert De Pinna and Bert Rache | Victor Prince | Daniel DeFoe | Vaudeville style comedy in which the title and concept are owed to the book author, but the content is sparsely related. |
Rock 'n Roll Café | 2012 | Off-Broadway | Bernard J. Taylor | Taylor | Taylor | |
Rock of Ages + film (2012) |
2006 | Broadway jukebox | Various artists | Various artists | Chris D'Arienzo | |
Rockabye Hamlet | 1974 | Canadian | Cliff Jones | Jones | Jones | |
Rockville | 2009 | Off-Broadway | Martin Gellner and Werner Stranka | Gellner, Stranka and Kim Duddy | Duddy | |
Rocky | 2014 | Broadway | Stephen Flaherty | Lynn Ahrens | Thomas Meehan | Based on the film of the same name. |
The Rocky Horror Show + film (1975) |
1973 | West End | Richard O'Brien | O'Brien | O'Brien | Notable songs: "The Time Warp" and "Sweet Transvestite". |
Le Roi Soleil | 2005 | French | Various artists | Lionel Florence and Patrice Guirao | Kamel Ouali | |
Roman Holiday | 2001 | Regional | Cole Porter | Porter | Paul Blake, Kathy Speer, and Terry Grossman | Based on the 1953 film of the same name. |
Romance in Hard Times | 1989 | Off-Broadway | William Finn | Finn | Finn | |
Romance/Romance | 1988 | Broadway | Keith Herrmann | Barry Harman | Harman | |
Roméo et Juliette, de la Haine à l'Amour | 2001 | French | Gérard Presgurvic | Presgurvic | Presgurvic | Notable songs: "Les Rois du monde", "Aimer" and "On Dit Dans La Rue". |
Rosalie + film (1937) |
1928 | Broadway | George Gershwin and Sigmund Romberg | Ira Gershwin and P.G. Wodehouse | William Anthony McGuire and Guy Bolton | Cole Porter composed an almost entirely new score for the film adaptation. |
Rose-Marie | 1924 | Broadway | Rudolf Friml and Herbert Stothart | Otto Harbach and Oscar Hammerstein II | Harbach and Hammerstein | |
The Rothschilds | 1970 | Broadway | Jerry Bock | Sheldon Harnick | Sherman Yellen | |
Rover Dangerfield | 1991 | Film | David Newman | Newman | Rodney Dangerfield | |
Royal Wedding | 1951 | Film | Burton Lane | Alan Jay Lerner | Lerner | |
Rudolf | 2009 | Austrian | Frank Wildhorn | Jack Murphy and Nan Knighton | Murphy and Phoebe Hwang | |
A Runaway Girl | 1898 | West End | Ivan Caryll and Lionel Monckton | Aubrey Hopwood and Harry Greenbank | Seymour Hicks and Harry Nicholls | |
Runaways | 1978 | Broadway | Elizabeth Swados | Swados | Swados |
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Production | Year | Venue/Type | Music | Lyrics | Book | Notes |
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Sadie Thompson | 1944 | Broadway | Vernon Duke | Howard Dietz | Dietz and Rouben Mamoulian | |
Sail Away | 1961 | Broadway | Noël Coward | Coward | Coward | |
Salad Days | 1954 | West End | Julian Slade | Slade and Dorothy Reynolds | Slade and Reynolds | |
Sally | 1925 | Broadway | Jerome Kern | Clifford Grey | Guy Bolton | |
Saludos Amigos | 1942 | Film | Charles Wolcott, Edward H. Plumb and Paul J. Smith | Wolcott, Plumb and Smith | Various writers | |
Salvation | 1969 | Off-Broadway | Peter Link and C.C. Courtney | Link and Courtney | Link and Courtney | |
San Francisco | 1936 | Film | Bronislaw Kaper and Walter Jurmann | Gus Kahn | Robert E. Hopkins and Anita Loos | |
The Sap of Life | 1961 | Off-Broadway | David Shire | Richard Maltby, Jr. | Maltby, Jr. | |
Sarafina! | 1988 | Broadway | Mbongeni Ngema | Ngema | Ngema | |
Saratoga | 1959 | Broadway | Harold Arlen | Johnny Mercer | Morton DaCosta | |
2000 | Off-Broadway | Stephen Sondheim | Stephen Sondheim | Julius J. Epstein and Philip G. Epstein | ||
Saturday Night Fever | 2000 | Broadway | Bee Gees | Bee Gees | Nan Knighton | |
Saucy Jack and the Space Vixens | 1995 | West End | Jonathan Croose and Robin Forrest | Charlotte Mann and Michael Fidler | Mann and Fidler | |
Saved | 2008 | Off-Broadway | Michael Friedman | Friedman | John Dempsey and Rinne Groff | |
Say It with Songs | 1929 | Film | Dave Dreyer and Billy Rose | Dreyer and Rose | Joseph Jackson, Darryl F. Zanuck and Harvey Gates | |
Say When | 1934 | Broadway | Ray Henderson | Ted Koehler | Jack McGowan | |
Say, Darling | 1958 | Broadway | Jule Styne | Betty Comden and Adolph Green | Abe Burrows, Marian Bissell and Richard Bissell | |
Scandalous | 2012 | Broadway | David Pomeranz and David Friedman | Kathie Lee Gifford | Gifford | |
The Scarlet Pimpernel | 1997 | Broadway | Frank Wildhorn | Nan Knighton | Knighton | |
School of Rock | 2015 | Broadway | Andrew Lloyd Webber | Glenn Slater | Julian Fellowes | |
Schwestern im Geiste | 2014 | Neuköllner Oper, Berlin | Thomas Zaufke | Peter Lund | Lund and Zaufke | |
The Scottsboro Boys | 2010 | West End | John Kander | Fred Ebb | David Thompson | |
Scrooge | 1970 | Film | Leslie Bricusse | Bricusse | Bricusse | A musical film adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic 1843 story, A Christmas Carol. |
Second Chance | 2009 | French | Frédérick Desroches | Stéphane Prémont and Alexandre Martel | Prémont, Jean-Pierre Cloutier and Joëlle Bourdon | |
The Secret Garden | 1991 | Broadway | Lucy Simon | Marsha Norman | Norman | |
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty | 1964 | Off-Broadway | Leon Carr | Carr | Carr | |
See Rock City & Other Destinations | 2010 | Off-Broadway | Brad Alexander | Adam Mathias | Mathias | |
See What I Wanna See | 2005 | Off-Broadway | Michael John LaChiusa | LaChiusa | LaChiusa | |
See You Later | 1951 | West End | Sandy Wilson | Wilson | Wilson | |
Seesaw | 1973 | Broadway | Cy Coleman | Dorothy Fields | Michael Bennett | |
Sergeant Brue | 1904 | West End | Liza Lehmann | J. Hickory Wood | Owen Hall | |
Seussical | 2000 | Broadway | Stephen Flaherty | Lynn Ahrens | Flaherty and Ahrens | Based on the works of Dr. Seuss. |
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers + film (1954) |
1982 | Broadway | Gene de Paul, Al Kasha and Joel Hirschhorn | Johnny Mercer, Kasha and Hirschhorn | Lawrence Kasha and David Landay | Based on the 1954 Stanley Donen film of the same name. |
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band | 1978 | Film | The Beatles | The Beatles | Henry Edwards | |
Shangri-La | 1956 | Broadway | Harry Warren | James Hilton, Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee | Hilton, Lawrence and Lee | |
Sharpay's Fabulous Adventure | 2011 | Film | George S. Clinton | Clinton | Robert Horn | Direct-to-DVD spin-off of High School Musical. |
She Loves Me | 1963 | Broadway | Jerry Bock | Sheldon Harnick | Joe Masteroff | |
Shenandoah | 1975 | Broadway | Gary Geld | Peter Udell | Udell, James Lee Barrett and Philip Rose | |
Shinbone Alley | 1957 | Broadway | George Kleinsinger | Joe Darion | Darion and Mel Brooks | Also performed as archy & mehitabel. |
Shock Treatment | 1981 | Film | Richard Hartley and Richard O'Brien | O'Brien | Jim Sharman and O'Brien | |
Shockheaded Peter | 1998 | Off-West End | Adrian Huge, Martyn Jacques and Adrian Stout | Jacques | Julian Bleach, Anthony Cairns, Graeme Gilmour and Tamzin Griffin | |
Shout! The Mod Musical | 2006 | Off-Broadway | Various artists | Various artists | Phillip George and David Lowenstein | |
Show Boat | 1927 | Broadway | Jerome Kern | Oscar Hammerstein II and P. G. Wodehouse | Hammerstein II | Notable songs: "Ol' Man River", "Bill", "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man". |
Show Girl | 1929 | Broadway | George Gershwin | Ira Gershwin and Gus Kahn | William Anthony McGuire | |
Showgirls! The Musical | 2013 | Off-Broadway | Bob and Tobly McSmith | Bob and Tobly McSmith | Bob and Tobly McSmith | A musical parody of the film Showgirls.[3] |
Showtune | 2003 | Off-Broadway revue | Jerry Herman | Herman | Paul Gilger | Premiered in San Francisco in 1985 as "Tune the Grand Up", with subsequent productions in London in 1998 as "The Best of Times". |
Shrek The Musical | 2009 | Broadway | Jeanine Tesori | David Lindsay-Abaire | Lindsay-Abaire | Notable songs: "Freak Flag" and "I Think I Got You Beat". |
Side by Side by Sondheim | 1976 | West End revue | Stephen Sondheim, Leonard Bernstein, Mary Rodgers, Richard Rodgers and Jule Styne | Sondheim | N/A | |
Side Show | 1997 | Broadway | Henry Krieger | Bill Russell | Russell | |
Silk Stockings + film (1957) |
1955 | Broadway | Cole Porter | Porter | George S. Kaufman, Leueen MacGrath and Abe Burrows | |
Sing | 1989 | Film | Jay Gruska | Gruska and Dean Pitchford | Pitchford | |
Sing | 2016 | Film | Joby Talbot | Various | N/A | |
Sing As We Go | 1934 | Film | Ernest Irving | Irving | Gordon Wellesley and J. B. Priestley | |
Singin' in the Rain + film (1952) |
1983 | West End | Nacio Herb Brown | Arthur Freed | Betty Comden and Adolph Green | Adapted from the 1952 movie of the same name, the plot closely adheres to the original. Notable songs: "Singin' in the Rain" and "Make 'Em Laugh". |
Sister Act | 2009 | West End | Alan Menken | Glenn Slater | Bill and Cheri Steinkellner | |
Six | 2017 | West End | Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss | Marlow and Moss | Marlow and Moss | |
Skittles Commercial: The Broadway Musical | 2019 | The Town Hall (New York City) | Drew Gasparini | Nathaniel Lawlor | Lawlor and Will Eno | A live, one-night-only, staged musical commercial by Skittles that benefited Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.[4] |
Skyscraper | 1965 | Broadway | Jimmy Van Heusen | Sammy Cahn | Peter Stone | |
Sleeping Beauty | 1959 | Animated film | George Bruns | Bruns | Erdman Penner | Notable song: "Once Upon a Dream". |
The Slipper and the Rose | 2001 | Off-West End | Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman | Angela Morley | Morley | Retelling of the classic fairy tale of Cinderella. |
Smike | 1973 | Film | Roger Holman and Simon May | Holman and May | May and Clive Barnett | Adaptation of Nicholas Nickleby. |
Smile | 1986 | Broadway | Marvin Hamlisch | Howard Ashman | Ashman | |
Smiling the Boy Fell Dead | 1961 | Off-Broadway | David Baker | Sheldon Harnick | Ira Wallach | |
Smoke on the Mountain | 1988 | Off-Broadway | Connie Ray | Ray | Ray | |
Smokey Joe's Cafe | 1995 | Broadway revue | Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller | Leiber and Stoller | N/A | |
Snoopy! | 1975 | Off-Broadway | Larry Grossman | Hal Hackady | Warren Lockhart, Arthur Whitelaw and Michael Grace | |
Snoopy, Come Home | 1972 | Film | Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman | Sherman and Sherman | Charles M. Schulz | |
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs + film (1937) |
1969 | Regional (The Muny and Radio City Music Hall) | Jay Blackton | Joe Cook | Cook | Based on the 1937 animated film of the same name. |
Snow.Wolf.Lake | 1997 | Chinese | Guo Sai Cheung, Dick Lee, Iskandar Ismail and Lam Ming Yeung | Lam, Jang Keung, Albert Leung, Choo, Sin Man and Jacky Cheung | Cheung | |
Soho Cinders | 2011 | British | George Stiles | Anthony Drewe | Drewe and Elliot Davis | |
Some Like It Hot | 1962 | Film | Various artists | Various artists | Billy Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond | |
Someone Like You | 1989 | West End | Petula Clark | Dee Shipman | Robin Midgley and Fay Weldon | |
Something Rotten! | 2015 | Broadway | Wayne Kirkpatrick and Karey Kirkpatrick | Wayne Kirkpatrick and Karey Kirkpatrick | Karey Kirkpatrick and John O'Farrell | |
Sondheim on Sondheim | 2010 | Broadway revue | Stephen Sondheim and others | Sondheim | James Lapine | |
Song and Dance | 1982 | West End | Andrew Lloyd Webber | Don Black and Richard Maltby, Jr. | Lloyd Webber | Notable songs: "Unexpected Song" and "Tell Me on a Sunday". |
Song of Norway | 1944 | Broadway | Edvard Grieg | Robert Wright and George Forrest | Milton Lazarus and Homer Curran | |
Songs for a New World | 1995 | Off-Broadway | Jason Robert Brown | Brown | Brown | |
Sophisticated Ladies | 1981 | Broadway | Duke Ellington | Various artists | Donald McKayle | |
Soul Men | 2008 | Film | Stanley Clarke | Clarke | Robert Ramsey and Matthew Stone | |
Soul Sister | 2012 | West End | Various | Various | John Miller and Pete Brooks | Featuring the songs of Tina Turner |
The Sound of Music + film (1965) |
1959 | Broadway | Richard Rodgers | Oscar Hammerstein II | Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse | Notable songs: "Do-Re-Mi", "Climb Ev'ry Mountain", "The Sound of Music" and "My Favorite Things". |
South Pacific + film (1958) |
1949 | Broadway | Richard Rodgers | Oscar Hammerstein II | Hammerstein II and Joshua Logan | Notable songs: "Bali Ha'i", "Some Enchanted Evening", "Younger Than Springtime" and "Happy Talk". |
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut | 1999 | Animated film | Trey Parker and Marc Shaiman | Parker and Shaiman | Parker, Matt Stone and Pam Brady | Notable songs: "Blame Canada", "Uncle Fucker", "It's Easy, Mmkay" and "Kyle's Mom is a Big, Fat, Bitch". |
2014 | Off-West End | Giles Howe and Katy Lipson | Howe | Howe | Notable songs: "G-d if you COuld Hear Me in Heaven", "Do You Want Me With All These Bruises?", "When You Feel That Rush". | |
Spamalot | 2005 | Broadway | John Du Prez, Eric Idle and Neil Innes | Idle | Idle | Notable songs: "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life" and "The Song That Goes Like This". |
Spectacular! | 2009 | Film | Various artists | Various artists | Jim Kreig | |
Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark | 2010 | Broadway | Bono, The Edge | Bono, The Edge | Julie Taymor, Glen Berger, and Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa | |
Spies Are Forever | 2016 | Los Angeles | Clark Baxtresser, Pierce Siebers | |||
The Spitfire Grill | 2001 | Off-Broadway | James Valcq | Fred Alley | Valcq and Alley | |
SpongeBob SquarePants | 2016 | Broadway | Various | Various | Kyle Jarrow | |
Spring Awakening | 2006 | Broadway | Duncan Sheik | Steven Sater | Sater | Notables songs: "Mama Who Bore Me", "The Bitch of Living" and "The Song of Purple Summer". |
St. Louis Woman | 1946 | Broadway | Harold Arlen | Johnny Mercer | Arna Bontemps and Countee Cullen | |
Stalker: The Musical | 2018 | Sydney, Australia, New York International Fringe Festival, Chicago Musical Theatre Fringe Festival | Andy Peterson | |||
Stand Up - The Musical | 2014 | Regional | ||||
A Star Is Born (1954), (1976), + (2018) | 1954, 1976, 2018 | Film | Various | Various | Various | All three films were based on the 1937 film of the same name. |
Starlight Express | 1984 | West End | Andrew Lloyd Webber | Richard Stilgoe | Lloyd Webber and Stilgoe | Notable songs: "U.N.C.O.U.P.L.E.D.", "Starlight Express" and "Light at the End of the Tunnel". |
Starmania | 1976 | French and Canadian | Michel Berger | Luc Plamondon | Plamondon | Notable songs: "Un garçon pas comme les autres" (English: "Ziggy"), "Le monde est stone" (English: "The World is Stone") |
Starmites | 1989 | Broadway | Barry Keating | Keating | and Keating | |
Starship | 2011 | Off-Off-Broadway | Darren Criss | Criss | Matt Lang, Nick Lang, Brian Holden and Joe Walker | Performed by StarKid Productions. |
Starting Here, Starting Now | 1976 | Off-Broadway revue | David Shire | Richard Maltby, Jr. | N/A | |
State Fair + film (1945) |
1996 | Broadway | Richard Rodgers | Oscar Hammerstein II | Tom Briggs and Louis Mattioli | Based on the film of the same name. Notable songs: "It Might as Well Be Spring", "It's A Grand Night for Singing" and "Isn't It Kind of Fun?". |
Steel Pier | 1997 | Broadway | John Kander | Fred Ebb | David Thompson | |
Step Up: All In | 2014 | Las Vegas | Dolby Digital | Don Black and Christopher Hampton | Black and Hampton | |
Stephen Ward | 2013 | West End | Andrew Lloyd Webber | Don Black and Christopher Hampton | Black and Hampton | |
Stingray Sam | 2009 | Film | Cory McAbee | McAbee | McAbee | |
Stop the World – I Want to Get Off | 1961 | West End | Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley | Bricusse and Newley | Bricusse and Newley | |
The Story of My Life | 2009 | Broadway | Neil Bartram | Neil Bartram | Brian Hill | |
Street Scene | 1947 | Broadway | Kurt Weill | Elmer Rice | Elmer Rice | |
Strike Up the Band | 1930 | Broadway | George Gershwin | Ira Gershwin | Morrie Ryskind | Notable song: "Strike Up the Band". |
The Stripper | 1982 | Australian | Richard Hartley | Richard O'Brien | Carter Brown | |
The Student Prince | 1924 | Broadway | Sigmund Romberg | Dorothy Donnelly | Donnelly | Longest-running musical of the 1920s, until Show Boat. |
Subways Are For Sleeping | 1961 | Broadway | Jule Styne | Betty Comden and Adolph Green | Comden and Green | |
Sugar | 1972 | Broadway | Jule Styne | Bob Merrill | Peter Stone | |
Sugar Babies | 1979 | Broadway revue | Jimmy McHugh | Dorothy Fields and Al Dubin | N/A | |
Summer: The Donna Summer Musical | 2017 | Broadway | Donna Summer, Giorgio Moroder, Pete Bellotte, Paul Jabara, and others | Summer, Moroder, Bellotte, Jabara, and others | Colman Domingo, Robert Cary, and Des McAnuff | |
Sunday in the Park with George | 1984 | Broadway | Stephen Sondheim | Sondheim | James Lapine | Notable songs: "Sunday in the Park with George", "Everybody Loves Louis" and "Finishing the Hat". |
Sunny Afternoon | 2014 | West End | Ray Davies | Davies | Joe Penhall | Winner of 2015 Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Musical |
Sunset Boulevard | 1993 | West End | Andrew Lloyd Webber | Don Black and Christopher Hampton | Black and Hampton | Notable songs: "Sunset Boulevard", "With One Look" and "As If We Never Said Goodbye". |
Sunshine on Leith + film (2013) |
2007 | Dundee Rep | Craig Reid and Charlie Reid | Reid & Reid | Stephen Greenhorn | Compiled by songs from The Proclaimers. Notable Songs: "Letter from America", "I'm On My Way" and "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)" |
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street + film (2007) |
1979 | Broadway | Stephen Sondheim | Sondheim | Hugh Wheeler | Notable songs: "The Worst Pies in London", "Green Finch and Linnet Bird", "Johanna" and "No Place Like London". |
Sweet Charity + film (1969) |
1966 | Broadway | Cy Coleman | Dorothy Fields | Neil Simon | Notable songs: "Big Spender", "If My Friends Could See Me Now" and "The Rhythm of Life". |
Sweet Smell of Success | 2002 | Broadway | Marvin Hamlisch | Craig Carnelia | John Guare | |
The Swing Mikado | 1938 | Broadway | Gentry Warden and Arthur Sullivan | W. S. Gilbert | Harry Minturn | Based on Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera, The Mikado. |
Swing Time | 1936 | Film | George Gershwin | Ira Gershwin | Howard Lindsay and Allan Scott | |
Swing! | 1999 | Broadway revue | Various artists | Various artists | N/A | |
Swinging on a Star | 1995 | Broadway revue | Johnny Burke | Burke | Michael Leeds | |
The Sword in the Stone | 1963 | Film | Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman | Sherman and Sherman | Bill Peet |
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Production | Year | Venue/Type | Music | Lyrics | Book | Notes |
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Taboo | 2003 | West End | Boy George, Kevan Frost, John Themis and Richie Stevens | George | Mark Davies Markham and Charles Busch | |
Take Flight! | 2007 | West End | David Shire | Richard Maltby, Jr. | John Weidman | |
Take It Easy | 1996 | Off-Broadway | Raymond Fox | Fox | Fox | |
Take Me Along | 1959 | Broadway | Bob Merrill | Merrill | Joseph Stein and Robert Russell | |
Taking My Turn | 1983 | Off-Broadway | Gary William Friedman | Will Holt | Elise Brosnan | |
A Tale of Two Cities | 2008 | Broadway | Jill Santoriello | Santoriello | Santoriello | |
Tältprojektet | 1977 | Swedish | Ulf Dageby | Dageby | Dageby | |
Tangled | 2010 | Film | Alan Menken | Glenn Slater | Dan Fogelman | Starred Mandy Moore, Zachary Levi and Donna Murphy. |
Tango Argentino | 1985 | Broadway revue | Various artists | Various artists | N/A | |
The Tap Dance Kid | 1983 | Broadway | Henry Krieger | Robert Lorick | Charles Blackwell | |
Tarzan | 2006 | Broadway | Phil Collins | Collins | David Henry Hwang | |
Teacher's Pet | 2004 | Film | Stephen James Taylor | Taylor | Bill Steinkellner and Cheri Steinkellner | |
The Ten Commandments | 2004 | Off-Off-Broadway | Patrick Leonard | Maribeth Derry | Élie Chouraqui | |
Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny | 2006 | Film | Tenacious D | Tenacious D | Jack Black, Kyle Gass and Liam Lynch | |
Tenderloin | 1960 | Broadway | Jerry Bock | Sheldon Harnick | George Abbott and Jerome Weidman | |
Texas Li'l Darlin' | 1949 | Broadway | Robert Emmett Dolan | Johnny Mercer | John Whedon and Sam Moore | |
That Midnight Kiss | 1949 | Film | Charles Previn | Conrad Salinger | Bruce Manning and Tamara Hovey | |
2015 | Broadway | |||||
They're Playing Our Song | 1979 | Broadway | Marvin Hamlisch | Carole Bayer Sager | Neil Simon | |
The Thing About Men | 2003 | Off-Broadway | Jimmy Roberts | Joe DiPietro | DiPietro | |
Thoroughly Modern Millie + film (1967) |
2002 | Broadway | Jeanine Tesori | Dick Scanlan | Richard Morris and Scanlan | Based on the film of the same name. Notable songs: "Thoroughly Modern Millie" and "Forget About the Boy". |
Thou Shalt Not | 2001 | Broadway | Harry Connick, Jr. | Connick, Jr. | David Thompson | |
The Three Caballeros | 1945 | Film | Edward H. Plumb, Paul J. Smith and Charles Wolcott | Plumb, Smith and Wolcott | Various writers | Notable songs: "The Three Caballeros" and "You Belong to My Heart". |
The Three Musketeers | 1928 | Broadway | Rudolf Friml | Clifford Grey and P. G. Wodehouse | William Anthony McGuire | |
Three Postcards | 1987 | Off-Broadway | Craig Carnelia | Carnelia | Craig Lucas | |
Three Wishes for Jamie | 1952 | Broadway | Ralph Blane | Blane | Charles O'Neal and Abe Burrows | |
The Threepenny Opera | 1928 | German | Kurt Weill | Bertolt Brecht | Brecht | Notable songs: "Mack the Knife" and "Pirate Jenny". |
Tick, Tick... Boom! | 2001 | Off-Broadway | Jonathan Larson | Larson | Larson and David Auburn | |
Tickets, Please! | 1950 | Broadway revue | Various artists | Various artists | N/A | |
Tickle Me | 1920 | Broadway | Herbert Stothart | Oscar Hammerstein II, Otto Harbach and Frank Mandel | Hammerstein, Harbach and Mandel | |
The Tigger Movie | 2000 | Film | Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman | Sherman and Sherman | Jun Falkenstein | |
Timbuktu! | 1978 | Broadway | George Forrest and Robert Wright | Forrest and Wright | Luther Davis | |
Tina | 2018 | West End | Various artists | Various artists | Katori Hall, Frank Ketelaar, Kees Prins | Jukebox musical depicting the life and career of Tina Turner. |
Tintypes | 1980 | Broadway revue | Various artists | Various artists | Mel Marvin and Gary Pearle | |
Titanic | 1997 | Broadway | Maury Yeston | Yeston | Peter Stone | |
title of show | 2008 | Broadway | Jeff Bowen | Bowen | Hunter Bell | |
Tomorrow Morning | 2008 | West End | Laurence Mark Wythe | Wythe | Wythe | |
Tom Sawyer | 1973 | Film | Robert B. Sherman and Richard M. Sherman | Sherman and Sherman | Sherman and Sherman | |
Tonight's the Night | 2003 | West End jukebox | Rod Stewart | Stewart | Ben Elton | |
Too Close to the Sun | 2009 | West End | John Robinson | Robinson and Roberto Trippini | Trippini | |
Too Many Girls | 1939 | Broadway | Richard Rodgers | Lorenz Hart | George Marion, Jr. | |
Tootsie | 2018 | Broadway | David Yazbek | Yazbek | Robert Horn | Based on the 1982 film of the same name. |
Top Banana | 1951 | Broadway | Johnny Mercer | Mercer | Hy Kraft | |
Top Hat + film (1935) |
2011 | West End | Irving Berlin | Berlin | Matthew White and Howard Jacques | Based on the film of the same name. Notable song: "Cheek to Cheek". |
Tovarich | 1963 | Broadway | Lee Pockriss | Anne Croswell | David Shaw | |
The Toxic Avenger | 2008 | Off-Broadway | David Bryan | Joe DiPietro and Bryan | DiPietro | |
The Trail To Oregon! | 2014 | Off-Broadway | Jeff Blim | Blim | Jeff Blim, Matt Lang, and Nick Lang | Parody of the game series, The Oregon Trail. |
The Travelling | 2009 | Off-Broadway | Simon R Holt | Chris Kabay | Kabay | |
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn | 1951 | Broadway | Arthur Schwartz | Dorothy Fields | George Abbott and Betty Smith | |
Trial by Jury | 1875 | London's Royal Theatre | Arthur Sullivan | W.S. Gilbert | W.S. Gilbert | |
Triassic Parq | 2010 | Off-Broadway | Marshall Pailet | Marshall Pailet, Bryce Norbitz, and Steve Wargo | Marshall Pailet, Bryce Norbitz, and Steve Wargo | The film Jurassic Park from the perspective of the dinosaurs. |
Triumph of Love | 1997 | Broadway | Jeffrey Stock | Susan Birkenhead | James Magruder | |
Tuck Everlasting | 2016 | Broadway | Chris Miller | Nathan Tysen | Claudia Shear and Tim Federle | Based upon the book of the same name by Natalie Babbitt |
Turkish Delight the Opera | 2006 | Off-West End | Giles Howe and Katy Lipson | Howe | Howe | |
Twang!! | 1965 | West End | Lionel Bart | Lionel Bart | ||
Twisted | 2013 | Off-Off-Broadway | A.J. Holmes | Kaley McMahon | Matt Lang, Nick Lang, and Eric Kahn Gale | Parody of the Walt Disney Animation Studios' film Aladdin. |
Two by Two | 1970 | Broadway | Richard Rodgers | Martin Charnin | Peter Stone | |
Two Cities | 2006 | Off-Broadway | Howard Goodall | Goodall | Goodall and Joanna Read | |
Two Gentlemen of Verona | 1971 | Broadway | Galt McDermot | John Guare and Mel Shapiro | Guare and Shapiro | |
Two on the Aisle | 1951 | Broadway revue | Jule Styne | Betty Comden and Adolph Green | Comden and Green | |
Two's Company | 1952 | Broadway revue | Vernon Duke | Ogden Nash and Sammy Cahn | Charles Sherman and Peter DeVries |
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Production | Year | Venue/Type | Music | Lyrics | Book | Notes |
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The Umbrellas of Cherbourg | 1964 | Film | Michel Legrand | Legrand | Jacques Demy | |
The Unauthorized Musical Parody of Clueless | 2018 | Los Angeles | Various artists | Various artists | A musical parody of the 1995 film Clueless.[5] | |
The Unauthorized Musical Parody of Bridesmaids | 2017 | Los Angeles | Various artists | Various artists | A musical parody of the 2011 film Bridesmaids.[6] | |
The Unauthorized Musical Parody of Home Alone | 2017 | Los Angeles | Various artists | Various artists | A musical parody of the 1990 film Home Alone.[7] | |
The Unauthorized Musical Parody of Jurassic Park | 2018 | Los Angeles | Various artists | Various artists | A musical parody of the 1993 film Jurassic Park.[8] | |
The Unsinkable Molly Brown + film (1964) |
1960 | Broadway | Meredith Willson | Willson | Richard Morris | |
Unwritten Rules | 2007 | Off-Broadway | Danny Abosch | Abosch | Abosch and Tommy Nolan | |
Urban Cowboy | 2003 | Broadway | Jason Robert Brown and Jeff Blumenkrantz | Robert Brown and Blumenkrantz | Aaron Latham and Phillip Oesterman\ | |
Urinetown | 2001 | Broadway | Mark Hollmann | Hollman and Greg Kotis | Kotis | |
Ushers: The Front of House Musical | 2013 | Off West End | Yiannis Koutsakos | James Oban | James Rottger | |
The Utter Glory of Morrissey Hall | 1979 | Broadway | Clark Gesner | Gesner | Gesner and Nagle Jackson |
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Production | Year | Venue/Type | Music | Lyrics | Book | Notes |
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Vanities, A New Musical | 2006 | Off-Broadway | David Kirshenbaum | Kirshenbaum | Jack Heifner | Based on the 1976 play of the same name. |
The Versailles Necklace | 2008 | Off-Broadway | Ben Ratskoff | Jeff Dennhardt | Dennhardt and Ratskoff | |
Very Good, Eddie | 1915 | Broadway | Jerome Kern | Schuyler Green and Herbert Reynolds | Philip Bartholomae and Guy Bolton | |
A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant | 2003 | Off-Off-Broadway | Kyle Jarrow | Jarrow | Jarrow | |
A Very Potter Musical | 2009 | University of Michigan | Darren Criss and A.J. Holmes | Criss and Holmes | Matt Lang, Nick Lang, and Brian Holden | Parody musical based on the Harry Potter film series by J. K. Rowling |
A Very Potter Senior Year | 2012 | Off-Off-Broadway | A.J. Holmes, Clark Baxtresser, Pierce Siebers and Darren Criss | Holmes, Baxtresser, Siebers and Criss | Matt Lang, Nick Lang and Brian Holden | Performed by StarKid Productions. |
A Very Potter Sequel | 2010 | Off-Off-Broadway | Darren Criss | Criss | Matt Lang, Nick Lang and Brian Holden | Performed by StarKid Productions. |
Very Warm for May | 1939 | Broadway | Jerome Kern | Oscar Hammerstein II | Hammerstein II | Notable song: "All the Things You Are". |
Via Galactica | 1972 | Broadway | Galt MacDermot | Christopher Gore | Gore and Judith Ross | |
Victor/Victoria + film (1982) |
1995 | Broadway | Henry Mancini and Frank Wildhorn | Leslie Bricusse and Wildhorn | Blake Edwards | Adapted from the 1982 film. |
Violet | 2014 | Broadway | Jeanine Tesori | Brian Crawley | Crawley | |
The Visit | 2001 | Broadway | John Kander | Fred Ebb | Terrence McNally | Debuted on Broadway in 2015. |
Viva Forever! | 2012 | West End | The Spice Girls | Jennifer Saunders | ||
Vivir Intentando | 2003 | Film | Fernando López Rossi and Diego Grimblat | López Rossi and Grimblat | Carolina Hughes, Alejandro Sapognikoff and Tomás Yankelevich |
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Production | Year | Venue/Type | Music | Lyrics | Book | Notes |
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Wait a Minim! | 1964 | West End revue | Jeremy Taylor | Taylor | Leon Gluckman | |
Waitress | 2015 | Broadway | Sara Bareilles | Sara Bareilles | Jessie Nelson | Based on the 2007 film of the same name. |
Walk a Little Faster | 1932 | Broadway revue | Vernon Duke | E. Y. Harburg | S. J. Perelman and Robert MacGunigle | |
Walking Happy | 1966 | Broadway | Jimmy Van Heusen | Sammy Cahn | Roger O. Hirson and Ketti Frings | |
Walmartopia | 2005 | Off-Broadway | Andrew Rohn | Rohn | Catherine Capellaro | |
War Paint | 2017 | Broadway | Scott Frankel | Michael Korie | Doug Wright | |
Wasted[9] | 2018 | Fringe and suburban, London | Christopher Ash[10] | Carl Miller | Carl Miller | |
We Are The Tigers | 2019 | Off-Broadway | Preston Max Allen | Preston Max Allen | Preston Max Allen | |
We Will Rock You | 2002 | West End jukebox | Queen | Queen and Ben Elton | Elton | |
The Wedding Singer | 2006 | Broadway | Matthew Sklar | Chad Beguelin | Beguelin and Tim Herlihy | |
Welcome to the Voice | 2000 | Off-Off-Broadway | Steve Nieve | Muriel Teodori | Teodori | |
The Well of Romance | 1930 | Broadway | H. Maurice Jacquet | Preston Sturges | Sturges | |
Were the World Mine | 2008 | Film | Jessica Fogle | Fogle | Tom Gustafson and Cory James Krueckeberg | |
West Side Story + film (1961) |
1957 | Broadway | Leonard Bernstein | Stephen Sondheim | Arthur Laurents | Notable songs: "Tonight Quintet", "America" and "Somewhere". |
Wetion | 2013 | Canadian | James Allan Krause | Krause | Krause | Notable songs: "Eve Ada, Ada Eve" and "We are Where We've Been". |
What Makes Sammy Run? | 1964 | Broadway | Ervin Drake and Budd Schulberg | Drake and Schulberg | Stuart Schulberg | Notable song: "A Room Without Windows". |
Where's Charley? | 1948 | Broadway | Frank Loesser | Loesser | George Abbott | Notable song: "Once in Love with Amy". |
Whistle Down the Wind | 1998 | West End | Andrew Lloyd Webber | Jim Steinman | Patricia Knop, Lloyd Webber and Gale Edwards | |
White Christmas + film (1954) |
2004 | Off-Broadway | Irving Berlin | Berlin | David Ives and Paul Blake | |
Whoop Up | 1958 | Broadway | Mark Charlap | Norman Gimbel | Cy Feuer and Ernest Martin | |
Whoopee! | 1928 | Broadway | Walter Donaldson | Gus Kahn | William Anthony McGuire | Notable song: "Makin' Whoopee". |
The Who's Tommy | 1993 | Broadway | Pete Townshend | Townshend | Townshend and Des McAnuff | Notable song: "Pinball Wizard". |
Wicked | 2003 | Broadway | Stephen Schwartz | Schwartz | Winnie Holzman | Notable songs: "Popular", "For Good" and "Defying Gravity" |
The Wild Party (LaChiusa) | 2000 | Broadway | Michael John LaChiusa | LaChiusa | LaChiusa | |
The Wild Party (Lippa) | 2000 | Off-Broadway | Andrew Lippa | Lippa | Lippa | |
Wild, Wild Women | 1982 | West End | Nola York | Michael Richmond | Michael Richmond | |
Wildcat | 1960 | Broadway | Cy Coleman | Carolyn Leigh | N. Richard Nash | |
The Will Rogers Follies | 1991 | Broadway | Cy Coleman | Betty Comden and Adolph Green | Comden and Green | |
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory | 1971 | Film | Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley | Bricusse and Newley | Roald Dahl | Notable songs: "The Candy Man" and "Pure Imagination". |
Willow | 2020 | Auggie Greenwood and Sushi Sousa | Morgan Smith | Created by the young musical writing group Averno | ||
Willy Wonka | 2004 | Off-Off-Broadway | Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley | Bricusse and Newley | Bricusse and Tim McDonald | |
Willy Wonka Junior | 2004 | Off-Off-Broadway | Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley | Bricusse and Newley | Bricusse and Tim McDonald | |
The Wind in the Willows | 1986 | Broadway | William Perry | Roger McGough and William Perry | Jane Iredale | |
2012 | British | Paul Flynn | Paul Flynn | Paul Flynn | ||
Winnie the Pooh and a Day for Eeyore | 1983 | Animated film | Robert B. Sherman and Richard M. Sherman | Sherman and Sherman | Peter Young, Steve Hulett and Tony L. Marino | |
Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day | 1968 | Animated film | Robert B. Sherman and Richard M. Sherman | Sherman and Sherman | Ralph Wright | |
Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree | 1966 | Animated film | Robert B. Sherman and Richard M. Sherman | Sherman and Sherman | Ralph Wright and Ken Anderson | |
Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too | 1974 | Animated film | Robert B. Sherman and Richard M. Sherman | Sherman and Sherman | Larry Clemmons, Ted Berman and Eric Cleworth | |
Wish You Were Here | 1952 | Broadway | Harold Rome | Rome | Arthur Kober and Joshua Logan | |
The Witches of Eastwick | 2000 | West End | Dana P. Rowe | John Dempsey | Dempsey | |
The Wiz | 1975 | Broadway | Charlie Smalls and Luther Vandross | Smalls and Vandross | William F. Brown | Notable song: "Ease on Down the Road" |
The Wiz | 1978 | Film | Joel Schumacher | |||
The Wizard of Oz | 1902 | Off-Broadway | Various artists | Various artists | L. Frank Baum and Glen MacDonough | |
The Wizard of Oz | 1939 | Film | Harold Arlen | E. Y. Harburg | Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson and Edgar Allan Woolf | Notable song: "Over the Rainbow" |
The Wizard of Oz | 1942 | Off-Off-Broadway | Harold Arlen | E. Y. Harburg | Frank Gabrielson | |
The Wizard of Oz | 1987 | West End | Harold Arlen and Herbert Stothart | E. Y. Harburg | John Kane | |
The Wizard of Oz | 2011 | West End | Harold Arlen and Andrew Lloyd Webber | E. Y. Harburg and Tim Rice | Andrew Lloyd Webber and Jeremy Sams | |
The Woman in White | 2004 | West End | Andrew Lloyd Webber | David Zippel | Charlotte Jones | |
Woman of the Year | 1981 | Broadway | John Kander | Fred Ebb | Peter Stone | |
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown | 2010 | Broadway | David Yazbek | David Yazbek | Jeffrey Lane | |
A Wonderful Life | 1991 | Off-Off-Broadway | Joe Raposo | Sheldon Harnick | Harnick | |
Wonderful Town | 1953 | Broadway | Leonard Bernstein | Betty Comden and Adolph Green | Joseph Fields and Jerome Chodorov | |
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz | 2000 | Off-Off-Broadway | James Patrick Doyle | Doyle and Joe Cascone | Cascone | |
Wonderland | 2011 | Broadway | Frank Wildhorn | Jack Murphy | Murphy and Gregory Boyd | Notable song: "I Will Prevail". |
The Woodsman | 2012 | Off-Broadway | Edward W. Hardy | Jennifer Loring | James Ortiz | Notable song: "Rusting Tin Man". |
The Woodsman (Original Off-Broadway Solo Recording) | 2016 | Concept album | Edward W. Hardy | N/A | N/A | |
Words and Music | 1932 | West End revue | Noël Coward | Coward | Coward | |
Working | 1978 | Broadway revue | Various artists | Various artists | Stephen Schwartz and Nina Faso | |
Wuthering Heights | 1992 | Concept album | Bernard J. Taylor | Taylor | N/A |
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Production | Year | Venue/Type | Music | Lyrics | Book | Notes |
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Xanadu | 2007 | Broadway | Jeff Lynne and John Farrar | Lynne and Farrar | Douglas Carter Beane | Based on the 1980 film. |
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Production | Year | Venue/Type | Music | Lyrics | Book | Notes |
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A Year with Frog and Toad | 2003 | Off-Broadway | Robert Reale | Willie Reale | Willie Reale | |
Yellow Submarine | 1968 | Film | The Beatles and George Martin | The Beatles and Martin | Various writers | |
Yentl | 1983 | Film | Michel Legrand and Alan Bergman | Marilyn Bergman | Barbra Streisand and Jack Rosenthal | |
The Yeomen of the Guard | 1888 | West End | Arthur Sullivan | W. S. Gilbert | Gilbert and Sullivan | |
Yes Nurse! No Nurse! | 2002 | Film | Pelle Bolander and Raymund van Santen | Bolander and van Santen | Pieter Kramer and Frank Houtappels | |
You Said It | 1931 | Broadway | Harold Arlen | Jack Yellen | Yellen and Sid Silvers | |
Young Frankenstein | 2007 | Broadway | Mel Brooks | Brooks | Thomas Meehan and Brooks | Notable songs: “Puttin’ On the Ritz”, “He Vas My Boyfriend”, and “Deep Love” |
Your Own Thing | 1968 | Off-Broadway | Hal Hester and Danny Apolinar | Hester and Apolinar | Donald Driver | |
You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown | 1971 | Broadway | Clark Gesner | Gesner | John Gordon | Based on the comic strip Peanuts. The 1999 revival includes additional music and lyrics by Andrew Lippa, and dialogue by Michael Mayer. |
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Production | Year | Venue/Type | Music | Lyrics | Book | Notes |
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Zanna, Don't! | 2002 | Off-Broadway | Tim Acito | Acito and Alexander Dinelaris | Acito and Dinelaris | Notable songs: "I Could Write Books" and "Blow Winds". |
Zenda | 1963 | Off-Broadway | Vernon Duke | Lenny Adelson, Sid Kuller and Martin Charnin | Everett Freeman | Musical adaptation of the Anthony Hope novel The Prisoner of Zenda. |
Ziegfeld Follies | 1946 | Film | Various artists | Various artists | David Freedman | |
Ziegfeld Follies of 1909 | 1909 | Broadway revue | Various artists | Various artists | N/A | |
Ziegfeld Follies of 1910 | 1910 | Broadway revue | Various artists | Various artists | N/A | |
Ziegfeld Follies of 1911 | 1911 | Broadway revue | Various artists | Various artists | N/A | |
Ziegfeld Follies of 1912 | 1912 | Broadway revue | Various artists | Various artists | N/A | |
Ziegfeld Follies of 1913 | 1913 | Broadway revue | Various artists | Various artists | N/A | |
Ziegfeld Follies of 1914 | 1914 | Broadway revue | Various artists | Various artists | N/A | |
Ziegfeld Follies of 1915 | 1915 | Broadway revue | Various artists | Various artists | N/A | |
Ziegfeld Follies of 1917 | 1917 | Broadway revue | Various artists | Various artists | N/A | |
Ziegfeld Follies of 1919 | 1919 | Broadway revue | Various artists | Various artists | N/A | |
Ziegfeld Follies of 1920 | 1920 | Broadway revue | Various artists | Various artists | N/A | |
Ziegfeld Follies of 1921 | 1921 | Broadway revue | Various artists | Various artists | N/A | |
Ziegfeld Follies of 1922 | 1922 | Broadway revue | Various artists | Various artists | N/A | |
Ziegfeld Follies of 1923 | 1923 | Broadway revue | Various artists | Various artists | N/A | |
Ziegfeld Follies of 1924 | 1924 | Broadway revue | Various artists | Various artists | N/A | |
Ziegfeld Follies of 1927 | 1927 | Broadway revue | Various artists | Various artists | N/A | |
Ziegfeld Follies of 1931 | 1931 | Broadway revue | Various artists | Various artists | N/A | |
Ziegfeld Follies of 1934 | 1934 | Broadway revue | Various artists | Various artists | N/A | |
Ziegfeld Follies of 1936 | 1936 | Broadway revue | Various artists | Various artists | N/A | |
Ziegfeld Follies of 1943 | 1943 | Broadway revue | Various artists | Various artists | N/A | |
Ziegfeld Follies of 1957 | 1957 | Broadway revue | Various artists | Various artists | N/A | |
Ziegfeld Follies of 1958 | 1958 | Broadway revue | Various artists | Various artists | N/A | |
Ziegfeld Girl | 1941 | Film | Herbert Stothart | Stothart | William Anthony McGuire | |
Ziegfeld Girls of 1920 | 1920 | Broadway revue | Various artists | Various artists | N/A | |
Ziegfeld Midnight Frolic | 1917-1921, 1928 | Broadway revue | Various artists | Various artists | N/A | |
Zig-Zag is not a film | 1917 | West End revue | Dave Stamper | Gene Buck | N/A | |
Zip Goes a Million | 1951 | West End | George Posford | Eric Maschwitz | Maschwitz | |
Zipp! | 2003 | West End revue | Various artists | Various artists | Gyles Brandreth and Stewart Nicholls | |
2018 | Regional | Mark Hollmann | Hollmann and Greg Kotis | Kotis | ||
Zombie Prom | 1993 | Off-Broadway | Dana P. Rowe | John Dempsey | Dempsey | |
Zombies | 2018 | Film | George S. Clinton | Clinton | David Light and Joseph Raso | Disney Channel Original Movie |
Zombies from The Beyond | 1995 | Off-Broadway | James Valcq | Valcq | Valcq | |
The Zombies of Penzance | 2018 | Regional | Arthur Sullivan | Scott Miller | Scott Miller | Loosely based on The Pirates of Penzance and Night of the Living Dead |
The Zoo | 1875 | West End | Arthur Sullivan | B. C. Stephenson | Stephenson | |
Zorba | 1968 | Broadway | John Kander | Fred Ebb | Joseph Stein | |
Zorro | 2008 | West End | Gipsy Kings and John Cameron | Stephen Clark | Stephen Clark and Helen Edmundson | |
Zuleika | 1954 | Off-West End | Peter Tranchell | James Ferman | Ferman |
See List of musicals: A to L for additional titles.
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