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 | |
Monkey Business | 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 |
The Music Man |
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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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 | 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 | Broadway | ||||
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 | |
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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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. |
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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X
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. |
Y
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 | |
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. |
Z
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 | |
ZM | 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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