17+ Adventure Musicals – The Full List of Shows
These adventure musicals feature exciting journeys, personal quests, and stories of great exploration. The list includes shows that focus on discovery, travel, danger, and characters setting out to find something beyond the world they already know.
Adventure Musicals
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1965)
Creators: Marian Grudeff, Raymond Jessel, Jerome Coopersmith, Jerry Bock, and Sheldon Harnick
Genre: Adventure / Mystery
Musical Type: Contemporary (2016)
Creators: Robert J. Sherman
Genre: Adventure / Fantasy
Musical Type: Contemporary (2009)
Creators: Marc Shaiman, Scott Wittman, and Terrence McNally
Genre: Adventure / Comedy
Musical Type: Contemporary (2002)
Creators: Richard M. Sherman, Robert B. Sherman, Jeremy Sams, and Ray Roderick
Genre: Adventure / Fantasy
Musical Type: Pre-Jazz Age (1916)
Creators: Frederic Norton and Oscar Asche
Genre: Adventure
Musical Type: Contemporary (2017)
Creators: Brendan Milburn, Valerie Vigoda, and Joe DiPietro
Genre: Adventure / Comedy / Fantasy / Romance
Musical Type: Contemporary (2010)
Creators: Justin Paul, Benj Pasek, and Timothy Allen McDonald
Genre: Adventure / Fantasy
Musical Type: Golden Age (1953)
Creators: Alexander Borodin, Robert Wright, George Forrest, Charles Lederer, and Luther Davis
Genre: Adventure
Musical Type: Golden Age (1948)
Creators: Heitor Villa-Lobos, Robert Wright, George Forrest, Frederick Hazlitt Brennan, and Homer Curran
Genre: Adventure
Musical Type: Contemporary (2003)
Creators: Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman
Genre: Adventure / Comedy / Drama
Musical Type: Contemporary (2001)
Creators: Harvey Schmidt and Tom Jones
Genre: Adventure / Comedy / Drama / Western
Musical Type: Contemporary (2008)
Creators: Jeanine Tesori and David Lindsay-Abaire
Genre: Adventure / Fantasy
Musical Type: Contemporary (2006)
Creators: Phil Collins and David Henry Hwang
Genre: Adventure
Musical Type: Jazz Age (1926)
Creators: Sigmund Romberg, Otto Harbach, Oscar Hammerstein II, and Frank Mandel
Genre: Adventure / Romance
Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1997)
Creators: Elton John, Tim Rice, Roger Allers, and Irene Mecchi
Genre: Adventure / Comedy / Drama
Musical Type: Jazz Age (1927)
Creators: Sigmund Romberg, Oscar Hammerstein II, Frank Mandel, and Laurence Schwab
Genre: Adventure
Musical Type: Contemporary (2006)
Creators: Claude-Michel Schönberg, John Dempsey, Alain Boublil, and Richard Maltby, Jr.
Genre: Adventure
Musical Type: Contemporary (2016)
Creators: George Stiles, Anthony Drewe, and Julian Fellowes
Genre: Adventure
Musical Type: Contemporary (2008)
Creators: Gipsy Kings, John Cameron, Stephen Clark, and Helen Edmundson
Genre: Adventure / Romance