Classic Musicals
The following includes classic musicals commonly regarded as part of the traditional musical theatre canon. Additional musical lists are available in the musical database.
Classic Musicals
Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1980)
Creators: Harry Warren, Al Dubin, Johnny Mercer, Michael Stewart, and Mark Bramble
Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1975)
Creators: Marvin Hamlisch, Edward Kleban, James Kirkwood, and Nicholas Dante
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1962)
Creators: Stephen Sondheim, Burt Shevelove, and Larry Gelbart
Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1973)
Creators: Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler
Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1976)
Creators: Charles Strouse, Martin Charnin, and Thomas Meehan
Musical Type: Golden Age (1946)
Creators: Irving Berlin, Dorothy Fields, and Herbert Fields
Musical Type: Jazz Age (1934)
Creators: Cole Porter, Guy Bolton, P.G. Wodehouse, Howard Lindsay, and Russel Crouse
Musical Type: Jazz Age (1937)
Creators: Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart
Musical Type: Golden Age (1947)
Creators: Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1960)
Creators: Charles Strouse, Lee Adams, and Michael Stewart
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1966)
Creators: John Kander, Fred Ebb, and Joe Masteroff
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1960)
Creators: Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
Musical Type: Golden Age (1945)
Creators: Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II
Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1970)
Creators: Stephen Sondheim and George Furth
Musical Type: Golden Age (1955)
Creators: Richard Adler, Jerry Ross, George Abbott, and Douglass Wallop
Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1981)
Creators: Henry Krieger and Tom Eyen
Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1976)
Creators: Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1964)
Creators: Jerry Bock, Sheldon Harnick, and Joseph Stein
Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1971)
Creators: Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1964)
Creators: Jule Styne, Bob Merrill, and Isobel Lennart
Musical Type: Golden Age (1949)
Creators: Jule Styne, Leo Robin, Joseph Fields, and Anita Loos
Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1973)
Creators: Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1971)
Creators: Stephen Schwartz and John-Michael Tebelak
Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1971)
Creators: Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey
Musical Type: Golden Age (1950)
Creators: Frank Loesser, Jo Swerling, and Abe Burrows
Musical Type: Golden Age (1959)
Creators: Jule Styne, Stephen Sondheim, and Arthur Laurents
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1967)
Creators: Galt MacDermot, Gerome Ragni, and James Rado
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1964)
Creators: Jerry Herman and Michael Stewart
Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1986)
Creators: Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine
Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1970)
Creators: Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1968)
Creators: Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice
Musical Type: Golden Age (1948)
Creators: Cole Porter, Bella Spewack, and Samuel Spewack
Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1983)
Creators: Jerry Herman and Harvey Fierstein
Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1980)
Creators: Claude-Michel Schönberg, Alan Boublil, Herbert Kretzmer, and Jean-Marc Natel
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1966)
Creators: Jerry Herman, Jerome Lawrence, and Robert E. Lee
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1965)
Creators: Mitch Leigh, Joe Darion, and Dale Wasserman
Musical Type: Contemporary (2004)
Creators: Richard M. Sherman, Robert B. Sherman, George Stiles, Anthony Drewe, and Julian Fellowes
Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1989)
Creators: Hugh Martin, Ralph Blane, and Hugh Wheeler
Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1981)
Creators: Stephen Sondheim and George Furth
Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1989)
Creators: Claude-Michel Schönberg, Alain Boublil, and Richard Maltby, Jr.
Musical Type: Golden Age (1956)
Creators: Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
Musical Type: Golden Age (1943)
Creators: Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1960)
Creators: Lionel Bart
Musical Type: Golden Age (1944)
Creators: Leonard Bernstein, Betty Comden, and Adolph Green
Musical Type: Golden Age (1959)
Creators: Mary Rodgers, Marshall Barer, Jay Thompson, and Dean Fuller
Musical Type: Golden Age (1940)
Creators: Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart, and John O’Hara
Musical Type: Golden Age (1954)
Creators: Moose Charlap, Jule Styne, Carolyn Leigh, Betty Comden, Adolph Green, and J.M. Barrie
Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1972)
Creators: Stephen Schwartz and Roger O. Hirson
Musical Type: Opera (1935)
Creators: George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, DuBose Heyward, and Dorothy Heyward
Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1982)
Creators: Gene de Paul, Al Kasha, Joel Hirschhorn, Johnny Mercer, Lawrence Kasha, and David Landay
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1963)
Creators: Jerry Bock, Sheldon Harnick, and Joe Masteroff
Musical Type: Jazz Age (1927)
Creators: Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II
Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1983)
Creators: Nacio Herb Brown, Arthur Freed, Adolph Green, and Betty Comden
Musical Type: Golden Age (1949)
Creators: Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II, and Joshua Logan
Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1984)
Creators: Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine
Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1979)
Creators: Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1966)
Creators: Cy Coleman, Dorothy Fields, and Neil Simon
Musical Type: Golden Age (1951)
Creators: Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II
Musical Type: Golden Age (1957)
Creators: Meredith Willson
Musical Type: Golden Age (1954)
Creators: Richard Adler, Jerry Ross, George Abbott, and Richard Bissell
Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1986)
Creators: Andrew Lloyd Webber, Charles Hart, and Richard Stilgoe
Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1973)
Creators: Richard O’Brien
Musical Type: Golden Age (1959)
Creators: Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II, Howard Lindsay, and Russel Crouse
Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1974)
Creators: Charlie Smalls and William F. Brown
Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1987)
Creators: Harold Arlen, Yip Harburg, Herbert Stothart, L. Frank Baum, and John Kane
Musical Type: Golden Age (1957)
Creators: Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim, and Arthur Laurents
Musical Type: Contemporary (2000)
Creators: Irving Berlin, David Ives, and Paul Blake