55+ Musical Theatre List Songs – The Full List
Ready to learn more about one of the most fun types of songs to sing in show-business? List songs are basically when the singer spouts of long lists of things, usually all related to a common theme. Many composers have been known to implement these types of lyrics in their musicals, like Stephen Sondheim, Tom Lehrer, and Cole Porter. So here’s a long list of musical theatre list songs, sorted by vocal type!
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Altos
“I Resolve” – She Loves Me
“One Hundred Easy Ways” – Wonderful Town
“The Ladies Who Lunch” – Company
“The Physician” – The New Yorkers
“We Need a Little Christmas” – Mame
Alto-Mezzos
“Anytime I Am There” – Elegies
“Grant Avenue” – Flower Drum Song
“I’m a Brass Band” – Sweet Charity
“The Earth and Other Minor Things” – Gigi
“The Life I Never Led” – Sister Act
“The Revolutionary Costume for Today” – Grey Gardens
“Who’ll Buy” – Lost in the Stars
Baritenors
“All I Owe Ioway” – State Fair
“Come Back to Me” – On a Clear Day You Can See Forever
“I Got Life” – Hair
“I Happen to Like New York” – The New Yorkers
“If I Were King of the Forest” – The Wizard of Oz
“Mama Says” – Footloose
“Things I Learned in High School” – Is There Life After High School?
“You’ve Got to Be Carefully Taught” – South Pacific
Baritones
“Comedy Tonight” – A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
“Everybody Ought to Have a Maid” – A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
“Museum Song” – Barnum
“Patriotic” – Rocky
“Second Nature” – Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson
“She’s a Woman” – Kiss of the Spider Woman
“The Colors of My Life” – Barnum
“The Seven Deadly Virtues” – Camelot
“Unsettled Scores” – Whistle Down the Wind
“When the Children Are Asleep” – Carousel
Basses/Bass-Baritones
“Christmas Children” – Scrooge
“I Don’t Remember Christmas” – Starting Here Starting Now
“If the World Were Like the Movies” – My Favorite Year
“I’m a Bad, Bad Man” – Annie Get Your Gun
“I’m Glad I’m Not Young Anymore” – Gigi
“Never Met a Man I Didn’t Like” – The Will Rogers Follies
“The Man Inside the Clues” – Catch Me If You Can
“What Chance Have I With Love?” – Louisiana Purchase
“When I Grow Up (The G-Man Song)” – Pins and Needles
“Where is the Life That Late I Led?” – Kiss Me, Kate
Contras
“Cocoanut Sweet” – Jamaica
“I Really Like Him” – Man of La Mancha
“I’m Still Here” – Follies
“Popular” – Wicked
“The Lady is a Tramp” – Babes in Arms
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Mezzo-Sopranos
“Days and Days” – Fun Home
“Don’t Be Anything Less” – Snoopy!!!
“I Can Cook Too” – On the Town
“I Got the Sun in the Morning” – Annie Get Your Gun
“My Favorite Things” – The Sound of Music
“That’s Him” – One Touch of Venus
“Waiting” – The Addams Family
Sopranos
“Carousel” – Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris
“How Lovely to Be a Woman” – Bye Bye Birdie
“Pink” – War Paint
“To Build a Home” – The Bridges of Madison County
“Tuesdays, Thursdays” – Far from Heaven
Tenors
“Be Our Guest” – Beauty and the Beast
“It Takes Two” – Hairspray
“The Streets of Dublin” – A Man of No Importance
Trebles
“Getting Tall” – Nine
“I Want It Now” – Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory
“I Won’t Grow Up” – Peter Pan
“Neat to be a Newsboy” – Working
Duets
“A Little Priest” – Sweeney Todd
“Peas in a Pod” – Grey Gardens
“Schadenfreude” – Avenue Q
“The Perfect Nanny” – Mary Poppins
“You’re the Top” – Anything Goes
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Which of these musical theatre list songs is your favorite?
And who is your favorite musical composer? We would love to hear all about it in the comments! I hope you enjoyed this list of songs about list songs! In the meantime, you can check out our database of best audition songs for other musicals.
Author: Stacy Karyn
Stacy Karyn is the founder of Theatre Trip, author of The Thespian’s Bucket List, and creator of The Cast Album List. She has a TESOL drama certificate, a BA in theatre, and has worked and interned with Broadway and Off-Broadway theaters.