Musicals About Aging
The following list includes musicals about aging, focusing on stories that address the experience of growing older. Additional musical lists are available in the musical database.
Musicals About Aging
Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1971)
Creators: John Kander, Fred Ebb, and Norman L. Martin
Songs About Aging: “Old Folks”
Musical Type: Golden Age (1947)
Creators: Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II
Songs About Aging: “Winters Go By”
Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1970)
Creators: Charles Strouse, Lee Adams, Betty Comden, and Adolph Green
Songs About Aging: “Who’s That Girl?”
Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1978)
Creators: Billy Goldenberg, Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman, and Jerome Kass
Songs About Aging: Multiple
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1966)
Creators: John Kander, Fred Ebb, and Joe Masteroff
Songs About Aging: “So What?”, “What Would You Do?”
Musical Type: Contemporary (2015)
Creators: Gary Barlow and Tim Firth
Songs About Aging: “So I’ve Had a Little Work Done”, “What Age Expects”
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1969)
Creators: Harvey Schmidt and Tom Jones
Songs About Aging: “Where Did It Go?”
Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1989)
Creators: David Shire and Richard Maltby, Jr.
Songs About Aging: “March of Time”
Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1970)
Creators: Stephen Sondheim and George Furth
Songs About Aging: “Company”, “The Ladies Who Lunch”
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1969)
Creators: Jerry Herman, Jerome Lawrence, and Robert E. Lee
Songs About Aging: “And I Was Beautiful”
Musical Type: Contemporary (2024)
Creators: Julia Mattison, Noel Carey, and Marco Pennette
Songs About Aging: “Alive Forever”
Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1971)
Creators: Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman
Songs About Aging: Multiple
Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1973)
Creators: Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
Songs About Aging: “I Remember It Well”, “I’m Glad I’m Not Young Anymore”
Musical Type: Contemporary (2006)
Creators: Scott Frankel, Michael Korie, and Doug Wright
Songs About Aging: “Another Winter in a Summer Town”
Musical Type: Contemporary (2018)
Creators: Matthew Sklar, Nell Benjamin, Bob Martin, and Chad Beguelin
Songs About Aging: “Too Old For This”
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1968)
Creators: Jacques Brel, Eric Blau, and Mort Shuman
Songs About Aging: “My Death”, “Old Folks”
Musical Type: Contemporary (2021)
Creators: Jeanine Tesori and David Lindsay-Abaire
Songs About Aging: “Our Disease”
Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1974)
Creators: Jule Styne, Leo Robin, Adolph Green, Betty Comden, Anita Loos, Joseph Fields, Kenny Solms, and Gail Parent
Songs About Aging: “Looking Back”
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1966)
Creators: Jerry Herman, Jerome Lawrence, and Robert E. Lee
Songs About Aging: “That’s How Young I Feel”, “We Need a Little Christmas”
Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1981)
Creators: Stephen Sondheim and George Furth
Songs About Aging: “Old Friends”
Musical Type: Contemporary (2021)
Creators: Jason Robert Brown, Amanda Green, Billy Crystal, Lowell Ganz, and Babaloo Mandel
Songs About Aging: “I Still Got It”
Musical Type: Contemporary (2015)
Creators: George Fenton, Simon Chamberlain, Don Black, and Terry Johnson
Songs About Aging: “Anything But Young”
Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1982)
Creators: Maury Yeston and Arthur Kopit
Songs About Aging: “Guido’s Song”
Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1991)
Creators: Andrew Lloyd Webber, Don Black, and Christopher Hampton
Songs About Aging: “Eternal Youth is Worth a Little Suffering”
Musical Type: Contemporary (2019)
Creators: Darren Clark and Jethro Compton
Songs About Aging: Multiple
Musical Type: Contemporary (2014)
Creators: Sting, Brian Yorkey, John Logan, and Lorne Campbell
Songs About Aging: “Dead Man’s Boots”
Musical Type: Contemporary (2022)
Creators: Ingrid Michaelson and Bekah Brunstetter
Songs About Aging: “Time”
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1964)
Creators: Leon Carr, Earl Shuman, and Joe Manchester
Songs About Aging: “Marriage Is for Old Folks”, “Now That I’m Forty”
Musical Type: Contemporary (2023)
Creators: Dave Malloy and Lucy Kirkwood
Songs About Aging: “Heartbeat Duet”, “When I Was Young”
Musical Type: Late 20th Century/Contemporary (1990/2001)
Creators: Jonathan Larson
Songs About Aging: “30/90”
Musical Type: Contemporary (2015)
Creators: Chris Miller, Nathan Tysen, Claudia Shear, and Tim Federle
Songs About Aging: “The Wheel”, “Time”
Musical Type: Contemporary (2006)
Creators: David Kirshenbaum and Jack Heifner
Songs About Aging: “Fly Into the Future”, “Looking Good”