32 Musicals About Aging – The Full List of Shows
These musicals about aging explore the experience of growing older, from shifting identity to reflection, regret and reinvention. The list includes shows where age plays a meaningful role in the story or character’s journey.
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”