27+ Musicals About New York City – The Full List
Sometimes it just feels good to watch or listen to a musical that’s emitting those NYC vibes. So we’ve put together a list of our favorites! And sure there are many other musicals that are set in New York. But the following are musicals about New York. These are ones that fully capture the vibe of the city’s past and present, sorted alphabetically.
Here’s Theatre Trip’s matching Spotify playlist – “Broadway’s Ode to NYC”➝.
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Musicals About NYC
Music: Harry Warren Lyrics: Al Dubin, Johnny Mercer Book: Michael Stewart, Mark Bramble
Musical Type: 1933 Film/Pre-Contemporary Musical (1980)
Songs About NYC: “42nd Street”, “Lullaby of Broadway”
Music: Alan Menken Lyrics: Glenn Slater Book: Chazz Palminteri
Musical Type: Contemporary (2016)
Songs About NYC: “Belmont Avenue”
Music: Charles Strouse Lyrics: Martin Charnin Book: Thomas Meehan
Musical Type: Pre-Contemporary (1976)
Songs About NYC: “NYC”
Music/Lyrics/Book: Mark Schoenfeld, Barri McPherson
Musical Type: Contemporary (2004)
Songs About NYC: “Brooklyn in the Blood”, “Madison Square Garden”
Music/Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim Book: George Furth
Musical Type: Pre-Contemporary (1970)
Songs About NYC: “Another Hundred People”
Music/Lyrics/Book: Lin-Manuel Miranda
Musical Type: Contemporary (2015)
Songs About NYC: “Alexander Hamilton”
Music/Lyrics: Jerry Herman Book: Michael Stewart
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1964)
Songs About NYC: “Put on Your Sunday Clothes”
Music/Lyrics: Lin-Manuel Miranda Book: Quiara Alegría Hudes
Musical Type: Contemporary (2005)
Songs About NYC: “In the Heights”
Music/Lyrics/Book: Kristen Anderson-Lopez, James-Allen Ford, Russ Kaplan, Sara Wordsworth
Musical Type: Contemporary (2010)
Songs About NYC: “Deep Beneath the City”
Music/Lyrics: Bill Jacob, Patti Jacob Book: Melville Shavelson
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1969)
Songs About NYC: “The Darlin’ of New York”, “Riverside Drive”
Music: Stephen Flaherty Lyrics: Lynn Ahrens
Musical Type: Contemporary (2020)
Songs About NYC: “Columbus Circle”, “Windy Day on Coney Island”
Music/Lyrics: Charles Strouse Book: Warren Leight
Musical Type: Pre-Contemporary (1985)
Songs About NYC: “You Can Be a New Yorker Too!”, “The Last I Love New York Song”
Music/Lyrics: John Kander, Fred Ebb Lyrics: Lin-Manuel Miranda Book: David Thompson, Sharon Washington
Musical Type: Contemporary (2023)
Songs About NYC: “Morning in New York”, “New York in the Rain”, & Others
Music: Alan Menken Lyrics: Jack Feldman Book: Harvey Fierstein
Musical Type: 1992 Film/Contemporary Musical (2011)
Songs About NYC: “King of New York”, “Brooklyn’s Here”
Music: Joshua Salzman Lyrics: Ryan Cunningham
Musical Type: Contemporary (2006)
Songs About NYC: “Another Saturday Night in New York”
Music: Tom Kitt Lyrics/Book: Brian Yorkey
Musical Type: Contemporary (2014)
Songs About NYC: “A Map of New York”, “Ain’t No Man Manhattan”
Music: Leonard Bernstein Lyrics/Book: Betty Comden, Adolph Green
Musical Type: Golden Age (1944)
Songs About NYC: “New York, New York”, “Times Square Ballet”, “The Real Coney Island”
Music/Lyrics: Adam Gwon
Musical Type: Contemporary (2008)
Songs About NYC: “Saturday at the Met”, “Hundred Story City”, “Calm”
Music: Cy Coleman Lyrics: Dorothy Fields Book: Michael Bennett
Musical Type: Pre-Contemporary (1973)
Songs About NYC: “My City”
Music: Jule Styne Lyrics/Book: Betty Comden, Adolph Green
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1961)
Songs About NYC: “Ride Through the Night”
Music: Jerry Bock Lyrics: Sheldon Harnick Book: George Abbott, Jerome Weidman
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1960)
Songs About NYC: “Little Old New York”
Music: Tommy Wolf Lyrics: Fran Landesman Book: Jay Landesman, Theodore J. Flicker
Musical Type: Golden Age (1959)
Songs About NYC: “New York”
Music/Lyrics: Cole Porter Book: Herbert Fields
Musical Type: Jazz Age (1930)
Songs About NYC: “I Happen to Like New York”, “Take Me Back to Manhattan”
Music: Jeanine Tesori Lyrics/Book: Dick Scanlan Book: Richard Morris
Musical Type: Contemporary (2002)
Songs About NYC: “Only in New York”, “Not For the Life of Me”
Music/Lyrics/Book: Jonathan Larson
Musical Type: Pre-Contemporary/Contemporary (1990/2001)
Songs About NYC: “Boho Days”, “No More”, “Sunday”
Music/Lyrics: Jeff Bowen Book: Hunter Bell
Musical Type: Contemporary (2006)
Songs About NYC: “Two Nobodys in New York”
Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York)
Music/Lyrics/Book: Jim Barne, Kit Buchan
Musical Type: Contemporary (2019)
Songs About NYC: “New York”, “This Is The Place”
Music: Leonard Bernstein Lyrics: Betty Comden, Adolph Green Book: Joseph Fields, Jerome Chodorov
Musical Type: Golden Age (1953)
Songs About NYC: “Christopher Street”, “Conquering New York”
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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 holds a BA in theatre, a TESOL drama certificate, and has worked and interned with Broadway and Off-Broadway theaters.