Musicals About New York City

Musicals About New York City

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42nd Street

Music: Harry Warren  Lyrics: Al Dubin, Johnny Mercer  Book: Michael Stewart, Mark Bramble

Musical Type: 1933 Film/Late 20th Century Musical (1980)

Songs About NYC: “42nd Street”, “Lullaby of Broadway”

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A Bronx Tale

Music: Alan Menken  Lyrics: Glenn Slater  Book: Chazz Palminteri

Musical Type: Contemporary (2016)

Songs About NYC: “Belmont Avenue”

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Annie

Music: Charles Strouse  Lyrics: Martin Charnin  Book: Thomas Meehan

Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1976)

Songs About NYC: “NYC”

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BKLYN: The Musical

Music/Lyrics/Book: Mark Schoenfeld, Barri McPherson

Musical Type: Contemporary (2004)

Songs About NYC: “Brooklyn in the Blood”, “Madison Square Garden”

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Bright Lights, Big City

Music/Lyrics/Book: Paul Scott Goodman

Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1999)

Songs About NYC: “Bright Lights, Big City”, “Back In the City”

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Company

Music/Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim  Book: George Furth

Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1970)

Songs About NYC: “Another Hundred People”

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Face the Music

Music/Lyrics: Irving Berlin Book: Moss Hart

Musical Type: Jazz Age (1932)

Songs About NYC: “The Police of New York”, “A Roof in Manhattan”, “Manhattan Madness”

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Fiorello!

Music: Jerry Bock  Lyrics: Sheldon Harnick  Book: Jerome Weidman, George Abbott

Musical Type: Golden Age (1959)

Songs About NYC: “The Name’s La Guardia”

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Hamilton

Music/Lyrics/Book: Lin-Manuel Miranda

Musical Type: Contemporary (2015)

Songs About NYC: “Alexander Hamilton”

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Hello, Dolly!

Music/Lyrics: Jerry Herman  Book: Michael Stewart

Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1964)

Songs About NYC: “Put on Your Sunday Clothes”

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Hell’s Kitchen

Music/Lyrics: Alicia Keys, Various  Book: Kristoffer Diaz

Musical Type: Contemporary (2023)

Songs About NYC: “Gramercy Park”, “Empire State of Mind”

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I Love You Because

Music: Joshua Salzman  Lyrics: Ryan Cunningham

Musical Type: Contemporary (2006)

Songs About NYC: “Another Saturday Night in New York”

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If/Then

Music: Tom Kitt  Lyrics/Book: Brian Yorkey

Musical Type: Contemporary (2014)

Songs About NYC: “A Map of New York”, “Ain’t No Man Manhattan”

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In the Heights

Music/Lyrics: Lin-Manuel Miranda  Book: Quiara Alegría Hudes

Musical Type: Contemporary (2005)

Songs About NYC: “In the Heights”

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In Transit

Music/Lyrics/Book: Kristen Anderson-Lopez, James-Allen Ford, Russ Kaplan, Sara Wordsworth

Musical Type: Contemporary (2010)

Songs About NYC: “Deep Beneath the City”

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Jimmy

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”

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Legacy – Two Song Cycles

Music: Stephen Flaherty  Lyrics: Lynn Ahrens

Musical Type: Contemporary (2020)

Songs About NYC: “Columbus Circle”, “Windy Day on Coney Island”

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Mayor

Music/Lyrics: Charles Strouse  Book: Warren Leight

Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1985)

Songs About NYC: “You Can Be a New Yorker Too!”, “The Last I Love New York Song”

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New York, New York

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

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Newsies

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”

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On The Town

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”

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Ordinary Days

Music/Lyrics: Adam Gwon

Musical Type: Contemporary (2008)

Songs About NYC: “Saturday at the Met”, “Hundred Story City”, “Calm”

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Seesaw

Music: Cy Coleman  Lyrics: Dorothy Fields  Book: Michael Bennett

Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1973)

Songs About NYC: “My City”

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Subways Are For Sleeping

Music: Jule Styne  Lyrics/Book: Betty Comden, Adolph Green

Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1961)

Songs About NYC: “Ride Through the Night”

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Tenderloin

Music: Jerry Bock  Lyrics: Sheldon Harnick  Book: George Abbott, Jerome Weidman

Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1960)

Songs About NYC: “Little Old New York”

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The Nervous Set

Music: Tommy Wolf  Lyrics: Fran Landesman  Book: Jay Landesman, Theodore J. Flicker

Musical Type: Golden Age (1959)

Songs About NYC: “New York”

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The New Yorkers

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”

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Thoroughly Modern Millie

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”

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Tick, Tick…BOOM!

Music/Lyrics/Book: Jonathan Larson

Musical Type: Late 20th Century/Contemporary (1990/2001)

Songs About NYC: “Boho Days”, “No More”, “Sunday”

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Music/Lyrics: Jeff Bowen  Book: Hunter Bell

Musical Type: Contemporary (2006)

Songs About NYC: “Two Nobodys in New York”

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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”

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Wonderful Town

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”