16 Musicals About Pirates – The Full List of Shows
These musicals about pirates feature pirate characters, stories, and seafaring adventures. The list includes musicals that center on piracy as well as works that feature a specific pirate-themed musical number.
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Musicals About Pirates
Musical Type: Contemporary (2016)
Creators: Robert J. Sherman
Song About Pirates: “Hookbeard’s Theme”
Musical Type: Contemporary (2012)
Creators: Gary Barlow, Eliot Kennedy, Scott Frankel, Michael Korie, Allan Knee, and James Graham
Song About Pirates: “The Pirates of Kensington”
Musical Type: Golden Age (1954)
Creators: Moose Charlap, Jule Styne, Carolyn Leigh, Betty Comden, Adolph Green, and J.M. Barrie
Songs About Pirates: “Pirate March”, “Hook’s Waltz”
Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1997)
Creators: George Stiles, Anthony Drewe, and Willis Hall
Songs About Pirates: “Good Old Captain Hook”, “A Pirate with a Conscience”
Musical Type: Contemporary (2006)
Creators: Claude-Michel Schönberg, John Dempsey, Alain Boublil, and Richard Maltby, Jr.
Song About Pirates: “The Pirate Queen”
Musical Type: Opera (1879)
Creators: Arthur Sullivan and W.S. Gilbert
Songs About Pirates: “Now for the Pirates’ Lair!”, “When You Had Left Our Pirate Fold”
Musical Type: Contemporary (2016)
Creators: Kyle Jarrow and Others
Song About Pirates: “Poor Pirates”
Musical Type: Opera (1928)
Creators: Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht
Song About Pirates: “Pirate Jenny”
Musicals That Mention Pirates
Musical Type: Golden Age (1956)
Creators: Leonard Bernstein, Richard Wilbur, John La Touche, Stephen Sondheim, Dorothy Parker, John Caird, Hugh Wheeler, and Lillian Hellman
Song About Pirates: “Bon Voyage”
Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1981)
Creators: Andrew Lloyd Webber, T.S. Eliot, Trevor Nunn, and Richard Stilgoe
Song About Pirates: “Growltiger’s Last Stand”
Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1990)
Creators: Barry Manilow, Bruce Sussman, and Jack Feldman
Song About Pirates: “El Bravo!”
Musical Type: Contemporary (2017)
Creators: Jimmy Buffett, Greg Garcia, and Mike O’Malley
Song About Pirates: “A Pirate Looks at Forty”
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1961)
Creators: Frank Loesser, Abe Burrows, Jack Weinstock, and Willie Gilbert
Song About Pirates: “The Pirate Dance”
Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1975)
Creators: Larry Grossman, Hal Hackady, Warren Lockhart, Arthur Whitelaw, and Michael Grace
Song About Pirates: “Great Writer”
Musical Type: Contemporary (2006)
Creators: Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater
Song About Pirates: “There Once Was a Pirate”
Musical Type: Contemporary (2009)
Creators: Frank Wildhorn and Jack Murphy
Song About Pirates: “Pirates (Truth or Dare)”