35+ Musicals About Royalty – The Full List of Shows
From fictional fairy-tale kingdoms to complicated royal families, these musicals about royalty put monarchy center stage. The alphabetized list includes comedies, dramas, and everything in between.
Musicals About Royalty
Musical Type: Jazz Age (1927)
Creators: Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart, and Herbert Fields
Musical Type: Contemporary (2012)
Creators: Steven Lutvak and Robert L. Freedman
Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1998)
Creators: Elton John, Tim Rice, Linda Woolverton, Robert Falls, and David Henry Hwang
Musical Type: Contemporary (2011)
Creators: Alan Menken, Chad Beguelin, Tim Rice, and Howard Ashman
Musical Type: Contemporary (2016)
Creators: Stephen Flaherty, Lynn Ahrens, and Terrence McNally
Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1994)
Creators: Alan Menken, Howard Ashman, Tim Rice, and Linda Woolverton
Musical Type: Contemporary (2011)
Creators: George Stiles, Anthony Drewe, Ron Cowen, and Daniel Lipman
Musical Type: Golden Age (1950)
Creators: Irving Berlin, Howard Lindsay, and Russel Crouse
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1960)
Creators: Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
Musical Type: Contemporary (2013)
Creators: Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II, and Douglas Carter Beane
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1968)
Creators: Jule Styne, Yip Harburg, and Nunnally Johnson
Musical Type: Contemporary (2019)
Creators: David Bryan and Joe DiPietro
Musical Type: Golden Age (1957)
Creators: Julian Slade and Dorothy Reynolds
Musical Type: Contemporary (2017)
Creators: Robert Lopez, Kristen Anderson-Lopez, and Jennifer Lee
Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1975)
Creators: Larry Grossman, Hal Hackady, and Sidney Michaels
Musical Type: Golden Age (1956)
Creators: Harold Karr, Matt Dubey, Howard Lindsay, and Russel Crouse
Musical Type: Contemporary (2015)
Creators: Jeff Whitty, James Magruder, and The Go-Go’s
Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1972)
Creators: Charles Strouse, Lee Adams, and Jay Presson Allen
Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1986)
Creators: Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1968)
Creators: Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice
Musical Type: Jazz Age (1937)
Creators: Noel Gay, Douglas Furber, and L. Arthur Rose
Musical Type: Golden Age (1959)
Creators: Mary Rodgers, Marshall Barer, Jay Thompson, and Dean Fuller
Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1972)
Creators: Stephen Schwartz and Roger O. Hirson
Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1976)
Creators: Richard Rodgers, Sheldon Harnick, and Sherman Yellen
Musical Type: Contemporary (2008)
Creators: Jeanine Tesori and David Lindsay-Abaire
Musical Type: Contemporary (2017)
Creators: Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss
Musical Type: Contemporary (2004)
Creators: John Du Prez and Eric Idle
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1963)
Creators: Noël Coward and Harry Kurnitz
Musical Type: Golden Age (1951)
Creators: Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II
Musical Type: Contemporary (2013)
Creators: Tori Amos and Samuel Adamson
Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1997)
Creators: Elton John, Tim Rice, Roger Allers, and Irene Mecchi
Musical Type: Contemporary (2007)
Creators: Alan Menken, Howard Ashman, Glenn Slater, and Doug Wright
Musical Type: Jazz Age (1927)
Creators: Sigmund Romberg, Oscar Hammerstein II, Frank Mandel, and Laurence Schwab
Musical Type: Contemporary (2006)
Creators: Claude-Michel Schönberg, John Dempsey, Alain Boublil, and Richard Maltby, Jr.
Musical Type: Contemporary (2017)
Creators: Stephen Schwartz and Philip LaZebnik
Musical Type: Contemporary (2024)
Creators: Stephen Schwartz and Lindsey Ferrentino
Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1975)
Creators: John Williams, James Harbert, and Edward Anhalt
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1963)
Creators: Lee Pockriss, Anne Croswell, and David Shaw
Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1997)
Creators: Jeffrey Stock, Susan Birkenhead, and James Magruder