35+ Musicals About Travel – The Full List of Shows
These musicals about travel focus on long journeys and travel-related experiences. The list includes stories about road trips, voyages, moving to new places, exploring unfamiliar destinations, and the personal changes that can come with the decision to travel.
Musicals About Travel
Musical Type: Jazz Age (1934)
Creators: Cole Porter, Guy Bolton, P.G. Wodehouse, Howard Lindsay, and Russel Crouse
Song About Travel: “There’s No Cure Like Travel”
Musical Type: Contemporary (2020)
Creators: Alan Silvestri, Glen Ballard, and Bob Gale
Song About (Time) Travel: “Back in Time”
Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1975)
Creators: Andrew Lloyd Webber and Alan Ayckbourn
Song About Travel: “Travel Hopefully”
Musical Type: Contemporary (2009)
Creators: Marc Shaiman, Scott Wittman, and Terrence McNally
Song About Travel: “Jet Set”
Musical Type: Contemporary (2013)
Creators: Irene Sankoff and David Hein
Song About Travel: “38 Planes”
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1965)
Creators: Richard Rodgers, Stephen Sondheim, and Arthur Laurents
Song About Travel: “What Do We Do? We Fly!”
Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1998)
Creators: Leslie Bricusse
Song About Travel: “Fabulous Places”
Musical Type: Contemporary (2017)
Creators: Jimmy Buffett, Greg Garcia, and Mike O’Malley
Song About Travel: “He Went to Paris”
Musical Type: Contemporary (2016)
Creators: Richard Taylor and Rachel Wagstaff
Song About Travel: “Something to Come Home To”
Musical Type: Contemporary (2008)
Creators: Chris Miller and Nathan Tysen
Song About Travel: “Getting There”
Musical Type: Golden Age (1949)
Creators: Jule Styne, Leo Robin, Joseph Fields, and Anita Loos
Song About Travel: “It’s High Time”
Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1989)
Creators: Robert Wright, George Forrest, Maury Yeston and Luther Davis
Song About Travel: “At the Grand Hotel”
Musical Type: Contemporary (2013)
Creators: Jason Robert Brown and Andrew Bergman
Song About Travel: “When You Say Vegas”, “Hawaii”
Musical Type: Contemporary (2010)
Creators: Justin Paul, Benj Pasek, and Timothy Allen McDonald
Song About Travel: “Floatin’ Along”
Musical Type: Contemporary (2011)
Creators: William Finn and James Lapine
Song About Travel: “Motel Sequence”
Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1988)
Creators: Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens
Song About Travel: “Good to Be Alive”
Musical Type: Contemporary (2016)
Creators: Will Aronson and Hue Park
Songs About Travel: “Goodbye, My Room”, “Hitting the Road”
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1961)
Creators: Jerry Herman and Don Appell
Song About Travel: “Chin Up, Ladies”
Musical Type: Jazz Age (1933)
Creators: Cole Porter, Romney Brent, Steve Mackes, and Michael Whaley
Song About Travel: “Ruins”
Musical Type: Golden Age (1958)
Creators: Jay Livingston, Ray Evans, Al Morgan, and José Ferrer
Song About Travel: “I’ve Been There and I’m Back”
Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1978)
Creators: Cy Coleman, Betty Comden, and Adolph Green
Song About Travel: “Life Is Like a Train”
Musical Type: Contemporary (2006)
Creators: Stephan Elliott, Allan Scott, and Others
Song About Travel: “Go West”
Musical Type: Contemporary (2024)
Creators: Kate Diaz and Tina Landau
Song About Travel: “Drive”
Musical Type: Contemporary (2003)
Creators: Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman
Song About Travel: “Addison’s Trip”
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1961)
Creators: Noël Coward
Songs About Travel: “Why Do the Wrong People Travel?” “The Passenger’s Always Right”
Musical Type: Contemporary (2010)
Creators: Brad Alexander and Adam Mathias
Song About Travel: “Mile After Mile”
Musical Type: Contemporary (2008)
Creators: Jeanine Tesori and David Lindsay-Abaire
Song About Travel: “Travel Song”
Musical Type: Contemporary (2022)
Creators: Brandy Clark, Shane McAnally, and Robert Horn
Song About Travel: “Travelin’ Song”
Musical Type: Contemporary (2016)
Creators: David Yazbek and Itamar Moses
Song About Travel: “Welcome to Nowhere”
Musical Type: Contemporary (2013)
Creators: Jason Robert Brown and Marsha Norman
Song About Travel: “Temporarily Lost”
Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1974)
Creators: Stephen Sondheim, Burt Shevelove, and Nathan Lane
Song About Travel: “I Love to Travel”
Musical Type: Contemporary (2021)
Creators: Michael John LaChiusa
Song About Travel: “Travel”
Musical Type: Contemporary (2014)
Creators: Jeff Blim, Matt Lang, and Nick Lang
Song About Travel: “Gone to Oregon”
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1960)
Creators: Meredith Willson and Richard Morris
Song About Travel: “Bon Jour (The Language Song)”
Musical Type: Golden Age (1952)
Creators: Ralph Blane, Charles O’Neal, and Abe Burrows
Song About Travel: “My Home’s a Highway”
Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1997)
Creators: Maury Yeston and Peter Stone
Song About Travel: “I Must Get On That Ship”
Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1997)
Creators: Jeanine Tesori and Brian Crawley
Song About Travel: “On My Way”
Musical Type: Contemporary (2023)
Creators: PigPen Theatre Co. and Rick Elice
Song About Travel: “Another Train”