21+ Musicals Set in Italy – The Full List of Shows
These musicals set in Italy take place fully or partially within the country, bringing Italian cities, culture, and history to the stage. The list includes shows across genres and time periods, sorted for easy browsing.
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Musicals Partially Set in Italy
Musicals Fully Set in Italy
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1962)
Creators: Stephen Sondheim, Burt Shevelove, and Larry Gelbart
Setting: Italy (Rome)
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1962)
Creators: Milton Schafer, Ronny Graham, and A.J. Russell
Setting: Italy (Rome)
Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1979)
Creators: Burton Lane, Alan Jay Lerner, and Joseph Stein
Setting: Italy
Musical Type: Contemporary (2011)
Creators: Maury Yeston, Peter Stone, and Thomas Meehan
Setting: Italy
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1965)
Creators: Richard Rodgers, Stephen Sondheim, and Arthur Laurents
Setting: Italy (Venice)
Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1982)
Creators: Maury Yeston and Arthur Kopit
Setting: Italy (Venice)
Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1994)
Creators: Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine
Setting: Italy (Milan)
Musical Type: Contemporary (2003)
Creators: Adam Guettel and Craig Lucas
Setting: Italy
Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1971)
Creators: Galt MacDermot, John Guare, and Mel Shapiro
Setting: Italy (Milan, Verona)
Musicals Partially Set in Italy
Musical Type: Contemporary (2019)
Creators: Max Martin and David West Read
Setting: England, France (Paris), Italy
Musical Type: Contemporary (2012)
Creators: Jay Kuo, Marc Acito, and Lorenzo Thione
Setting: France, Italy, USA (California, Washington, D.C., Wyoming)
Musical Type: Golden Age (1955)
Creators: Sammy Fain, Dan Shapiro, Guy Bolton, and Eddie Davis
Setting: Africa (Morocco), Italy, At Sea
Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1989)
Creators: Andrew Lloyd Webber, Don Black, and Charles Hart
Setting: France, Italy
Musical Type: Golden Age (1956)
Creators: Leonard Bernstein, Richard Wilbur, John La Touche, Stephen Sondheim, Dorothy Parker, John Caird, Hugh Wheeler, and Lillian Hellman
Setting: Argentina, France (Paris), Italy, Portugal, Spain, Uruguay, At Sea
Musical Type: Contemporary (2006)
Creators: Stephen Flaherty, Gertrude Stein, and Frank Galati
Setting: France (Paris), Italy, USA (California, Illinois, Maryland)
Musical Type: Jazz Age (1933)
Creators: Cole Porter, Romney Brent, Steve Mackes, and Michael Whaley
Setting: England, France (Neuville, Paris), Greece, Italy, Switzerland, Turkey
Musical Type: Golden Age (1944)
Creators: Edvard Grieg, Robert Wright, George Forrest, and Milton Lazarus
Setting: Denmark, Italy, Norway
Musical Type: Contemporary (2007)
Creators: Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens
Setting: France, Italy
Musical Type: Contemporary (2011)
Creators: Irving Berlin, Matthew White, and Howard Jacques
Setting: England (London), Italy (Venice), USA (NYC)
Musicals That Mention Italy
Musical Type: Contemporary (2019)
Creators: Maury Yeston and Gerard Alessandrini
Italy Reference: “Cinema Italiano”
Musical Type: Contemporary (2010)
Creators: Brad Carroll and Peter Sham
Italy Reference: “Facciamo L’Amor”
Musical Type: Contemporary (2002)
Creators: Billy Joel and Twyla Tharp
Italy Reference: “Scenes from an Italian Restaurant”
Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1986)
Creators: Charles Strouse, Stephen Schwartz, Joseph Stein, and David Thompson
Italy Reference: “Meet an Italian”
Musical Type: Contemporary (2013)
Creators: Jason Robert Brown and Marsha Norman
Italy Reference: “To Build a Home”
Musical Type: Golden Age (1956)
Creators: Frank Loesser
Italy Reference: “Sposalizio”