New Musicals – A Full List of Shows from 2020-2023
Are you looking for some exciting new musicals to get into this year? Below you’ll find a list of all the newest musical releases. The following musicals premiered between 2020-2023. And as musicals come out this year, they will be added to the list, so make sure to check back in!
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Contents:
2020 Musicals
Music: Jason Howland Lyrics: Nathan Tysen Book: Rachel Axler, Kait Kerrigan
Musical Type: Contemporary (2020)
Music/Lyrics: Clark Baxtresser
Musical Type: Contemporary (2020)
Music/Lyrics: Alan Silvestri, Glen Ballard Book: Robert Zemeckis, Bob Gale
Musical Type: Contemporary (2020)
Music/Lyrics: Dengue Fever Book: Lauren Yee
Musical Type: Contemporary (2020)
Music/Lyrics/Book: Chris Miller, Nathan Tysen
Musical Type: Contemporary (2020)
Music/Lyrics/Book: Keith Harrison, Laura Schein
Musical Type: Contemporary (2020)
2021 Musicals
Music: Andrew Lloyd Webber Lyrics: David Zippel Book: Emerald Fennell
Musical Type: Contemporary (2021)
Music/Lyrics: Various Concept: Jodi Picoult, Timothy Allen McDonald
Musical Type: Contemporary (2021)
Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World
Music/Lyrics: Miranda Cooper Music: Jennifer Decilveo Lyrics: Chris Bush
Musical Type: Contemporary (2021)
Music: Tom Kitt Lyrics: Michael Korie Book: James Lapine
Musical Type: Contemporary (2021)
Music/Lyrics: Bob Marley Book: Lee Hall
Musical Type: Contemporary/Jukebox (2021)
Music: Jim Fortune Lyrics: Rufus Norris Book: Tanya Ronder
Musical Type: Contemporary (2021)
Music/Lyrics: Joey Contreras
Musical Type: Contemporary (2021)
Music: Jeanine Tesori Lyrics/Book: David Lindsay-Abaire
Musical Type: Contemporary (2021)
Music: Jason Robert Brown Lyrics: Amanda Green Book: Billy Crystal, Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel
Musical Type: Contemporary (2021)
Music/Lyrics: Various Book: Michael Breslin, Patrick Foley
Musical Type: Contemporary (2021)
Stranger Sings! The Parody Musical
Music/Lyrics/Book: Jonathan Hogue
Musical Type: Contemporary (2021)
Music: Tom Kitt Lyrics/Book: Brian Yorkey Book: Kwame Kwei-Armah
Musical Type: Contemporary (2021)
Music: William Patrick Harrison Lyrics/Book: Maryhee Yoon, Cara Baldwin
Musical Type: Contemporary (2021)
2022 Musicals
Music/Lyrics: Neil Diamond Book: Anthony McCarten
Musical Type: Contemporary/Jukebox (2022)
Music: Stephen Flaherty Lyrics: Lynn Ahrens Book: Frank Galati
Musical Type: Contemporary (2022)
Music/Lyrics: Michael Jackson, Various Book: Lynn Nottage
Musical Type: Contemporary/Jukebox (2022)
Music/Lyrics/Book: Karey Kirkpatrick Music/Lyrics: Wayne Kirkpatrick Book: John O’Farrell
Musical Type: Contemporary (2022)
Music/Lyrics: Brandy Clark, Shane McAnally Book: Robert Horn
Musical Type: Contemporary (2022)
Music/Lyrics: Marc Shaiman Lyrics: Scott Wittman Book: Matthew López, Amber Ruffin
Musical Type: Contemporary (2022)
Music/Lyrics/Book: Nick Blaemire, Van Hughes
Musical Type: Contemporary (2022)
The Great British Bake Off Musical
Music/Lyrics: Pippa Cleary Lyrics/Book: Jake Brunger
Musical Type: Contemporary (2022)
Music: Julianne Wick Davis Lyrics/Book: Dan Collins
Musical Type: Contemporary (2022)
2023 Musicals
Music/Lyrics/Book: Anna Miriam Brown
Musical Type: Contemporary (2023)
Music/Lyrics: John Kander, Fred Ebb Lyrics: Lin-Manuel Miranda Book: David Thompson, Sharon Washington
Musical Type: Contemporary (2023)
Other Decades
• Golden Age Musicals (1940 – 1959)
• Post-Golden Age Musicals (1960 – 1969)
• Musicals of the 2020s → You are here!
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Author: Stacy Karyn
Stacy Karyn is the founder of Theatre Trip, author of The Thespian’s Bucket List, and creator of The Cast Album List. She holds a BA in theatre, a TESOL drama certificate, and has worked and interned with Broadway and Off-Broadway theaters.