Musicals of the 1960s
Post-Golden Age musicals of the 1960s embraced experimentation and culturally diverse storytelling. With deeper plots and a broader range of music genres, this era brought fresh innovation to the stage. This page lists musicals that premiered during this decade.
Musicals by Year
1960 Musicals
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1960)
Creators: Charles Strouse, Lee Adams, and Michael Stewart
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1960)
Creators: Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1960)
Creators: Sammy Fain, Paul Francis Webster, Pearl S. Buck, and Charles K. Peck, Jr.
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1960)
Creators: Jule Styne, Betty Comden, Adolph Green, and Garson Kanin
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1960)
Creators: Lee Pockriss and Anne Croswell
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1960)
Creators: Frank Loesser and Lesser Samuels
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1960)
Creators: Lionel Bart
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1960)
Creators: Jerry Herman
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1960)
Creators: Jerry Bock, Sheldon Harnick, George Abbott, and Jerome Weidman
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1960)
Creators: Harvey Schmidt and Tom Jones
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1960)
Creators: Meredith Willson and Richard Morris
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1960)
Creators: Cy Coleman, Carolyn Leigh, and N. Richard Nash
1961 Musicals
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1961)
Creators: Langston Hughes and Others
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1961)
Creators: Sammy Fain and Paul Francis Webster
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1961)
Creators: Bob Merrill and Michael Stewart
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1961)
Creators: Frank Loesser, Abe Burrows, Jack Weinstock, and Willie Gilbert
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1961)
Creators: Robert Wright, George Forrest, and Peter Stone
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1961)
Creators: Jay Livingston, Ray Evans, and Abram S. Ginnes
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1961)
Creators: Jerry Herman and Don Appell
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1961)
Creators: Noël Coward
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1961)
Creators: Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1961)
Creators: Jule Styne, Betty Comden, and Adolph Green
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1961)
Creators: Arthur Schwartz, Howard Dietz, Fay Kanin, and Michael Kanin
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1961)
Creators: Jacques Offenbach, Yip Harburg, Fred Saidy, and Henry Mayers
1962 Musicals
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1962)
Creators: James Goldman, John Kander, and William Goldman
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1962)
Creators: Stephen Sondheim, Burt Shevelove, and Larry Gelbart
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1962)
Creators: Charles Strouse, Lee Adams, and Mel Brooks
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1962)
Creators: Lionel Bart and Joan Maitland
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1962)
Creators: Milton Schafer, Ronny Graham, and A.J. Russell
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1962)
Creators: Harold Rome and Jerome Weidman
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1962)
Creators: Cy Coleman, Carolyn Leigh, and Neil Simon
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1962)
Creators: Irving Berlin, Howard Lindsay, Russel Crouse
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1962)
Creators: Richard Rodgers and Samuel Taylor
1963 Musicals
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1963)
Creators: Harvey Schmidt, Tom Jones, and N. Richard Nash
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1963)
Creators: David Heneker and Beverley Cross
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1963)
Creators: Arthur Schwartz, Howard Dietz, and Arnold Schulman
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1963)
Creators: Meredith Willson
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1963)
Creators: Charles Chilton, Theatre Workshop, Inc., and Others
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1963)
Creators: Cyril Ornadel, Leslie Bricusse, and Wolf Mankowitz
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1963)
Creators: Jerry Bock, Sheldon Harnick, and Joe Masteroff
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1963)
Creators: Noël Coward and Harry Kurnitz
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1963)
Creators: Lee Pockriss, Anne Croswell, and David Shaw
1964 Musicals
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1964)
Creators: Stephen Sondheim and Arthur Laurents
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1964)
Creators: Walter Marks and Ernest Kinoy
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1964)
Creators: Mark Sandrich, Jr. and Sidney Michaels
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1964)
Creators: Jule Styne, Betty Comden, and Adolph Green
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1964)
Creators: Jerry Bock, Sheldon Harnick, and Joseph Stein
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1964)
Creators: Jule Styne, Bob Merrill, and Isobel Lennart
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1964)
Creators: Charles Strouse, Lee Adams, Clifford Odets, and William Gibson
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1964)
Creators: Jerry Herman and Michael Stewart
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1964)
Creators: Hugh Martin and Timothy Gray
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1964)
Creators: Jack Lawrence, Stan Freeman, and Jerome Chodorov
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1964)
Creators: Lionel Bart and Alun Owen
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1964)
Creators: Ron Grainer and Ronald Millar
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1964)
Creators: Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1964)
Creators: Leon Carr, Earl Shuman, and Joe Manchester
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1964)
Creators: Ervin Drake, Budd Schulberg, and Stuart Schulberg
1965 Musicals
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1965)
Creators: Norman Campbell, Donald Harron, Elaine Campbell, and Mavor Moore
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1965)
Creators: Marian Grudeff, Raymond Jessel, Jerome Coopersmith, Jerry Bock, and Sheldon Harnick
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1965)
Creators: David Heneker, John Taylor, Hugh Williams, Margaret Vyner, and Ray Cooney
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1965)
Creators: Sandy Wilson
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1965)
Creators: Richard Rodgers, Stephen Sondheim, and Arthur Laurents
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1965)
Creators: John Kander, Fred Ebb, George Abbott, Robert Russell, and David Thompson
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1965)
Creators: Mitch Leigh, Joe Darion, and Dale Wasserman
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1965)
Creators: Burton Lane and Alan Jay Lerner
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1965)
Creators: Al Carmines and María Irene Fornés
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1965)
Creators: James Van Heusen, Sammy Cahn, and Peter Stone
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age/Contemporary (1965/2005)
Creators: Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1965)
Creators: Harold Rome, Howard Da Silva, and Felix Leon
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1965)
Creators: Lionel Bart, Harvey Orkin, and Julian Woolford
1966 Musicals
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1966)
Creators: Bob Merrill and Edward Albee
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1966)
Creators: John Kander, Fred Ebb, and Joe Masteroff
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1966)
Creators: Jim Wise, George Haimsohn, and Robin Miller
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1966)
Creators: Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1966)
Creators: Harvey Schmidt and Tom Jones
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1966)
Creators: Charles Strouse, Lee Adams, David Newman, and Robert Benton
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1966)
Creators: Jerry Herman, Jerome Lawrence, and Robert E. Lee
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1966)
Creators: Cy Coleman, Dorothy Fields, and Neil Simon
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1966)
Creators: Jerry Bock, Sheldon Harnick, and Jerome Coopersmith
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1966)
Creators: Mary Rodgers, Larry Siegel, Marshall Barer, Steven Vinaver, Stan Hart, and Stephen Sondheim
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1966)
Creators: James Van Heusen, Sammy Cahn, Roger O. Hirson, and Ketti Frings
1967 Musicals
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1967)
Creators: Galt MacDermot, Gerome Ragni, and James Rado
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1967)
Creators: Jule Styne, Adolph Green, Betty Comden, and Arthur Laurents
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1967)
Creators: Bob Merrill and Nunnally Johnson
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1967)
Creators: Elmer Bernstein, Carolyn Leigh, and Max Shulman
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1967)
Creators: Manos Hadjidakis, Joe Darion, and Jules Dassin
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1967)
Creators: Nancy Ford and Gretchen Cryer
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1967)
Creators: John Kander, Fred Ebb, and N. Richard Nash
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1967)
Creators: Clark Gesner
1968 Musicals
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1968)
Creators: John Hawkins, Richard Hill, Nevill Coghill, and Martin Starkie
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1968)
Creators: Jule Styne, Yip Harburg, and Nunnally Johnson
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1968)
Creators: George M. Cohan, Mary Cohan, Michael Stewart, John Pascal, and Francine Pascal
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1968)
Creators: Walter Marks and Ernest Kinoy
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1968)
Creators: Jacques Brel, Eric Blau, and Mort Shuman
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1968)
Creators: Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1968)
Creators: Hugo Peretti, Luigi Creatore, George Weiss, and Morton DaCosta
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1968)
Creators: Burt Bacharach, Hal David, and Neil Simon
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1968)
Creators: Hal Hester, Danny Apolinar, and Donald Driver
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1968)
Creators: John Kander, Fred Ebb, and Joseph Stein
1969 Musicals
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1969)
Creators: Sherman Edwards and Peter Stone
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1969)
Creators: Harvey Schmidt and Tom Jones
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1969)
Creators: André Previn and Alan Jay Lerner
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1969)
Creators: Jerry Herman, Jerome Lawrence, and Robert E. Lee
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1969)
Creators: Bill Jacob, Patti Jacob, and Melville Shavelson
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1969)
Creators: Albert Hague and Allan Sherman