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28+ Spring Musicals – The Full List of Shows

Last Updated: May 6, 2025

Looking for a musical that captures the vibrancy of the spring season? Whether the plot mentions or is set during Easter or spring, these shows bring the beauty and energy of that time of year to center stage. Here’s a full list of spring musicals.


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Easter Musicals

Spring Musicals



As Thousands Cheer

Music/Lyrics: Irving Berlin  Book: Moss Hart

Musical Type: Jazz Age (1933)

Song That Mentions Easter: “Easter Parade”


Holiday Inn

Music/Lyrics: Irving Berlin  Book: Gordon Greenberg, Chad Hodge

Musical Type: Contemporary (2014)

Song That Mentions Easter: “Easter Parade”


Snoopy!!!

Music: Larry Grossman  Lyrics: Hal Hackady  Book: Warren Lockhart, Arthur Whitelaw, Michael Grace

Musical Type: Pre-Contemporary (1975)

Scene That Mentions Easter: The Easter Beagle


The Color Purple

Music/Lyrics: Brenda Russell, Allee Willis, Stephen Bray  Book: Marsha Norman

Musical Type: Contemporary (2005)

Song That Mentions Easter: “Church Ladies’ Easter”



A New Brain

Music/Lyrics/Book: William Finn  Book: James Lapine

Musical Type: Pre-Contemporary (1998)

Songs About Spring: “Frogs Have So Much Spring”, “I Feel So Much Spring”


A Year with Frog and Toad

Music: Robert Reale  Lyrics/Book: Willie Reale

Musical Type: Contemporary (2002)

Songs About Spring: “It’s Spring”, “Seeds”


Baker Street

Music/Lyrics: Marian Grudeff, Raymond Jessel  Book: Jerome Coopersmith  Additional Songs: Jerry Bock, Sheldon Harnick

Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1965)

Songs About Spring: “Finding Words for Spring”


Bare

Music/Book: Damon Intrabartolo  Lyrics/Book: Jon Hartmere

Musical Type: Contemporary (2000)

Songs About Spring: “Spring”


Calendar Girls

Music/Lyrics: Gary Barlow  Book: Tim Firth

Musical Type: Contemporary (2015)

Songs About Spring: “Spring Fete”, “The Flowers of Yorkshire”


Camelot

Music: Frederick Loewe  Lyrics/Book: Alan Jay Lerner

Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1960)

Songs About Spring: “The Lusty Month of May”


Canterbury Tales

Music: John Hawkins, Richard Hill  Lyrics/Book: Nevill Coghill  Book: Martin Starkie

Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1968)

Songs About Spring: “April Song”


Flahooley

Music: Sammy Fain  Lyrics/Book: Yip Harburg  Book: Fred Saidy

Musical Type: Golden Age (1951)

Songs About Spring: “The Springtime Cometh”


Fugitive Songs

Music: Chris Miller  Lyrics: Nathan Tysen

Musical Type: Contemporary (2008)

Songs About Spring: “Spring Cleaning”


Giant

Music/Lyrics: Michael John LaChiusa  Book: Sybille Pearson

Musical Type: Contemporary (2009)

Songs About Spring: “Did Spring Come to Texas?”


Greenwillow

Music/Lyrics/Book: Frank Loesser  Book: Lesser Samuels

Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1960)

Songs About Spring: “The Spring Courting”


Hadestown

Music/Lyrics/Book: Anaïs Mitchell

Musical Type: Contemporary (2006)

Songs About Spring: “Wedding Song”, “Livin’ It Up On Top”, “Flowers”


Legacy – Two Song Cycles

Music: Stephen Flaherty  Lyrics: Lynn Ahrens

Musical Type: Contemporary (2020)

Songs That Mention Spring: “March”, “April”, “May”


Life Begins at 8:40

Music: Harold Arlen  Lyrics: Ira Gershwin, Yip Harburg

Musical Type: Jazz Age (1934)

Songs About Spring: “Spring Fever”


Sail Away

Music/Lyrics/Book: Noël Coward

Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1961)

Songs About Spring: “Later Than Spring”


Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

Music/Lyrics: Gene de Paul, Al Kasha, Joel Hirschhorn  Lyrics: Johnny Mercer  Book: Lawrence Kasha, David Landay

Musical Type: 1954 Film/Pre-Contemporary Musical (1982)

Songs About Spring: “Spring, Spring, Spring”


South Pacific

Music: Richard Rodgers  Lyrics/Book: Oscar Hammerstein II  Book: Joshua Logan

Musical Type: Golden Age (1949)

Songs About Spring: “Younger Than Springtime”


State Fair

Music: Richard Rodgers  Lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein II  Book: Tom Briggs, Louis Mattioli

Musical Type: 1945 Film/Pre-Contemporary Musical (1996)

Songs About Spring: “It Might As Well Be Spring” / “Reprise”


The Glorious Ones

Music: Stephen Flaherty  Lyrics/Books: Lynn Ahrens

Musical Type: Contemporary (2007)

Songs About Spring: “The Glorious Ones”


The Happiest Girl in the World

Music: Jacques Offenbach  Lyrics: Yip Harburg  Book: Fred Saidy, Henry Mayers

Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1961)

Songs About Spring: “Five Minutes of Spring”


The Producers

Music/Lyrics/Book: Mel Brooks  Book: Thomas Meehan

Musical Type: Contemporary (2001)

Song That Mentions Spring: “Springtime for…”


The Secret Garden

Music: Lucy Simon  Lyrics/Book: Marsha Norman

Musical Type: Pre-Contemporary (1991)

Songs About Spring: “Winter’s on the Wing”, “Spring Music”


The Wind in the Willows

Music: George Stiles  Lyrics: Anthony Drewe  Book: Julian Fellowes

Musical Type: Contemporary (2016)

Songs About Spring: “Spring”


Thomas and the King

Music: John Williams  Lyrics: James Harbert  Book: Edward Anhalt

Musical Type: Pre-Contemporary (1975)

Songs About Spring: “Improbable as Spring”


Three Wishes for Jamie

Music/Lyrics: Ralph Blane  Book: Charles O’Neal, Abe Burrows

Musical Type: Golden Age (1952)

Songs About Spring: “It Must Be Springtime”, “April Face”


Tomfoolery

Music/Lyrics: Tom Lehrer  Adaptation: Cameron Mackintosh, Robin Ray

Musical Type: Pre-Contemporary (1980)

Song That Mentions Spring: “Poisoning Pigeons in the Park”


Two’s Company

Music: Vernon Duke  Lyrics: Ogden Nash, Sammy Cahn  Sketches: Charles Sherman, Peter DeVries

Musical Type: Golden Age (1952)

Song That Mentions Spring: “It Just Occurred to Me”


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Which of these spring musicals is your favorite?

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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 ListShe holds a BA in theatre and a TESOL drama certificate, with experience working and interning in Broadway and Off-Broadway theaters.

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