42+ Summer Musicals – The Full List of Shows
These summer musicals bring warm-weather stories to the stage, whether they are set during the season or simply reference summer in song. The list includes shows with summer songs, themes, and settings.
Summer Musicals
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1963)
Creators: Harvey Schmidt, Tom Jones, and N. Richard Nash
Summer Song: “Gonna Be Another Hot Day”
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1962)
Creators: James Goldman, John Kander, and William Goldman
Summer Song: “Summer is Over”
Musical Type: Contemporary (2002)
Creators: Robert Reale and Willie Reale
Summer Songs: “Alone”, “The Kite”
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1965)
Creators: Norman Campbell, Donald Harron, Elaine Campbell, and Mavor Moore
Summer Songs: “Where Did the Summer Go To”, “Ice Cream”
Musical Type: Jazz Age (1933)
Creators: Irving Berlin and Moss Hart
Summer Song: “Heat Wave”
Musical Type: Golden Age (1954)
Creators: Arthur Schwartz, Dorothy Fields, and Herbert Fields
Summer Songs: “The Sea Song”, “Coney Island Boat”
Musical Type: Golden Age (1945)
Creators: Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II
Summer Song: “June Is Bustin’ Out All Over”
Musical Type: Contemporary (2017)
Creators: Jimmy Buffett, Greg Garcia, and Mike O’Malley
Summer Songs: “Coconut Telegraph Medley”, “Margaritaville”
Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1992)
Creators: William Finn and James Lapine
Summer Song: “The Baseball Game”
Musical Type: Contemporary (2021)
Creators: Tom Kitt, Michael Korie, and James Lapine
Summer Song: “Flying Over Sunset”
Musical Type: Jazz Age (1927)
Creators: Ray Henderson, Buddy DeSylva, Lew Brown, and Laurence Schwab
Summer Song: “Keep Your Sunny Side Up”
Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1971)
Creators: Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey
Summer Song: “Summer Nights”
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1960)
Creators: Frank Loesser and Lesser Samuels
Summer Song: “Summertime Love”
Musical Type: Contemporary (2014)
Creators: Irving Berlin, Gordon Greenberg, and Chad Hodge
Summer Songs: “Song of Freedom”, “Let’s Say It With Firecrackers”
Musical Type: Contemporary (2013)
Creators: Jason Robert Brown and Andrew Bergman
Summer Songs: “Out of the Sun”, “Hawaii”
Musical Type: Contemporary (2005)
Creators: Lin-Manuel Miranda and Quiara Alegría Hudes
Summer Songs: “Piragua”, “When the Sun Goes Down”
Musical Type: Golden Age (1948)
Creators: Cole Porter, Bella Spewack, and Samuel Spewack
Summer Song: “Too Darn Hot”
Musical Type: Contemporary (2020)
Creators: Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens
Summer Songs: “June”, “July”, “August”
Musical Type: Contemporary (2010)
Creators: Howard Goodall and Stephen Clark
Summer Song: “Summer’s Day”
Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1999)
Creators: Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus, and Catherine Johnson
Summer Song: “Our Last Summer”
Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1980)
Creators: Stephen Sondheim, Craig Lucas, and Norman René
Summer Song: “The Girls of Summer”
Musical Type: Contemporary (2004)
Creators: Richard M. Sherman, Robert B. Sherman, George Stiles, Anthony Drewe, and Julian Fellowes
Summer Songs: “Let’s Go Fly a Kite”, “Jolly Holiday”
Musical Type: Jazz Age (1937)
Creators: Noel Gay, Douglas Furber, and L. Arthur Rose
Summer Song: “The Sun Has Got His Hat On”
Musical Type: Contemporary (2002)
Creators: Billy Joel and Twyla Tharp
Summer Song: “Summer, Highland Falls”
Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1990)
Creators: Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens
Summer Song: “Waiting for Life”
Musical Type: Opera (1935)
Creators: George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, DuBose Heyward, and Dorothy Heyward
Summer Song: “Summertime”
Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1986)
Creators: Charles Strouse, Stephen Schwartz, Joseph Stein, and David Thompson
Summer Songs: “Blame It on the Summer Night”, “Three Sunny Rooms”
Musical Type: Contemporary (2023)
Creators: Joy Huerta, Benjamin Velez, Lisa Loomer, and Nell Benjamin
Summer Song: “Flying Away”
Musical Type: Golden Age (1954)
Creators: Julian Slade and Dorothy Reynolds
Summer Songs: “I Sit in the Sun”, “Sand in My Eyes”
Musical Type: Golden Age (1955)
Creators: Victor Young, Stella Unger, and Victor Wolfson
Summer Songs: “Things Are Gonna Hum This Summer”, “Summertime is Summertime”
Musical Type: Contemporary (2006)
Creators: Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater
Summer Song: “The Song of Purple Summer”
Musical Type: Opera (1947)
Creators: Kurt Weill, Langston Hughes, and Elmer Rice
Summer Song: “Ain’t It Awful, the Heat?”
Musical Type: Contemporary (2000)
Creators: David Kirshenbaum and Hunter Foster
Summer Song: “The Summer You’ll Always Remember”
Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1984)
Creators: Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine
Summer Song: “It’s Hot Up Here”
Musical Type: Golden Age (1958)
Creators: Jerry Bock, Sheldon Harnick, Joseph Stein, and Will Glickman
Summer Song: “Summer Is”
Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1998)
Creators: Paul Simon and Derek Walcott
Summer Song: “Satin Summer Nights”
Musical Type: Contemporary (2001)
Creators: Jason Robert Brown
Summer Song: “A Summer in Ohio”
Musical Type: Contemporary (2014)
Creators: Rob Rokicki and Joe Tracz
Summer Song: “The Last Day of Summer”
Musical Type: Contemporary (2007)
Creators: Alan Menken, Howard Ashman, Glenn Slater, and Doug Wright
Summer Song: “Under the Sea”
Musical Type: Golden Age (1956)
Creators: Frank Loesser
Summer Song: “Song of a Summer Night”
Musical Type: Contemporary (2016)
Creators: George Stiles, Anthony Drewe, and Julian Fellowes
Summer Song: “One Swallow Does Not a Summer Make”
Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1971)
Creators: Galt MacDermot, John Guare, and Mel Shapiro
Summer Song: “Summer, Summer”
Musical Type: Golden Age (1952)
Creators: Harold Rome, Arthur Kober, and Joshua Logan
Summer Song: “Summer Afternoon”