# List of musicals: M to Z

This is a list of musicals, including Broadway musicals, West End musicals, and musicals that premiered in other places, as well as film musicals, whose titles fall into the M–Z alphabetic range. (See also List of notable musical theatre productions, List of operettas, List of Bollywood films, List of rock musicals.)
See List of musicals: A to L for additional titles.

## M

M :
| Production | Year | Venue/type | Music | Lyrics | Book | Notes |
| Mack & Mabel | 1974 | Broadway | Jerry Herman | Herman | Michael Stewart | |
| The Mad Show | 1966 | Off-Broadway | Mary Rodgers | Various artists | Larry Siegel and Stan Hart | |
| Made in Dagenham | 2014 | West End | David Arnold | Richard Thomas | Richard Bean | Based on the film of the same name |
| The Madwoman of Central Park West | 1979 | Broadway | Various artists | Various artists | Arthur Laurents and Phyllis Newman | |
| Maggie May | 1964 | West End | Lionel Bart | Bart | Alun Owen | |
| The Magic Basket | 1940 | Australia | Alfred Wheeler | Bronnie Taylor | Bronnie Taylor | 38 amateur productions |
| Magic Gum Tree | 1934 | Australia | Arline Sauer | Arline Sauer | | 26 amateur productions |
| The Magic Mrs. Piggle Wiggle | 2001 | Off-off-Broadway | Chad Henry | Henry | Henry | |
| The Magic of Lassie | 1978 | Film | Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman | Sherman and Sherman | Sherman, Sherman and Jean Holloway | |
| The Maid of the Mountains | 1917 | West End | Harold Fraser-Simson | Harry Graham | Frederick Lonsdale | |
| Make a Wish | 1951 | Broadway | Hugh Martin | Martin | Preston Sturges | |
| Make Me a Song | 2007 | Off-Broadway revue | William Finn | Finn | — | |
| Making Tracks | 1999 | Off-Broadway | Woody Pak | Brian Yorkey | Welly Yang | |
| Mame + film (1974) | 1966 | Broadway | Jerry Herman | Herman | Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee | Notable songs: "Mame", "We Need a Little Christmas" and "If He Walked Into My Life". |
| Mamma Mia! + film (2008) | 1999 | West End | Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson | Ulvaeus, Andersson, and Stig Anderson | Catherine Johnson | Compiled from songs by ABBA. Notable songs: "Dancing Queen", "Does Your Mother Know", and "Mamma Mia". |
| Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again | 2018 | Film | Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson | Ulvaeus, Andersson, and Stig Anderson | Ol Parker | Compiled from songs by ABBA. Sequel to the 2008 film Mamma Mia!. |
| Mam'zelle Champagne | 1906 | Broadway revue | Cassius Freeborn | Edgar Allan Woolf | Woolf | Noted for Harry K. Thaw murdering Stanford White during the opening night performance. |
| The Man from Snowy River: Arena Spectacular | 2002 | Australian | Bruce Rowland, Lee Kernaghan and Garth Porter | Kernaghan and Porter | David Atkins and Ignatius Jones | |
| Man of La Mancha | 1965 | Broadway | Mitch Leigh | Joe Darion | Dale Wasserman | Notable song: "The Impossible Dream". |
| A Man of No Importance | 2002 | Off-Broadway | Stephen Flaherty | Lynn Ahrens | Terrence McNally | Based on the 1994 Film of the same name. |
| The Man With a Load of Mischief | 1966 | Off-Broadway | John Clifton | Ben Tarver and Clifton | Tarver | |
| The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh | 1977 | Animated film | Richard M. Sherman, Robert B. Sherman and Buddy Baker | Sherman and Sherman | Various writers | |
| March of the Falsettos | 1981 | Off-Broadway | William Finn | Finn | Finn | It would later be half of Falsettos. |
| Margie | 1946 | Film | Alfred Newman | Newman | F. Hugh Herbert, Ruth McKenney and Richard Bransten | |
| Marguerite | 2008 | West End | Michel Legrand | Alain Boublil and Herbert Kretzmer | Claude-Michel Schönberg, Boublil and Jonathan Kent | |
| Marie Christine | 1999 | Broadway | Michael John LaChiusa | LaChiusa | LaChiusa | |
| Marinka | 1945 | Broadway | Emmerich Kálmán | George Marion, Jr. | Marion, Jr. and Karl Farkas | |
| Marry Me a Little | 1981 | Off-Broadway revue | Stephen Sondheim | Sondheim | — | |
| Martin Guerre | 1997 | West End | Claude-Michel Schönberg | Alain Boublil and Stephen Clark | Schönberg and Boublil | |
| Mary Poppins + film (1964) | 2004 | West End | Richard M. Sherman, Robert B. Sherman and George Stiles | Sherman, Sherman and Anthony Drewe | Julian Fellowes | Based on the film of the same name. Notable songs: "Chim-Chim-Cheree" and "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious". |
| Mary Poppins Returns | 2018 | Film | Marc Shaiman | Scott Wittman | David Magee | Sequel to the 1964 film Mary Poppins. |
| Matador | 1987 | West End | Mike Leander and Edward Seago | Leander and Seago | Peter Jukes | Notable song: "A Boy from Nowhere". |
| Matilda + film (2022) | 2011 | West End | Tim Minchin | Minchin | Dennis Kelly | Based on a children's novel (Matilda) by Roald Dahl. Had its Broadway premiere in 2013. |
| Maybe Happy Ending | 2017 | South Korea | Will Aronson | Hue Park | | Directed by Kim Dong-yeon (director) |
| Maytime | 1917 | Broadway | Sigmund Romberg | Rida Johnson Young | Young | |
| Me and Juliet | 1953 | Broadway | Richard Rodgers | Oscar Hammerstein II | Hammerstein | |
| Me and My Dick | 2009 | University of Michigan | A.J. Holmes, Carlos Valdes and Darren Criss | Holmes, Valdes and Criss | Matt Lang, Nick Lang, Brian Holden and Eric Kahn Gale | Performed by StarKid Productions. |
| Me and My Girl | 1937 | West End | Noel Gay | Douglas Furber and L. Arthur Rose | Furber and Rose | Notable song: "The Lambeth Walk". |
| The Me Nobody Knows | 1970 | Broadway | Gary William Friedman | Will Holt | Robert H. Livingston, Herb Schapiro and Stephen M. Joseph | |
| Mean Girls | 2017 | Broadway | Jeff Richmond | Nell Benjamin | Tina Fey | Based on the 2004 film of the same name. |
| Meet Me in St. Louis + film (1944) | 1989 | Broadway | Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane | Martin and Blane | Hugh Wheeler | Based on the film of the same name. Notable song: "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas". |
| Meet Mister Future | 2006 | Off-Broadway | Scott Frankel | Michael Korie | Korie | |
| Meet the Feebles | 1989 | Film | Peter Dasent | Dasent | Various writers | |
| Mein Freund Bunbury | 1964 | German | Gerd Natschinski | Jürgen Degenhardt | Helmut Bez and Jürgen Degenhardt | based on Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest |
| Memphis | 2009 | Broadway | David Bryan | Bryan and Joe DiPietro | DiPietro | |
| Menopause | 2001 | Off-off-Broadway | Various artists | Jeanie Linders | Linders | |
| Merlin | 1983 | Broadway | Elmer Bernstein | Don Black | Richard Levinson and William Link | |
| Merrily We Roll Along | 1981 | Broadway | Stephen Sondheim | Sondheim | George Furth | Notable songs: "Good Thing Going" and "Not a Day Goes By". |
| Metropolis | 1989 | West End | Joseph Brooks | Dusty Hughes and Brooks | Hughes | Based on the 1927 movie. |
| Mexican Hayride | 1944 | Broadway | Cole Porter | Porter | Herbert Fields and Dorothy Fields | |
| The Mighty Kong | 1998 | Film | Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman | Sherman and Sherman | William J. Keenan | Based on the 1933 movie King Kong. |
| Milk and Honey | 1961 | Broadway | Jerry Herman | Herman | Don Appell | |
| Millennials | 2022 | Off-West End | Elliot Clay | Elliot Clay | Elliot Clay | |
| Millennium Dome Show | 2000 | Millennium Dome | Peter Gabriel (issued as OVO) | Peter Gabriel | Peter Gabriel | Based on The Story of OVO |
| Million Dollar Quartet | 2010 | Broadway | Various artists | Various artists | Colin Escott and Floyd Mutrux | |
| Minimum Wage | 2007 | Off-Broadway | Sean Altman, Charlie LaGreca, Jeff LaGreca, Michael Gribbin, and Rob Utesch | Sean Altman, Charlie LaGreca, and Jeff LaGreca | Charlie LaGreca and Jeff LaGreca | Notable songs:"All These Dreams", "Kooky, The Happy Burger Clown" and "Minimum Wage Theme" |
| A Minister's Wife | 2011 | Off-Broadway | Joshua Schmidt | Jan Tranen | Austin Pendleton | Based on George Bernard Shaw's Candida. |
| Les Misérables | 1980 | French | Claude-Michel Schönberg | Alain Boublil and Jean-Marc Natel | Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil | |
| Les Misérables | 1985 | West End | Claude-Michel Schönberg | Alain Boublil and Herbert Kretzmer | Schönberg, Boublil, Trevor Nunn, and John Caird | Notable songs: "I Dreamed a Dream", "On My Own" and "Do You Hear the People Sing?". |
| Les Misérables + film (2012) | 1987 | Broadway | Claude-Michel Schönberg | Alain Boublil and Herbert Kretzmer | Schönberg, Boublil, Trevor Nunn, and John Caird | |
| Miss 1917 | 1917 | Broadway revue | Various artists | Various artists | Guy Bolton and P. G. Wodehouse | |
| Miss Liberty | 1949 | Broadway | Irving Berlin | Berlin | Robert E. Sherwood | |
| Miss Saigon | 1989 | West End | Claude-Michel Schönberg | Alain Boublil and Richard Maltby, Jr. | Schönberg and Boublil | Notable song: "Last Night of the World". |
| MJ the Musical | 2022 | Broadway | Michael Jackson | Jackson | Lynn Nottage | |
| Moana | 2016 | Animated film | Lin-Manuel Miranda and Opetaia Foa'i | Miranda and Foa'i | Jared Bush | |
| Moana 2 | 2024 | Animated film | Mark Mancina and Opetaia Foaʻi | Mark Mancina | Jared Bush and Dana Ledoux Miller | |
| Moby Dick | 1992 | West End | Robert Longden and Hereward Kaye | Longden and Kaye | Longden | |
| Moon Landing | 2007 | Off-off-Broadway | Stephen Edwards | Edwards | Edwards | |
| More Than You Deserve | 1973 | Off-Broadway | Jim Steinman | Steinman | Michael Weller | |
| The Most Happy Fella | 1956 | Broadway | Frank Loesser | Loesser | Loesser | Notable song: "Standin' on the Corner". |
| Motown | 2013 | Broadway | Various artists | Various artists | Berry Gordy | |
| Moulin Rouge! + film (2001) | 2018 | Broadway | Various artists | Various artists | John Logan | Based on the 2001 film of the same name. |
| Movin' Out | 2002 | Broadway | Billy Joel | Joel | Joel | |
| Mozart! | 1999 | Austrian | Sylvester Levay | Michael Kunze | Kunze | |
| Mozart, l'opéra rock | 2009 | French | Dove Attia, Jean-Pierre Pilot, Olivier Schultheis, William Rousseau, Nicolas Luciani, Rodrigue Janois and François Castello | Vincent Baguian and Patrice Guirao | Dove Attia and François Chouquet | Notable songs: "Tatoue-moi", "Vivre à en crever", "L'Assasymphonie", "Le bien qui fait mal", "J'accuse mon père" and "C'est bientôt la fin". |
| Mr. Cinders | 1929 | West End | Vivian Ellis and Richard Myers | Clifford Grey and Greatorex Newman | Grey and Newman | |
| Mr. President | 1962 | Broadway | Irving Berlin | Berlin | Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse | |
| Mr. Saturday Night | 2021 | Broadway | Jason Robert Brown | Amanda Green | Billy CrystalLowell GanzBabaloo Mandel | |
| Mr. Wonderful | 1956 | Broadway | Jerry Bock, Larry Holofcener and George David Weiss | Bock, Holofcener and Weiss | Joseph Stein and Will Glickman | |
| Mrs. Doubtfire | 2019 | Broadway | Karey Kirkpatrick and Wayne Kirkpatrick | Karey Kirkpatrick and Wayne Kirkpatrick | Karey Kirkpatrick and John O'Farrell | Based on the 1993 film Mrs. Doubtfire |
| Mrs Henderson Presents | 2015 | West End | George Fenton and Simon Chamberlin | Don Black | Terry Johnson | Based on the film of the same name |
| Mrs. Patterson | 1954 | Broadway | James Shelton (songwriter) | Shelton | Charles Sebree and Greer Johnson | |
| Mrs. Santa Claus | 1996 | Film | Jerry Herman | Herman | Mark Saltzman | Choreography by Rob Marshall |
| Much Ado | 1997 | Off-West End | Bernard J. Taylor | Taylor | Taylor | |
| Mulan | 1998 | Film | Jerry Goldsmith and Matthew Wilder | Goldsmith and Wilder | Robert D. San Souci | |
| Mulan II | 2004 | Film | Joel McNeely | Joel McNeely | Michael Lucker, Chris Parker, and Roger S. H. Schulman | |
| The Muppet Christmas Carol | 1992 | Film | Paul Williams and Miles Goodman | Williams | Jerry Juhl | Muppet adaptation of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol |
| The Muppet Movie | 1979 | Film | Paul Williams and Kenny Ascher | Williams and Ascher | Jack Burns and Jerry Juhl | Notable song: "The Rainbow Connection" |
| Murder Ballad | 2012 | Off-Broadway | Juliana Nash | Nash and Julia Jordan | Jordan | |
| Murder for Two | 2011 | Off-Broadway | Joe Kinosian | Kellen Blair | Kinosian and Blair | |
| Muriel's Wedding | 2017 | Roslyn Packer Theatre, Sydney | Kate Miller-Heidke, Keir Nuttall, ABBA | Miller-Heidke, Nuttall, ABBA | P. J. Hogan | Based on the 1994 film of the same name |
| Music | 2021 | Film | Sia, Labrinth, Craig DeLeon | Sia | | |
| The Music Man + film (1962) + film (2003) | 1957 | Broadway | Meredith Willson | Willson | Willson and Franklin Lacey | Notable song: "Seventy-Six Trombones". |
| Mutiny! | 1985 | West End | David Essex | Richard Crane | Crane | |
| My Fair Lady + film (1964) | 1956 | Broadway | Frederick Loewe | Alan Jay Lerner | Lerner | Notable songs: "I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face" and "I Could Have Danced All Night". |
| My Favorite Year | 1992 | Broadway | Stephen Flaherty | Lynn Ahrens | Joseph Dougherty | |
| My Life With Albertine | 2003 | Off-Broadway | Ricky Ian Gordon | Gordon and Richard Nelson | Nelson | |
| My Little Pony | 2017 | Film | Daniel Ingram | Ingram and Michael Vogel | G. M. Berrow | Based on the television series My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic. Notable songs: "We Got This Together", "I'm The Friend You Need", "Time to Be Awesome", "One Small Thing", "Open Up Your Eyes" and "Rainbow". |
| My One and Only | 1983 | Broadway | George Gershwin | Ira Gershwin | Peter Stone and Timothy S. Mayer | A revised version of the Gershwins' 1927 musical Funny Face. |
| My Scary Girl | 2008 | South Korean | Will Aronson | Kyoung-Ae Kang | Kang | |
| My Son Pinocchio | 2006 | Kansas City | Stephen Schwartz | Stephen Schwartz | David Stern | A retelling of the classic tale of Pinocchio, told from the perspective of his maker and father Geppetto |
| The Mystery of Edwin Drood | 1985 | Broadway | Rupert Holmes | Holmes | Holmes | Notable song "The Writing on the Wall". |
| Mystic Pizza | 2021 | Regional | Various Artists | Various Artists | Sandy Rustin | Based on the 1988 film of the same name. |

## N

N :
| Production | Year | Venue/type | Music | Lyrics | Book | Notes |
| Napoleon | 2000 | Canadian | Timothy Williams | Andrew Sabiston | Williams and Sabiston | |
| Narnia | 1985 | Off-off-Broadway | Thomas Tierney | Ted Drachman | Jules Tasca | |
| Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 | 2016 | Broadway | Dave Malloy | Malloy | Malloy | Electropop opera, Based on Leo Tolstoy's War & Peace |
| Nativity! | 2017 | Birmingham | Debbie Isitt and Nicky Ager | Isitt | Isitt | Based on the 2009 film Nativity! |
| Ned Kelly | 1970 | Film | Shel Silverstein | Silverstein | Ian Jones and Tony Richardson | |
| Netru, Indru, Naalai | 2006 | Indian | A. R. Rahman | Rahman | Rahman | |
| Never Forget | 2008 | West End | Gary Barlow | Barlow | Guy Jones and Ed Curtis | |
| Never Gonna Dance | 2003 | Broadway | Jerome Kern | Various artists | Jeffrey Hatcher | Based on the 1936 RKO film Swing Time. |
| Nevermore: The Imaginary Life and Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe | 2009 | Canadian | Jonathan Christenson | Jonathan Christenson | Jonathan Christenson | Staged Off-Broadway in 2015 |
| A New Brain | 1998 | Off-Broadway | William Finn | Finn | Finn and James Lapine | |
| New Faces of 1952 | 1952 | Broadway revue | Various artists | Various artists | — | |
| New Girl in Town | 1957 | Broadway | Bob Merrill | Merrill | George Abbott | |
| Newsical | 2004 | Off-Broadway | Rick Crom | Crom | Crom | |
| Newsies + film (1992) + film (2017) | 2012 | Broadway | Alan Menken | Jack Feldman | Harvey Fierstein | Based on the film of the same name. |
| Next to Normal | 2009 | Broadway | Tom Kitt | Brian Yorkey | Yorkey | |
| Nice Work If You Can Get It | 2012 | Broadway | George Gershwin | Ira Gershwin | Joe DiPietro | |
| A Night with Janis Joplin | 2013 | Broadway | Janis Joplin | Joplin | Randy Johnson | Jukebox musical detailing the life and music of Janis Joplin. |
| Nightingale | 1982 | Off-West End | Charles Strouse | Strouse | Strouse | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | 1993 | Film | Danny Elfman | Elfman | Caroline Thompson and Michael McDowell | Notable songs: "What's This?", "This Is Halloween", and "Making Christmas". |
| Nine + film (2009) | 1982 | Broadway | Maury Yeston | Yeston | Arthur Kopit | |
| No, No, Nanette | 1925 | Broadway | Vincent Youmans | Irving Caesar and Otto Harbach | Harbach and Frank Mandel | Notable songs: "Tea for Two" and "I Want to Be Happy". |
| No Strings | 1962 | Broadway | Richard Rodgers | Rodgers | Samuel A. Taylor | |
| Nobody's Boy | 1919 | West End | Edward A. Horan | John P. Wilson | William Lestocq | |
| Nord-Ost | 2001 | Russian | Aleksei Ivaschenko and Georgii Vasilyev | Ivaschenko and Vasilyev | Veniamin Kaverin | |
| Nosferatu the Vampire | 1994 | Off-off-Broadway | Bernard J. Taylor | Taylor | Taylor | |
| The Notebook | 2022 | Broadway | Ingrid Michaelson | Michaelson | Bekah Brunstetter | Based on the 1996 novel of the same name, written by Nicholas Sparks. |
| Notre-Dame de Paris | 1998 | French | Riccardo Cocciante | Luc Plamondon | Plamondon | Notable songs: "Les temps des cathedrales", "Belle" and "Vivre". |
| Now. Here. This. | 2012 | Off-Broadway | Jeff Bowen | Bowen | Hunter Bell and Susan Blackwell | |
| Now Is the Time for All Good Men | 1967 | Off-Broadway | Nancy Ford | Gretchen Cryer | Cryer | |
| Nunsense | 1985 | Off-Broadway | Dan Goggin | Goggin | Goggin | |
| Nymph Errant | 1933 | West End | Cole Porter | Porter | Romney Brent | |

## O

O :
| Production | Year | Venue/type | Music | Lyrics | Book | Notes |
| O Marry Me! | 1961 | Off-Broadway | Robert Kessler | Lola Pergament | Pergament | |
| O Pioneers! | 2001 | Off-Broadway | Mel Atkey | Atkey | Robert Sickinger | |
| O Say Can You See! | 1962 | Off-Broadway | Jack Holmes | Bill Conklin and Bob Miller | Conklin and Miller | |
| October Sky | 2016 | Regional | Michael Mahler | Mahler | Brian Hill and Aaron Thielen | Based on the 1999 film of the same name. |
| Of Thee I Sing | 1931 | Broadway | George Gershwin | Ira Gershwin | George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind | Notable song: "Love is Sweeping the Country". |
| Of V We Sing | 1942 | Broadway revue | Various artists | Various artists | Sam Locke, Mel Tolkin and Al Geto | |
| The Office! A Musical Parody | 2018 | Off-Broadway | Assaf Gleizner | Bob and Tobly McSmith | Bob and Tobly McSmith | A musical parody of the television series The Office. |
| Oh, Boy! | 1917 | Broadway | Jerome Kern | Guy Bolton and P. G. Wodehouse | Bolton Wodehouse | Notable song: "Till the Clouds Roll By". |
| Oh! Calcutta! | 1969 | Off-Broadway revue | Peter Schickele, Robert Dennis, and Stanley Walden | Schickele, Dennis, and Walden | Various | |
| Oh, Captain! | 1958 | Broadway | Jay Livingston and Ray Evans | Livingston and Evans | Al Morgan and José Ferrer | |
| Oh, Kay! | 1926 | Broadway | George Gershwin | Ira Gershwin | Guy Bolton and P. G. Wodehouse | Notable song: "Someone to Watch Over Me". |
| Oh, What a Lovely War! + film (1969) | 1963 | West End | Various artists | Various artists | Joan Littlewood and Theatre Workshop | |
| Oil City Symphony | 1987 | Off-Broadway | Various artists | Various artists | Mike Craver, Mark Hardwick, Debra Monk and Mary Murfitt | |
| Oklahoma! + film (1955) | 1943 | Broadway | Richard Rodgers | Oscar Hammerstein II | Hammerstein | Notable songs: "Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin'", "Oklahoma!" and "People Will Say We're in Love". |
| Olaf's Frozen Adventure | 2017 | Featurette | Elyssa Samsel and Kate Anderson | Samsel and Anderson | Jac Schaeffer | |
| Oliver! + film (1968) | 1960 | West End | Lionel Bart | Bart | Bart | Notable songs: "Consider Yourself", "Where is Love?", "As Long As He Needs Me" and "Food, Glorious Food". |
| Oliver & Company | 1988 | Film | J.A.C. Redford | Redford | Jim Cox, Tim Disney and James Mangold | |
| Olympus on My Mind | 1986 | Off-Broadway | Grant Sturiale | Barry Harman | Harman | |
| On a Clear Day You Can See Forever + film (1970) | 1965 | Broadway | Burton Lane | Alan Jay Lerner | Lerner | |
| On the Level | 1966 | West End | Ron Grainer | Grainer | Ronald Millar | |
| On the Record | 2004 | US Tour | Various artists | Various artists | — | |
| On the Town + film (1949) | 1944 | Broadway | Leonard Bernstein | Betty Comden and Adolph Green | Comden and Green | Notable song: "New York, New York". |
| On the Twentieth Century | 1978 | Broadway | Cy Coleman | Betty Comden and Adolph Green | Comden and Green | |
| On Your Feet! | 2015 | Broadway | Emilio Estefan, Gloria Estefan, and Miami Sound Machine | Emilio Estefan and Gloria Estefan | Alexander Dinelaris | Jukebox musical based on the lives and music of Gloria and Emilio Estefan. |
| On Your Toes | 1936 | Broadway | Richard Rodgers | Lorenz Hart | Rodgers, Hart and George Abbott | |
| Once + film (2006) | 2012 | Broadway | Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova | Hansard and Irglova | Enda Walsh | Notable song: "Falling Slowly". |
| Once on This Island | 1990 | Broadway | Stephen Flaherty | Lynn Ahrens | Ahrens | |
| Once Upon a Mattress | 1959 | Off-Broadway | Mary Rodgers | Marshall Barer | Jay Thompson, Barer and Dean Fuller | |
| Once Upon a One More Time | 2021 | Regional | Britney Spears & others | Britney Spears & others | Jon Hartmere | |
| Once Upon a Time at the Adelphi | 2008 | British | Elliot Davis and Phil Willmott | Davis and Willmott | Davis and Willmott | |
| One and One | 1978 | Off-Broadway | Dianne Adams and Richard O'Donnell. | Adams and O'Donnell | Fred Bennett and O'Donnell | |
| The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band | 1968 | Film | Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman | Sherman and Sherman | Lowell S. Hawley | |
| One Touch of Venus | 1943 | Broadway | Kurt Weill | Ogden Nash | S. J. Perelman and Nash | Notable song: "Speak Low". |
| Only Fools and Horses | 2019 | West End | Paul Whitehouse and Jim Sullivan | Whitehouse and Sullivan | Whitehouse and Sullivan | |
| Only the Lonely - The Roy Orbison Story | 1995 | Off-Broadway | Various artists | Various artists | — | |
| Opening Night | 2024 | West End | Rufus Wainwright | Wainwright | Ivo van Hove | Based on the 1977 film of the same name by John Cassavetes. |
| Operation Mincemeat | 2019 | West End | David Cumming, Felix Hagan, Natasha Hodgson, and Zoë Roberts | Cumming, Hagan, Hodgson, and Roberts | Cumming, Hagan, Hodgson, and Roberts | |
| Ordinary Days | 2009 | Off-Broadway | Adam Gwon | Gwon | Gwon | |
| The Osmonds | 2022 | Touring | Various | Various | Julian Bigg, Shaun Kerrison and Jay Osmond (story) | |
| Our House | 2002 | West End | Madness | Madness | Tim Firth | |
| Our Miss Gibbs | 1909 | West End | Ivan Caryll and Lionel Monckton | Adrian Ross and Percy Greenbank | Cryptos and James T. Tanner | |
| Out of This World | 1950 | Broadway | Cole Porter | Porter | Dwight Taylor and Reginald Lawrence | |
| The Outsiders | 2024 | Broadway | Jonathan Clay and Zach Chance | Justin Levine | Adam Rapp | Based on the novel The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton, and on the 1983 film adaptation written by Kathleen Rowell and directed by Francis Ford Coppola. |
| Over Here! | 1974 | Broadway | Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman | Sherman and Sherman | Will Holt | |

## P

P :
| Production | Year | Venue/type | Music | Lyrics | Book | Notesfilm |
| Pacific 1860 | 1946 | West End | Noël Coward | Coward | Coward | |
| Pacific Overtures | 1976 | Broadway | Stephen Sondheim | Sondheim | John Weidman | |
| Paint Your Wagon + film (1969) | 1951 | Broadway | Frederick Loewe | Alan Jay Lerner | Lerner | Notable song: "Wand'rin' Star". |
| The Pajama Game + film (1957) | 1954 | Broadway | Richard Adler and Jerry Ross | Adler and Ross | George Abbott and Richard Bissell | Notable songs: "Steam Heat" and "Hernando's Hideaway". |
| Pal Joey + film (1957) | 1940 | Broadway | Richard Rodgers | Lorenz Hart | John O'Hara | Notable song: "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered". |
| Panama Hattie | 1940 | Broadway | Cole Porter | Porter | Herbert Fields and B. G. DeSylva | |
| Parade | 1998 | Broadway | Jason Robert Brown | Brown | Alfred Uhry | |
| Paradise Square | 2018 | Broadway | Jason Howland | Masi Asare and Nathan Tysen | Christina AndersonLarry KirwanCraig Lucas | Hard Timesby Larry Kirwan |
| Paris | 1928 | Broadway | Cole Porter, Walter Kollo, and Louis Alter | Porter, E. Ray Goetz, and Roy Turk | Martin Brown | |
| Paris | 2003 | Australian | Jon English and David MacKay | English and MacKay | English and MacKay | |
| Passing Strange | 2008 | Broadway | Stew and Heidi Rodewald | Stew | Stew | |
| Passion | 1994 | Broadway | Stephen Sondheim | Sondheim | James Lapine | |
| The Passion Flower Hotel | 1965 | West End | John Barry | Trevor Peacock | Wolf Mankowitz | |
| Pennies from Heaven | 1981 | Film | Various artists | Various artists | Dennis Potter | |
| Perchance to Dream | 1945 | West End | Ivor Novello | Novello | Novello | |
| The Perfect City | 2014 | Off-off-West End | Martin Coslett | Ross Clark | Andrew Miller | |
| Perfect Harmony | 2010 | Off-Broadway | Various artists | Various artists | Andrew Grosso and The Essentials | |
| The Perils of Pauline | 1947 | Film | Robert Emmett Dolan | Dolan | P.J. Wolfson and Frank Butler | |
| Peter Pan | 1950 | Broadway | Leonard Bernstein | Bernstein | J. M. Barrie | |
| Peter Pan | 1953 | Animated film | Frank Churchill and Sammy Fain | Various artists | Various writers | |
| Peter Pan | 1954 | Broadway | Mark Charlap and Jule Styne | Betty Comden, Adolph Green, and Carolyn Leigh | J. M. Barrie | |
| Peter Pan | 1996 | Danish | George Stiles and Anthony Drewe | Stiles and Drewe | Willis Hall | |
| Pete's Dragon | 1977 | Animated film | Al Kasha and Joel Hirschhorn | Kasha and Hirschhorn | Malcolm Marmorstein | Notable song: "Candle on the Water". |
| Le Petit Prince | 2002 | French | Richard Cocciante | Cocciante | Cocciante | |
| Phantom | 1991 | Regional | Maury Yeston | Yeston | Arthur Kopit | |
| Phantom of the Opera | 1976 | West End | Ken Hill | Hill | Hill | |
| The Phantom of the Opera + film (2004) | 1986 | Broadway | Andrew Lloyd Webber | Charles Hart | Lloyd Webber and Richard Stilgoe | Notable songs: "The Phantom of the Opera" and "The Music of the Night". |
| The Phantom Tollbooth | 1995 | Off-Broadway | Arnold Black | Sheldon Harnick | Norton Juster and Harnick | |
| Phi-Phi | 1918 | French | Henri Christiné | Albert Willemetz and Fabien Solar | Willemetz and Solar | |
| Pickwick | 1963 | West End | Cyril Ornadel | Leslie Bricusse | Wolf Mankowitz | |
| Pieces of Eight | 1985 | Off-West End | Jule Styne | Susan Birkenhead | Michael Stewart and Mark Bramble | |
| Pink Floyd – The Wall | 1982 | Film | Pink Floyd, Bob Ezrin and Michael Kamen | Floyd, Ezrin and Kamen | Roger Waters | |
| Pinocchio | 1940 | Animated film | Leigh Harline and Paul J. Smith | Harline and Smith | Various writers | Notable song: "When You Wish Upon a Star". |
| Pins and Needles | 1937 | Broadway revue | Harold Rome | Rome | Various writers | |
| Pipe Dream | 1955 | Broadway | Richard Rodgers | Oscar Hammerstein II | Hammerstein | |
| Pippin | 1972 | Broadway | Stephen Schwartz | Schwartz | Roger O. Hirson | |
| The Pirate Queen | 2007 | Broadway | Claude-Michel Schönberg | Alain Boublil and Richard Maltby, Jr. | Schönberg, Boublil and Maltby, Jr. | Notable song: "Woman". |
| The Pirates of Penzance | 1879 | Fifth Avenue Theatre | Arthur Sullivan | W.S. Gilbert | | Notable song: "I am the very model of a modern Major-General". |
| Pitch Perfect | 2012 | Film | Christophe Beck and Mark Kilian | Beck and Kilian | Kay Cannon | |
| Pitch Perfect 2 | 2015 | Film | Mark Mothersbaugh | Mothersbaugh | Kay Cannon | |
| Pitch Perfect 3 | 2017 | Film | Christopher Lennertz | Lennertz | Kay Cannon and Mike White | |
| Plain and Fancy | 1955 | Broadway | Albert Hague | Arnold Horwitt | Joseph Stein and Will Glickman | |
| Platinum | 1978 | Broadway | Gary William Friedman | Will Holt | Holt and Bruce Vilanch | |
| Play On! | 1997 | Broadway | Duke Ellington | Various artists | Cheryl West | |
| La Plume de Ma Tante | 1958 | Broadway revue | Gérard Calvi | Ross Parker and Francis Blanche | Robert Dhéry | |
| Pocahontas | 1995 | Animated film | Alan Menken | Stephen Schwartz | Carl Binder, Susannah Grant and Philip LaZebnik | Notable song: "Colors of the Wind". |
| Pokémon Live! | 2001 | US Tour | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | |
| Poor Little Rich Girl | 1936 | Film | Mack Gordon and Harry Revel | Gordon and Revel | Sam Hellman, Gladys Lehman and Harry Tugend | |
| Popeye | 1980 | Film | Harry Nilsson and Tom Pierson | Nilsson and Pierson | Jules Feiffer | |
| Porgy and Bess + film (1959) | 1935 | Broadway | George Gershwin | DuBose Heyward and Ira Gershwin | Heyward | Notable song: "Summertime". |
| Portofino | 1958 | Broadway | Louis Bellson and Will Irwin | Richard Ney and Sheldon Harnick | Ney | |
| Pretty Woman | 2018 | Broadway | Bryan Adams and Jim Vallance | Bryan Adams and Jim Vallance | Garry Marshall and J. F. Lawton | |
| Pride and Prejudice | 1993 | Off-off-Broadway | Bernard J. Taylor | Taylor | Taylor | |
| The Prince and the Pauper | 2002 | Off-Broadway | Neil Berg | Berg | Mark Twain | |
| Prince of Broadway | 2015 | Broadway revue | Jason Robert Brown | Brown | David Thompson | |
| The Prince of Egypt + film (1998) | 2017 | West End | Stephen Schwartz | Schwartz | Philip LaZebnik | |
| The Princess and the Frog | 2009 | Animated film | Randy Newman | Newman | Ron Clements, John Musker, and Rob Edwards | |
| Priscilla, Queen of the Desert | 2006 | Sydney Lyric | Various artists | Various artists | Stephan Elliott and Allan Scott | |
| The Producers + film (2005) | 2001 | Broadway | Mel Brooks | Brooks | Brooks and Thomas Meehan | Notable songs: "Springtime for Hitler", "I Wanna Be a Producer", and "Keep It Gay" |
| The Prom + film (2020) | 2016 | Broadway | Matthew Sklar | Chad Beguelin | Bob Martin and Chad Beguelin | |
| Promenade | 1969 | Off-Broadway | Al Carmines | María Irene Fornés | Fornés | |
| Promises, Promises | 1968 | Broadway | Burt Bacharach | Hal David | Neil Simon | Notable song: "I Say a Little Prayer". |
| Pump Boys and Dinettes | 1982 | Broadway | Various artists | Various artists | Various writers | |
| Purlie | 1970 | Broadway | Gary Geld | Peter Udell | Ossie Davis, Philip Rose and Udell | |
| Puteri Gunung Ledang | 2006 | Malaysian | Dick Lee | Adlin Aman Ramlie | Saw Teong Hin, Zahim Albakri and Ramlie | |

## Q

Q :
| Production | Year | Venue/type | Music | Lyrics | Book | Notes |
| Quadrophenia | 1996 | Off-Broadway | Pete Townshend | Townshend | Townshend | Notable song: "Love Reign O'er Me". |
| Queen O' Hearts | 1922 | Broadway | Lewis E. Gensler and Dudley Wilkinson | Oscar Hammerstein II | Hammerstein and Frank Mandel | |
| Queen of the Mist | 2011 | Off-Broadway | Michael John LaChiusa | | | |
| Quilters | 1984 | Broadway | Barbara Damashek | Damashek | Molly Newman and Damashek | |

## R

R :
| Production | Year | Venue/type | Music | Lyrics | Book | Notes |
| The Race to Urga | 1969 | Workshop | Leonard Bernstein | Stephen Sondheim | John Guare | |
| Rachael Lily Rosenbloom (And Don't You Ever Forget It) | 1973 | Broadway | Paul Jabara | Jabara | Jabara and Tom Eyen | |
| Raggedy Ann | 1986 | Broadway | Joe Raposo | Raposo | William Gibson | Also known as Rag Dolly |
| Raggedy Ann & Andy | 1977 | Animated film | Joe Raposo | Raposo | Patricia Thackray and Max Wilk | Notable songs: "Rag Dolly", "No Girl's Toy", "Blue", and "Candy Hearts and Paper Flowers". |
| Rags | 1986 | Broadway | Charles Strouse | Stephen Schwartz | Joseph Stein | |
| Ragtime | 1998 | Broadway | Stephen Flaherty | Lynn Ahrens | Terrence McNally | Notable songs: "Wheels of a Dream" and "Your Daddy's Son". |
| Rain: A Tribute to the Beatles | 2010 | Neil Simon Theatre | Founding members of the band Reign | | | Beatles tribute and theatrical production |
| Raise Your Voice | 2004 | Film | Aaron Zigman and Machine Head | Aaron Zigman and Machine Head | Mitch Rotter | |
| Raisin | 1973 | Broadway | Judd Woldin | Robert Brittan | Robert B. Nemiroff and Charlotte Zaltzberg | |
| Randy Newman's Faust | 1995 | Off-Broadway | Randy Newman | Newman | Newman | |
| Ratatouille the Musical | 2021 | Benefit concert | Various | Various | Michael Breslin and Patrick Foley | |
| Rebecca | 2006 | Austrian | Sylvester Levay | Michael Kunze | Kunze | |
| Red, Hot and Blue | 1936 | Broadway | Cole Porter | Porter | Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse | Star vehicle for Ethel Merman and Jimmy Durante. |
| Red Pepper | 1922 | Broadway | Owen Murphy and Albert Gumble | Howard Rogers and Murphy | Edgar Smith and Emily Young | |
| The Red Shoes | 1993 | Broadway | Jule Styne | Marsha Norman and Bob Merrill | Norman | |
| Red, White and Maddox | 1969 | Broadway | Don Tucker | Tucker | Jay Broad and Tucker | |
| Redhead | 1959 | Broadway | Albert Hague | Dorothy Fields | Herbert Fields, Sidney Sheldon, David Shaw and Fields | |
| Reefer Madness + film (2005) | 2004 | Off-Broadway | Dan Studney | Kevin Murphy | Murphy | |
| Rent + film (2005) | 1996 | Off-Broadway | Jonathan Larson | Larson | Larson | Notable songs: "Seasons of Love", "La Vie Bohème" and "Take Me or Leave Me". |
| Repo! The Genetic Opera | 2008 | Film | Terrance Zdunich and Darren Smith | Zdunich and Smith | Zdunich and Smith | Notable songs: "Zydrate Anatomy", "Mark it Up" and "Seventeen". |
| Return to the Forbidden Planet | 1989 | West End jukebox | Various artists | Various artists | Bob Carlton | |
| La Révolution Française | 1973 | French | Claude-Michel Schönberg and Raymond Jeannot | Alain Boublil and Jean-Max Rivière | Boublil and Rivière | |
| Revolution in the Elbow of Ragnar Agnarsson Furniture Painter | 2014 | Off-Broadway | Ívar Páll Jónsson | Jónsson | Jónsson | |
| Rex | 1976 | Broadway | Richard Rodgers | Sheldon Harnick | Sherman Yellen | |
| Ride the Cyclone | 2008 | Off-Broadway | Jacob Richmond and Brooke Maxwell | Jacob Richmond and Brooke Maxwell | Jacob Richmond and Brooke Maxwell | Notable song: "Noel's Lament". |
| The Rink | 1984 | Broadway | John Kander | Fred Ebb | Terrence McNally | |
| Riverwind | 1962 | Off-Broadway | John Jennings | Jennings | Jennings | |
| Road Show | 2003 | Off-Broadway | Stephen Sondheim | Sondheim | John Weidman | Retitled from Bounce |
| Road to Morocco | 1942 | Film | Jimmy Van Heusen | Johnny Burke | Frank Butler and Don Hartman | |
| Road to Singapore | 1940 | Film | James V. Monaco and Victor Schertzinger | Johnny Burke | Frank Butler, Don Hartman and Harry Hervey | |
| Road to Utopia | 1945 | Film | Jimmy Van Heusen | Johnny Burke | Melvin Frank and Norman Panama | |
| Road to Zanzibar | 1941 | Film | Jimmy Van Heusen and D. Costa | Johnny Burke and John Howard Payne | Sy Bartlett, Frank Butler and Don Hartman | |
| The Roar of the Greasepaint – The Smell of the Crowd | 1965 | UK Tour | Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley | Bricusse and Newley | Bricusse and Newley | |
| The Robber Bridegroom | 1975 | Broadway | Robert Waldman | Alfred Uhry | Uhry | |
| Robert and Elizabeth | 1964 | West End | Ron Grainer | Ronald Millar | Millar | |
| Roberta + film (1935) | 1933 | Broadway | Jerome Kern | Otto Harbach | Harbach | |
| Robinson Crusoe | 1917 | Australia | Herbert De Pinna and Bert Rache | Victor Prince | Daniel DeFoe | Vaudeville style comedy in which the title and concept are owed to the book author, but the content is sparsely related. |
| Rock 'n Roll Café | 2012 | Off-Broadway | Bernard J. Taylor | Taylor | Taylor | |
| Rock of Ages + film (2012) | 2006 | Broadway jukebox | Various artists | Various artists | Chris D'Arienzo | |
| Rockabye Hamlet | 1974 | Canadian | Cliff Jones | Jones | Jones | |
| Rockville | 2009 | Off-Broadway | Martin Gellner and Werner Stranka | Gellner, Stranka and Kim Duddy | Duddy | |
| Rocky | 2014 | Broadway | Stephen Flaherty | Lynn Ahrens | Thomas Meehan | Based on the film of the same name. |
| The Rocky Horror Show + film (1975) | 1973 | West End | Richard O'Brien | O'Brien | O'Brien | Notable songs: "The Time Warp" and "Sweet Transvestite". |
| Le Roi Soleil | 2005 | French | Various artists | Lionel Florence and Patrice Guirao | Kamel Ouali | |
| Roman Holiday | 2001 | Regional | Cole Porter | Porter | Paul Blake, Kathy Speer, and Terry Grossman | Based on the 1953 film of the same name. |
| Romance in Hard Times | 1989 | Off-Broadway | William Finn | Finn | Finn | |
| Romance/Romance | 1988 | Broadway | Keith Herrmann | Barry Harman | Harman | |
| Roméo et Juliette, de la Haine à l'Amour | 2001 | French | Gérard Presgurvic | Presgurvic | Presgurvic | Notable songs: "Les Rois du monde", "Aimer" and "On Dit Dans La Rue". |
| Rosalie + film (1937) | 1928 | Broadway | George Gershwin and Sigmund Romberg | Ira Gershwin and P.G. Wodehouse | William Anthony McGuire and Guy Bolton | Cole Porter composed an almost entirely new score for the film adaptation. |
| Rose-Marie | 1924 | Broadway | Rudolf Friml and Herbert Stothart | Otto Harbach and Oscar Hammerstein II | Harbach and Hammerstein | |
| The Rothschilds | 1970 | Broadway | Jerry Bock | Sheldon Harnick | Sherman Yellen | |
| Rover Dangerfield | 1991 | Film | David Newman | Newman | Rodney Dangerfield | |
| Royal Wedding | 1951 | Film | Burton Lane | Alan Jay Lerner | Lerner | |
| Rudolf | 2009 | Austrian | Frank Wildhorn | Jack Murphy and Nan Knighton | Murphy and Phoebe Hwang | |
| Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer | 1964 | TV special | Johnny Marks | Johnny Marks | Marks | Notable songs: "There's Always Tomorrow", "Silver and Gold" and "A Holly Jolly Christmas" |
| A Runaway Girl | 1898 | West End | Ivan Caryll and Lionel Monckton | Aubrey Hopwood and Harry Greenbank | Seymour Hicks and Harry Nicholls | |
| Runaways | 1978 | Broadway | Elizabeth Swados | Swados | Swados | |

## S

S :
| Production | Year | Venue/type | Music | Lyrics | Book | Notes |
| Sadie Thompson | 1944 | Broadway | Vernon Duke | Howard Dietz | Dietz and Rouben Mamoulian | |
| Sail Away | 1961 | Broadway | Noël Coward | Coward | Coward | |
| Salad Days | 1954 | West End | Julian Slade | Slade and Dorothy Reynolds | Slade and Reynolds | |
| Sally | 1925 | Broadway | Jerome Kern | Clifford Grey | Guy Bolton | |
| Saludos Amigos | 1942 | Film | Charles Wolcott, Edward H. Plumb and Paul J. Smith | Wolcott, Plumb and Smith | Various writers | |
| Salvation | 1969 | Off-Broadway | Peter Link and C.C. Courtney | Link and Courtney | Link and Courtney | |
| San Francisco | 1936 | Film | Bronislaw Kaper and Walter Jurmann | Gus Kahn | Robert E. Hopkins and Anita Loos | |
| The Sap of Life | 1961 | Off-Broadway | David Shire | Richard Maltby, Jr. | Maltby, Jr. | |
| Sarafina! | 1988 | Broadway | Mbongeni Ngema | Ngema | Ngema | |
| Saratoga | 1959 | Broadway | Harold Arlen | Johnny Mercer | Morton DaCosta | |
| Saturday Night | 2000 | Off-Broadway | Stephen Sondheim | Stephen Sondheim | Julius J. Epstein and Philip G. Epstein | |
| Saturday Night Fever | 2000 | Broadway | Bee Gees | Bee Gees | Nan Knighton | |
| Saucy Jack and the Space Vixens | 1995 | West End | Jonathan Croose and Robin Forrest | Charlotte Mann and Michael Fidler | Mann and Fidler | |
| Saved | 2008 | Off-Broadway | Michael Friedman | Friedman | John Dempsey and Rinne Groff | |
| Say, Darling | 1958 | Broadway | Jule Styne | Betty Comden and Adolph Green | Abe Burrows, Marian Bissell and Richard Bissell | |
| Say It with Songs | 1929 | Film | Dave Dreyer and Billy Rose | Dreyer and Rose | Joseph Jackson, Darryl F. Zanuck and Harvey Gates | |
| Say When | 1934 | Broadway | Ray Henderson | Ted Koehler | Jack McGowan | |
| Scandalous | 2012 | Broadway | David Pomeranz and David Friedman | Kathie Lee Gifford | Gifford | |
| The Scarlet Pimpernel | 1997 | Broadway | Frank Wildhorn | Nan Knighton | Knighton | |
| School of Rock | 2015 | Broadway | Andrew Lloyd Webber | Glenn Slater | Julian Fellowes | |
| Schwestern im Geiste | 2014 | Neuköllner Oper, Berlin | Thomas Zaufke | Peter Lund | Lund and Zaufke | |
| The Scottsboro Boys | 2010 | West End | John Kander | Fred Ebb | David Thompson | |
| Scrooge | 1970 | Film | Leslie Bricusse | Bricusse | Bricusse | A musical film adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic 1843 story, A Christmas Carol. |
| Second Chance | 2009 | French | Frédérick Desroches | Stéphane Prémont and Alexandre Martel | Prémont, Jean-Pierre Cloutier and Joëlle Bourdon | |
| The Secret Garden | 1991 | Broadway | Lucy Simon | Marsha Norman | Norman | |
| The Secret Life of Walter Mitty | 1964 | Off-Broadway | Leon Carr | Carr | Carr | |
| See Rock City & Other Destinations | 2010 | Off-Broadway | Brad Alexander | Adam Mathias | Mathias | |
| See What I Wanna See | 2005 | Off-Broadway | Michael John LaChiusa | LaChiusa | LaChiusa | |
| See You Later | 1951 | West End | Sandy Wilson | Wilson | Wilson | |
| Seesaw | 1973 | Broadway | Cy Coleman | Dorothy Fields | Michael Bennett | |
| Sergeant Brue | 1904 | West End | Liza Lehmann | J. Hickory Wood | Owen Hall | |
| Seussical | 2000 | Broadway | Stephen Flaherty | Lynn Ahrens | Flaherty and Ahrens | Based on the works of Dr. Seuss. |
| Seven Brides for Seven Brothers + film (1954) | 1982 | Broadway | Gene de Paul, Al Kasha and Joel Hirschhorn | Johnny Mercer, Kasha and Hirschhorn | Lawrence Kasha and David Landay | Based on the 1954 Stanley Donen film of the same name. |
| Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band | 1978 | Film | The Beatles | The Beatles | Henry Edwards | |
| Shangri-La | 1956 | Broadway | Harry Warren | James Hilton, Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee | Hilton, Lawrence and Lee | |
| Sharpay's Fabulous Adventure | 2011 | Film | George S. Clinton | Clinton | Robert Horn | Direct-to-DVD spin-off of High School Musical. |
| She Loves Me | 1963 | Broadway | Jerry Bock | Sheldon Harnick | Joe Masteroff | |
| Shenandoah | 1975 | Broadway | Gary Geld | Peter Udell | Udell, James Lee Barrett and Philip Rose | |
| Shinbone Alley | 1957 | Broadway | George Kleinsinger | Joe Darion | Darion and Mel Brooks | Also performed as archy & mehitabel. |
| Shock Treatment | 1981 | Film | Richard Hartley and Richard O'Brien | O'Brien | Jim Sharman and O'Brien | |
| Shockheaded Peter | 1998 | Off-West End | Adrian Huge, Martyn Jacques and Adrian Stout | Jacques | Julian Bleach, Anthony Cairns, Graeme Gilmour and Tamzin Griffin | |
| Shout! The Mod Musical | 2006 | Off-Broadway | Various artists | Various artists | Phillip George and David Lowenstein | |
| Show Boat | 1927 | Broadway | Jerome Kern | Oscar Hammerstein II and P. G. Wodehouse | Hammerstein II | Notable songs: "Ol' Man River", "Bill", "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man". |
| Show Girl | 1929 | Broadway | George Gershwin | Ira Gershwin and Gus Kahn | William Anthony McGuire | |
| Showgirls! The Musical | 2013 | Off-Broadway | Bob and Tobly McSmith | Bob and Tobly McSmith | Bob and Tobly McSmith | A musical parody of the film Showgirls. |
| Showtune | 2003 | Off-Broadway revue | Jerry Herman | Herman | Paul Gilger | Premiered in San Francisco in 1985 as "Tune the Grand Up", with revivals in London in 1998 as "The Best of Times". |
| Shrek | 2009 | Broadway | Jeanine Tesori | David Lindsay-Abaire | Lindsay-Abaire | Notable songs: "Freak Flag" and "I Think I Got You Beat". |
| Shucked | 2022 | Broadway | Brandy Clark and Shane McAnally | Clark and McAnally | Robert Horn | |
| Side by Side by Sondheim | 1976 | West End revue | Stephen Sondheim, Leonard Bernstein, Mary Rodgers, Richard Rodgers and Jule Styne | Sondheim | — | |
| Side Show | 1997 | Broadway | Henry Krieger | Bill Russell | Russell | |
| Silk Stockings + film (1957) | 1955 | Broadway | Cole Porter | Porter | George S. Kaufman, Leueen MacGrath and Abe Burrows | |
| Sing | 1989 | Film | Jay Gruska | Gruska and Dean Pitchford | Pitchford | |
| Sing | 2016 | Film | Joby Talbot | Various | — | |
| Sing As We Go | 1934 | Film | Ernest Irving | Irving | Gordon Wellesley and J. B. Priestley | |
| Singin' in the Rain + film (1952) | 1983 | West End | Nacio Herb Brown | Arthur Freed | Betty Comden and Adolph Green | Adapted from the 1952 movie of the same name, the plot closely adheres to the original. Notable songs: "Singin' in the Rain" and "Make 'Em Laugh". |
| Sister Act | 2009 | West End | Alan Menken | Glenn Slater | Bill and Cheri Steinkellner | |
| Six | 2017 | West End | Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss | Marlow and Moss | Marlow and Moss | |
| Skittles Commercial | 2019 | The Town Hall (New York City) | Drew Gasparini | Nathaniel Lawlor | Lawlor and Will Eno | A live, one-night-only, staged musical commercial by Skittles that benefited Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. |
| Skyscraper | 1965 | Broadway | Jimmy Van Heusen | Sammy Cahn | Peter Stone | |
| Sleeping Beauty | 1959 | Animated film | George Bruns | Bruns | Erdman Penner | Notable song: "Once Upon a Dream". |
| The Slipper and the Rose | 2001 | Off-West End | Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman | Angela Morley | Morley | Retelling of the classic fairy tale of Cinderella. |
| Smike | 1973 | Film | Roger Holman and Simon May | Holman and May | May and Clive Barnett | Adaptation of Nicholas Nickleby. |
| Smile | 1986 | Broadway | Marvin Hamlisch | Howard Ashman | Ashman | |
| Smiling the Boy Fell Dead | 1961 | Off-Broadway | David Baker | Sheldon Harnick | Ira Wallach | |
| Smoke on the Mountain | 1988 | Off-Broadway | Connie Ray | Ray | Ray | |
| Smokey Joe's Cafe | 1995 | Broadway revue | Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller | Leiber and Stoller | — | |
| Snoopy! | 1975 | Off-Broadway | Larry Grossman | Hal Hackady | Warren Lockhart, Arthur Whitelaw and Michael Grace | |
| Snoopy Come Home | 1972 | Film | Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman | Sherman and Sherman | Charles M. Schulz | |
| Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs + film (1937) | 1969 | Regional (The Muny and Radio City Music Hall) | Jay Blackton | Joe Cook | Cook | Based on the 1937 animated film of the same name. |
| Snow.Wolf.Lake | 1997 | Chinese | Guo Sai Cheung, Dick Lee, Iskandar Ismail and Lam Ming Yeung | Lam, Jang Keung, Albert Leung, Choo, Sin Man and Jacky Cheung | Cheung | |
| Soho Cinders | 2011 | British | George Stiles | Anthony Drewe | Drewe and Elliot Davis | |
| Some Like It Hot | 2022 | Shubert Theatre | Marc Shaiman | Scott Wittman | Matthew López and Amber Ruffin | Adapted from the 1959 film by Billy Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond |
| Someone Like You | 1989 | West End | Petula Clark | Dee Shipman | Robin Midgley and Fay Weldon | |
| Something Rotten! | 2015 | Broadway | Wayne Kirkpatrick and Karey Kirkpatrick | Wayne Kirkpatrick and Karey Kirkpatrick | Karey Kirkpatrick and John O'Farrell | |
| Sondheim on Sondheim | 2010 | Broadway revue | Stephen Sondheim and others | Sondheim | James Lapine | |
| Song and Dance | 1982 | West End | Andrew Lloyd Webber | Don Black and Richard Maltby, Jr. | Lloyd Webber | Notable songs: "Unexpected Song" and "Tell Me on a Sunday". |
| Song of Norway | 1944 | Broadway | Edvard Grieg | Robert Wright and George Forrest | Milton Lazarus and Homer Curran | |
| Songs for a New World | 1995 | Off-Broadway | Jason Robert Brown | Brown | Brown | |
| Sophisticated Ladies | 1981 | Broadway | Duke Ellington | Various artists | Donald McKayle | |
| Soul Men | 2008 | Film | Stanley Clarke | Clarke | Robert Ramsey and Matthew Stone | |
| Soul Sister | 2012 | West End | Various | Various | John Miller and Pete Brooks | Featuring the songs of Tina Turner |
| The Sound of Music + film (1965) | 1959 | Broadway | Richard Rodgers | Oscar Hammerstein II | Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse | Notable songs: "Do-Re-Mi", "Climb Ev'ry Mountain", "The Sound of Music" and "My Favorite Things". |
| South Pacific + film (1958) | 1949 | Broadway | Richard Rodgers | Oscar Hammerstein II | Hammerstein II and Joshua Logan | Notable songs: "Bali Ha'i", "Some Enchanted Evening", "Younger Than Springtime" and "Happy Talk". |
| South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut | 1999 | Animated film | Trey Parker and Marc Shaiman | Parker and Shaiman | Parker, Matt Stone and Pam Brady | Notable songs: "Blame Canada", "Uncle Fucker", "It's Easy, Mmkay" and "Kyle's Mom is a Big, Fat, Bitch". |
| Soviet Zion | 2015 | London | Giles Howe and Katy Lipson | Howe | G. Howe and Roberto Trippini | Premiered at Jewish Museum London and transferred to The Lost Theatre (now Stockwell Playhouse, London). Concept album released 2021 with bonus album of selections in Yiddish. |
| Spamalot | 2005 | Broadway | John Du Prez, Eric Idle and Neil Innes | Idle | Idle | Notable songs: "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life" and "The Song That Goes Like This". |
| Spectacular! | 2009 | Film | Various artists | Various artists | Jim Kreig | |
| Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark | 2010 | Broadway | Bono, The Edge | Bono, The Edge | Julie Taymor, Glen Berger, and Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa | |
| The Spitfire Grill | 2001 | Off-Broadway | James Valcq | Fred Alley | Valcq and Alley | |
| SpongeBob SquarePants | 2016 | Broadway | Various | Various | Kyle Jarrow | |
| Spring Awakening | 2006 | Broadway | Duncan Sheik | Steven Sater | Sater | Notables songs: "Mama Who Bore Me", "The Bitch of Living" and "The Song of Purple Summer". |
| St. Louis Woman | 1946 | Broadway | Harold Arlen | Johnny Mercer | Arna Bontemps and Countee Cullen | |
| Standing at the Sky's Edge | 2019 | West End | Richard Hawley | Hawley | Chris Bush | |
| A Star Is Born (1954), (1976), + (2018) | 1954, 1976, 2018 | Film | Various | Various | Various | All three films were based on the 1937 film of the same name. |
| Starlight Express | 1984 | West End | Andrew Lloyd Webber | Richard Stilgoe | Lloyd Webber and Stilgoe | Notable songs: "U.N.C.O.U.P.L.E.D.", "Starlight Express" and "Light at the End of the Tunnel". |
| Starmania | 1976 | French and Canadian | Michel Berger | Luc Plamondon | Plamondon | Notable songs: "Un garçon pas comme les autres" (English: "Ziggy"), "Le monde est stone" (English: "The World is Stone") |
| Starmites | 1989 | Broadway | Barry Keating | Keating | Stuart Ross and Keating | |
| Starship | 2011 | Off-off-Broadway | Darren Criss | Criss | Matt Lang, Nick Lang, Brian Holden and Joe Walker | Performed by StarKid Productions. |
| Starting Here, Starting Now | 1976 | Off-Broadway revue | David Shire | Richard Maltby, Jr. | — | |
| State Fair + film (1945) | 1996 | Broadway | Richard Rodgers | Oscar Hammerstein II | Tom Briggs and Louis Mattioli | Based on the film of the same name. Notable songs: "It Might as Well Be Spring", "It's A Grand Night for Singing" and "Isn't It Kind of Fun?". |
| Steel Pier | 1997 | Broadway | John Kander | Fred Ebb | David Thompson | |
| Step Up: All In | 2014 | Las Vegas | Dolby Digital | Don Black and Christopher Hampton | Black and Hampton | |
| Stephen Ward | 2013 | West End | Andrew Lloyd Webber | Don Black and Christopher Hampton | Black and Hampton | |
| Stingray Sam | 2009 | Film | Cory McAbee | McAbee | McAbee | |
| Stop the World – I Want to Get Off | 1961 | West End | Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley | Bricusse and Newley | Bricusse and Newley | |
| The Story of My Life | 2009 | Broadway | Neil Bartram | Neil Bartram | Brian Hill | |
| Street Scene | 1947 | Broadway | Kurt Weill | Elmer Rice | Elmer Rice | |
| Strider (musical) | 1979 | Broadway | Norman L. Berman | Steven Brown (lyricist) | Mark Rozovsky | |
| Strike Up the Band | 1930 | Broadway | George Gershwin | Ira Gershwin | Morrie Ryskind | Notable song: "Strike Up the Band". |
| The Stripper | 1982 | Australian | Richard Hartley | Richard O'Brien | Carter Brown | |
| The Student Prince | 1924 | Broadway | Sigmund Romberg | Dorothy Donnelly | Donnelly | Longest-running musical of the 1920s, until Show Boat. |
| Subways Are For Sleeping | 1961 | Broadway | Jule Styne | Betty Comden and Adolph Green | Comden and Green |
| Suffs | 2022 | Off-Broadway | Shaina Taub | Shaina Taub | Shaina Taub | |
| Sugar | 1972 | Broadway | Jule Styne | Bob Merrill | Peter Stone | |
| Sugar Babies | 1979 | Broadway revue | Jimmy McHugh | Dorothy Fields and Al Dubin | — | |
| Summer: The Donna Summer Musical | 2017 | Broadway | Donna Summer, Giorgio Moroder, Pete Bellotte, Paul Jabara, and others | Summer, Moroder, Bellotte, Jabara, and others | Colman Domingo, Robert Cary, and Des McAnuff | |
| Sunday in the Park with George | 1984 | Broadway | Stephen Sondheim | Sondheim | James Lapine | Notable songs: "Sunday in the Park with George", "Everybody Loves Louis" and "Finishing the Hat". |
| Sunny Afternoon | 2014 | West End | Ray Davies | Davies | Joe Penhall | Winner of 2015 Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Musical |
| Sunset Boulevard | 1993 | West End | Andrew Lloyd Webber | Don Black and Christopher Hampton | Black and Hampton | Notable songs: "Sunset Boulevard", "With One Look" and "As If We Never Said Goodbye". |
| Sunshine on Leith + film (2013) | 2007 | Dundee Rep | Craig Reid and Charlie Reid | Reid & Reid | Stephen Greenhorn | Compiled by songs from The Proclaimers. Notable Songs: "Letter from America", "I'm On My Way" and "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)" |
| Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street + film (2007) | 1979 | Broadway | Stephen Sondheim | Sondheim | Hugh Wheeler | Notable songs: "The Worst Pies in London", "Green Finch and Linnet Bird", "Johanna" and "No Place Like London". |
| Sweet Charity + film (1969) | 1966 | Broadway | Cy Coleman | Dorothy Fields | Neil Simon | Notable songs: "Big Spender", "If My Friends Could See Me Now" and "The Rhythm of Life". |
| Sweet Smell of Success | 2002 | Broadway | Marvin Hamlisch | Craig Carnelia | John Guare | |
| Swing! | 1999 | Broadway revue | Various artists | Various artists | — | |
| The Swing Mikado | 1938 | Broadway | Gentry Warden and Arthur Sullivan | W. S. Gilbert | Harry Minturn | Based on Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera, The Mikado. |
| Swing Time | 1936 | Film | George Gershwin | Ira Gershwin | Howard Lindsay and Allan Scott | |
| Swinging on a Star | 1995 | Broadway revue | Johnny Burke | Burke | Michael Leeds | |
| The Sword in the Stone | 1963 | Film | Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman | Sherman and Sherman | Bill Peet | |

## T

T :
| Production | Year | Venue/type | Music | Lyrics | Book | Notes |
| Taboo | 2003 | West End | Boy George, Kevan Frost, John Themis and Richie Stevens | George | Mark Davies Markham and Charles Busch | |
| Take Flight! | 2007 | West End | David Shire | Richard Maltby, Jr. | John Weidman | |
| Take Me Along | 1959 | Broadway | Bob Merrill | Merrill | Joseph Stein and Robert Russell | |
| Taking My Turn | 1983 | Off-Broadway | Gary William Friedman | Will Holt | Elise Brosnan | |
| A Tale of Two Cities | 2008 | Broadway | Jill Santoriello | Santoriello | Santoriello | |
| Tältprojektet | 1977 | Swedish | Ulf Dageby | Dageby | Dageby | |
| Tammy Faye | 2022 | Broadway | Elton John | Jake Shears | James Graham | |
| Tangled | 2010 | Film | Alan Menken | Glenn Slater | Dan Fogelman | Starred Mandy Moore, Zachary Levi and Donna Murphy. |
| Tango Argentino | 1985 | Broadway revue | Various artists | Various artists | — | |
| The Tap Dance Kid | 1983 | Broadway | Henry Krieger | Robert Lorick | Charles Blackwell | |
| Tarzan | 2006 | Broadway | Phil Collins | Collins | David Henry Hwang | |
| Teacher's Pet | 2004 | Film | Stephen James Taylor | Taylor | Bill Steinkellner and Cheri Steinkellner | |
| The Ten Commandments | 2004 | Off-off-Broadway | Patrick Leonard | Maribeth Derry | Élie Chouraqui | |
| Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny | 2006 | Film | Tenacious D | Tenacious D | Jack Black, Kyle Gass and Liam Lynch | |
| Tenderloin | 1960 | Broadway | Jerry Bock | Sheldon Harnick | George Abbott and Jerome Weidman | |
| Texas Li'l Darlin' | 1949 | Broadway | Robert Emmett Dolan | Johnny Mercer | John Whedon and Sam Moore | |
| That Bloody Woman | 2015 | New Zealand | Luke Di Somma | Luke Di Somma | Gregory Cooper | |
| That Midnight Kiss | 1949 | Film | Charles Previn | Conrad Salinger | Bruce Manning and Tamara Hovey | |
| They're Playing Our Song | 1979 | Broadway | Marvin Hamlisch | Carole Bayer Sager | Neil Simon | |
| The Thing About Men | 2003 | Off-Broadway | Jimmy Roberts | Joe DiPietro | DiPietro | |
| Thoroughly Modern Millie + film (1967) | 2002 | Broadway | Jeanine Tesori | Dick Scanlan | Richard Morris and Scanlan | Based on the film of the same name. Notable songs: "Thoroughly Modern Millie" and "Forget About the Boy". |
| Thou Shalt Not | 2001 | Broadway | Harry Connick, Jr. | Connick, Jr. | David Thompson | |
| The Three Caballeros | 1945 | Film | Edward H. Plumb, Paul J. Smith and Charles Wolcott | Plumb, Smith and Wolcott | Various writers | Notable songs: "The Three Caballeros" and "You Belong to My Heart". |
| The Three Musketeers | 1928 | Broadway | Rudolf Friml | Clifford Grey and P. G. Wodehouse | William Anthony McGuire | |
| Three Postcards | 1987 | Off-Broadway | Craig Carnelia | Carnelia | Craig Lucas | |
| Three Wishes for Jamie | 1952 | Broadway | Ralph Blane | Blane | Charles O'Neal and Abe Burrows | |
| The Threepenny Opera | 1928 | German | Kurt Weill | Bertolt Brecht | Brecht | Notable songs: "Mack the Knife" and "Pirate Jenny". |
| Tick, Tick... Boom! + film (2021) | 2001 | Off-Broadway | Jonathan Larson | Larson | Larson and David Auburn | |
| Tickets, Please! | 1950 | Broadway revue | Various artists | Various artists | — | |
| Tickle Me | 1920 | Broadway | Herbert Stothart | Oscar Hammerstein II, Otto Harbach and Frank Mandel | Hammerstein, Harbach and Mandel | |
| The Tigger Movie | 2000 | Film | Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman | Sherman and Sherman | Jun Falkenstein | |
| Timbuktu! | 1978 | Broadway | George Forrest and Robert Wright | Forrest and Wright | Luther Davis | |
| Tina | 2018 | West End | Various artists | Various artists | Katori Hall, Frank Ketelaar, Kees Prins | Jukebox musical depicting the life and career of Tina Turner. |
| Tintypes | 1980 | Broadway revue | Various artists | Various artists | Mel Marvin and Gary Pearle | |
| Titanic | 1997 | Broadway | Maury Yeston | Yeston | Peter Stone | |
| Titanique | 2017 | Off-Broadway | Various | Various | Tye Blue, Marla Mindell, and Constantine Rousouli | |
| title of show | 2008 | Broadway | Jeff Bowen | Bowen | Hunter Bell | |
| Tom Sawyer | 1973 | Film | Robert B. Sherman and Richard M. Sherman | Sherman and Sherman | Sherman and Sherman | |
| Tons of Money | 1924 | Musical | Vaiben Louis and Willy Redstone | Hugh Ward | Hugh Ward | |
| Tomorrow Morning | 2008 | West End | Laurence Mark Wythe | Wythe | Wythe | |
| Tonight's the Night | 2003 | West End jukebox | Rod Stewart | Stewart | Ben Elton | |
| Too Close to the Sun | 2009 | West End | John Robinson | Robinson and Roberto Trippini | Trippini | |
| Too Many Girls | 1939 | Broadway | Richard Rodgers | Lorenz Hart | George Marion, Jr. | |
| Tootsie | 2018 | Broadway | David Yazbek | Yazbek | Robert Horn | Based on the 1982 film of the same name. |
| Top Banana | 1951 | Broadway | Johnny Mercer | Mercer | Hy Kraft | |
| Top Hat + film (1935) | 2011 | West End | Irving Berlin | Berlin | Matthew White and Howard Jacques | Based on the film of the same name. Notable song: "Cheek to Cheek". |
| Tovarich | 1963 | Broadway | Lee Pockriss | Anne Croswell | David Shaw | |
| The Toxic Avenger | 2008 | Off-Broadway | David Bryan | Joe DiPietro and Bryan | DiPietro | |
| The Trail To Oregon! | 2014 | Off-Broadway | Jeff Blim | Blim | Jeff Blim, Matt Lang, and Nick Lang | Parody of the game series, The Oregon Trail. |
| A Tree Grows in Brooklyn | 1951 | Broadway | Arthur Schwartz | Dorothy Fields | George Abbott and Betty Smith | |
| Trial by Jury | 1875 | London's Royalty Theatre | Arthur Sullivan | W.S. Gilbert | W.S. Gilbert | |
| Triassic Parq | 2010 | Off-Broadway | Marshall Pailet | Marshall Pailet, Bryce Norbitz, and Steve Wargo | Marshall Pailet, Bryce Norbitz, and Steve Wargo | The film Jurassic Park from the perspective of the dinosaurs. |
| Triumph of Love | 1997 | Broadway | Jeffrey Stock | Susan Birkenhead | James Magruder | |
| Tuck Everlasting | 2016 | Broadway | Chris Miller | Nathan Tysen | Claudia Shear and Tim Federle | Based upon the book of the same name by Natalie Babbitt |
| Turkish Delight the Opera | 2006 | Off-West End | Giles Howe and Katy Lipson | Howe | Howe | Four full productions on the London Fringe made this show a cult hit and one concert of selections from the show was presented as part of the 2007 Stockholm Pride festival. |
| Twang!! | 1965 | West End | Lionel Bart | Lionel Bart | | |
| Twisted | 2013 | Off-off-Broadway | A.J. Holmes | Kaley McMahon | Matt Lang, Nick Lang, and Eric Kahn Gale | Parody of the Walt Disney Animation Studios' film Aladdin. |
| Two by Two | 1970 | Broadway | Richard Rodgers | Martin Charnin | Peter Stone | |
| Two Cities | 2006 | Off-Broadway | Howard Goodall | Goodall | Goodall and Joanna Read | |
| Two Gentlemen of Verona | 1971 | Broadway | Galt MacDermot | John Guare and Mel Shapiro | Guare and Shapiro | |
| Two on the Aisle | 1951 | Broadway revue | Jule Styne | Betty Comden and Adolph Green | Comden and Green | |
| Two's Company | 1952 | Broadway revue | Vernon Duke | Ogden Nash and Sammy Cahn | Charles Sherman and Peter DeVries | |

## U

U :
| Production | Year | Venue/type | Music | Lyrics | Book |
| The Umbrellas of Cherbourg | 1964 | Film | Michel Legrand | Legrand | Jacques Demy |
| Urban Cowboy | 2003 | Broadway | Jason Robert Brown and Jeff Blumenkrantz | Robert Brown and Blumenkrantz | Aaron Latham and Phillip Oesterman |
| Urinetown | 2001 | Broadway | Mark Hollmann | Hollman and Greg Kotis | Kotis |
| USHERS: The Front of House Musical | 2013 | Off West End | Yiannis Koutsakos | James Oban | James Rottger |
| The Utter Glory of Morrissey Hall | 1979 | Broadway | Clark Gesner | Gesner | Gesner and Nagle Jackson |

## V

V :
| Production | Year | Venue/type | Music | Lyrics | Book | Notes |
| Vanities | 2006 | Off-Broadway | David Kirshenbaum | Kirshenbaum | Jack Heifner | Based on the 1976 play of the same name. |
| Very Good, Eddie | 1915 | Broadway | Jerome Kern | Schuyler Green and Herbert Reynolds | Philip Bartholomae and Guy Bolton | |
| A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant | 2003 | Off-off-Broadway | Kyle Jarrow | Jarrow | Jarrow | |
| A Very Potter Musical | 2009 | University of Michigan | Darren Criss and A.J. Holmes | Criss and Holmes | Matt Lang, Nick Lang, and Brian Holden | Parody musical based on the Harry Potter film series by J. K. Rowling |
| A Very Potter Senior Year | 2012 | Off-off-Broadway | A.J. Holmes, Clark Baxtresser, Pierce Siebers and Darren Criss | Holmes, Baxtresser, Siebers and Criss | Matt Lang, Nick Lang and Brian Holden | Performed by StarKid Productions. |
| A Very Potter Sequel | 2010 | Off-off-Broadway | Darren Criss | Criss | Matt Lang, Nick Lang and Brian Holden | Performed by StarKid Productions. |
| Very Warm for May | 1939 | Broadway | Jerome Kern | Oscar Hammerstein II | Hammerstein II | Notable song: "All the Things You Are". |
| Via Galactica | 1972 | Broadway | Galt MacDermot | Christopher Gore | Gore and Judith Ross | |
| Victor/Victoria + film (1982) | 1995 | Broadway | Henry Mancini and Frank Wildhorn | Leslie Bricusse and Wildhorn | Blake Edwards | Adapted from the 1982 film. |
| Violet | 2014 | Broadway | Jeanine Tesori | Brian Crawley | Crawley | |
| The Visit | 2001 | Broadway | John Kander | Fred Ebb | Terrence McNally | Debuted on Broadway in 2015. |
| Viva Forever! | 2012 | West End | The Spice Girls | The Spice Girls | Jennifer Saunders | |
| Vivir Intentando | 2003 | Film | Fernando López Rossi and Diego Grimblat | López Rossi and Grimblat | Carolina Hughes, Alejandro Sapognikoff and Tomás Yankelevich | |

## W

W :
| Production | Year | Venue/type | Music | Lyrics | Book | Notes |
| Wait a Minim! | 1964 | West End revue | Jeremy Taylor | Taylor | Leon Gluckman | |
| Waitress | 2015 | Broadway | Sara Bareilles | Sara Bareilles | Jessie Nelson | Based on the 2007 film of the same name. |
| Walk a Little Faster | 1932 | Broadway revue | Vernon Duke | E. Y. Harburg | S. J. Perelman and Robert MacGunigle | |
| Walking Happy | 1966 | Broadway | Jimmy Van Heusen | Sammy Cahn | Roger O. Hirson and Ketti Frings | |
| Walmartopia | 2005 | Off-Broadway | Andrew Rohn | Rohn | Catherine Capellaro | |
| War Paint | 2017 | Broadway | Scott Frankel | Michael Korie | Doug Wright | |
| Wasted | 2018 | Fringe and suburban, London | Christopher Ash | Carl Miller | Carl Miller | |
| Water for Elephants | 2023 | Broadway | PigPen Theatre Co. | PigPen Theatre Co. | Rick Elice | Based on the 2006 novel of the same name by Sara Gruen. |
| We Are The Tigers | 2019 | Off-Broadway | Preston Max Allen | Preston Max Allen | Preston Max Allen | |
| We Will Rock You | 2002 | West End jukebox | Queen | Queen and Ben Elton | Elton | |
| The Wedding Singer | 2006 | Broadway | Matthew Sklar | Chad Beguelin | Beguelin and Tim Herlihy | |
| Welcome to the Voice | 2000 | Off-off-Broadway | Steve Nieve | Muriel Teodori | Teodori | |
| The Well of Romance | 1930 | Broadway | H. Maurice Jacquet | Preston Sturges | Sturges | |
| Were the World Mine | 2008 | Film | Jessica Fogle | Fogle | Tom Gustafson and Cory James Krueckeberg | |
| West Side Story + film (1961) | 1957 | Broadway | Leonard Bernstein | Stephen Sondheim | Arthur Laurents | Notable songs: "Tonight Quintet", "America" and "Somewhere". |
| What Makes Sammy Run? | 1964 | Broadway | Ervin Drake and Budd Schulberg | Drake and Schulberg | Stuart Schulberg | Notable song: "A Room Without Windows". |
| What's New Pussycat? | 2021 | Regional | Various | Various | Joe DiPietro | The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling |
| Where's Charley? | 1948 | Broadway | Frank Loesser | Loesser | George Abbott | Notable song: "Once in Love with Amy". |
| Whistle Down the Wind | 1998 | West End | Andrew Lloyd Webber | Jim Steinman | Patricia Knop, Lloyd Webber and Gale Edwards | |
| White Christmas + film (1954) | 2004 | Off-Broadway | Irving Berlin | Berlin | David Ives and Paul Blake | |
| White Girl in Danger | 2023 | Off-Broadway | Michael R. Jackson | Michael R. Jackson | Michael R. Jackson | |
| Whoop Up | 1958 | Broadway | Mark Charlap | Norman Gimbel | Cy Feuer and Ernest Martin | |
| Whoopee! | 1928 | Broadway | Walter Donaldson | Gus Kahn | William Anthony McGuire | Notable song: "Makin' Whoopee". |
| The Who's Tommy | 1993 | Broadway | Pete Townshend | Townshend | Townshend and Des McAnuff | Notable song: "Pinball Wizard". |
| Wicked | 2003 | Broadway | Stephen Schwartz | Schwartz | Winnie Holzman | Notable songs: "Popular", "For Good" and "Defying Gravity" |
| The Wild Party (LaChiusa) | 2000 | Broadway | Michael John LaChiusa | LaChiusa | LaChiusa | |
| The Wild Party (Lippa) | 2000 | Off-Broadway | Andrew Lippa | Lippa | Lippa | |
| Wild, Wild Women | 1982 | West End | Nola York | Michael Richmond | Michael Richmond | |
| Wildcat | 1960 | Broadway | Cy Coleman | Carolyn Leigh | N. Richard Nash | |
| The Will Rogers Follies | 1991 | Broadway | Cy Coleman | Betty Comden and Adolph Green | Comden and Green | |
| Willy Wonka | 2004 | Off-off-Broadway | Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley | Bricusse and Newley | Bricusse and Tim McDonald | |
| Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory | 1971 | Film | Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley | Bricusse and Newley | Roald Dahl | Notable songs: "The Candy Man" and "Pure Imagination". |
| The Wind in the Willows | 1986 | Broadway | William Perry | Roger McGough and William Perry | Jane Iredale | |
| Winnie the Pooh | 2021 | Off-Broadway | Robert B. Sherman and Richard M. Sherman | Sherman and Sherman | Jonathan Rockefeller | |
| Winnie the Pooh and a Day for Eeyore | 1983 | Animated film | Robert B. Sherman and Richard M. Sherman | Sherman and Sherman | Peter Young, Steve Hulett and Tony L. Marino | |
| Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day | 1968 | Animated film | Robert B. Sherman and Richard M. Sherman | Sherman and Sherman | Ralph Wright | |
| Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree | 1966 | Animated film | Robert B. Sherman and Richard M. Sherman | Sherman and Sherman | Ralph Wright and Ken Anderson | |
| Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too | 1974 | Animated film | Robert B. Sherman and Richard M. Sherman | Sherman and Sherman | Larry Clemmons, Ted Berman and Eric Cleworth | |
| Wish You Were Here | 1952 | Broadway | Harold Rome | Rome | Arthur Kober and Joshua Logan | |
| The Witches of Eastwick | 2000 | West End | Dana P. Rowe | John Dempsey | Dempsey | |
| The Wiz | 1975 | Broadway | Charlie Smalls and Luther Vandross | Smalls and Vandross | William F. Brown | Notable song: "Ease on Down the Road" |
| The Wiz | 1978 | Film | Charlie Smalls and Luther Vandross | Smalls and Vandross | Joel Schumacher | |
| The Wizard of Oz | 1902 | Off-Broadway | Various artists | Various artists | L. Frank Baum and Glen MacDonough | |
| The Wizard of Oz | 1939 | Film | Harold Arlen | E. Y. Harburg | Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson and Edgar Allan Woolf | Notable song: "Over the Rainbow" |
| The Wizard of Oz | 1942 | Off-off-Broadway | Harold Arlen | E. Y. Harburg | Frank Gabrielson | |
| The Wizard of Oz | 1987 | West End | Harold Arlen and Herbert Stothart | E. Y. Harburg | John Kane | |
| The Wizard of Oz | 2011 | West End | Harold Arlen and Andrew Lloyd Webber | E. Y. Harburg and Tim Rice | Andrew Lloyd Webber and Jeremy Sams | |
| The Woman in White | 2004 | West End | Andrew Lloyd Webber | David Zippel | Charlotte Jones | |
| Woman of the Year | 1981 | Broadway | John Kander | Fred Ebb | Peter Stone | |
| Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown | 2010 | Broadway | David Yazbek | David Yazbek | Jeffrey Lane | |
| A Wonderful Life | 1991 | Off-off-Broadway | Joe Raposo | Sheldon Harnick | Harnick | |
| Wonderful Town | 1953 | Broadway | Leonard Bernstein | Betty Comden and Adolph Green | Joseph Fields and Jerome Chodorov | |
| The Wonderful Wizard of Oz | 2000 | Off-off-Broadway | James Patrick Doyle | Doyle and Joe Cascone | Cascone | |
| Wonderland | 2011 | Broadway | Frank Wildhorn | Jack Murphy | Murphy and Gregory Boyd | Notable song: "I Will Prevail". |
| The Woodsman | 2012 | Off-Broadway | Edward W. Hardy | Jennifer Loring | James Ortiz | Notable song: "Rusting Tin Man". |
| Words and Music | 1932 | West End revue | Noël Coward | Coward | Coward | |
| Working | 1978 | Broadway revue | Various artists | Various artists | Stephen Schwartz and Nina Faso | |
| Wuthering Heights | 1992 | Concept album | Bernard J. Taylor | Taylor | — | |

## X

X :
| Production | Year | Venue/type | Music | Lyrics | Book | Notes |
| Xanadu | 2007 | Broadway | Jeff Lynne and John Farrar | Lynne and Farrar | Douglas Carter Beane | Based on the 1980 film. |

## Y

Y :
| Production | Year | Venue/type | Music | Lyrics | Book | Notes |
| A Year with Frog and Toad | 2003 | Off-Broadway | Robert Reale | Willie Reale | Willie Reale | |
| Yellow Submarine | 1968 | Film | The Beatles and George Martin | The Beatles and Martin | Various writers | |
| Yentl | 1983 | Film | Michel Legrand and Alan Bergman | Marilyn Bergman | Barbra Streisand and Jack Rosenthal | |
| The Yeomen of the Guard | 1888 | West End | Arthur Sullivan | W. S. Gilbert | Gilbert and Sullivan | |
| Yes Nurse! No Nurse! | 2002 | Film | Pelle Bolander and Raymund van Santen | Bolander and van Santen | Pieter Kramer and Frank Houtappels | |
| You Said It | 1931 | Broadway | Harold Arlen | Jack Yellen | Yellen and Sid Silvers | |
| Young Frankenstein | 2007 | Broadway | Mel Brooks | Brooks | Thomas Meehan and Brooks | Notable songs: "Puttin’ On the Ritz", "He Vas My Boyfriend", and "Deep Love" |
| Your Own Thing | 1968 | Off-Broadway | Hal Hester and Danny Apolinar | Hester and Apolinar | Donald Driver | |
| You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown | 1971 | Broadway | Clark Gesner | Gesner | John Gordon | Based on the comic strip Peanuts. The 1999 revival includes additional music and lyrics by Andrew Lippa, and dialogue by Michael Mayer. |

## Z

Z :
| Production | Year | Venue/type | Music | Lyrics | Book | Notes |
| Zanna, Don't! | 2002 | Off-Broadway | Tim Acito | Acito and Alexander Dinelaris | Acito and Dinelaris | Notable songs: "I Could Write Books" and "Blow Winds". |
| Zenda | 1963 | Off-Broadway | Vernon Duke | Lenny Adelson, Sid Kuller and Martin Charnin | Everett Freeman | Musical adaptation of the Anthony Hope novel The Prisoner of Zenda. |
| Ziegfeld Follies | 1946 | Film | Various artists | Various artists | David Freedman | |
| Ziegfeld Follies of 1909 | 1909 | Broadway revue | Various artists | Various artists | — | |
| Ziegfeld Follies of 1910 | 1910 | Broadway revue | Various artists | Various artists | — | |
| Ziegfeld Follies of 1911 | 1911 | Broadway revue | Various artists | Various artists | — | |
| Ziegfeld Follies of 1912 | 1912 | Broadway revue | Various artists | Various artists | — | |
| Ziegfeld Follies of 1913 | 1913 | Broadway revue | Various artists | Various artists | — | |
| Ziegfeld Follies of 1914 | 1914 | Broadway revue | Various artists | Various artists | — | |
| Ziegfeld Follies of 1915 | 1915 | Broadway revue | Various artists | Various artists | — | |
| Ziegfeld Follies of 1917 | 1917 | Broadway revue | Various artists | Various artists | — | |
| Ziegfeld Follies of 1919 | 1919 | Broadway revue | Various artists | Various artists | — | |
| Ziegfeld Follies of 1920 | 1920 | Broadway revue | Various artists | Various artists | — | |
| Ziegfeld Follies of 1921 | 1921 | Broadway revue | Various artists | Various artists | — | |
| Ziegfeld Follies of 1922 | 1922 | Broadway revue | Various artists | Various artists | — | |
| Ziegfeld Follies of 1923 | 1923 | Broadway revue | Various artists | Various artists | — | |
| Ziegfeld Follies of 1924 | 1924 | Broadway revue | Various artists | Various artists | — | |
| Ziegfeld Follies of 1927 | 1927 | Broadway revue | Various artists | Various artists | — | |
| Ziegfeld Follies of 1931 | 1931 | Broadway revue | Various artists | Various artists | — | |
| Ziegfeld Follies of 1934 | 1934 | Broadway revue | Various artists | Various artists | — | |
| Ziegfeld Follies of 1936 | 1936 | Broadway revue | Various artists | Various artists | — | |
| Ziegfeld Follies of 1943 | 1943 | Broadway revue | Various artists | Various artists | — | |
| Ziegfeld Follies of 1957 | 1957 | Broadway revue | Various artists | Various artists | — | |
| Ziegfeld Follies of 1958 | 1958 | Broadway revue | Various artists | Various artists | — | |
| Ziegfeld Girl | 1941 | Film | Herbert Stothart | Stothart | William Anthony McGuire | |
| Ziegfeld Girls of 1920 | 1920 | Broadway revue | Various artists | Various artists | — | |
| Ziegfeld Midnight Frolic | 1917–1921, 1928 | Broadway revue | Various artists | Various artists | — | |
| Zig-Zag is not a film | 1917 | West End revue | Dave Stamper | Gene Buck | — | |
| Zip Goes a Million | 1951 | West End | George Posford | Eric Maschwitz | Maschwitz | |
| Zipp! | 2003 | West End revue | Various artists | Various artists | Gyles Brandreth and Stewart Nicholls | |
| Zombie Prom | 1993 | Off-Broadway | Dana P. Rowe | John Dempsey | Dempsey | |
| Zombies | 2018 | Film | George S. Clinton | Clinton | David Light and Joseph Raso | Disney Channel Original Movie |
| Zombies from The Beyond | 1995 | Off-Broadway | James Valcq | Valcq | Valcq | |
| Zorba | 1968 | Broadway | John Kander | Fred Ebb | Joseph Stein | |
| Zorro | 2008 | West End | Gipsy Kings and John Cameron | Stephen Clark | Stephen Clark and Helen Edmundson | |
| Zuleika | 1954 | Off-West End | Peter Tranchell | James Ferman | Ferman | |
See List of musicals: A to L for additional titles.