| 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 |
|
| St. Louis Woman |
1946 |
Broadway |
Harold Arlen |
Johnny Mercer |
Arna Bontemps and Countee Cullen |
|
| 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 |
Musical Animated 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 |
Musical 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 |
|
| 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 It with Songs |
1929 |
Musical 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 |
|
| Say, Darling |
1958 |
Broadway |
Jule Styne |
Betty Comden and Adolph Green |
Abe Burrows, Marian Bissell and Richard Bissell |
|
| 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
- + film (2003)
|
2015 |
Broadway |
Andrew Lloyd Webber |
Glenn Slater |
Julian Fellowes |
|
| Schwestern im Geiste |
2014 |
Neuköllner Oper, Berlin |
Thomas Zaufke |
Peter Lund |
Lund&Zaufke |
|
| The Scottsboro Boys |
2010 |
West End |
John Kander |
Fred Ebb |
David Thompson |
|
| Scrooge |
1970 |
Musical film |
Leslie Bricusse |
Bricusse |
Bricusse |
A musical film adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic 1843 story, A Christmas Carol. |
| Second Chance |
2009 |
French musical |
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 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 |
Musical film |
The Beatles |
The Beatles |
Henry Edwards |
|
| Shangri-La |
1956 |
Broadway |
Harry Warren |
James Hilton, Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee |
Hilton, Lawrence and Lee |
|
| 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 |
Musical 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 |
|
| 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". |
| Showtune |
2003 |
Off-Broadway revue |
Jerry Herman |
Herman |
Paul Gilger |
Premiered in San Francisco in 1985 as "Tune the Grand Up", with subsequent productions in London in 1998 as "The Best of Times". |
| Shrek the Musical |
2009 |
Broadway |
Jeanine Tesori |
David Lindsay-Abaire |
Lindsay-Abaire |
Notable songs: "Freak Flag" and "I Think I Got You Beat". |
| Side by Side by Sondheim |
1976 |
West End revue |
Stephen Sondheim, Leonard Bernstein, Mary Rodgers, Richard Rodgers and Jule Styne |
Sondheim |
N/A |
|
| 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 |
Musical film |
Jay Gruska |
Gruska and Dean Pitchford |
Pitchford |
|
| Sing As We Go |
1934 |
Musical 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 |
|
| Skyscraper |
1965 |
Broadway |
Jimmy Van Heusen |
Sammy Cahn |
Peter Stone |
|
| Sleeping Beauty |
1959 |
Musical 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 |
Musical 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 |
N/A |
|
| Snoopy! The Musical |
1975 |
Off-Broadway |
Larry Grossman |
Hal Hackady |
Warren Lockhart, Arthur Whitelaw and Michael Grace |
|
| Snoopy, Come Home |
1972 |
Musical Animated film |
Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman |
Sherman and Sherman |
Charles M. Schulz |
|
| Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs |
1937 |
Musical Animated film |
Frank Churchill |
Larry Morey |
Various writers |
Notable songs: "Someday My Prince Will Come", "Whistle While You Work" and "Heigh-Ho". |
| Snow.Wolf.Lake |
1997 |
Chinese musical |
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 Musical |
George Stiles |
Anthony Drewe |
Drewe and Elliot Davis |
|
| 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 |
|
| 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 |
|
| Some Like It Hot |
1962 |
Musical film |
Various artists |
Various artists |
Billy Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond |
|
| Sophisticated Ladies |
1981 |
Broadway |
Duke Ellington |
Various artists |
Donald McKayle |
|
| Soul Men |
2008 |
Musical film |
Stanley Clarke |
Clarke |
Robert Ramsey and Matthew Stone |
|
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 |
Musical 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". |
| 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 |
Musical film |
Various artists |
Various artists |
Jim Kreig |
|
| The Spitfire Grill |
2001 |
Off-Broadway |
James Valcq |
Fred Alley |
Valcq and Alley |
|
| 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". |
| 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 musical |
Michel Berger |
Luc Plamondon |
Plamondon |
|
| 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. |
N/A |
|
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 |
|
| Stephen Ward the Musical |
2013 |
West End |
Andrew Lloyd Webber |
Don Black and Christopher Hampton |
Black and Hampton |
|
| Step Up: All In |
2014 |
Las Vegas |
Dolby Digital |
Don Black and Christopher Hampton |
Black and Hampton |
|
| Stingray Sam |
2009 |
Musical 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 - Booth Theatre |
Neil Bartram |
Neil Bartram |
Brian Hill |
|
| Street Scene |
1947 |
Broadway |
Kurt Weill |
Elmer Rice |
Elmer Rice |
|
| "Street Dance (musical) dance |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Strike Up the Band |
1930 |
Broadway |
George Gershwin |
Ira Gershwin |
Morrie Ryskind |
Notable song: "Strike Up the Band". |
| The Stripper |
1982 |
Australian musical |
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 |
|
| Sugar |
1972 |
Broadway |
Jule Styne |
Bob Merrill |
Peter Stone |
|
| Sugar Babies |
1979 |
Broadway revue |
Jimmy McHugh |
Dorothy Fields and Al Dubin |
N/A |
|
| 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". |
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)" |
| 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". |
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 |
N/A |
|
| Swinging on a Star |
1995 |
Broadway revue |
Johnny Burke |
Burke |
Michael Leeds |
|
| 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 |
Musical film |
George Gershwin |
Ira Gershwin |
Howard Lindsay and Allan Scott |
|
| The Sword in the Stone |
1963 |
Musical Animated film |
Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman |
Sherman and Sherman |
Bill Peet |
|