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What's on · Kristen Anderson-Lopez

Musical · 2018

Frozen

Music and lyrics by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez

The Disney stage musical about two royal sisters, one gifted, and cursed, with the power to create ice and snow, and the eternal winter that follows a fateful coronation day.

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The story

Princess Elsa has kept her ability to create ice and snow secret since a childhood accident nearly hurt her younger sister, Anna, and has grown up isolated, taught to hide her powers rather than understand them. On the day of her coronation, Elsa's powers are exposed in public, and in her panic she flees the kingdom, accidentally plunging it into an endless winter. Anna sets out after her, gathering an ice harvester named Kristoff, his reindeer and a cheerfully oblivious snowman named Olaf along the way, determined to bring her sister home and find a way to undo the winter before it is too late.

The musical has music and lyrics by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez, expanding the songs from Disney's 2013 animated film of the same name with new material for the stage. It opened on Broadway in 2018 and has since been widely licensed, including a shortened Frozen Jr. edition for young performers.

What to look for

The score keeps the film's most beloved songs and adds new ones built for the stage, and its landmarks include Let It Go, Elsa's soaring first-act finale; For the First Time in Forever; and Do You Want to Build a Snowman?, the sisters' childhood duet. Watch for the show's stage magic, used to transform Elsa's costume and the set into ice in real time, a moment audiences wait for all evening, alongside comic relief from Olaf and Kristoff's reindeer, Sven. It suits families with children of any age who grew up with the film, and it remains one of the most reliably crowd-pleasing family musicals running.

Seeing it for the first time?

  • Runs about 2 hours 30 minutes with one intermission.
  • Best known songs, in order: Do You Want to Build a Snowman?, For the First Time in Forever, Let It Go.
  • Suits all ages; a beloved introduction to musical theater for young children.
  • Elaborate stage effects transform Elsa's costume and the set into ice live on stage.
  • A youth edition, Frozen Jr., runs about an hour for young performers.

Written by PlayhouseFinder, reviewed September 2026.

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