Editing 1959 in music (section)

==[[Musical theater]]==
* ''[[Aladdin (TV special)|Aladdin]]'' (Cole Porter) [[West End theatre|London]] production opened at the [[London Coliseum|Coliseum]] on December 17.
* ''[[Destry Rides Again]]'' Broadway production opened at the [[Imperial Theatre (Broadway)|Imperial Theatre]] on April 23 and ran for 472 performances
* ''[[Fings Ain't Wot They Used T'Be]]'' ([[Lionel Bart]]) Stratford production opened at the [[Theatre Royal Stratford East|Theatre Royal]] on April 17 and ran for 63 performances
* ''[[Fiorello!]]'' Broadway production opened at the [[Broadhurst Theatre]] on November 23 and ran for 795 performances
* ''[[Gypsy: A Musical Fable|Gypsy]]'' ([[Jule Styne]] and [[Stephen Sondheim]]) Broadway production opened at [[The Broadway Theatre]] on May 21 and ran for 702 performances
* ''[[Juno (musical)|Juno]]'' ([[Marc Blitzstein]]) Broadway production opened at the Winter Garden Theatre, New York, March 9, 1959, and ran for 16 performances
* ''[[Little Mary Sunshine]]'' [[Off-Broadway]] production opened at the [[Orpheum Theatre (East Village, New York)|Orpheum Theatre]] on November 18 and ran for 1143 performances.
* ''[[Lock Up Your Daughters (musical)|Lock Up Your Daughters]]'' ([[Lionel Bart]]) London production opened at the [[Mermaid Theatre]] on May 28 and ran for 328 performances
* ''[[The Love Doctor]]'' [[West End theatre|London]] production opened at the [[Piccadilly Theatre]] on October 12 and ran for only 16 performances.
* ''[[On the Town (musical)|On the Town]]'' Broadway revival opened at the [[Carnegie Hall Playhouse]] on January 15 and ran for 70 performances
* ''[[Once Upon a Mattress]]'' Broadway production opened at the [[St. James Theatre]] and ran for 244 performances
* ''[[Redhead (musical)|Redhead]]'' Broadway production opened at the [[46th Street Theatre]] on February 5 and ran for 405 performances
* ''[[The Sound of Music]]'' ([[Richard Rodgers]] and [[Oscar Hammerstein II]]) Broadway production opened at the [[Lunt-Fontanne Theatre]] on November 16 and ran for 1443 performances.
* ''[[Take Me Along]]'' Broadway production opened at the [[Shubert Theatre (Broadway)|Shubert Theatre]] on October 22 and ran for 448 performances