Are musicals italicized?

Generic titles should not be italicized or put in quotations: Beethoven's Symphony No. 7 in A Major, op. 92. Piano Concerto in A Minor by Robert Schumann. Mozart, Requiem, K. 626. Note that in titles the pitch and the tonality are capitalized. Opus numbers appear last, without capitalization, and are preceded by a comma. read more

Italics and quotation marks are generally used to set a composition title apart from the text surrounding it. For example, if you were writing the sentence "I read The Cat in the Hat," it wouldn't necessarily be clear what the title was, or even that there was a title at all. read more