Female characters in musical theatre

title character of Disney's 1989 animated film The Little Mermaid and its franchise

fictional character from The Addams Family

fictional character from 1992 Disney film Aladdin and its franchise

fictional character and protagonist/heroine of Disney's 1991 animated feature "Beauty and the Beast"

Title character of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)

fictional protagonist of many of the Oz novels by the American author L. Frank Baum

character of the Shrek film series

fictional nanny, lead character in the Mary Poppins fantasy book series and its adaptations

primary antagonist in Disney's 1937 animated film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

fictional character from Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Éponine Thénardier ( , ), also referred to as "Ponine", the "Jondrette girl" and the "young working-man", is a fictional character in the 1862 novel Les Misérables by Victor Hugo.

Cosette () is a fictional character in the 1862 novel Les Misérables by Victor Hugo and in the many adaptations of the story for stage, film, and television. Her birth name, Euphrasie, is only mentioned briefly. As the orphaned child of an unmarried mother deserted by her father, Hugo never gives her a surname. In the course of the novel, she is mistakenly identified as Ursule, Lark, or Mademoiselle Lanoire.

Fantine () is a fictional character in Victor Hugo's 1862 novel Les Misérables. She is a young grisette in Paris who is impregnated by a rich student. After he abandons her, she is forced to look after their child, Cosette, on her own. Originally a beautiful and naive girl, Fantine is eventually forced by circumstances to become a prostitute to support her daughter, losing her beauty and health until she finally dies of tuberculosis.

Glinda, also known as Glinda the Good, is a fictional character created by L. Frank Baum for his Oz novels. She first appears in Baum's 1900 children's classic The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, and is the most powerful sorceress in the Land of Oz, ruler of the Quadling Country South of the Emerald City, and protector of Princess Ozma.

Elphaba Thropp () is a fictional character created by Gregory Maguire as the protagonist of his 1995 novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West. She also appears in the novel's musical theatre adaptation, as well as the musical's two-part film adaptation, Wicked (2024) and Wicked: For Good (2025).

fictional character in Stephen King's 1974 novel Carrie

character from Gaston Leroux's novel The Phantom of the Opera

Fictional character in "Legally Blonde"

fictional character from Land of Oz

fictional character in many adaptations of the story Sweeney Todd

fictional character in Anastasia

fictional character in Roald Dahl’s 1988 novel Matilda