A sea shift is afoot at Encores!, one that’s making me feel geriatric.

For most of my life, the company has staged musicals primarily from the mid-20th century — like the upcoming season’s Love Life, from 1948 — which for this millennial was the stuff of pure lore, well before my time.

But such distant musicals have become the exception to a newer norm, as evidenced by the impending season being rounded out by 1996’s Ragtime, 2000’s The Wild Party, and 2001’s Urinetown. Throw in Encores!’s recent Titanic (1997) and The Light in the Piazza (2003), and you have five musicals that either barely predate my theatergoing career, or hail from its infancy.

Which means: millennials have been around long enough for Encores! to prey on our generational nostalgia.