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Michael Jackson ONE is a resident Cirque du Soleil production presented at Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas. It premiered in 2013 and combines Jackson's recorded music with acrobatics, dance, theatrical staging, projection, and other multimedia effects rather than telling a conventional b...

Return to the Forbidden Planet is a jukebox musical written and directed by Bob Carlton, premiering in London's West End in the late 1980s. The show combines elements of Shakespeare's The Tempest with the narrative of the 1956 science fiction film Forbidden Planet. Set aboard a spacecraft, the produ...

"Smokey Joe's Cafe" is a musical revue that premiered on Broadway in 1995, featuring the rock and roll and rhythm and blues catalog of songwriters Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. The production is structured as a jukebox musical without a unifying narrative plot, instead presenting a sequence of song...

Girl from the North Country is a play with music written by Conor McPherson using songs by Bob Dylan. Set in a boarding house in Duluth, Minnesota, during the Great Depression in 1934, it follows residents and visitors facing poverty, illness, strained families, and uncertain futures. Rather than pr...

“Moulin Rouge! The Musical” is a jukebox stage musical adapted from Baz Luhrmann's 2001 film. With a book by John Logan, it follows the romance between writer Christian and performer Satine within the Moulin Rouge nightclub in late-19th-century Paris, using songs drawn from several decades of popula...

Smokey Joe's Cafe is a musical revue that opened on Broadway in 1995, featuring the rock and roll and rhythm and blues songbook of writers Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. The production is distinguished by having no spoken dialogue, relying entirely on a sequence of roughly 40 classic songs like "Hou...

Ain't Too Proud is a jukebox biographical musical that premiered on Broadway in 2019, tracing the rise of The Temptations from their Detroit origins to international stardom. The musical features hit songs from The Temptations' catalog spanning the 1960s and 1970s, including classics such as 'My Gir...

"Sunshine on Leith" is a 2013 Scottish musical film directed by Dexter Fletcher, serving as an adaptation of the stage musical featuring the music of the folk-rock duo The Proclaimers. The narrative follows two soldiers returning to their hometown of Edinburgh after serving in Afghanistan, navigatin...

"Pennies from Heaven" is a 1981 American musical drama directed by Herbert Ross, starring Steve Martin, Bernadette Peters, and Christopher Walken. Adapted from Dennis Potter's 1978 British television series, the film is set during the Great Depression and follows a sheet music salesman whose life co...

Tina: The Tina Turner Musical is a biographical jukebox musical based on the life and career of singer Tina Turner. Written by Katori Hall with Frank Ketelaar and Kees Prins, it premiered in London in 2018 and uses songs associated with Turner's career to dramatize her childhood, partnership with Ik...

MJ the Musical is a jukebox musical about Michael Jackson that uses his songs to revisit parts of his public career. Conceived by Christopher Wheeldon, the 2022 stage production frames its action around rehearsals for Jackson's 1992 Dangerous World Tour. This rehearsal setting gives the show a defin...

Dreamboats and Petticoats is a 2009 British jukebox musical with a book by Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran. Based on compilation albums of popular songs, it is set in the rock-and-roll era of 1957 to 1963 and builds its plot around young people, a youth club, and a songwriting competition. The stage...

Swinging on a Star is a Broadway musical revue that opened at the Music Box Theatre in New York in October 1995 and closed in January 1996. The production was built from songs associated with lyricist Johnny Burke, including the title song written with composer Jimmy Van Heusen for the 1944 film Goi...

Leader of the Pack is a 1985 jukebox musical built around the life and songs of Ellie Greenwich. The score draws on pop and rhythm-and-blues songs Greenwich wrote or co-wrote, including material associated with the 1960s girl-group and pop era. The show combines biographical scenes with performances...

Beehive is a musical revue that premiered in 1986 and is built around songs associated with prominent female vocalists of the 1960s. Its repertoire draws from the period's pop, soul, and rock music, including material linked to performers such as Aretha Franklin. Rather than presenting a single cont...

Swinging on a Star is a 1995 musical revue celebrating the life and music of singer Bing Crosby, featuring classic 1940s popular American songs.

Ring of Fire: The Music of Johnny Cash is a 2006 jukebox musical revue built around songs recorded by American country singer Johnny Cash. Conceived by Richard Maltby Jr., the production uses Cash's music to present episodes involving fictional characters rather than offering a conventional, fully s...

Walking on Sunshine is a 2014 British jukebox musical film directed by Max Giwa and Dania Pasquini. Set in a coastal area of Italy, it follows a romantic story involving a woman, her sister, and a former love interest during a holiday gathering. The soundtrack uses recognizable pop songs from the 19...

Strange Magic is a 2015 animated jukebox musical fantasy film produced by Lucasfilm and directed by Gary Rydstrom. Its story is a fairy tale inspired by William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, set around a conflict involving fairy princess Marianne, the Bog King, and a mysterious potion. Th...

Rock 'n Roll! The First 5,000 Years was a Broadway musical revue presented at the St. James Theatre in 1982. It used a song-based survey of rock and popular music, with production credits listing Jules Fisher and Annie Fargue and an association with Dick Clark Inc. The production credited John Simon...

Menopause The Musical is a comedic stage revue created by Jeanie Linders and first presented in 2001. It follows four women who meet during a department-store sale and uses rewritten versions of familiar songs from the 1960s and 1970s to address hot flashes, mood changes, aging, and other experience...