Talk:Jukebox musical

Removing "Capeman" and "The Shalt Not"

 * The Capeman (1998), music of Paul Simon.
 * Thou Shalt Not (2001-2002), music of Harry Connick, Jr..

They do not meet the criteria as both are made up of songs specifically written for the musica, violating the "features a set of preexisting hit songs" rule - Richfife 22:03, 22 August 2006 (UTC)


 * The same goes for Taboo. I'm removing that. --AMK1211 15:52, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

Crazy_For_You
This show is a revised version of Girl_Crazy, as is stated on the show's Wikipedia entry. The plot is pretty much the same, and the changes of songs are on a level of the 1962 off-Broadway revival of Anything_Goes. Therefore I would suggest removing this. kosboot 13:20, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

Production dates
I have amended these dates to indicate only the year in which these musicals were produced for the first time. To show a date span is to suggest they no longer exist and/or never will be staged again. Many of these will live on in regional theatre and summer stock productions for years to come. SFTVLGUY2 21:04, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

Definition
I am not sure I agree with the definition. The film A Hard Day's Night would not be one by this definition, since the songs in it were not previously released. However, the Village Voice, in a review published at the time of the film's original release, said that it was "the Citizen Kane of juke box musicals". In fact, when I first read this a few years ago, it was the first time I had heard of the term "jukebox musical". (BTW, I am old enough that I saw the A Hard Day's Night at the movie theater.) --rogerd (talk) 05:34, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

Confusion?
There seems to be some confusion over what makes a movie a Jukebox Musical.

I've removed three movies from this list. In the case of A Hard Day's Night, the album was the soundtrack from the film, hence the film is not a jukebox musical. In the cases of Tommy and The Wall, although the music was released and became popular prior to being made into a film, the source material was produced as a complete work and the film closely follows it.

A Hard Day's Night is still erroneously listed as a Jukebox Musical. It most certainly is not.107.221.229.121 (talk) 04:06, 29 January 2014 (UTC)

Also, I'm not sure about Singin' in the Rain or Tenacious D in: The Pick of Destiny, but I haven't removed them from the list as I don't know the history of the former and have never even seen the latter.

Incidentally, I added American Pop to the list. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dovregubben (talk • contribs) 11:22, 12 December 2008 (UTC)


 * I'd say Tenacious D is definitely just a musical, by the definition on the page at least. As far as I remember, none of the songs were released except on the soundtrack.--98.148.172.122 (talk) 15:37, 27 December 2008 (UTC)

Removing "American Idiot" from the list
As the term is defined, Green Day's American Idiot should not be listed here. The stage musical is based on an original concept album, and interpolates a few more songs from Green Day's catalog. The basic story line of the concept album is maintained in the musical. This situation is similar to The Who's Tommy. Chaotic22 (talk) 05:15, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

Barenaked Ladies - Life In A Nutshell
As a fairly heavy fan of the band, I've never heard of this; nor can I find any obvious reference to it online. It was added by an anonymous edit (the editor's only wikipedia edit) in 2011. If it really exists, and someone has a cite for it, I stand corrected, but until then, I'll leave the reference to it here, but I'm pulling it from the article. TheHYPO (talk) 00:34, 27 February 2017 (UTC)

Xanadu
Is Xanadu a jukebox musical? It's based on the film, and the songs were written as a soundtrack to the film, except for two additional ELO songs, but I don't feel those alone make this a jukebox musical. --Cowduck (talk) 08:31, 11 July 2017 (UTC)


 * It's common in revivals/adaptations of musicals to add a couple of non-original songs, so if the definition is "preexisting" then you are correct, that alone does not make it a jukebox musical. But if the definition is "popular music" then Xanadu obviously is one.  --LowRise (talk) 04:16, 4 October 2018 (UTC)

Rocky Horror?
As of 2020, this list remains highly questionable. Considering Rocky Horror Picture Show as a juke box musical seems particularly absurd. Kumagoro-42 (talk) 13:03, 1 January 2020 (UTC)

All That Jazz??
If this is - and I don't think it is - then American Graffiti certainly is, and I would argue that most of Quentin Tarantino's work is too. Lovingboth (talk) 21:41, 31 July 2023 (UTC)