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Working Title: Jukebox Musical: From YKTTW
- Moulin Rouge uses music from various bands, but otherwise fits the trope.
...otherwise fits the trope about only using music from one band. ...okay.
puritybrown: I think the essence of a Jukebox Musical is not that only music from one band is used, but that the songs weren't originally composed to be part of a musical at all.
Fermatprime:
- Does Xanadu fit this trope? It's a live adaptation of a musical film using new and previously released music by Jeff Lynne/Electric Light Orchestra...so I really can't decide.
- Dotdotdot: I don't know Xanadu well enough, but did the movie use original music or purely previously released ELO stuff? If the original movie was made up of unoriginal music, then yes, it counts. If the music was written specifically for the movie, then the Stage version will just count as an adaptation with some extra music added.
Dotdotdot:
- I'm not sure it's appropriate to call Mamma Mia! the "Originator" of this trope, since many Jukebox shows were written years before Mamma Mia! raised it's catchy head. But maybe I misunderstood.
Seven Seals: The "soundtrack examples" confound me. How on earth does Highlander have anything to do with jukebox musicals? "Movie soundtrack composed by one artist" barely seems a trope, but if it is it surely has nothing to do with jukebox musicals unless it's actually, well, a musical. I don't care how this page thinks it's a subtrope, it's really not.
And I sure would want to see Highlander The Musical (for kicks), but that's neither here nor there.
