History Main / JukeboxMusical

* ''Film/BookofLife'' uses a mixture of different songs but played with acoustic guitar and mariachi music, including stuff from Music/Mumford&sons, Music/Radiohead, and a few original songs.

* ''Film/TheBookofLife'' uses a mixture of different songs but played with acoustic guitar and mariachi music, including stuff from Music/Mumford&sons, Music/Radiohead, and a few original songs.

* ''Escape To Margaritaville'', featuring Music/JimmyBuffett. Almost every single element is taken from his lyrics.

* ''Our House'': Uses the songs of Music/{{Madness}} to tell the story of a young man growing up in London (which is what most Madness songs are about anyway). Featured [[TheFaceOfTheBand Suggs]] as the main character's father for a while.

* ''Film/MoulinRouge''. Twentieth century hits in the 19th century!

Contrast RockOpera, which are {{concept album}}s wherein all the songs are meant from the get-go to form a singular narrative. See also RealSongThemeTune (the work has an original soundtrack, but the main theme is a preexisting song); SongFic (when a FanFiction incorporates song lyrics throughout); and AllMusicalsAreAdaptations (for works based on other pre-existing properties and usually use their signature songs). {{Bio Pic}}s about famous musicians inherently can't avoid this.

Contrast RockOpera, which are {{concept album}}s wherein all the songs are meant from the get-go to form a singular narrative. See also RealSongThemeTune (the work has an original soundtrack, but the main theme is a preexisting song); SongFic (when a FanFiction incorporates song lyrics throughout); and AllMusicalsAreAdaptations (for works based on other pre-existing properties and usually use their signature songs). {{BioPic}}s about famous musicians inherently can't avoid this.

Contrast RockOpera, which are {{concept album}}s wherein all the songs are meant from the get-go to form a singular narrative. See also RealSongThemeTune (the work has an original soundtrack, but the main theme is a preexisting song); SongFic (when a FanFiction incorporates song lyrics throughout); and AllMusicalsAreAdaptations (for works based on other pre-existing properties and usually use their signature songs).

* ''Theatre/WeWillRockYou'': a post-apocalyptic exercise in ThePowerOfRock using Music/{{Queen}} songs.

* The original ''Film/{{Highlander}}'' has a soundtrack written almost entirely by Music/{{Queen}}, and nearly all original.

* ''Jagged Little Pill'', a stage musical using songs from the [[Music/JaggedLittlePill album of the same name]] by Canadian musician Music/AlanisMorissette.

* ''VideoGame/DiscoElysium''[='s=] entire soundtrack was composed by Music/BritishSeaPower, made up of a combination of instrumental versions of songs from their previous albums and new compositions. The theme used in Martinaise is "Red Rock Riviera"; "The Smallest Church in Saint-Saëns", the song you can sing at karaoke, is an only slightly rewritten "The Smallest Church in Sussex"; a version of "Want To Be Free" is used as the "Sad FM" track you can play on your final trip to the island. In addition, song titles and lyrics find their way into the text of the game, such as Revachol's official motto being "A Light Above Descending."

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' episode "Meet the Beat-Alls" features a story in which everyone ''speaks'' Music/TheBeatles lyrics.

The greatest strength and greatest weakness of the Jukebox Musical is that members of the audience may have heard these songs before, especially if they are popular ones. As a strength, that means that they can easily work as emotionally shorthand if they're already associated with a certain mood in pop culture, bolstering the narrative of the work. As a weakness, audience members could have strong memories related to these songs that can cause MoodDissonance. For example, the cool rock song you chose to emphasize the hero's HesBack moment could end up reminding one audience member of their first college breakup, another of a deceased family member, or another of some old phone ad, diminishing the intended emotional impact of the scene.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Sing}}'', a 2016 animated film from Creator/IlluminationEntertainment, manages to sneak at least small snippets of at least 80 different songs from the 1940s to the 2010s. And there’s a sequel in the works.

* ''Film/AcrossTheUniverse2007'': A movie musical set before and during the Vietnam War using the music of Music/TheBeatles.
** Earlier, in the late 1970s, there was the less successful ''Film/SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand'' (which notably was among the first of its kind).
** Also, ''WesternAnimation/YellowSubmarine'', if an animated Jukebox Musical counts.
** Also from [[TheSeventies the late 70s]] comes the Broadway musical ''Beatlemania''.
*** And the film of the same name.

* Songwriter Music/IrvingBerlin made a whole series of these: for each of the movies ''Film/AlexandersRagtimeBand'' (which was to have been a {{Biopic}} until Berlin said no), ''Blue Skies'', ''Easter Parade'' and ''There's No Business Like Show Business'', he provided a score containing a mixture of his old hits and a few newly written songs. ''Alexander's Ragtime Band'' and ''There's No Business Like Show Business'' had only a couple of new songs each; ''Blue Skies'' and ''Easter Parade'' had roughly as many new Irving Berlin songs as old ones. (''Film/WhiteChristmas'', however, had mostly new songs, as did its predecessor ''Film/HolidayInn''.)

* ''Hoy No Me Puedo Levantar'' (I just can’t get up today) has songs from the Spanish band "The song "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYBF5NeCrLs Una rosa es una rosa]]" ("[[Creator/GertrudeStein A rose is a rose]]"), by Spanish group Music/{{Mecano}}.

* ''Hoy No Me Puedo Levantar'' has songs from the Spanish band "Mecano".

* ''Film/{{Xanadu}}'': The stage version is essentially one for the Music/ElectricLightOrchestra.

* ''Film/AcrossTheUniverse'': A movie musical set before and during the Vietnam War using the music of Music/TheBeatles.

->''"Got a call from a weird lady, calls herself Twyla\\
Said she wanted my songs for a modern ballet\\
Twyla said she'd immortalize me in a style a\\
Guy who liked rock and roll could enjoy in LA\\
Movin' Out came about, now it plays in a strange place\\
And my songs are performed by a rock 'n' roll elf\\
While a dancer contorts with his crotch in his own face\\
I don't think it's okay that he plays with himself\\
I never said you could make Uptown Girl a disco dance\\
I never wrote The Longest Time for twinkies in tight pants."''
-->-- '''Music/BillyJoel''' sings about ''Theatre/MovinOut'' in ''Theatre/ForbiddenBroadway'' to the tune of "My Life"

** Earlier, in the late 1970s, there was the less successful ''Film/SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand'' (which notably was among the first of its kind). Infamous for starring The Bee Gees.

* Sometime in 2014, Music/BritneySpears developed plans for an adaptation of the death of Jesus using her songs. Make of that what you will. She didn't go through with it, but there might have been some remnants of that idea within Fox's ''The Passion Live''.

* ''Viva Forever'', a musical based around the songs of the Music/SpiceGirls, was a notorious flop that may turn out to be a GenreKiller.

* ''Emma: A Pop Musical'' is a Setting update of Creator/JaneAusten's ''Literature/{{Emma}}'' utilizing pop hits ranging from TheSixties to TheNewTens.