If the lyrics are story-based enough to fit a proper narrative, it's fine by me (little tweaks and such are permissible; pointless shoehorns and "karaoke hell" aren't).
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Sounds good.
You know, I was looking through the book Not Since Carrie by Ken Mandelbaum, which is about flop musicals, and one of his tips on avoiding a flop was to avoid using older music. It seems Hilarious in Hindsight now given the rise of the jukebox musical.
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Or not, considering the huge ratio of flops to successes (pretty much everything besides Mamma Mia and We Will Rock You has gone thud (among others, a show based around Frank Farian's oeuvre (Boney M, La Bouche, Milli Vanilli, etc.), which flopped in the West End, but is rather popular in Germany (makes sense, seeing Farian is German, but still.) The cast recording is unfortunately No Export for You outside of the UK and Germany, but I was able to snag it thanks to a very helpful subreddit 
which I will not name in order to avoid a suspension.
The Jukebox Musical. Oft-maligned, but popular form of musical theatre in which the characters' songs are pop songs (or, at least, not theatre songs). I haven't seen any in a theatre capacity, but I did see Acrossthe Universe, which I liked.
What are your thoughts?
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