Jukebox Musicals & Pop-sicals (Give My Regards to...)

For our next musical theatre history lesson, Emily meets with Gerald virtually to talk about JUKEBOX MUSICALS and POP-SICALS.

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Here's your list of Jukebox Musicals and Pop-sicals. We know it's incomplete so add anything we missed in the comments!

BIO MUSICALS:
George M! (1968)
Buddy - The Buddy Holly Story (1990, 12 years in West End!)
Love, Janis - Janis Joplin (2001, Off-Broadway)
The Boy from Oz - Peter Allen (2003)
Lennon - John Lennon & Yoko Ono (2005)
Jersey Boys - The Four Seasons (2005)
LoveMusik - Kurt Weill (2007)
Fela! - Fela Kuti (2009)
Million Dollar Quartet - Various (2011)
Baby, It’s You! - The Shirelles, 60s pop/rock (2011)
A Night with Janis Joplin (2013)
Motown: The Musical (2013)
Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (2014)
On Your Feet! - Gloria Estefan (2015)
Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of the Temptations (2018)
The Cher Show (2018)
Summer: The Donna Summer Musical (2018)
Tina - Tina Turner (2019)

SHOEHORNED SHOWS:
Singin’ in the Rain - Freed & Brown (1952 film, 1985 Broadway)
Crazy for You - The Gershwins (1992)
Play On! - Duke Ellington (1997)
Mamma Mia! - ABBA (2001)
We Will Rock You - Queen (2002, West End)
All Shook Up - Elvis Presley (2005)
Good Vibrations - The Beach Boys (2005)
Ring of Fire - Johnny Cash (2006)
The Times They Are a-Changin’ - Bob Dylan (2006)
White Christmas - Irving Berlin (1954 film, 2008 Broadway)
Rock of Ages - 80’s rock (2009)
American Idiot - Green Day (2010)
Nice Work if You Can Get It - The Gershwins (2012)
Holler if Ya Hear Me - Tupac Shakur (2014)
Disaster! - 70’s disco (2016)
Bat Out of Hell: The Musical - Jim Steinman (2017, West End)
Head Over Heels - The Go-Go’s (2018)
Escape to Margaritaville - Jimmy Buffett (2018)
The Band - Take That (2018, West End)
The Heart of Rock ‘n Roll - Huey Lewis and the News (2018, San Diego)
Jagged Little Pill - Alanis Morissette (2019)
Girl from the North Country - Bob Dylan (2020 Broadway)

MOVIE TO JUKEBOX MUSICAL:
The Who’s Tommy (1975 film, 1993 Broadway)
Saturday Night Fever (1977 film, 1999 Broadway)
Xanadu (1980 film, 2007 Broadway)
Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994 film, 2011 Broadway)
Moulin Rouge! The Musical (2001 film, 2019 Broadway)

MUSICAL REVUES:
Side by Side by Sondheim (1977)
Ain’t Misbehavin’ - Fats Waller (1978)
Marry Me a Little (1981 Off-Broadway, Sondheim’s cut songs)
Forever Plaid - 1950s guy groups (1989, Off-Broadway)
Jerome Robbins’ Broadway (1989)
And the World Goes ‘Round (1991, Off-Broadway) - Kander & Ebb
A Grand Night for Singing (1993) - Rodgers & Hammerstein
Smokey Joe’s Cafe - Leiber & Stoller (1995)
Putting it Together (1999 Broadway) - Sondheim
Fosse (1999)
Movin’ Out - Billy Joel (2002)
The Marvelous Wonderettes - 50s/60s girl groups (2008, 2016 Off-Broadway)
Sondheim On Sondheim (2010)

ROCK/POP STARS WRITING ORIGINAL MUSICALS (POP-SICALS):
Elton John - The Lion King (1994 film, 1997 Broadway), Aida (2000), Lestat (2006), Billy Elliot: The Musical (2008), Rocketman (2019 film)

Tim Minchin - Matilda (2011 West End, 2013 Broadway), Groundhog Day (2017)

Dennis DeYoung - The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1997 Chicago), 101 Dalmatians Musical (2009 National Tour)

Rupert Holmes - The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1985), Curtains (2007)

Promises, Promises - Burt Bacharach (1968)
Big River - Roger Miller (1985)
Chess - Benny Andersson & Bjorn Ulvaeus of ABBA (1988)
Faust - Randy Newman (1995, La Jolla)
Thou Shalt Not - Harry Connick Jr. (2001)
Taboo - Boy George (2003, some Culture Club songs)
Spring Awakening - Duncan Sheik (2006)
Memphis - David Bryan, keyboards for Bon Jovi (2009)
9 to 5 - Dolly Parton (2009)
Spiderman: Turn Off the Dark - Bono & The Edge (2010)
Here Lies Love - David Byrne & Fatboy Slim (2013, Off Broadway)
Kinky Boots - Cyndi Lauper & Harvey Fierstein (2013)
The Last Ship - Sting (2014)
Waitress - Sara Bareilles (2016)
Bright Star - Steve Martin & Edie Brickell (2016)
SpongeBob Squarepants - Various Artists (2017)
Muriel’s Wedding - Kate Miller-Heidke (2017 Sydney, some ABBA songs)
Pretty Woman: The Musical - Bryan Adams & Jim Vallance (2018)
Hadestown - Anais Mitchell (2019)