What is the term given to a musical that uses previously released popular songs as its musical score, examples of which are Mamma Mia! and Jersey Boys?
"wonderful. It's all the reasons you should never go to the movies. And all the reasons you should race to get a ticket."" Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again is a 2018 jukebox musical romantic comedy film written and directed by Ol Parker, from a story by Parker, Catherine Johnson, and Richard Curtis. It is a follow-up to the 2008 film ""Mamma Mia!"", which in turn is based on the musical of the same name using the music of ABBA. The film features an ensemble cast, including Lily James, Amanda Seyfried, Christine Baranski, Julie"
"kind of musical parody that still continues. For instance, Bob Dylan took the tune of the old slave song ""No more auction block for me"" as the basis for ""Blowin' in the Wind"". In the 1940s Spike Jones and his City Slickers parodied popular music in their own way, not by changing lyrics, but adding wild sound effects and comedic stylings to formerly staid old songs. The 1957 Broadway musical ""Jamaica"" parodied the then very fashionable commercial variety of Calypso music. A musical using heavy parody was the 1959 show ""Little Mary Sunshine"", which poked fun at old-fashioned operetta. Parodists"
"as they did in their heyday, they remain somewhat popular, especially among niche audiences. Show tunes make up a disproportionate part of the songs in most variations of the Great American Songbook. The reverse phenomenon, when already popular songs are used to form the basis of a stage musical, is known as a jukebox musical. Show tune A show tune is a song originally written as part of the score of a musical stage show or musical, especially if the piece in question has become a standard, more or less detached in most people's minds from the original context. Particular"
"Mamma Mia! (film series) Mamma Mia! and Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again are an American musical film series based on the 1999 musical of the same name, based on the songs of successful pop group ABBA, with additional music composed by ABBA member Benny Andersson. An international co-production between Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States, the first two films were directed by Phyllida Lloyd and Ol Parker, respectively, distributed by Universal Pictures in partnership with Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson's Playtone and Littlestar, and the title originates from ABBA's 1975 chart-topper ""Mamma Mia"". Meryl Streep and Amanda"
"it is a collection of well-known Neapolitan songs composed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, such as ""Marechiaro"" and ""Rundinella"", backed by north African string and percussion instruments. Also, the English term ""musical"" (or, occasionally, the Italian ""commedia musicale""—a translation of ""musical comedy"") has come to be used over the last few decades in Italy, in general, and Naples, in particular, to describe a kind of musical drama not native to Italy, a form that employs the American idiom of jazz-pop-and rock-based music and rhythms to move a story along in a combination of songs and dialogue. Obviously,"
"now often replaced with soundtracks that are entirely synthesized or utilize covers songs of famous popular songs or are even composed by popular performers, such as in the soundtrack for the 1997 film of Titanic () and the use of many popular songs for specific historical references in the soundtrack for the movie Forrest Gump (Forrest Gump (soundtrack)). Because of the growing common practice of using popular songs combined with a more classical soundtrack, it became a standard to release two soundtracks with one made of up the popular genre selected songs, and the Original Score or Film Score as"
"an original stage musical, and it often makes sense for record shops to put the two genres in the same section. But the cast album of a stage musical is very specifically not a soundtrack. Decca Broadway, known from the 1940s until the 1990s simply as Decca Records, is the label that began the trend in North America. They released 78-rpm album sets of ""Porgy and Bess"", ""Oklahoma!"", ""A Connecticut Yankee"", ""One Touch of Venus"", ""Carmen Jones"", ""Bloomer Girl"", ""Song of Norway"", ""Carousel"", ""Annie Get Your Gun"", ""Call Me Mister"", and ""Lost in the Stars"". Many of these were transferred"
"Rock musical A rock musical is a musical theatre work with rock music. The genre of rock musical may overlap somewhat with album musicals, concept albums and song cycles, as they sometimes tell a story through the rock music, and some album musicals and concept albums become rock musicals. Notable examples of rock musicals include ""Next to Normal"", ""Spring Awakening"", ""Rent"", ""Grease"", and ""Hair"". The Who's ""Tommy"" and other rock operas are sometimes presented on stage as a musical. The rock musical became an important part of the musical theatre scene in the late 1960s with the hit show ""Hair""."
"Album musical An album musical is a type of recording that sounds like an original cast album but is created specifically for the recording medium and is complete entertainment product in itself, rather than just promoting or reflecting an existing or planned musical theatre production or revue. Although there has been no one term consistently used to describe this type of recording, the genre predates the use of the term ""concept album"" by several decades, dating back to the era of 78-rpm records with such original works as Gordon Jenkins' ""Manhattan Tower"" (1946, expanded in 1956) and ""The Letter"" (1959)"
"in the revival of the American musical film genre. Baz Luhrmann stated that his musical film ""Moulin Rouge!"" (2001) was directly inspired by Bollywood musicals. The film incorporated an Indian-themed play based on the ancient Sanskrit drama ""Mṛcchakatika"" and a Bollywood-style dance sequence with a song from the film ""China Gate"" (1998). The critical and financial success of ""Moulin Rouge!"" renewed interest in the then-moribund Western musical genre, and subsequently films such as ""Chicago"", ""The Producers"", ""Rent"", ""Dreamgirls"", ""Hairspray"", """", ""Across the Universe"", ""The Phantom of the Opera"", ""Enchanted"" and ""Mamma Mia!"" were produced, fuelling a renaissance of the genre."
"musicals are not restricted to corporations or to businesses involved in industry. They should not be confused with industrial music, or with musicals produced by businesses to be seen by the general public, for example, Disney's stage production of ""The Lion King"". Industrial musicals originated from company songs, anthems and jingles for promoting enthusiasm among workers. The songs were brought in by the management, as opposed to worker-created work songs. Internal musical groups could be formed to encourage company loyalty, keep employees happy, and to help advertise the company to the public. Early 20th century examples include IBM's internal songbook"
"Sky and Sophie, respectively. Bonus tracks Mamma Mia! Original Cast Recording Mamma Mia! Original Cast Recording is the original cast album for the 1999 English stage musical ""Mamma Mia!"". The album was released in 1999 and it reached No.56 in the UK album chart, with 2 weeks on the chart. Mamma Mia! reinvigorated the popularity of ABBA (the film soundtrack was the best-selling album of the week and several songs made the top #75 in the UK singles chart). The re-interest in this 1999 Original London Cast album caused it to reach #12 in the UK Album Chart, having charted"
"the seventh longest-running show in West End history, as well as various international productions. Its Broadway incarnation closed in September 2015 after a 14-year run, making it the ninth longest-running show in Broadway history. ""Mamma Mia!"" is based on the songs of ABBA, a Swedish pop/dance group active from 1972 to 1982 and one of the most popular international pop groups of all time, topping the charts again and again in Europe, North and South America and Australia. Following the premiere of the musical in London in 1999, topped the charts in the United Kingdom again. This musical was the"
"Portugal. ""Mamma Mia!"", another musical based on the songs of ABBA Abbacadabra ABBAcadabra is a French children's musical based on songs from the pop group ABBA. It was originally produced for French television in 1983 by Alain and Daniel Boublil, but which was later also transferred to an English stage version and two other television programs. The story was not always the same as the selection of the chosen songs varied by productions. The French television production consisted of 12 ABBA songs with new French lyrics by Alain & Daniel Boublil, and the story was based on classic fairy tales"
"Megamusical A megamusical is a large-scale musical with intent for even larger commercial profit. Some of its synonyms are ""spectacle show,"" ""blockbuster musical,"" or ""extravaganza."" Megamusicals tend to be set in the distant past and cover broad, universal issues that large audiences are likely to respond/relate to. Musicals had always been an American institution, but during the 1980s a major British composer, Andrew Lloyd Webber, brought ""Cats"" (1981) over to America and the 'musical' gained more international recognition. Megamusicals are known for ""big"" elements. The plot is generally large in scope and lofty, but falls short in many ways; it"
"Marian are heard singing a snatch of each other's songs. And in Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II's ""Show Boat"", the song ""Ol' Man River"" is reprised three times after it is first sung, as if it were a commentary on the situation in the story. In some musicals, a reprise of an earlier song is sung by a different character from the one who originally sang it, with different lyrics. In ""Mamma Mia!"", however, the reprises for the title track, Dancing Queen, and Waterloo have no altering of the lyrics, and are just shortened versions of the originals featured"
"of ""The New York Times"" called them musicals with ""no more than the addition of a keyboard and a drum set"". Rock opera A rock opera is a collection of rock music songs with lyrics that relate to a common story. Rock operas are typically released as concept albums and are not scripted for acting, which distinguishes them from operas, although several have been adapted as rock musicals. The use of various character roles within the song lyrics is a common storytelling device. The success of the rock opera genre has inspired similar works in other musical styles, such as"
"to such groundbreaking works as ""Show Boat"" (1927) and ""Oklahoma!"" (1943). Some of the most famous musicals through the decades that followed include ""West Side Story"" (1957), ""The Fantasticks"" (1960), ""Hair"" (1967), ""A Chorus Line"" (1975), ""Les Misérables"" (1985), ""The Phantom of the Opera"" (1986), ""Rent"" (1996), ""The Producers"" (2001), ""Wicked"" (2003) and ""Hamilton"" (2015). Musicals are performed around the world. They may be presented in large venues, such as big-budget Broadway or West End productions in New York City or London. Alternatively, musicals may be staged in smaller venues, such as fringe theatre, Off-Broadway, Off-Off-Broadway, regional theatre, or community"
"to a typical Broadway musical, where songs are incorporated into a formal musical score and accompanied by choreography. The songs in jukebox musicals (of both kinds) are often contextualized into a dramatic plot, and particularly in the case of the later kind, a biographical story about the featured performer(s). In some instances plots do not revolve around the musical act(s) making appearances. Jukebox musical films of the first kind often feature famous pop stars and rock groups playing themselves, such as the Beatles in their narrative films, or in other cases playing as alter egos. Some films star one well-known"
"to music as written – in prose – with the lyrics of the arias, duets, trios and choruses written in verse. The libretto of a musical, on the other hand, is almost always written in prose (except for the song lyrics). The libretto of a musical, if the musical is adapted from a play (or even a novel), may even borrow their source's original dialogue liberally – much as ""Oklahoma!"" used dialogue from Lynn Riggs's ""Green Grow the Lilacs"", ""Carousel"" used dialogue from Ferenc Molnár's ""Liliom"", ""My Fair Lady"" took most of its dialogue word-for-word from George Bernard Shaw's ""Pygmalion"","
"act or execute choreography ... but they also hold rock’s wild card: the potential, realized or not, for spontaneity."" Rock musical A rock musical is a musical theatre work with rock music. The genre of rock musical may overlap somewhat with album musicals, concept albums and song cycles, as they sometimes tell a story through the rock music, and some album musicals and concept albums become rock musicals. Notable examples of rock musicals include ""Next to Normal"", ""Spring Awakening"", ""Rent"", ""Grease"", and ""Hair"". The Who's ""Tommy"" and other rock operas are sometimes presented on stage as a musical. The rock"
"The following were among contemporary releases: Jubilee (musical) Jubilee is a musical comedy with a book by Moss Hart and music and lyrics by Cole Porter. It premiered on Broadway in 1935 to rapturous reviews. Inspired by the recent silver jubilee of King George V of Great Britain, the story is of the royal family of a fictional European country. Several of its songs, especially ""Begin the Beguine"" and ""Just One of Those Things"", became independently popular and have become part of the American Songbook. The musical opened on Broadway in October 1935, in the midst of the Great Depression."
"the reintegration of song and story after decades of thinly plotted British and American musicals, paving the way for ""Show Boat"" and ""Oklahoma!"" by showing that a musical could combine popular entertainment with continuity between its story and songs. These Princess Theatre shows, which featured modern American settings, ""built and polished the mold from which almost all later major musical comedies evolved. ... The characters and situations were, within the limitations of musical comedy license, believable and the humor came from the situations or the nature of the characters. Kern's exquisitely flowing melodies were employed to further the action or"
"as ""Bollywood"" musicals, and in Japan a series of musicals based on popular Anime and Manga comics has developed in recent decades. Shorter or simplified ""junior"" versions of many musicals are available for schools and youth groups, and very short works created or adapted for performance by children are sometimes called minimusicals. The antecedents of musical theatre in Europe can be traced back to the theatre of ancient Greece, where music and dance were included in stage comedies and tragedies during the 5th century BCE. The music from the ancient forms is lost, however, and they had little influence on"
"Show tune A show tune is a song originally written as part of the score of a musical stage show or musical, especially if the piece in question has become a standard, more or less detached in most people's minds from the original context. Particular musicals that have yielded popular “show tunes” include: Though show tunes vary in style, they do tend to share common characteristics—they usually fit the context of a story being told in the original musical, they are useful in enhancing and heightening choice moments. A particularly common form of show tune is the ""I Want"" song,"
"Diggers"" series (1933, 1935 and 1937). Other stage musicals that have elements of backstage musicals include ""Show Boat"" (1927), ""Kiss Me, Kate"" (1948), ""The Band Wagon"" (1953), """" (1959), ""Cabaret"" (1966), ""Follies"" (1971), ""A Chorus Line"" (1975) and ""The Phantom of the Opera"" (1986). Backstage musical A backstage musical is a genre of musical with a plot set in a theatrical context that revolves around the production of a play or musical revue. The film's narrative trajectory often comes to a halt one or more times to allow a performance. The songs performed in this context are considered diegetic numbers"
"Mamma Mia! Original Cast Recording Mamma Mia! Original Cast Recording is the original cast album for the 1999 English stage musical ""Mamma Mia!"". The album was released in 1999 and it reached No.56 in the UK album chart, with 2 weeks on the chart. Mamma Mia! reinvigorated the popularity of ABBA (the film soundtrack was the best-selling album of the week and several songs made the top #75 in the UK singles chart). The re-interest in this 1999 Original London Cast album caused it to reach #12 in the UK Album Chart, having charted at #16 a week earlier. It"
"original. Minimusical Minimusical refers to works of musical theatre where elements of a musical, especially songs and dialogue, are incorporated into a short work for performance. Minimusicals are generally designed to be performed by children or teens in a classroom, camp or concert setting. They often last only about ten minutes in duration, but some are longer. Minimusical productions are often used to introduce children to musical theatre performance, especially those youngsters who have no previous background or training in group drama, singing or dancing, live on stage. Some minimusicals are adaptations or use existing songs or melodies, while some"
"""Starlight Express"", ""The Sound of Music"", ""Chitty Chitty Bang Bang"", ""Monty Python's Spamalot"", ""Beauty and the Beast"", ""West Side Story"", ""Jesus Christ Superstar"", ""Thoroughly Modern Millie"", ""The Rocky Horror Show"", ""Fame - The Musical"", ""Never Forget"", ""Priscilla Queen of the Desert - the Musical"", ""Cabaret"", ""Blood Brothers"", ""Saturday Night Fever"", ""Carousel"", ""Footloose - The Musical"", ""Grease"", ""Anything Goes"", ""Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake"", ""Our House"", ""Buddy - The Buddy Holly Story"", ""Carousel"", ""Tap Dogs"", ""Taboo"", ""Flashdance - The Musical"", ""Annie"", ""Annie Get Your Gun"", """", ""Dancing in the Streets"", ""Sister Act"", ""An Inspector Calls"", ""Dirty Rotten Scoundrels"", ""Rock of Ages"", ""Chicago"","
"A Broadway Musical A Broadway Musical is a musical with a book by William F. Brown, lyrics by Lee Adams, and music by Charles Strouse. The Broadway production closed after 14 previews and only one performance on December 21, 1978. The plot about a sleazy white theatre producer's attempt to adapt an African-American writer's serious play as a commercial stage musical was inspired by Adams and Strouse's real-life experiences with their 1964 Broadway production of ""Golden Boy"". The star of the musical-within-the-musical (""Sneakers"", about a basketball star) closely resembles ""Golden Boy"" star Sammy Davis, Jr. When the star opts to"
"The Musical of Musicals (The Musical!) The Musical of Musicals (The Musical!) is a musical by Joanne Bogart and Eric Rockwell. It is structured into five acts, each of which is a short musical parodying (and paying homage to) the style of an American or British musical theatre composer or composer/lyricist team, all dealing with roughly the same classic melodrama plot: ""I can't pay the rent!"" The musical premiered off-Broadway in 2003 at the York Theatre. It again played off-Broadway in 2005 at the Dodger Stages V with the same cast. It also had a production on London's West End,"
"the term is used to refer to original American musicals, but now is used, as well, for original productions in Italian and Neapolitan dialect. The first Italian ""musical"" was ""Carosello Napoletano"", first a stage production and then a 1953 film directed by Ettore Giannini and featuring a young Sophia Loren in the cast. More recent Neapolitan musicals have been ""C'era una volta...Scugnizzi"", based on the lives of Neapolitan street kids (""Scugnizzi) and ""Napoli 1799"", about the republican revolution of 1799 that briefly overthrew the Bourbon monarchy. The most famous place, of course, to hear music in Naples is the San"
"was then broken by ""Mamma Mia!"". ""Chicago"" along with an earlier musical ""Moulin Rouge!"" and the hip hop centred film ""8 Mile"", is widely considered to be responsible for the re-emergence of the musical film genre in the 21st century. Following the success of ""Chicago"" many musical films have been released in cinemas including ""Phantom of the Opera"", ""The Producers"", ""Rent"", ""Dreamgirls"" (also written and directed by Bill Condon), ""Hairspray"" (also starring Queen Latifah), ""Enchanted"", """" (also featuring costumes by Coleen Atwood), ""Mamma Mia!"" (also starring Christine Baranski), ""Nine"" (also directed by Rob Marshall), ""Les Misérables"", ""Rock of Ages"" (also"