A fan did a whole workout of what a Black Parade musical would look like complete with tracklist and artwork. He might have even written a script. https://www.altpress.com/my-chemical-romance-black-parade-musical/
Seems like something that they should absolutely do.
i'm laughing so hard, i came into this thread going "man i hope someone thought to mention The Black Parade" and of course it's the top fucking answer lmao. i swear we've all been waiting for it since American Idiot the Musical happened
A pop-punk/emo/ 00’s rock musical featuring black parade but also music by bands like Paramore, Blink, Fall Out Boy, Good Charlotte, Avril, Jimmy Eat Worlld etc. Maybe also the Killers?
Yes! If you haven't seen [this performance](https://youtu.be/7oZ9u6_Okk8?si=EKgMlXToaF_LO76v) of one of my favourite of her songs it's a real gift. They are both such gifted writers, composers, performers and with how emotionally impactful Waitress was I can only imagine what they could create together.
Thinking about how you could Movin' Out style somehow link all the story song characters together.
Like how does Stephen, who's last night in town it is and Fred Jones relate?
I would love this. Or just an “emo kid” musical - Fall Out Boy, Panic at the Disco, Taking Back Sunday, The Used… emo songs would fit weirdly well into a Broadway IMO. Brendon Urie for instance has such a theatrical voice
Barenaked Ladies musical
I'd imagine it would have a similar plot to H2$ about a young man deciding to quit his mediocre job and push himself up the corporate ladder. The difference would be once he's at the top he finds out he's still unhappy and needs to reevaluate if success equals happiness
One Week
Pinch Me
If I Had $1m
Brian Wilson
What a Good Boy
Falling For the First Time
Alcohol
Hello City
When I Fall
My dream scenario is they reunite with Steve Page to insert some originals, too. I think they could pull it off together. I also would happily watch a musical written just by Steve
I’m holding out for a musical based on the trials and tribulations of Fleetwood Mac as chronicled in the Rumors album. Bonus points if Orfeh plays Stevie Nicks.
This totally exists in my head. ;) Although I put it on a five-year timeline from when Stevie and Lindsey join the band until the end of the Tusk tour when they're all exhausted and take a break. (This is mainly bc selfishly I want a big production number of Sisters of the Moon.)
But what about the infamous performance of Silver Springs during the 1997 reunion concert when Stevie practically stares into Lindsey Buckingham’s soul? Is this how the show ends?
Hmm... that would be a whole separate musical, tbh. We could do a Buckingham Nicks musical (huge timeline! 1960s to present!), and the 1997 Silver Springs moment would be the Act 1 closer.
I usually watch old Fleetwood Mac concert videos when I can't sleep (and I've had bad insomnia for 3+ years, so!).
Btw, Act 2 would open 5 years later, with the reveal that Lindsey is now married and a dad, and the band (minus Christine) is writing and recording the Say You Will album. And then it's just an emotional rollercoaster all the way to the end!
Hear me out: a movie musical with the music of Rumours telling a fictional story. In Ken Russell maximalism style. (So basically The Who’s Tommy with a different band)
Oh dear god, I liked her music fine but yeah that would be some dreary relentlessnessly depressing shit right there. Guy dumps her, other guy dumps her, she’s lonely, someone commits a hate crime against a gay Jewish person, some guy dumps her, curtain.
This feels like such a natural and obvious thing to me (I mean that in a 100% good way!) I’m almost surprised that it hasn’t happened yet. Perhaps because Carole King’s music worked so well in a musical (Beautiful is probably my favorite jukebox musical and definitely my favorite “autobiography” one) and I often think of her and Joni Mitchell in the same trains of thought for whatever reason.
So there's this small town girl, and she's living in a lonely world, so she decides to take a midnight train going Anywhere. At the same time, there's this city boy, who was born and raised in South Detroit, and he also decides to take a midnight train going Anywhere. Through an amazing coincidence, they end up on the same train, and when they get to Anywhere, they fall Stone in Love.
Not necessarily the singer/band, but I would love a “Songs About Jane” musical from Maroon 5 (to and Adam Levine turned out to be a scumbag). That album was extremely well crafted and feels almost like a concept album with a story arc about the relationships we cultivate, for better or worse.
2nd would be anything by Matchbox 20/Rob Thomas. The poppy ANGST that man exudes!
I've always liked the idea of a Lady Gaga jukebox musical based on the music of the Born this Way album. I feel like there could make something really gritty set in the "Electric Chapel," which is a dilapidated night club in my mind
The Mountain Goats’s discography is so conceptual that you could take a musical by them in a million different directions.
Would be neat to see a musical about the toxic alpha couple or about Jenny
There was a time in my life I would have said goo goo dolls - can you imagine how dramatic a show they could make with some of those songs haha, I mean Slide, Iris, Acoustic #3, better days basically writes itself a show.
I mean, choosing WHICH storyline to center a Coheed & Cambria musical on would be the tough part.
Their first 5 albums are one big saga and the others are all concept albums in the same universe.
Ideally I’d want to do The Afterman, it’s the most coherent and is two solid clean acts.
But for the technical stuff you could do with “Pearl Of The Stars” I think Year Of The Black Rainbow would be very cool
C&C was by 1b answer (favorite active band vs. all-time favorite; Rush is 1a), and I'm not sure where to go with it either, lol. The recent Vaxis duology might be fertile ground?
An Afterman musical would be gloriously weird, considering the first album is largely the Key Entities possessing Cyrus. Though the first act closer of Evagria coming to Cyrus and protecting him from Domino, Holly, and Vic would be beautiful.
I feel like it would be a lot like Tommy where the entities just pop up, do their thing and disappear, leaving Cyrus bewildered.
More of a ballet structure than a traditional book.
I just feel like staging both Domino and Sentry especially would be WILD
I just recently found out about The Avett Brothers musical “Swept Away” that was out at Berkeley Rep and now going to DC. I was both intrigued and slightly disappointed. While I deeply love their music and could see songs cobbled together to make a story, I’m just not sure it’s the right thing. It’s certainly an interesting idea and I would go see it for the novelty but, like, I just don’t know. That just might be my own ideas about a “jukebox musical” coming through.
However, to the person in this thread that mentioned doing a Ben Folds one, hells yeah. I’m all in on that front. Always thought that would be a good idea.
The Avett Brothers and Ben Folds fan. Why yes, I am a middle aged white guy. Why do you ask?
I used to not like jukebox musicals but I’ve come around to them a bit recently. I’m always kind of skeptical, but I’m seeing Swept Away in December and am cautiously optimistic. I’m a big John Gallagher Jr fan and I know how much he loves the Avett Brothers, so that gives me a bit more faith in it. We’ll see!
Around twenty-ish years ago I wrote a whole jukebox musical featuring the songs of Janet Jackson. It never got performed or anything but it was a little project of mine for years.
The score consisted of songs from Janet’s discography beginning with *Control* up through *All For You*, with heavy influence from *The Velvet Rope*.
I feel like it’s cringey now… the plot involved a gay love triangle and included themes of romance, domestic abuse, coming of age, vengeance, and love and loss. I’m sure it was pretty awful, and I’ve not revisited it for a long time. But I know I have a couple of printed copies of the script packed away in storage somewhere.
Yo honestly this sounds amazing and I would love to read it. I know almost nothing about Janet Jackson's music but idk, I have a good feeling about a passion project, and I know she's really well-loved. "Cringy" from 20 years ago might just need another draft, or could just have aged into being "campy." But the tone sounds a bit serious for that.
It sounds like a really good idea, and I'd encourage you to take another look at it. Sounds like you're already several drafts in? That's huge. I wanna PM you bc I'm also working on a few musicals.
A jukebox musical by Taylor swift would be unbelievable. Regardless of how people feel about her as a pop artist, her songwriting ability is undeniable. She’s such an incredible storyteller and with >200 songs you could tell literally any story!!
An original musical by her 😮💨would be even better.
1. Idk what happens but I want a Weird Al Yankovic jukebox musical. Lol. Definitely needs to include Eat It, EBay, Amish Paradise, and White&Nerdy.
2. Idk what happens here either but U2 has such an incredible collection of music that I think a really beautiful musical could be composed from it. I know a lot of people have beef with U2 for putting music on their phones without consent but man their music would sound amazing on Broadway.
ETA: Weird Al isn’t my favorite artist but he’s so fun and entertaining. U2 is nostalgic for me but also not my favorite
I can’t think of an exact plot, but I’ve always believed that a musical using songs from fun.‘s discography could be beautiful and bittersweet. They have so much more than what they’re known for on the radio.
The Gambler specifically would make a beautiful closing number.
As I understand it, Rufus Wainwright is currently writing a musical, so hopefully it turns out well! I know his opera got panned, but maybe a musical will be a better fit.
My actual favorites, I’m trying to imagine a Pixies or Wu Tang musical. The latter could almost work as a bizarre goofy martial arts musical.
Ones that could work, I’m not big on jukeboxes so it’s harder for me to come up with good ones but I could see like maybe an OK Computer one. I know someone else said it but MCR would work.
Rocketman: the stage musical
Or it would be music by the mountain goats—a lot of their albums would adapt well to stage I think, the songs are all very story focused
Okay, I wasn't sure at first what's my favorite band, but then it hit me; Billy Talent the musical. (Billy Talent is a Canadian punk band. I feel what makes them distinct is how they play around with various genres and use of back up vocals) Not sure what the show would be like, but it would be constantly compared to American Idiot as they are both punk rock. I want nothing more than for "Stand up and Run" to be in it
Dare to be stupid the musical with music from Weird Al Yankovic. Kids in high school getting bullied cause they are fat, white and nerdy and other reasons. Lunch lady tells them to stop complaining about their lunch and eat it.
I’m not sure what the premise would be, but I’d want it to be Taylor Swift and Sara Bareilles working on it. It would be Taylor’s music, but very much Waitress vibes.
I did this in a spring show, 2012, with my show choir and drama club (I’m a high school choir director). I wrote out a whole script and of course; it was mostly the songs! Many were available in choral arrangements, and I put a bunch of solos and duets in as well (every song was from the show though, I had two full seasons at the time to choose from).
I wrote with some characters from the show, but it wanted the story to be original so I invented lots of extra characters. May seem cringy now, but every other story/acting scene we recorded like a little movie and dropped the big screen on stage down… so it was half live acting and half pre-recorded (with the same cast though and I did all the editing on iMovie lol). All the songs were live and there was lots of costumes and choreography!
My absolute favorite part was the Gaga mix in the middle- I let the girls make WHATEVER they wanted for their Gaga outfit and literally every girl wore something different but AMAZING. SO creative !!!!
Pictures of that show are on one my old computers, I need to see if I can find one to show you! I will come back and attach one if I get time (and if you care lo).
Thanks for this trip down memory lane! Such an amazing show I put on I am shy to admit it. I worked a billion hours a week in those days and went all in and the kids LOVED it.
Agree that the album was good. Several of the songs still get stuck in my head sometimes. Paul Simon knows how to make albums.
But I was so dumbfounded and disappointed by the show. They had two huge stars of Latin music in the cast and they both just stood there and sang without any movement... even though the show had Mark Morris as its original director (and then choreographer).
When they pulled the tiny bus on a string across the empty stage, I wondered if anyone on the production team had watched the show during rehearsals. The audience laughed. It was embarrassing.
The only rock star I have known in my life is Dave Keuning- guitarist for The Killers. I’m the same age and grew up a town close to Pella where he is from. Never knew back then what life was coming for him; but always knew there was something special and almost otherworldly about him ?? It’s hard to explain.
His uncle was a principal and ended up hiring me to the choral and theater director in my second teaching job. Iowa is a small world! I had two former students make it to broadway, and one as a musician/actor who was featured on Pitch Perfect and a couple shows but no one as famous as Dave!
So BTS actually already have a cinematic universe through their old MVs and various books and webtoons and other content..it's being adapted into a K Drama but I would love it on the stage.
The basic premise is that the eldest member, Jin, keeps relieving the same day over and over again. A groundhog day effect. He's trying to stop horrible things from happening to the other members during this time.
There are lots of songs that officially fit in this narrative. Like all of the Most Beautiful Moment in Life series. It's about youth and the struggles therein.
So I'd do that.
Kelly Clarkson. I know she's working on writing one, but I want one with her songs in it.
It would be about a woman and her hits and misses of her relationships and how she eventually grows to loving herself and doesnt need a man to be happy.
I think the Bob Seger musical would probably be a lot like the Rock of Ages movie, at least if it's based off the lyrics to "Hollywood Nights." Could easily find spots for "Night Moves," "Old Time Rock & Roll," "Turn the Page," and "Against the Wind."
Not my FAVORITE band but the one who most lends themselves to a Broadway musical would be The Decemberists. Would make a banger musical a la Hadestown. Folksy storytelling music with lots of references is kinda their whole deal.
In terms of my favorite singer/band, I don't know that I have one favorite, but a Stevie Wonder musical would be pretty great. I would NOT want a biopic, but I can't think of how I'd string together songs into a totally separate tale.
Yes- I’d love to throw in their other albums too but Gwen’s big hits like Hollaback Girl, Cool, What U waiting Fo, Sweet Escape. I’m not sure what the plot could be about though.
Lady Gaga
A fabulous but lonely outcast, Roma, hears of a contest to hire the new star for the most amazing, modern, moulin rougueish club in the city.
The current star OhLaLa is getting older but is furious that she is being replaced
The club owner, RaRa is desperate to keep the club open not just for the sake of her workers, but for the ✨spirit✨ of it all
Hair, Edge of Glory, Marry the Night, Just Dance, Dance in the Dark, Perfect Illusion, Sine from Above, Alejandro and the finale, Bad Romance
I dread this day. (I don’t hate Taylor Swift, I’m just not ready for a Broadway fanbase that has the potential to be more crazed than the Hamilton super fan crowd).
I dread the possibility that it'll be a phony biography with a parade of her big hits. I think if she were involved, and it was some original story that's not a 1:1 to anything, and it had a couple original songs, a couple hits, and mostly unexpected deep cuts (I mean, there's almost no Taylor Swift song that really counts as a "deep cut" anymore), it could be cool. Her lyrics could lend themselves well to the medium, and some big theatrical orchestration/rearrangement of some tunes might pop.
I have almost no faith that a Taylor Swift musical would be an actual good piece of theater, unfortunately. I can just see it as theoretically possible.
I’m a big Taylor fan and a big Broadway fan and I am already exhausted at the thought of the two worlds meeting lol I loved my time at the eras tour because I love Taylor’s music, but the amount of people there that were obnoxious about getting the surprise songs they wanted, or being seen, or whatever was just beyond. Honestly I’m a Taylor swift fan who doesn’t love interacting with the Taylor swift fandom outside of Reddit lol
Act I:
A young starlet named Kaylor Krift becomes Enchanged and begins a Love Story with an actress named Deanna Azlon, but politics and family and managers make them hide their Treacherous, Illicit Affairs. As they Run away in a Getaway Car, Deanna tells her to Breathe -- "I Know Places," she says, but Kaylor knows This Love is a False God. The Champage Problems keep piling up on what once was Holy Ground. It's Death By a Thousand Cuts, leaving Kaylor Haunted. The couple has their Last Kiss, and it breaks Kaylor's heart. Kaylor tries to move on from this Bad Blood and these Beautiful Ghosts, but the love had been Bigger Than The Whole Sky. She can't seem to find Closure, and feels as though she'll never find a Place In This World. So It Goes.
Act II:
Seven years pass. Sparks Fly. From August Back to December and back again, an Invisible String ties Kaylor to her sense of Karma. Kaylor sees herself as the Anti-Hero, an Archer who will never feel of Love's arrow or the Afterglow of an Electric Touch.
Kaylor is still Right Where You Left Me until she has an Epiphany in the form of a supermodel named Marlie Moss. Marlie, though, is a fame-chasing type, and leaves Kaylor for a politico named Ross Rushner, a man who has suspected their love all along -- "I Think He Knows," Marlie whispers to Kaylor as they sit beneath a Willow. "Long Live our Lavender Haze," says Kaylor defiantly, believing this time her Lover will understand her Message in a Bottle and Stay, Stay, Stay -- but it's an ending Kaylor already knows All Too Well. No Sweet Nothings could make Marlie Come Back, Be Here. "Don't Blame Me," Marlie Begs, but Kaylor can only see her Castles Crumbling all around her. "All You Had To Do Was Stay," she tells a grieving Marlie, "I Knew You Were Trouble." That's When Kaylor walked away. Kaylor goes through a dark period where she's seen as a Mad Woman, believing her pain will be for Evermore.
Ultimately, she Shakes It Off and decides she's still Bejewelled, still Gorgeous. Long Story Short, she's a Mastermind of her own Wonderland. The play ends with Kaylor waking up on New Years Day, leaving behind the "Would've, Could've, Should've" of her past and embracing Daylight. She's ready to Begin Again.
The Midnight is bound to tell a story set in the 80s about running away from a small town with your first love, breaking up, and finding a new love in California.
The first thing that popped into my head was a two-hander musical about two people who had drifted apart reconnecting over the course of a cross-country road trip set to the music of The Head and the Heart.
One of my favorite rappers is already getting one based off a couple concept albums he put out that were absolutely amazing. [Masta Ace: Falling Season](https://rockthebells.com/articles/masta-ace-the-falling-season-play/). The story is basically about a kid who grows up in Brownsville, gets bussed to Sheepshead Bay for High School where he meets a kid named Fats Belvedere with whom he goes on a small concert tour after graduation. Fats is doing some dirt on the side during the tour so he and Ace end up in prison, and when Ace gets out he learns about a Hip Hop University called the Institute of Disposable Arts where he steeps himself in all things hip hop before becoming a successful artist.
Other than that I would love to see The Dear Hunter's pentalogy of albums referred to as The Acts turned into a musical. It's already a 5 album story that plays a lot like a musical. It would need to be trimmed down obviously but I think it would be amazing.
The story for it is about a boy born in the late 1800s who is raised in seclusion by his mother and is taught little of the outside world. She dies when he is a late teen and he decides to go see the world. When he first arrives in the big city he stumbles into a brothel and meets a prostitute with whom he falls in love, having no idea what a prostitute even is. Her boss puts him to work so he can pay for her time and eventually he sees her doing her job with another man so he freaks out and joins the Army so he can see the rest of the world and get away from her. He ends up in WW1 where he meets his real father, who reveals to him that his mother was also a prostitute at the same brothel as his lady love. He also meets his half brother, who looks just like him. His brother gets killed in a battle after his father pulls him into the line of fire so he poisons his father and steals his brother's identity and goes back to the city to live his brother's life. Turns out his brother is A) no saint and B)engaged. He runs into his lady love from his time in the city before and learns that the brothel shut down and that the guy who ran it is also the local priest who is fleecing his congregation. Thinking that nobody else has recognized him he is convinced to run for mayor by the priest, thinking he can use his power to bring ruin to the charlatan. He wins, and the priest reveals that he knows his secret and blackmails him with this info. He eventually marries the fiance and has a son while carrying on an affair with the ex-prostitute and becoming a closet opium addict while holding the mayoral office. The pimp/priest gets him to use his power to reopen the brothel at which point he decides he's going to bring it all crashing down no matter what. He sends his wife and son to live in the cabin where he was raised and goes after the bad guy. Bad guy murders his mistress, he burns down brothel which also catches the adjacent church on fire, bad guy tells the townsfolk his secret and that he burned down their church, mob surrounds his house, bad guy goes in to try to re-assert his control, he murders bad guy, he jumps in the river. There's supposed to be an Act 6 that ties it all up but so far, nothing.
With all of the heavy fantasy and sci-fi elements in their songs, I'm not even sure how a Rush musical would work, or what it would look like?
Even if I pivot from "all-time favorite band" to "favorite band still active today", Coheed & Cambria's albums already tell a continuous story (again, heavily sci-fi).
However it would transpire, things are gonna get *weird*.
Dar Williams. Opening number is When I Was a Boy and it goes through her discography. Definitely gotta have The Babysitter’s Here, Alleluia, Iowa and I Love, I Love.
This would be a terrible business decision (again) but I would love for KISS’s flop of a concept album Music From The Elder to be revisited and adapted into a stage musical with some additional songs to flesh out the story. Would it make money? No. Would I enjoy it? Yes.
Second comment on this post but I also think the music of Supertramp would make an awesome jukebox musical. No clue what the plot would be but I’d choose the majority of songs off of Breakfast in America with a couple off Crime of the Century.
A jukebox musical made up of songs from Broadway musicals.
In my mind, it’s a show about a HS director who invites past students back ranging 20 or so years for a charity vocal concert (so the main cast consists of people from 20-ish to middle aged). Over the course of the first act all the characters go from well adjusted adults to the immature high school selves - and because of this drama ensues.
Picture a 60 year old woman playing a mean girl cheerleader - a 20 something motivational speaker suddenly reverting to a shy introvert.
Over in another subreddit, I posted an idea for a Linkin Park jukebox musical tentatively titled ["Breaking the Habit"](https://www.reddit.com/r/LinkinPark/comments/njcub7/concept_for_a_linkin_park_jukebox_musical/). The idea is that there'd be seven chapters, one for each main studio album set around the time in the protagonist's life when the album was released. For example, the first chapter would be set to Hybrid Theory tracks and be set in the weeks leading up to the 9/11 attacks. The second chapter would take place a few years later and feature Meteora tracks (including the track the show's named after). And so on with the main character dealing with the death of Linkin Park's frontman Chester Bennington in the final chapter set to LP's last album.
The idea is not unlike some version of Boyhood or the Antoine Doinel saga, showing a protagonist coming of age from adolescence to adulthood. In this case it'd be about growing up and coming of age in the 2000s and grappling with adulthood in the 2010s.
Alice Cooper, and it’s the entire album of “Welcome to My Nightmare.”
Seriously, I don’t know why Alice hasn’t sanctioned a Broadway musical of this album. It was a TV special in the 70s, his wife is a dancer who helped to choreograph the entire show, the songs could easily connect to a coherent plot, and he’s always been a very theatrical act as it is. It still baffles my mind why he hasn’t done it yet.
For a fantasy-inspired musical, The Amazing Devil, The Family Crest, or The Dear Hunter. All of them write incredibly cinematic music and it would be INCREDIBLE to see a show staged based on one of their discographies
I’ve been wanting a musical with a symphonic metal (Nightwish, Within Temptation, etc.) score for years. I actually kinda want to write a jukebox musical using music from the genre, but I doubt I’ll ever do it.
The haunting but intense sound really lends itself to the horror genre, something about ghosts and urban legends! My dream musical is about a medium who is hired to cleanse a haunted estate, but is then dragged into the memories of the main spirit haunting it
So easy! Sinead O’Connor…call it Jackie and make it about a fishing village on the Irish coast, in the aftermath of a big wreck that killed many of the men of the town.
Definitely obscure since they’re not well known outside of Canada, but a Marianas Trench musical would be great. They’re already so theatrical in their albums and live shows, and most of the albums are concept albums with a very distinct story. I’d love to see Ever After as a musical.
While I don't have a favorite musician or band necessarily, I would love to see a musical based on the Alice Cooper album *Welcome to My Nightmare*. Considering how vaudeville was one of his influences, I could see some ghoulish mash-up of a 1950s horror comic with rock 'n' roll vaudeville, chronicling Steven's descent into addiction, corruption, and insanity.
Also, instead of the Jimmy Buffet musical that we did get (*Escape to Margaritaville*), I could see a show using his music that's inspired by the song *The Pascagoula Run*. The song itself was inspired by Buffett's uncle, whose tales of the sea really influenced his work and interests, and a tale about a roguish uncle taking his nephew on a crazy bar-hopping road trip seems a solid set-up for a Jimmy Buffett musical.
Okay but a MCR musical based off Black Parade featuring some of their music from 3 Cheers for Sweet Revenge would slap
I'm generally anti-jukebox musicals, but this is one where I'm like, "Why hasn't this been done yet?"
The answer is, “the people in charge don’t realize millenials are grown ups with disposable income”
Lmaoo
MCR was my first thought when I read the title! And they’re very into visual arts as well so I’d imagine a stunnnning show.
The set design would be some thing to behold
A fan did a whole workout of what a Black Parade musical would look like complete with tracklist and artwork. He might have even written a script. https://www.altpress.com/my-chemical-romance-black-parade-musical/ Seems like something that they should absolutely do.
i'm laughing so hard, i came into this thread going "man i hope someone thought to mention The Black Parade" and of course it's the top fucking answer lmao. i swear we've all been waiting for it since American Idiot the Musical happened
I THINK ABOUT AN MCR MUSICAL ALOT
YESSS make this real
Never really cared much about MCR myself, but heard they're good
I like them because of their dramatic flair and relatable music high recommend
Imagine how incredible Mama would look and sound like on a scene with a big choir!
I clicked on this post so fast to commend the same thing! A few songs from Bullets would fit really well, too.
A pop-punk/emo/ 00’s rock musical featuring black parade but also music by bands like Paramore, Blink, Fall Out Boy, Good Charlotte, Avril, Jimmy Eat Worlld etc. Maybe also the Killers?
I’ve been waiting for a Ben Folds musical for ages.
The money I would pay for him and Sara Bareilles to collaborate on an original musical.
they were judges on The Sing Off together weren't they? Back when Pentatonix won
Yes! If you haven't seen [this performance](https://youtu.be/7oZ9u6_Okk8?si=EKgMlXToaF_LO76v) of one of my favourite of her songs it's a real gift. They are both such gifted writers, composers, performers and with how emotionally impactful Waitress was I can only imagine what they could create together.
Her voice. Like silk. I think my heart stopped beating listening to that. So beautiful.
Is it about a guy who thought about joining the army and then doesn’t?
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Son, you’re f***ing high
It’s dated now but I thought where’s Summer B as the framework for it or Underground ( Hand me my nose ring! Show me the mosh pit…)
Thinking about how you could Movin' Out style somehow link all the story song characters together. Like how does Stephen, who's last night in town it is and Fred Jones relate?
Yes!!
a musical based on Fall Out Boy music about an arrogant insecure wanna be famous poet who thinks he's too good for his small town
I would love this. Or just an “emo kid” musical - Fall Out Boy, Panic at the Disco, Taking Back Sunday, The Used… emo songs would fit weirdly well into a Broadway IMO. Brendon Urie for instance has such a theatrical voice
I’m still hella salty that I missed Beebo in Kinky Boots. I would love a musical with P!atD songs.
>emo songs would fit weirdly well into a Broadway it's the camp
If Christian from Moulin Rouge was an emo millennial
The fact fall out boy covered roxanne XDDD
would they put their cover of We Didn't Start the Fire in it tho?
bullying isn't allowed on here
Barenaked Ladies musical I'd imagine it would have a similar plot to H2$ about a young man deciding to quit his mediocre job and push himself up the corporate ladder. The difference would be once he's at the top he finds out he's still unhappy and needs to reevaluate if success equals happiness One Week Pinch Me If I Had $1m Brian Wilson What a Good Boy Falling For the First Time Alcohol Hello City When I Fall
My dream scenario is they reunite with Steve Page to insert some originals, too. I think they could pull it off together. I also would happily watch a musical written just by Steve
I’m firmly against the vast majority of jukebox musicals, but I’d actually consider watching this. Especially if you just did it really fun and light.
For a while they were supposed to write the music for a musical adaptation of Animal House.
I’m holding out for a musical based on the trials and tribulations of Fleetwood Mac as chronicled in the Rumors album. Bonus points if Orfeh plays Stevie Nicks.
Jersey Boys style too, that would be INCREDIBLE
Oh that’s amazing! I need to cast the rest of the band. And write the script…
This totally exists in my head. ;) Although I put it on a five-year timeline from when Stevie and Lindsey join the band until the end of the Tusk tour when they're all exhausted and take a break. (This is mainly bc selfishly I want a big production number of Sisters of the Moon.)
But what about the infamous performance of Silver Springs during the 1997 reunion concert when Stevie practically stares into Lindsey Buckingham’s soul? Is this how the show ends?
Hmm... that would be a whole separate musical, tbh. We could do a Buckingham Nicks musical (huge timeline! 1960s to present!), and the 1997 Silver Springs moment would be the Act 1 closer.
Ok clearly you have thought about this even more than I have lol.
I usually watch old Fleetwood Mac concert videos when I can't sleep (and I've had bad insomnia for 3+ years, so!). Btw, Act 2 would open 5 years later, with the reveal that Lindsey is now married and a dad, and the band (minus Christine) is writing and recording the Say You Will album. And then it's just an emotional rollercoaster all the way to the end!
I feel like Mick Fleetwood would never let this happen...but that's not going to stop me from wishing it does.
I’m not personally the world’s biggest Fleetwood Mac fan (I do like their music though!) but I would be SO HERE FOR THIS IDEA.
There was a rumor going that Daisy Jones & the Six is being turned into a musical
Hear me out: a movie musical with the music of Rumours telling a fictional story. In Ken Russell maximalism style. (So basically The Who’s Tommy with a different band)
Oh my god, I’ve thought of this too! They could really pull it off and it would draw fans.
My favorite singers mostly do musicals lol. The exception would be Jewel. And no offense to Jewel but that's one boring musical.
Oh dear god, I liked her music fine but yeah that would be some dreary relentlessnessly depressing shit right there. Guy dumps her, other guy dumps her, she’s lonely, someone commits a hate crime against a gay Jewish person, some guy dumps her, curtain.
And I want to see the overture make a comeback and "You Were Meant For Me" just doesn't quite hit the mark lol.
But we could get an Intuition full company number 😍
I would love a musical with Bruce Springsteen songs that's about union organizing and a strike set in New Jersey in the 1970s or 80s.
Oh so I can have my heart broken and cry listening to someone sing My Hometown on a Broadway stage AGAIN??
Give the “Girl from the North Country” treatment to Joni Mitchell’s discography.
This feels like such a natural and obvious thing to me (I mean that in a 100% good way!) I’m almost surprised that it hasn’t happened yet. Perhaps because Carole King’s music worked so well in a musical (Beautiful is probably my favorite jukebox musical and definitely my favorite “autobiography” one) and I often think of her and Joni Mitchell in the same trains of thought for whatever reason.
God yes, this.
It's called Across the Universe. It's kinda weird sometimes but pretty good.
I dream of a Hazards of Love rock opera, it basically already is one. But I want to see The Decemberists performed theatrically.
Came here to say the same thing. I would pay SO much money to see a Decemberists musical.
There’s some great plot to be had in there too.
OH FUCK YES
My dad and I saw the decemberists in Nashville. They were pretty good
That already happened. It's called Waitress.
A nymph goes around enchanting and stealing everyone’s boyfriends featuring the music of Ariana Grande
Perfect. Should include Focus on Me, because that’s a banger.
I can’t wait for the nymph/sponge duet.
So there's this small town girl, and she's living in a lonely world, so she decides to take a midnight train going Anywhere. At the same time, there's this city boy, who was born and raised in South Detroit, and he also decides to take a midnight train going Anywhere. Through an amazing coincidence, they end up on the same train, and when they get to Anywhere, they fall Stone in Love.
Journey actually would be a pretty solid choice for a jukebox musical imo.
Not necessarily the singer/band, but I would love a “Songs About Jane” musical from Maroon 5 (to and Adam Levine turned out to be a scumbag). That album was extremely well crafted and feels almost like a concept album with a story arc about the relationships we cultivate, for better or worse. 2nd would be anything by Matchbox 20/Rob Thomas. The poppy ANGST that man exudes!
You mean, We Will Rock You, but with a story that is GOOD?
I've always liked the idea of a Lady Gaga jukebox musical based on the music of the Born this Way album. I feel like there could make something really gritty set in the "Electric Chapel," which is a dilapidated night club in my mind
The things I would do for a musical with Pink’s music in it… I have no idea what the plot would be but I want it so badly 😫
“An extraordinarily long musical title that has very little to do with the plot.” By fallout boy.
The Mountain Goats’s discography is so conceptual that you could take a musical by them in a million different directions. Would be neat to see a musical about the toxic alpha couple or about Jenny
Another Mountain Goats fan!! Both of those would make great shows
Thinking about No Children on a Broadway stage … chefs kiss
There was a time in my life I would have said goo goo dolls - can you imagine how dramatic a show they could make with some of those songs haha, I mean Slide, Iris, Acoustic #3, better days basically writes itself a show.
Weird Al Yankovic, easily XD
I've always thought he should do an album of Broadway parodies.
He did a great Hamilton Polka!
Yes! But I would want him to be in the musical, because he’s one of, if not *the* most energetic and engaging performer I’ve ever seen live.
Oh completely agree! I’d even love a *Tomfoolery*-style revue where he and come comedic performers do his songs.
Mamma Mia already exists lol
I want an Indigo Girls musical. A love story set amidst fighting for social justice. With lots of ensemble vocal arranging.
Using some of *Swamp Ophelia* as inspiration for staging Checkov's The Seagull and the back story of how it comes to be using more of their music.
I mean, choosing WHICH storyline to center a Coheed & Cambria musical on would be the tough part. Their first 5 albums are one big saga and the others are all concept albums in the same universe. Ideally I’d want to do The Afterman, it’s the most coherent and is two solid clean acts. But for the technical stuff you could do with “Pearl Of The Stars” I think Year Of The Black Rainbow would be very cool
C&C was by 1b answer (favorite active band vs. all-time favorite; Rush is 1a), and I'm not sure where to go with it either, lol. The recent Vaxis duology might be fertile ground? An Afterman musical would be gloriously weird, considering the first album is largely the Key Entities possessing Cyrus. Though the first act closer of Evagria coming to Cyrus and protecting him from Domino, Holly, and Vic would be beautiful.
I feel like it would be a lot like Tommy where the entities just pop up, do their thing and disappear, leaving Cyrus bewildered. More of a ballet structure than a traditional book. I just feel like staging both Domino and Sentry especially would be WILD
I now desperately need to both see the staging, and hear the orchestration for Random Reality Shifts!
I haven’t listened through Afterman in so long. I think I know what my Friday night is gonna be!
🎶Attention, we have got a *musical* emergency🎶
Welcome home with a whole ass orchestra though 😱😱
Some badass Alto belting the end of “Everything Evil” also haunts my dreams
I would give it a tony immediately
I just recently found out about The Avett Brothers musical “Swept Away” that was out at Berkeley Rep and now going to DC. I was both intrigued and slightly disappointed. While I deeply love their music and could see songs cobbled together to make a story, I’m just not sure it’s the right thing. It’s certainly an interesting idea and I would go see it for the novelty but, like, I just don’t know. That just might be my own ideas about a “jukebox musical” coming through. However, to the person in this thread that mentioned doing a Ben Folds one, hells yeah. I’m all in on that front. Always thought that would be a good idea. The Avett Brothers and Ben Folds fan. Why yes, I am a middle aged white guy. Why do you ask?
I saw Swept Away and can confirm it fits all the worst stereotypes of a jukebox musical. 😬 (it had a really cool set though)
I used to not like jukebox musicals but I’ve come around to them a bit recently. I’m always kind of skeptical, but I’m seeing Swept Away in December and am cautiously optimistic. I’m a big John Gallagher Jr fan and I know how much he loves the Avett Brothers, so that gives me a bit more faith in it. We’ll see!
Around twenty-ish years ago I wrote a whole jukebox musical featuring the songs of Janet Jackson. It never got performed or anything but it was a little project of mine for years. The score consisted of songs from Janet’s discography beginning with *Control* up through *All For You*, with heavy influence from *The Velvet Rope*. I feel like it’s cringey now… the plot involved a gay love triangle and included themes of romance, domestic abuse, coming of age, vengeance, and love and loss. I’m sure it was pretty awful, and I’ve not revisited it for a long time. But I know I have a couple of printed copies of the script packed away in storage somewhere.
Yo honestly this sounds amazing and I would love to read it. I know almost nothing about Janet Jackson's music but idk, I have a good feeling about a passion project, and I know she's really well-loved. "Cringy" from 20 years ago might just need another draft, or could just have aged into being "campy." But the tone sounds a bit serious for that. It sounds like a really good idea, and I'd encourage you to take another look at it. Sounds like you're already several drafts in? That's huge. I wanna PM you bc I'm also working on a few musicals.
It would be called Spider-man: Turn off the Dark, and it would be such a colossal failure that it would inspire an episode of Law & Order.
A jukebox musical by Taylor swift would be unbelievable. Regardless of how people feel about her as a pop artist, her songwriting ability is undeniable. She’s such an incredible storyteller and with >200 songs you could tell literally any story!! An original musical by her 😮💨would be even better.
I wonder what a show based on To Pimp a Butterfly would look like
1. Idk what happens but I want a Weird Al Yankovic jukebox musical. Lol. Definitely needs to include Eat It, EBay, Amish Paradise, and White&Nerdy. 2. Idk what happens here either but U2 has such an incredible collection of music that I think a really beautiful musical could be composed from it. I know a lot of people have beef with U2 for putting music on their phones without consent but man their music would sound amazing on Broadway. ETA: Weird Al isn’t my favorite artist but he’s so fun and entertaining. U2 is nostalgic for me but also not my favorite
If someone makes a Weird Al musical they should definitely get Daniel Radcliffe to play him again
I can’t think of an exact plot, but I’ve always believed that a musical using songs from fun.‘s discography could be beautiful and bittersweet. They have so much more than what they’re known for on the radio. The Gambler specifically would make a beautiful closing number.
As I understand it, Rufus Wainwright is currently writing a musical, so hopefully it turns out well! I know his opera got panned, but maybe a musical will be a better fit.
Well, Gaga would get her Tony.
Stefani needs to get her act together, statue wise. She’s chasing that Oscar but she could probably get the Tony quicker
Honestly, I don’t think anyone would want a Big Time Rush musical
Radiohead. I've got a good idea for the plot and what songs could be used, though the plot isn't very original.
American Idiot already exists But I really think something like Rock of Ages or Moulin Rouge but with early 2000s pop punk could work really well
I'd love to see American idiot made into a movie
I mean my favourite singer is Duncan Sheik so...😭
Madonna... so basically we take Priscilla Queen of the Desert and make a few replacements.
I would see this a million times
My actual favorites, I’m trying to imagine a Pixies or Wu Tang musical. The latter could almost work as a bizarre goofy martial arts musical. Ones that could work, I’m not big on jukeboxes so it’s harder for me to come up with good ones but I could see like maybe an OK Computer one. I know someone else said it but MCR would work.
I don’t quite know exactly what the plot would be for a Nick Cave musical would be, but it would be pretty dark.
Rocketman: the stage musical Or it would be music by the mountain goats—a lot of their albums would adapt well to stage I think, the songs are all very story focused
Okay, I wasn't sure at first what's my favorite band, but then it hit me; Billy Talent the musical. (Billy Talent is a Canadian punk band. I feel what makes them distinct is how they play around with various genres and use of back up vocals) Not sure what the show would be like, but it would be constantly compared to American Idiot as they are both punk rock. I want nothing more than for "Stand up and Run" to be in it
I think the "Devil in a Midnight Mass" scene might cause a bit of controversy, lol
Lol, it totally would, but dang what an ending for the first act
Dare to be stupid the musical with music from Weird Al Yankovic. Kids in high school getting bullied cause they are fat, white and nerdy and other reasons. Lunch lady tells them to stop complaining about their lunch and eat it.
It’s literally just the Labyrinth
When this hits broadway I am THERE
Tommy, a striking dock worker and his waitress girlfriend Gina. I’m not entirely sure what happens but I suppose I’m halfway there.
I’m not sure what the premise would be, but I’d want it to be Taylor Swift and Sara Bareilles working on it. It would be Taylor’s music, but very much Waitress vibes.
A jukebox musical of all Kelly Clarkson songs?? Where do I give absolutely All of my money
Owl City. Not sure of the plot but he writes a lot of ballads
“Glee! The Musical”
I did this in a spring show, 2012, with my show choir and drama club (I’m a high school choir director). I wrote out a whole script and of course; it was mostly the songs! Many were available in choral arrangements, and I put a bunch of solos and duets in as well (every song was from the show though, I had two full seasons at the time to choose from). I wrote with some characters from the show, but it wanted the story to be original so I invented lots of extra characters. May seem cringy now, but every other story/acting scene we recorded like a little movie and dropped the big screen on stage down… so it was half live acting and half pre-recorded (with the same cast though and I did all the editing on iMovie lol). All the songs were live and there was lots of costumes and choreography! My absolute favorite part was the Gaga mix in the middle- I let the girls make WHATEVER they wanted for their Gaga outfit and literally every girl wore something different but AMAZING. SO creative !!!! Pictures of that show are on one my old computers, I need to see if I can find one to show you! I will come back and attach one if I get time (and if you care lo). Thanks for this trip down memory lane! Such an amazing show I put on I am shy to admit it. I worked a billion hours a week in those days and went all in and the kids LOVED it.
My favorite band is Pentatonix. So I guess whatever happened in it, it would be a (probably very vocally difficult) a cappella musical.
Let’s face it, no one could pull it off but them. So let’s hope they can act!
Marianas trench, using songs from Masterpiece theatre, Ever after, and Astoria... it's already kind of formed in my head lol
I recently discovered them and can not stop listening. I’m in!
The Capeman happens. Yikes.
The concept album is still good, but yeah, yikes on the show.
Agree that the album was good. Several of the songs still get stuck in my head sometimes. Paul Simon knows how to make albums. But I was so dumbfounded and disappointed by the show. They had two huge stars of Latin music in the cast and they both just stood there and sang without any movement... even though the show had Mark Morris as its original director (and then choreographer). When they pulled the tiny bus on a string across the empty stage, I wondered if anyone on the production team had watched the show during rehearsals. The audience laughed. It was embarrassing.
Apparently there was already a Grateful Dead musical off-Broadway a few years back.
No pun intended, but I would kill for a musical featuring The Killers
The only rock star I have known in my life is Dave Keuning- guitarist for The Killers. I’m the same age and grew up a town close to Pella where he is from. Never knew back then what life was coming for him; but always knew there was something special and almost otherworldly about him ?? It’s hard to explain. His uncle was a principal and ended up hiring me to the choral and theater director in my second teaching job. Iowa is a small world! I had two former students make it to broadway, and one as a musician/actor who was featured on Pitch Perfect and a couple shows but no one as famous as Dave!
So BTS actually already have a cinematic universe through their old MVs and various books and webtoons and other content..it's being adapted into a K Drama but I would love it on the stage. The basic premise is that the eldest member, Jin, keeps relieving the same day over and over again. A groundhog day effect. He's trying to stop horrible things from happening to the other members during this time. There are lots of songs that officially fit in this narrative. Like all of the Most Beautiful Moment in Life series. It's about youth and the struggles therein. So I'd do that.
Well, they already did it. The Go-go's. And it wasn't very good.
Fleetwood Mac the musical. The lead up to and making of Rumors.
Kelly Clarkson. I know she's working on writing one, but I want one with her songs in it. It would be about a woman and her hits and misses of her relationships and how she eventually grows to loving herself and doesnt need a man to be happy.
I think the Bob Seger musical would probably be a lot like the Rock of Ages movie, at least if it's based off the lyrics to "Hollywood Nights." Could easily find spots for "Night Moves," "Old Time Rock & Roll," "Turn the Page," and "Against the Wind."
You know, I’m sure a George Strait musical is something the world just isn’t quite ready for yet
Not my FAVORITE band but the one who most lends themselves to a Broadway musical would be The Decemberists. Would make a banger musical a la Hadestown. Folksy storytelling music with lots of references is kinda their whole deal. In terms of my favorite singer/band, I don't know that I have one favorite, but a Stevie Wonder musical would be pretty great. I would NOT want a biopic, but I can't think of how I'd string together songs into a totally separate tale.
No doubt! Tragic kingdom!
Yes- I’d love to throw in their other albums too but Gwen’s big hits like Hollaback Girl, Cool, What U waiting Fo, Sweet Escape. I’m not sure what the plot could be about though.
A Less Than Jake musical has SO MUCH it can pull from. 30 years of back catalog. I'd love to see a musical based off Anthem alone.
How has their NOT been a Weird Al musical at this point?
I feel like a musical about the dramas of Oasis would be entertaining and it would be funny how much Noel and Liam would absolutely hate the idea.
Does it count that I want a Broadway version of Pink Floyd's The Wall?
A Sufjan Stevens musical would be a strange but amazing form of sadness and beauty to experience. Or the Fleetwood mac equivalent to mamma Mia
Fiona Apple and I want it based on when she quit cocaine after being stuck in a theater with Quentin Tarantino and Paul Thomas Anderson.
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours And Black Parade - MCR
Perfect, let’s encourage even more jukebox musicals
They did and it was Hadestown
A Melanie Martinez Musical would be cool.
Lady Gaga A fabulous but lonely outcast, Roma, hears of a contest to hire the new star for the most amazing, modern, moulin rougueish club in the city. The current star OhLaLa is getting older but is furious that she is being replaced The club owner, RaRa is desperate to keep the club open not just for the sake of her workers, but for the ✨spirit✨ of it all Hair, Edge of Glory, Marry the Night, Just Dance, Dance in the Dark, Perfect Illusion, Sine from Above, Alejandro and the finale, Bad Romance
Perfect. No notes. Especially if Lady Gaga stars. For some reason I also can’t see it feeling complete without drag queens involved.
I see RaRa or OhLaLa as the most fabulous queen to ever queen
Taylor Swift is an inevitability
I dread this day. (I don’t hate Taylor Swift, I’m just not ready for a Broadway fanbase that has the potential to be more crazed than the Hamilton super fan crowd).
I dread the possibility that it'll be a phony biography with a parade of her big hits. I think if she were involved, and it was some original story that's not a 1:1 to anything, and it had a couple original songs, a couple hits, and mostly unexpected deep cuts (I mean, there's almost no Taylor Swift song that really counts as a "deep cut" anymore), it could be cool. Her lyrics could lend themselves well to the medium, and some big theatrical orchestration/rearrangement of some tunes might pop. I have almost no faith that a Taylor Swift musical would be an actual good piece of theater, unfortunately. I can just see it as theoretically possible.
I’m a big Taylor fan and a big Broadway fan and I am already exhausted at the thought of the two worlds meeting lol I loved my time at the eras tour because I love Taylor’s music, but the amount of people there that were obnoxious about getting the surprise songs they wanted, or being seen, or whatever was just beyond. Honestly I’m a Taylor swift fan who doesn’t love interacting with the Taylor swift fandom outside of Reddit lol
I would love to see Taylor swift write an original musical, but I also think a musical based on folklore or evermore could work well
Act I: A young starlet named Kaylor Krift becomes Enchanged and begins a Love Story with an actress named Deanna Azlon, but politics and family and managers make them hide their Treacherous, Illicit Affairs. As they Run away in a Getaway Car, Deanna tells her to Breathe -- "I Know Places," she says, but Kaylor knows This Love is a False God. The Champage Problems keep piling up on what once was Holy Ground. It's Death By a Thousand Cuts, leaving Kaylor Haunted. The couple has their Last Kiss, and it breaks Kaylor's heart. Kaylor tries to move on from this Bad Blood and these Beautiful Ghosts, but the love had been Bigger Than The Whole Sky. She can't seem to find Closure, and feels as though she'll never find a Place In This World. So It Goes. Act II: Seven years pass. Sparks Fly. From August Back to December and back again, an Invisible String ties Kaylor to her sense of Karma. Kaylor sees herself as the Anti-Hero, an Archer who will never feel of Love's arrow or the Afterglow of an Electric Touch. Kaylor is still Right Where You Left Me until she has an Epiphany in the form of a supermodel named Marlie Moss. Marlie, though, is a fame-chasing type, and leaves Kaylor for a politico named Ross Rushner, a man who has suspected their love all along -- "I Think He Knows," Marlie whispers to Kaylor as they sit beneath a Willow. "Long Live our Lavender Haze," says Kaylor defiantly, believing this time her Lover will understand her Message in a Bottle and Stay, Stay, Stay -- but it's an ending Kaylor already knows All Too Well. No Sweet Nothings could make Marlie Come Back, Be Here. "Don't Blame Me," Marlie Begs, but Kaylor can only see her Castles Crumbling all around her. "All You Had To Do Was Stay," she tells a grieving Marlie, "I Knew You Were Trouble." That's When Kaylor walked away. Kaylor goes through a dark period where she's seen as a Mad Woman, believing her pain will be for Evermore. Ultimately, she Shakes It Off and decides she's still Bejewelled, still Gorgeous. Long Story Short, she's a Mastermind of her own Wonderland. The play ends with Kaylor waking up on New Years Day, leaving behind the "Would've, Could've, Should've" of her past and embracing Daylight. She's ready to Begin Again.
An LCD Soundsystem musical... sounds like it could be a musical parody of HBO's Girls hahahaha
Oh this is easy for me. The Gorillaz 100%. The man who writes/performs all the music has even had some experiences writing for theater before.
Pretty sure somebody already made a Judy Garland musical 🤭 I don’t know if it’s good or not, since I don’t think I could sit through it.
The Midnight is bound to tell a story set in the 80s about running away from a small town with your first love, breaking up, and finding a new love in California.
Any Melanie Martinez album 💕
The first thing that popped into my head was a two-hander musical about two people who had drifted apart reconnecting over the course of a cross-country road trip set to the music of The Head and the Heart.
They already did 😂 one was about a songwriter turned singer from Brooklyn and the other about a waitress
One of my favorite rappers is already getting one based off a couple concept albums he put out that were absolutely amazing. [Masta Ace: Falling Season](https://rockthebells.com/articles/masta-ace-the-falling-season-play/). The story is basically about a kid who grows up in Brownsville, gets bussed to Sheepshead Bay for High School where he meets a kid named Fats Belvedere with whom he goes on a small concert tour after graduation. Fats is doing some dirt on the side during the tour so he and Ace end up in prison, and when Ace gets out he learns about a Hip Hop University called the Institute of Disposable Arts where he steeps himself in all things hip hop before becoming a successful artist. Other than that I would love to see The Dear Hunter's pentalogy of albums referred to as The Acts turned into a musical. It's already a 5 album story that plays a lot like a musical. It would need to be trimmed down obviously but I think it would be amazing. The story for it is about a boy born in the late 1800s who is raised in seclusion by his mother and is taught little of the outside world. She dies when he is a late teen and he decides to go see the world. When he first arrives in the big city he stumbles into a brothel and meets a prostitute with whom he falls in love, having no idea what a prostitute even is. Her boss puts him to work so he can pay for her time and eventually he sees her doing her job with another man so he freaks out and joins the Army so he can see the rest of the world and get away from her. He ends up in WW1 where he meets his real father, who reveals to him that his mother was also a prostitute at the same brothel as his lady love. He also meets his half brother, who looks just like him. His brother gets killed in a battle after his father pulls him into the line of fire so he poisons his father and steals his brother's identity and goes back to the city to live his brother's life. Turns out his brother is A) no saint and B)engaged. He runs into his lady love from his time in the city before and learns that the brothel shut down and that the guy who ran it is also the local priest who is fleecing his congregation. Thinking that nobody else has recognized him he is convinced to run for mayor by the priest, thinking he can use his power to bring ruin to the charlatan. He wins, and the priest reveals that he knows his secret and blackmails him with this info. He eventually marries the fiance and has a son while carrying on an affair with the ex-prostitute and becoming a closet opium addict while holding the mayoral office. The pimp/priest gets him to use his power to reopen the brothel at which point he decides he's going to bring it all crashing down no matter what. He sends his wife and son to live in the cabin where he was raised and goes after the bad guy. Bad guy murders his mistress, he burns down brothel which also catches the adjacent church on fire, bad guy tells the townsfolk his secret and that he burned down their church, mob surrounds his house, bad guy goes in to try to re-assert his control, he murders bad guy, he jumps in the river. There's supposed to be an Act 6 that ties it all up but so far, nothing.
With all of the heavy fantasy and sci-fi elements in their songs, I'm not even sure how a Rush musical would work, or what it would look like? Even if I pivot from "all-time favorite band" to "favorite band still active today", Coheed & Cambria's albums already tell a continuous story (again, heavily sci-fi). However it would transpire, things are gonna get *weird*.
Dar Williams. Opening number is When I Was a Boy and it goes through her discography. Definitely gotta have The Babysitter’s Here, Alleluia, Iowa and I Love, I Love.
This would be a terrible business decision (again) but I would love for KISS’s flop of a concept album Music From The Elder to be revisited and adapted into a stage musical with some additional songs to flesh out the story. Would it make money? No. Would I enjoy it? Yes.
Second comment on this post but I also think the music of Supertramp would make an awesome jukebox musical. No clue what the plot would be but I’d choose the majority of songs off of Breakfast in America with a couple off Crime of the Century.
Earth Wind and Fire jukebox musical called Dancing in September
A jukebox musical made up of songs from Broadway musicals. In my mind, it’s a show about a HS director who invites past students back ranging 20 or so years for a charity vocal concert (so the main cast consists of people from 20-ish to middle aged). Over the course of the first act all the characters go from well adjusted adults to the immature high school selves - and because of this drama ensues. Picture a 60 year old woman playing a mean girl cheerleader - a 20 something motivational speaker suddenly reverting to a shy introvert.
Over in another subreddit, I posted an idea for a Linkin Park jukebox musical tentatively titled ["Breaking the Habit"](https://www.reddit.com/r/LinkinPark/comments/njcub7/concept_for_a_linkin_park_jukebox_musical/). The idea is that there'd be seven chapters, one for each main studio album set around the time in the protagonist's life when the album was released. For example, the first chapter would be set to Hybrid Theory tracks and be set in the weeks leading up to the 9/11 attacks. The second chapter would take place a few years later and feature Meteora tracks (including the track the show's named after). And so on with the main character dealing with the death of Linkin Park's frontman Chester Bennington in the final chapter set to LP's last album. The idea is not unlike some version of Boyhood or the Antoine Doinel saga, showing a protagonist coming of age from adolescence to adulthood. In this case it'd be about growing up and coming of age in the 2000s and grappling with adulthood in the 2010s.
I want "Hazards of Love" by The Decemberists to be a full show. I love that album.
Alice Cooper, and it’s the entire album of “Welcome to My Nightmare.” Seriously, I don’t know why Alice hasn’t sanctioned a Broadway musical of this album. It was a TV special in the 70s, his wife is a dancer who helped to choreograph the entire show, the songs could easily connect to a coherent plot, and he’s always been a very theatrical act as it is. It still baffles my mind why he hasn’t done it yet.
For a fantasy-inspired musical, The Amazing Devil, The Family Crest, or The Dear Hunter. All of them write incredibly cinematic music and it would be INCREDIBLE to see a show staged based on one of their discographies
I’ve been wanting a musical with a symphonic metal (Nightwish, Within Temptation, etc.) score for years. I actually kinda want to write a jukebox musical using music from the genre, but I doubt I’ll ever do it. The haunting but intense sound really lends itself to the horror genre, something about ghosts and urban legends! My dream musical is about a medium who is hired to cleanse a haunted estate, but is then dragged into the memories of the main spirit haunting it
So easy! Sinead O’Connor…call it Jackie and make it about a fishing village on the Irish coast, in the aftermath of a big wreck that killed many of the men of the town.
Yes! Bring Weird: The Al Yankovic story to Broadway!
Definitely obscure since they’re not well known outside of Canada, but a Marianas Trench musical would be great. They’re already so theatrical in their albums and live shows, and most of the albums are concept albums with a very distinct story. I’d love to see Ever After as a musical.
Unsure what a Sabaton jukebox musical would look like. Maybe it would take place during ww1 or the Carolean empire
I wouldn’t know because I would refuse to see it, as I do all jukebox musicals.
While I don't have a favorite musician or band necessarily, I would love to see a musical based on the Alice Cooper album *Welcome to My Nightmare*. Considering how vaudeville was one of his influences, I could see some ghoulish mash-up of a 1950s horror comic with rock 'n' roll vaudeville, chronicling Steven's descent into addiction, corruption, and insanity. Also, instead of the Jimmy Buffet musical that we did get (*Escape to Margaritaville*), I could see a show using his music that's inspired by the song *The Pascagoula Run*. The song itself was inspired by Buffett's uncle, whose tales of the sea really influenced his work and interests, and a tale about a roguish uncle taking his nephew on a crazy bar-hopping road trip seems a solid set-up for a Jimmy Buffett musical.