With Stephanie J. Block now a Tony Award winner for playing Cher in The Cher Show, we look at 21 other musicals that featured existing tunes.
Jukebox musicals are shows that feature pre-existing scores by some of music’s greatest icons, whether with the story built around the music like Mamma Mia! or using the songs to the tell the story of the artist like On Your Feet! or Beautiful. Among the many productions that opened during the 2018-2019 season, Broadway welcomed a new crop jukebox musicals: Ain't Too Proud, The Cher Show—which earned Tony Awards for star Stephanie J. Block and costume designer Bob Mackie—and Head Over Heels.
Flip through photos of these 22 jukebox musicals below:
22 Jukebox Musicals That Brought Your Favorite Music to Broadway
22 Jukebox Musicals That Brought Your Favorite Music to Broadway
These shows all feature pre-existing scores by some of music’s greatest icons.
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Ain't Too Proud—The Life and Times of the Temptations Playbill - April 2019
Derrick Baskin, Jeremy Pope, Jawan M. Jackson, Ephraim Sykes, and James-Harkness
Matthew Murphy
All Shook Up
A scene from All Shook Up
American Idiot
Stark Sands, John Gallagher, Jr., and Michael Esper in American Idiot.
Paul Kolnik
Baby It's You!
Christina Sajous, Erica Ash, Kyra Da Costa, Crystal Starr Knighton, Brandon Uranowitz, and Beth Leavel in Baby It's You
Beautiful: The Carole King Musical
Jessie Mueller in Beautiful: The Carole King MusicalJoan Marcus
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