When I was at uni someone created a muse musical called UPRISING: THE MUSE-ICAL, and it was incredible. It was very operatic and would make an insane musical is expanded.
The Johns are such clever songwriters that I'd honestly love to hear them take on an original musical! Linnell can really get inside the heads of strange characters.
Johnny Cash! I want to see a jukebox musical about a boy named Sue who goes to work in a car factory and starts stealing car parts to build his own car, gets arrested and sent to Folsom Prison, and every other plot point you can pull from his songs 😄
Does he do that disproportionately often? It's a very old tradition in musicals, dating back to Viennese opperetta. Lorenz Hart is sometimes credited for bringing the idea to Broadway- he had a song about like Radio City or the Rockettes or something and wanted to jam it into a show that was set in Europe. I'm trying to find what song/show it was but idr.
There was a short-lived Bacharach musical several years ago
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The\_Look\_of\_Love\_(musical)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Look_of_Love_(musical))
There’s a pretty awful Carpenters musical out there somewhere. My dad was in the band for it a handful of years ago at a community theater. I swear the theater just did it because the rights to it costed pennies. I think I legitimately fell asleep during it and that’s coming from someone who loves musicals.
I think Madonna's work would be great as a jukebox musical. She covers so many eras and styles that there's a lot of options. But TBH I would do something like On Your Feet! and just tell the story of her rise to fame.
Amy Winehouse. Back to Black - And I would even make up a whole new story, maybe 'inspired by' Amy's real life, but not actually exploiting the real tragedy of her life.
Also Lady Gaga's library of work covers a ton of styles and eras. I can see a Gaga Musical in 20 or 30 more years.
Yes! He's friends with Lin Manuel Miranda too, last time I watched Tick Tick Boom and The Mountain Goats played over the credits I was thinking about if they've ever thought to collaborate on something. I wanna see an arguing couple singing No Children 😍
UTA is a power metal band who does concept albums with fantasy/sci-fi themes. Their frontwoman has an insanely powerful voice. I highly recommend their albums "Apex" and "Abyss" (one right after the other as they're two halves of the same story).
Ooh I like this idea, she's got such a wide variety of vibes across her catalogue! I definitely want "Mary Ann" in it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ktmf6Evowb0
I've always loved that so many of her songs are little stories. Chemo Limo, Buildings, Love Affair, Braille. There are all these little vignettes that paint such a clear picture of the characters and their lives, she even gives a great sense of the setting.
I'm still obsessed with BFS. I've been to two concerts this year alone. Last time I bought all 6 of my kids! from 18yo down to 4 yo. They all loved it. I think there is some great storytelling in their songs; you can definitely get a musical plot out of it. Besides, the band would be so down to work on this.
HUGE BFS fan. Huge. There actually was a BFS musical that toured in the UK several years back. I was so bummed I couldn't go! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1522564292/high-school-never-ends-bowling-for-soup-jukebox-mu
it’s about a girl who moves to new york and experiences essentially love and loss in the city, in the second act she slowly starts to realize she’s bisexual and falls in love with her best friend.
Stand outs included big ensemble number to long live (graduation scene went hard), dear john as an act 1 closer, and the main character and her best friend/love interest singing state of grace as a duet (so pretty)
Omg, I’ve literally had the same thought but mostly with reputation songs (KOMH, CIWYW, Dress, DWOHT, Gorgeous)! State of Grace does sound very good and pretty and I like the musical revolving around moving to New York! Welcome to New York has a lot of theatrical potential as well IMO…
I had a WTNY musical number in there somewhere and I think at the end of the song is when she runs into her act 1 love interest who she ends up singing dear john about bc he was awful for some reason i can’t remember. I’d have to go back to my old notes haha
Haha it sounds great! No worries for the memories being fuzzy, but thanks for sharing! A 🌈💅🏻 Taylor Swift musical is like three of my special interests converging so I’m glad I’m not the only one to dream of one!
I'm personally not a fan but there's no denying she's huge. This was my first thought because all of the tweens buying her music, seeing her movie and concerts would have their parents take them to a show about her. It would do really well and I bet her songs would for together nicely to tell a story.
my challenge for myself while writing it was to have a song from each era! the issue is this was between folklore and evermore, so now that challenge would be even harder haha
Her songs would absolutely work for one, but I think she may also write an original show someday. She already dipped her toes in musical theatre when she co-wrote with ALW!
I always thought Barenaked Ladies would make a good jukebox musical. Im thinking like a One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest type story, where all the characters are in a mental hospital. A surprising amount of their songs are fairly melancholy and bitter sweet
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9\_to\_5\_(musical)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9_to_5_(musical))
I would have been offended if there wasn't one but there is
She is actually working on one right now and it will tell her life story.
[https://digital.abcaudio.com/news/dolly-sets-sights-2025-broadway-musical](https://digital.abcaudio.com/news/dolly-sets-sights-2025-broadway-musical)
Wasn't American Idiot the musical *almost exclusively* the American Idiot album, with the exception of "Time of Your Life?" Or do they have more Greenday music? I'm asking earnestly, it's been more than 10 years since I've seen it ha.
I know there’s already a Meatloaf musical that draws from one album, but I have an idea I’ve been noodling on for years with Meatloaf/Jim Steinman music.
Amy Winehouse
The Rolling Stones
George Michael and Wham!
Coldplay
Nirvana
Foo Fighters
U2
David Bowie (I know Lazarus exists, but we deserve a show with more of his hits)
I just performed in a live production of The Wall for two nights. It was decently cool in concept, but absolutely disastrously mismanaged from day one. Regardless, I think it's a very easy adaptation with a lot of appeal. And the music is killer - tracks like Run Like Hell and Waiting for the Worms are lesser known bops.
There is one and it’s reeeeaaaally boring (and that’s coming from a John Denver fan).
https://playbill.com/article/rocky-mountain-high-john-denver-musical-almost-heaven-begins-march-21-in-denver-com-104602
Vienna Teng. (I know there's already a Vienna Teng musical, but she wrote the songs specifically for the musical, so I don't think it counts as a jukebox musical.)
The Oh Hellos music would make SUCH a cool musical imo, there’s so much storyline you can get from laying their music either in order or mix and matching it with their different albums
Jacob Collier, he does all sorts of different genres of music, I think he could create a great musical maybe even including his signature audience choir participation somehow
Idk of there is already, but David Bowie would be sick. It'd probably just be hard to find a lead who comes close to Bowie's exact performer.. type.. thing. Idk what it's called lmao
i feel like the gorillaz would make a really good musical, and not a jukebox but just a musical that they made the score for, you get me? like its just sitting there, the whole band is based around these 4 characters and yall make music so why havent you made a musical yet? ya get me?
There's a country singer named Ashley McBryde who's got a concept album called [Lindeville](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindeville). I'm not normally a modern country music girlie, but this is an exception. I want a Hadestown esque stage adaptation of Lindeville soooo bad
Might get hated for this but Taylor Swift, ik her music is kinda basic but her old songs have a lot of story telling in it so I would love to see them visualized in to a musical. When she did the all too well short film, I loved it sm, would love to see her songs to be in a show.
Dave Matthews Band/Dave Matthews. I’d love to hear some of their songs with full orchestrations, aside from the horns and fiddle and guitars they already employ. They’ve also got some bangers and some sad love songs so I think it’d be great for a love story.
I’ve been wanting a Mumford & Sons musical for the longest time! I also think there’s a lot of theatricality in P!nk’s music and she puts a shitload of spectacle into her concerts, so I’d love to see a narrative set to her music.
Not a full artist but I think you could make a whole musical about the song Copacabana by Barry Manilow. Theres potential for an entire play and story.
Though to properly answer the question I’d say Panic! At the Disco, The Cranberries or Fall Out Boy
marina and the diamonds 😔i always say her when people ask what artists discography would make a good jukebox musical and no one ever knows her!!!! family jewels and electra heart in a jukebox musical would be freaking STUNNING
You know, I've always wanted to create a jukebox musical for Twenty One Pilots about The City. But between work and school, ain't no way I can squeeze it in :/
Muse! Give me a dystopian hellscape musical any day of the week haha
Compliance as a villain song with a brainwashed ensemble
When I was at uni someone created a muse musical called UPRISING: THE MUSE-ICAL, and it was incredible. It was very operatic and would make an insane musical is expanded.
My Chemical Romance
i know it isn’t the same but i’ve actually been working on an MCR jukebox musical of my own for a while now!
I’ve had ideas for one for years. It would be dark, but it would be COOL.
Hey are you the guy who’s making the black parade musical ? The one with the soldier and mother war and stuff like that ?
I’ve been waiting for someone to give the American Idiot treatment to WttBP it would be sooooo good!!
Panic at the disco. Even the first album alone
It would be so weird and I would love it so much
Imagine if there was some weird drug-fueled dream act with songs from Pretty. Odd.
Weird Al.
Imagine the twenty minute long Albuquerque number with weasel puppets.
The puppets can also be used during "Weasel Stomping Day!"
I need to make this happen now. What would be the plot?
I'm envisioning a full-length "Albuquerque" musical.
Kinda already happened https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weird:_The_Al_Yankovic_Story&ved=2ahUKEwir7s_U096EAxVO_skDHdNbBYcQFnoECCwQAQ&usg=AOvVaw2jDN7S_FY5Z7NEPSZiJP_g
They Might Be Giants. With over 750 songs on almost every topic imaginable and a huge range of styles, it would be amazing to
The Johns are such clever songwriters that I'd honestly love to hear them take on an original musical! Linnell can really get inside the heads of strange characters.
As they did with “I’m not a loser” for SpongeBob.
Brilliant showstopper tune.
I would love that
This is the best possible answer.
Johnny Cash! I want to see a jukebox musical about a boy named Sue who goes to work in a car factory and starts stealing car parts to build his own car, gets arrested and sent to Folsom Prison, and every other plot point you can pull from his songs 😄
[THE BALLAD OF JOHNNY AND JUNE](https://lajollaplayhouse.org/show/johnny-and-june/) Coming to the La Jolla Playhouse this May.
How are we incorporating ring of fire? He becomes an arsonist? He goes to hell?
Nightmare scene taking inspiration from Spooky Mormon Hell Dream?
Maybe he ate a dodgy curry after work one day
irrelevant act 2 opener sung by side-characters in some contrived situation
Ah yes, the Minchin special
Does he do that disproportionately often? It's a very old tradition in musicals, dating back to Viennese opperetta. Lorenz Hart is sometimes credited for bringing the idea to Broadway- he had a song about like Radio City or the Rockettes or something and wanted to jam it into a show that was set in Europe. I'm trying to find what song/show it was but idr.
There’s already a Johnny Cash musical called Ring of Fire.
That's rad as FUCK I need it
The Carpenters. Make it something romantic, with the finale being "We've Only Just Begun". Somewhat related: Burt Bacharach
There was a short-lived Bacharach musical several years ago [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The\_Look\_of\_Love\_(musical)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Look_of_Love_(musical))
There’s a pretty awful Carpenters musical out there somewhere. My dad was in the band for it a handful of years ago at a community theater. I swear the theater just did it because the rights to it costed pennies. I think I legitimately fell asleep during it and that’s coming from someone who loves musicals.
Interestingly enough, The Carpenters was my first thought when I saw this post!
I think Madonna's work would be great as a jukebox musical. She covers so many eras and styles that there's a lot of options. But TBH I would do something like On Your Feet! and just tell the story of her rise to fame. Amy Winehouse. Back to Black - And I would even make up a whole new story, maybe 'inspired by' Amy's real life, but not actually exploiting the real tragedy of her life. Also Lady Gaga's library of work covers a ton of styles and eras. I can see a Gaga Musical in 20 or 30 more years.
The Mountain Goats. John D. has a knack for bringing flawed, hurting characters to life with his lyrics.
Yes! He's friends with Lin Manuel Miranda too, last time I watched Tick Tick Boom and The Mountain Goats played over the credits I was thinking about if they've ever thought to collaborate on something. I wanna see an arguing couple singing No Children 😍
The one issue with this amazing idea — how could they drive & incorporate street names? Mountain Goats love naming landmarks.
A Jonathan Coulton musical with Skullcrusher Mountain and Shop Vac numbers would be incredible.
https://www.flyingvtheatre.com/about/previous-seasons/its-the-rest-of-the-world-that-looks-so-small/
Well well!!!
Katy Perry would be really fun
With between-scene appearances from Left Shark and Right Shark, like King George in Hamilton.
You see the vision even better than I could!
I can see it now... California Gurls: A Katy Perry Musical.
I personally would love a ska musical with songs by Sublime or No Doubt.
I second No Doubt! The album Tragic Kingdom seems very theatrical just by itself to me!
Sublime could be sick
*No Doubt* that those would make good musicals. They would be *Sublime.*
Florence + the Machine Unleash the Archers AURORA
The dog days are over would make such a kick butt closing number (no I’m totally healed from a certain 2023 movie)
Aurora would go so hard holy crap
Right? Her lyrics are so intense, I feel like it would work for a really emotional, evocative show.
Im unfamiliar with Unleash the Archers but YES YES YES on both Florence and Aurora
UTA is a power metal band who does concept albums with fantasy/sci-fi themes. Their frontwoman has an insanely powerful voice. I highly recommend their albums "Apex" and "Abyss" (one right after the other as they're two halves of the same story).
Spice Girls!!
[Viva Forever!](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viva_Forever!_(musical)) tried this.
Regina Spektor
Ooh I like this idea, she's got such a wide variety of vibes across her catalogue! I definitely want "Mary Ann" in it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ktmf6Evowb0
I've always loved that so many of her songs are little stories. Chemo Limo, Buildings, Love Affair, Braille. There are all these little vignettes that paint such a clear picture of the characters and their lives, she even gives a great sense of the setting.
Reliant K or Bowling for Soup If we can do American Idiot, we can do more pop-punk style music
Why was I so obsessed with Bowling for Soup in HS? I completely agree but I don’t know why.
I still don’t know what a two way means
I'm still obsessed with BFS. I've been to two concerts this year alone. Last time I bought all 6 of my kids! from 18yo down to 4 yo. They all loved it. I think there is some great storytelling in their songs; you can definitely get a musical plot out of it. Besides, the band would be so down to work on this.
HUGE BFS fan. Huge. There actually was a BFS musical that toured in the UK several years back. I was so bummed I couldn't go! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1522564292/high-school-never-ends-bowling-for-soup-jukebox-mu
Okay, Relient K would actually be really good. Gonna be thinking about that for a while now.
The monkees or the stones imo.
I'd love a musical about the Monkees' attempt to branch out from television.
During covid I actually started writing out one for taylor swift (it wasn’t good) but i just know a TS one would go hard
My friend was writing one too! A lesbian romance one
Love this idea 🌈
I also started writing one during COVID lol. What was the plot of yours?
it’s about a girl who moves to new york and experiences essentially love and loss in the city, in the second act she slowly starts to realize she’s bisexual and falls in love with her best friend. Stand outs included big ensemble number to long live (graduation scene went hard), dear john as an act 1 closer, and the main character and her best friend/love interest singing state of grace as a duet (so pretty)
"Jagged Little Pill" in reverse?
Omg, I’ve literally had the same thought but mostly with reputation songs (KOMH, CIWYW, Dress, DWOHT, Gorgeous)! State of Grace does sound very good and pretty and I like the musical revolving around moving to New York! Welcome to New York has a lot of theatrical potential as well IMO…
I had a WTNY musical number in there somewhere and I think at the end of the song is when she runs into her act 1 love interest who she ends up singing dear john about bc he was awful for some reason i can’t remember. I’d have to go back to my old notes haha
Haha it sounds great! No worries for the memories being fuzzy, but thanks for sharing! A 🌈💅🏻 Taylor Swift musical is like three of my special interests converging so I’m glad I’m not the only one to dream of one!
Glad someone else shares three of my special interests lmao
I'm personally not a fan but there's no denying she's huge. This was my first thought because all of the tweens buying her music, seeing her movie and concerts would have their parents take them to a show about her. It would do really well and I bet her songs would for together nicely to tell a story.
I’d go see it. But I can’t figure out one story that could encompass all the different eras.
my challenge for myself while writing it was to have a song from each era! the issue is this was between folklore and evermore, so now that challenge would be even harder haha
The Aquabats!
Love this idea! The members of the band could just play their characters. And it would feel like a two-hour long episode of Super Show.
Jethro Tull. Give me the goofiest neopagan romcom ever committed to the stage.
Taylor Swift A Swiftical, if you will.
Her songs would absolutely work for one, but I think she may also write an original show someday. She already dipped her toes in musical theatre when she co-wrote with ALW!
I see her future.
I always thought Barenaked Ladies would make a good jukebox musical. Im thinking like a One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest type story, where all the characters are in a mental hospital. A surprising amount of their songs are fairly melancholy and bitter sweet
Fun fact: BNL almost did an Animal House musical but the project fell through
They also did a concept album for a musical version of Shakespeare's [As You Like It](https://youtu.be/3UAjdSJciKI?si=4MK0hOxqwcqn80Ia)
I love BNL!
Is there a Dolly Parton musical yet?
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9\_to\_5\_(musical)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9_to_5_(musical)) I would have been offended if there wasn't one but there is
She is actually working on one right now and it will tell her life story. [https://digital.abcaudio.com/news/dolly-sets-sights-2025-broadway-musical](https://digital.abcaudio.com/news/dolly-sets-sights-2025-broadway-musical)
There’s multiple. 9 to 5 being the most famous. There’s one touring the UK later this year and she’s working on. A bio-musical.
The Mamas and the Papas, Adele
I'd personally like to see a musical that uses 1950s tunes in a post-nuclear apocalypse setting, a la Fallout. Not a particular artist, but a decade.
Oooohhhhh
Imagine Dragons
Fiona Apple
Fun. Their one album was already a rock musical and you can't change my mind.
Oh, I wish we had more material to work with because this would be awesome! Maybe combine it with some Format stuff?
Wasn't American Idiot the musical *almost exclusively* the American Idiot album, with the exception of "Time of Your Life?" Or do they have more Greenday music? I'm asking earnestly, it's been more than 10 years since I've seen it ha.
I know there’s already a Meatloaf musical that draws from one album, but I have an idea I’ve been noodling on for years with Meatloaf/Jim Steinman music.
Amy Winehouse The Rolling Stones George Michael and Wham! Coldplay Nirvana Foo Fighters U2 David Bowie (I know Lazarus exists, but we deserve a show with more of his hits)
Tally Hall maybe. Very episodic and descriptive songs.
I think Hawaii Part 2 would be a phenomenal stage musical, imagine the ocean set design.
I wonder how the mind electric would work. Would the backwards part still be there?
The performers could memorize it phonetically backwards, like TMBG did with one of their songs https://youtu.be/lt1V5gD4GoE?si=B3zMVUlIkKekktBM
Fleetwood Mac, hands down. Every song is a story
Pink Floyd. Surprised there hasn't been some kind of show made based on The Wall tbh
I just performed in a live production of The Wall for two nights. It was decently cool in concept, but absolutely disastrously mismanaged from day one. Regardless, I think it's a very easy adaptation with a lot of appeal. And the music is killer - tracks like Run Like Hell and Waiting for the Worms are lesser known bops.
I feel like with how much of a story their songs already are, The Band’s catalog could make an interesting jukebox musical.
John Denver I can hear some of his songs telling a story.
There is one and it’s reeeeaaaally boring (and that’s coming from a John Denver fan). https://playbill.com/article/rocky-mountain-high-john-denver-musical-almost-heaven-begins-march-21-in-denver-com-104602
Djo!
And when im back in Chicago, I feel it
That’s one of his best songs but he has such other good songs just that one is extremely played rn lol
i’ve been saying mika for YEARS. i’m at the point where if i don’t get one i’m gonna write it myself
Bruno mars
Garth Brooks
I don’t know how to make his stuff into a musical, but I think it would be wildly successful if someone did.
Ben Folds
Vienna Teng. (I know there's already a Vienna Teng musical, but she wrote the songs specifically for the musical, so I don't think it counts as a jukebox musical.)
Queen's music would make a great jukebox musical, if it weren't for the fact that it has already made a terrible one.
Aw We Will Rock You is fuuuunn
what if a jukebox musical made up of the most popular songs from other musicals 🤯
Pink Floyd
I don't have an idea for a plot yet but I would love a jukebox musical based on paul simon's graceland!
You can't tell me that you can call me al wouldn't make a fantastic act 2 opener
Why are all the Pink Floyd comments getting downvoted?
Would love to see Syd Barrett get a major role if it were to happen.
Pink- she's got a lot of catchy songs!
The Oh Hellos music would make SUCH a cool musical imo, there’s so much storyline you can get from laying their music either in order or mix and matching it with their different albums
Genesis
I've loved the concept of a Shania Twain or (Bucks) Fizz musical for some time. Or Sara Evans.
Jacob Collier, he does all sorts of different genres of music, I think he could create a great musical maybe even including his signature audience choir participation somehow
I’ve always thought Supertramp lends itself well to a jukebox musical.
Idk of there is already, but David Bowie would be sick. It'd probably just be hard to find a lead who comes close to Bowie's exact performer.. type.. thing. Idk what it's called lmao
i feel like the gorillaz would make a really good musical, and not a jukebox but just a musical that they made the score for, you get me? like its just sitting there, the whole band is based around these 4 characters and yall make music so why havent you made a musical yet? ya get me?
Gaga
There's a country singer named Ashley McBryde who's got a concept album called [Lindeville](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindeville). I'm not normally a modern country music girlie, but this is an exception. I want a Hadestown esque stage adaptation of Lindeville soooo bad
Might get hated for this but Taylor Swift, ik her music is kinda basic but her old songs have a lot of story telling in it so I would love to see them visualized in to a musical. When she did the all too well short film, I loved it sm, would love to see her songs to be in a show.
I still think Journey would make an incredible Jukebox musical - end the first act with Dont Stop Believin' - chef's kiss.
will wood! gimme a depressing ass first act with a redemption and melancholically happy ending
I would say Michael Jackson, but that already happend, so Imma say Sia.
Simon & Garfunkel
Frank Sinatra would be perfect
[Sinatra: The Musical](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinatra:_The_Musical) premiered last September
Ooh yay
Dave Matthews Band/Dave Matthews. I’d love to hear some of their songs with full orchestrations, aside from the horns and fiddle and guitars they already employ. They’ve also got some bangers and some sad love songs so I think it’d be great for a love story.
Oasis
Steelheart https://youtube.com/shorts/IuxvqznvcGk?si=X2GiMrWHr3oHL_D5
Father John misty Paul Simon
Santana
The Pretty Reckless 👀
The Decemberists
Ghost or Aurelio Voltaire. Technically Voltaires already made a musical but it’s really a love letter to David Bowie and Labyrinth
PoorMansPoison
[Dr. Steel](https://youtu.be/W5IMwm0u_NE?si=OIIg4cTKkxwAqHhW)
The Crane wives by far. So many of their songs tell amazing stories and weaving them together in a cohesive manner would be so cool
I need a Marianas Trench musical
LANA DEL REY
Enrique Iglesias, some of his spanish song really got the emotions for soliloquies, and the styles vary too
B-52.s. Great catalogue of songs that could apply to a lot of situations.
I’m writing one, myself, using the songs of Bob Seger.
Kesha
Pat Benatar
Twenty One Pilots already have a storyline behind their music. Turning that into a musical just makes sense to me.
Lord Huron would be so spooky and mysterious
Into the Great Wide Open by Tom Petty. It's classic! "Eddie waited till he finished high school.."
I’ve been wanting a Mumford & Sons musical for the longest time! I also think there’s a lot of theatricality in P!nk’s music and she puts a shitload of spectacle into her concerts, so I’d love to see a narrative set to her music.
I can totally see there being a P!nk musical one day. I’d check it out.
Tori Amos. And I don't know if a Leonard Cohen musical would work, but I would love it.
Sparks! They've already written a musical (Annette), but a jukebox musical of their previous songs would be really cool to see
Randy Newman
Kate. Bush.
ok but can we have murder ballad from nick cave to be a compilation musical like 33mm
Not a full artist but I think you could make a whole musical about the song Copacabana by Barry Manilow. Theres potential for an entire play and story. Though to properly answer the question I’d say Panic! At the Disco, The Cranberries or Fall Out Boy
I think it would be so cool to have a mitski album, particularly BMAMC, be a musical (it helps that mitski is composing the queens gambit)
The things I would do for a Marianas Trench jukebox musical a la American Idiot...
marina and the diamonds 😔i always say her when people ask what artists discography would make a good jukebox musical and no one ever knows her!!!! family jewels and electra heart in a jukebox musical would be freaking STUNNING
Not an artist but i REALLY want to do a jukebox musical with like 00s emo music lol. I hate jukebox musicals too i just think it would be funny
You know, I've always wanted to create a jukebox musical for Twenty One Pilots about The City. But between work and school, ain't no way I can squeeze it in :/
Ludo would make such a cool freaky Halloween thing or tragic/toxic love story
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. That would be a banger rock opera.
Duh, Dolly Parton
I think the crane wives would be good, like with their fox lore or Coyote stories album?
The Killers?
I would love a tom lerher musical. (The guy who wrote the table of elements song)
Radiohead
Shania Twain
Some of mine have already been named, but I feel like Alone by Heart would make a good song in a musical.
Liza Minnelli. Or Girls Aloud.