Musical Songs Within Other Musicals

[BritCrit]

Posted: 12/7/21 at 10:31am

MJ: The Musical begun performances today, and one unusual thing about it is the fact it includes two f the songs Michael Jackson sang in The Wiz ("Ease On Down The Road" and "You Can't Win". The Boy From Oz did something similar for Peter Allen, but are there any other examples of Jukebox musicals intersecting with traditional musicals?

I am perfectly aware of Revue shows based on legendary musical creatives (Finishing the Hat, Prince of Broadway, Fosse, On the Record) but in order to make this more exciting, I won't include them here...

[EDSOSLO858]

Posted: 12/7/21 at 10:34am

Also currently, “The Sound of Music” is referenced in Moulin Rouge!.

[darquegk]

Posted: 12/7/21 at 1:51pm

Puttin’ on the Ritz is in several, most notably Young Frankenstein.

[ggersten]

Posted: 12/7/21 at 3:47pm

Any bio-musical (like MJ and Boy From Oz) is going to have songs from other musicals - George M! is filled with them!

 

 

[saxpower]

Posted: 12/7/21 at 6:09pm

   "Summer" had "White Boys" from Hair

"School of Rock" has one of the kids start singing "Memory" [which Dewey then something about who would write a song like that, joke being ALW composed SOR]

Similarly "Lion King" has Zazu sing "Be our Guest" to cheer up Scar (who cuts him off with something like "Anything but that!" )


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[rattleNwoolypenguin]

Posted: 12/7/21 at 6:16pm

Assassins features Byck singing "America" and talking to Leonard Bernstein. Boy Sondheim must've loved the metaness of that.

[goodlead]

Posted: 12/8/21 at 2:30pm

The movie "Tik Tik Boom" includes a version of Sondheim's "Sunday."

[chrishuyen]

Posted: 12/9/21 at 5:16pm

Merrily We Roll Along has a somewhat bastardized version of Some Enchanted Evening in Opening Doors. 

Both Book of Mormon and Soft Power have some very close parodies but not quite the songs themselves. 

I wanna say there was an Alan Menken song featured in another Alan Menken show but I can't recall what it was 

[RWPrincess]

Posted: 12/10/21 at 7:59pm

saxpower said: "Similarly "Lion King" has Zazu sing "Be our Guest" to cheer up Scar (who cuts him off with something like "Anything but that!" )

He actually sings Let It Go from Frozen

The Genie in Aladdin also sings Beauty and the Beast and Part of Your World during Friend Like Me

 

[Fan123]

Posted: 12/10/21 at 9:13pm

I think Zazu sings different songs depending on the time of the production, which country it's being performed in, etc.

This is stretching things, but George Gershwin quotes his own 'An American In Paris' composition briefly in 'Of Thee I Sing' when the French characters show up. That got used in another musical later on 

Updated On: 12/10/21 at 09:13 PM