Musicals staged as concerts

Not concert versions of shows.

The last 3 musicals I saw just happen to be "Hedwig and the Angry Inch", "Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill", and "Altar Boyz". This style is fairly rare and found it interesting to see them all in the same week. The previous week I saw "The Scottsboro Boys" which is similarly staged as a minstrel show that also broke the 4th wall. So, 3 in a row and 4 out of the last 6.

What other shows are staged in this style?

Isn't Liza at the Palace?

Would you consider "Will Roger's Follies" in this genre?

What about one man shows like Anthony Rapp's "Without You"?

EDIT: I think "Passing Strange" fits.

I think I would put "Forever Plaid" in this category.

Updated On: 2/27/17 at 03:41 PM

While it's not a concert, The Will Rogers Follies is structured entirely as a Ziegfeld Follies revue of Will's life. Everything is taking place in that follies show, with Will constantly breaking the fourth wall both to talk to the audience as well as to Mr. Ziegfeld himself, and at several points Ziegfeld intervenes to shape the course of the show to fit his vision of the follies (such as Will and Betty meeting on the moon to make it more romantic and theatrical than their real life meeting in a train station, or moving the time of their wedding from the middle of Act 1 to the Act 1 finale).

Wasn't lady day technically a play?

I guess you could call "Lady Day" a play with music. But, she explains how the songs fit in her life, so singing the songs move "the plot" along. But, if you are going to argue that point, you would have to say the same thing for Hedwig and Altar Boyz.

Ring of Fire

Million Dollar Quartet (ok, a recording session, not an actual concert)

End of the Rainbow (or is this play with music?)

Every Kiki and Herb show

Rain (does this count?)

Pippin is more of a show-within-a-show concept, no?

The Act?

The Last Session is a musical staged as a recording session....