Rank the jukebox musicals from best to worse

Oh - now you've edited and added in titles - so I delete my message.

In any event, you've confused bio-musicals with jukebox musicals and left out several. I don't know where you got your list from.

Updated On: 11/12/18 at 01:52 AM

the musical I'm writing based on the movie Big Momma's House 2 that uses the music of Dusty Springfield is going to be #1 on every list as soon as I get done writing it.

No including bio-musicals, the list for Broadway jukebox musicals should be something more like:

Five Guys Named Moe
Play On
Saturday Night Fever
Mamma Mia
Movin' Out
Good Vibrations
All Shook Up
Hot Feet
Priscilla Queen of the Desert
Rock of Ages
The Times They Are A-Changin'
Xanadu
Everyday Rapture
Million Dollar Quartet
Disaster
Holler if Ya Hear Me
Escape to Margaritaville
Head Over Heels

Bio-musicals would include:

Leader of the Pack
Buddy
The Boy From Oz
Lennon
Jersey Boys
Fela
Baby It's You
Beautiful
Soul Doctor
Motown
On Your Feet
Summer
The Cher Show

It's almost like a Tony winning bio-musical show starring Joel Grey and featuring Bernadette Peters about a great Broadway writer/director/producer/actor didn't exist - because it never gets mentioned in these lists.

That wikipedia definition is just the lazy version that people wanted to use to describe any musical using pre-existing music. The wikipedia page also includes revues, yet omits Play On.

I don't know if I'd put Xanadu in this category.

The film is considered a musical, I included it because the stage adaptation incorporated more of the songs directly into the book while augmenting the show with additional pop tunes. It's really more of a jukebox musical than it is a direct adaptation.

I'm going to snarkily answer the thread question, verbatim.

Best: Beautiful

Worse: All the others, because all others inferior to the best would naturally be "worse."

It's almost like a Tony winning bio-musical show starring Joel Grey and featuring Bernadette Peters about a great Broadway writer/director/producer/actor didn't exist - because it never gets mentioned in these lists.

I always forget it existed as well. I think I listened to the cast recording once and it was all I could stand.

The best jukebox musical I've seen never actually played Broadway: Return to the Forbidden Planet. Otherwise, I'd probably say Mamma Mia. I would have said American Idiot is the best (certainly deserved the Tony for Best Musical), except I don't really consider it a jukebox musical since it seemed to follow a "concept album" path similar to Tommy.

As far as bio-musicals, the best is probably Jersey Boys, though I'd consider Buddy and Fela to be very close behind.