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Teachertainment :
Someone else already commented, but MAMMA MIA! changes a couple of lyrics. Off the top of my head, I know in “Chiquitita” and “Under Attack”. But very minor.
2026-09-06 00:32:45
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Lanie Jean :
Well now you just have me sad that Dove Cameron still hasn’t made her Broadway debut.
2026-09-05 17:07:01
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alexerrr :
Performing work b*tch as a stepsister during once upon a one more time was absolutely iconic
2026-09-05 17:57:19
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Livi Rose :
I like to rewrite song lyrics as if they are about stories/sung by characters I like, I would enjoy writing this type of musical!
2026-09-08 11:32:08
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Harper Bizzarre :
The Cher Show also rewrote lyrics for a few things.
2026-09-07 07:59:40
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ol pete :
What about Ken Hill's Phantom of the Opera?
2026-09-08 05:01:12
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april :
reminds me a bit of alw’s wizard of oz
2026-09-07 21:29:20
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kacie✨ :
escape to margaritaville did this too, not everything was changed but a good amount of the lyrics were changed to usher the story along. (both versions of “its my job” in the show feature nearly none of the original lyrics)
2026-09-05 19:14:26
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Dean O’Carroll :
Going way back, George Kaufman wrote Hollywood Pinafore in the 1940s which was all new lyrics for songs from Gilbert and Sullivan’s HMS Pinafore (and a bit from Pirates of Penzance) to tell a then-modern-day story about the movie industry. Also not a hit. Not sure if that counts as a jukebox musical since almost all the songs are all from one show — it’s more like when Mad Magazine would do, like, “Antenna on the Roof” or “West Coast Story”
2026-09-08 01:21:08
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Ohwhoevencares :
The Off Broadway Clueless was so bad. I just remember Cher shopping and someone bringing out a shrug and she sang a bit of No Shrugs to the tune of No Scrubs.
2026-09-05 22:29:09
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Rebecca :
What do you mean there’s a Carlebach musical like huh that’s so strange for a whole variety of reasons
2026-09-07 02:15:20
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Samuel Macdonald :
Well, if you include Pantomime there are hundreds a year in the UK alone!
2026-09-06 22:30:36
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sav :
This reminds me of mid 2000s musical parodies. Think the Todrick Hall Wizard of Oz video?
2026-09-05 20:19:11
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onlyorithyia :
Tanz der Vampire is partially this, and to different levels. Jim Steinem used the music from a bunch of his previous songs for a good chunk of the show, but the lyrics range from extremely different to the very similar use of Total Eclipse of the Heart.
2026-09-05 23:07:33
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samuelbuggeln3 :
it's interesting, you think it would happen more often. I've always thought that among book/music/lyrics, the hardest one to get right is lyrics.
2026-09-05 17:04:47
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tylerdavismusic :
Singing in the rain is actually a jukebox musical
2026-09-05 19:25:50
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doublear1es :
We Will Rock You alters a few lyrics. Radio Ga Ga for example. Even though it was written back in 2002/3 They're surprisingly even more topical today
2026-09-05 22:19:21
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zoomfruit 🇨🇦 :
Doesn’t Moulin Rouge do this to some extent? Roxanne in the musical only borrows some of its lyrics from the original song.
2026-09-06 04:33:40
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caitlin :
footloose also does this a little bit! some of the songs pulled from the original movie soundtrack have altered lyrics to fit the plot better
2026-09-05 20:49:00
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Now Lukie Here ☝️ :
An old one- Ken Hill’s Phantom of the Opera! New lyrics to then existing opera songs.
2026-09-06 00:58:15
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creature.featured (they/them) :
I'd argue We Will Rock You would be included in this list to an extent
2026-09-05 17:55:07
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✴⋆ 🫧𝓒𝓱𝓻𝓲𝓼𝓽𝓲𝓷𝓮🫧 ⋆✴ :
An absolutely fascinating spin on this is Ken Hill's Phantom of the Opera. It never had a Broadway run, though. But basically, Hill wrote original English lyrics to opera pieces by composers like Mozart, Verdi, and Gounod. It's a really cool way to tell the story, imo!
2026-09-05 21:00:54
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Carlos (Taylor’s Version) :
Jagged Little Pill changes a few lyrics and Alanís even wrote two new songs for it!!
2026-09-06 08:25:46
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selena :
i saw once upon a one more time four separate times and each show was different than the previous one
2026-09-05 20:49:06
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Bigen :
Idk if this count it called senja teduh pelita it a new Indonesia jukebox musical
2026-09-06 17:45:16
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