"I am not sure I even think of Moulin Rouge as a jukebox musical. It's just following the template of the movie where pop songs from a variety of sources were always part of the storytelling."
Well, yes -- and the film MOULIN ROUGE is also definitely a jukebox musical. I would say it deserves that label even more than something like, say, MAMMA MIA! An actual jukebox, of course, has a wide variety of songs by various writers, which is the case with MOULIN ROUGE (both the film and the stage show), whereas in MAMMA MIA! and some of the other "jukebox" musicals, all of the songs are by the same writer or small group of writers. |
