pop hits that were written as stand-alone songs and are now being shoved into musicals, with plots written around them.
While we're splitting hairs (fun!) there's also, to my mind, a big difference between writing plots around Abba or Billy Joel's greatest hits (Mamma Mia, Movin' On) or writing plots around any song from anybody at any point in time, so long as it works for the plot (Moulin Rouge). In one case you have to uncomfortably contort your plot/characters to fit, but in the other case you can easily pick useful, appropriate songs--if I remember correctly, Moulin Rouge ranged from Offenbach to Nirvana. |
