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Amaluna is The Tempest meets The Divine Comedy meets South Pacific .
Annie is Cinderella meets Oliver Twist IN 1930S DEPRESSION-ERA NEW YORK!
A Night in the Old Markeplace is basically Fiddler on the Roof meets The Black Rider from Tom Waits .
Cirque du Soleil 's AXEL is Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Asian Damsel in Distress and Big Bad , Wuxia-esque acrobatics) meets Ready Player One (Cyberpunk / Synthwave aesthetic) meets Rock of Ages (Rock Opera -inspired plot utilizing real songs) on ice .
The musical Avenue Q has been described as "South Park + Sesame Street + Friends ", while the creators have described it as Sesame Street meets RENT .
Cats is Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats meets A Chorus Line .
Crystal is Alice's Adventures in Wonderland meets Ice Princess .
Dog Sees God is You're a Good Man Charlie Brown meets Spring Awakening .
Dreamgirls is Sparkle meets Gypsy .
Faeriestruck is The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Ordinary girl travels to a Magical Land ) meets Peter Pan (said land is home to The Fair Folk ) meets The Little Mermaid (protagonist wants to become a real fairy and sells out her family in a Deal with the Devil to embark on her adventure) meets Child of Light (protagonist finds out that she's the reincarnation of the realm's slain queen).
The Fantasticks has been described as "Romeo and Juliet meets Reality".
Feathers and Teeth is The Brady Bunch meets Gremlins meets Little Shop of Horrors .
Godspell is The Four Gospels meets Hair and old-time vaudeville.
Hamilton is 1776 meets In the Heights with a dash of Jesus Christ Superstar .
The show's casting calls describe every character in such a manner, X being a popular rapper or singer and Y being a famous Broadway character. For instance, Alexander Hamilton is "Eminem meets Sweeney Todd ".
Jesus Christ Superstar is Godspell meets Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat .
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is Hair meets the Book of Genesis .
Little Shop of Horrors is the original film meets a Disney musical. Which makes sense, considering that Alan Menken and Howard Ashman wrote the songs.
José Rivera's Marisol is West Side Story meets Escape from New York meets Angels in America meets Götterdämmerung .
Adam Tettle's Misha is best described as It's a Wonderful Life + Superbad .
Mystère is Fantasia meets Mel Brooks .
In Next to Normal , Natalie and Henry's relationship is Hayley and Jeff from American Dad! meets Violet and Tony from The Incredibles .
Pippin is Candide meets The Fantasticks .
RENT is La Bohème meets Hair .
Ride the Cyclone is Defending Your Life meets Final Destination 3 meets Glee .
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is Hamlet meets Waiting for Godot .
A Shoggoth on the Roof is Fiddler on the Roof meets H. P. Lovecraft .
The Skin of Our Teeth : Our Town meets Hellzapoppin .
The Green Goblin in Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark has been described as looking like "the bad guy from the end of The Mask meets Megatron from Michael Bay 's Transformers (2007) movie meets Nathan Lane in The Birdcage ."
The Spongebob Musical has been described as Our Town meets Armageddon (1998) . It can also be described as the episode Sponge-Cano! meets the Iron Fan chapter of Journey to the West .
Starlight Express is The Railway Series meets Cinderella meets Andrew Lloyd Webber .
Starship is The Little Mermaid meets Aliens .
The Trail to Oregon! is The Oregon Trail meets Oklahoma! meets Mel Brooks .
Twisted: The Untold Story of a Royal Vizier is Aladdin meets Wicked meets A Very Potter Musical .
Zarkana is Baz Luhrmann meets David Lynch — with a Happy Ending !
Zombie Prom is Grease meets zombies. Actually, there's only one zombie.
The Nutcracker - A Christmas Carol is The Nutcracker meets A Christmas Carol .
Lucia Di Lammermoor is Romeo and Juliet meets La Traviata meets Wuthering Heights with even more madness.
In a 2018 interview with the Daily Express , Richard O'Brien said The Rocky Horror Show was like a combination of Carry On and Hammer Horror .
Violet's Attic is Alice in Wonderland meets The Shining .
VOLTA is Hair meets Saltimbanco meets So You Think You Can Dance meets Circus XTREME .
Wad is Dead Man Walking meets You've Got Mail .
Waterfall is Madame Butterfly (Star-Crossed Lovers plot between an Asian and an American, leading one of them to Death by Despair after the other marries someone else) meets The King and I (set in Thailand, with the Western protagonist being the woman) meets The Sound of Music (just prior to World War II, with Imperial Japan in the role of Nazi Germany).
Westeros: An American Musical is A Song of Ice and Fire / Game of Thrones meets Hamilton .
West Side Story is Romeo and Juliet meets Rebel Without a Cause in a New York setting.
Westeros Side Story is West Side Story meets Game of Thrones .
'Tis Pity She's a Whore is Romeo and Juliet meets Brother–Sister Incest .