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''WesternAnimation/YellowSubmarine'', an animated Jukebox Musical.

* ''Theatre/AnAmericanInParis'', with the music of George Gershwin

* WebAnimation/CyberpunkLab: The series contains both original songs, pre-existing songs, mashups, remixes and FanMusic of said songs in it's soundtrack. [[JukeboxMusical/CyberpunkLab]]

* WebAnimation/CyberpunkLab[[JukeboxMusical/CyberpunkLab]]: The series contains both original songs, pre-existing songs, mashups, remixes and FanMusic of said songs in it's soundtrack.

* CyberpunkLab[[JukeboxMusical/CyberpunkLab]]: The series contains both original songs, pre-existing songs, mashups, remixes and FanMusic of said songs in it's soundtrack.

* [[JukeboxMusical/CyberpunkLab]]: The series contains both original songs, pre-existing songs, mashups, remixes and FanMusic of said songs in it's soundtrack.

* ''Theatre/FreewillIn2112,'' a fan-made musical based on the music of the Canadian prog rock band Music/{{Rush}}— ironically set in the OppressiveStatesOfAmerica.

** The 1974 off-Broadway stage musical ''Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band on the Road'', directed by ''Theatre/JesusChristSuperstar'''s Tom O'Horgan and featuring the ''[[Film/JesusChristSuperstar movie adaptation's]]'' titular star Ted Neeley as Billy Shears, which would later (ever so loosely) inspire the aforementioned film.

** The 1974 off-Broadway stage musical ''Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band on the Road'', directed by ''Theatre/JesusChristSuperstar'''s Tom O'Horgan and featuring the ''Film/JesusChristSuperstar/movie adaptation'''s titular star Ted Neeley as Billy Shears, which would later (ever so loosely) inspire the aforementioned film.

** The 1974 off-Broadway stage musical ''Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band on the Road'', directed by ''Theatre/JesusChristSuperstar'''s Tom O'Horgan and featuring the ''Film/JesusChristSuperstar | movie adaptation'''s star Ted Neeley, which would later (loosely) inspire the aforementioned film.

** The 1974 off-Broadway stage musical ''Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band on the Road'', directed by ''Theatre/JesusChristSuperstar'''s Tom O'Horgan and featuring the ''Film/JesusChristSuperstar|movie adaptation'''s star Ted Neeley, which would later (loosely) inspire the aforementioned film.

** The 1974 off-Broadway stage musical ''Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band on the Road'', directed by ''Theatre/JesusChristSuperstar'''s Tom O'Horgan and featuring the movie adaptation's star Ted Neeley, which would later (loosely) inspire the aforementioned film.

** ''WesternAnimation/YellowSubmarine'', an animated Jukebox Musical.

* ''Theatre/{{Xanadu|2007}}'', is essentially one for the Music/ElectricLightOrchestra.

* ''WesternAnimation/GnomeoAndJuliet'' The whole movie is set to the music of ''Music/EltonJohn''.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheBookofLife'' uses a mixture of different songs but played with acoustic guitar and mariachi music, including stuff from Music/Mumford&sons, Music/Radiohead, and a few original songs.

The greatest strength and greatest weakness of the Jukebox Musical is that members of the audience may have heard these songs before, especially if they are popular ones. As a strength, that means that they can easily work as emotionally shorthand if they're already associated with a certain mood in pop culture, bolstering the narrative of the work. As a weakness, audience members could have strong memories related to these songs that can cause MoodDissonance. For example, the cool rock song you chose to emphasize the hero's HesBack moment could end up reminding one audience member of their first college breakup, another of a deceased family member, or another of some old phone ad, diminishing the intended emotional impact of the scene. In the worst case scenario - and why they are frequently met with criticism as a concept - the songs are inserted with no context at all or with completely misunderstood or inappropriate applications, but this can be an advantage in more comedic productions.

Contrast RockOpera, which are {{concept album}}s wherein all the songs are meant from the get-go to form a singular narrative. See also RealSongThemeTune (the work has an original soundtrack, but the main theme is a preexisting song); SongFic (when a FanFiction incorporates song lyrics throughout); and AllMusicalsAreAdaptations (for works based on other pre-existing properties and usually use their signature songs). {{Biopic}}s about famous musicians inherently can't avoid this.

** Well, there was "Abbacadbra" [[UrExample back in the early eighties]] - though probably doesn't count since they had Don Black put new lyrics to the songs to make a panto-type show with revisionist vignettes of stories like "Literature/{{Cinderella}}" and ''Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz''. They were made up largely from Music/{{ABBA}}'s less well-known songs like ''I'm a Marionette''.

* ''Our House'': Uses the songs of Music/{{Madness}} to tell the story of a young man growing up in London (which is what most Madness songs are about anyway). Featured Suggs as the main character's father for a while.