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Question:Can someone give me a list of contemporary pop musicals?


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Can someone give me a list of contemporary pop musicals?

I'll give you both pop and rock since their genres overlap:

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Passing Strange
In the Heights
13
Glory Days
Xanadu (the musical is pop and from this season, but the music is from the 80s)
High Fidelity
Bright Lights, Big City
A New Brain
Tick Tick Boom
The Last Five Years
Taboo
Rent
Avenue Q (some are pop, some are traditional musical fare)
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Legally Blonde
Little Mermaid
Beauty & The Beast
Tarzan
All Shook Up (musical from a couple of years ago but the music is from the 50s)
Lennon (again, rock musical from a couple of years ago but the music is from the 60s)
Wicked
Spring Awakening
In My Life
Vanities
Opposite of Sex
Altar Boyz
I Love You Because
The Wedding Singer
Zanna, Don't!
Movin' Out (Billy Joel's music from the 70s-80s, but contemporary musical)
Aida
Elegies
I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change

Wicked
Legally Blonde
Hairspray
Rent
The Drowsy Chaperone
The Lion King
Beauty and the Beast
(I've seen all of those...they're phenomenal!)

Others:

Mamma Mia
Jersey Boys
Grease *
Spring Awakening *
Avenue Q *
Monty Python's Spamalot *
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee *

*= I'm dying to see it

Look into...

The Last Five Years
The Wedding Singer
Fame
RENT