Check out these Broadway shows featuring pop music hits

These musicals feature songs from classic rock stars and modern pop stars.

Gillian Russo
Written byGillian Russo
MJ The Musical
The Lion King
Moulin Rouge! The Musical
& Juliet
Titanique
Hell's Kitchen
A Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical
Buena Vista Social Club

MJ The Musical

Broadway
Jukebox musical
Award winner

Rock with Michael Jackson all night at MJ The Musical. With more than 25 hits from Jackson, the Jackson 5, and more, this musical will have you dancing into the sunlight. Jackson's hits are reframed in new, creative ways in this musical, as they bring back key memories from Jackson's life and career while he rehearses for his 1992 Dangerous World Tour.

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The Lion King

Broadway
Musical
Screen to stage
Award winner
Family show

Go to The Lion King and you'll hear the music of one of the best-selling artists of all time: Sir Elton John. He composed the original music for the original 1994 Disney film (collaborating with lyricist Tim Rice), and much of that music features in the Broadway production.

Even if you're unfamiliar with The Lion King, you may recognize songs like "Can You Feel the Love Tonight?" and "Circle of Life," which John released as radio singles, making them into commercial hits in the 1990s that remain famous today. "Can You Feel the Love Tonight?" even won John the Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance alongside an Oscar for Best Original Song in 1995.

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Moulin Rouge! The Musical

Broadway
Jukebox musical
Screen to stage
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Baz Luhrmann's original film was also a jukebox movie musical, almost exclusively featuring covers of songs previously recorded by pop artists. For example, "Lady Marmalade," now widely associated with the film, was originally made famous in the 1970s by the girl group Labelle, and "Your Song," sung by the leading character Christian, was first an Elton John hit.

Moulin Rouge! The Musical follows suit, incorporating both those songs from the movie (as well as plenty of others including Carol Channing's "Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend," Madonna's "Material Girl," and Nat King Cole's "Nature Boy") and piles on dozens of pop songs that have topped the charts since the movie's 2001 release. It's impossible to name them all, but know that you'll hear an eclectic mix of songs from artists ranging from Adele to Britney Spears to Soft Cell to Tina Turner. It's nothing short of a pop spectacular (spectacular).

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& Juliet

Broadway
Jukebox musical

We're confident that you'll know the words to most of the songs in this larger-than-life musical. After roaring with laughter and applause the first time, you'll want to go, baby, one more time. & Juliet features 30 pop songs from the '90s and '00s, all from the catalog of Swedish writer and producer Max Martin. He's behind Britney Spears's, the Backstreet Boys', and Katy Perry's biggest hits, plus many more.

All these songs are set to an original, new story from Schitt's Creek writer David West Read. The musical follows Juliet, of Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet, and imagines what would happen if she didn't die at the end of that classic play. She journeys to Paris, finds new friends and lovers, and finds herself. It's gonna be you that lives out your teenage dreams at this show.

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Titanique

Off-Broadway
Jukebox musical
Screen to stage
Award winner

Titanique is an Off-Broadway show, but it features the hits of an artist with one of the most titanic music careers in recent history: Celine Dion. Known for singing the Titanic movie's iconic theme song, "My Heart Will Go On," Dion is now a character in this campy parody of James Cameron's film. She narrates a kooky retelling of what really happened to Jack and Rose, and the story incorporates lots of her career hits, like "Tell Him" and "All By Myself."

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Hell's Kitchen

Broadway
Jukebox musical
Award winner

She’s won 16 Grammys. Her songs “No One,” “Fallin’,” “Empire State of Mind,” and more have captured countless listeners with their soulful lyrics, soaring melodies, and deep emotion. She got her start as a teenager and has sustained a successful career ever since. Yes, we’re talking about Alicia Keys, whose own upbringing in the Manhattan neighborhood of Hell’s Kitchen is the loose basis of the new musical of the same name. All of Keys’s greatest hits score this coming-of-age story.

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A Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical

Broadway
Jukebox musical

Technically, this musical primarily features jazz music — but Louis Armstrong is iconic precisely because he was one of the first artists to bring jazz music into the mainstream and blend genres, earning global popularity and numerous awards as a result. Songs like "What a Wonderful World" and "La Vie En Rose" score this show, which tells Armstrong's life story from the perspectives of his wives.

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Buena Vista Social Club

Broadway
Jukebox musical
Screen to stage

Buena Vista Social Club is set to the music of one of the most influential Latin music groups of all time. The same-named group was formed by musicians who reunited after decades to record songs in the classic styles — like son, bolero, and danzón — they used to play in Cuban music halls before the country's revolution. Their album won a Grammy and introduced classic Latin music to new audiences, which the pulse-pounding musical is doing, too.

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