Tom Kitt

A jukebox musical is a stage or film musical in which most songs are well‑known, pre‑existing popular music rather than newly composed material. Instead of writing an original score, creators curate a catalog (often from a single artist, era, or label) and build a book (script) that either tells the artist’s biography or uses the songs to drive a fictional plot. Numbers are typically rearranged, re‑orchestrated, and stitched together with narrative dialogue and dance in the tradition of Broadway/West End musical theatre.