Awesome Musicals

Mel Brooks is a comedy legend. To celebrate his many contributions, he received an honorary Oscar at the Academy’s Governor’s Awards, and Matthew Broderick and Nathan Lane presented the award. Along the way, they roasted Brooks, and like any good musical, they burst into song with a medley of some of Mel’s best songs.

(PG-13: Language) Dustin Ballard of There I Ruined It says he’s been hearing music in everything these days. For example, Samuel L. Jackson’s wrathful rants in Pulp Fiction provide the perfect opportunity for Jules to break into song. Honestly, we’d pay good money to see a Quentin Tarantino Broadway musical.

Time and space travel is a common theme between Doctor Who and The Rocky Horror Picture Show, so it makes sense that the Time Lords might know the song Time Warp. Doctor Who Sings edited together footage which makes it look like the Doctors and other characters were singing along with Riff-Raff, Magenta, and Columbia.

The musical Jesus Christ Superstar has some incredible songs and serves as a vocal showcase its lead performer. Some mad genius edited together performances of the song Gethsemane (I Only Want to Say) in which Jesus asks an essential question. Our new question: Why are you dressed like a sheriff, Lin-Manuel Miranda?

The musical Grease is over 50 years old, if you can believe it. To celebrate the 1970s classic about the 1950s, the Ohio State University Marching Band performed a medley of tracks from the show, including Grease Is the Word, Summer Nights, Greased Lightning, You’re the One That I Want, and We Go Together.

The cast of the comedy game show Game Changer was challenged to improvise an entire musical and came up with this bit of comedic genius – a hilarious opening song about a really weird town on the eastern seaboard. Watch the full episode on Dropout or stream the entire soundtrack.

Fans of the Rocky Horror Picture Show know exactly what to say every time the characters say “Brad” or “Janet.” But you’ll have to accelerate your profanity rate in order to keep up with Bib Dibbler’s edit of the cult classic musical, which does away with all dialogue except the characters’ names being spoken or sung.

Lin-Manuel Miranda is best known for his tour de force music, book, lyrics, and starring performance in Hamilton. Comedian Daniel Thrasher and his friends poke fun at Lin-Manuel’s distinctive style and enunciation as he attempts to place the most ridiculously complicated pizza order ever.

After seeing how well The Muppet Show theme synced up with Dirty Dancing, TikToker drkritz was inspired to do the same with another famous movie dance routine. It turns out that Renee Zellweger and Catherine Zeta-Jones’ Nowadays dance from Chicago works perfectly with the theme from Fraggle Rock.

A group of students from John Burroughs High School performed a musical inspired by Rapture, the dystopian undersea world of BioShock. The connections to the game’s plot are loose at best, but the Powerhouse choir took home multiple awards in the Hart Encore 2022 show choir competition for their performance.

Little Shop of Horrors is one of our favorite musicals of all time. Turning a B-movie about a man-eating plant into a hit Broadway musical was sheer genius. To celebrate its 40th anniversary, composer Alan Menken was joined by the cast of the off-Broadway revival to perform five of the show’s instant classic songs.

Musician 826aska performs a spirited arrangement of the track Friend Like Me on her electronic organ. While we will always miss Robin Williams, her version serves as a delightful and uplifting tribute. If you enjoy Disney musicals, check out her arrangements of A Whole New World and Circle of Life too.

Peter Dinklage stars as the eponymous Cyrano de Bergerac in this musical retelling of the classic romance about never judging a book by its cover. With director Joe Wright (Atonement, Pride & Prejudice) behind the camera, we’re expecting epic visuals, scenery, and costumes.

Vocalist Nick Pitera demonstrates his vocal range and ability to hit the high notes in this medley of eight songs from Disney musical movies that came out in the 1990s. Tracks include The Bells of Notre Dame, I’ll Make a Man Out of You, Hakuna Matata, A Whole New World, and The Mob Song.

Adam Driver, Marion Cotillard, and Simon Helberg star in this musical film about a stand-up comedian and his love for a famous opera singer. Penned by Ron and Russell Mael, AKA Sparks and directed by Leos Carax, it looks like one wild ride. It’s opening Cannes 2021, in theaters 8.6.2021, and on Amazon Prime on 8.20.2021.

Cher is known for her incredible vocal power, soufulness, and showmanship. To demonstrate her versatility, she played all of the major roles in a mini production of the musical West Side Story for her 1978 show Cher… Special. The same show featured a heaven vs. hell musical battle between Dolly Parton and The Tubes.

Inspired by Andre Antunes, musician Brandon Ethridge likes to add melodies to voices expressed in current events. In this short clip, he turns televangelist Kenneth Copeland’s impassioned sermon about a COVID-19 vaccine into an epic mini-musical. If this doesn’t get people stoked for vaccination, we don’t know what will.

We’ve seen lots of productions of Grease over the years, but never one quite this hip. Vocalists Antwaun Stanley and Therese Curatolo join the funkmeisters of Scary Pockets for the grooviest duet of “You’re the One That I Want” we’ve ever heard.

“Weird Al” Yankovic has already done a great send-up of the musical juggernaut Hamilton with “The Hamilton Polka.” As good as that is, we also love The Weird Alphabet’s parody, which is more of a prototypical novelty song, changing the lyrics to tell the origin story of the man behind “Another One Rides the Bus.”

With its release on Disney+, Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Broadway hit Hamilton is once again the talk of the town. Perhaps seeing a rainbow connection, Ricky Downes III recorded the entire musical in the voices of The Muppets. When Beaker started rapping, coffee came out of our nose. Act two here.

John Mulaney rounds out his Diner Lobster and Bodega Bathroom trilogy with another thing none of us should ever do – eat raw seafood at New York LaGuardia Airport, or for that matter, even fly out of the place. This time, Jake Gyllenhal and David Byrne come along and take that ride.

“I’m sure they’d cut it, but the leads are backstage changing, and they need a lot of time…” If you’ve been to the theater to see a musical, you know exactly what Upright Citizens Brigade performer Sarah Smallwood Parsons is singing about in her hilarious parody of that one song that nobody cares about or remembers.

A group of interns working at Microsoft wanted to say thanks to the company that gave them a home for the summer and something good for their resumes. But what do you give the company that’s got everything – and on an intern’s budget? You put on a Broadway show, that’s what!