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1930s and 1940s
The last ten years has been the decade of the big block-busters and West End revivals of hit musicals. New trends in musicals include the ‘compilation’ musical, which takes the hit singles of a group or band and weaves them into a storyline. These include Mamma Mia which uses the music of Abba, We Will Rock You with music by Queen, and Our House with music by Madness. (Incidentally this is not a new phenomenon. In the mid 20th century there was a fashion to build musicals around a piece of classical music - Lilac Time used Schubert, Song of Norway Grieg and Kismet Borodin.)
Stagings of popular films are also popular - Beauty and the Beast, The Lion King, Saturday Night Fever and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
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