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There's also a new trend of the [[Jukebox Musical]]; adapting a musical play or film from the existing catalog of a musical artist, when the songs therein might not have anything to do with each other. ''[[Mamma Mia!]]'' adapted from [[ABBA]], ''[[Movin' Out]]'' adapted from [[Billy Joel]], and ''[[Across the Universe (film)|Across the Universe]]'' adapted from [[The Beatles (band)|The Beatles]] are just a few examples. ''[[Moulin Rouge]]'', which didn't stick to one artist but repurposed a few decades of pop music, was the likely trend-setter here. Of course, this technique [[Older Than They Think|goes back a ways]]--''[[Singin' in the Rain|Singin in The Rain]]'' reused older songs--and prolific composers would often take songs from their less-successful shows and reuse them in new productions. (For example, [[Gilbert and Sullivan]] took the song "Climbing Over Rocky Mountain" from their early failure ''Thespis'' and dropped it in ''[[The Pirates of Penzance]]''.)