Jukebox musical was led by the success of "Mamma Mia!", built around the music of ABBA. Reception of jukebox musicals has been divided, with the most common criticism being that there is too much focus on how many songs can be fit into the musical. Some jukebox musicals, like "Lennon" and "Good Vibrations" have been critical and financial flops. Others, like "Jersey Boys" and "All Shook Up" have been popular with both fans and critics. The term "jukebox musical" dates at least to 1962, following "Jukebox" (1939), though the general genre—motion pictures consisting largely of hit recordings—dates to the 1940s and 1950s.
Prince of Wales Theatre actress, played in "Princess George" and "The School for Scandal". The first hit production at the theatre was the record-breaking comic opera, "Dorothy", starring Marie Tempest, which was so successful that its authors used the profits to build the Lyric Theatre, where it moved in 1888. The wordless mime play "L'Enfant Prodigue" premiered in 1891 which, together with "A Pierrot's Life" in 1897, brought respectability to mime troupes in Britain. George Edwardes' musical play, "In Town", often considered the first English musical comedy, was presented at the theatre in 1892 and was followed by Edwardes' even more successful "A Gaiety