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Beetlejuice: Musical synopsis


Beetlejuice synopsis


Beetlejuice is a musical with music and lyrics by Eddie Perfect and a book by Scott Brown and Anthony King. It is based on the 1988 film of the same name. The story concerns a deceased couple who try to haunt the new inhabitants of their former home and call for help from a devious bio-exorcist ghost named Betelgeuse (pronounced "Beetlejuice"), who is summoned by saying his name three times. One of the new inhabitants is a young girl, Lydia, who is dealing with her mother's death and her neglectful father.

Synopsis: Beetlejuice the Musical.

A gothic, hyperactive ghost story collides with campy comedy in Beetlejuice the Musical, based on Tim Burton’s 1988 cult classic. This Broadway adaptation cranks the absurdity to eleven—spirits, sandworms, and all—while exploring death, family, and finding your voice in the chaos.

The Afterlife Unleashed.

Meet Lydia Deetz. Seventeen. Morbidly poetic. Spiritually disenchanted. She’s lost her mother and is stuck with her clueless dad and his preening girlfriend in a dusty house where no one listens. But things get unhinged when she discovers a pair of recently deceased ghosts, the Maitlands, haunting the place. They want the Deetzes out. Enter Beetlejuice. Not subtle. Not polite. Loud, raunchy, and obsessed with chaos. A “bio-exorcist” ghost who feeds on fear and attention, Beetlejuice offers to help scare the Deetzes away. But he needs Lydia’s help to make himself visible—and stay in the world of the living.

A Deal With the Devil… Sort Of.

Lydia agrees to help him, hoping she’ll get a chance to speak to her mother beyond the grave. But Beetlejuice’s plan spirals wildly out of control. He hijacks a dinner party with a possessed calypso number. He raises the dead. He even tricks Lydia into marrying him in a wild wedding sequence that unravels into utter madness. But Lydia grows bolder. She reclaims her voice, her grief, her home. In the end, the living and the dead must work together to banish Beetlejuice and bring balance back. Lydia learns that the people who love you—even if they're ghosts—can help you move forward.

Key Themes.

  • Grief and healing: Lydia’s journey is driven by mourning and the longing for connection.
  • Identity and acceptance: Every character battles their identity—alive or dead—seeking purpose.
  • Absurdity and chaos: Beetlejuice’s world is anarchic, hilarious, and bursting with theatricality.

Last Update:October, 17th 2025

Beetlejuice Lyrics: Song List

  1. Act 1
  2. Prologue: Invisible
  3. The Whole "Being Dead" Thing
  4. The Whole Being Back Thing
  5. Ready, Set, Not Yet
  6. The Whole "Being Dead" Thing, Pt. 2
  7. The Whole "Being Dead" Thing, Pt. 3
  8. Dead Mom
  9. Fright of Their Lives
  10. Ready Set, Not Yet (reprise)
  11. No Reason
  12. Invisible (Reprise) / On The Roof
  13. Say My Name
  14. Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)
  15. Act 2
  16. Girl Scout
  17. That Beautiful Sound
  18. Barbara 2.0
  19. What I Know Now
  20. Home
  21. Creepy Old Guy
  22. Jump In The Line
  23. Beetlejuice Apocrypha
  24. I Am Very Good At Running Cults
  25. Mama Would
  26. Goodbye Emily Deetz
  27. Running Away
  28. Suicide Note
  29. Children We Didn't Have
  30. Good Old Fashioned Wedding
  31. Dead Bird
  32. Everything is Kinda Meh
  33. Dead Mom (Reprise)
  34. The Whole ‘Being Dead’ Thing Pt. 4
  35. That Beautiful Sound (reprise)
  36. Beetlejuice: The Demos The Demos The Demos
  37. Death’s Not Great
  38. The Hole
  39. Gotta Get Outta This House
  40. Sign Yourself Over to Me
  41. Delia’s TED Talk
  42. You Can Only Work with What You Get
  43. Step Right Up
  44. A Little More of Your Time (Charles)
  45. What’s Left?
  46. The Box
  47. Mixed It Up Together
  48. Ain’t It Strange?

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