The launch of the musical coincided with Queen Elizabeth II’s Golden Jubilee. As part of the Jubilee celebrations, Brian May performed a guitar solo of “God Save the Queen”, as featured on Queen’s A Night at the Opera, from the roof of Buckingham Palace. The recording of this performance was used as video for the song on the 30th Anniversary DVD edition of A Night at the Opera.
Sean Bovim created “Queen at the Ballet”, a tribute to Mercury, which uses Queen’s music as a soundtrack for the show’s dancers, who interpret the stories behind tracks such as “Bohemian Rhapsody”, “Radio Ga Ga”, and “Killer Queen”.Queen’s music also appears in the Off-Broadway production Power Balladz, most notably the song “We Are the Champions”, with the show’s two performers believing the song was “the apex of artistic achievement in its day”.