Musicals often start with a setting song that establishes the "normal world" of the play. In OOTI, that is "We Dance" (the opening song). They use the exact opening of the novel in the opening of this song and introduce the 4 gods plus the poor vs the rich:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImCQN8EB854
Then, the main character has an "I want" song which tells who they are and what they want that is different that the normal world -- this drives their journey, character arc, and change that happens. In OOTI, that song is "Waiting for Life" and you can see how they took some of the text from MLML and put it into this piece:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWxC681dglA
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