The Great White Way. It’s home to countless musical classics and plays that challenge our assumptions and show off some of the world’s finest actors to enthralled live audiences.

It soon will welcome Cher and the rest of her style-obsessed gang from “Clueless.”

Yes, the iconic 1990s comedy is getting the Broadway treatment, one of several theatrical projects tapping directly into the zeitgeist. If it killed on screens large or small, we want to see it again. Just ask the TV executives who greenlit a new “Coach” series, or the producers who demanded a fourth “Jurassic Park” film even though the last two weren’t very good.

Stage revivals are on the way for “Cheers,” “The Brady Bunch,” “Groundhog Day” and “True Blood.” Nostalgia, and the brand identity it brings, rule popular culture. So why shouldn’t stage productions be any different?

Not every pop culture reboot is Broadway bound — yet. Later this month a musical version of the Fox hit “The O.C.” will enjoy a one-night only presentation. Should the show sell out … who knows where it might play next?

Broadway hasn’t been immune to pop culture influences. Recent hits include theatrical adaptations of “Young Frankenstein” and “The Lion King,” while jukebox musicals have lit up the theatrical cash registers (“Jersey Boys,” “Mamma Mia!”).

Not every pop culture reboot is Broadway bound — yet.

Still, given how other mediums are treating familiar fare like rare doubloons, it seemed inevitable for Broadway to follow suit. Judy Lisi, president of the Straz Center for the Performing Arts in Tampa, Florida, says the trend is part of Broadway’s cultural evolution.

“Musicals have always looked to other sources for their content. It makes a lot of sense in a way,” Lisi said.

At first, productions took its cues from literature, including “Showboat” and “South Pacific.” Later, Broadway producers looked to the movies for source material, which yielded “An American in Paris” from the classic 1951 film starring Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron.

Still, theater carried a certain heft, or respect, that set it apart from other entertainment media. Is that changing? Perhaps, but it still boils down to the finished product on display, Lisi said.

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“Who would have thought that something like ‘The Lion King’ could be put on stage?” she asks, referring to the jungle sets and animation as possible non-starters. Yet the production’s creative team poured so much energy into the sets, music and inventive scenery that it became a smash all the same.

So expect more theatrical reboots of popular brands. Anything goes, and nothing is sacred if there’s an imaginative take on the material, she says.

“I suspect years from now they’ll be a musical based on ‘Breaking Bad,’” she said.