Favorite "Screen to Stage" adaptations?
Favorite "Screen to Stage" adaptations?
raddersons
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/14/13
#4Favorite
Posted: 9/22/17 at 8:36am
raddersons said: "Classic answer: Chicago is a much better movie-musicalthan stage musical."
Wasn't that stage to screen?
I'll say a Christmas Story
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The Other One
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/1/08
raddersons
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/14/13
#6Favorite
Posted: 9/22/17 at 9:00am
Call_me_jorge said: "Wasn't thatstage to screen?"
Yes, I misread. Maybe I shouldn't be posting while still half asleep...
Xanadu, which gets extra points for self-identifying how ridiculous the movie/itself is.
I recently discovered Bubble Boy, which never made it to Broadway but has an enjoyable little recording with Alice Ripley, Matt Doyle, and the rest of the company on Spotify. It's a very simple & silly little show.
jtishere
Understudy Joined: 12/10/10
#7Favorite
Posted: 9/22/17 at 9:22am
I'm usually not a big fan of screen to stage, especially these days when it seems to be an excuse to be creatively lazy and risk-averse. That being said I really love An American in Paris. I think that's an example of taking an existing property and holding on to its basic tenants while still creating something that's different and stands on its own.
raddersons
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/14/13
ggersten
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/06
#10Favorite
Posted: 9/22/17 at 8:28pm
These stories all had film versions before stage musical versions - although I don't think, technically, the stage shows were adaptations of the film versions.
My Fair Lady (based on play Pygmalion and not the film version?)
The King and I (based on original source and not film version of Anna and the King of Siam?)
Cabaret (based on play I Am A Camera and not the film version of I Am A Camera?)
At-the-glen
Swing Joined: 10/27/15
RndmAnswrs4RndmQstns
Stand-by Joined: 9/8/17
The Other One
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/1/08
#17Favorite
Posted: 9/23/17 at 12:01pm
A musical based on The Room (yes, that The Room) called Oh Hai! The Rise of Chris R. is actually pretty funny. (Not the least because the quality of its writing is about on par with the actual movie, though I don't think they were necessarily aiming for a Tony-winner.)
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#18Favorite
Posted: 9/23/17 at 1:42pm
CallMeAl2 said: "raddersons said: "Classic answer: Chicago is a much better movie-musical than stage musical."
Chicago was based on the 1942 Ginger Rodgers movie Roxie Hart - so you are actually right."
Well, not exactly. It was based on a play called Chicago, which was also twice adapted for the screen, Roxie Hart being the second.
AEA AGMA SM
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/13/09
#19Favorite
Posted: 9/23/17 at 3:53pm
ggersten said: "These stories all had film versions before stage musical versions - although I don't think, technically, the stage shows were adaptations of the film versions.
My Fair Lady (based on play Pygmalion and not the film version?)"
Part of the contractual billing for My Fair Lady includes "Adapted from George Bernard Shaw's Play and Gabriel Pascal's Motion Picture "PYGMALION"." Several important scenes in the musical, such as the Embassy Ball, and of course the final scene, come from the film and not Shaw's original script.
BwayDreamer00
Understudy Joined: 12/14/16
#20Favorite
Posted: 9/23/17 at 11:09pm
HAIRSPRAY-(the 1988 original) to me the movie was good but fell a bit flat but the musical perfectly made it so much more fun a lovable
Matilda-(this is more book to stage because the movie is set in the US while the book is homage to Roald Dahl who had it take place in England because he was British) but this has so much pop and depth, so clever
Xanadu-The movie is ridiculous. Thank god the musical understood this and made some of it into a parody
Legally Blonde-(Yes the ultimate guilty pleasure musical AND movie) but this took the fun upbeat movie and made it even MORE fun and upbeat
School of Rock-I like how they gave the characters more arc and depth while still making it super funny
Waitress-The movie is very nice but the musical is so much more heartwarming and sweet
henrikegerman
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/29/05
#22Favorite
Posted: 9/24/17 at 3:37pm
CallMeAl2 said: "For me,La Cage aux Folles is the best adaption. Honorable mention to The Band's Visit and Sweet Charity."
La Cage began as a play. Was brilliantly adapted to the screen. And, agree that it was thereafter very successfully musicalized for the stage.
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