Hi. Can you help me compile a list of musicals that were originally books/plays? So far I've got:
My Fair Lady- Pygmalion Dracula Jekyll and Hyde Cabaret- The Berlin Tales Wicked Oliver!- Oliver Twist Les Miserables Miss Saigon- M. Butterfly Chitty Chitty Bang Bang West Side Story- Romeo and Juliet Kiss Me Kate- The Taming of the Shrew Lion King- Hamlet Two Gentleman of Verona the Musical- The Two Gentlemen of Verona Gypsy- Gypsy (The Memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee)
Anything else? If you can think of ones that are taught in high schools it would be even better. Thanks!
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The Light in the Piazza and Jane Eyre are a couple of others.
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"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."
To Kill A Mockingbird
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Well if you count the bible there are a few others.
"You just can't win. Ever. Look at the bright side, at least you are not stuck in First Wives Club: The Musical. That would really suck. "
--Sueleen Gay
"My Fair Lady" is directly based on Shaw's play Pygmalion, not the actual Greek myth itself, which I wouldn't really count as a book either.
"Oklahoma!" is based on Lynn Riggs' "Green Grow the Lilacs," which is also a play.
"The King & I" is directly based on the film "Anna and the King of Siam," with some of the dialogue exactly the same. The film in turn is based on Margaret Landon's book, so I suppose that's an indirect association.
Some are collections, like "Guys and Dolls" based on collected stories by Runyon (two in particular)... or "South Pacific" based on stories from "Tales of the South Pacific" by Michner, and "Into the Woods," based, in part, on several Grimm fairy tales.
Here are a few more others directly based on books, though:
The Wiz (based directly on the Baum book) The Sound of Music (based on Maria Von Trapp's book) The Color Purple
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