The only one I know of is Sherry! based on The Man Who Came to Dinner. Are there any others?
"I'm tellin' you, the only times I really feel the presence of God are when I'm having sex and during a great Broadway musical." - Nathan Lane - Jeffrey
Pygmalion became My Fair Lady Green Grow the Lilacs became Oklahoma!
I am a firm believer in serendipity- all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose was all along.
Merrily We Roll Along became Merrily We Roll Along, and I'm not sure what came first in terms of (Auntie)Mame but the play and the musical both exist so it could fit into this catagory.
Canadians are not afraid of the dark! Ok...we don't love it, but who does?
Porgy & Bess (Porgy) Mame (Auntie Mame) My Fair Lady (Pygmalion) West Side Story (Romeo & Juliet) Hello Dolly (The Matchmaker) La Cage Aux Folles (play and film of the same name) Cabaret (I Am A Camera) I Do! I Do! (The Fourposter) Purlie (Purlie Victorious) Raisin (A Raisin in the Sun) Seesaw (Two for the Seesaw) Merrily We Roll Along (Kaufman & Hart play of the same name) The King & I (ANna & The King of Siam)
"What a story........ everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end." -- Birdie
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I can't beleive I forgot half of these! haha. Thanks!
"I'm tellin' you, the only times I really feel the presence of God are when I'm having sex and during a great Broadway musical." - Nathan Lane - Jeffrey
Margo: Was there a "La Cage aux Folles" movie in French? Of course there's The Birdcage, just curious. There were also books that the play/musical/film were based on
"If there is going to be a restoration fee, there should also be a Renaissance fee, a Middle Ages fee and a Dark Ages fee. Someone must have men in the back room making up names, euphemisms for profit."
(Emanuel Azenberg)
CHICAGO is based on the play ROXIE HART by Maurine Watkins.
LA CAGE the musical is based on a French play of the same name by Jean Poiret.
"What a story........ everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end." -- Birdie
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While there have been dozens of plays and films of the Sweeney Todd legend over the years, the Sondheim musical is specifically based on the play version that Christopher Bond wrote.
The French film version of La Cage was the most popular foreign film in US history for several years after its release in the late 70s.
"What a story........ everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end." -- Birdie
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There was a Very Famous and Popular Movie And Sequels of LA CAGE... French Movie and it was based on a play also. I think there are really thousands of Musicals based on plays. OUR TOWN=GROVER'S CORNER 110 IN THE SHADE= The RAINMAKER PICNIC=COME SEPTEMBER
I've never read The Matchmaker, but I know it's by Thornton Wilder.
"I am and always will be the optimist. The hoper of far-flung hopes and dreamer of improbable dreams." - Doctor Who
"Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over, men recognize that the human race has been harshly treated but it has moved forward." - Les Miserables
"CHICAGO is based on the play ROXIE HART by Maurine Watkins. "
The musical "Chicago" is actually not based on "Roxie Hart", it's based on the play "Chicago." The movie "Roxie Hart" is also based on the play "Chicago."
"The musical Chicago is based on a play of the same name by reporter Maurine Dallas Watkins. Watkins had been assigned to cover the 1924 trials of murderesses Beulah Annan and Belva Gaertner for the Chicago Tribune" ................. "In 1942, a film version of Dallas-Watkins' play entitled Roxie Hart, directed by William A. Wellman and starring Ginger Rogers as Roxie, Adolphe Menjou as Billy Flynn, and Spring Byington as reporter Mary Sunshine, was released."
"Smart! And into all those exotic mystiques -- The Kama Sutra and Chinese techniques. I hear she knows more than seventy-five. Call me tomorrow if you're still alive!"
The Importance of Being Ernest = ERNEST IN LOVE Charlie's Aunt = WHERE'S CHARLIE? Les Romanesques = THE FANTASTICKS The Visit = THE VISIT Madwoman of Challiot = DEAR WORLD Jacobovsky & the Colonel = THE GRAND TOUR Blithe Spirit = HIGH SPIRITS
Don't forget all the Shakespeare adaptations: Comedy of Errors = BOYS FROM SYRACUSE and OH BROTHER 12th Night = YOUR OWN THING and PLAY ON The Tempest - RETURN TO FORBIDDEN PLANET
I mentioned The Matchmaker/Hello Dolly! in my post. A great Thornton Wilder play (Ruth Gordon was apparently extraordinary -- Hal Prince turned down doing the original Hello Dolly in part because he believed that no one could ever do Dolly Levi as well as Gordon), as well as a terrific film starring Tony, Emmy and Oscar winner Shirley Booth (plus Shirley Maclaine, Anthony Perkins and Paul Ford).
"What a story........ everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end." -- Birdie
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One of those tantalizing bits of theatre history is that, supposedly, in Leonard Bernstein's unpublished works, there's a proposed score for a musical version of SKIN OF OUR TEETH (also by Thornton Wilder, if anyone's interested).