Posted: 4/5/17 at 8:24pm
Could I get some of the best books that Broadway shows are based off of? I read Wicked and enjoyed it, and would like to read more books that Broadway shows are based on.
Posted: 4/5/17 at 8:50pm
Great Comet is based on a chapter of War & Peace.
Posted: 4/5/17 at 8:55pm
Edna Ferber - Showboat
The Heiress - based on Henry James' Washington Square
The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
Les Miserables and Hunchback of Notre Dame - Victor Hugo
Gypsy: A Memoir by Gypsy Rose Lee
Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
Phantom of the Opera - Gaston Leroux
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats - T.S. Eliot
Posted: 4/5/17 at 9:53pm
A gentlemans guide to love and murder was based on 'Israel Rank: The Autobiography of a Criminal'
Oliver! was based on Oliver Twist
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Gigi were based on the homonymous books
Posted: 4/5/17 at 11:23pm
Tom Sawyer? And yet we forget BIG RIVER? LOL
HAMILTON (based on a history book)
FUN HOME (based on the graphic memoir of the same name)
THE KING AND I (There is some disagreement about this one, but technically, R&H were unable to get the rights to the film, ANNA AND THE KING OF SIAM, and were forced to adapt Anna's memoir instead.)
THE PAJAMA GAME (I believe the source book is titled 7 1/2 CENTS)
THE SOUND OF MUSIC (THE STORY OF THE VON TRAPP FAMILY SINGERS by Maria von Trapp)
THE YEARLING (book of same name)
SOUTH PACIFIC (Michener's TALES OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC)
THE WIZARD OF OZ (an adaptation was on Broadway decades before the film)
SARATOGA (another Edna Ferber adaptation)
MAME (based on Dennis Patrick's AUNTIE MAME)
Updated On: 4/5/17 at 11:23 PM
Posted: 4/6/17 at 12:24am
Oklahoma! -- Green Grow the Lilacs ( play by Lynn Riggs)
Carousel -- Liliom (play by Ferenc Molnar)
Updated On: 4/6/17 at 12:24 AM
Posted: 4/6/17 at 12:29am
ALWebber :
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat -- er...Biblical stories
Jesus Christ Superstar -- also inspired by the Bible
Woman in White -- novel by Wilkie Collins
Aspects of Love -- novella by David Garnett
Posted: 4/6/17 at 12:50am
The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant - Damn Yankees
The Once and Future King - Camelot
Light in the Piazza - novella of same name
Urban Cowboy/Saturday Night Fever were based on films which were based on magazine articles
American Psycho - novel of same name
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Is Cabaret based more on the play I Am A Camera or the actual Isherwood stories?
As indicated Big River - Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Wild Party - poem of same name
There also have been adaptations of Dracula, Little Women, Dr. Zhivago, Carrie, Big Fish
Posted: 4/6/17 at 5:33am
I am a Camera, or what I was led to believe.
Updated On: 4/6/17 at 05:33 AM
Posted: 4/6/17 at 8:16am
A whole lot of them. Adding to what's been mentioned: The Color Purple (Alice Walker) Look Homeward, Angel (Thomas Wolfe) Pipe Dream, Of Mice and Men and The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck), Man of La Mancha (Miguel Cervantes), What Makes Sammy Run? (Budd Schulberg), The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickelby, Pickwick and A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens), Breakfast at Tiffany's and The Grass Harp (Truman Capote), Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov), The Ballad of the Sad Cafe (Carson McCullers), Little Me (Patrick Dennis), The Caine Mutiny Court Martial (Herman Wouk)
Probably many more. Some musicals, some plays, some flops, some hits -- all shapes and sizes.
