Favorite "Screen to Stage" adaptations?

[raddersons]

Posted: 9/22/17 at 7:56am

Classic answer: Chicago is a much better movie-musical than stage musical. 

[Jeffrey Karasarides]

Posted: 9/22/17 at 8:19am

Billy Elliot

[Call_me_jorge]

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 

Updated On: 9/22/17 at 08:36 AM

[The Other One]

Posted: 9/22/17 at 8:48am

Groundhog Day.  I think it did everything the movie did only better.

[raddersons]

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.

Updated On: 9/22/17 at 09:00 AM

[jtishere]

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]

Posted: 9/22/17 at 5:03pm

I'm trying to think of dramas...

Hands on a Hard Body & Grey Gardens, both based on documentaries.

 

[ggersten]

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?)

Updated On: 9/22/17 at 08:28 PM

[At-the-glen]

Posted: 9/22/17 at 10:03pm

Carnival! Based on the lovely little film Lili. 

[RndmAnswrs4RndmQstns]

Posted: 9/23/17 at 1:14am

I thought The Last Five Years movie was quite good.

[CallMeAl2]

Posted: 9/23/17 at 2:00am

For me, La Cage aux Folles is the best adaption. Honorable mention to The Band's Visit and Sweet Charity.

[CallMeAl2]

Posted: 9/23/17 at 2:03am

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.

[poisonivy2]

Posted: 9/23/17 at 10:38am

Waitress - Sara Bareilles music made the story "sing" in a way the movie couldn't

Hairspray (the 1988 comedy, NOT the musical remake)

The Producers

A Little Night Music 

[The Other One]

Posted: 9/23/17 at 10:41am

Twelve Angry Men. 

I am curious as to how Network will do. 

Updated On: 9/23/17 at 10:41 AM

[g.d.e.l.g.i.]

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.)

[hork]

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]

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]

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 

[BroadwayNYC2]

Posted: 9/24/17 at 11:06am

Groundhog Day. A truly brilliant show that should have been a hit. 

[henrikegerman]

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.