Musicals based on Shakespeare plays.

Okay, so we have:

West Side Story - Romeo & Juliet
Kiss Me, Kate - Taming Of The Shrew
Boys From Syracuse - Comedy Of Errors

There has to be more, right?

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The Big Life (at the Apollo in London a coupe of years ago) was loosely based on Love's Labour's Lost

The Lion King has elements of Hamlet

Return to the Forbidden Planet is based on The Tempest

Play On! = Twelfth Night

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Remember a couple years back "Lone Star Love -- or The Merry Wives of Windsor, Texas"?

I remember in the Lyndon Johnson days there was a show called MacBird, based on Macbeth, but I honestly don't recall if it was a musical or not.

And "Fools in Love" was a real dud of a rock musical based on Midsummer Night's Dream.

Updated On: 7/13/08 at 06:07 PM

Bare- strong elements of Romeo and Juliet

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ROCKABYE HAMLET

This rock musical based in HAMLET was created for CBC Radio in the mid 1970s, under the title KRONBERG: 1582. It played two summers at the Charlottetown Festival and had a tour across Canada.

Then, a group of New York producers bought the rights, hired Gower Champion to stage it and brought it to Broadway where it folded after 7 performances. An Lp of the score was released but it mainly used studio singers and only one member of the Broadway cast appears on the record.

NOW -32 years later - it being revived in Toronto for 3 performances under a new title SOMETHING'S ROCKING IN DENMARK.

If you are curious, I'll be featuring selections from the LP next Sunday morning on my radio show.

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Don't worry, this isn't "ZOMG USE THE SEARCH FUNCTION N00B," I just had this thread bookmarked, so I thought I'd contribute that (it looks like a lot of it's repeated here anyway):

https://forum.broadwayworld.com/readmessage.cfm?thread=947494

Updated On: 7/13/08 at 11:02 PM