Musicals that Came from Books

[LyTeMyCanDyI]

Posted: 10/16/05 at 2:22pm

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!

Updated On: 10/16/05 at 02:22 PM

[rose&lark]

Posted: 10/16/05 at 2:32pm

The Light in the Piazza and Jane Eyre are a couple of others.

[BSoBW2]

Posted: 10/16/05 at 2:34pm

See What I Wanna See!

Wizard of Oz...

The Wild Party's

Fiddler on the Roof
Updated On: 10/16/05 at 02:34 PM

[iRuvPrinceton]

Posted: 10/16/05 at 2:36pm

The Secret Garden

Phantom of the Opera

[zepka102]

Posted: 10/16/05 at 2:36pm

once on this island!!!

[iRuvPrinceton]

Posted: 10/16/05 at 2:38pm

Cinderella should count, right?

ALSO: What about Into the Woods?

Updated On: 10/16/05 at 02:38 PM

[Jon]

Posted: 10/16/05 at 2:39pm

South Pacific
The Ling and I
Flower Drum Song
Candide
How to Succeed...

All the Shakespeare titles you mentioend don't really count as "books". They are plays, and dozens of musicals have been based on plays.

[Kringas]

Posted: 10/16/05 at 2:48pm

Show Boat

[Kringas]

Posted: 10/16/05 at 2:49pm

Carrie

Updated On: 10/16/05 at 02:49 PM

[Lamenting_Alto]

Posted: 10/16/05 at 2:53pm

Carousel & Oklahoma-though i dont remember what books they were adapted from

[WickedGeek28]

Posted: 10/16/05 at 2:55pm

Not on Broadway, but A Tale of Two Cities

Little Women

Seussical A series of books.

[glenwj]

Posted: 10/16/05 at 2:57pm

Little Women

[Sant]

Posted: 10/16/05 at 3:01pm

CATS

NOTRE DAME DE PARIS

RAGTIME

KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN

[glenwj]

Posted: 10/16/05 at 3:07pm

Some of your list is wrong as they are based on plays and not books ie. Shakespeare

[Gothampc]

Posted: 10/16/05 at 3:17pm

The Pajama Game - 7 1/2 cents

Once Upon A Matress - The Princess and the Pea

South Pacific - Tales of the South Pacific

Guys & Dolls - Stories by Damon Runyon

Fiddler on the Roof - Stories by Sholom Alechim

Godspell - The Bible

Shogun

[glenwj]

Posted: 10/16/05 at 3:18pm

The upcoming musical TARZAN

[colleen_lee]

Posted: 10/16/05 at 3:22pm

Well if you count the bible there are a few others.

[best12bars]

Posted: 10/16/05 at 3:36pm

Aside from the Shakespeare plays listed...

"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

[Piazzaslight]

Posted: 10/16/05 at 3:52pm

The Woman in White

[amperage]

Posted: 10/16/05 at 4:46pm

Aspects of Love

[allamarane]

Posted: 10/16/05 at 4:46pm

Pal Joey (from the book by John O'Hara)

[BwayLeadman]

Posted: 10/16/05 at 5:03pm

Mame - (play) Auntie Mame - (book) Auntie Mame

[fiatlux]

Posted: 10/16/05 at 5:28pm

Say Darling - by Richard Bissell
Flora the Red Manace - Love is Just Around the Corner - Lester Atwell
Valmouth - by Ronald Firbank
Most Happy Fella - They Knew What They Wanted -Sidney Howard
Greenwillow - by BJ Chute
Camelot - The Once and Future King - TH White
H2$ - by Shepherd Mead
Gone With the Wind or Scarlett - Margaret Mitchell
I Can Get It For You Wholesale - Jerome Weidman
Zorba - Nikos Kazantzakis



Updated On: 10/16/05 at 05:28 PM

[Elizabeth_DeBris]

Posted: 10/16/05 at 6:26pm

I think Passion was indirectly based on the book, Fosca. Man of la Mancha was based on Don Quixote.

If plays count too, La Cage aux Folles was based on the play of the same name. Updated On: 10/16/05 at 06:26 PM

[enjolrasissex]

Posted: 10/16/05 at 6:30pm

Peter Pan
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Beauty and the Beast
The Mambo Kings
Whistle Down the Wind

And if we're couting plays, then Ernest in Love could be aounted also.