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#26

re: Musicals that are NOT based off of Movies, books, or plays/oprah

Posted: 2/27/06 at 6:08pm

PIAZZA is based on a novella by Elizabeth Spencer, which was later made into a movie.

"What a story........ everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end." -- Birdie [http://margochanning.broadwayworld.com/] "The Devil Be Hittin' Me" -- Whitney

Updated On: 2/27/06 at 06:08 PM

#27

re: Musicals that are NOT based off of Movies, books, or plays/oprah

Posted: 2/27/06 at 6:15pm

Waiting for the Moon based on the lives of F Scott Fitzgerald but a book.

"Judy Garland, Jimmy Dean, You tragedy Queen" ~ Taboo

"Watching a frat boy realize just what he put his d!ck in...ex's getting std's...schadenfruede" ~ Ave Q

"when dangers near, exploit their fear" ~ Reefer Madness the Musical

#28

re: Musicals that are NOT based off of Movies, books, or plays/oprah

Posted: 2/27/06 at 6:19pm

Working- its about jobs, but its not based on anything.

#29

re: Musicals that are NOT based off of Movies, books, or plays/oprah

Posted: 2/27/06 at 6:25pm

Working is based on Studs Terkel's book of the same name (Terkel even does the opening introduction for the film version).

"What a story........ everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end." -- Birdie [http://margochanning.broadwayworld.com/] "The Devil Be Hittin' Me" -- Whitney

#30

re: Musicals that are NOT based off of Movies, books, or plays/oprah

Posted: 2/27/06 at 6:27pm

Margo, what is the movie version of Piazza called? Same name?

#31

re: Musicals that are NOT based off of Movies, books, or plays/oprah

Posted: 2/27/06 at 6:37pm

Light In The Piazza

"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!"

#32

re: Musicals that are NOT based off of Movies, books, or plays/oprah

Posted: 2/27/06 at 9:45pm

Pippin, I believe, is an original work. Assasins, also.
What about Baby and Pal Joey? Are those based on any previous works?

"Sing the words, Patti!!!!" Stephen Sondheim to Patti LuPone.

#33

re: Musicals that are NOT based off of Movies, books, or plays/oprah

Posted: 2/27/06 at 9:57pm

last five years.

"At the opening night party, they had clowns on stilts, jugglers, a chocolate fountain, popcorn, hot dogs. [My son] looked at me like I had been holding back. Like, 'This is what you do?' I had to tell him, 'No, no, darling. Opening nights don't usually look like this.' It's usually a dark bar with a bottle of vodka." ?Chitty Chitty Bang Bang's Jan Maxwell plus i proudly share the title of the shortest member over the age of 10 with wickedrentq!

#34

re: Musicals that are NOT based off of Movies, books, or plays/oprah

Posted: 2/27/06 at 10:05pm

PAL JOEY is based on a series of articles by John O'Hara in New Yorker magazine.

Allison MacKenzie
Peyton Place, New Hampshire

#35

re: Musicals that are NOT based off of Movies, books, or plays/oprah

Posted: 9/13/23 at 5:21am

Mamma Mia stage show premiered long before the film came out, but wouldn’t count anyway because it’s a jukebox musical, so doesn’t have an original score. The best examples I can think of are In The Heights, A Strange Loop, The Last Five Years and Company

#36

re: Musicals that are NOT based off of Movies, books, or plays/oprah

Posted: 9/13/23 at 6:44am

A mix of Broadway and off-Broadway:

HERE LIES LOVE
THE PROM
ALLEGIANCE
THE BUBBLY BLACK GIRL SHEDS HER CHAMELEON SKIN
BELLA: AN AMERICAN TALL TALE
FLY BY NIGHT
IN THE HEIGHTS
BABY
THE LIFE
THE DROWSY CHAPERONE
THEY'RE PLAYING OUR SONG
1776
PUMP BOYS AND DINETTES
K-POP
CAMBODIAN ROCK BAND

#37

re: Musicals that are NOT based off of Movies, books, or plays/oprah

Posted: 9/13/23 at 6:51am

Thought of one more: NUNSENSE.

#38

re: Musicals that are NOT based off of Movies, books, or plays/oprah

Posted: 9/13/23 at 7:38am

Nunsense is based on a series of cartoons and greeting cards.

#39

re: Musicals that are NOT based off of Movies, books, or plays/oprah

Posted: 9/13/23 at 8:33am

Gettin' The Band Back Together?

Shucked?

Bandstand?

Grease? I mean yes there is a movie but didn't that come after the first stage production?

Six

Mamma Mia! could be considered an original jukebox musical...

Kimberly Akimbo?

#40

re: Musicals that are NOT based off of Movies, books, or plays/oprah

Posted: 9/13/23 at 8:55am

Original Story

Bare: The Musical (though the play within a play is Romeo and Juliet)
Dear Evan Hansen
Ghost Quartet
If/ Then
It Shoulda Been You
Kid Victory (John Kander and Greg Pierce show, 2017 Vineyard Theatre)

Inspired by Myths

Bright Star
Hadestown
The Light Princess

Inspired by History/ Biography

A Strange Loop
Bonnie and Clyde
Come From Away
Ernest Shackleton Loves Me
First Daughter Suite
Flying Over Sunset
Here Lies Love
KPOP
The Last Ship - "inspired" by Sting's childhood
London Road
Parade
Paradise Square
Shuffle Along
Spend Spend Spend
Stephen Ward
Sylvia (aka suffragette Hamilton)
War Paint

threepanelmusicals.blogspot.com

#41

re: Musicals that are NOT based off of Movies, books, or plays/oprah

Posted: 9/13/23 at 9:07am

MrsSallyAdams said: "Original Story

Bare: The Musical (though the play within a play is Romeo and Juliet)
Dear Evan Hansen
Ghost Quartet
If/ Then
It Shoulda Been You
Kid Victory (John Kander and Greg Pierce show, 2017 Vineyard Theatre)

Inspired by Myths

Bright Star
Hadestown
The Light Princess

Inspired by History/ Biography

A Strange Loop
Bonnie and Clyde
Come From Away
Ernest Shackleton Loves Me
First Daughter Suite
Flying Over Sunset
Here Lies Love
KPOP
The Last Ship - "inspired" by Sting's childhood
London Road
Parade
Paradise Square
Shuffle Along
Spend Spend Spend
Stephen Ward
Sylvia (aka suffragette Hamilton)
War Paint

"

Parade is based on real events that happened to the real live person Leo Frank.

I've read that Dear Evan Hansen was based on a true story that happened to a member of the creative team.

#42

re: Musicals that are NOT based off of Movies, books, or plays/oprah

Posted: 9/13/23 at 10:19pm

Two by R&H, ALLEGRO, ME AND JULIET

#43

re: Musicals that are NOT based off of Movies, books, or plays/oprah

Posted: 9/14/23 at 1:34pm

Contact

Bring in 'da Noise, Bring in 'da Funk

Memphis (I believe it is based on the life of an actual disc jockey in Memphis, but the details of his life were not previously published)

#44

re: Musicals that are NOT based off of Movies, books, or plays/oprah

Posted: 9/14/23 at 5:53pm

darquegk said: "Nunsense is based on a series of cartoons and greeting cards."

Oops! Thanks for that correction!

#45

re: Musicals that are NOT based off of Movies, books, or plays/oprah

Posted: 9/14/23 at 6:37pm

Did I miss CITY OF ANGELS? I am not aware it is based on anything specific though it obviously parodies/ pays homage to several classic 40s films

#46

re: Musicals that are NOT based off of Movies, books, or plays/oprah

Posted: 9/14/23 at 7:30pm

City of Angels is nominally original but it bears a pretty substantial resemblance to a Stephen King novella in “Nightmares and Dreamscapes.”

#47

re: Musicals that are NOT based off of Movies, books, or plays/oprah

Posted: 9/14/23 at 9:25pm

hearthemsing22 said: "Parade is based on real events that happened to the real live person Leo Frank.

I've read that Dear Evan Hansen was based on a true story that happened to a member of the creative team."

Lol, literally why they had Parade under the “history/biography” heading.

#48

re: Musicals that are NOT based off of Movies, books, or plays/oprah

Posted: 9/14/23 at 11:07pm

Re CITY OF ANGELS, the Stephen King story was not published till 1993 4 years after CITY OF ANGELS premiered so unless Larry Gelbart got some kind of very advanced look that seems unlikely

Updated On: 9/14/23 at 11:07 PM

#49

re: Musicals that are NOT based off of Movies, books, or plays/oprah

Posted: 9/15/23 at 7:43am

Dear Evan Hanson was inspired by something that happened, but only the idea that many students claimed to have been more connected to another student that died .... so INSPIRED by, not based on.

If we're not having fun, then why are we doing it? These are DISCUSSION boards, not mutual admiration boards. Discussion only occurs when we are willing to hear what others are thinking, regardless of whether it is alignment to our own thoughts.

#50

re: Musicals that are NOT based off of Movies, books, or plays/oprah

Posted: 9/15/23 at 10:40am

willep said: "hearthemsing22 said: "Parade is based on real events that happened to the real live person Leo Frank.

I've read that Dear Evan Hansen was based on a true story that happened to a member of the creative team."

Lol, literally why they had Parade under the “history/biography” heading."

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