Musicals that are NOT based off of Movies, books, or plays/oprah- Page 2

[MargoChanning]

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

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

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

[umgeoboy]

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

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

[Unknown User]

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

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

[MargoChanning]

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).

[gumbo2]

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

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

[pab]

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

Light In The Piazza

[wickedfan]

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?

[zippyjen]

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

last five years.

[TheEnchantedHunter]

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

[Tradge]

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

[meredithchandler73]

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

 

[meredithchandler73]

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

Thought of one more: NUNSENSE.

[darquegk]

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

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

[hearthemsing22]

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?

 

[MrsSallyAdams]

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 


 

 

[hearthemsing22]

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. 

[Tenor8674]

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

Two by R&H,  ALLEGRO, ME AND JULIET

[jagman1062]

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)

[meredithchandler73]

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!

[lily carver]

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

[darquegk]

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.”

[willep]

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.

[lily carver]

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

[dramamama611]

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. 

[hearthemsing22]

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."

Do you spend a lot of time pointing out miniscule errors people make? Get a new hobby hun