Poll: Best and Worst Hollywood-Broadway-Hollywood show?

Nine "intellectual properties" - most recently, The Color Purple and Mean Girls -- have gone from Hollywood movies to Broadway musicals to movie musicals. Take the poll: Which of these journeys was most successful? Which least?

Best and Worst Hollywood Movie to Broadway Musical to Hollywood Musical?

Or "Nine", but I guess these two were not based on Hollywood movies.

Oops, I missed the point. Movie... stage musical... movie musical. In which case, Hairspray is a notable omission.

Charley Kringas Inc said: "And then there’s A Little Night Music…"


We don’t talk about that.

There's a semantic question of whether Matilda counts, since the musical is based on the book rather than the first film. Whereas Color Purple, also based on a book, additionally cites the movie as source material. It's sort of like there being a film based on the play Pygmalion, then the stage musical My Fair Lady, then the movie MFL. (Although....actually, MFL pulls from Shaw's Pygmalion screenplay, so maybe it counts?)

Typically the second film is the worst part of the arc. If we're going for plain consistency across the three iterations in one of the given choices, I think Hairspray clearly has it but I'd call Little Shop my favorite.

Little Shop is my pick here, as the musical improved the original film in virtually every conceivable way and the movie adaptation maintained that while still translating it back to film extremely well. But the musical also had the advantage of really having nowhere to go from up from the original film, which was hardly a piece of serious filmmaking to begin with.

The Sweet Charity film stars Shirley MacClaine, not Gwen Verdon.