Broadway to film

[Bibliot]

What are your favorite movie adaptations of Broadway shows? Either because of the musical performances or the spectacle or both!

[non-stop26]

West Side Story

[ggersten]

Favorite?  Musicals: Hair, The Sound of Music, My Fair Lady, Chicago.  These may not be the best or the most faithful.  

Plays:. Amadeus, The Lion in Winter, The Odd Couple.

[Demitri2]

For me FUNNY GIRL is one of the most faithful stage to screen adaptations of a musical. Yes, a few songs were either dropped or added yet for the most part it was the show I saw on stage. Plus its star, making her film debut, was just as successful in both mediums.

Favorite stage to film adaptations of a straight play are THE MIRACLE WORKER plus Geraldine Page's recreation on film of her roles in SWEET BIRD OF YOUTH and her off Broadway revival of SUMMER AND SMOKE.   

[Jeffrey Karasarides]

If you ask me, the best stage-to-screen transfers are the ones that stand on their own as films.

Musicals:
Chicago
Fiddler on the Roof
Grease
Hairspray
Les Miserables
Little Shop of Horrors
My Fair Lady
The Sound of Music
Sweeney Todd
West Side Story

Plays:
All the Way
Children of a Lesser God
Fences
Frost/Nixon
The Lion in Winter
The Miracle Worker
The Normal Heart
On Golden Pond
Six Degrees of Separation
A Streetcar Named Desire

[sueb1863]

1776

[henrikegerman]

Oliver, Cabaret, Chicago, West Side Story, Funny Girl, Into the Woods, Fiddler on the Roof, My Fair Lady, The Sound of Music, Little Shop of Horrors (if that counts as Bdwy to film)

Gaslight, The Member if the Wedding, Dangerous Liaisons, The Philadelphia Story, The Heiress, The Letter, The Little Foxes, The Miracle Worker, The Dresser, Twelve Angry Men, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, A Streetcar Named Desire, Becket, Twentieth Century, The Women, Stage Door, The Winslow Boy, The Madness of King George, The Lion in Winter, Fences, The Sunshine Boys, Who's Afraid if Virginia Woolf?

[green waver]

One that always stands out to me is Finian's Rainbow. It was done twenty years after its Broadway debut, and times hd really changed. That Francis Ford Coppola made it work so well is a real tribute to his skill.

[JudyDenmark]

Chicago's the biggest one for me. I don't usually love Broadway-to-film adaptations for a variety of reasons, and went into Chicago expecting to hate it, but boy did I eat my words because I thought it was pretty perfect. A great example of using the medium of film to enhance a show rather than try to duplicate it. 

[HamilHansen]

Little Shop Of Horrors. Ellen Greene is spectacular, as she was onstage. Rick Moranis and Steve Martin give great performances and the puppetry is amazing. 

[Call_me_jorge]

This is totally not the right thread, but I’ve got a few film dreamcasts
Wicked:
Elphaba- unknown(rachel tucker please)
Glinda- Vanessa Kirby
Fiyero- Matt Smith
Boq- Timothee Chalamet

Dogfight:
Rose- Beanie Feldstein
Eddie- Lucas Hedges
Bernstein- Ben Platt

[Lot666]

The 2004 film version of Phantom of the Opera looks gorgeous, but sounds mediocre.