Movie Musicals to Stage Musials

[ggersten]

Posted: 4/5/20 at 10:11pm

Trying to make a list of movie musicals that became stage musicals. I must be missing some::

Victor Victoria

Thoroughly Modern Millie

42d Street

Once

Newsies

Meet Me In St. Louis

An American In Paris

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (?)

The Committments

Singin' in the Rain

Gigi

and then there are the Disney cartoons: Beauty & Beast, Lion King, Tarzan, Little Mermaid, Aladdin, Mary Poppins, Frozen

Updated On: 4/5/20 at 10:11 PM

[JBroadway]

Posted: 4/5/20 at 11:26pm

Anastasia
Moulin Rouge
Prince of Egypt
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
High School Musical
Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella

If you count things like Once as a movie musical - I.e, movies with a lot of diegetic musical number, then movies like Sing Street, Fame, and School of Rock could count as well

[David10086]

Posted: 4/6/20 at 9:53pm

Sunset Boulevard

And wasn’t POTO a movie before a musical?

Beetle juice

9 to 5

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

The Producers

Young Frankenstein

King Kong

Ballroom

[CT2NYC]

Posted: 4/6/20 at 10:06pm

David10086 said: "Sunset Boulevard

And wasn’t POTO a movie before a musical?

Beetle juice

9 to 5

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

The Producers

Young Frankenstein

King Kong

Ballroom"

The OP was asking about musicals on film that were adapted into musicals for the stage. None on your list were originally musicals.

Add Chitty Chitty Bang Bang to the list.

[Fosse76]

Posted: 4/6/20 at 11:03pm

JBroadway said: "Anastasia
Moulin Rouge
Prince of Egypt
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
High School Musical
Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella

If you count things like Once as a movie musical - I.e, movies with a lot of diegetic musical number, then movies like Sing Street, Fame, and School of Rock could count as well"

I would think Hairspray would also fall under this category.

[AEA AGMA SM]

Posted: 4/6/20 at 11:22pm

The original film of Hairspray is no more a movie musical than something like Dirty Dancing or Center Stage or even Magic Mike.

[BrodyFosse123]

Posted: 4/7/20 at 8:58am

I would think Hairspray would also fall under this category."
 

John Waters original 1988 film HAIRSPRAY was not a musical.  It used a soundtrack of pre-existing dance songs.  No one in the film sings.  Also, not one dance song on the soundtrack was even used in the 2002 Broadway musical adaptation.