Recycled in Space/Theater


 * Shakespeare gets this treatment often:
 * Disney's The Lion King and its sequel are essentially Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet, respectively, AS Talking Animal CARTOONS !
 * Lion King 1 1/2 is Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Were Eaten by a Lion.
 * 1999's Titus, set WHENEVER JULIE TAYMOR FELT LIKE IT ! No, seriously. One minute it's Ancient Rome, the next it's the 1940s.
 * Forbidden Planet (1956) is The Tempest IN SPACE !
 * Twilight is even described by the author as Romeo and Juliet WITH SPARKLY VAMPIRES AND Emo WEREWOLVES ! Unfortunately, none of the protagonists die as horribly as the characters to whom they are compared.
 * It also supposed to be Romeo and Juliet except TOTALLY SERIOUS !
 * Gnomeo and Juliet. There's GNOMES !
 * West Side Story is Romeo and Juliet IN AMERICA ! The Musical !
 * Of course, O is Othello IN HIGH SCHOOL !
 * Strange Brew is Hamlet IN CANADA, WITH HOSERS !
 * Director John Bell is a huge fan of this trope. He's done Macbeth in post-apocalyptic Russia, Titus Andronicus in a Library, and King Lear on a really bad acid trip.
 * Orson Welles once put on a production of Macbeth set IN HAITI !
 * Of course, the Bard wasn't scared of doing this himself. The Comedy of Errors is the Menaechmi with an extra pair of twins, after all.
 * Servant of two masters by Carlo Goldoni is Romeo and Juliet AS A COMEDY! With HAPPY ENDING!
 * Modern stage productions of Shakespeare use this trope so frequently that it's a long-standing joke among Shakespeare fans that the most daring and original thing a Director can do with Hamlet is set it in Denmark.
 * Avenue Q on the other hand, is Rent WITH MUPPETS INSTEAD OF AIDS ! Alternately, it's Sesame Street WITH ANGST !
 * Kiss Me, Kate is The Taming of the Shrew AS A MUSICAL WITHIN ANOTHER MUSICAL !
 * Not a musical: Seven Supermans is Seven Samurai WITH RIPPED OFF SUPERHEROES !
 * The Music Man is The Rainmaker WITH A BOYS' MARCHING BAND INSTEAD OF RAIN ! AND A Hot Librarian, TOO !
 * The Hungarian Rock Opera King Stephen is Jesus Christ Superstar IN HUNGARY !
 * Mourning Becomes Electra is Aeschylus's Oresteia IN AMERICA AT THE TIME OF THE CIVIL WAR !
 * She's The Man is Twelfth Night WITH SOCCER !
 * All Shook Up is Twelfth Night IN THE 1950S ! IN THE AMERICAN MIDWEST ! WITH ELVIS SONGS !
 * Fiddler On the Roof is Pride and Prejudice WITH JEWS ! AND RACISM !
 * The Boys in the Band is Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? WITH GAYS !
 * The Desert Song is The Sheik WITH A Two-Person Love Triangle !
 * Plain and Fancy is Oklahoma IN PENNSYLVANIA !
 * The Golden Apple is The Trojan Cycle IN AN AMERICAN SMALL TOWN !
 * Little Shop of Horrors is Faust WITH A SINGING CARNIVOROUS PLANT !
 * Cavalia is Cirque Du Soleil WITH HORSES !. In fact, it is directed by Normand Latourelle, one of Cirque's original founders.
 * Brother Wolf is Beowulf IN 1800S APPALACHIA !
 * One Man Two Guvnors is the 18th century Italian comedy The Servant of Two Masters AS A FARCE WITH GANGSTERS IN 1960S BRIGHTON !