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This trope can be taken one step further, by going from movie, to stage musical, to [[Recursive Adaptation]] movie-of-the-stage-musical.
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* ''[[Calamity Jane]]''
* Rodgers and Hammerstein's ''[[Cinderella (film)|Cinderella]]'' was originally produced for CBS television. Interestingly, the first time it was produced on stage seems to have been a definitely non-standard [[Pantomime]] adaptation which played London in 1958.
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* ''[[High Society]]''
* ''[[Mary Poppins]]''
* ''[[Meet Me in St. Louis]]'': a stock version appeared in the 1960s, and a somewhat different version reached Broadway in 1989.
* ''[[Newsies]]''
* ''[[The Producers]]''. Mel Brooks's original movie can be considered a musical, even though all its musical numbers are [[Diegetic Music|diegetic]]; three songs from the original movie were carried over.
* ''[[A Christmas Carol|Scrooge]]'' (The 1970 film)
* ''[[Seven Brides for Seven Brothers]]''
* ''[[Singin' in the
* ''[[Thoroughly Modern Millie]]''
* ''[[Top Hat]]''
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* ''[[The Wizard of Oz (film)|The Wizard of Oz]]'' (the 1939 movie) has inspired several musicals. One was allowed to use the songs from the movie but not any of the dialogue that wasn't in the original book. The most recent, in 2011, was adapted by [[Andrew Lloyd Webber]] and [[Tim Rice]].
* ''[[Xanadu]]''
* Disney started making big Broadway productions out of its [[Disney Animated Canon|animated movies]] in the 1990s with ''[[Beauty and The Beast]]'', but there was a stage production of ''[[Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Disney film)|Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs]]'' in the 1970s. Disney has since put ''[[The Lion King]]'', ''[[Tarzan (Disney film)|Tarzan]]'', and ''[[The Little Mermaid]]'' on Broadway, while their 2011 ''Aladdin'' adaptation was created with amateur companies in mind and skipped the Great White Way. There's also a whole series of "Kids" and "Junior" adaptations of other canon films, specifically designed for children to perform.
== Stage musicals based on non-musical films ==
* ''Against All Hope''
* ''Applause'' (''[[All About Eve]]'')
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* ''[[Little Shop of Horrors]]'' (The [[Roger Corman]] B-movie ''[[The Little Shop of Horrors]]'')
* ''[[Nine (theatre)|Nine]]'' (''8 1/2'')
* ''[[
* ''[[Road House]]''
* ''[[Shrek]]''
* ''[[Silk Stockings]]'' (''[[Ninotchka]]'')
* ''[[Spamalot]]'' ("Lovingly ripped off from" ''[[Monty Python and
* ''[[Young Frankenstein]]''
* There's going to be a musical stage version of ''[[Star Wars]]''.
* ''[[La Cage aux Folles]]''
* ''[[Legally Blonde]]''
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* ''[[Sister Act]]''
* ''[[Barbarella]]''
* ''[[Breakfast at Tiffany's]]''. (Considered one of the biggest flops in Broadway
* ''The Goodbye Girl'' (Adapted by screenwriter [[Neil Simon]] himself)
* ''Donnybrook!'' (''[[The Quiet Man]]'')
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* ''A Wonderful Life'' (''[[It's a Wonderful Life|Its a Wonderful Life]]'')
* ''Carnival'' (''Lili'')
* ''[[Promises, Promises]]'' (''[[The Apartment]]'')
* ''Minsky's'' (''[[The Night They Raided Minskys]]'')
* ''[[My Favorite Year]]''
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* ''[[Peggy Sue Got Married]]''
* ''Priscilla Queen of the Desert'' (''The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert''; both the movie and musical are written by Stephen Elliot)
* ''King of Hearts''
* ''Make a Wish'' (''The Good Fairy'', which in turn was based on a play of the same name)
* ''Whistle Down the Wind''
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* ''Carmelina'' (''Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell'', which also inspired the book for ''Mamma Mia!'')
* Some stage adaptations of novels had input from people involved with movie adaptations of them.
** The musical version of ''[[Carrie]]'' shared a scriptwriter with the movie and is still a Broadway byword for unmitigated failure in Screen-To-Stage Adaptationalizing. [[So Bad It's Good]] or unredeemably awful? [
** ''[[The Color Purple]]'' counted among its producers two people who worked on the movie
* ''[[Back to The Future]]'' (currently in development with [[Alan Silvestri]] writing songs and [[Robert Zemeckis]] producing)
▲=== Non-musical stage adaptations of movies: ===
* ''Clue: The Play''
** Sadly, there is to date no commercially available stage adaptation of the film. A few players have obtained special permission, and any other performance was and would be technically illegal. There is a musical stage version, but it has nothing to do with the film.
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** Does it count as an adaptation if the two versions have almost exactly the same script? The movie has an extra, very short, intro scene and that's about it.
== Stage musicals based on manga and/or anime ==
* ''Musical [[The Prince of Tennis]]'', known by fans as Tenimyu
* ''Rock Musical [[Bleach]]'', known as Burimyu
* ''[[Sailor Moon]]'', known as Seramyu
* ''[[Saiyuki]] Kagekiden''
* ''[[Air Gear]]''
* ''Dear Boys''
* ''Butai Ban Fuma No Kojiro''
=== Special Mention ===▼
* ''Gyakuten Saiban −Yomigaeru Shinjitsu'', based off the [[Ace Attorney]] video game series.▼
=== Stage adaptations from other sources: ===▼
▲* ''Gyakuten Saiban −Yomigaeru Shinjitsu'', based off the [[Ace Attorney]] video game series.
* ''[[
* ''[[Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark]]''
{{reflist}}
[[Category:Theater Tropes]]
[[Category:Media Adaptation Tropes]]
[[Category:Screen to Stage Adaptation]]
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