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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 (
** Their one written-for-film musical, ''[[State Fair]]'', was adapted for Broadway in 1996.
* ''[[
* ''[[Dirty Dancing]]''
* ''[[Flashdance]]''
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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
* ''[[Thoroughly Modern Millie]]''
* ''[[
* ''[[Victor
* ''[[
* ''[[Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory]]'' (as ''Roald Dahl's Willy Wonka'')
* ''[[The Wizard of Oz (
* ''[[
* 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
== Stage musicals based on non-musical films ==
* ''Against All Hope''
* ''Applause'' (''[[All About Eve]]'')
* ''[[
* ''[[Billy Elliot]]''
* ''[[Dirty Rotten Scoundrels]]''
* ''[[Evil Dead]]''
* ''[[Hairspray]]''
* ''[[Heres Love]]'' (''[[Miracle
* ''[[High Fidelity]]''
* ''[[Little Shop of Horrors]]'' (The [[Roger Corman]] B-movie ''[[The Little Shop of Horrors]]'')
* ''[[Nine (
* ''[[
* ''[[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]]''
* ''Passion'' (''Passione d'amore'')
* ''[[Sweet Charity]]'' (''Nights of Cabiria'')
* ''[[Tanz
* ''The Red Shoes''
* ''Shenandoah''
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* ''Elf the Musical''
* ''Smile''
* ''[[
* ''[[Barbarella]]''
* ''[[Breakfast
* ''The Goodbye Girl'' (Adapted by screenwriter [[Neil Simon]] himself)
* ''Donnybrook!'' (''[[The Quiet Man]]'')
* ''Windy City'' (Based on the play ''[[The Front Page]]'', which was adapted to the screen 4 times, twice under it's original name (1931 and 1974), as ''[[Film/His Girl Friday|His Girl Friday]]'' in 1940 and as ''[[Film/Switching Channels|Switching Channels]]'' in 1988)
* ''[[Woman Of The Year]]''
* ''A Wonderful Life'' (''[[It's a Wonderful Life
* ''Carnival'' (''Lili'')
* ''[[Promises
* ''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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* ''[[The Pink Panther]] Strikes Again'' (Adapted for amateur stagings in [[The Eighties]])
* ''[[Point Break]] Live!'' is a tongue-in-cheek retelling that uses an audience member to fill Keanu Reeves's role (dialogue is provided on cue cards).
* ''[[
** 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 [[
* ''Rock Musical [[
* ''[[
* ''[[Saiyuki]] Kagekiden''
* ''[[
* ''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]]''
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[[Category:Theater Tropes]]
[[Category:Media Adaptation Tropes]]
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