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* Since the source novel is in the public domain, musical versions of ''[[The Phantom of the Opera]]'' ran rampant in the 1990s (regional tours, community theaters, etc.) to cash in on [[Andrew Lloyd Webber]]'s adaptation—enough so that [[Time (magazine)|''Time'' magazine]] did [http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,977856,00.html a whole article] on the phenomenon. But not ''all'' of them qualified as this trope: Ken Hill's version was the one that inspired Lloyd Webber to take his own stab at the story in the first place, and Maury Yeston and Arthur Kopit's ''Phantom'' was actually written around the same time as Lloyd Webber's but couldn't get produced until afterwards due to the competition. One of the mockbusters was videotaped and later released on DVD, and the Phantom Reviewer [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9MwZiSrx4M took it on].

* Similarly, a few stage musical versions of ''[[The Hunchback of Notre Dame (novel)|The Hunchback of Notre Dame]]'' appeared around 1996, perhaps hoping to compete with a [[Screen to Stage Adaptation]] of the Disney movie, which was considered likely in the wake of ''[[Beauty and the Beast]]''. Disney's version had a successful [[Screen to Stage Adaptation]] in Germany in 1999 but has not been staged elsewhere.

* If a popular fairy or folk tale gets adapted into a [[Disney Animated Canon]] film, expect a knockoff stage version to tour the children's theater/school group circuit soon after, and perhaps be available to community theaters after that. ''[http://www.pioneerdrama.com/searchdetail.asp?pc=ENCHANTMEN The Enchantment of Beauty and the Beast]'' is a good example.