Books/Plays that have become Musicals (Stage and/or Film)

Beauty and the Beast (Based on a French Fairytale, as well as the animated film)

Cats (Based on T.S. Eliot’s Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats)

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (Based on Ian Fleming’s Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and the feature film)

The Color Purple (Based on Alice Walker’s The Color Purple, which was also a feature film)

Dracula (Based on Bram Stoker’s Dracula)

Flower Drum Song (Based on C. Y. Lee’s The Flower Drum Song)

Jane Eyre (Based on Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre)

Jekyll and Hyde (Based on Robert Louis Stevenson’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)

Les Miserables (Based on Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables)

The Light in the Piazza (Based on Elizabeth Spencer’s novella, The Light in the Piazza)

The Little Mermaid (Based on the fairytale by Hans Christian Anderson, as well as the animated film)

Little Women (Based on Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women)

The Mambo Kings (Based on Oscar Hijuelos’s The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, and the feature film)

Mary Poppins (Based on P. L. Traver’s Mary Poppins series, and the feature film)

My Fair Lady (Based on George Bernard Shaw’s play, “Pygmalion“)

The Phantom of the Opera (Based on Gaston Leroux’s The Phantom of the Opera)

Spring Awakening (Based on Frank Wedekind’s controversial 1891 play)

Tarzan (Based on Edgar Rice Burroughs’s book, and the animated film)

Whistle Down the Wind (Based on Mary Hayley Bell’s Whistle Down the Wind)

Wicked (Based on Gregory Maguire’s Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

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