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Stage to Film

Stage Musicals that have been made into Films

Annie (1982) and (1999)

Annie Get Your Gun (1950)

Brigadoon (1954)

Bye Bye Birdie (1963) and (1995)

Cabaret (1972)

Camelot (1967)

Carousel (1956)

Cats (1998)

Chicago (2003)

A Chorus Line (1985)

Damn Yankees (1958)

Evita (1996)

The Fantasticks (2000) (Actually filmed in 1995, but released in 2000)

Fiddler on the Roof (1971)

Finian’s Rainbow (1968)

Flower Drum Song (1961)

Godspell (1973)

Grease (1978)

Guys and Dolls (1955)

Hair (1979)

Hairspray (2007) (Was first a 1988 non-musical film, then Broadway musical, then musical film in 2007.)

Hello, Dolly! (1969)

High Society (1956)

How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1967)

Into the Woods (1991)

Jekyll and Hyde (2001)

Jesus Christ Superstar (1973) and (2001)

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (2000)

The King and I (1956)

Kiss Me Kate (1953)

The Music Man (1962) and (2003)

My Fair Lady (1964)

Oklahoma (1955)

Oliver (1968)

Peter Pan (was a stage musical/play and then an animated film)

The Phantom of the Opera (2005)

Pippin (1981)

The Producers (again! 2005)

Rent (2005)

The Rocky Horror Show (1975) (Became “Rocky Horror Picture Show”)

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)

Show Boat (1951)

The Sound of Music (1965)

South Pacific (1958) and (2001)

Sweeney Todd (1982) and (2001 Concert version)

Sweet Charity (1969)

The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1964)

West Side Story (1961)

Discussion

2 Responses to “Stage to Film”

  1. i thought hairspray was a film first. by john waters. and then a musical…?

    Posted by kelly | June 19, 2007, 12:27 pm
  2. you forgot to mention Once Upon a Mattress with Tracey Ullman

    Posted by Jaz | April 7, 2008, 12:32 am

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