Thursday, October 7, 2010

Musicals Based on Filmed

Musicals always have to have a base, and recently the base has often been Movies.
To quote Jeff Bowen in his musical [Title of Show]

Blank Paper: "More recently movies have been adapted into musicals"
Hunter: "So movies make good musicals!"
Blank Paper: "Well, they make musicals"

The first major movie-musical was Big. Based on a movie staring Tom Hanks, it hit Broadway in 1996.
It had an all original lyrics and music by Richard Eldridge Maltby, Jr

Since than many movies have become musicals. The most famous of which have always been Disney, Beauty and the Beast is longest running movie-musical.

But one of the most famous now is Hairspray which went from movie to movie-musical to musical-movie.

So it's inevitable that movies will become musicals. This weeks question is What movie should be made into a musical? I have taken some of the best selling movies of all time and put them on the list. Enjoy!









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