WickedToo
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Books That Are MusicalsI'm currently in a College Bound Literature class for school. Part of our class is to pick books to read to do different literary things on. I would like to read books that have been used to create musicals. I already know there's a book for Ragtime and Les Miserables. Does anyone know of any others? Thanks! 
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Salome
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The Once and Future King (Camelot)
Grand Hotel
Tales of the South Pacific
Oliver Twist (Oliver!)
The Pickwick Papers (Pickwick)
The adventures of Doctor Doolittle (Dr. Doolittle)
Anna and The King of Siam (King and I)
The adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Baker Street )
Don Quixote De la Mancha (Man of LaMancha)
Pal Joey
Kiss of the Spider Woman
Showboat
A Connecticutt Yankee in King Arthurs Court (Connecticutt Yankee)
Cannery Row/Sweet Thursday (Pipe Dream)
Wicked
Phantom of the Opera
Lord of the Rings
Jane Eyre
The Memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee (Gypsy)
The mystery of Edwin Drood
Aspects of love
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Angel-of-Music*
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The story of the von trapp family singers by Maria Augusta Trapp
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The Very Angry Woman
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Wow.
For starters:
Man of La Mancha
South Pacific
The Phantom of the Opera
Cats (sort of)
Aspects of Love
Big River
West Side Story (sort of)
Little Women
Gigi
The King and I
The Wiz
Jekyll & Hyde
Carrie
Zorro (allegedly based on the novel by Isabel Allende, but there is little resemblance)
Tom Sawyer
By Jeeves
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Mistress
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The soon-to-be-appearing-on-Broadway Rebecca is adapted from the novel of the same name by Daphne DuMaurier
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Yakko
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The adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Baker Street )
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I'm not scared as to how that musical turned out? Did it at least star Barrie Ingram by chance???
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Disney-Bway27
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Greenwillow
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Tenalto
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The Boys from Syracuse (The Comedy of Errors)
My Fair Lady (Pygmalion)
Jesus Christ Superstar and Joseph.... Dreamcoat (The Bible)
Sweeney Todd was originally based on penny dreadfuls
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Kiss Me, Kate (to some degree, The Taming of the Shrew)
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Monsieur D'Arque
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Show Boat
The Westing Game
The Princess Bride (though God knows if the musical will ever legally premiere)
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Silverweed
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A few:
The Berlin Stories (Cabaret)
Cry, the Beloved Country (Lost in the Stars)
Elmer Gantry (Gantry)
Lolita (Lolita My Love)
Mama's Bank Account (I Remember Mama)
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Mungojerrie_rt
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I don't think The Woman in White has been mentioned yet.
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Beagle On Stage
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Tevye the Dairyman / Tevye and his Daughters.
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Brock07
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Tale of Two Cities
Scrooge
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Salome
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| Yakko wrote: | | Salome wrote: |
The adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Baker Street )
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I'm not scared as to how that musical turned out? Did it at least star Barrie Ingram by chance??? |
no. barry would have bene too young back then. it starred the great Fritz Weaver as Holmes, Peter Sallis (Wallace and Gr\omit,Last of the summer wine) as Watson, Inga Swenson (Benson,100 in the shade) as Irene. in the chorus was a very young christopher walken and a very young tommy tune.its a wonderful show..great score and direction by Hal Prince.
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Salome
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| Tenalto wrote: | The Boys from Syracuse (The Comedy of Errors)
My Fair Lady (Pygmalion)
Jesus Christ Superstar and Joseph.... Dreamcoat (The Bible)
Sweeney Todd was originally based on penny dreadfuls
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Kiss Me, Kate (to some degree, The Taming of the Shrew) |
pygmalion and shrew are plays NOT books)
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Mungojerrie_rt
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Neither is Cats for that matter. It may be from an anthology, but I'd say that's a book in the say way Pygmalion and Taming of the Shrew are in that they are printed and bound, but only for convenience.
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Yakko
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| Salome wrote: | | Yakko wrote: | | Salome wrote: |
The adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Baker Street )
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I'm not scared as to how that musical turned out? Did it at least star Barrie Ingram by chance??? |
no. barry would have bene too young back then. it starred the great Fritz Weaver as Holmes, Peter Sallis (Wallace and Gr\omit,Last of the summer wine) as Watson, Inga Swenson (Benson,100 in the shade) as Irene. in the chorus was a very young christopher walken and a very young tommy tune.its a wonderful show..great score and direction by Hal Prince. |
Is there a cast recording of this show somewhere?
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Salome
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cats is based on a book of poetry. so i agree. like works based on plays it should not be on this list either.
iuif you were to include works like my fair lady based on plays its its own catagory.
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Mademoiselle Lanoire
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Gone With the Wind
Notre Dame de Paris
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Salome
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| Yakko wrote: | | Salome wrote: | | Yakko wrote: | | Salome wrote: |
The adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Baker Street )
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I'm not scared as to how that musical turned out? Did it at least star Barrie Ingram by chance??? |
no. barry would have bene too young back then. it starred the great Fritz Weaver as Holmes, Peter Sallis (Wallace and Gr\omit,Last of the summer wine) as Watson, Inga Swenson (Benson,100 in the shade) as Irene. in the chorus was a very young christopher walken and a very young tommy tune.its a wonderful show..great score and direction by Hal Prince. |
Is there a cast recording of this show somewhere? |
yes the original cast recording is readily available.
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Tenalto
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Tenalto wrote:
The Boys from Syracuse (The Comedy of Errors)
My Fair Lady (Pygmalion)
Jesus Christ Superstar and Joseph.... Dreamcoat (The Bible) Very Happy
Sweeney Todd was originally based on penny dreadfuls
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Kiss Me, Kate (to some degree, The Taming of the Shrew)
pygmalion and shrew are plays NOT books) |
I'm aware they're plays, but plays are often read in literature classes, especially Shakespeare. If plays are strictly forbidden, then she can freely discount those suggestions. And I know I'm tempting fate by writing an explanation, but I feel daring tonight. 
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Salome
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the trouble is ...if you list plays with books you cover 95 percent of all musical theatre.
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WickedToo
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| Tenalto wrote: | | If plays are strictly forbidden, then she can freely discount those suggestions. |
I know I don't post a ton on here but I just wanted to clarify that I was a guy and not a girl.
I don't think plays will work for this assignment but I haven't asked yet.
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Tenalto
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Oh, bugger, I'm so sorry. Being female myself, it's kind of a reflexive thing to call anyone I've not seen "she." Many apologies. 
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WickedToo
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| Tenalto wrote: | | Oh, bugger, I'm so sorry. Being female myself, it's kind of a reflexive thing to call anyone I've not seen "she." Many apologies. |
It's okay. Apology accepted.
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what_the_heck013
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Little Women!!!
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Mademoiselle Lanoire
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| what_the_heck013 wrote: | | Little Women!!! |
Already mentioned.
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