Film to Stage Musicals: Sweet Charity to Back to the Future (Essential Musicals)

From Sweet Charity and Beauty and the Beat to Once and Mean Girls; discover how Broadway took inspiration from Hollywood. Musical theatre creatives have long used stories previously told in plays, novels, poems, mythology and folklore as inspiration for many of the 20th and 21st centuries’ biggest Broadway and West End hits.While the majority of the musicals we know and love take inspiration from pre-existing tales, the last decade has seen many of the most popular films of decades past, from Some Like it Hot to Back to the Future to Mean Girls, adapted and musicalized for the stage. Hollywood to Broadway offers a detailed historical record and analysis of some of the most popular Broadway and West End musicals adapted from films.Tracing the practice from the use of lesser known, often non-English movies that allowed creative liberties in adaptation to the recent trend of leveraging the existing popularity of a film and its already-present fan base to create a new musical, this book ex