The American Musical
- No, No, Nanette is a form of tap dancing musical comedy that was prominent in the 1920s. The music displayed comical entanglements of love and friendship that shown when Nanette does away with her ladylike shell for an exciting life.
Show Boat is a 1927 music that comprised; music by Jerome Kern and a novel by Oscar Hammerstein II. The Novel being based on the lives of performers, stagehands and employees on the dock of the Mississippi River show boat since 1887.
Carousel is a 1956 film adaptation about Rodgers and Hammerstein stage musical which later was based on Ferenc Molnar’s play, LIliom.
Oklahoma is a 1955 musical film from the 1943 stage musical Oklahoma. The film had cultural and aesthetic significance.
The West Side Story is a 1961 American film with an adaptation of the 1957 Broadway of a similar name that went on to inspire play of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare’s.
Gyspy is a 1962 musical comedy drama film. The play is based on the book Gyspy: A Musical Fable by Arthur Laurents.
Adaptations are an interpretation of an individual’s personal views about a book and choices of attributes to maintain, reproduce, alter or remove. For instance, an adaptation of a film from a book offers a completely different medium. Adaptation of the novel, the filmmaker has to do away with several things due to time variation and difference in medium. Moreover, additions are made so as to make the film more appealing.
The gains acquired from adaptation is that the material is available and avoids all of the hustles of making another one, like time and resources. Additionally, a popular novel could translate into a popular film. The past has proven that readers are more interested in using adaptations of books.
Adaptations from books are always easy to follow as easy to use as the grounds have already been set. The novel offers the film makers a good opportunity to alter as they wish areas that do not translate to the film, like words to picture.
- A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder is a musical comedy by Robert Freedman and Steven Lutvak. The comedy is based on the novel Israel Rank: the Autobiograhy of a Criminal by Roy Horniman.
After midnight is a musical revue that is based on previous 2011 revue known as Cotton Club Parade that was at the concert in Encores in 2011 and 2012.
Aladdin is a musical that is adapted from the 1992 Disney animated film of similar names, the music is done by Alan Menken, among others and Chad Beguelin the author of the book. The films primes in boradway in March 2014.
Beautiful: The Carole King Musical is a musical adapted from the life and work of musician Carole King.
Bullets Over Broadway is an American film of crime and comedy by Woody Allen and Douglas McGrath.
Carbaret is a film with a book of a similar name by Christopher Isherwood and music by John Kander. The production has led to a series of productions in New York.
On the other hand, there are musicals that arose from originals concepts in Broadway they include:
Bullets Over Broadway by Woody Allen and Douglas McGrath.
Hedwig and the Angry Inch is a rock musical based on a rock band by East German singer.
The Newsies is a musical of a 1992 film that was inspired by true events of Newsboys Strikes that took place 1899 in New York City.
The musicals in Broadway that are not popular have a common source which is a book or novel. Such adaptations started some years earlier by writers who made books that were quite popular and after some time film makers use the books to make films or musicals adapted from the books.
