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Bride of the Regiment

The screenplay by Ray Harris and Humphrey Pearson is based on the book of the 1922 stage musical The Lady in Ermine by Frederick Lonsdale and Cyrus Wood, which had been adapted from the operetta Die Frau im Hermelin by Rudolph Schanzer and Ernst Welisch.

Jellicle cats

Jellicle cats, or simply the Jellicles, are a type of feline mentioned in T.S. Elliot's book Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, and in Cats, a stage musical written by Andrew Lloyd Webber and based on the book.

Mary-Pat Green

She has performed the role of Reverend Mother in Nunsense over 1500 times and in 2002 she played Lorena Hickok in Michael John LaChiusa's stage musical First Lady Suite.


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Amy Spanger

She more recently originated the role of Jovie in the stage musical adaption of Will Ferrell's Christmas comedy, Elf, that ran on Broadway for nine weeks at the Al Hirschfeld Theater and closed on January 2, 2011.

Bar Italia

In November 2010, it was announced that Dave Stewart and Ian La Frenais were writing a stage musical about the cafe which will be called Bar Italia.

Bruce Cohen

He is currently a lead producer of the stage musical version of Big Fish, now on Broadway at the Neil Simon Theatre, with direction and choreography by five-time Tony winner Susan Stroman.

Bullets Over Broadway

Allen is adapting the film as a stage musical to be directed by Susan Stroman, produced by Julian Schlossberg and Letty Aronson, with a score from the American songbook.

Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell

It served as the basis for the unsuccessful 1979 stage musical Carmelina and the plot of the enormously successful stage musical Mamma Mia! and its 2008 movie adaptation.

Chad Beguelin

Casey Nicholaw is expected to direct and choreograph the stage musical Aladdin which is expected to run at the 5th Avenue Theatre, Seattle, Washington, July 7–31, 2011.

Charles H. Schneer

Beside the fantasy films, he also produced the film version of the stage musical Half a Sixpence (1967) starring Tommy Steele and Hellcats of the Navy (1957), the only film starring both Ronald Reagan and Nancy Reagan (as Nancy Davis).

Chu-Chi Face

"Chu-Chi Face" is also featured prominently in the award winning stage musical version of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang which premiered in London at the Palladium in 2002 and on Broadway in 2005 at the newly refurbished Foxwoods Theatre (then the Hilton Theatre).

Colin George

Colin George was also a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company during the years 1994-1999, in plays such as Peer Gynt, Coriolanus, Measure for Measure, The Merchant of Venice and The Tempest and a stage musical adaptation of the French film Les Enfants du Paradis.

Dammit

"Dammit Janet", a song from The Rocky Horror Show, a 1973 British stage musical by Richard O'Brien

Damon Rochefort

He has also written several episodes of ITV's Britannia High, and has written the Coronation Street stage musical 'Street of Dreams' starring Paul O Grady, Kym Marsh, Katy Cavanagh and Jodie Prenger which opens in Manchester at the MEN in May 2012.

Dreamboats and Petticoats

Berg saw the adaptation of a stage musical as a move that "would enhance the brand" and therefore got in touch with Bill Kenwright, producer Laurie Mansfield and writers Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran to pen the book of the show.

Elizabeth A. Davis

Elizabeth is best known for creating the role of Réza, the Czech roommate of leading lady Cristin Milioti in Once, a stage musical version of the Academy Award winning film Once.

Gertrude Niesen

She co-starred with Jackie Gleason in the 1944 stage musical Follow the Girls, in which she sang one of her best-known songs, "I Want To Get Married".

Go Bang

Go-Bang, an 1894 stage musical by Adrian Ross and F. Osmond Carr

I'll Tell the Man in the Street

"I'll Tell the Man in the Street" is a song first introduced by Dennis King in the 1938 stage musical I Married An Angel.

Iris Rainer Dart

She wrote the book and lyrics for the 2009 stage musical, Laughing Matters, for the Pasadena Playhouse, California.

John Lee Mahin

According to Kreuger, it was Mahin and producer Arthur Freed who introduced the plot device of keeping the lovers Magnolia Hawks and Gaylord Ravenal young at the end, rather than having them age forty years as in the original stage musical.

John Oxenford

His 1835 one-act A Day Well Spent, after expansion, translation, and rewriting, formed the basis of Thornton Wilder's play The Matchmaker, which itself was the basis of the stage musical and movie Hello, Dolly!.

Kasper Barfoed

He was a child actor, performing in the stage musical version of Oliver Twist and in Ingmar Bergman-actress, Liv Ullmann’s directing debut Sofie.

Kristen Anderson-Lopez

Anderson-Lopez is currently working on the new romantic stage musical Up Here with her husband and Alex Timbers.

Legend of Puteri Gunung Ledang

Puteri Gunung Ledang, a 2006 stage musical based on the 2004 film, starring Tiara Jacquelina and Stephen Rahman-Hughes.

Life on the Mississippi

In 2010, Life on the Mississippi was adapted as a stage musical, with book and lyrics by Douglas M. Parker and music by Denver Casado.

Live Alone and Like It

The episode was originally titled An Unexpected Song which comes from Andrew Lloyd Webber's stage musical, Song and Dance.

Manhwa

In 2007, The Great Catsby, an award-winning Korean webcomic, was adapted into a live-action drama, after a run as an on-stage musical in 2006.

Martin Erlichman

Erlichman is currently producing a 30 million dollar production of an original stage musical entitled Buzz!! with book by Larry Gelbart; music by Alan Menken; lyrics by David Zippel; directed by Rob Roth.

Nicholas Dante

He authored a screenplay, Fake Lady, and a stage musical based on the life of entertainer Al Jolson entitled Jolson Tonight, but never again achieved the success he did with A Chorus Line.

Oh What a Lovely War

Oh! What a Lovely War - a cinematic adaptation from 1969 of the stage musical, directed by Richard Attenborough

Oh, What a Lovely War! - a stage musical created in 1963 by Joan Littlewood and her Theatre Workshop

Paul Galloway

The columns became the source for a book published under the same name that was also turned into a stage musical directed by Robert Falls at the Wisdom Bridge Theatre and a television pilot shot for the Fox Broadcasting Company by Bruce Helford.

Rhythm of the Pride Lands

Several songs featured in the album would later have incarnations in other The Lion King-oriented projects, inspiring Julie Taymor's stage musical or the direct-to-video sequels, such as "He Lives in You".

Samuel Hoffenstein

In addition, Hoffenstein, along with Cole Porter and Kenneth Webb, helped compose the musical score for Gay Divorce (1933), the stage musical that became the film The Gay Divorcee (1934).

Susan Jeune, Baroness St Helier

Lady St Helier appears as a character in the Canadian stage musical Billy Bishop Goes to War.

Tabaluga

This first studio album was the step to success: within the next years some Helme Heine books, four sequel concept studio albums, two resounding tours, a stage musical, Tabaluga und Lilli (Tabaluga and Lilli), based on the third concept album and many TV Cartoons which have been broadcasting in over 100 countries round the world followed and a children's game show.

The Rat Pack: Live from Las Vegas

The Rat Pack - Live From Las Vegas is a stage musical produced by Flying Music Ltd. that retells the tale of the big three of the Rat Pack - Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr. and Dean Martin.

Theatre of Kosovo

Ocarina, a spiritual instrument made of dust from the Neolithic era, is among the first evidence that shows that 3,500 years ago, in Dardania there might have been a stage-musical life.

Tim Hatley

In May 2013, the hit musical, The Bodyguard, was staged at London’s Adelphi Theatre, the theme adapted from the 1992 Whitney Houston/Kevin Costner starer celebrated movie, Bodyguard into a stage musical with a cast of Heather Headley as the superstar singer Rachel Marron and Lloyd Owen as Frank Farmer, an ex-Secret Service agent turned bodyguard.

Violeta Violeta

Beginning November 1, 2011, the band asked their fans to get involved with the 11-day countdown to the release of the album, Live i Oslo Spektrum, and "Sonny," their stage musical.

Whisper House

The album, Sheik's first in the wake of success from composing music for the Tony award-winning musical Spring Awakening, contains selections from an original stage musical of the same name, with book and additional lyrics by Kyle Jarrow.