Beetlejuice
From a repeat ofA Midsummer Night ’s Dreamset in the summertime of making love toHamletbeing told by a cast of African animals in ornate masquerade party , the stage has been the cradle of many unknown and unusual stories . While motion picture being made into Broadway musicals or stage manoeuvre is certainly not a young phenomenon , it has resulted in some of the strange adaptation ever staged .
There is no such thing as too weird when it comes to the humankind of theater , but sometimes it ’s hard to trust how these concepts and approximation can come from well - known film . Sometimes the resultant are astoundingly successful , but once in a while they can be the biggest Broadway flops .
Spirited Away
One of the most late film to get a stage adaptation isHayao Miyazaki ’s Oscar - winningSpirited Away , and to say that it is as strange and beautiful as its inspiration would be an understatement . It ’s an elaborate product that trust on large sets , over - the - top visuals , and complex puppetry to impart graphic symbol like Kamaji Haku and No facial expression to biography .
Like the celluloid , the production is attractively phantasmagoric , and fans of the inspire classic will devour it in a flash . While it ’s only touring in Japan currently , it ’s been order that a shoot version of the maneuver is coming to Hulu this summertime .
Young Frankenstein
As demonstrated byThe Producers , Mel Brooks was born to make Broadway musicals . But of the comedian ’s moving picture and projects to receive stage adaptation , Young Frankensteinwas sure one of the oddest choices . That being sound out , it ’s a comedic , Busby - Berkeley - inspire romp through Translyvania with Victor , Igor , Inga , and the goliath himself .
The stage version accompany the events of the film of the same name , but with added comedic elan write only for the stage . With plenitude of gags , slapstick , and music hall - esque melodious numeral , it has all the makings of a classic Broadway comedy with Brooks ' own unwarranted sense of humor .
Reefer Madness
A melodious inspired by a 1930 ’s propaganda film advocate the evils of marijuana sound like it would be dead in the water supply , but it resulted in something of a cult classic .
The melodious is a highly exaggerated parody of the movie of the same name , labeling the side effects and refinement surrounding marijuana exercise as practically a death judgment of conviction . At its core , it ’s a play about the power of prompting , propaganda , and mob mind-set . Still , its visuals and lyric poem are as tricky and weirdas a typicalRocky Horrorproduction .
Spamalot
recollect ofSpamalotas the adept bit from Monty Python all rolled into one grand and resplendent stage adaptation . have most of its influence fromMonty Python and the Holy Grail , the product is a musical adaption of Arthur and his knights on their mission from God with all the in - jokes , skits , and references a looker could expect from an episode ofMonty Python ’s Flying Circus .
If there ’s a noted scrap or gag from the troupe , it ’s in there . From the Knights Who Say Ni to the Killer Rabbit , it ’s everything fans of the moving-picture show , show , and comedic stylings of the group could need .
The Shining
The works of Stephen Kinghave been no stranger to the leg , but one of the most interesting has to be the operatic adjustment ofThe polishing . While its visuals go to not bad lengths to recreate those seen in the Stanley Kubrick version , the lyrics are almost verbatim from the book .
While an opera might be the last sensitive audiences would expect to be graced by Stephen King , it ’s honestly an telling output and a more ledger - precise interpretation than some might think . The chilling production caters to fans of both King and Kubrick in a gloriously bloody way .
Carrie
On the other hand , some productions live in fame and others in infamy . Carrieis a musical comedy that has lived with the reputation of being one of the biggest Broadway flops in history . prompt both the idiom and the book " Not Since Carrie , " the production is unusual and was about as successful as Carrie ’s promenade night .
That all being pronounce , it does follow the events in the book a little more tight than the famous De Palma motion picture . The 2012 yield even begins with Sue Snell recounting the result of the plot of land as she did in her police interview . It ’s by no means perfect , but it does at least attempt to represent the beginning material in a new way .
King Kong
Although Kong is not the first moving picture behemoth to get his own Broadway melodic , he was still an telling feat to bring to the stage . free-base on the original film , but taking obvious visual influence fromthe Peter JacksonKing Kongadaptation , the stage showwas an elaborated output that breathed new life story into a classic creature before the motion-picture show riposte to Skull Island .
The yield bring home the bacon a limited Tony Award for its creature effects , and Kong himself rightfully is the sensation of the show . To say that the production was as unbelievable as its main attractive force would be a gross understatement .
Xanadu
Xanaduwas without a dubiety a product of its time , but the stage adaptation of the ELO movie musical was mob to the brim with ' 80s cheeseflower . From the neon - drench sets to the short shorts and massive tomentum , the melodic is a rollerskating rock-and-roll opera house that serves as one of the ultimate tributes to the decade .
Jukebox musical are a dime a dozen , but there ’s something beautifully bizarre aboutXanadu , especially its plot touch the Hellenic muses visiting Venice Beach . Simply put , it ’s a musical theater that thrives on its over - the - top kitsch and bizarreness .
Moulin Rouge!
Moulin Rouge!is said by some to be the film that reignite the picture show - melodic music genre , so it makes sensation that things would go full rotary and it would receive its own Broadway melodious . Since the film already took so much influence from leg musicals in the first position , an adaptation was much inevitable .
The musical is to a great extent saturated with the moving-picture show ’s distinctive style and its phenomenal soundtrack is improved by new summation as Christian go down in love with the seductive Satine . And if it were possible , the yield is as elaborate and visually impressiveas the Baz Luhrmann original .
Anything inspired by the works of Tim Burton has to have a level-headed helping of weirdness . Beetlejuice , however , goes above and beyond the call of tariff to be , as Lydia might say , strange and strange . With some deviations from the source material , it ’s still a frighteningly play and superbly odd production .
Beetlejuice himself is the reason to see the production , but so is the use of detailed sets , puppetry , and costumes to create this freaky pinstriped fantasy . Any devotee of the cinema or any of the theatre director ’s oeuvre will be exceedingly quenched by this turgid musical .
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