Articles related to "Musical Adaptations"

Characters and plot summary for the opera Der Vampyr (The Vampire) by Heinrich August Marschner, with a libretto by Wilhelm August Wohlbrück based on "The Vampyre."

Characters and plot summary for the French opera Thaïs by Jules Massenet, with a libretto by Louis Gallet, based on the novel Thaïs by Anatole France about St. Thaïs.

London's West End theatre district offers numerous musical shows and Panto-style fare for the Christmas holiday season of 2009-2010.

Usually classified as travelogues the Elvis Presley films made from 1960 to 1965 were not as formulaic as they seem to be.

This article covers the period 1815 - 1832, when Jean Valjean leaves the prison on parole to the time he takes Cosette to Paris, away from the Thénardiers.

What musical shows are opening - or might be opening - in London's West End during the 2010 theatre year?

Long before "Wicked" or MGM's 1939 movie, a musical adaptation of L. Frank Baum's Wizard of Oz became a Broadway hit.

In 1903, years before MGM made its musical version of Oz, a stage musical based on L. Frank Baum's book became a Broadway hit.

MokitaGrit Productions reprises Charles Dickens' adaptation at England's first pub theatre which produced playwrights Noel Coward Terrence Rattigan, and Harold Pinter.

A Christmas Carol, the much loved festive ghost story by Charles Dickens is once again being retold on film, but the new adaptation is far from being the first.