From Stage to Screen

• Movies that originated as stage productions.
• A program of songs from movies that started out as musical theatre.

Chicago certainly isn’t the first movie musical to be based on a Broadway show. Here is a list of musicals that played either on-Broadway, off-Broadway or in the West End. All of these shows eventually ended up on the silver screen, few in their original form. Musicals that have successfully survived the transition from stage to screen maintaining most of the music, story and spirit of their original stage production are listed in bold type.

FromStagetoScreen
Annie1976 1982
Annie Get Your Gun1946 1950
Anything Goes1934 1936, 1956
Are You With It?1945 1948
Babes in Arms1937 1939
Babes in Toyland1903 1934
Balalaika1936 1939
The Band Wagon1931 1953
Bells Are Ringing1956 1960
Best Foot Forward1941 1943
Bitter Sweet1929 1940
The Bohemian Girl1843 1936
The Boy Friend1954 1971
The Boys From Syracuse1938 1940
Brigadoon1947 1954
Bye Bye Birdie1960 1963
Cabaret1966 1972
Cabin in the Sky1940 1943
Call Me Madam1946 1953
Camelot1960 1967
Can-Can1953 1960
Carmen Jones1943 1954
Carousel1945 1956
The Cat and the Fiddle1931 1934
Chicago1975 2002
The Chocolate Soldier1910 1941
A Chorus Line1975 1985
The Cocoanuts1925 1929
A Connecticut Yankee1927 1949
Damn Yankees1955 1958
The Desert Song1925 1929,1943, 1953
Dubarry was a Lady1939 1943
Evita1978 1996
Fiddler on the Roof1964 1971
Fifty Million Frenchmen1929 1931
Finian’s Rainbow1947 1968
The Firefly1912 1937
Flower Drum Song1958 1961
Flying High1930 1931
Follow Thru1929 1930
Funny Face1927 1957
Funny Girl1964 1968
A Funny Thing Happened…1962 1966
The Gay Divorce1932 1934
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes1949 1953
Girl Crazy1930 1932
Good News1927 1930, 1947
Grease1972 1978
The Great Waltz1934 1938
Guys and Dolls1950 1955
Gypsy1959 1962
Hair1968 1979
Heads Up1929 1930
Hello Dolly!1964 1969
Higher and Higher1940 1944
Hit the Deck1927 1930, 1955
Hold Everything1928 1930
How to Succeed…1961 1967
I Married an Angel1938 1942
Irene1919 1940
Jesus Christ Superstar1971 1973
Jumbo1935 1962
The King and I1951 1956
Kismet1953 1955
Kiss Me Kate1948 1953
Knickerbocker Holiday1938 1944
Lady Be Good1924 1941
Lady in the Dark1941 1944
Let’s Face it1941 1943
Li’l Abner1956 1959
Little Johnny Jones1904 1929
A Little Night Music1973 1978
Little Shop of Horrors1982 1986
Lost in the Stars1949 1974
Louisiana Purchase1940 1942
Mame1966 1974
Man of La Mancha1965 1972
Maytime1917 1937
The Merry Widow1905 1934, 1952
Music in the Air1932 1934
The Music Man1957 1962
My Fair Lady1956 1964
Naughty Marietta1910 1935
The New Moon1928 1930
No, No Nanette1925 1930
Oklahoma!1943 1955
Oliver!1960 1968
On A Clear Day…1965 1970
On the Town1944 1949
On Your Toes1936 1939
One Touch of Venus1943 1948
Paint Your Wagon1951 1969
The Pajama Game1954 1957
Pal Joey1940 1944
Panama Hattie1940 1942
Paris1928 1929
Porgy and Bess1935 1959
Rio Rita1927 1929
Roberta1933 1935
Rosalie1928 1937
Rose Marie1924 1935, 1954
The Rocky Horror Show1974 1974
Sally1920 1929
17761969 1972
Showboat1927 1929, 1936, 1951
Silk Stockings1955 1957
Something For The Boys1943 1944
Song of Norway1944 1970
Song of the Flame1925 1930
The Sound of Music1959 1965
South Pacific1949 1958
Spring is Here1929 1930
Stop the World1961 1966
Strike Up the Band1930 1940
The Student Prince1924 1927
Sunny1925 1930
Sweet Charity1966 1969
Sweethearts1913 1938
Too Many Girls1939 1940
Top Banana1951 1954
The Unsinkable Molly Brown1960 1964
Up in Central Park1945 1948
The Vagabond King1925 1930
Very Warm for May1939 1944
West Side Story1957 1961
Where’s Charley1948 1952
Whoopee1928 1930
The Wizard of Oz1903 1939