Based On Stage Musical
"based on stage musical" Movies and TV Shows
#1
Mean Girls
Synopsis:
New student Cady Heron is welcomed into the top of the social food chain by the elite group of popular girls called ‘The Plastics,’ ruled by the conniving queen bee Regina George and her minions Gretchen and Karen. However, when Cady makes the major misstep of falling for Regina’s ex-boyfriend Aaron Samuels, she finds herself prey in Regina’s crosshairs. As Cady sets to take down the group’s apex…
Starring:
Tina Fey,
Angourie Rice,
Busy Philipps
#2
West Side Story
Synopsis:
In the slums of the upper West Side of Manhattan, New York, a gang of Polish-American teenagers called the Jets compete with a rival gang of recently immigrated Puerto Ricans, the Sharks, to "own" the neighborhood streets. Tensions are high between the gangs but two kids, one from each rival gang, fall in love leading to tragedy.
Starring:
Rita Moreno,
Simon Oakland,
Ned Glass
#3
The Sound of Music
Synopsis:
In the years before the Second World War, a tomboyish postulant at an Austrian abbey becomes a governess in the home of a widowed naval captain with seven children, and brings a new love of life and music into the home.
Starring:
Christopher Plummer,
Richard Haydn,
Julie Andrews
#4
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Synopsis:
Sweethearts Brad and Janet, stuck with a flat tire during a storm, discover the eerie mansion of Dr. Frank-N-Furter, a transvestite scientist. As their innocence is lost, Brad and Janet meet a houseful of wild characters, including a rocking biker and a creepy butler. Through elaborate dances and rock songs, Frank-N-Furter unveils his latest creation: a muscular man named 'Rocky'.
Starring:
Barry Bostwick,
Tim Curry,
Susan Sarandon
#5
The King and I
Synopsis:
Widowed Welsh mother Anna Loenowens becomes a governess and English tutor to the wives and many children of the stubborn King Mongkut of Siam. Anna and the King have a clash of personalities as she works to teach the royal family about the English language, customs and etiquette, and rushes to prepare a party for a group of European diplomats who must change their opinions about the King.
Starring:
Yul Brynner,
Rita Moreno,
Deborah Kerr
#6
Oliver!
Synopsis:
Musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, a classic tale of an orphan who runs away from the workhouse and joins up with a group of boys headed by the Artful Dodger and trained to be pickpockets by master thief Fagin.
Starring:
Oliver Reed,
Leonard Rossiter,
Ron Moody
#7
My Fair Lady
Synopsis:
A snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society.
Starring:
Mona Washbourne,
Audrey Hepburn,
Stanley Holloway
#8
Little Shop of Horrors
Synopsis:
Seymour Krelborn is a nerdy orphan working at Mushnik's, a flower shop in urban Skid Row. He harbors a crush on fellow co-worker Audrey Fulquard, and is berated by Mr. Mushnik daily. One day Seymour finds a very mysterious unidentified plant which he calls Audrey II. The plant seems to have a craving for blood and soon begins to sing for his supper.
Starring:
Rick Moranis,
Tichina Arnold,
Steve Martin
Plot:
florist,
plant,
dentist,
1960s,
shop,
skid row,
eclipse,
based on stage musical,
giant plant,
black comedy
...
#9
Jesus Christ Superstar
Synopsis:
Recounts the last days of Jesus Christ from the perspective of Judas Iscariot, his betrayer. As Jesus' following increases, Judas begins to worry that Jesus is falling for his own hype, forgetting the principles of his teachings and growing too close to the prostitute Mary Magdalene. After Jesus has an outburst in a temple, Judas turns on him.
Starring:
Josh Mostel,
Barry Dennen,
Carl Anderson
#10
Hello, Dolly!
Synopsis:
Dolly Levi is a strong-willed matchmaker who travels to Yonkers, New York in order to see the miserly "well-known unmarried half-a-millionaire" Horace Vandergelder. In doing so, she convinces his niece, his niece's intended, and Horace's two clerks to travel to New York City.
Starring:
J. Pat O'Malley,
Fritz Feld,
Walter Matthau
#11
Grease
Synopsis:
Australian good girl Sandy and greaser Danny fell in love over the summer. But when they unexpectedly discover they're now in the same high school, will they be able to rekindle their romance despite their eccentric friends?
Starring:
John Travolta,
Dinah Manoff,
Kelly Ward
#12
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Synopsis:
Lorelei Lee is a beautiful showgirl engaged to be married to the wealthy Gus Esmond, much to the disapproval of Gus' rich father, Esmond Sr., who thinks that Lorelei is just after his money. When Lorelei goes on a cruise accompanied only by her best friend, Dorothy Shaw, Esmond Sr. hires Ernie Malone, a private detective, to follow her and report any questionable behavior that would disqualify he…
Starring:
Taylor Holmes,
Marilyn Monroe,
Tommy Noonan
#13
Funny Girl
Synopsis:
The story of the life of comedienne Fanny Brice, from her early days in the Jewish slums of the Lower East Side, to the height of her career with the Ziegfeld Follies, including her marriage to and eventual divorce from her second husband, Nick Arnstein.
Starring:
Anne Francis,
Omar Sharif,
Walter Pidgeon
#14
Fiddler on the Roof
Synopsis:
This lavishly produced and critically acclaimed screen adaptation of the international stage sensation tells the life-affirming story of Tevye (Topol), a poor milkman whose love, pride and faith help him face the oppression of turn-of-the-century Czarist Russia. Nominated for eight Academy Awards.
Starring:
Paul Michael Glaser,
Chaim Topol,
Norma Crane
Plot:
tradition versus modernity,
jewish,
tradition,
village,
wedding,
based on stage musical,
judaism,
immigration,
fiddler,
russia
...
#15
Chicago
Synopsis:
Murderesses Velma Kelly and Roxie Hart find themselves on death row together and fight for the fame that will keep them from the gallows in 1920s Chicago.
Starring:
Dominic West,
John C. Reilly,
Colm Feore
#16
Cabaret
Synopsis:
Inside the Kit Kat Club of 1931 Berlin, starry-eyed singer Sally Bowles and an impish emcee sound the clarion call to decadent fun, while outside a certain political party grows into a brutal force.
Starring:
Liza Minnelli,
Michael York,
Marisa Berenson
Plot:
jewish,
bisexual man,
decadence,
nazi,
cabaret,
nazism,
closeted homosexual,
gay interest,
transvestism,
political unrest
...