Bakers Dozen

Retellings and-or alternate tellings of familiar stories/original tale

  1. Wicked by Gregory Maguire/Wizard of Oz
  2. Anno Dracula by Kim Newman/Dracula

In this version, Van Helsing lost and Dracula took over England

Retellings and-or alternate tellings of familiar stories/original tale

  1. Wicked by Gregory Maguire/Wizard of Oz
  2. Anno Dracula by Kim Newman/Dracula
    3/ Phatom by Susan Kay/The Phantom of the Opera

Retellings and-or alternate tellings of familiar stories/original tale

  1. Wicked by Gregory Maguire/Wizard of Oz
  2. Anno Dracula by Kim Newman/Dracula
  3. Phatom by Susan Kay/The Phantom of the Opera
  4. West Side Story/Romeo and Juliet

Retellings and-or alternate tellings of familiar stories/original tale

  1. Wicked by Gregory Maguire/Wizard of Oz
  2. Anno Dracula by Kim Newman/Dracula
  3. Phatom by Susan Kay/The Phantom of the Opera
  4. West Side Story/Romeo and Juliet
  5. Rosenkrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard/Hamlet

Retellings and-or alternate tellings of familiar stories/original tale

  1. Wicked by Gregory Maguire/Wizard of Oz
  2. Anno Dracula by Kim Newman/Dracula
  3. Phatom by Susan Kay/The Phantom of the Opera
  4. West Side Story/Romeo and Juliet
  5. Rosenkrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard/Hamlet
  6. Clueless by Amy Heckerling/Emma

Retellings and-or alternate tellings of familiar stories/original tale

  1. Wicked by Gregory Maguire/Wizard of Oz
  2. Anno Dracula by Kim Newman/Dracula
  3. Phatom by Susan Kay/The Phantom of the Opera
  4. West Side Story/Romeo and Juliet
  5. Rosenkrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard/Hamlet
  6. Clueless by Amy Heckerling/Emma
  7. Scotland, PA/Macbeth

Retellings and-or alternate tellings of familiar stories/original tale

  1. Wicked by Gregory Maguire/Wizard of Oz
  2. Anno Dracula by Kim Newman/Dracula
  3. Phatom by Susan Kay/The Phantom of the Opera
  4. West Side Story/Romeo and Juliet
  5. Rosenkrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard/Hamlet
  6. Clueless by Amy Heckerling/Emma
  7. Scotland, PA by Billy Morrissette/Macbeth
  8. Grendel by John Gardner/Beowulf

Retellings and-or alternate tellings of familiar stories/original tale

  1. Wicked by Gregory Maguire/Wizard of Oz
  2. Anno Dracula by Kim Newman/Dracula
  3. Phantom by Susan Kay/The Phantom of the Opera
  4. West Side Story/Romeo and Juliet
  5. Rosenkrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard/Hamlet
  6. Clueless by Amy Heckerling/Emma
  7. Scotland, PA by Billy Morrissette/Macbeth
  8. Grendel by John Gardner/Beowulf
  9. The Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys/Jane Eyre

Retellings and-or alternate tellings of familiar stories/original tale

  1. Wicked by Gregory Maguire/Wizard of Oz
  2. Anno Dracula by Kim Newman/Dracula
  3. Phantom by Susan Kay/The Phantom of the Opera
  4. West Side Story/Romeo and Juliet
  5. Rosenkrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard/Hamlet
  6. Clueless by Amy Heckerling/Emma
  7. Scotland, PA by Billy Morrissette/Macbeth
  8. Grendel by John Gardner/Beowulf
  9. The Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys/Jane Eyre
  10. The Wind Done Gone by Alice Randall/Gone with the Wind

Retellings and-or alternate tellings of familiar stories/original tale

  1. Wicked by Gregory Maguire/Wizard of Oz
  2. Anno Dracula by Kim Newman/Dracula
  3. Phantom by Susan Kay/The Phantom of the Opera
  4. West Side Story/Romeo and Juliet
  5. Rosenkrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard/Hamlet
  6. Clueless by Amy Heckerling/Emma
  7. Scotland, PA by Billy Morrissette/Macbeth
  8. Grendel by John Gardner/Beowulf
  9. The Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys/Jane Eyre
  10. The Wind Done Gone by Alice Randall/Gone with the Wind
  11. Fuzzy Nation by John Scalzi/Little Fuzzy

Retellings and-or alternate tellings of familiar stories/original tale

  1. Wicked by Gregory Maguire/Wizard of Oz
  2. Anno Dracula by Kim Newman/Dracula
  3. Phantom by Susan Kay/The Phantom of the Opera
  4. West Side Story/Romeo and Juliet
  5. Rosenkrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard/Hamlet
  6. Clueless by Amy Heckerling/Emma
  7. Scotland, PA by Billy Morrissette/Macbeth
  8. Grendel by John Gardner/Beowulf
  9. The Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys/Jane Eyre
  10. The Wind Done Gone by Alice Randall/Gone with the Wind
  11. Fuzzy Nation by John Scalzi/Little Fuzzy
  12. Finn by Jon Clinch/Huckleberry Finn
    The Finn in the title is Huck’s father, Pap.

Retellings and-or alternate tellings of familiar stories/original tale

  1. Wicked by Gregory Maguire/Wizard of Oz
  2. Anno Dracula by Kim Newman/Dracula
  3. Phantom by Susan Kay/The Phantom of the Opera
  4. West Side Story/Romeo and Juliet
  5. Rosenkrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard/Hamlet
  6. Clueless by Amy Heckerling/Emma
  7. Scotland, PA by Billy Morrissette/Macbeth
  8. Grendel by John Gardner/Beowulf
  9. The Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys/Jane Eyre
  10. The Wind Done Gone by Alice Randall/Gone with the Wind
  11. Fuzzy Nation by John Scalzi/Little Fuzzy
  12. Finn by Jon Clinch/Huckleberry Finn
  13. Cosette by Laura Kalpakian/ Les Miserables

Next Up: Books made into both straight (non-musical) and musical shows/movies

  1. Silence of the Lambs

Books made into both straight (non-musical) and musical shows/movies

  1. Silence of the Lambs
  2. Auntie Mame

Books made into both straight (non-musical) and musical shows/movies

  1. Silence of the Lambs
  2. Auntie Mame
  3. Anna and the King of Siam

Books made into both straight (non-musical) and musical shows/movies

  1. Silence of the Lambs
  2. Auntie Mame
  3. Anna and the King of Siam
  4. Lost Horizon

There was a Silence of the Lambs musical? Was “People Who Eat People” the show stopper?

Books made into both straight (non-musical) and musical shows/movies

  1. Silence of the Lambs
  2. Auntie Mame
  3. Anna and the King of Siam
  4. Lost Horizon
  5. Les Miserables

Don’t know about that, but it won awards.

Books made into both straight (non-musical) and musical shows/movies

  1. Silence of the Lambs
  2. Auntie Mame
  3. Anna and the King of Siam
  4. Lost Horizon
  5. Les Miserables
  6. Confederacy of Dunces

To date none of its stage productions, musical or non, have achieved great critical or commercial success.

Books made into both straight (non-musical) and musical shows/movies

  1. Silence of the Lambs
  2. Auntie Mame
  3. Anna and the King of Siam
  4. Lost Horizon
  5. Les Miserables
  6. Confederacy of Dunces
  7. The Phantom of the Opera

Silence!, an unauthorized musical parody based on Silence of the Lambs, has been floating around the Internet for a while. It’s finally been made, and is now playing Off-Broadway.

It is a hoot.

Books made into both straight (non-musical) and musical shows/movies

  1. Silence of the Lambs
  2. Auntie Mame
  3. Anna and the King of Siam
  4. Lost Horizon
  5. Les Miserables
  6. Confederacy of Dunces
  7. The Phantom of the Opera
  8. Dracula

One stage version, “Dracula Baby”, is a burlesque/striptease comedy.