Just like the title says: Has a stage production ever lead to two entirely different musicals?
Romeo and Juliet.
Arguably, the really old school Passion play inspired both Jesus Christ Superstar and Godspell.
Would THE WIZARD of OZ
THE WIZ
WICKED
count?
Was it first known as a dramatic play?
Only if they officially acknowledged it in the credits.
What are you counting as “musical”? If you count opera, several have multiple settings, particularly Shakespeare.
The aforementioned Romeo and Juliet has been set several times. There are at least two settings of Othello and a couple of The Merry Wives of Windsor. I’m sure there are others.
Peter Pan was a play before it was a novel. There have been numerous several musical adaptations. Or at least shows with a few songs in them. Would you count the Disney film as a Musical? There was a 1954 stage musical. And a current one. Probably lots of them.
Not reaaly, Wicked is a “prequel,” and was inspired by Gregory Macguire’s stunning book.
Phantom of the Opera has been adapted several times, but Lloyd Webber’s is obviously the best known.
Prior to Mamma Mia!, ABBA music, set with new lyrics, was the basis for a children’s musical called “Abbacadabra.”
It looks as if all the adaptations are using pretty much the same music and settings, though.
Were any of them musicals?
But no previous non-musical stage production, though.
If we are talking about totally different scores, then yes.
Yes indeed. Yeston & Kopit’s Phantom has a fantastic score and would have definitely made it to Broadway had you-know-who not done his at the same time. Seropis;u. :;pud Webber killed the idea of a musical for anyone else to do it.
It qualifies, then-thank you.
Same settings, yes. That’s a no-brainer. Of course different adaptions of the same source material will have the same settings.
Same music, though, I don’t see.
Here’s some songs from the current one. I don’t see Never Smile at a Crocodile (from the Disney version) there, nor in the 1954 version. Each of the three have different songwriting credits.
Does it? Were the two musicals based on a stage production? I thought they were based on the novel.
I retract, then-it qualifies.
They are. Off the top of my head, I Capuletti e i Montecchi by Bellini and Romeo et Juliette by Gounod for Romeo and Juliet (plus West side Story); Rossini and Verdi both wrote an Otello in completely different styles; Otto Nicolai wrote Die lustige Weibern von Windsor and Verdi wrote Falstaff, which is mostly based on The Merry Wives of Windsor with some insertions from Henry IV.
There are undoubtedly others. Shakespeare was popular among opera composers, especially in the 19th century.
La Vie de Boheme, a novel that became a stage production that inspired two separated operas with the same title: La bohème by Giacomo Puccini in 1896 and La bohème by Ruggero Leoncavallo in 1897. The former formed the basis for Jonathan Larsen’s opus Rent.
Phantom of the Opera began as a 1911 novel by Gaston Leroux. Any stage production that followed was based upon that original novel.