# It Came from Outer Space -- The Musical

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No joke here. There really IS a musical version of **It Came from Outer Space** , and it’s playing right now (June-July 2022) at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater. If I was there, I’d go

> **[Summer Guide: ‘It Came from Outer Space’ musical, inspired by cult classic...](https://chicago.suntimes.com/2022/6/2/23132549/it-came-from-outer-space-musical-cult-classic-film-chicago-shakespeare-theater)**
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> Joe Kinosian and Kellen Blair, the musical theater team behind the hit show “Murder for Two,” transform the film, which was based on a Ray Bradbury story, into a new stage musical.

I recently watched the film in 3D – I got the DVD and the anaglyphic glasses (the only way I’ve ever seen it in 3D, although, like most 3D movies of the time, it was released with polarized glasses). It still hangs together well, and the 3D effects work pretty well and aren’t absurd.

I suppose I’m not surprised they made this into a musical – we’ve had _Little Shop of Horrors, Return to Forbidden Planet, Plane Nine from Outer Space,_ and _Metropolis_. Why not _It Came from Outer Space_?