# Movie to Play to Movie

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-to-play-to-movie/413320>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [July 27, 2007, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-to-play-to-movie/413320 "2007-07-27T02:38:41Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2007, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-to-play-to-movie/413320/1 "2007-07-27T02:38:41Z")

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_Hairspray_; _The Producers_; _Little Shop of Horrors_; arguably _The Wiz_ and _Dracula_. Are there other examples of a movie being adapted into a play and the play then being adapted into a new movie?

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**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2007, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-to-play-to-movie/413320/2 "2007-07-27T02:51:05Z")

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“The Producers” I believe.  
ETA: Damnit to hell, I was all stocked I got to say that one when in fact, it was in the OP.

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**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2007, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-to-play-to-movie/413320/3 "2007-07-27T03:03:24Z")

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Chicago was a film back ages ago in 1927 and there was another film later called Roxie Hart. Then it came a musical on Broadway and that musical was adapted for the film Chicago in 2002.

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**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2007, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-to-play-to-movie/413320/4 "2007-07-27T13:39:04Z")

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The play “Pygmalion” by George Bernard Shaw was made into a first-rate movie with Leslie Howard and Wendy Hiller in 1938. Then “Pygmalion” was adapted as the musical “My Fair Lady” on Broadway in 1956 by Lerner and Lowe, then made into a movie in 1964.

So you have play to movie to play to movie!

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**Author:** ![randwill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a3d4f5/32.png) [@randwill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/randwill)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2007, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-to-play-to-movie/413320/5 "2007-07-27T14:53:17Z")

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We did this last week:

> **[A Movie First, Then a Play, Then a Movie Again!](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=429105)**
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> “Hairspray” was a movie first. Then it became a musical play. Now we have a movie, based on the play, which was based on the movie. How often has this happened? “Little Shop of Horrors” would fit this category. So would “Phantom of the Opera”. ...

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**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2007, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-to-play-to-movie/413320/6 "2007-07-27T15:54:44Z")

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> We did this last week

Oops, I missed that thread.

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**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2007, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-to-play-to-movie/413320/7 "2007-07-27T19:36:24Z")

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[QUOTE=randwill]  
We did this last week:

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Yeah, but since then, it was made into a movie, and back into a thread.