# What movies have been made into Broadway Shows?

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**Created:** [May 13, 2001, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-been-made-into-broadway-shows/65318 "2001-05-13T15:49:30Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 14, 2001, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-been-made-into-broadway-shows/65318/21 "2001-05-14T02:41:53Z")

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I’m pretty sure I’m right on this----GIGI, starring the very young AUDREY HEPBURN was on Broadway as a NON-musical many years before the LESLIE CARON musical one.

another film to broadway one—

BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S------as a musical, starring MARY TYLER MOORE (I think) and RICHARD CHAMBERLAIN.

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**ex** A look at the cast albums shows the movie soundtrack was recorded in 1958, while the original Broadway cast was recorded in 1973. Hepburn did appear in the play “Gigi,” but the musical was definitely based on the movie, since it contained the same list of songs.

According to the allmusic guide:

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> Back in the early '70s, Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe put together a stage version of their 1957 movie musical Gigi.

And add “La Cage au Folles.”

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**Post date:** [May 14, 2001, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-been-made-into-broadway-shows/65318/23 "2001-05-14T03:39:26Z")

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A few more:

Shenandoah  
The Wiz  
Woman of the Year  
Grand Hotel  
The Goodbye Girl

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**Post date:** [May 14, 2001, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-been-made-into-broadway-shows/65318/24 "2001-05-14T13:33:57Z")

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Can’t believe I forget… **The Full Monty**!

Chaim Mattis Keller

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**Post date:** [May 14, 2001, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-been-made-into-broadway-shows/65318/25 "2001-05-14T13:43:12Z")

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Meet Me in St. Louis.

I think the “purist” answer to the OP is what movie **musicals** were adapted as subsequent stage musicals. The genre is replete with stage musical shows adapted from straight movies, books, or, in one memorable case, a pointillist painting. They’re interesting, but don’t fit the question as I read it…

- Rick

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