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BLM#4 Teacher Resource ATU/ADB 3M: Sources of Music Theatre These examples illustrate the variety of sources which composers and lyricists have used as inspiration for musicals. Musical Source Type “9” 8 ½ (Federico Fellini) Movie 110 in the Shade The Rainmaker (N. Richard Nash) Play Annie Little Orphan Annie (Harold Gray) Comic Strip Billy Elliot Billy Elliot Movie Cabaret Berlin Stories (Christopher Short Stories Isherwood) Play I Am A Camera (John Van Druten) Carousel Liliom (Ferenc Molnar) Play A Chorus Line Book by James Kirkwood, based on Interviews interviews with dancers The Color Purple The Color Purple (Alice Walker) Novel Fiddler on the Roof Tevye the Dairyman, et al. (Sholem Short Stories Aleichem) Grey Gardens Grey Gardens Documentary Guys and Dolls The Idyll of Sarah Brown, et al Short Stories (Damon Runyan) Gypsy Memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee Autobiography Hello, Dolly The Matchmaker (Thornton Wilder) Play The King and I Anna and the King of Siam Novel (Margaret Landon) Kiss Me, Kate Taming of the Shrew Play (William Shakespeare) Mama Mia Songs from ABBA Music Man of La Mancha Don Quixote (Miguel de Cervantes) Novel Movin’ Out Songs of Billy Joel Music My One and Only Songs of George Gershwin Music My Fair Lady Pygmalion (George Bernard Shaw) Play Oklahoma Green Grow the Lilacs (Lynn Riggs) Play Oliver Oliver Twist (Charles Dickens) Novel BLM#4 Teacher Resource Pajama Game 7 ½ Cents (Richard Bissell) Novel Peter Pan Peter Pan (J.M. Barrie) Play Phantom of the Le Fantome de l’Opera Novel Opera (Gaston Leroux) Porgy and Bess Porgy (DuBose & Dorothy Heyward) Novel The Producers The Producers Movie Ragtime Ragtime (E.L. Doctorow) Novel Shrek Shrek: The Movie Animated Movie Sound of Music The Trapp Family Singers (Maria Biography Augusta Trapp) South Pacific Tales of the South Pacific (James Short Stories Michener) Sunday in the Park The painting Sunday Afternoon on Painting with George the Island of Grand Jatte by Georges Seurat Sweeney Todd String of Pearls (1846) and Sweeney Serial Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Play Street (Christopher Bond) Wicked Wicked (Gregory Maguire) a prequel Novel to The Wizard of Oz (L. Frank. Baum) You’re a Good Man, Peanuts (Charles Schulz) Comic Strip Charlie Brown .

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