Many theatrical productions are based on written works, ranging from popular novels, to short stories, graphic novels, poetry collections, and more. Do you know which books these 21 shows are based on?
The Pajama Game
Friedman-Abeles / The New York Public Library
7½ Cents by Richard Bissell
Angela Lansbury in Mame.
Auntie Mame by Patrick Dennis
Stephanie Mills in The Wiz
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
Oliver!
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Porgy and Bess
Michael J. Lutch
Porgy by DuBose Heyward
Man of La Mancha
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
The King and I
Anna and the King of Siam by Margaret Landon
Guys and Dolls
Martha Swope/©NYPL for the Performing Arts
The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown and Blood Pressure by Damon Runyon
Josh Groban
Chad Batka
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
"The 1st Broadway show I saw was Fiddler On The Roof -- the original company with Zero Mostel. My mother knew that this was going to be a hit, and she ordered seats months before it opened. My most vivid memory is of 'Do You Love Me?' Perfection!"
Tevye and His Daughters by Sholem Aleichem
Cats
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot
Camelot
The Once and Future King by T. H. White
LaChanze with the original cast of Once on This Island.
Martha Swope / The New York Public Library
My Love, My Love; or, The Peasant Girl by Rosa Guy
Joel Grey and company in Cabaret
Friedman-Abeles
Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood
Aladdin
One Thousand and One Nights or Arabian Nights
Marin-Mazzie and Martin-Moran in Big River
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Damn Yankees
The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant by Douglass Wallop
LoveMusik
Photo by Carol Rosegg
Speak Low (When You Speak Love): The Letters of Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya
Sutton Foster and Joshua Henry in Violet
Joan Marcus
The Ugliest Pilgrim from Beasts of the Southern Wild and Other Stories by Doris Betts
Michael Jeter and Rex Smith in Grand Hotel
Martha Swope/ The New York Public Library
Menschen im Hotel by Vicki Baum
Mary Martin with the cast of The Sound of Music.
Friedman-Abeles / The New York Public Library
The Story of the Trapp Family Singers by Maria Augusta von Trapp
