Photo FeaturesDo You Know These Broadway Musicals Based on Movies?Check out these Broadway musicals that began as films.
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Playbill Staff
August 24, 2021
Film has long been a source of inspiration for Broadway, with many theatre creators re-envisioning the vibrant worlds of the screen for the stage. In September, the screen-to-stage canon will get a little larger when musical adaptation of the 1988 film Mystic Pizza premieres at the Ogunquit Playhouse.
In celebration of the upcoming stage adaptation, check out these Broadway musicals that also began as films, from modern classics like Mean Girls to cult hits like Amélie.
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Plus, we asked the cast and opening night guests to reenact the sobs and sniffles they hear in the audience at the musical adaption of Nicholas Sparks' tearjerker.