All Musicals Are Adaptations: Difference between revisions

* ''[[The Simpsons]]'' has done this several times, often parodying the concept by having its musicals draw from bizarre or inappropriate sources. Marge starred in a musical adaptation of ''[[A Streetcar Named Desire]]'' (opposite Ned Flanders) whose cheery closing song managed to [[Comically Missing the Point|completely miss the point of the original source]]. Then there's ''[[Planet of the Apes|Stop the Planet of the Apes: I Want to Get Off!]]'', which featured [http://www.hulu.com/watch/20840/the-simpsons-mcclures-comeback breakdancing chimps and spontaneous piano solos]. Smithers also wrote a musical inspired by Malibu Stacey dolls, providing an example of a musical based on a pre-existing concept while not being a direct adaptation.

** When Andre Previn made ''[[A Streetcar Named Desire]]'' into an opera, he explicitly cited the "Simpsons scenario" ("Stella, Stella, can't you hear me yella?") as an instance of what he tried to avoid. In fact, the libretto simply sets the original text of the play to music.

** And who could forget "Kickin' It: A Musical Journey Through the Betty Ford Center"?

* A cutaway reveals Peter once performed in ''Red Dawn - The Musical'' on ''[[Family Guy]]''. "I'm a Wolverine/And my hatred keeps me warm..."

* ''[[Batman Beyond]]'' had a scene featuring Terry taking Bruce Wayne to a musical about...Batman. The sad part is that the idea for it came from the fact that someone [[Real Life Writes the Plot|actually proposed a Batman musical in real life.]]

* ''[[Fans]]'' once had a character perform in a musical adaptation of the Book of Leviticus.

* ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' had Zoe and Kent go see "[http://beta.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=030810 The Cylon King]," a Broadway musical based on ''[[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined|Battlestar Galactica]]''. Kent remarks they should have gotten tickets to "[[Flash Gordon (comic strip)|Thoroughly Merciless Ming]]" instead.

* In a recent episode of ''[[The Venture Brothers]]'', Rusty wants to make a musical about his life (a Johnny Quest boy-adventurer sort of childhood with its own cartoon show), though this never gets off the ground. He does get a duet with the in-universe version of Spiderman, the Brown Widow, which might be a parody of ''[[Spider Man Turn Off the Dark]]''.

* One episode of ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'' revisits one of their early adventures:

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