Musical adaptation
As Musical adaptation (English: musical adaption or musical adaptation ), or Musical adaptation (from Latin adaptare adapt ') refers to the revision of a literary (usually Epic) plant or a film in a theater version for the music theater in the form of the musical . In addition to short stories, novels and poems, the musical authors also like to use well-known plays for adaptation.
The best-known musical adaptation from literature is the musical " West Side Story " by Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim from 1957. It is an adaptation of William Shakespeare's tragedy Romeo and Juliet and is set in New York City in the 1950s.
Further musical adaptations
- Katharina Knie (musical) 1957
- Hello, Dolly! (Musical) 1964
- Cabaret (musical) 1966
- Les Misérables 1980
- La Cage aux Folles (Musical) 1983
- The Phantom of the Opera (musical) 1986
- Dance of the Vampires (musical) 1997
- Spring Awakening 2006
- Der Hauptmann von Köpenick (Musical) 2015