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Adaptation in Musical Theatre

Adaptation in Musical Theatre

Rush, Adam
Gordon, Robert
Méndez, Emilio

Paperback

Series: Topics in Musical Theatre

Broadway & MusicalsGeneral Music

ISBN10: 1350381799
ISBN13: 9781350381797
Publisher: Methuen Drama
Published: Mar 19 2026
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.19
Height: 0.37 Width: 4.97 Depth: 6.48
Language: English

Short introductory books on significant theories, concepts, forms and elements of musical theatre.

Adaptation in Musical Theatre positions musical theatre as part of a broader cultural trend of recycling, referencing, remixing and alluding to existing creative works and texts. Despite critics often dismissing stage adaptations as lazy and safe bet options for producers, this book argues that crafting an adaptation enables creative teams to take fresh and imaginative approaches to a source text, given the multitude of ways in which the structures and styles of two (or more) different media can be combined.

From Les Misérables to Wicked, by way of Legally Blonde and Fun Home, this lively book addresses several modern musicals, each adapted from a different type of source - including fiction, film and graphic novels - and each offering a different approach to adapting existing work.

Published in Methuen Drama's Topics in Musical Theatre series, this book offers students a concise and readable study of a key and ever-evolving forms within musical theatre studies using relevant and contemporary case studies.

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