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31 Great Broadway Musicals Based On Movies

Sarah El-Mahmoud

27 June 2024 at 1:30 pm

Hollywood and Broadway often collide!

Little Shop Of Horrors

Waitress

Hairspray

School Of Rock

Some Like It Hot

The Color Purple

Beauty and the Beast

The Producers

Back To The Future

Kinky Boots

The Lion King

Billy Elliot

Moulin Rouge!

The Little Mermaid

Beetlejuice

Once

Sunset Boulevard

Bring It On

Shrek

Mean Girls

Newsies

An American In Paris

The Band’s Visit

Aladdin

Sister Act

Finding Neverland

Mary Poppins

Anastasia

Footloose

American Psycho

Frozen

Hollywood and Broadway often collide!

While Broadway and Hollywood are often thought of as their own entities on the opposite side of the United States, they share a lot more in common than one might think. Particularly, a ton of popular and very good musicals over the years have been created thanks to the movies they are based on. Check out all these instances of Broadway musicals being inspired by Hollywood movies!

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