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12 | [[RecycledInSpace Tales recycled in new settings]] in theatre. |
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14 | * ''Theatre/AllMySons'' is Creator/HenrikIbsen's ''Theatre/ThePillarsOfSociety'' [-IN AMERICA DURING [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII WORLD WAR TWO]]!-] |
15 | * ''Theatre/{{Annie}}'' is ''Literature/OliverTwist'' meets ''Literature/{{Cinderella}}'' [-IN 1930S DEPRESSION-ERA NEW YORK!-] |
16 | * ''All Shook Up'' is ''Twelfth Night'' [-IN THE 1950S-]! [-IN THE AMERICAN MIDWEST-]! [-[[TheMusical WITH ELVIS SONGS]]-]! |
17 | * ''Theatre/AvenueQ'' on the other hand, is ''Theatre/{{RENT}}'' [-WITH MUPPETS INSTEAD OF AIDS-]! Alternately, it's ''Series/SesameStreet'' [-WITH ANGST-]! |
18 | * ''Theatre/BareAPopOpera'' is ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet'' [-IN A CATHOLIC SCHOOL AND GAY-]! |
19 | * ''Theatre/TheBoysInTheBand'' is ''Theatre/WhosAfraidOfVirginiaWoolf'' [-BUT GAY-]! |
20 | * ''Brother Wolf'' is ''Literature/{{Beowulf}}'' [-IN 1800S APPALACHIA-]! |
21 | * ''Theatre/{{Cats}}'' is ''Theatre/{{Hair}}'' [-WITH FURRIES-]! |
22 | * ''Cavalia'' is Creator/CirqueDuSoleil [-WITH HORSES-]!. (In fact, it is directed by Normand Latourelle, one of Cirque's original founders.) |
23 | * Creator/CirqueDuSoleil's ''Crystal'' is ''[[Literature/AliceInWonderland Alice]]'' [-IN [[SlippySlideyIceWorld WINTERLAND!]]-] |
24 | * ''The Desert Song'' is ''Literature/TheSheik'' [-WITH A {{TWO PERSON LOVE TRIANGLE}}-]! |
25 | * ''Theatre/DogSeesGod'' is ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' [-IN HIGH SCHOOL!-] |
26 | * ''Theatre/FiddlerOnTheRoof'' is ''Literature/PrideAndPrejudice'' [-WITH JEWS-]! [-AND RACISM-]! |
27 | * ''Theatre/TheGoldenApple'' is ''Literature/TheTrojanCycle'' [-IN AN AMERICAN SMALL TOWN-]! |
28 | * ''The Hard Nut'' is''Theatre/TheNutcracker'' [-IN 1960s USA!-] |
29 | * ''Theatre/HeadOverHeels'' is Philip Sidney's ''[[Literature/OldArcadia Arcadia]]'' [-[[JukeboxMusical WITH THE MUSIC OF]] [[Music/TheGoGos THE GO-GOS]]-]! |
30 | * The Hungarian RockOpera ''King Stephen'' is ''Theatre/JesusChristSuperstar'' [-IN HUNGARY-]! |
31 | * ''Kiss Me, Kate'' is ''Theatre/TheTamingOfTheShrew'' [-AS A MUSICAL WITHIN ANOTHER MUSICAL-]! |
32 | * ''Theatre/LittleShopOfHorrors'' is ''Myth/{{Faust}}'' [-WITH A SINGING CARNIVOROUS PLANT-]! |
33 | * ''Miracle!'' is ''Theatre/TheMiracleWorker'' [-IN 1990's SEATTLE WITH {{DRAG QUEEN}}S!-] |
34 | * ''Mourning Becomes Electra'' is Creator/{{Aeschylus}}'s ''Theatre/TheOresteia'' [-[[WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries IN AMERICA]] AT THE TIME OF THE [[UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar CIVIL WAR]]-]! |
35 | * ''Theatre/TheMusicMan'' is ''Theater/TheRainmaker'' [-WITH A BOYS' MARCHING BAND INSTEAD OF RAIN-]! [-AND A [[HotLibrarian HOT LIBRARIAN]], TOO-]! |
36 | * ''One Man Two Guvnors'' is the 18th century Italian comedy ''The Servant of Two Masters'' [-AS A FARCE WITH GANGSTERS IN 1960S BRIGHTON-]! |
37 | * ''Plain and Fancy'' is ''Theatre/{{Oklahoma}}'' [-IN PENNSYLVANIA-]! |
38 | ** Alternatively, Amish ''Theatre/FiddlerOnTheRoof'' [-MINUS THE POGROMS-]! |
39 | * Not a musical: ''Seven Supermans'' is ''Seven Samurai'' [-WITH [[CaptainErsatz RIPPED OFF]] SUPERHEROES-]! |
40 | * ''She's The Man'' is ''Theatre/TwelfthNight'' [-WITH SOCCER-]! |
41 | * Creator/WilliamShakespeare gets this treatment often: |
42 | ** Disney's ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994'' and its sequel are essentially ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'' and ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet'', respectively, [-AS {{TALKING ANIMAL}} CARTOONS-]! [-[[AC:With happy endings!]]-] |
43 | ** ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKingOneAndAHalf'' is ''[[Theatre/RosencrantzAndGuildensternAreDead Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Were Eaten by a Lion]]''. |
44 | ** 1999's ''Film/{{Titus}}'', set [-WHENEVER JULIE TAYMOR FELT LIKE IT-]! No, seriously. One minute it's AncientRome, the next it's the 1940s. |
45 | ** ''Film/ForbiddenPlanet'' (1956) is ''Theatre/TheTempest'' [-IN SPACE-]! |
46 | *** Whilst ''Theatre/ReturnToTheForbiddenPlanet'' is [-[[TheMusical THE MUSICAL!]]-] of ''that!'' |
47 | ** ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' is even [[WordOfGod described by the author]] as ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet'' [-WITH VAMPIRES AND WEREWOLVES-]! |
48 | *** It also supposed to be ''Romeo and Juliet'' except [-[[MisaimedFandom TOTALLY SERIOUS]]-]! |
49 | ** ''Gnomeo and Juliet''. There's [-GNOMES-]! |
50 | ** ''Theatre/WestSideStory'' is ''Romeo and Juliet'' [-[[WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries IN AMERICA]]-]! [-[[TheMusical THE MUSICAL]]-]! |
51 | ** The Creator/AkiraKurosawa film ''Film/ThroneOfBlood'' is ''Theatre/{{Macbeth}}'' [-WITH SAMURAI!-] |
52 | ** Of course, ''O'' is ''Theatre/{{Othello}}'' [-IN HIGH SCHOOL-]! |
53 | ** ''Film/StrangeBrew'' is ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'' [-IN CANADA, WITH HOSERS-]! |
54 | ** Director John Bell is a huge fan of this trope. He's done ''Theatre/{{Macbeth}}'' in post-apocalyptic Russia, ''Theatre/TitusAndronicus'' in a Library, and ''Theatre/KingLear'' on a really bad acid trip. |
55 | ** Creator/OrsonWelles once put on a production of ''Macbeth'' set [-IN HAITI-]! |
56 | ** Of course, the Bard wasn't scared of doing this himself. ''Theatre/TheComedyOfErrors'' is the ''Menaechmi'' with an extra pair of twins, after all. |
57 | *** And the similarities between ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet'' and the ancient Roman myth of ''Pyramus and Thisbe'' are too many to ignore. |
58 | ** ''Servant of two masters'' by Carlo Goldoni is ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet'' [-AS A COMEDY! With [[HappyEnding HAPPY ENDING!]] -] |
59 | *** Modern stage productions of Shakespeare use this trope so frequently that it's a long-standing joke among Shakespeare fans that the most daring and original thing a Director can do with ''Hamlet'' is set it in Denmark. |
60 | ** ''Amaluna'' is ''The Tempest'' [-ON A TROPICAL ISLAND-] [-[[ImprobablyFemaleCast WITH LOTS MORE WOMEN]]-]! |
61 | * ''Waterfall'' is ''Theatre/MissSaigon'' [-IN PRE-[[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII WORLD WAR II]] THAILAND!-]. |
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