Line #27 RecycledInSpace/Theatre


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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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Context RecycledInSpace / Theatre