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* Film is image driven, where theater is dialogue driven. Film can have little or no dialogue and tell the story with pictures; theater can have very little physical movement and tell the story with verbal images.
* Theater can be effective with very sparse or abstract sets, movies demand detailed and authentic backgrounds.

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* Film is image driven, where image-driven, whereas theater is dialogue driven.dialogue-driven. Film can have little or no dialogue and tell the story with pictures; theater can have very little physical movement and tell the story with verbal images.
* Theater is more artificial and can be effective with very sparse or abstract sets, movies demand while film is more naturalistic and demands detailed and authentic backgrounds.
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->'''Phineas:''' We should do it again! This time, as a musical! Whadya say? We'll do all the same things, except we'll break into spontaneous singing and choreography with no discernible music source!\\
'''Ferb:''' Hmm. What assurance would we have that everyone else would also break into song and do the same thing?\\
'''Phineas:''' I dunno. They probably will.
->'''Ferb''': Fair enough. I'm in.
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'', [[TitleTheAdaptation "Rollercoaster: The Musical]][[ExcitedShowTitle !"]]

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->'''Phineas:''' We should do it again! This time, as a musical! Whadya say? We'll do all the same things, except we'll break into spontaneous singing and choreography with no discernible music source!\\
'''Ferb:''' Hmm.
->'''Melissa:''' Josh, that's how musicals work. When you're too emotional to talk, you sing; when you're too emotional to sing, you dance.\\
'''Josh:'''
What assurance would we have that everyone else would also break into song and do the same thing?\\
'''Phineas:''' I dunno. They probably will.
->'''Ferb''': Fair enough.
happens when you're too emotional to dance? Does it loop back around to talking? Because that's where I'm in.
at right now.
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'', [[TitleTheAdaptation "Rollercoaster: The Musical]][[ExcitedShowTitle !"]]
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* ''Film/{{Hairspray}}'' is an extreme case. The original '''non-musical''' film was released in 1988. It appeared to be ideal musical material even though the entire score had to be written from scratch. The musical came out in 2002, was [[RecursiveAdaptation made into]] [[TheMovie another film]] in 2007 and a live production on Creator/{{NBC}} in 2016.

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* ''Film/{{Hairspray}}'' is an extreme case. The original '''non-musical''' film was released in 1988. It appeared to be ideal musical material even though the entire score had to be written from scratch. The musical came out in 2002, was [[RecursiveAdaptation made into]] [[TheMovie another film]] in 2007 and a live production on Creator/{{NBC}} in 2016.''Film/Hairspray2007''


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All of that was covered on the Jukebox Musical page. I feel like a lot more of this can be edited down, but I've changed a lot already, so...


There's also the trend of the JukeboxMusical; adapting a musical play or film from the existing catalog of a musical artist, when the songs therein might not have anything to do with each other. ''Theatre/MammaMia'' (Music/{{ABBA}}), ''Movin' Out'' (Music/BillyJoel), and ''Film/AcrossTheUniverse'' (Music/TheBeatles) are just a few examples. ''Film/MoulinRouge'', which didn't stick to one artist but repurposed a few decades of pop music, was likely a trend-setter here. Of course, this technique [[OlderThanTheyThink goes back a ways]]--''Film/SinginInTheRain'' reused older songs--and prolific composers would often take songs from their less-successful shows and reuse them in new productions. For example, Creator/GilbertAndSullivan took the song, "Climbing Over Rocky Mountain" from their nigh-forgotten first collaboration, ''Thespis'', and recycled it in ''Theatre/ThePiratesOfPenzance'' with minor lyrical changes.

The RockOpera is an especially popular variant which may be [[ConceptAlbum album-based]] in origin.

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There's also the trend of the JukeboxMusical; adapting a musical play or film from JukeboxMusical, and also the existing catalog of a musical artist, when the songs therein might not have anything to do with each other. ''Theatre/MammaMia'' (Music/{{ABBA}}), ''Movin' Out'' (Music/BillyJoel), and ''Film/AcrossTheUniverse'' (Music/TheBeatles) are just a few examples. ''Film/MoulinRouge'', RockOpera, which didn't stick to one artist but repurposed a few decades of pop music, was likely a trend-setter here. Of course, this technique [[OlderThanTheyThink goes back a ways]]--''Film/SinginInTheRain'' reused older songs--and prolific composers would often take songs from their less-successful shows and reuse them in new productions. For example, Creator/GilbertAndSullivan took the song, "Climbing Over Rocky Mountain" from their nigh-forgotten first collaboration, ''Thespis'', and recycled it in ''Theatre/ThePiratesOfPenzance'' with minor lyrical changes.

The RockOpera is an especially popular variant which may be [[ConceptAlbum album-based]] in origin.
starts as a ConceptAlbum.

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