10 Best StageToScreen Adaptations According To IMDb

10 Best Stage-To-Screen Adaptations, According To IMDb

Not only have many of these adaptations become just as popular as their live-theatre counterparts, but some have even gone on to win Academy Awards.

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As the great Shakespeare once said, “the play’s the thing,” and that’s certainly a true statement for the medium of film. From as early as the genesis of the motion picture, stage adaptations, and theatrical techniques have helped shape the movie industry. That being said, the principle seems to have come full circle with full stage plays and performances being turned into feature films.

Not only have many of these adaptations become just as popular as their live-theatre counterparts, but some have even gone on to win Academy Awards. Although the very idea might divide some patrons, sometimes stage-to-screen is the best way to adapt beloved source material.

10 Dracula (1931) (7.5)

Although Bram Stoker is the name usually associated with the writing of Dracula, the 1931 Universal picture, featuring the great Bela Lugosi in the title role, took more from the 1924 stage adaptation of the same name by Hamilton Deane.

In fact, Lugosi nabbed the role of the famous vampire due to his performance in the exact same play. The black-and-white film is perhaps the most famous adapted version, but Dracula still stalks the stage today.

9 West Side Story (1961) (7.5)

It’s two for the price of one with this 1961 musical, because not only is West Side Story a film adaptation of Stephen Sondheim’s musical of the same name, but an Americanized version of William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.

Verona is traded for New York’s Upper West Side and Romeo and Juliet are updated into Tony and Maria, both involved with rival street gangs in a multiracial neighborhood. Though audiences will find no soliloquy and tights in this adaptation, they will find romance, passion, and even a bit of blood.

8 Doubt (2008) (7.5)

John Patrick Shanley has spread his prize-winning play, Doubt, across the board of mediums. The tale of deception, religion, and manipulation has been on stage as both a play and an opera, but most audiences are familiar with the 2008 film featuring Meryl Streep and Philip Seymor Hoffman.

The plot alone has as much tension as any hardcore thriller and is perhaps the epitome of a modern stage drama.

7 Hamlet (1996) (7.7)

When it comes to Shakespearian adaptations, the biggest and most lavish productions are always the way to go. And no Shakespeare film truly embodies that concept than Kenneth Branagh’s adaptation.

Branagh not only directs and stars in this film, but his version is also one of the only to use the complete text by Shakespeare on a big-screen adaptation. It might take a more pageantry-inspired visual approach, but it’s perhaps one of the best versions since Olivier’s day.

6 Harvey (1950) (7.9)

Harvey is an interesting play, to say the very least, but its 1950 film adaptation starring Jimmy Stewart as Elwood P. Doud will forever be cemented as one of the actor’s most famous roles.

Essentially, the play concerns a happy and eccentric man with an imaginary friend, a six-foot-tall invisible rabbit named Harvey, and how his friends and relatives perceive him. Stewart’s performance is 100% engaging and charming, and any audience member will be fully convinced of Harvey’s unquestionable reality.

5 The Sound of Music (1965) (8.0)

There are few musicals made into movies as famous or iconic as Roger and Hammerstein’s The Sound of Music. From the Mary Martin stage version to the immortal film version starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer, the work has been lauded, studied, and parodied since it first premiered.

The story of the Von Trapp family singers is one that has entertained and delighted audiences for decades, and one that certainly deserves more than an 8.0.

4 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) (8.0)

Jumping from the sweet to the sensual, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is a play that peels back the mask of the family dynamic in a southern plantation house in 1955. Tennessee Williams explores the interworkings and interactions of the relationships in the Pollitt family, namely the alcoholic Brick and the seductive Maggie “the Cat.”

Although the film differs slightly from the play, Paul Newman and Elizabeth Taylor shine in the 1958 adaptation, setting the bar for future performances of the show.

3 Fiddler on the Roof (1971) (8.0)

Though its film adaptation does some trimming here and there, Fiddler on the Roof is ranked alongside The Sound of Music when it comes to beloved movie musicals.

Both the film and the stageplay explore the lives of a Jewish community in Russia during the Bolshevik era. From family traditions to personal interactions, Fiddler presents a very intimate look at Tevye and his family, giving the audience a very personal experience with the characters.

2 Amadeus (1984) (8.3)

Amadeus concerns the lives of both Antonio Salieri and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in a plot so thrilling that the debate still rages to how much is true. Although Salieri and Mozart’s rivalry was nowhere near the film’s portrayal, if it existed at all, the film and stageplay are incredibly clever when it comes to storytelling.

Inspired by true events would be a great way to describe the narrative, and viewers might be surprised to find out just how much truth there is in the madness.

1 The Lion King (1994) (8.5)

Kenneth Branagh’s version might be the most lavish and critically praised direct adaptation of Shakespeare’s greatest, but it’s The Lion King that’s the most beloved. To say that the film hasn’t been called “Hamlet with animals” would be a bald-faced lie, even the character of Scar was directly influenced by Jeremy Irons as King Claudius.

With a prince in exile, a murderous uncle, and the appearance of a king’s ghost, the similarities aren’t exactly subtle.

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