The Oxford Handbook of Musical Theatre Screen Adaptations traces how the genre of the stage-to-screen musical has evolved, from The Jazz Singer to The Wizard of Oz, Roberta, and Into the Woods.

• Contributors


• Acknowledgements


• About the Companion Website


• Introduction


• Part I: An introduction to the Stage-to-Screen Adaptation


• CHAPTER 1


• "And I'll Sing Once More": A Historical Overview of the Broadway Musical on the Silver Screen


• DOMINIC McHUGH


• CHAPTER 2


• From Novel to Stage to Screen: Adapting Roberta


• GEOFFREY BLOCK


• CHAPTER 3


• Getting Real: Stage Musical vs. Filmic Realism in Film Adaptations from Camelot to Cabaret


• RAYMOND KNAPP


• CHAPTER 4


• The Party's Over: On the Town, Bells are Ringing, and the Problem of Adapting Postwar New York


• MARTHA SHEARER


• CHAPTER 5


• Into the Woods from Stage to Screen


• MARK EDEN HOROWITZ


• Part II: The Politics of Adaptation


• CHAPTER 6


• Li'l Abner from Comic Strip to Hollywood


• JAMES LOVENSHEIMER


• CHAPTER 7


• Fidelity vs. Freedom in Milos Forman's film version of Hair


• ANDREW BUCHMAN


• CHAPTER 8


• "An Elegant Legacy": The Aborted Cartoon Adaptation of Finian's Rainbow


• DANIELLE BIRKETT


• CHAPTER 9


• Little Shop of Horrors: Breaking the Rules all the Way to the Big (Enormous, 12-inch) Screen


• JONAS WESTOVER


• CHAPTER 10


• The Fascinating Moment of Godspell: Its Cinematic Adaptation in the Shadow of Jesus Christ Superstar and Leonard Bernstein's Mass


• PAUL LAIRD


• Part III: Biography and Identities: Race, Sexuality, and Gender


• CHAPTER 11


• Adapting Pal Joey: Post-War Anxieties and the Playmate


• JULIANNE LINDBERG


• CHAPTER 12


• "Too Darn Hot": Reimagining Kiss Me, Kate for the Silver Screen


• HANNAH ROBBINS


• CHAPTER 13


• "A Humane, Practical, and Beautiful Solution": Adaptation and Triangulation in Paint Your Wagon


• MEGAN WOLLER


• CHAPTER 14


• "A Great American Service": George M. Cohan, the Stage, and the Nation in Yankee Doodle Dandy


• ELIZABETH CRAFT


• CHAPTER 15


• Cole Porter's List Songs on Stage and Screen


• CLIFF EISEN


• Part IV: Stars and Adaptation


• CHAPTER 16


• Loud, Pretty, Strong, White [Repeat]: The Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy Operettas at MGM (1935-1942)


• TODD DECKER


• CHAPTER 17


• Brigadoon and its Transition to MGM Musical: Adapting a Stage Show for Star Dancers


• SUSAN SMITH


• CHAPTER 18


• "Is this the right material, girl?": How Madonna Makes Us Like Eva But Not Necessarily Evita


• RICHARD ALLEN


• CHAPTER 19


• The Streisand adaptations


• DOMINIC McHUGH


• Part V: Multiple Adaptations of a Single Work


• CHAPTER 20


• The Shifting Sand of Orientalism: The Desert Song on Stage and Screen


• WILLIAM A. EVERETT


• CHAPTER 21


• "You Will Know That She is Our Annie": Comparing Three Adaptations of a Broadway Classic


• IAN SAPIRO


• CHAPTER 22


• The Three Faces of Rio Rita


• JOHN GRAZIANO


• Part VI: Audiences, Producers, Studios


• CHAPTER 23


• Lost in Translation: The Strange Case of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel


• TIM CARTER


• CHAPTER 24


• Carol Burnett and the Ends of Variety: Parody, Nostalgia, and Analysis of the American Musical


• ROBYNN STILWELL


• CHAPTER 25


• Flamboyance, Exuberance, and Schmaltz: Half a Sixpence and the Broadway Adaptation in 1960s Hollywood


• AMANDA McQUEEN


• CHAPTER 26


• The Producers and Hairspray: The Hazards and Rewards of Recursive Adaptation


• DEAN ADAMS


• CHAPTER 27


• Rescoring Anything Goes in 1930s Hollywood


• ALLISON ROBBINS


• Bibliography


• Index

Dominic McHugh is Reader in Musicology at the University of Sheffield. His publications include the books Loverly: The Life and Times of My Fair Lady (2012), Alan Jay Lerner: A Lyricist's Letters (2014), The Complete Lyrics of Alan Jay Lerner (2018) and Adapting The Wizard of Oz: From Baum to MGM and Beyond (2018). He has appeared on BBC TV and radio numerous times, and has acted as a consultant to the Sydney Opera House's production of My Fair Lady, directed by Julie Andrews, as well as the Lincoln Center Theater production of the same musical.