The first of three volumes, The Politics of the Musical Theatre Screen Adaptation: An Oxford Handbook traces how the genre of the stage-to-screen musical has evolved, starting with early screen adaptations such as the Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers movie Roberta and working through to Into the Woods (2014). Many chapters examine specific screen adaptations in depth, while others deal with broad issues such as realism or the politics of the adaptation in works such as Li'l Abner and Finian's Rainbow. Together, the chapters incite lively debates about the process of adapting Broadway for the big screen and provide models for future studies.

Dominic Broomfield-McHugh is Professor of Musicology at the University of Sheffield. He has published widely on the Broadway and Hollywood musicals, including seven books, and has collaborated with many of the world's leading arts organisations, ranging from the Sydney Opera House to the Library of Congress.

Introduction
1. 'And I'll Sing Once More': A Historical Overview of the Broadway Musical on the Silver Screen
2. Refashioning Roberta: From Novel to Stage to Screen
3. Getting Real: Stage Musical versus Filmic Realism in Film Adaptations from Camelot to Cabaret
4. The Party's Over: On the Town, Bells Are Ringing, and the Problem of Adapting Postwar New York
5. Into the Woods from Stage to Screen
6. Li'l Abner from Comic Strip to Hollywood
7. Fidelity versus Freedom in Milos Forman's Film Version of Hair
8. 'An Elegant Legacy?': The Aborted Cartoon Adaptation of Finian's Rainbow
9. Little Shop of Horrors: Breaking the Rules All the Way to the Big (Enormous, Twelve-inch) Screen
10. The Fascinating Moment of Godspell: Its Cinematic Adaptation in the Shadow of Jesus Christ Superstar and Leonard Bernstein's Mass