Can you name the musical from the book, movie, etc that it was based on?

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Enter a musical in the box below
Correctly named musicals will show up below
Click any empty Based on or Musical to answer for that location
'Year' denotes year the musical first appeared on Broadway. One asterisk means off Broadway. Two asterisks means West End.
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Based on	Musical	Year
1905 novel of the same name by Baroness Orczy		1997
Lynn Riggs' 1931 play, 'Green Grow the Lilacs'		1943
Several Roman farces by Plautus, especially 'Pseudolus', 'Miles Gloriosus' and 'Mostellaria'		1962
1913 Atlanta trial of Leo Frank		1998
James A. Michener's 1947 book 'Tales of the South Pacific'		1949
1862 Victor Hugo novel of the same name		1987
Gaston Leroux's 1910 novel of the (almost) same name		1988
1933 movie and previous novel by Bradford Ropes		1980
1998 movie of the same name (starring Adam Sandler)		2006
1997 British film of the same name		2000
1955 novel by Patrick Dennis		1966
Novella of the same name by David Garnett		1990
1968 Mel Brooks film of the same name		2001
2000 British film of the same name		2008
Federico Fellini's 1963 semi-autobiographical film '8 1/2'		1982
Charles Dickens (finished) novel		1962
Shakespeare's 'Taming of the Shrew'		1948
The life of a famous 19th-century showman and circus founder		1980
Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet'		1957
A series of poems by T.S. Eliot		1982
Charles Dickens (unfinished) novel		1985

Based on	Musical	Year
Bruno Bettelheim's 1976 book, 'The Uses of Enchantment', and several fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm		1987
1967 film of the same name (starring Julie Andrews)		2002
Richard Bissell's novel '7 1/2 Cents'		1954
Puccini's opera 'La boheme'		1996
Famous Weekly World News article		2001*
Thornton Wilder's 1938 farce 'The Merchant of Yonkers' (later retitled 'the Matchmaker')		1964
Verdi opera of the same name		2000
Frances Hodgson Burnett's 1911 children's novel of the same name		1991
'The Once and Future King' by T. H. White and Arthurian legends		1960
Stories by P. G. Wodehouse		1975**
The life of a famous female sharpshooter		1946
'Anna and the King of Siam' by Margaret Landon		1951
E. L. Doctorow's 1975 novel of the same name		1998
1926 play of the same name by reporter Maurine Dallas Watkins		1975
1960 Roger Corman movie of the same name		1982*
Ingmar Bergman film 'Smiles of a Summer Night'		1973
Sam Raimi horror movies		2006*
Several short stories by Damon Runyon, especially 'The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown'		1950
John Van Druten's 1951 play 'I Am a Camera', which was adapted from Christopher Isherwood's 1939 novel 'Goodbye to Berlin'		1966
1960 novella of the same name by Elizabeth Spencer		2005
Puccini's opera 'Madame Butterfly'		1991

Based on	Musical	Year
Gregory Maguire's 1995 novel of the same name (based on 'The Wizard of Oz')		2003
Novella by Robert Louis Stevenson		1997
Life of an Argentine political leader		1979
The Bible - Adam and Noah stories		1991**
Rosa Guy's novel 'My Love, My Love'		1990
The Bible - Joseph stories		1982
L. Frank Baum's 1900 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz' and the 1939 film 'The Wizard of Oz'		1975
Harold Gray comic strip		1977
1973 Christopher Bond play of the same name, and British urban legend		1979
Several short stories by Sholem Aleichem, especially 'Tevye and his Daughters'		1964
The 1957 memoirs of the title character, a 1930s burlesque stripper		1959
1988 John Waters film of the same name		2002
Miguel de Cervantes' 17th-century novel 'Don Quixote'		1965
Loosely based on the play 'The Romancers' ('Les Romanesques') by Edmond Rostand		1960*
The Bible - Gospel of St. Matthew		1976
The Bible - Gospel of St. John		1971
1949 memoir of Maria von Trapp, 'The Story of the Trapp Family Singers'		1959
1975 film 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail'		2005
George Bernard Shaw's 1912 play 'Pygmalion'		1956

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	over_the_moon:	Jan 30th, 2011 at 04:30 GMT	4 points
	love to see the mystery of edwin drood on a quiz! i was just in a production of it, it's pretty amazing :)

	lichenboy:	Jan 30th, 2011 at 05:36 GMT	8 points
	Great quiz! For someone who likes theatre, but with piecemeal knowledge, I learned a lot (and had a few headslap moments reading the answers!).

	DTNelson:	Jan 30th, 2011 at 06:29 GMT	-1 points
	I've read the book and seen the movie: "7 1/2 Cents" is 7.5 times better than "The Pajama Game."

	herrod54:	Jan 30th, 2011 at 10:56 GMT	2 points
	Pretty sure the title is "Oliver!" with an exclamation point.

	GoSkins:	Jan 30th, 2011 at 13:23 GMT	2 points
	Darn, no American Idiot.

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	MDreamr4:	Jan 30th, 2011 at 14:05 GMT	7 points
	Also a new(er) development--"Phantom" is a different musical from "Phantom of the Opera". The latter is based on the Gaston LeRoux novel, the former is not. Great quiz though!

	beatlefan:	Jan 30th, 2011 at 14:07 GMT	7 points
	oh man i wanted to write 'joseph& the amazing technicolor dreamcoat' but it accepted just 'joseph'

	Meltha:	Jan 30th, 2011 at 14:44 GMT	9 points
	@ctbrainiacs 10 Things I Hate about You and M Butterfly weren't musicals.

	FIFAfan:	Jan 30th, 2011 at 14:56 GMT	2 points
	I wish I hadn't given up on the quiz after wicked, I actually would have known some of these, contrary to my belief. But there really aren't enough theatre quizzes around

	aweshucks:	Jan 30th, 2011 at 19:26 GMT	0 points
	i was waiting to see 'disney movie'... so many possibilities

	jefe_:	Jan 30th, 2011 at 19:27 GMT	1 point
	Great quiz, but too much time. I got about half of them, then gave up with ~13 minutes left.

	gellchom:	Jan 30th, 2011 at 20:36 GMT	3 points
	I think that there should be more than just the year/director/country for the ones like "Based on the [year/director/country] movie of the same name." I mean, Billy Elliot and The Full Monty came out just a few years apart, so it's not enough of a clue. Otherwise, great quiz; good idea, lots of work!

	WCRoentgen:	Jan 30th, 2011 at 20:54 GMT	2 points
	Terrific quiz!

	Svestus:	Jan 30th, 2011 at 21:14 GMT	2 points
	Man, I did pretty well, but three of the ones I missed were shows that I've been in. How embarrassing :) Great quiz!

	giveupyet:	Jan 31st, 2011 at 01:17 GMT	1 point
	Great quiz! I was disappointed that the new deathtrap posing as a Spiderman musical was absent. Maybe because everyone is foreseeing its cancellation due to excessive broken spines and head injuries.

	cyranyx:	Jan 31st, 2011 at 02:35 GMT	1 point
	I don't know much about this topic, but I typed in "A Christmas Carol" and got Oliver. Were they both musicals in the same year?

	Hyperion:	Jan 31st, 2011 at 03:01 GMT	0 points
	Should "Scrooge" count for "Dickens' finished novel" as well as Oliver? The instructions didnt say the musical itself couldnt be a film.

	kristifree:	Jan 31st, 2011 at 03:42 GMT	1 point
	The least guessed answer is one of my favorite musicals of all time... It's very under-appreciated and relatively unknown. What a beautiful show, though. And FASCINATING premise for a quiz. 5 Sporcles.

	RebeccaAMax:	Jan 31st, 2011 at 04:36 GMT	2 points
	ffff, there's always one that I just somehow overlook even though I know it. I was in Parade, dammit, and I didn't even see it in the list.

	shani3:	Jan 31st, 2011 at 07:29 GMT	1 point
	I almost missed "Godspell" because of the year listed; I imagine most would think of the 1971 off-Broadway production first--it became famous during that run. The Broadway run is almost secondary.

	TreehuggnCowgirl:	Jan 31st, 2011 at 17:25 GMT	1 point
	I'm embarrassed that I got Bat Boy and little else. I guess out of theater I was forced to see for college acting class, it was better than Urinetown.

	ptolover7:	Feb 1st, 2011 at 00:18 GMT	1 point
	Why doesn't anyone know Once On This Island?? It's such a great show!

	SaberKnight:	Feb 1st, 2011 at 22:42 GMT	1 point
	Man, I saw this quiz before it became official... did much better this time around. Still only got half, but I'm still proud that I knew that many without just going through and typing in random shows :P

	demongymnast785:	Feb 2nd, 2011 at 18:50 GMT	1 point
	if not for the year, "the wiz" clue could have the wizard of oz OR wicked.... :P

	eringurl34:	Feb 2nd, 2011 at 20:11 GMT	1 point
	i feel so stupid! i only got wicked!!

	lovingasong:	Feb 19th, 2011 at 02:48 GMT	1 point
	that was HAD! but really fun.

	daHOOK:	Mar 3rd, 2011 at 22:42 GMT	1 point
	It accepted Les Miserables, but not Les Misérables.

	escobar:	Apr 14th, 2011 at 02:56 GMT	1 point
	thank you thank you thank you for the inclusion of PARADE!!!!! seeing the clue made my day

	escobar:	Apr 14th, 2011 at 03:04 GMT	1 point
	although its too late now what about "a series of recorded workshop sessions with Broadway dancers"?

	gigimacmurray:	Jul 21st, 2011 at 01:51 GMT	1 point
	Loved this quiz, and loved the 20 minute time limit. Wow, including "Parade". I saw it in London, but forgot all about it. Saw "Thoroughly Modern Millie", but could only come up with "Unsinkable Molly Brown" (also a Julie Andrews musical). Hated The Mystery of Edwin Drood", talk about a BORING show, sorry to those who have been in it. It's boring for an audience member. I kept typing "Amazing technicolor dreamcoat", but because I forgot the inclusion of "Joseph", it wasn't accepting my answer.

	Phine:	Nov 10th, 2011 at 15:40 GMT	1 point
	When I was in high school, our drama program and our voice program teamed up to do "From Script to Score", a showcase where the theater kids acted out scenes from "Romeo and Juliet", "Pygmalion", and "Green Grow the Lilacs" and the voice kids did scenes from "West Side Story", "My Fair Lady" and "Oklahoma!". I was pretty thrilled to see all three of them on here! This was one of the coolest concepts for a Sporcle quiz I've ever seen.