| Inspiration | Musical Based on It |
| Gilbert and Sullivan's opera The Mikado | |
| George Seurat's painting A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte | |
| Superman comic book character created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster | |
| opera The Beggar's Opera by John Gay | |
| comic strip of same name by Al Capp about a clan of hillbillies | |
| Italian opera by Giuseppe Verdi about a princess who is captured into slavery | |
| Peanuts comic strip by Charles M. Schultz | |
| A June 23, 1992 Weekly World News story about a half-boy, half-bat found living in a cave | |
| | Inspiration | Musical Based on It |
| poem of same name by Joseph Moncure March about show people who throw an edgy party | |
| opera Madame Butterfly by Giacomo Puccini | |
| comic strip by Charles Addams about a family that delights in the macabre | |
| TV show, The Jerry Springer Show | |
| Spider-Man comics by Marvel Comics | |
| ballet Fancy Free by Jerome Robbins and Leonard Bernstein | |
| opera La boheme by Giacomo Puccini | |
| comic strip Little Orphan Annie by Harold Gray | |
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