From Stage to Screen!

From Stage to Screen!- Tuesday 31st January 2012

We all know the following as blockbusters but they all started on the stage!

Oklahoma (Rodgers and Hammerstein)
 


The original 1943 production starring Joan Roberts and Alfred Drake

  


The 1955 film version starring Shirley Jones and Gordon MacRae






  








Annie Get Your Gun! (Irving Berlin, Dorothy Fields, Herbert Fields)



 


Doin' what Comes Naturally!- Betty Hutton as Annie Oakley (1950)

 
 

There's no Business like Showbusiness!- formidable stage presence Ethel Merman in original Broadway production (1946)




My Fair Lady (Lerner & Loewe)






1956 Broadway production starring Julie Andrews and Rex Harrison

  





The fairest of them all! 1964 version starring lithe beauty and fashion icon Audrey Hepburn as Eliza Dolittle.  Rex Harrison reprised his stage role as Henry Higgins.

Chicago (Kander and Ebb)



All that Jazz- original 1975 production starring Chita Rivera, Gwen Verdon and Jerry Orbach (Lumiere in Beauty and the Beast!)



2002 film directed by Rob Marshall, starring Catherine Zeta Jones, Renee Zellwegger and Richard Gere




AND COMING SOON TO A SCREEN NEAR YOU!

The global stage musical smash,with music by Claude Michel Schonberg and lyrics by Alain Boublil is under filn production by Cameron Mackintosh- watch this space!