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Making A Musical: The Art Of Adapting A Film Or A Book For The Stage, David Wohl
Making A Musical: The Art Of Adapting A Film Or A Book For The Stage, David Wohl
Winthrop Faculty and Staff Publications
Over the past 100 years, stage musicals have been made from original works as varied as straight plays, novels, magazine articles, movies, short stories, poems, and biographies. This article explores two original works (a film and a novel) created separately by two faculty members at a historically black university in West Virginia and which were turned into staged musicals produced by professional theatre companies in 2019. The article includes information and advice on the adaptation process from composers, playwrights, and other collaborators.
Rained In: An Original Musical, Naomi Krizner
Rained In: An Original Musical, Naomi Krizner
Honors Scholars Collaborative Projects
This musical confronts the perception of mental illness in an allegorical story that recounts an encounter between Tate, an estranged man inhabiting a cave who is taunted by two demons, and Emsley, a young girl brimming with innocence and curiosity.