Heavily influenced by vaudeville, comic opera, and other performing arts, musicals as we know them emerged in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Around this time, writers shifted from creating ...

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From stage to screen: Best musical movies adapted from theatrical productions Natalie Wood and Richard Beymer in a scene from the 1961 movie version of “West Side Story”. Heavily influenced by ...

To celebrate the "Wicked" premiere and the broader movie musical genre, Stacker ranked the best stage-to-screen musicals of all time using a Stacker score—a weighted index split evenly between IMDb ...

Although the genre began to wane in popularity from the 1970s through the 1990s, the one-two punch of screen original "Moulin Rouge!" (now a smash Broadway hit) and "Chicago" in the early 2000s ...