Prfnoff
Since: Jan, 2001
Dec 18th 2010 at 7:13:26 AM
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These are both adaptations:
- Miss Saigon, an adapted and updated retelling of Madame Butterfly.
- Rent, arguably. Although the basic plot was inspired by La Boheme, it's been changed and modernized so much that it's barely recognizable as such. It's also not credited as any sort of adaptation.
- Your Mileage May Vary on that account - if, for example, you know the story of La Boheme. It is most certainly recognizeable as a retelling, and if it's never credited as such, that's a shame.
Prfnoff
Since: Jan, 2001
Dec 18th 2010 at 7:16:46 AM
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Also counting as adaptations (however loose):
- Phoenix Wright: The Truth Revealed, a Takarazuka musical based on the Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney series.
- The Sera Myu is actully a series of musicals based on the Sailor Moon metaseries. Each muscial has a diffent plot though songs are reused between them and aside from a few exceptions are rarely tied into any version of canon or each-other. They are genenraly credited for popularizing musicals based on anime and manga due to it's success (it ran from 93-05, far longer then any other version of the series it was based on)
Can we rewrite this page so it's about examples rather than exceptions?