Trevor Jones, Griffith University
In a 2004 original musical about creating an original musical – cheekily titled [title of show] – one writer asks, ‘So movies make good musicals?’ His writing partner responds: “Well, they make musicals.”
This year, Australian theatre audiences have seen stage adaptations of the films School of Rock, Billy Elliot, Saturday Night Fever and Muriel’s Wedding. Tom Kitt and Lin-Manuel Miranda’s adaptation of Bring It On, based on the 2000 cheerleading movie, has already played in Melbourne and Perth and opened in Sydney last week.
