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Tag Archives: musicals
This blog probably isn’t really going away forever. I’ll probably revive it in some form or do some new posts in the future. But I won’t be doing regular posts. This really does feel like the end of an era … Continue reading
Adaptation Station Blog Posts That Were Not to Be
Waste not, want not, I suppose. Scott Cramer, a YouTuber whom I like[1]Partially because we’re both North Dakotans., once did a video about ideas he had for YouTube videos which he ultimately never made for various reasons. This allowed him … Continue reading
Snow White (2025) Makes Me Neither Happy nor Grumpy Part 2
This is a continuation of Part 1. If you haven’t read it already and you want to understand this, you’d better do so. CCC 3: The Movie is Anti-Man/Anti-Romance I can’t blame people for expecting this since Rachel Zegler’s infamous … Continue reading
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Snow White (2025) Makes Me Neither Happy nor Grumpy Part 1
I never wanted this to be a Disney blog. I mean, I always wanted to do some blog posts about Disney movies since I’m a fan of fairy tales and classic children’s fantasies, many of which they’ve adapted, and I … Continue reading
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Two Peter Pans That Fly Under the Radar
Back when I did a series on Peter Pan movies, in this blog’s early days, I only wrote about the three theatrically released ones and the various TV versions of the musical by Mark Charlap and Carolyn Leigh. Now I’d … Continue reading
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Return to Neverland Is Better Before It Actually Returns to Neverland
That Mother’s Day post got me in the mood to blog about Peter Pan adaptations, ones I haven’t really covered here in detail before. Technically, the movie I’ll be discussing in this post is a sequel to Peter Pan (1953), … Continue reading
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The Second Adaptees Awards Ceremony
Remember when I did that anniversary post that was like an awards ceremony for characterizations in all the movies/miniseries/plays the blog had covered thus far? Wasn’t that fun? Well, I thought it was fun, and since I probably won’t do … Continue reading
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Tagged 19th century novels, Charles Dickens, Cinderella, Cyrano de Bergerac, David Copperfield, fairy tales, Great Expectations, Into the Woods, musicals, Peanuts, Phineas and Ferb, Prince Caspian, remakes, Return to Oz, Robin Hood, The Best Christmas Pageant Ever, The Chronicles of Narnia, The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
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Ranting About Cyrano (2021)
Cyrano (2021) is a movie adaptation of a 2018 stage musical which was itself based on Edmond Rostand’s 1897 tragic comedy-or comic tragedy-Cyrano de Bergerac. I’d better state upfront that this is going to be one of those blog posts … Continue reading
A Cinderella Musical That’s Not Rodgers and Hammerstein
The Slipper and the Rose: The Story of Cinderella is a 1976 cinematic musical retelling of the famous story of the siege of Orleans. Just kidding. It’s a retelling of Cinderella. There’s plenty to love about this film, starting (literally) … Continue reading
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Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella Three-Way Faceoff
In The Sound of Music‘s words, let’s start at the very beginning. Well, OK, not the very beginning. That would require getting into the complete oral and literary history of Cinderella. Let’s start with 1957 when CBS did a musical … Continue reading
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