Broadway shows that were BOOKS first!

Discover the best Broadway shows adapted from books! Explore famous musicals and plays that started as novels, from 'Les Misérables' to 'Wicked.' Find your next read or theater inspiration!

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The phantom of the Opera

 

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Les Misérables

by Victor Hugo

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Ragtime

by E. L. Doctorow

Doctorow's big bestseller, made into a major movie and now repackaged, was first published in mass market paper by Bantam.
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Jane Eyre Cover
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Jane Eyre

by Charlotte Brontë

An orphan girl who accepts employment as a governess finds herself involved in a family secret and in love with her employer.
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Don Quixote

by Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read Don Quixote has become so entranced reading tales of chivalry that he …
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

by Mark Twain

A mischievous youth encounters a runaway slave and together they travel down the Mississippi in search of adventure.
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Wicked

by Gregory Maguire

When Dorothy triumphed over the Wicked Witch of the West in L. Frank Baum's classic tale, we heard only her side of the story. But …
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