Zambello's work on Broadway includes directing a stage version of Disney's The Little Mermaid in 2008.
The book for the stage version was written by playwright Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and will be directed by Rupert Goold, the Almeida's artistic director.
The show struck gold, according to Mr Shenton, because a musical stage version was the ideal format for a retelling of the story.
The tale of the phantom is best known from Andrew Lloyd Webber's stage version, which is still going strong 18 years after its first launch.
The gold standard for a successful transition from the pop world is Elton John, whose repurposed music for "The Lion King" film has helped make the stage version a global phenomenon.
She recently wrote the score for "9 to 5: The Musical, " a stage version of the 1980 comedy "Nine to Five, " a film she not only starred in but for which she also composed the award-winning title song.
The stage version, at London's Adelphi Theatre, has been reworked by Alexander Dinelaris putting Headley's Rachel Marron at the centre of the action and beefing up the role of Rachel's sister, and love rival - while also highlighting Houston's own canon of songs.
While it is not known for sure whether Britten ever became sexually involved with any of the boys whom he befriended throughout his adult life, his final opera, a stage version of Thomas Mann's "Death in Venice" (1973), has been interpreted as a not-so-veiled apologia for those who feel similar desires.
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In the two decades since his humor took center stage, Ives is now a playwright who dives into failed plays or musicals and fixes them, whether they're a stage version of the Irving Berlin film "White Christmas, " a French farce about marital mayhem from the early 1900s, or a work by a 17th-century French dramatist.
Most recently they composed the music for the extravaganza stage musical version of Lord of the Rings.
Some day, some brave director will stage the Scottish version.
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The one we all prefer to remember is the cool, leather-clad rockabilly version that dramatically burst upon the world stage in the 1950s, but the overweight, caped Vegas version still has a hold on the popular imagination.
The musicians said they exercised some control over the use of their songs in the stage musical and subsequent film version, which they were closely involved with.
Snowe supports getting this bill to the next stage--not necessarily the final version of health care reform that will emerge from the Senate.
This new version has been adapted for the stage by Simon Reade.
Directed by Tom Hooper, the film version of the long-running stage success stars Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway and Eddie Redmayne.
However, he said Mr Pistorius had "reached out to meet the state's case" and had given a full version of events at an early stage.
Now Classic Stage Company has given us a Doyle-directed off-Broadway version of "Passion, " the last and best of Mr. Sondheim's three collaborations with James Lapine.
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Another highlight came when Marsalis, playing a muted trumpet, went to the front of the stage to play alongside Crosby and Nash on a tender, intimate trio version of Crosby's folk ballad "Guinnevere, " which trumpeter Miles Davis covered in a 1970 recording.
The role of Eliza was first played by Julie Andrews on stage and was taken by Audrey Hepburn in the Oscar-winning 1964 film version.
In February last year, theatre producer Sir Cameron Mackintosh told Barks live on stage in Manchester that she had been chosen to play Eponine in the film version of Les Miserables.
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In my version, Harvey was dying meaningfully, in linear fashion, within a scenario stage-managed and scripted by the people around him.
Four months later I saw the show a second time when it moved to Broadway after which I saw Chicago Shakespeare's more intimate version, directed by Gary Griffin on the company's Elizabethan-style thrust stage.
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However, the Senate's version of the bill passed with enough support to be veto-proof, setting the stage for a delicate compromise between chambers when Congress returns next month.
Robert Andrew Kovach, the set designer, has dressed the stage in colors whose neon-bright palette recalls Rasoul Azadani's layouts for the Disney animated version of "Aladdin, " and Colleen Grady's costumes are properly festive.
When France and Germany unveil their plans on Monday, the hope is that there will be enough new commitments from Germany - for example, to a more ambitious version of European bailout fund, the EFSF - to take the rescue plan to the next stage.
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