Movies and TvShows featuring "based-on-a-stage-musical" theme.

In 1962 Baltimore, Tracy Turnblad, a passionate and optimistic teenager, becomes a sensation after joining a local TV dance show. Through her journey, she challenges racial segregation and fights for integration, inspiring others to embrace equality and acceptance.

A witch tasks a childless baker and his wife with procuring magical items from classic fairy tales to reverse the curse put on their family tree. This tale brings together 4 fairy tales: Jack the giant slayer, Cinderella, Rapunzel and Little Red Riding hood. The couple faces misadventures while gathering the items necessary to break the spell. However, their "happily ever after" turns out to be not so happy as each character learns the consequences of their actions. The movie ends with a moral: "Careful what you say and do, children will listen."

A socially anxious high school student named Evan Hansen finds himself in a complicated situation when a letter he wrote to himself as a therapeutic exercise ends up in the possession of another student who later dies by suicide. The student's parents mistake the letter as their son's suicide note, leading to a series of misunderstandings and a lie that Evan is forced to maintain. As the lie spirals out of control, Evan discovers the power of human connection and learns important lessons about love, forgiveness, and acceptance.

National Theatre Live: Follies is a movie that showcases a filmed version of the Broadway musical Follies. The story revolves around the reunion of former showgirls from the fictional Weismann's Follies, held at a crumbling Broadway theater before its demolition. As the characters reminisce and confront their past, the show explores themes of regret, lost love, and the passage of time.

The animated adaption of the second stage musical based on the "Peanuts" comics strip, focusing on Snoopy.