Their adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion retained his social commentary and added appropriate songs for the characters of Henry Higgins and Liza Doolittle, played originally by Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews.

Schumacher claims he originally had in mind an adaptation of Frank Miller's Batman: Year One.

In 1985, a television adaptation of the original stage play was created, directed by Albert Finney and originally aired in the US through HBO in 1985.

Additionally, Amos is currently writing the music for Samuel Adamson's musical adaptation of the George MacDonald story The Light Princess for the Royal National Theatre, which was originally expected to debut in spring 2012 but has now been deferred.

Computer display systems use a technique called chromatic adaptation transforms to emulate the correlated color temperature of illumination sources, and cannot perfectly reproduce the intricate spectral combinations originally seen.

Bertolucci's next feature film will be an adaptation of Niccolò Ammaniti's young-adult's book Io e te ( You and Me ), originally set to be filmed in 3D.

Their adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, with the leads, Henry Higgins and Eliza Doolittle, being played originally by Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews, was a huge hit in New York and London.

Charles Addams originally named the character Grandma / Granny Frump in his notes for the cartoon characters's adaptation to television in 1965, thereby making her Morticia's mother.

On 14 July 2007 BBC Radio 7 broadcast an adaptation by John Foley originally aired on the BBC World Service, starring Bob Peck as Inspector Goole, John Woodvine as Arthur Birling and Maggie Steed as Sybil Birling.

* The Bertolt Brecht play, Round Heads and Pointed Heads, was originally written as an adaptation of Measure for Measure.

A radio adaptation of the film was originally broadcast on February 1, 1937 on Lux Radio Theater.

* The Internet Archive holds a radio adaptation of the film, originally broadcast on November 23, 1936 by Lux Radio Theater.

Director Stanley Kubrick was originally interested in a film adaptation of the novel in the 1960s, but blacklisted director Abraham Polonsky had already optioned it.

* pétanque originally evolved from boule lyonnaise as an adaptation for a player confined to a wheel chair.

His Girl Friday was originally supposed to be a straightforward adaptation of The Front Page, with both the editor and reporter being men.

* Admiration for Richard and the Montreal Canadiens was the main plot point of the popular heritage story " The Hockey Sweater ", originally published in 1979 by native Quebecker and acclaimed author Roch Carrier., as well as its 1980 National Film Board of Canada ( NFB ) adaptation, The Sweater.

This physical isolation of the flower from the traps was originally thought to be an adaptation meant to avoid trapping potential pollinators ; a recent study, however, indicated Drosera species attract distinct types of insects as pollinators and prey, with little overlap.

A film adaptation of The Vampire Lestat was originally planned to go right into development after the filming of Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles, with a theatrical release that was said to have been marked for the late 1990s.

The film was originally meant to be an adaptation of the 1927 Broadway musical, however, only two songs were retained for the film, the title song, and " The Ranger Song ," which was performed by Grayson.

Jeff Noon says Vurt originally began as an adaptation of Octave Mirbeau's The Torture Garden, an anti-authoritarian novel written at the turn of the 20th century.

However, in the 2005 radio adaptation of the fifth novel in the series, Mostly Harmless, in which Marvin did not originally appear, he has a cameo at the end of the last episode alive and well.

There are also a few antecedents to folk rock present in pre-British Invasion American rock ' n ' roll, including Elvis Presley's 1954 cover of the Bill Monroe bluegrass standard " Blue Moon of Kentucky "; Buddy Holly's self-penned material, which strongly influenced both Dylan and The Byrds ; Ritchie Valens ' recording of the Mexican folk song " La Bamba "; Lloyd Price's rock ' n ' roll adaptation of the African-American folk song " Stagger Lee " ( which had originally been recorded by Mississippi John Hurt in 1928 ); Jimmie Rodgers ' rock ' n ' roll flavored renditions of traditional folk songs ; and the folk and country-influenced recordings featured on The Everly Brothers ' 1959 album, Songs Our Daddy Taught Us.

Bolger's M-G-M contract stipulated that he would play any part the studio chose ; however, he was unhappy when he was originally cast as the Tin Woodman in the studio's 1939 feature film adaptation of The Wizard of Oz.

These result from the adaptation of sand dollars, in the course of their evolution, from creatures that originally lived their lives on top of the seabed ( epibenthos ) to creatures that burrow beneath it ( hyperbenthos ).

As childhood adaptation to the reality principle developed, so too ' one species of thought activity was split off ; it was kept free from reality-testing and remained subordinated to the pleasure principle alone.

The excretion of the resin by certain plants is thought to be an evolutionary adaptation for protection from insects and to seal wounds caused by damage elements.

Previous attempts have included Piece Of My Heart, which was to star Renée Zellweger or Brittany Murphy ; The Gospel According To Janis, with director Penelope Spheeris and starring either Zooey Deschanel or P! nk ; and an untitled film thought to be an adaptation of Laura Joplin's Off-Broadway play about her sister, with the show's star, Laura Theodore, attached.

The film would not see a US release until 1992, two years after the game's Japanese release, so the game is often thought to be a standalone adaptation of Little Nemo, not related to the film.

His brilliant adaptation of Aristotelian thought to Biblical faith deeply impressed later Jewish thinkers, and had an unexpected immediate historical impact.

and the Natural Sciences " in Kansas City, Missouri, on October 19, 1991, Dennis Bratcher presented a discussion of the adaptation of Near Eastern mythical thought by the Israelites.

The range of evolutionary theories during " the eclipse of Darwinism " included forms of " saltationism " in which new species were thought to arise through " jumps " rather than gradual adaptation, forms of orthogenesis claiming that species had an inherent tendency to change in a particular direction, and forms of neo-Lamarckism in which inheritance of acquired characteristics led to progress.

Sister Miriam Joseph described the three parts of the Trivium thus: Grammar is the art of inventing symbols and combining them to express thought ; logic is the art of thinking ; and rhetoric, the art of communicating thought from one mind to another, the adaptation of language to circumstance.

In Great Britain, Rococo was always thought of as the " French taste " and was never widely adopted as an architectural style, although its influence was strongly felt in such areas as silverwork, porcelain, and silks, and Thomas Chippendale transformed British furniture design through his adaptation and refinement of the style.

This characteristic is thought to be a climatic adaptation to allow their bodies to shed heat more efficiently.

Warshaw intended the game to be an innovative adaptation of the film, and Atari thought it would achieve high sales figures based on its connection with the film, which was extremely popular throughout the world.

According to Vandervert, the details of creative adaptation begin in " forward " cerebellar models which are anticipatory / exploratory controls for movement and thought.

This form of therapy is thought to promote habituation, adaptation of the vestibulo-ocular reflex, and / or sensory substitution.

The programme was thought to have ended when the American network NBC began work on an American adaptation, which NBC was reportedly hoping to position as a replacement for Friends.

The weapon, also known as dan dao ( 單刀, " single knife ") when just one is used, is thereby thought to be an adaptation of the kitchen knives common to Chinese cuisine.

The main cause of Barrett esophagus is thought to be an adaptation to chronic acid exposure from reflux esophagitis.

His Alms for Oblivion ten-novel sequence is usually regarded as his best achievement-A. N. Wilson thought it " the jolliest roman-fleuve "-though it is likely that he gained wider public recognition for his TV work, especially the adaptation of The Pallisers ( 1974 ) and Edward and Mrs Simpson ( 1978 ).

In a further behavioral adaptation to supplement crypsis, a number of species have been noted to perform a rocking motion where the body is swayed from side to side that is thought to reflect the movement of leaves or twigs swaying in the breeze.

It is thought that this refers to space adaptation syndrome experienced by about one third of astronauts during the first few days of a spaceflight.

Just like physical pain, social pain is thought to serve a function of adaptation and avoidance from what caused the pain.

The capuchins ' intelligence is thought to be an adaptation to support their feeding habits ; they rely on ephemeral food sources which may be hard to find.

The process behind positive afterimages is unknown, though thought to be related to neural adaptation.