The third a cappella musical to appear Off-Broadway, In Transit, premiered 5 October 2010 and was produced by Primary Stages with book, music, and lyrics by Kristen Anderson-Lopez, James-Allen Ford, Russ Kaplan, and Sara Wordsworth.

The musical premiered in the West End at the Adelphi Theatre on April 15, 1975 and starred Jean Simmons, Joss Ackland, David Kernan, Liz Robertson, and Diane Langton, with Hermione Gingold reprising her role as Madame Armfeldt.

From the late 1980s, Andersson had worked on an idea for an epic Swedish language musical based on his affection for traditional folk music, and in October 1995, Kristina från Duvemåla premiered in Sweden.

In November 2009, the musical theatre production Grievous Angel: The Legend of Gram Parsons premiered, starring Anders Drerup as Gram Parsons and Kelly Prescott as Emmylou Harris.

A full-length stage musical, titled " Garfield Live ", was planned to kick off its US tour in September 2010, but got moved to January 18, 2011, where it premiered in Muncie, IN.

Connick wrote the score for Susan Stroman's Broadway musical Thou Shalt Not, based on Émile Zola's novel Thérèse Raquin, in 2000 ; it premiered in 2001.

* A biographical musical of Rockne's life premiered at the Theatre at the Center in Munster, Indiana, on April 3, 2008.

In 2000, von Trier premiered a musical featuring Icelandic musician Björk, Dancer in the Dark.

CBS cancelled the idea, but Williams premiered his own musical composition, " Classical Gas ", on the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, where he was head writer.

On December 15, 2007 a German language stage musical adaptation premiered in Hamburg, Germany.

Other films shot in widescreen were the musical Happy Days ( 1929 ) which premiered at the Roxy Theater, New York City, on February 13, 1930, starring Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell and a 12 year old Betty Grable as a chorus girl ; Song o ’ My Heart, a musical feature starring Irish tenor John McCormack and directed by Frank Borzage ( Seventh Heaven, A Farewell to Arms ), which was shipped from the labs on March 17, 1930, but never released and may no longer survive, according to film historian Miles Kreuger ( the 35mm version, however, debuted in New York on March 11, 1930 ); and the western The Big Trail ( 1930 ) starring John Wayne and Tyrone Power, Sr. which premiered at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood on October 2, 1930, all of which were also made in the 70mm Fox Grandeur process.

Tharp premiered her dance musical Movin ' Out, set to the music and lyrics of Billy Joel in Chicago in 2001.

An off-Broadway musical version premiered at Lamb's Theater Club in New York City in 1984.

The film, which premiered in Los Angeles at the Carthay Circle Theatre, was the first musical film in history for which one of its cast members won an Academy Award-Luise Rainer received the Best Actress Oscar for her portrayal of Ziegfeld's first wife, Anna Held.

However, during the war years, Ravel did manage some compositions, including one of his most popular works, Le tombeau de Couperin, a commemoration of the musical ideals of François Couperin, the early 18th-century composer, which premiered in 1919.

In January 2008, the Teatro São Luiz, in Lisbon, Portugal, premiered Evil Machines – a musical play, written by Jones ( based on his book ) and with original music by Portuguese composer Luis Tinoco.

A musical by Udo Jürgens, Helden, Helden, which is also based on Shaw's play, premiered at the Theater an der Wien, Vienna, Austria in 1973.

* A musical about the life of Rogers, entitled Backwards in High Heels, premiered in Florida in early 2007.

In 2003, Disney Channel premiered its first ever musical made-for-cable film, The Cheetah Girls ; it received 84 million viewers worldwide.

A series of musical mystery videos called The Adventures of Mary-Kate & Ashley premiered in 1994 and continued through 1997.

The musical previewed in the U. S. with a 1962 national tour and premiered on Broadway at the Imperial Theatre on January 6, 1963.

The performance, a musical benefit at London's Royal Albert Hall in aid of the deaf, was attended by Prince Andrew's then wife, the Duchess of York.

By the 1980s, financiers grew increasingly confident in the musical genre, partly buoyed by the relative health of the musical on Broadway and London's West End.

In the 20th century there was also renewed interest in Machiavelli's La Mandragola ( 1518 ), which received numerous stagings, including several in New York, at the New York Shakespeare Festival in 1976 and the Riverside Shakespeare Company in 1979, as a musical comedy by Peer Raben in Munich's antiteater in 1971, and at London's National Theatre in 1984.

The lights of Times Square were turned off for one minute, and London's West End lights were dimmed in recognition of his contribution to the musical.

** A TV musical celebrating the 200th anniversary of London's most renowned Oxford Street

The musical has also been revived in London, running for a season in 1991 at London's Old Vic and most recently in London's Royal Festival Hall in the Southbank Centre in 2007.

From London's West End, Keel ended up at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, making his film musical debut as Frank Butler in the movie version of Irving Berlin's Annie Get Your Gun ( 1950 ).

The film has inspired a musical stage version, Ghost The Musical, which had its world premiere at Manchester Opera House in March 2011 before transferring to the Piccadilly Theatre in London's West End in June 2011.

The musical adaptation was to be shown from 1 September 2010 in London's Union Theatre.

This musical history of London's Oxford Street was directed and narrated by McLaren and included performances by The Happy Mondays, Tom Jones, Rebel MC, Kirsty MacColl, John Altman and Sinéad O ' Connor.

From the age of 16, he played in bars, and won a scholarship to study musical composition at London's Royal Academy of Music.

Her life story was published in book form, before being turned into musical which had a run in London's West End.

( 1962 ) ( the song Far Away produced another hit for Shirley Bassey ) and Maggie May ( 1964 ), had respectable West End runs ( Blitz !, at the time London's most expensive musical ever, had a run of 568 performances ), but Twang!

In 2004 and 2005, she played the Devil in William Burroughs ' and Tom Waits ' musical, The Black Rider, directed by Robert Wilson, which opened at London's Barbican Theatre, toured to San Francisco, but from which she was forced to withdraw prior to performances at the Sydney Festival, owing to exhaustion.

Elizabeth Fraser provided guest vocals on Future Sound of London's single " Lifeforms " ( 1993 ), vocals for three songs on Massive Attack's Mezzanine in 1998 ( as well as touring with them several times ), and for other musical projects and groups.

She recently starred in London's West End production of the musical Hairspray.

Also in 2004, Lyngstad appeared with former band mates Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus at London's fifth anniversary performance of Mamma Mia !, the musical based on ABBA songs.

In 1981 a stage musical based on the strip had a short run at London's Aldwych Theatre, with songs by Alan Price and Trevor Peacock, starring Tom Courtenay as Andy and Val McLane as Florrie.

Kapur executive-produced the Bollywood-themed musical Bombay Dreams by Andrew Lloyd Webber, which has been running in London's the West End since 2002, and on Broadway in New York City since 2004.

The musical Blood Brothers ( 1983 ), for which Russell also composed the music, first opened in Liverpool and transferred to London's Phoenix Theatre.

By extension, the term " Tin Pan Alley " is also used to describe any area within a major city with a high concentration of music publishers or musical instrument stores-an example being Denmark Street in London's West End.

The film was adapted by Leichtling and Sarner into a full-length musical theater production which opened in London's West End theatre district in 2001.