Each year, the American Theater Wing presents the Tony Awards to honor the best of Broadway. This year the award for Best New Musical went to The Outsiders, based on the classic novel by S.E. Hinton. It was a big year for stage adaptations of books--here are some of the books that inspired some of this year's nominees. And if you'd rather listen than read, you can listen to some Broadway cast recordings--including this year's winner for Best Revival of a Musical, Merrily We Roll Along and also this year's winner for Best Play, Stereophonic--on MHL's music service Freegal.
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The outsiders : 50th Anniversary Edition
by S. E Hinton Celebrating the iconic novel's 50th anniversary in print, a commemorative edition combines the full text with such additional materials as photographs, cast insights from the stars of the film and archival material, including letters from the author and a gallery of book covers. |
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The notebook
by Nicholas Sparks In a testimony to the lasting power of love, a man tells an elderly woman a story from a faded old notebook, his voice relating the heartbreaking tale of two lovers and their 50-year journey to happiness. |
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Water for elephants : a novel
by Sara Gruen Ninety-something-year-old Jacob Jankowski remembers his time in the circus as a young man during the Great Depression, and his friendship with Marlena, the star of the equestrian act, and Rosie, the elephant, who gave them hope. |
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The Berlin stories
by Christopher Isherwood A two-in-one volume containing the works The Last of Mr. Norris and Goodbye to Berlin finds the characters of Sally Bowles, Fräulein Schroeder, and the doomed Landauers caught up by the nightlife, danger, and mystique of 1931 Berlin. |
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Uncle Vanya
by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov And so they fight, bond, belittle, lament, make peace and contemplate the odd murder. Featuring sex, comedy and unbearable sadness in nineteenth-century Russia, this version of Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya was written and directed by Terry Johnson and opened at Hampstead Theatre, London, in November 2018. |