GOTTA SING: Screen hits on stage

Stage hits often come to the screen, but Aladdin (6.20pm, Sky Disney) – currently in the West End – was a screen smash first. Here are some more musical screen-to-stage transfers… Musical Hairspray found its way back 1 on to the screen (in 2007), but it was first a cult movie back in 1988. Endorsed by the original’s oddball director, John Waters, the Broadway and West End shows ran for seven and three years.

Whoopi Goldberg (1), star of 1992’s Sister Act, co-produced its 2009 West End spin-off; she helped to pick star Patina Miller, and even joined the cast as the Mother Superior at one point. It closed in 2010, but moved to Broadway a year later, running till 2012. Many were sceptical when a transfer of 1994 Disney hit The Lion King (2) opened in 1997, but it was an immediate smash. And, almost 20 years on, Broadway’s third- longest-running show is its highest-grossing. The West End version opened in 1999. It was nominated for seven Tonys, but perky 2007 musical Legally Blonde, based on the 2001 Reese Witherspoon (3) film, only had a short run on Broadway before touring. In the UK, Sheridan Smith earned praise in the lead, and the show won three Oliviers, but still closed after two-and-a-half years. Cyndi Lauper wrote the transfer of 2005 Britcom Kinky Boots, which opened on Broadway in 2013. It won six Tonys and shifted to the West End in 2015 – where, ironically, the Americanisms had to be removed – and, after winning three Oliviers, has extended its run to 2017.