1980s to 1990s 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. Productions of the 1980s and 1990s included The Apple, Xanadu, The Blues Brothers, Annie, Monty Python's The Meaning of Life, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Victor/Victoria, Footloose, Fast Forward, A Chorus Line, Little Shop of Horrors, Forbidden Zone, Absolute Beginners, Labyrinth, Newsies, Evita, and Everyone Says I Love You. However, Can't Stop the Music, starring the Village People, was a calamitous attempt to resurrect the old-style musical and was released to audience indifference in 1980. Little Shop of Horrors was based on an off-Broadway musical adaptation of a 1960 Roger Corman film, a precursor of later film-to-stage-to-film adaptations, including The Producers.
1980s to 1990s 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 Productions of the 1980s and 1990s included The Apple Xanadu The Blues Brothers Annie Monty Python's The Meaning of Life The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas Victor/Victoria Footloose Fast Forward A Chorus Line Little Shop of Horrors Forbidden Zone Absolute Beginners Labyrinth Newsies Evita and Everyone Says I Love You However Can't Stop the Music starring the Village People was a calamitous attempt to resurrect the old-style musical and was released to audience indifference in 1980 Little Shop of Horrors was based on an off-Broadway musical adaptation of a 1960 Roger Corman film a precursor of later film-to-stage-to-film adaptations including The Producers