Into the woods, it’s time to go, with Episode 108 of Adapt or Perish! In this episode, these two theater kids will be celebrating the late Stephen Sondheim with a look at one of his greatest works, Into the Woods.

In this episode we discuss:

• The original 1986 stage musical, with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by James Lapine
• The filmed performance released in 1991, directed by Lapine, and starring Bernadette Peters, Kim Crosby, Joanna Gleason, and Chip Zien
• The 2010 Regent's Park Open Air Theatre production, released in 2011, directed by Timothy Sheader, and starring Hannah Waddingham, Mark Hadfield, Jenna Russell, and Judi Dench
• The 2014 theatrical movie musical, directed by Rob Marshall, written by Lapine, and starring Meryl Streep, Anna Kendrick, Emily Blunt, and James Corden

Footnotes:

• Stephen Sondheim's Finishing the Hat: Collected Lyrics (1954–1981) (2010) and Look, I Made a Hat: Collected Lyrics (1981–2011) (2011)
• "Lily's Eyes" from The Secret Garden
• Sir Antony Sher
• "The Musical Moral of Into The Woods" by Sideways on YouTube

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Seasons greetings from Adapt or Perish! With Episode 107, our gift to you is a long-delayed follow-up to Episode 6, our original look at A Christmas Carol!

In Part 1, we discussed:

• Charles Dickens' original 1843 novel
• A Christmas Carol (1951), starring Alistair Sim
• A Christmas Carol (1984), starring George C. Scott
• The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992), starring Michael Caine and the Muppets
• A Christmas Carol (1999), starring Patrick Stewart
• Disney's A Christmas Carol (2009), starring Jim Carrey

In this episode we discuss:

• Scrooge (the 1935 movie), directed by Henry Edwards, written by H. Fowler Mear, and starring Sir Seymour Hicks
• A Christmas Carol (the 1938 movie), directed by Edwin L. Marin, written by Hugo Butler, and starring Reginald Owen, Gene Lockhart, and Kathleen Lockhart
• A Christmas Carol (the 1954 episode of Shower of Stars), directed by Ralph Levy, written by Maxwell Anderson, and starring Fredric March, Basil Rathbone, and Ray Middleton
• Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol (the 1962 TV special), directed by Abe Levitow, Written by Barbara Chain, and starring Jim Backus
• Scrooge (the 1970 movie musical), directed by Ronald Neame, written by Leslie Bricusse, and starring Albert Finney and Alec Guinness
• Scrooged (the 1988 movie), directed by Richard Donner, written by Mitch Glazer and Michael O'Donoghue, and starring Bill Murray, Karen Allen, and Alfre Woodard
• Blackadder's Christmas Carol (the 1988 TV special), directed by Richard Boden, written by Richard Curtis and Ben Elton, and starring Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Stephen Fry, and Hugh Laurie
• A Christmas Carol (the 2004 TV movie musical), directed by Arthur Allan Seidelman, lyrics and teleplay by Lynn Ahrens, music by Alan Menken, and starring Kelsey Grammer, Jason Alexander, Jane Krakowski, and Jesse L. Martin
• A Christmas Carol (the 2019 miniseries), directed by Nick Murphy, written by Steven Knight, and starring Guy Pearce, Andy Serkis, Joe Alwyn, and Vinette Robinson

Footnotes:

• Playing Shakespeare Episode 8: Exploring a Character
• "Musician Explains One Concept in 5 Levels of Difficulty ft. Jacob Collier & Herbie Hancock"

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Avast! With Episode 106, we're finally bringing you a look at something we've wanted to do for a long time: the pirate classic Treasure Island!

In this episode we discuss:

• Robert Louis Stevenson's original 1883 novel
• Treasure Island (the 1934 movie), directed by Victor Fleming, written by John Lee Mahin and John Howard Lawson, and starring Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper, and Lionel Barrymore
• Treasure Island (the 1950 live-action Disney movie), directed by Byron Haskin, written by Lawrence Edward Watkin, and starring Robert Newton and Bobby Driscoll
• The DuPont Show of the Month Season 3 Episode 7: Treasure Island (1960), directed by Daniel Petrie, written by Michael Dyne, and starring Hugh Griffith, Richard O'Sullivan, Michael Gough, and George Rose
• Treasure Island (the 1987 anime movie, edited down from the 1978–79 series), directed by Osamu Dezaki and Yoshio Takeuchi, and written by Haruya Yamazaki and Yoshimi Shinozaki
• Treasure Island (the 1990 TV movie), written and directed by Fraser Clarke Heston, and starring Charlton Heston, Christian Bale, Julian Glover, and Oliver Reed
• Muppet Treasure Island (1996), directed by Brian Henson, written by Jerry Juhl, Kirk R. Thatcher, and James V. Hart, and starring Tim Curry, Billy Connolly, and Kevin Bishop
• Treasure Island (the 1999 movie), written and directed by Peter Rowe, and starring Jack Palance and Kevin Zegers
• Treasure Planet (2002), directed by Ron Clements and John Musker, written by Clements, Musker, Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio, and Rob Edwards, and starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Brian Murray, David Hyde Pierce, and Emma Thompson
• Treasure Island (the 2012 miniseries), directed by Steve Barron, written by Stewart Harcourt, and starring Eddie Izzard, Toby Regbo, Elijah Wood, and Donald Sutherland

Footnotes:

• Stan Rogers performs his song "Barrett's Privateers"
• "Captain Kidd" performed by Great Big Sea
• The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem
• George Rose performing "I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General" from The Pirates of Penzance
• Black Sails (2014–2017)

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We're letting our imaginations run wild in episode 105 of Adapt or Perish as we take a look at the classic tale of escapist fantasy, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty!

In this episode we discuss:

• James Thurber's original 1938 short story
• The 1947 movie, directed by Norman Z. McLeod, written by Ken Englund and Everett Freeman, and starring Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, and Boris Karloff
• The 2013 movie, directed by Ben Stiller, written by Steve Conrad, and starring Stiller, Kristen Wiig, Shirley MacLaine, and Sean Penn

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In this mixed-up episode of Adapt or Perish, we're looking at the museum stowaway classic From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler!

In this episode we discuss:

• E.L. Konigsburg's original 1967 novel
• The 1973 theatrical movie, also released as The Hideaways, directed by Fielder Cook, written by Blanch Hanalis, and starring Ingrid Bergman, Sally Prager, and Johnny Doran
• The 1995 television movie, directed by Marcus Cole, written by Betty Goldberg, and starring Lauren Bacall, Jean Marie Barnwell, and Jesse Lee Soffer

Footnotes:

• "The Thrilling Gardner Museum Heist" from BuzzFeed Unsolved
• Claudia's Puzz 3D: Bavarian Castle

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Happy Halloween! We didn't want to break our streak of getting spooky for the holiday, so for episode 103 we're diving into sci-fi horror with the paranoid classic Invasion of the Body Snatchers!

In this episode we discuss:

• The Body Snatchers, Jack Finney's original 1956 novel
• Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956), directed by Don Siegel, written by Daniel Mainwaring, and starring Kevin McCarthy, Dana Wynter, and Larry Gates
• Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978), directed by Philip Kaufman, written by W.D. Richter, and starring Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Leonard Nimoy, Jeff Goldblum, and Veronica Cartwright
• Body Snatchers (1993), directed by Abel Ferrara, written by Stuart Gordon, Dennis Paoli, and Nicholas St. John, and starring Gabrielle Anwar, Meg Tilly, R. Lee Ermey, and Forest Whitaker
• The Invasion (2007), directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel, written by David Kajganich, and starring Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig, Jeffrey Wright, and Veronica Cartwright

Footnotes:

• Capgras delusion
• "This is Reality" from TV Tropes
• Jeff Goldblum's IMDb profile
• "Why ‘Invasion of the Body Snatchers’ Still Haunts Its Director", The Hollywood Reporter's interview with Philip Kaufman
• Roger Ebert's Review of Body Snatchers (1993)
• Meg Tilly's blog post about her Body Snatchers body double
• "Cool Glitch Effect On Movie Studio Logo Must Mean Shit About To Go Down" from The Onion

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Episode 102 of Adapt or Perish is here, and it’s time for our Four Year Spectacular! In it, we’ll look back at the best (and worst) adaptations that this past year has given us.

In this episode we discuss the episodes in which we discussed:

• The Addams Family
• High Fidelity
• Christmas in Connecticut
• The Manchurian Candidate
• The Parent Trap
• 3:10 to Yuma
• Emma (and Clueless)
• Valley of the Dolls
• The Day the Earth Stood Still
• A Little Princess
• Wings of Desire and City of Angels
• The Witches
• Stuart Little
• Wuthering Heights
• Planet of the Apes
• Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca
• The Stepford Wives
• Les Misérables
• 101 Dalmatians

Footnotes:

• A picture of Enrica Soma, Anjelica Huston's mother
• @hayleymills_official on Instagram

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What better way is there to commemorate episode 101 of Adapt or Perish than with a look at the Disney classic One Hundred and One Dalmatians?

In this episode we discuss:

• Dodie Smith's original 1956 novel The Hundred and One Dalmatians
• One Hundred and One Dalmatians, Disney's 1961 animated movie, directed by Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske, and Wolfgang Reitherman, and written by Bill Peet
• 101 Dalmatians, Disney's 1996 live-action remake, directed by Stephen Herek, written by John Hughes, and starring Glenn Close, Jeff Daniels, Joely Richardson, and Hugh Laurie

Footnotes:

• I Capture the Castle
• The Starlight Barking
• Nothing Like a Dame (released in the United States as Tea With the Dames)

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Episode 100 of Adapt or Perish has finally arrived, and with it we bring the last installment of our three-part look at Victor Hugo's Les Misérables. And this one is all. About. The musical.

Listen to our prior installments:

• Part One and Part Two on the web
• Part One and Part Two on Apple Podcasts
• Part One and Part Two on Overcast
• Part One and Part Two on Spotify

In this episode we discuss:

• Les Misérables, the 1980 concept album and 1985 musical, music by Claude-Michael Schönberg and lyrics by Alain Boublil and Harold Kretzmer
• Les Misérables: The Dream Cast in Concert, the 1995 filmed concert, directed by Gavin Taylor, and starring Colm Wilkinson, Philip Quast, Lea Salonga, and Michael Ball
• Les Misérables in Concert: The 25th Anniversary, the 2010 filmed concert, directed by Nick Morris, and starring Alfie Boe, Norm Lewis, Nick Jonas, Samantha Barks, and Lea Salonga
• Les Misérables, the 2012 movie musical, directed by Tom Hooper, screenplay by William Nicholson, and starring Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway, Amanda Seyfried, Eddie Redmayne, and Samantha Barks
• Les Misérables: The Staged Concert, the 2019 filmed concert, directed by Nick Morris, and starring Alfie Boe, Michael Ball, Matt Lucas, and Carrie Hope Fletcher

Footnotes:

• Hey, Mr. Producer! (1998)
• Miss Saigon (1989)
• "Why the Music in Les Misérables (2012) is Worse than you Thought" by Sideways on YouTube

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It's time for part two of our three-part look at Victor Hugo's Les Misérables! Today, we're looking at six more French- and English-language screen adaptations, released from 1978 to 2018.

Listen to part one on:

• The web
• Apple Podcasts
• Overcast
• Spotify

In this episode we discuss:

• The 1978 American TV movie, directed by Glenn Jordan, written by John Gay, and starring Richard Jordan and Anthony Perkins
• The 1982 French movie, directed by Robert Hossein, written by Hossein and Alain Decaux, and starring Lino Ventura and Michel Bouquet
• The 1998 American movie, directed by Bille August, written by Rafael Yglesias, and starring Liam Neeson, Geoffrey Rush, Uma Thurman, and Claire Danes
• The 2000 French miniseries, directed by Josée Dayan, written by Didier Decoin, and starring Gérard Depardieu, John Malkovich, Christian Clavier, and Charlotte Gainsbourg
• Shōjo Cosette, the 2007 Japanese animated series, directed by Hiroaki Sakurai and written by Tomoko Motohashi
• The 2018 British miniseries, directed by Tom Shankland, written by Andrew Davies, and starring Dominic West, David Oyelowo, Lily Collins, and Olivia Colman

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