![]() ![]() However, in the 1980s Russell Labey and Richard Taylor adapted the film into a musical for the National Youth Music Theatre. ![]() The best known is undoubtedly the 1996 version by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Jim Steinman, which ran in the West End for more than 1,000 performances and gave rise to the Boyzone hit No Matter What. However, less common is the fact that after the release of the film, the story was adapted not once but twice into a musical. James Haddrell, artistic and executive director of Greenwich Theatreīell’s 1959 book was adapted for the big screen just two years later by Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall and starred her daughter, Hayley Mills, and in 2005 the film was included in the BFI’s list of the 50 films you should see by the age of 14. Mirroring the journey of The Phantom Of The Opera, Les Miserables and Oliver!, Mary Hayley Bell’s tale of three children who find a convict in their family barn and become convinced that he’s Jesus began life as a novel. ![]() Like so many of the big musicals, Whistle Down The Wind started life in a very different form. ![]()
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