The musical version of “Once,” the tale of a Dublin street musician whose encounter with a young woman changes his life, has earned praise from critics and audiences alike: The show won eight Tonys, including best musical, in its initial 2012 Broadway run, and its soundtrack won a Grammy in 2013 for best musical theater album.

It almost makes you forget that “Once” had its start in 2007 as a small-budget, sleeper-hit film, with the song “Falling Slowly” winning an Oscar for best song in 2008.

As Broadway and movie musicals become more interchangeable, it can be difficult to remember the origin of even the most popular productions: Did they start onstage or on-screen? Test your memory here in a quiz that dodges the entire cottage industry of Disney animated-feature-turned-Broadway-musical.

1. “On the Town”

2. “Grease”

3. “White Christmas”

4. “Bye Bye Birdie”

5. “The Wizard of Oz”

6. “Mary Poppins”

7. “Dirty Dancing”

8. “42nd Street”

9. “Singin’ in the Rain”

10. “Chicago”

11. “Hairspray”

12. “An American in Paris”

13. “Gigi”

14. “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang”

15. “Newsies”

Answers

1. Stage. “On the Town” debuted on Broadway in 1944 and was made into a popular movie in 1949. Its latest Broadway revival was in 2014.

2. Stage. The 1971 original “Grease” on Broadway was altered to become the hit movie musical in 1978.

3. Screen. The classic 1954 movie musical “White Christmas” was the basis of a stage musical that toured in 2004 and played on Broadway in 2008.

4. Stage. The Tony-winning 1960 Broadway musical “Bye Bye Birdie” was the basis for the 1963 film.

5. Screen. There were several stage productions of “The Wizard of Oz” story before the 1939 film classic, but that movie was the basis of most subsequent stage musicals, including one in 2011 with new material by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber.

6. Screen. The live-action 1964 musical film “Mary Poppins” was turned into a stage musical in London’s West End in 2004; the show hit Broadway in 2006.

7. Screen. The hit movie “Dirty Dancing” was adapted into something called “Dirty Dancing: The Classic Story on Stage” in 2004.

8. Screen. Busby Berkeley’s dizzying 1933 film “42nd Street” was adapted into a 1980 stage musical.

9. Screen. The 1952 musical film “Singin’ in the Rain” was turned into a 1983 West End musical that came to Broadway in 1985.

10. Stage. Based on a 1926 play, the John Kander and Fred Ebb musical “Chicago” opened on Broadway in 1975 and was an Oscar-winning film in 2002.

11. Screen. “Hairspray” was a 1988 John Waters film before heading to Broadway in 2002 and then back to the screen in 2007.

12. Screen. The 1951 Gene Kelly film “An American in Paris” didn’t make it to the stage until 2008. A new Broadway adaptation, directed by Christopher Wheeldon, won a Tony for best musical this year.

13. Screen. The 1958 Lerner and Loewe musical film “Gigi” had its debut onstage this year at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts before heading to Broadway.

14. Screen. The 1968 musical film “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang” was adapted into a 2002 West End production; it came to Broadway in 2005.

15. Screen. Somewhat of a failure when it was first released as a musical film in 1992, “Newsies” was revived in a 2012 Broadway musical.

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