| 100% | BOAT | 4 | "Show ___" (Broadway musical based on an Edna Ferber novel) |
| 71% | CIMARRON | 8 | 1931 Oscar-winning Western based on an Edna Ferber novel |
| 71% | CIMARRON | 8 | 1931's Best Picture, based on an Edna Ferber novel |
| 61% | OLIVER | 6 | Broadway musical about an orphan based on a novel by Charles Dickens |
| 61% | THEPHANTOMOF | 12 | Musical based on a French novel, "___ the Opera" is the longest-running show on Broadway: 3 wds. |
| 59% | AIDA | 4 | Broadway musical based on an opera that's set in Egypt |
| 59% | FAIRLADY | 8 | Musical based on a novel by George Bernard Shaw, "My ___" was the longest-running Broadway show between 1956 - 1962: 2 wds. |
| 55% | MANOFLAMANCHA | 13 | Broadway musical based on the Miguel de Cervantes novel "Don Quixote": 4 wds. |
| 55% | SHOWBOAT | 8 | Musical based on Edna Ferber's 1926 best-seller |
| 55% | CAMELOT | 7 | Broadway musical based on the T.H. White novel "The Once and Future King" |
| 54% | HALF | 4 | & 2D 1965 Broadway musical based on the novel Kipps by H G Wells |
| 54% | CABARET | 7 | Broadway musical based on the Christopher Isherwood novel "Goodbye to Berlin" |
| 52% | OLIVER | 6 | 1968 musical based on an 18-/41-Across novel, winner of the Oscar for Best Picture |
| 50% | FUNHOME | 7 | Show based on an Alison Bechdel memoir that got the Best Musical Tony |
| 50% | OLIVER | 6 | Broadway musical based on Dickens |
| 50% | WICKED | 6 | Broadway musical about the witches of Oz based on a novel by Gregory Maguire |
| 50% | AIDA | 4 | Musical based on an opera |
| 49% | RENT | 4 | Broadway musical based on "La Bohème" |
| 49% | ANNIE | 5 | Broadway musical based on a comic strip |
| 49% | HAMILTON | 8 | Musical based on an American Founding Father |
| 48% | LIONKING | 8 | Musical based on a Disney film, "The ___" is Broadway's third longest-running show and the highest grossing production: 2 wds. |
| 48% | SPAMALOT | 8 | Broadway musical based on a Monty Python film |
| 48% | ANNIE | 5 | Broadway musical based on a comic strip orphan |
| 48% | RAGTIME | 7 | Broadway musical based on E.L. Doctorow's book |
| 47% | AIDA | 4 | Elton John musical based on an opera |
| 47% | AIDA | 4 | "Another Pyramid" musical based on an opera |
| 47% | HADESTOWN | 9 | Broadway musical based on the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice |
| 47% | ANNIE | 5 | Hit Broadway musical based on a comic strip |
| 46% | SPAMALOT | 8 | Broadway musical based on material by Monty Python's Flying Circus |
| 46% | CABARET | 7 | Broadway musical about a Berlin nightclub based on a play by John Van Druten and a novel by Christopher Isherwood |