Film adaptation adapted as both a musical play called "Kiss Me, Kate", which opened on Broadway in 1948, and as the 1953 Hollywood musical of the same name. "The Taming of the Shrew" was again retold in 1999 as a teen comedy set in a high school in "10 Things I Hate about You", and also in 2003 as an urban romantic comedy, "Deliver Us from Eva". The 1961 musical film "West Side Story" was adapted from "Romeo and Juliet", with its first incarnation as a Broadway musical play that opened in 1957. The animated film "The Lion King" (1994) was inspired
Karen McCullah Karen McCullah Karen McCullah (formerly Karen McCullah Lutz) is an American screenwriter and novelist. McCullah was born in the Philippines, where her father had been assigned with the United States Navy performing counterespionage duties. She grew up in Bergen County, New Jersey, and graduated from Indian Hills High School in her hometown of Oakland, New Jersey. As a high school student, she maintained in her diary "10 Things I Hate About Anthony", her boyfriend at the time, which ultimately led to the title of her 1999 film, "10 Things I Hate About You". She is a graduate of James Madison