Editing Casablanca (film) (section)

== Adaptations ==
On [[radio]], there were several adaptations of the film. The two best-known are a thirty-minute adaptation on ''[[The Screen Guild Theater]]'' on April 26, 1943, starring Bogart, Bergman, and Henreid, and an hour-long version on the ''[[Lux Radio Theater]]'' on January 24, 1944, featuring [[Alan Ladd]] as Rick, [[Hedy Lamarr]] as Ilsa, and [[John Loder (actor)|John Loder]] as Laszlo. Two other thirty-minute adaptations were aired, one on ''[[Philip Morris Playhouse]]'' on September 3, 1943, and the other on ''Theater of Romance'' on December 19, 1944, in which Dooley Wilson reprised his role as Sam.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Klinger |first=Barbara |year=2015 |title=Pre-cult: Casablanca, radio adaptation, and transmedia in the 1940s |journal=New Review of Film and Television Studies |volume=13 |pages=45–62 |doi=10.1080/17400309.2014.982900 |s2cid=191655019}}</ref>

On [[television]], there have been two short-lived series based upon ''Casablanca'', both sharing the title. [[Casablanca (1955 TV series)|The first ''Casablanca'']] aired on [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] as part of the [[wheel series]] ''[[Warner Bros. Presents]]'' in hour-long episodes from 1955 to 1956. It was a Cold War espionage program set contemporaneously with its production, and starred [[Charles McGraw]] as Rick and [[Marcel Dalio]], who had played Emil the [[croupier]] in the movie, as the police chief.<ref>{{Harvnb|Harmetz|1992|pp=339–340}}</ref> [[Casablanca (1983 TV series)|The second ''Casablanca'']], broadcast on [[NBC]] in April 1983, starred [[David Soul]] as Rick and was canceled after three weeks.<ref name="harmetz342" />

The novel ''[[As Time Goes By (novel)|As Time Goes By]]'', written by [[Michael Walsh (author)|Michael Walsh]] and published in 1998, was authorized by Warner.<ref>{{Cite web |date=January 8, 1999 |title=Borders.com presents Michael Walsh, Author of 'As Time Goes By' |url=https://www.liveworld.com/transcripts/borders/1-08-1999.1-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20021028174808/http://www.liveworld.com/transcripts/borders/1-08-1999.1-1.html |archive-date=October 28, 2002 |access-date=August 13, 2007 |publisher=LiveWorld, Inc}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Walsh |first=Michael |year=1998 |title=How Did I Write 'As Time Goes By'? |url=https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/authorslounge/articles/1999/april/article7805.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071124225249/http://www.hachettebookgroupusa.com/authorslounge/articles/1999/april/article7805.html |archive-date=November 24, 2007 |access-date=August 13, 2007 |publisher=Hachette Book Group USA}}</ref> The novel picks up where the film leaves off, and also tells of Rick's mysterious past in America. The book met with little success.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Lawless |first=Jill |date=May 31, 2006 |title='Mrs. Robinson' Returns in Sequel |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/05/31/ap/entertainment/mainD8HUTL900.shtml |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071012203236/http://cbsnews.com/stories/2006/05/31/ap/entertainment/mainD8HUTL900.shtml |archive-date=October 12, 2007 |access-date=August 13, 2007 |website=CBS News}}</ref> [[David Thomson (film critic)|David Thomson]] provided an unofficial sequel in his 1985 novel ''Suspects''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Suspects by David Thomson |url=https://www.noexit.co.uk/suspects |access-date=June 17, 2017 |publisher=No Exit Press}}</ref>

Julius Epstein made two attempts to turn the film into a [[Broadway musical]], in 1951 and 1967, but neither made it to the stage.<ref>{{Harvnb|Harmetz|1992|p=338}}</ref> The original play, ''Everybody Comes to Rick's'', was produced in [[Newport, Rhode Island]], in August 1946, and again in London in April 1991, but met with no success.<ref>{{Harvnb|Harmetz|1992|p=331}}</ref> The film was adapted into a musical by the [[Takarazuka Revue]], an all-female Japanese musical theater company, and ran from November 2009 through February 2010.<ref>{{Cite web |title=「カサブランカ」 |url=https://kageki.hankyu.co.jp/casablanca/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090925065851/http://kageki.hankyu.co.jp/casablanca/ |archive-date=September 25, 2009 |access-date=October 3, 2009 |publisher=Takarazuka Revue Company}}</ref>

''CasablancaBox'', written by Sara Farrington and directed by Reid Farrington, premiered in New York in 2017 and was an imagined "[[making of]]" the film. It was nominated for two 2017 [[Drama Desk Award|Drama Desk]] awards, [[Drama Desk Award for Unique Theatrical Experience|Unique Theatrical Experience]] and [[Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Projection Design|Outstanding Projection Design]]. The ''New York Times'' described it as "a brave, almost foolhardy undertaking, presenting the backstage drama during the making of ''Casablanca''".<ref>{{Cite news |last=Webster |first=Andy |date=April 10, 2017 |title=Review: 'CasablancaBox' Is Looking at You, Kid, Behind the Scenes |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/10/theater/review-casablancabox-is-looking-at-you-kid-behind-the-scenes.html |access-date=November 28, 2021 |work=The New York Times}}</ref>