Editing The Brady Bunch (section)

==Unauthorized adaptations==
An unauthorized stage show, ''The Real Live Brady Bunch'', was created by siblings [[Joey Soloway]] and Faith Soloway at [[Chicago]]’s [[Annoyance Theatre]] in 1991. The cast, including [[Andy Richter]] as Mike, [[Jane Lynch]] as Carol, and [[Melanie Hutsell]] as Jan, performed original ''Brady Bunch'' scripts verbatim on stage.<ref name = "Chicagoist">{{cite web| website=Chicagoist| URL=https://chicagoist.com/2013/07/07/chicagoist_weekend_theater_jane_lyn.php| title=Chicagoist Weekend Theater: The Real Live Brady Bunch |first=Chuck |last=Sudo |date=Jul 7, 2013 |accessdate=February 1, 2025}}</ref> The show became a phenomenon in Chicago, with “new” episodes transcribed and performed every two weeks. Guest performers included Eve Plumb and Davy Jones, while Robert Reed and Susan Olsen attended multiple performances.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Way We All Became The Brady Bunch: How the Canceled Sitcom Became the Beloved Pop Culture Icon We Are Still Talking About Today |first=Kimberly|last=Potts|year=2019|publisher=Grand Central Publishing|ISBN=9781538716595}}</ref> [[Paramount Pictures|Paramount]] was preparing legal action over the stage show when Sherwood Schwartz visited Chicago. Charmed by the tribute, Schwartz agreed to grant rights to the Soloways. The show went on to run in [[New York City|New York]] and [[Los Angeles]].<ref>{{cite web|website=The Los Angeles Times|title=Here's the Story of How They Became the 'Live Brady Bunch'|first=Chris |last=Willman | date=April 21, 1992| url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-04-21-ca-507-story.html|accessdate=February 1, 2025}}</ref> Joey Soloway became a successful television producer, with credits including ''[[Transparent (TV series)|Transparent]]''.<ref name="Chicagoist"/>

[[David Gilbert (author)|David Gilbert]]’s 2014 short story, “Here’s the Story,” imagines a backstory for the series, in which the original spouses of Carol and Mike are on the verge of beginning an extramarital affair when they both die in the same plane crash. The story ran in ''[[The New Yorker]]'' in 2014.<ref>{{cite web|website=The New Yorker|first=David|last=Gilbert|title=Here's the Story|date=June 2, 2014|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/06/09/heres-the-story|accessdate=February 1, 2025}}</ref>