The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - Stage and Music Adaptations

Stage and Music Adaptations

• Sleepy Hollow (1948), a Broadway musical, with music by George Lessner and book and lyrics by Russell Maloney and Miriam Battista. It lasted 12 performances.
• The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1989), a one-act stage adaptation by Kathryn Schultz Miller.
• The Legend of Sleepy Hollow for Speaker & Orchestra (1999), a 15 minute composition by Robert Lichtenberger; it premiered October 2001 by Lincoln's Symphony Orchestra (Lincoln, NE) conducted by Tyler White.
• The Legend of Sleepy Hollow in Concert (2004), part musical theater, radio drama, and festival, an annual production with music by Steven J. Smith, Jr. and lyrics by Jensen Oler and Smith; it premiered in Lehi, Utah at Olympic Park on October 8, 2004.
• The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (2009), an opera, with music by William Withem and libretto by Melanie Helton; it premiered March 27, 2009, in the Concert Auditorium at Michigan State University.
• Sleepy Hollow (2009), a musical with book and lyrics by Jim Christian and music by Tom Edward Clark. It premiered at Weber State University in Ogden, Utah on October 30, 2009. It received the 2009 Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival Musical Theatre Award.
• The Hollow (2011). Book by Hunter Foster, music & lyrics by Matt Conner, directed by Matt Gardiner; premiered at Signature Theatre in Washington, DC (Eric Schaeffer, Artistic Director).

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow adapted by Darkstuff Productions at the Bierkeller Theatre Bristol, England Christmas 2012.

• Legend of Sleepy Hollows, a novelty Doo-Wop song, recorded by Monotones of Book of Love fame
• Legend of the Headless Rider is a song by the legendary Mercyful Fate (fronted by the notorious King Diamond) on their In the Shadows album.