The German group Renegade Theater presented a b-boy adaptation of "Romeo and Juliet" called "Rumble" at the 2004 Fringe Festival, and in Britain the crew ZooNation created "Into the Hoods," based on the Stephen Sondheim musical "Into the Woods".
Walliams's latest role is as the rotten dinner lady in Billionaire Boy, the adaptation of his children's book.
Neversoft developed the GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox, and Microsoft Windows versions, while the Game Boy Advance adaptation was developed by Vicarious Visions and the mobile phone version by Jamdat.
A more beneficent breed of poetic justice is delivered at the National in "Coram Boy," Helen Edmundson's adaptation of Jamila Gavin's novel for young adults about 18th-century orphans in London and the enterprising villains who prey upon them.
Feature film audiences will also recognize Leslie from his performance as Brother Boy in Del Shores' adaptation of his play Sordid Lives with Olivia Newton-John, Delta Burke, Beth Grant and Beau Bridges.
And for the boys, which Kevin Elyot's adaptation of Isherwood's own memoir doesn't shy away from – there's an awful lot of Wie geht's Deinen Vater going on in the cellar bars and clubs.
The same can't be said of his best films (both directed with his brother, Paul Weitz), the exuberantly vulgar comedy "American Pie" and "About a Boy," a near-seamless adaptation of the Nick Hornby novel.
Neither of those films was very well received, nor was Golden Boy (1939), Mamoulian's adaptation of Clifford Odets's proletarian drama of the same name, which had been a smash for the Group Theatre in 1937.
Death Proof was also beaten by the top-placed Simon Pegg comedy, Run, Fat Boy, Run (£1.2m), Ian McEwan adaptation Atonement (£1.16m) and Seth Rogen comedy Superbad (£1.06m), all of which were previously released.
Top Gear took two of the top three spots in a festive iPlayer top 10 which also featured the first part of the Miranda finale, The Apprentice final, David Walliams' adaptation The Boy in the Dress and four episodes of EastEnders, including the Christmas Day edition.
The success of The Kampung Boy led to its adaptation as an animated series.
