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Adaptations

In 1961, the novella was loosely adapted into the movie Breakfast at Tiffany's starring Audrey Hepburn and directed by Blake Edwards. The movie was transposed to contemporary times rather than the 1940s, the period of the novel.

Holly Golightly, a musical version of Breakfast at Tiffany's, premiered in 1966 in Boston. The initial performances were panned by the critics and despite a rewrite by Edward Albee it closed after only four performances.^[3]

Three years later, Stefanie Powers and Jack Kruschen starred in another adaptation, Holly Golightly (1969), an unsold ABC sitcom pilot. Kruschen's role was based on Joe Bell, a major character in Capote's novella who was omitted from the film version.

Playwright Samuel Adamson adapted the novella into a play for a 2009 production at the Theatre Royal Haymarket in London, directed by Sean Mathias and starring Anna Friel as Holly Golightly and Joseph Cross as William Parsons.^[4]