Editing Arms and the Man (section)

==Adaptations==
[[File:Chocolate Soldier - Workman.jpg|thumb|The scene in ''[[The Chocolate Soldier]]'' in which Bumerli (the equivalent of Bluntschli) enters the bedroom of Nadina (the equivalent of Raina), in a 1910 London production]]

*Shaw gave {{Interlanguage link multi|Leopold Jacobson|de}} the rights to adapt the play into what became the operetta ''[[The Chocolate Soldier]]'' (1908) with music by [[Oscar Straus (composer)|Oscar Straus]], but under three conditions: none of Shaw's dialogue or character names could be used, the musical version must be advertised as a parody of Shaw's play, and Shaw would accept no payment. Nonetheless, the operetta kept Shaw's original plot and central message.<ref name="bare_url">Ellwood Annaheim (February 2002). "Shaw's Folly – Straus' Fortune". Archived from the original on 20 June 2005. https://web.archive.org/web/20050620092840/http://www.geocities.com/musictheater/chocolate/chocolate.html.</ref> Shaw despised the result, calling it "a putrid ''opéra bouffe'' in the worst taste of 1860", but grew to regret not accepting payment when, despite his opinion, it became a lucrative international success.<ref name="bare_url" /> 
*When Shaw heard, in 1921, that [[Franz Lehár]] wanted to set his play ''[[Pygmalion (play)|Pygmalion]]'' to music, he sent word to Vienna that Lehár be instructed that he could not touch ''Pygmalion'' without infringing Shaw's copyright and that Shaw had "no intention of allowing the history of ''The Chocolate Soldier'' to be repeated."<ref name="bare_url" /> Only after Shaw's death was ''Pygmalion'' eventually adapted by [[Lerner and Loewe]] as ''[[My Fair Lady]]'' (1956).
*A [[Arms and the Man (1932 film)|1932 British film adaptation]] (now believed lost) was directed by [[Cecil Arthur Lewis|Cecil Lewis]]. It starred [[Barry Jones (actor)|Barry Jones]] as Bluntschli and [[Anne Grey]] as Raina.
*A filmed version of ''Arms and the Man'' in [[German language|German]] entitled ''[[Arms and the Man (1958 film)|Helden]]'' (''Heroes'') starring [[O. W. Fischer]] and [[Liselotte Pulver]] was runner up for the [[Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film]] in 1958.
*An audio version was produced by the [[BBC]] in 1975 starring [[Ralph Richardson]] as Captain Bluntschli, [[John Gielgud]] as Major Sergius Saranoff, [[Vanessa Redgrave]] as Raina and [[Judi Dench]] as Louka.
*A second BBC radio production was produced in 1984 and broadcast on [[BBC Radio 7]] in February 2009 starring [[Andrew Sachs]] as Captain Bluntschli, [[Jackie Smith-Wood]] as Raina and [[Gary Bond]] as Major Saranoff.
*A third BBC Radio production was broadcast on [[BBC Radio 3]] on 21 March 2010 starring [[Rory Kinnear]] as Captain Bluntschli, [[Lydia Leonard]] as Raina and [[Tom Mison]] as Major Saranoff. This production was produced by [[Nicolas Soames]] and directed by [[David Timson]].
*An audio version was produced in 1999 by the [[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation|CBC]] starring [[Simon Bradbury]] as Captain Bluntschli, [[Elizabeth Brown (actor)|Elizabeth Brown]] as Raina and [[Andrew Gillies]] as Major Saranoff.
*Another audio version was produced in 2006 by the [[L.A. Theatre Works]] starring [[Jeremy Sisto]] as Captain Bluntschli, [[Anne Heche]] as Raina and [[Teri Garr]] as Catherine.
*A [[musical theatre|musical]] by [[Udo Jürgens]], ''Helden, Helden'', also based on Shaw's play, premiered at the [[Theater an der Wien]], [[Vienna]], Austria in 1973.