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Well, there's the HUCKLEBERRY FINN musical that was being written by Alan Jay Lerner and Burton Lane. That really seems to have petered out, though it appears nearly a full score of songs was written.
As for "lost" shows and film adaptations, the most immediate that comes to mind is the stage show Lionel Bart, who wrote OLIVER, worked on for some time, based on Hugo's HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME, which, Bart hoped, would also feature his star of OLIVER, Georgia Brown. Apparently, the whole show foundered, and I don't know if it ever reached any kind of performance phase.
On the other hand, I'd be interested in hearing the material that Lerner and Frederick Loew wrote for the out-of-town tryout of CAMELOT, up in Toronto. A former friend familiar with the project once told me multiple sub-plots and songs were written, performed, and discarded, and that, when it finally opened there, it ran more than 4 hours long.
In all the years I've been interested in such things, I've found that, of all material that writers have tried to adapt, there have been more stage musical versions based on both CYRANO DE BERGERAC and HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME than anything else. And I'm always interested in hearing material from musicals that never got very far, such as the Leonard Bernstein attempt to musicalize Thornton Wilder's THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH, later adapted by John Kander and Fred Ebb, of CABARET fame.
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