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Posted by:	finally 11:03 pm EDT 03/17/14
In reply to:	re: screen to stage - not good - dlittle 08:45 pm EDT 03/17/14

Exactly how I felt leaving Beaches the Musical in your last sentence. If your show has nothing more to offer over the movie, why bother?

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Posted by:	Chromolume 12:20 am EDT 03/18/14
In reply to:	You just described... - finally 11:03 pm EDT 03/17/14

It's also, conversely, one of the resons I thought making a film of Nine was not a good idea. 8 1/2 and Nine are very different properties - obviously Nine is based on the Fellini film, but it works on its own terms as a stage piece rather than seeming like just a stage version of the that film. And from the beginning I felt that the things that made Nine work onstage would not necessarily translate back to film so easily. And, in the end, I tend to think the musical film didn't serve either medium very well - it had to make too many changes to the musical to represent the musical property itself, but it also just didn't seem like a great film in its own right. They should have just tried to do a remake of 8 1/2 (though why anyone would want to do that would be beyond me, lol).

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