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re: Daily Beast: Is Broadway Brain-Dead?

Posted by: Kimmelhisway 02:00 am EDT 03/18/14
In reply to: re: Daily Beast: Is Broadway Brain-Dead? - owk 09:04 pm EDT 03/17/14

While they may not have started on the stage, you don't see one of the titles listed, with the exception of How to Succeed, that has its source title. Now it's all about branding and using the film title so people think they're getting the film on stage. In the old days that was never the case, which is why you have Promises, Promises instead of The Apartment, The Musical or Cabaret rather than I Am a Camera, The Musical and on and on. The new movie to musicals don't want there to be any mistaking that they ARE the movie onstage.


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re: Daily Beast: Is Broadway Brain-Dead?

Posted by: ryhog 10:33 am EDT 03/18/14
In reply to: re: Daily Beast: Is Broadway Brain-Dead? - Kimmelhisway 02:00 am EDT 03/18/14

I think it is fair to say that the branding is the fulcrum of these enterprises. That's not all that surprising in the extreme cases where the film folks are actively engaged in the stage show (Disney obviously being the ne plus ultra) but it seems to be standard even in the cases where the studio wasn't really active in the process (e.g., Bridges). And it is also fair, I think, to say that had it been thus when My Fair Lady was written, it would be Pygmalion the Musical.


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re: Daily Beast: Is Broadway Brain-Dead?

Posted by: Alcindoro 03:33 pm EDT 03/18/14
In reply to: re: Daily Beast: Is Broadway Brain-Dead? - ryhog 10:33 am EDT 03/18/14

I wonder if as many people would have known how to pronounce "Pygmalion" correctly.


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re: Daily Beast: Is Broadway Brain-Dead?

Posted by: ryhog 03:57 pm EDT 03/18/14
In reply to: re: Daily Beast: Is Broadway Brain-Dead? - Alcindoro 03:33 pm EDT 03/18/14

isn't that what the show is about?


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re: Daily Beast: Is Broadway Brain-Dead?

Posted by: Alcindoro 09:53 am EDT 03/19/14
In reply to: re: Daily Beast: Is Broadway Brain-Dead? - ryhog 03:57 pm EDT 03/18/14

Twoo, vewwy two.


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