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re: Daily Beast: Is Broadway Brain-Dead?

Posted by:	AlanScott 05:24 am EDT 03/18/14
In reply to:	re: Daily Beast: Is Broadway Brain-Dead? - owk 09:04 pm EDT 03/17/14

Maybe I'm misunderstanding. If I am, forgive me. But if West Side Story, Carousel, Oklahoma! and My Fair Lady were not based on projects that started on stage, where did the projects they were based on originate? Admittedly, My Fair Lady borrows a great deal from the 1938 film version of Pygmalion, to such a degree that it may fairly be said that the musical was adapted from the movie, but still the movie came from the play (and much of the expansion that the musical borrowed came from Shaw's screenplay). But the other three all came from plays exclusively (yes, Lilliom had been filmed twice, but I think the films had little influence on the musical), and even Cabaret came in part from I Am a Camera. In fact, I suspect that without the play, we would not have had the musical. Again, perhaps I'm misunderstanding.

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