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Broadway's affair with Musicals based on films

Posted by:	NewtonUK ( ) 10:11 am EDT 03/18/14
In reply to:	re: Daily Beast: Is so full of errors-musicals from films - NewtonUK 09:48 am EDT 03/18/14

The numbers tell it all - the increasing lack of imagination on Broadway as musicals based on movies - any movie - take over the Great White Way. In olden days, this only happened when there was (usually) a really good impulse: 81/2 became 9. Ninotchka became Silk Stockings. Smiles of a Summer Night became A Little Night Music; Nights of Cabiria became Sweet Charity. Here are the original musicals based on films by the numbers. 1970-1980 7 of 139 new musicals 5% 1980-1990 9 of 105 new musicals 8.5% 1990-2000 12 of 72 new musicals 16% 2000-2014 38 of 138 mew musicals 26% 15 of the 38 musicals in 2000-2014 were hits. That's 39%. About one third better odds than musicals success overall. This will not staunch the trend.

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