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re: One thing to remember

Posted by:	AlanScott 05:42 pm EDT 03/18/14
In reply to:	re: One thing to remember - Chromolume 08:55 am EDT 03/18/14

I think that when it comes to musicals, it really may have been more often than not during the Golden Age that producers bought the rights and then hired writers. But I agree that a major difference is that it was much less about name recognition than thinking something would make a good musical. The Pagnol trilogy was famous when Merrick set about trying to get the rights and putting together a team, but it shows the difference between then and now that Merrick went to a foreign-language trilogy for his first musical. It was believed that just doing a good show would lead to making money, which Merrick wanted to do (although he also really loved theatre). Nowadays a musical must run so long to make a real profit that it's believed a show must be a blockbuster, and that may be one factor pushing the tendency to adapt blockbuster movies much more often nowadays. The irony being, of course, that many of those shows flop.

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