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re: Who is going to turn "How I Met Your Mother" into a musical...

Posted by:	EvFoDr 12:13 pm EDT 04/01/14
In reply to:	re: Who is going to turn "How I Met Your Mother" into a musical... - PatrickHSF 09:24 am EDT 04/01/14

Happy Days. There is a touring show based on I Love Lucy. I think the big difference between movies and TV shows is that most TV shows tell their stories over an extended period of time. At least one season, and often more. Movies (and live theater) tell a story over a period of a few hours or so. It seems to me that if you ARE going to adapt a TV show, you have to pick a specific episode, or I guess you could just use the characters and situation of the TV show and write an original story, but clearly that hasn't inspired many (any?) I did not see Happy Days. I Love Lucy recreates two famous episodes but intersperses them with commercials (songs, jingles), and interaction with the "studio" audience, so they sort of found a way "in" to the episodic framework.

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