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re: All those songs cut from INTO THE WOODS film

Posted by:	ashleylm 04:28 pm EDT 08/15/14
In reply to:	re: All those songs cut from INTO THE WOODS film - MikeR 10:30 pm EDT 08/14/14

I'm firmly in the camp that thinks you ought to deviate from your source material where it will make a better film. You can go too far (we've all seen films based on books that were so altered one wonders why they bothered to keep the title) but eliminating a song here or there is not the end of the world, and in many cases (e.g. "Ever After") probably make sense to lose. Songs are written for a number of reasons: to signal the end of an act, to give more for the star to do, to cover set changes, etc., none of which matter to a movie. The stage musical will still exist, and the film will be something different. Cabaret was much changed, and works extremely well as a film. Little Shop of Horrors altered its ending, and thank goodness or my kids would have been in tears last weekend. The Producers was very faithful to the source, and ended up meh.

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