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If it's "based on" the play, then it is an adaptation (and it doesn't pretend otherwise)

Posted by:	AlanScott 12:43 am EDT 08/16/14
In reply to:	re: The Visit is not an "adaptation" - actor103 11:32 pm EDT 08/15/14

"Indeed the show.bills itself as 'based on' the original play. For me that is what the musical is." How else would it bill itself? I think the two standard phrases are "based on" and "adapted from," and occasionally we see something like "suggested by." I usually take "based on" to suggest more fidelity to the source material than "adapted from," while "suggested by" would indicate the least. I've never heard anyone suggest that a musical that is either "based on" or "adapted from" another work is not an adaptation.

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