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Posted by:	Alcindoro 11:54 am EST 11/23/14
In reply to:	The commodification of females in GIGI - lordofspeech 10:07 am EST 11/23/14

... the real reasons someone is trying to revisal GIGI for Broadway is that it's a pre-sold name commodity that happens to have a brilliant score. (That and few are coming up with any better ideas.) The smart if now-troublesome screenplay was the springboard for those brilliant songs, and warping it into a romance palatable to today's audiences seems blatantly meretricious. Ms. Thomas sounds like a smart person, but it's pretty clear that she's basically in this for the potential revenue. I wish everyone well on this project and maybe they can sell this thing to a target audience that doesn't tend to think much about what they're seeing, but it sounds like a bad idea to me. GIGI with a thick pre-fab corn-syrup veneer. I'd be far more interested in a responsible treatment of Collette's original, even without Lerner and Loewe.

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