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re: This gives me hope for a film of THE MOST HAPPY FELLA
Posted by: Revned 03:53 pm EST 02/14/21
In reply to: re: This gives me hope for a film of THE MOST HAPPY FELLA - Michael_Portantiere 03:26 pm EST 02/14/21

Thanks for posting the link to that! Interesting point about the sung dialogue. Maybe the nineteenth-century, British and French settings of SWEENEY, PHANTOM, and LES MIZ make their operatic qualities seem more appropriate on film, whereas recitative in a more contemporary American story like RENT or DREAMGIRLS would be more stylistically jarring.
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re: This gives me hope for a film of THE MOST HAPPY FELLA
Posted by: Michael_Portantiere 04:31 pm EST 02/14/21
In reply to: re: This gives me hope for a film of THE MOST HAPPY FELLA - Revned 03:53 pm EST 02/14/21

Maybe. Interesting that, while the film versions of both RENT and DREAMGIRLS did indeed cut out a lot of the sung dialogue from the shows, some of it was retained. One might argue that if SOME sung dialogue was acceptable in those movies, then more of it could have/would have/should have been acceptable as well. But whatever!
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