The Movie Musical: Adaptation
What do you need to change about a musical’s book to make it a film’s screenplay?
On the nineteenth day of the month of December, in the year of our Lord 1986, a film was released with an ending entirely different from the one audiences recognized from the stage musical. It came about as most studio-enforced reshot endings often do, from the test screening comment cards in San Jose, the least innocent and most likely of places.
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