The Movie Musical: The Art Form of the Movie

The very business we call show!

The performance rights to the musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch are held by a company called Broadway Licensing. You pay them a royalty, you get a license, you can legally perform the show.

All of their scripts and librettos have a copyright shorthand, the dos and don'ts of licenses and legalities. One line reads, "Do NOT alter the text of the Play...delete any dialogue...or alter any objectionable language, unless explicitly authorized by Broadway Licensing."

That's pretty standard. In the theatre, the words in a script aren't just gospel, they are the gospel. Perfectly formed scripture to be memorized and lived by. 

Three pages later lives the Author's Note, where writers John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask say Fuck that.