Stars, Studios, and the Musical Theatre Screen Adaptation

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  • Stars, Studios, and the Musical Theatre Screen Adaptation Book Detail

  • Author : Dominic Broomfield-McHugh
  • Release Date : 2023-02-28
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Genre : Film adaptations
  • Pages : 401
  • ISBN 13 : 0197663257
  • File Size : 78,78 MB
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Stars, Studios, and the Musical Theatre Screen Adaptation by Dominic Broomfield-McHugh PDF Summary

Book Description: "From Show Boat (1936) to The Sound of Music (1965) and from Grease (1978) to Chicago (2002), many of the most beloved film musicals in Hollywood history originated as Broadway shows. And in the three years since the original publication of the chapters in this volume (as The Oxford Handbook of Musical Theatre Screen Adaptations, 2019) the phenomenon has persisted, with new adaptations such as Cats, In the Heights, Tick, Tick...Boom!, Dear Evan Hansen, and Spielberg's remake of West Side Story. Yet in general, the number of screen adaptations of Broadway musicals and operettas is far greater than the number that have met with success, especially both critical and commercial success (i.e., good reviews and a profit at the box office). This is all the more surprising since Hollywood tended almost (if not quite) exclusively to buy the rights to musicals that had been successful on the stage as a means of guaranteeing a profitable outcome. After all, musicals that had already enjoyed long runs and nationwide productions on the stage ought to have a readymade audience. One might also think that because the authors had puzzled over the individual challenges posed by such properties in their stage incarnations, it ought to be easier to turn them into strong film musicals. But for every West Side Story there were several Finian's Rainbows, Man of La Manchas, and Carousels: movies that simply did not do justice to the 'enchanted evenings' these works provided in their stage incarnations"--

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