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Jason Robert Brown should do The Green Mile or Shawshank Redemption. 

Jeanine Tesori could do a fantastic take on The Secret History.

Marc Shaiman would have a blast doing The Westing Game, though I’m not entirely sure it’s adaptable. 

Needs more “now more than ever.”

It’s a question of, is the taking out emotional neglect/resentment, physical violence or sexual abuse? 

The reviews I’ve read indicate interspersed fantasy song and dance numbers with old time songs like “When You’re Smiling.” Which sounds to me like they’re deliberately doing a pastiche of All That Jazz and the Dennis Potter films, aka the sort of “ironic postmodern musicals” a film bro who doesn’t like musicals would still like.

Years later I unexpectedly found my answer: my brain accidentally superimposed Mr Bernstein from “Forbidden Zone” into “Sweet Charity.” The beard, the singsongy speech and Ishkebibble singing are all there.

You will get splashes of that mixed with some extremely beautiful harmonies. These aren’t just kids, they’re WEIRD kids.

Isn’t that the same situation as English productions of DOTV/TDV? It’s theoretically available but they only seem willing to approve top tier versions, so… nothing.

People often blame Scott Schwartz for the Schwartz men’s descent into story theatre as cliche, but… his dad is Stephen Schwartz. The composer of Godspell and Pippin, probably the two most mainstream popular works to ever use story theatre as a backbone.

Hell, before its Broadway premiere, Wicked was story theatre rooted in LA.

The only similar situation I can think of is Balderson/Deane’s “Dracula,” where the stage show did not contain the castle scene with all the iconic lines. When the play and film are both public domain next year, you can bet it’s getting added in.

Has Mamet ever revised the stage show to include the “sales representative meeting” from the film? 
 

I think Mamet has to be the only playwright whose best remembered and most infinitely quoted and referenced material is all from a scene that appears only in the film version. It’s a good play, but that scene in the film is better than any scene in the show.