DOUBT Stage To Film: Why Did Shanley Change Mrs. Muller's Name?

[Wanna Be A Foster]

DOUBT Stage To Film: Why Did Shanley Change Mrs. Muller's Name?#1

Posted: 1/26/09 at 2:01am

In the play, her name was Mrs. Muller.

In the film, her name was Mrs. Miller.

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[B3TA07]

re: DOUBT Stage To Film: Why Did Shanley Change Mrs. Muller's Name?#2

Posted: 1/26/09 at 2:08am

Probably to make her character more accessible to the "mindless" American movie audience as you so candidly posted about the film months before you had seen it.

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[somethingwicked]

re: DOUBT Stage To Film: Why Did Shanley Change Mrs. Muller's Name?#2

Posted: 1/26/09 at 2:27am

https://forum.broadwayworld.com/readmessage.cfm?boardid=1&boardname=bway&thread=986779#3738967

Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
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