Genre
Broadway Musical Adaptations
Stage musicals transferred to film, and the permanent problem that comes with it: what to do with a form built for a live room and a fixed proscenium.
Four textbook cases
Not the best four — the four that define the shape. Start anywhere.
Cabaret
Bob Fosse · 1972
Chicago
Rob Marshall · 2002
Fiddler on the Roof
Norman Jewison · 1971
Little Shop of Horrors
Frank Oz · 1986
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