When "Sweeney Todd" was finally released as a movie musical in 2007, twenty-eight years after its debut on Broadway, Stephen Sondheim said "everyone who has attempted to translate a stage musical to film has underestimated the distance between the languages." Geoffrey Block largely disagrees, in "A Fine Romance Adapting Broadway to Hollywood in the Studio System...
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:26PM on March 5, 2023