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The King's Speech impediment: when films don't work on stage by Mark Lawson

The King's Speech is struggling to make anywhere near the same impact on stage as it did on the big screen. Can cinematic and theatrical versions of the same piece happily co-exist?Two newspaper reports over the last few days offered conflicting evidence on a piece of theatrical wisdom. A Mail on Sunday article had pictures from the shooting of the movie version of the musical of Les Misérables , while, in the paper…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:56AM on April 17, 2012

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