This is not a usual screenwriting assignment. I was hired to turn the super-successful stage musical into a movie " a show I admired and loved. From the start, my brief to myself was: Don't screw it up, don't fix what isn't broken. However, the process of putting the story on screen demanded some changes. Throughout I was to proceed under the eye of the original creators of the show, who rightly retained authorship i…
SOURCE: Vulture at 04:36PM on December 26, 2012