WHIMSY WASHOUT Adapting a film or play into a musical is a dicey proposition. There’s no perfect formula, but theater’s great librettists"Oscar Hammerstein, Alan Jay Lerner, et al."knew that however well the source material worked, scenes had to be shuffled, characters dropped, and songs written to establish character and advance plot. The creators of Amélie, A New Musical took on [……
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:10PM on December 19, 2016