"People were taking movie musicals, rewriting them (not always for the better), and putting them on Broadway. I always wanted to do a number where Noël Coward would come on and sing, 'Don't put that movie on the stage, Mr. Mackintosh, don't put that movie on the stage!'"
— Gerard Alessandrini, Forbidden Broadway: Behind the Mylar Curtain
Every big hit show is based on a movie
(And we're glad to add to it)
People think that theatre's film on the stage.
(Did you see The Graduate?)
(And we're glad to add to it)
People think that theatre's film on the stage.
(Did you see The Graduate?)
— Forbidden Broadway, "Thoroughly Perky Millie"
