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Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Broadway turns to Hollywood for inspiration

Yahoo! News: As Broadway theater experiences unprecedented success with its highest-grossing year of $1.1 billion in ticket sales and the US film box office dips by up to 5 percent, according to The Wrap, it is no wonder that Hollywood is turning its films into musicals.
Stage-to-screen productions have been common for decades as a way to reach a broader audience. In 2011, Tony winners God of Carnage and War Horse as well as Farragut North (known as Ides of March on film) became films.

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