NYTimes.com: WHEN a team of Broadway veterans began pitching New York producers on turning the classic 1976 movie “Rocky” into a musical, the mere idea made people wince. Would it have a chorus of tap-dancing boxers? Fighters breaking into song in the ring? A musclehead made eloquent with rhyming lyrics, as he punches sides of beef in a meat locker?
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I think bringing "Rocky" to stage was a very interesting choice. I would not necessarily encourage the choice that the producers made, but it seems to have worked for them. Even though this article was written last year, I have noticed upon further research that the show has gained momentum and has its Broadway debut in February 2014. I, personally, find some issues with bringing movies to stage. The director and producers of that movie intended it to be a film. Now I do understand that the production team must get permission and the rights, but often, they should leave the story the way it was told. "Rocky" I think might work because it is not necessarily converted into a musical. It was adapted. The kept the story in the form of a satire and did not "broadway-ize" it.
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