Broadway Musicals

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The musical was long a Hollywood staple, a genre that was used year after year. After the 1960s, however, the film musical all but disappeared, though it continued in a modified form as a Broadway staple, just as it had been throughout this century.

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"The musical was long a Hollywood staple, a genre that was used year after year. After the 1960s, however, the film musical all but disappeared, though it continued in a modified form as a Broadway staple, just as it had been throughout this century. Imitation drives the motion picture industry as it seeks material for films, but it also drives Broadway to a great extent. Broadway and Hollywood have taken turns in recent years in originating material which would then be taken over by the other so that stage plays like Grease and Evita are adapted to film, while recent films such as The Lion King and older films such as Sunset Boulevard have been adapted to the stage. Hollywood and Broadway have in many instances in recent years combined forces to develop material for the screen that would also be valuable on stage, or for the stage that would be worthwhile as a film. The ..."

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