FilmBytes: 'The King's Speech' ... Oscars and Broadway?

The Great White Way (also known as Broadway) gets more and more like a ridiculously expensive movie theater every year. There are just so many movie adaptations on the stage. I love movies and I love Broadway but I don't want them to be the same thing. There are 40 Broadway theaters and of the shows playing or debuting this season a huge chunk are based on movies/television: BILLY ELLIOTT, MARY POPPINS, WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN, ELLING, PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT, THE ...

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