Broadway closed for covid, the musical goes to Hollywood

(ANSA) - NEW YORK, NOVEMBER 05 - With the lights of theaters turned off due to the Covid pandemic, Broadway arrives in Hollywood: after "Hamilton", Manuel Lin Miranda's musical about the Founding Fathers in a rap version "adopted" by Disney for On the next 4th of July, studios and streaming giants vie for show old and new.

    There were many catchphrases on the billboards: David Byrne's "American Utopia", which should have returned to Broadway this fall if it hadn't been for the coronavirus, landed on Hbo under the direction of Spike Lee after the virtual premiere at the Toronto Festival, while "The Boys in the Band" starring Jim Parsons, Zachary Quinto, Matt Bomer runs on Netflix and "What theConstitution Means to Me" is available on Amazon Prime after debuting on the "long white road" three years ago.

    "The Prom" starring Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, James Corden and Kerry Washington, adapted for Netflix (the curtain goes up December 4) by Ryan Murphy, is taken from a Tony Award play on an Indiana girl who wants to bring another alballo woman from high school and has a "multi-star" cast and special effects impossible in the theater.

And then "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom", "Wild Mountain Thyme", (based on "Outside Mullingar"), "WestSide Story," "In the Heights", "Diana: The Musical" "Dear EvanHansen", "13" and "Wicked".

    "It's something that goes around in the air," John Patrick Shanley, who wrote and directed "Wild MountainThyme", which is scheduled to be released "on demand" on December 11, told the New York Times.

   Broadway and Hollywood have always had a close relationship, but the dynamics of the relationship have changed over time.

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