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21 March 2001 | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

Broadway is increasingly turning to Hollywood for source material as stage producers attempt to reduce their risks, the New York Daily News observed today (Wednesday). By the end of the 2001-02 season, nine Broadway shows will have opened that were based on movies. Besides the currently running hits, The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, and The Full Monty, the others include The Producers, The Sweet Smell of Success, Summer of '42, Moonstruck, Thoroughly Modern Millie and The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T. In addition, productions of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Judgment at Nuremberg, while not based originally on movies, would not have made it to Broadway had it not been for the films, the NYDN observed. Marty Bell, co-producer of Sweet Smell of Success, told the newspaper: "Everybody's trying to find a way to be safe in a business you can't be safe in."

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