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Woke up Broadway: the difficulty of updating stories for the stage

by Alexis Soloski

The uptick in hauling older scripts, from Tootsie to Moulin Rouge, to the stage has left playwrights with many hurdles Here is a question from Tootsie, the Broadway musical about an out-of-work actor who cross-dresses for success: "At a time when women are literally clutching their power back from between the legs of men, you have the audacity to take a job away from one by perpetrating one?" That line sticks out for…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:03am on August 13, 2019