"High Fidelity" musical fails to match book, movie
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Nick Hornby's best-selling novel "High  Fidelity," whose characters concocted endless quirky top-five  lists, has been made into a Broadway musical that critics rate  among the top five that should never have been made.
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This two-character play, based on a Doris Lessing novel, exaggerates the bookâs bluntness without capturing its nuanced perceptions.
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âOroonokoâ is a disappointment onstage, maybe in part because it sounded so intriguing on paper.
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Theater buffs have been worried sick about what would happen to âSweeney Toddâ when it was remade as a film.  Stephen Sondheim, who wrote the score, eagerly wielded the razor.
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The new movie-musical version of 'Hairspray' is bouncy enough, but the high jinks smudge an important history lesson.
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&quot;Broadway: The American Musical&quot; starts like an infomercial and ends with a big, wet kiss for Disney. In between are six hours of song and dance guided by that lesser-known muse, Hyperbole.
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By Justin Davidson, Newsday, Melville, N.Y.  Sep. 25--MAYBE I MISSED THE MEMO -- the policy directive stating that the most effective strategy to achieve new English-language opera is to base it on a classic play or novel, preferably one that has already acquired a definitive film version.
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The holiday movie season is here. Some folks might want to see the flaccid sequel silliness of Bridget Jones: The Edge Of Reason or take in the failed Indiana Jones/Da Vinci Code rip-off that is National Treasure.
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It was an off-Broadway rave, but this play has more trite than bite
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Sure, there's the slick technology and stunning visuals, but the animated Polar Express doesn't do the book any favors. By Jason Silverman.
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This remake of the 1949 film 'All the King's Men' comes up way short of the original.
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Michel Gondry's beguiling new film is so profoundly idiosyncratic, and so confident in its oddity, that any attempt to describe it is bound to be misleading.
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&quot;Shrek&quot;, the CGI animated feature film that broke box office records worldwide and spawned an even more successful sequel, is coming to Broadway as a stage musical.
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Broadway's record-breaking musical "A  Chorus Line" has made a lukewarm return to the stage with  critics' praise mainly limited to the show's original concept  when it debuted 31 years ago.
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Distributor Miramax isn't ready to roll out the musical on Christmas Day.
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David Greig's new play is more pedantic than discomfiting, despite the ugly immediacy of the events it portrays.
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Russel Crowe's new film does not do justice to him.