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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9595175" data-attributes="member: 18">Yeah absolutely this.It's very hard to think of Broadway/off-Broadway musicals which were improved by Hollywood adaption, and very easy to think of ones changed beyond recognition, reduced to mediocrity by terrible casting (especially of non-singers or somehow worse, talented singers who inexplicably weren't singing well), or just absolutely nuked from orbit. My precious darling Into The Woods got that latter "nuked from orbit" treatment, just absolutely bombarded by a director who fundamentally didn't understand really anything about Into The Woods, focused on some of the least important elements, cut some of the best bits, and who did a Mortal Kombat finishing move on the whole thing by casting James Corden in it (honestly why not just cast a rickety wheelbarrow full of very fresh horse dung whilst you're at it! What the hell was going on in Hollywood that he kept getting cast in stuff? He can't act, he's super-smug and 'orrible-looking, and not in a fun way, and he's a charmless oik and real serial jerk towards service workers to boot, I hear). I worry about what state Sondheim was in that he "approved" the changes. I sincerely hope it was "Sorry I am too busy rolling around in these $100 notes to care".</blockquote>