Posted
12:35 PM
by Gene
Theatrical producers, perhaps the only people dumber than TV executives -- although
book publishers may also be in the running -- are churning out a slew of musicals (most probably not off the drawing board yet)
based on movies. "'There is a poverty of ideas, a dearth of invention afoot,' sighs critic John Simon of
New York magazine, who called the late
The Dance of the Vampires - a musical rendering of a Roman Polanski film - 'a new low.'"
IS? Don't you mean
has been, Mr. Simon?