Musical Stage Production
The National Theatre is producing a musical staging of the story. It is adapted by Samuel Adamson; directed by Marianne Elliott, winner of the Tony Award for Best Directing in 2011; and will have music and lyrics by Tori Amos. It was expected to premiere in London in April 2012, but the National Theatre announced in October 2011 that the production would be delayed until later in the year. October 2013 it will open.
Another stage adaption was done to the fairy tale by a Massachusetts director, Emily C. A. Snyder.
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“Fifty million Frenchmen can’t be wrong.”
—Anonymous. Popular saying.
Dating from World War I—when it was used by U.S. soldiers—or before, the saying was associated with nightclub hostess Texas Quinan in the 1920s. It was the title of a song recorded by Sophie Tucker in 1927, and of a Cole Porter musical in 1929.
“The Stage but echoes back the publick Voice.
The Drama’s Laws the Drama’s Patrons give,
For we that live to please, must please to live.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)
“The society based on production is only productive, not creative.”
—Albert Camus (1913–1960)