The Tony Award-nominated bookwriting team from Broadway’s Jersey Boys are working on a musical adaptation of the 1950 film "Father of the Bride," according to the New York Post."Having weathered the advance [antagonism] of the press for writing a jukebox musical," quipped Rick Elice to the New York daily, "we have now looked for the second most heinous thing to do—adapt a film."Spencer Tracy and Elizabeth Taylor starred in the 1950 comedy which follows the story of a man who marries off his daughter and the surprises and mishaps that occurred through the planning and arranging of the big day. Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett penned the screenplay based on an Edward Streeter novel for the movie which was directed by Vincente Minnelli. In 1991, Nancy Meyers and Charles Shyer updated the work for a film starring Steve Martin and Diane Keaton.
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Make it stop! Please stop turning movies into Broadway musicals they don’t always work.
