The "book" the director wrote is just the broadway licensing (songs, score, production notes, etc.) so that others can perform it; it's a traditional theatrical arrangement.
The kids love all things live musical, though. They are busily turning all the teen movies of the last 40 years into musicals which they just eat up, and they were still happily listening to revamped productions of Grease, which made us fogies happy (though their school was doing Kiss Me Kate this year, which they hated, so I suspect some of the older things won't be so revived).
They also made Mean Girls into a musical, and so the girls introduced me to the Tik Tok theory that remakes the entire thing - I've seen that movie so many times, I can't believe I missed that.
Re: Masks are back in style?
The "book" the director wrote is just the broadway licensing (songs, score, production notes, etc.) so that others can perform it; it's a traditional theatrical arrangement.
The kids love all things live musical, though. They are busily turning all the teen movies of the last 40 years into musicals which they just eat up, and they were still happily listening to revamped productions of Grease, which made us fogies happy (though their school was doing Kiss Me Kate this year, which they hated, so I suspect some of the older things won't be so revived).
They also made Mean Girls into a musical, and so the girls introduced me to the Tik Tok theory that remakes the entire thing - I've seen that movie so many times, I can't believe I missed that.