How much "different" can two musicals based on the SAME movie be? Where would the difference come in? Crazy.....
I HATE the NEW Broadway....I'm not saying these shows are bad...but all of the Disney cartoons that are onstage.....and the other movie shows.....Shrek, Little Mermaid, Lion King, Aladdin, Mean Girls, Sponge Bob Square Pants, The Hunchback of Notre Dame.... I hate that most of these shows are filtering down to community theatre now - and everyone wants to do them...ugh....
And looking at the theatre boards - which I don't do regularly - and talking to high school kids.....nothing before 1990 exists for them...except GREASE....and that's because of the movie version....whose songs are now in the stage show....
Oh well.....it is what it is....it's now, baby, and it's hot.