Pretty woman: the musical plot

Can a big, new Broadway show be both a sure thing and a preordained disappointment at the same time?

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That’s the challenge that Pretty Woman: The Musical faces. In an age characterized, for better or worse, by splashy productions adapted from hit movies (see Mean Girls, Sister Act, School of Rock, et al.), it would be hard to find a bigger no-brainer than Garry Marshall’s 1990 hooker-with-a-heart-of-gold romantic comedy.

The audience for the unlikely story of a sassy Hollywood Boulevard streetwalker who moves on up to a suite at the Beverly Wilshire would seem to be built-in and massive. How could it possibly not be a license to print money?

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And yet…

And yet, there’s no getting around the fact that Pretty Woman was, is, and will always be inextricably associated with one star and one star only – Julia Roberts. She’s any potential Broadway spin-off’s phantom limb.

Filling Roberts’ $100-a-night beck-and-call girl stilettos and making folks forget her for two-and-a-half hours would seem to be the mos

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