The Guardian Editorial Explores New Musicals Adapting Novels Like 'Trainspotting'

The Guardian view on new musicals: sex, drugs and song ‘n’ dance | Editorial

Adaptations of hit novels like One Day and Trainspotting help keep the genre in tune with the times Singin’ in the Rain it will never be, but Trainspotting the Musical is not as improbable as it seems. The yellow-brick road from cult novel to film to blockbuster musical is so well trodden that it was only a matter of time before an all-singing, all-dancing adaptation of Irvine Welsh’s gritty 1993 novel about a bunch of heroin addicts in Edinburgh hit London’s West End. Danny Boyle’s 1996 film...

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