USA Today’s Elysa Gardner interviewed me and Andrew Lippa about *Big Fish* and the influx of movie-based [dramas on Broadway this season](http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/theater/2013/08/26/fall-broadway-preview-focusing-on-musical-adaptations-of-dramatic-films/2676519/):
> “The musicals that have been very successful with audiences over time are generally the ones that traffic in big emotions,” notes Lippa, whose credits as a composer and lyricist range from Broadway’s *The Addams Family* to the darker, more reflective *The Wild Party*. “You don’t see a comedy a second time, because the jokes aren’t as funny, mostly. But people have gone back to see *Les (Miserables)* five, six times.”
Lord knows I hope he’s right. In Chicago, I met women who saw Big Fish five times in five weeks.
It’s usually comedies that get adapted for the stage: *The Producers, Legally Blonde, Priscilla Queen of the Desert.* This year, in addition to Big Fish, we have upcoming adaptions of *The Bridges of Madison County, Rocky, and A Time to Kill.*