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This Best Picture Winner is Becoming a Musical · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. Countless plays and musicals
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Speaker 1: have been adapted for the big screen over the years.
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Speaker 1: Less common, though growing in frequency, is when the movie
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Speaker 1: is adapted into a musical, particularly a Best Picture winner.
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Speaker 1: But Coda is headed to the stage. A musical is
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Speaker 1: being developed in partnership with Deaf West, the Tony winning
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Speaker 1: theater troupe known for seamlessly weaving a s l and
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Speaker 1: spoken word into a stage show. DJ Kurd, the artistic director,
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Speaker 1: tells Variety, it's in our mission to be the artistic
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Speaker 1: bridge between the deaf and hearing communities, and we're truly
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Speaker 1: excited and honor to embark on this live iteration of
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Speaker 1: a story that brings together both sides of the island,
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Speaker 1: addresses the ways we moved throughout the world. Deaf West
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Speaker 1: is baked out of l A and the Planets to
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Speaker 1: launch the show there, but they've had many of their
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Speaker 1: productions make it to Broadway, and with the popularity of Coda,
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Speaker 1: there's a good chance this one's next. That's direct from Hollywood.