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    16 Changes Movie Adaptations Of Musicals Always Make That Are Just Flat-Out Annoying

    Still can't believe Cats even got made.

    I absolutely love musicals, so I always get really excited whenever one is turned into a film.

    But almost every time, they manage to mess something up...usually, a LOT of stuff up. Here are 16 things that always annoy me that I wish movie adaptations of musicals would stop doing!

    1. Adding songs:

    Valjean singing "Something is still unclear. Something not yet here has begun" as he strokes Cosette's hair and she sleeps in his lap

    2. And on that note...replacing perfectly good songs with new ones:

    The Beast singing "Now I know she'll never leave me, even as she runs away" in Beauty and the Beast

    3. And cutting climactic songs:

    In Rent, Roger sings "you pretend to create and observe when you really detach from feeling alive" and Mark replies "Perhaps it's because I'm the one of us to survive"

    4. Releasing soundtracks without all the songs:

    Spotify track list of 13 songs for Phantom of the Opera

    5. Changing the entire context of a song:

    Link singing "Without love, life is rock n' roll without a drummer" to Tracy's picture in Hairpsray

    6. Eliminating characters:

    the Baker and his wife and the witch in into the Woods

    7. And small plot points:

    Tracy hits an officer with her sign in Hairspray, shouting "Excuse me! She was talking to you!" and the officer says she just assaulted a police officer and that they're going to take them all in. Tracy runs away

    8. And adding random new plotlines:

    The Genie gives Dalia flowers, which she accepts

    9. Casting stars instead of people who can actually sing:

    Sam in Mamma Mia!, Javert in Les Mis, and the Phantom in Phantom of the Opera

    10. And along those lines, casting stars instead of people who can actually dance:

    Judi Dench in Cats

    11. Casting actors who are way too old:

    Ben Platt in Dear Evan Hansen

    12. Only casting white actors:

    Donna and her two friends in Mamma Mia!

    13. Giving characters a "happily ever after" that they didn't get in the musical:

    14. Replacing costuming with CGI:

    15. This should be a given, but...actively going against the wishes of the creator:

    Stacee Jaxx and Dennis in Rock of Ages

    16. And finally...delaying them for a decade.

    Glinda and Elphaba from Wicked performing onstage

    What bothers you about musical-to-movie adaptations? Let me know in the comments!