Director Hooper — possibly sticking to
the original stage production — never bothers to establish her relationship with adoptive father Hugh Jackman.
Phyllida Lloyd makes her feature film directorial debut an uneven one; she's a leading British theatre director who is noted for her work in opera and directed
the original stage production.
I've also always enjoyed the story of how Andrews, the originator of the role of Eliza Doolittle in
the original stage production of My Fair Lady, was passed over for the My Fair Lady movie (in favor of then better - known star Audrey Hepburn), only to win the Oscar for Mary Poppins (Hepburn wasn't even nominated for My Fair Lady).
This is a movie with the impact of
the original stage production of Edward Albee's «Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf.»
Smith reprises the role that she has previously assumed in
the original stage production in 1999, as well as a radio version performed in 2009.
Half - a-million theatergoers around the world have seen
the original stage production that began in 2010 in Liverpool and in a London West End transfer.