Paths Of Glory

Question: A friend told me he’d heard that there’s going to be a Broadway musical based on a Stanley Kubrick movie but couldn’t remember which one. Is this true, and, if so, which movie is it? I’m guessing 2001.

Answer: Your friend is partly right: A Stanley Kubrick film has been adapted for the stage, though it’s not a musical and it’s not opening on Broadway. If I had to guess which Kubrick movie would work best as a theater piece, my first instinct would be Paths of Glory (1957), because at heart it’s a courtroom drama. But I’d be wrong: It's Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Bomb (1964), which, come to think of it, could make an excellent dark musical à la Stephen Sondheim’s sardonic Sweeney Todd. But that's not exa read more