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The next movie to be turned into a Broadway musical—after a season that featured such rousing successes as the Rocky musical and Bridges Of Madison County—will be 1973’s Best Picture winner, The Sting, as per Deadline. The film, directed by George Roy Hill, featured the director’s second team-up with Paul Newman and Robert Redford (after Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid) and is one of the most purely fun movies to win Best Picture. It’s all an elaborate con artist game, with fun reveals and the sheer enjoyment of watching Newman and Redford play off of each other. Also, it’s got a score featuring the music of Scott Joplin. God willing, the people making this new musical won’t try to turn “The Entertainer” into a song in the show by making up lyrics for it.
