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Fri 08 Aug 2007Lights, camera, musicalMichael Dwyeron filmIt used to be the other way round, but more and more theatre productions are now based on movies. Following the lucrative reworking of The Producers and Hairspray for the stage, the inane screen musical Xanadu, which already seemed dated when first released in 1980, is the latest Broadway hit.