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The ‘Wonka-ing’ Trend: The Sneaky Rise of Musicals Disguised as Movies 

  • Tione Zylstra
  • January 18, 2024

Mean Girls, Wonka, and The Color Purple are all recent musicals gracing the big screen – but that’s not all they have in common. For reasons beyond my (or any sane human’s) comprehension, all of these have been marketed as regular, plain, no-singing-only-talking movies.

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