you had two hugely successful broadway shows, annie and a chorus line, and they were made into terrible, terrible movie musicals and that kind of took the glow away from the hollywood musical and it struggled to come back. my sole purpose on this earth is to love roxanne. does she know? but the genre is back in 2021. directorjoe wright has made cyrano, starring peter dinklage, an adaptation of a 2018 musical of the story of a man without the confidence to pursue the woman he loves. # maybe there s a reasonj to believe you ll be ok #. dear evan hansen, an adaptation of tony and grammy award winning stage show, is a story of a teenage boy overcoming profound loneliness. and leos carax s annette, an originalfilm musical written by the sparks, opened the cannes film festival. one person in particular seems a cheerleader for the modern mu5ical. lin manuel miranda, behind the broadway show hamilton and both the stage and film version of in the heights, a love affair 5et