My wife was telling me about this earlier.
My unanswered question was, “Why remake this? Restore the original? Sure. But a complete new production doesn’t make much sense.”
Movie theatres are going the way of Blockbuster Video stores.
Kaput !
No one in the entertainment world seems to have imagination, originality, or the talent to produce something NEW.
What emerges as “new” is often offensive, and shocking.
There is a gaping hole in the artistic world.
Too much attention paid to slapping down idiotic problems.
And the reruns are getting a little boring.
It isn’t a remake. It’s a new filmic spin on the play. The people who created the original Broadway show did not like the 1961 film.