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The article published on the website nytimes.com is headlined Trying to Get to ‘Heaven,’ Onstage. The article carries a lot of comments on Todd Haynes film “Far From Heaven,” a deconstruction of the Eisenhower-era melodramas of the director Douglas Sirk.
In addition the author of the article mentions that he hopes that the stage adaptation of “Far From Heaven,” for which he composed the music, will also appeal to both the head and the heart. The production, in previews at Playwrights Horizons, stars Kelli O’Hara as the heartsick homemaker at the center of the show, a role for which Julianne Moore was nominated for an Oscar.
In this connection it’s worthwhile mentioning that with “Far From Heaven,” Mr. Frankel and his longtime collaborator, the lyricist Michael Korie, have once again translated an art-house favorite with a strong gay following to the stage, as they did with “Grey Gardens,” based on the 1975 cult documentary; the challenges this time are related, but different; show business was in the blood of the mother and daughter in “Grey Gardens,” but the characters in “Far From Heaven,” living in cloistered 1950s suburbia, work overtime to hide their true emotions; yet musicals, where people break passionately into song, are typically gushing and unrestrained; the show’s book writer, Richard Greenberg, the Tony-winning playwright of “Take Me Out” and a nominee this year for “The Assembled Parties,” doesn’t see the story and medium at odds.
Speaking of this situation it is also interesting to note that Mr. Frankel said that Mr. Haynes, who saw the show at the festival, gave them the freedom to reinvent the story for a different medium;“What he said that he loved in particular were the ways that we parted from the source material,” Mr. Frankel said; “He was surprised at the things that he either didn’t think of or were very different from the film.”
The author concludes the article by Mr. Greenberg's quote :
 “We will see that things have come a long way,” Mr. Greenberg said, “and the past will become all the more poignant and all the more tragic.”
As for me I think that this story with its incendiary passions, forbidden desires and themes of bigotry and social repression will surely be one of the best  stage adaptations  of the year.