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The play is set in the City News Bureau in Chicago , Illinois , a joint office/club house where reporters from all the city papers work. Hildy Johnson, one of the reporters, is about to get married and move to New York. His boss, newspaperman Walter Burns, is trying to keep him around. The two men respect each other but continually spar. All the reporters are covering the scheduled hanging of Earl Williams, who escapes from custody. Burns and Johnson manage to put aside their differences to get the scoop. FEATURE FILM ADAPTATIONS ''The Front Page'' has been adapted to film several times:
''His Girl Friday'' and ''Switching Channels'' took the unusual twist of changing the sex of a character, from a male Hildy Johnson to females Hildegaard 'Hildy' Johnson and Christy Colleran respectively. OTHER ADAPTATIONS John Varley 's 1991 Science-fiction Novel ''Steel Beach'' takes the story—and the change of sex—to another level. In the novel, the plot includes a sex-change by a male reporter named Hildy Johnson. There have also been four television productions, all under the title ''The Front Page'': The Musical '' Windy City '' (book and lyrics by Dick Vosburgh , music by Tony Macaulay ), which premiered at the Victoria Palace Theatre , London , England on July 20 , 1982 and ran there for 250 performances, is also based on ''The Front Page''. For the real-life background to the settings, and for a character, of ''The Front Page'', see City News Bureau Of Chicago , where MacArthur had worked, and '' Chicago's American ''. EXTERNAL LINKS |
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