A Stripped Down Success

Bucking the usual trend of remaking successful foreign films as Hollywood movies, the $170 million grossing Brit-hit, The Full Monty has taken an alternative second route to Stateside success by becoming a Broadway musical blockbuster. Since it opened last week, tickets have been eagerly snapped up by New Yorkers, with critics, including the New York Times, predicting a long run for the musical based on the 1997 film starring Robert Carlyle. Although the action has been transferred from an economically depressed Sheffield to a similarly run-down Buffalo, NY, in order to appeal to American audiences, the story