Everyone, meet bird girl
she is the the figurehead for John Berendt’s book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. A southern favorite:) 
And a story that is so iconic, sacred, to the south- and somewhat haunting is now gonna be abused, exploited, by Broadway. I was somewhat angry when I heard that Midnight in the garden of good and evil, was going to be turned into a Broadway musical… All literary elegance and poetic devices will be lost by sappy choruses and jazz hands…
http://www.nypost.com/p/entertainment/theater/midnight_in_the_garden_of_musicals_mwnGlxCDETjJ3Iyfqqqp4K
I have just started reading Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, in part due to the very persuasive recommendation of one of my friends. I have not had a chance to be fully immersed yet (considering how much schoolwork and how little time I seem to have nowadays) but it is funny that you mention that it is being turned into a Broadway musical because the friend who recommended it to me didn’t exactly recommend the book, but rather the movie. I am a huge stickler on always reading the original book version of something before I even consider watching the movie. I think the fact that books are now often translated into other media forms, be it Broadway or Hollywood, (from popular teen lit like Twilight and Harry Potter, to classics like Pride and Prejudice and Les Miserables), is cause for some concern. I am not sure how you feel about the matter, but I think a completely different experience is achieved when one reads and actively envisions a story than when one is passively watching a story unfold. Thus, I feel your anger; a lot of good literature is needlessly degraded when it is reproduced in different formats.
I very much agree with you Louise, I am not discrediting movies made from books. If I were to look at a movie
solely, apart from the book. They would have very good qualities. The movie Garden of Good and Evil, is good on its own if people do not like to read. However for me, I find things get distorted from the original text. A Director (like David Yates) of Harry Potter is not J.K Rowling and has a completly different idea of how the story should play out. I of course prefer the words of the author, and I always hope when I see a book turned-to-movie that it will exceed my expectations. It rarely does. In this case, I feel as though the book and the movie have been perceieved as synonomous to eachother. To me this can either be a beneficial thing, or not. I draw the line at Broadway musicals…no where on a stage should people be singing to a ship sinking. I do recommend both the book and movie in this case, they are very similar, but I am also filled with anger when good literature is botched by hollywood, jaded directors, or staged.