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What is the connection between spontaneous musical numbers and Orwellian dystopia? Talking animals, it seems. The Daily Mail is reporting on Elton John and Lee Hall's attempts to adapt Animal Farm into, yes, a stage musical.

Mr. Hall, who also wrote the screenplay for the film version of “Billy Elliot,” told The Daily Mail that it took about two years to secure the rights for the project, and that he is now “deep into it, writing songs for pigs and other four-legged friends.”