An article in Arts incorrectly identified the opera Madame Butterfly as a spin-off of the musical Miss Saigon. Miss Saigon is actually a spin-off of Madame Butterfly. (Apr. 13, p. 19)
And not even a spin-off, so they're doubly wrong. A spin-off is something like a TV show that takes a supporting character and builds a new show around them---an offspring. MS is based on Madame Butterfly. Maybe "rip-off" would be the more accurate term.
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And not even a spin-off, so they're doubly wrong. A spin-off is something like a TV show that takes a supporting character and builds a new show around them---an offspring. MS is based on Madame Butterfly. Maybe "rip-off" would be the more accurate term.
And Peter Jackson totally ripped off Star Wars.
Which was itself a rip-off of Flash Gordon.
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