The Great White Way is NYC’s gold: Benefits of Broadway productions go far beyond the Theater District

This weekend, “Wicked” lights up cinema screens crossed the state and astir the world, joining “Mamma Mia!” and “Chicago” and “Hairspray” among Broadway musicals and “A Few Good Men,” “The Odd Couple,” “Arsenic and Old Lace” and (let america paper radical not forget) “The Front Page” among consecutive plays that recovered big-screen success. And though it’s aboriginal yet, the astute wealth says the “Wizard of Oz” prequel volition marque hundreds of millions of dollars.