Grade said: "When my partner Ivan Dunleavy and I completed the buyout from Rank they didn't have a single stage booked.
They developed a stage book, based on an idea of Robbins's, about three young sailors on a 24-hour leave in New York.
I reckon it's staging books.
When "The Satanic Verses" was first published, Muslims staged book burnings in Bolton and Bradford.
How about staging book groups, writers' masterclasses, script readings and seasons of talks?
But perhaps the most interesting advantage, one which we haven't seen explored in Britain much yet, is the fact that a staged book needn't actually be a work of fiction, or even a story.
This time Mrs. Clinton has taken charge of her own show, marching triumphantly through the same news outlets that once trashed her, rewriting her own story literally and figuratively in a brilliantly staged book tour.
Kiki's is also in lock-step with the trend of on-stage book adaptations continued by Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, which opened at the Palace Theatre last month.
His interest is in the stage and books, and he's a collector of the latter.
