On the other hand, a Broadway musical that pushes too far or too crudely into the R-rated, realistic world of sex work on the urban street is courting box-office disaster with the core demographic here, which, given the age and legacy of the movie, is suburban women over 40 years old (luckily, a demographic that buys the majority of tickets to Broadway musicals). These longtime fans of the film might well want to introduce the blockbuster movie they loved in their youth to their teenage daughters. And this is, after all, supposed to be a romantic love story with sexy power ballads by Adams and Vallance, the very rare original cast recording that might get played in the bedroom. By contrast, most millennial progressives will have to get past the film's history before they enter their debit card numbers. And no one from any demographic will be going in expecting HBO’s "The Deuce." That is not the “Pretty Woman” franchise, and, let the record show, it is a massive franchise.