Many years later, the film became a Broadway adaptation - thesecondlongest running American musical in Broadway history behindA Chorus Line.[Caesar heard the bell on the opening gate ring - as he was assembling a green puzzle of the Statue of Liberty - a referential nod to the conclusion of the first film.Exquisitely-costumed guests stroll on the lawn and inside the vast mansion, with a massive hallway and wide, graceful, double-curved staircase.The female voice of the author of the letter [functioning as the film""s screenplay] is heard explaining (in voice-over) her memories and how her life was a series of inevitabilities to an unidentified addressee (Brand is the ""you"" in the letter):By the timeyouread this letter, I may be dead.