ROUGH CUT (NO REPORTER NARRATION)<br/> <br />STORY: The 1976 Oscar-winning film "Rocky," written by and starring Sylvester Stallone has now hit Broadway.<br/> <br />Stallone joined the cast of the two-act musical at the show's opening night in New York on Thursday (March 13) night.<br/> <br />The production, which first opened in Hamburg, Germany in 2012, took Stallone over 14 years to bring to the stage.<br/> <br />Although it may seem like this film wouldn't work with songs and dance numbers, Stallone said he has always thought the characters were very musical.<br/> <br />"When I was writing it I use to think about these like Marty (Martin Scorsese) and Mean Streets and West Side Story. And I always saw them as kind of poetic street characters. You know what I mean, so I thought this would be a natural - but no one else did."<br/> <br />At the after party, actor Andy Karl, who portrays Rocky, said he tried to make the character his own, with just a few touches from Stallone's film portrayal.<br/> <br />For Karl, recre
