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Count of Monte Cristo stage versions

Posted by: Max 07:15 pm EDT 04/02/14
In reply to: re: let's get something straight - enoch10 06:39 pm EDT 04/02/14

Remember James O'Neill (Eugene's dad) played the Count on stage for years, from the 1880s through the early 1900s and then "converted Monte Cristo into tabloid form for the vaudeville circuit to accommodate changing taste in theater entertainment. By 1913 a cinema version was playing on nickelodeons."

Whatever else can be said about it, it's stageworthy. It doesn't sound like adding a musical score is going to hurt it much.


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Posted by: enoch10 07:24 pm EDT 04/02/14
In reply to: Count of Monte Cristo stage versions - Max 07:15 pm EDT 04/02/14

i don't know where i got it, it may have been published, but as an undergraduate i actually read a version of the script he performed. i remember thinking this must have gone on for hours and hours and he must have been a hell of a performer for making it interesting (and it must have been, he played it long enough) because reading it required effort. and stamina.


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Posted by: Max 07:32 pm EDT 04/02/14
In reply to: re: Count of Monte Cristo stage versions - enoch10 07:24 pm EDT 04/02/14

It did run on and on. The standard play at the time was a five act play that could easily run four hours, not counting the intermissions, which were easily 30 minutes plus each to allow for the scenery to be changed. An evening at the theater lasting five to six hours was expected and the norm. (And nowadays some people complain about 90 minutes!)


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