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| There's a reason curtain calls are withheld until the end. | |
| Posted by: Delvino 06:59 am EST 12/18/17 | |
| In reply to: re: A CHRISTMAS STORY LIVE! - twocents 09:45 pm EST 12/17/17 | |
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| Actors create characters. Our hearts are connected to their plight, not the actors toiling for 2 1/2 months to pull it off. We should see these people as they are in this small town, suspend disbelief until it's over. I started this conversation on my FB page and to a person everyone agreed that the commercial annotations were distracting and only made the whole thing feel meta in the worst sense. We can hear about the production challenges at the end, in a half hour special "Making 'Christmas Story Live'". I loathed this. I feel as strongly about this as almost anything I post. It'll ruin the way the industry sells its wares. I'll say it again: Imagine if Mary Martin appeared to tell us how hard the lost boys had worked for weeks to pull this off. And why, that Tinkerbelle is a light, projected from up there! So much for magic. And yeah, magic counts. Magic is what storytelling is about. |
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| re: There's a reason curtain calls are withheld until the end. | |
| Posted by: twocents 11:43 am EST 12/18/17 | |
| In reply to: There's a reason curtain calls are withheld until the end. - Delvino 06:59 am EST 12/18/17 | |
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| We can hear about the production challenges at the end, in a half hour special "Making 'Christmas Story Live'" I would have preferred this too! Doubt Fox would have tossed us that bone, however. Heck, I'd watch this footage online if they made it available though. I guess I'm too used to being manipulated that I cease to even get my hackles up anymore. |
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| re: There's a reason curtain calls are withheld until the end. | |
| Posted by: Delvino 07:20 am EST 12/18/17 | |
| In reply to: There's a reason curtain calls are withheld until the end. - Delvino 06:59 am EST 12/18/17 | |
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| I wasn't alone. The review: "And as if to painfully wrench the audience out of any suspension of disbelief it may have had, almost every bumper to commercial break featured little Ralphie’s voice describing the behind-the-scenes production of “A Christmas Story Live.” |
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| re: There's a reason curtain calls are withheld until the end. | |
| Posted by: pfolson 08:33 am EST 12/18/17 | |
| In reply to: re: There's a reason curtain calls are withheld until the end. - Delvino 07:20 am EST 12/18/17 | |
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| I tend to agree. However, I find it interesting that people didn't seem to mind as much when they did the same thing during GREASE LIVE, including all those shots of the cast racing from one location to another in their golf carts. | |
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