| 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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