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| Posted by: sf 01:21 pm EST 11/29/18 | |
| In reply to: Do I need to see another version of the same story just because it's a play now? - Zelgo 12:27 pm EST 11/29/18 | |
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| 'Legally Blond', for example, didn't do a great deal for me because I couldn't see any reason the creative team had chosen to put it on stage beyond "extending the franchise". 'Network', I thought, was the most stunning thing I saw in a theatre last year - but van Hove transforms it into a *theatrical experience* that makes its point about the blurring of the lines between news and entertainment via the production - the use of film, the live video, the onstage audience, the audience participation, the video montage at the end and all the rest of it are all there to reinforce the script's underlying thesis, and the way it's directed makes it into something quite different from the film even though Lee Hall's script is more or less just an editing job on Chayefsky's screenplay. I read 'My Name is Lucy Barton' before I saw Laura Linney's one-woman performance; Rona Munro's script, again, is an editing job, but Ms. Linney is extraordinary. Again, it's a different experience from reading the novel, and there are details in the novel that the stage adaptation skips, but Ms. Linney is more than worth the money (and I'm going back next year to see the return engagement). I made a point of rereading Howards End before I saw 'The Inheritance' - and rewatching the Merchant Ivory film - and I'm glad I did. In THAT case, the stage script is more a riff on top of the source material than a direct adaptation of it. It would certainly work if you hadn't read the book, but if you *have* there's an extra layer to the play that comes from seeing how Lopez takes plot points from the novel and transforms them, as in what he does with the moment his version of Margaret Schlegel sees the meadow behind the house for the first time. I already have a ticket to see Ivo van Hove's staging of 'All About Eve' next year. I have no interest at all in seeing 'Pretty Woman'. They're both adaptations of well-known films, but one interests me more than the other. I'm not going to dismiss ALL adaptations just because some of them are cheesy money-grabbers. |
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| Last Edit: PlayWiz 03:44 pm EST 11/29/18 | |
| Posted by: PlayWiz 03:41 pm EST 11/29/18 | |
| In reply to: Depends. - sf 01:21 pm EST 11/29/18 | |
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| A lot of folks tend to forget that "Pygmalion", " "Charley's Aunt", "Liliom" (all of which have screen versions, though sometimes in other languages) and other existing properties were used to fashion some of the great musicals during the Golden Age of the 1940s and 1950s and beyond. One big joke around Broadway after the success of "My Fair Lady" was that producers couldn't be found in their offices; they were at the library trying to find the source of their next big show. | |
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