CindyYagi
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Location: Lancaster, CA
Registration date: 2008-02-12
 |  Subject: Re: Play to Movie and Vice Versa  Tue Feb 12, 2008 3:15 pm | |
| This is kind of a hard topic for me. I think it is good for non-theatre goers to get exposed to musicals. Usually once they see the movie they go see the show on stage and like it better on stage. I have many friends who have been "brought to theatre" because they saw and liked a movie made from a stage play or musical. In that way I think that they are good...I personally don't like most movie adaptations. I saw Sweeney and decided to look at it from a movie point of view. I liked it as a movie. I hated it as a Movie adaptation of the show. The Vocals were way weak but most of them worked for the character...I hated Mrs. Lovett's one dimensional singing but the rest of the cast was ok. |
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keltroncybo
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| | Subject: Re: Play to Movie and Vice Versa Tue Feb 12, 2008 3:40 pm | |
| QC,  that being said...I think you are right...I am looking at this from the perspective of mass marketing...you know how I feel about Starbucks vs. the little guy. Well said.
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melster
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Registration date: 2008-02-02
| | Subject: Re: Play to Movie and Vice Versa Wed Feb 13, 2008 10:54 am | |
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It has taken me a while to repond to this post. It's a hard question to answer. But I think I agree with just about everyone else, it just depends. Sometimes filmmakers do a fantastic job of taking a Play and turning into a movie and sometimes they don't. I have seen Phantom of the Opera both on Stage and the movie, and I have to say both are really good - although I did enjoy and get much more invovled and entranced by the play. (which was an awesome time - thanks QC!). I recently heard that Xanadu (a movie that I LOVE) is on Broadway. I read a synopsis and the story is a little different than the film, but I would still like to see it. Oh and if you haven't seen the movie - it stars Olivia Newton-John and Gene Kelly, and has great music by ELO - classic!!
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