Aaron Silverman
Senior HTF Member
You'd better get started!Dave Miller said:Maybe eventually I'll actually get around to reading Hugo's novel. Peace, DM
I really wish they'd release more filmed stage performances of Broadway shows. I don't see why they can't at least release the shows featured on Great Performances. I guess they're worried about cutting into potential box office or something. FWIW, I saw Chicago on Broadway and I liked the movie much better. The staging was too spartan for my taste.ManW_TheUncool said:Too bad nobody seems interested in producing/shooting a good recorded performance of the live staged show for BD (much like what's done for operas). That's probably what us fans really want in the end since transforming the staged musical for the film medium is probably bound to be problematic, if they stay very true to the musical. The musical uses loads of melodrama and trope-like narrative shorthand much like in opera and also keeps everything in music, both of which probably don't translate so well on the big screen. I'm reminded of how it might play a lot like Evita if they just stuck closer to the musical (and went for better technical sound, instead of this live approach), which I always found to feel too much like a polished, 2-hour music video, instead of a truly engaging film. Maybe Les Mis the musical (w/out drastic changes) was always doomed to fall short in a movie adaptation... Then again, I did like Chicago a whole lot and also liked Hairspray quite a bit too though I'm not familiar w/ their original musicals, so... _Man_