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From Stage to Screen: Plays
#50From Stage to Screen: Plays
Posted: 1/23/14 at 11:01am^ I worked at the Loew's 84th Street when "Radio Days" opened.
#51From Stage to Screen: Plays
Posted: 1/23/14 at 11:18am
I absolutely love "Radio Days." I make a point of watching it at least once a year. One of my favorite "nostalgia" films of all-time.
I wish there was a way to make it work as a stage play. Perhaps there would be ... with a split stage, with half of it being the people listening and half being the people performing the radio shows. The problem would be the pacing. One of the best things about the movie is how it keeps moving along. Most of the scenes and numbers are short (with a few exceptions), which is easy to do with editing in a film, but tough to do with short, constantly changing vignettes on a stage. Maybe there would be a way to do it.
Michael Bennett would have known just how to make it work "cinematically" on stage!
Great clip from Radio Days
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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The Other One
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/1/08
#52From Stage to Screen: Plays
Posted: 1/23/14 at 11:20am
Well, howdy Old Neighbor!
A couple of other bad ones: Luv, Oh Dad Poor Dad, Last of the Red Hot Lovers...
Good but seemingly forgotten: Middle of the Night, The Killing of Sister George, Mass Appeal...
Surprised to see some praise for Crimes of the Heart here. The original production was so charming. A lot was lost in the transition from stage to screen, mostly the humor, in spite of that seemingly perfect cast. I thought it was a major disappointment.
henrikegerman
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/29/05
#53From Stage to Screen: Plays
Posted: 1/23/14 at 12:33pmThe Other, I love the movie of Last of the Red Hot Lovers, Alan Arkin is perfection; Paula Prentiss and Sally Kellerman rock! But it's Renee Taylor who steals the movie (and my heart)!
The Other One
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/1/08
#54From Stage to Screen: Plays
Posted: 1/23/14 at 1:10pmI've only seen moments from it over the years. They did not impress me, but that is a good cast so I'll try to give it a shot.
henrikegerman
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/29/05
#55From Stage to Screen: Plays
Posted: 1/23/14 at 2:50pmIt may not be all that good a movie but I love the performers, especially Taylor.
The Other One
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/1/08
#56From Stage to Screen: Plays
Posted: 1/25/14 at 12:07pm
The film version of The Best Man (aka these days Gore Vidal's The Best Man) is also very good, by the way.
Any thoughts on the film versions of Any Wednesday or Little Murders?
Updated On: 1/25/14 at 12:07 PM
#57From Stage to Screen: Plays
Posted: 1/25/14 at 1:33pm
I like the screen version of ANY WEDNESDAY very much, but I've never seen (or read) the stage play so I can't compare it to it's source material.
I'm a fan of those frothy '60s romantic comedies based on plays. I also liked UNDER THE YUM YUM TREE and SUNDAY IN NEW YORK.
#58From Stage to Screen: Plays
Posted: 1/26/14 at 2:26pmUgh. I've just wasted 2 hours of my life watching the film version of the 1965 play, THE IMPOSSIBLE YEARS. What a piece of cr@p. I'm now curious if the screenplay was a direct adaptation because I don't see this drek playing on any Broadway stage.
bobs3
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/8/12
#59From Stage to Screen: Plays
Posted: 1/26/14 at 3:07pm
From the mid-1950s to the late 1960s Broadway had a series of light, frothy, humorous, (usually) romantic comedies, where some early tension in the play leads to a happy resolution. They were referred to as Boulevard Comedies. They usually ran 6 months to a year and were often adapted into films.
Just to name a few of them: Any Wednesday, The Impossible Years, Under the Yum Yum Tree, A Shot in the Dark, Forty Carats, Cactus Flower, Mary Mary, Poor Richard, Desk Set, Goodbye Charlie, Sunday in New York, The Seven Year Itch, Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?, Everybody Loves Opal, The Pleasure of his Company, etc. I am sure there are so many more. They often starred an actress with some box office draw and a reliable leading man (Barry Nelson, Gene Hackman -- before he was a star, Sydney Chaplin, Gig Young, etc.).
Television situation comedies really lessened the appeal for boulevard comedies.
#60From Stage to Screen: Plays
Posted: 1/26/14 at 3:25pm
I'm going to take a wild guess and say, "Take Her, She's Mine" falls under the category of Boulevard Comedy.
bobs3
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/8/12
#61From Stage to Screen: Plays
Posted: 1/26/14 at 4:20pmDefinitely, "Take Her, She's Mine" also "Critic's Choice", "Never Too Late", and "There's a Girl in My Soup".
