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Failed to connect to MySQL: (1203) User howardkn already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connectionsPath: ...!3.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!news2.arglkargh.de!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Arthur Lipscomb Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-05-11 (Saturday) Date: Sun, 12 May 2024 11:08:22 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 60 Message-ID: References: <1712598488.737211038.209699.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sun, 12 May 2024 20:08:25 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="fa391a174f0c15125488251dc4b70f9f"; logging-data="3021161"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/hEvHV0Q+24NPDcswlVpWPLAsWBCEbNhQ=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:4NqCqNb5gSrIYHbsvKR4FJTtDF0= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 4071 On 5/12/2024 8:43 AM, Adam H. Kerman wrote: > Arthur Lipscomb wrote: > >> As an aside, I caught "Funny Girl" on stage. I couldn't help but >> constantly compare it to the movie. There were obviously lots of >> similarities with scenes and bits of dialogue that were identical in >> both. But to my surprise the stage version had Fanny's mother and >> Fanny's friend who helped her get her first job as major characters >> throughout. While they were afterthoughts at best in the movie. And >> the lady who played the role on stage knocked it out of the park. She >> was better than Streisand in the movie IMO. > > Glad you enjoyed it. > > Yes, it can be horrifying the major changes that are made in adaptation. > I've always wanted to see a revival of A Funny Thing Happened on the way > to the Forum because the movie adaptation is so vile (despite how much > of the Broadway cast was kept) but I've never noticed a revival. > I don't think I've ever watched the movie. I think I recorded it once years ago and made it maybe 5 minutes in before deleting it. LOL I've never watched the stage version either. Good to know if it ever comes to town it will be better than the movie. > Several years ago I discussed a revival of Cabaret that I attended that > was based on the Broadway show before it was extensively revised, and > how very different it was from the movie. A great deal of the score was > dropped for the movie. > > The Music Man is pretty much a straight adaptation; one song was > changed. > I watched the movie once *maybe* twice and liked it. But it's not one I've wanted to revisit. I've never watched it live on stage. > My Fair Lady, ignoring the controversy that a non-singer Audrey Hepburn > was cast, is different even though they didn't drop any songs. The > musical and Shaw's play Pygmalion are bawdier, as you can see in the > Wendy Hiller/Leslie Howard movie. > I saw this live on stage a few years ago. This is another one I would never have gone to see but for season tickets which forces me to watch everything that comes to town. But I sort of like being forced to go see shows I wouldn't otherwise go see. Sometimes I am very pleasantly surprised by how much I like them. > Gigi was a movie musical. Amusingly, they bought rights to the Colette > story AND the stage play because her estate kept selling rights they no > longer owned and it was just cheaper to buy the subsequent rights than > to sue to extinguish them. It's been adapted for musical theater but > I've never bothered to see it on stage. It includes a song written for > My Fair Lady! I don't think I've ever watched the movie. I had no idea it was also a stage musical. Every time I see Gigi, I immediately think 60s beach movie.