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Post by samuelwhiskers on Dec 4, 2020 13:36:24 GMT
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Post by juicy_but_terribly_drab on Dec 4, 2020 23:08:22 GMT
Wow this is an incredible creative team! Very excited for this, sounds great.
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Post by originalconceptlive on Dec 5, 2020 4:18:27 GMT
I'm finding it very difficult to imagine this story onstage, as a musical, in a way that would actually work. (But I suppose that's why I'm not one of the ones tasked with making it work.)
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Dec 5, 2020 8:41:11 GMT
Can’t wait for the big tap number “Trotters Up!” 🐽 🐷
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Post by Someone in a tree on Dec 5, 2020 9:27:33 GMT
originalconceptlive Peter Hall did it as straight play in 80's and I'm sure a few other versions exist.I'm not show they staged them though I love Orwell but this book terrified me a child. As I'm now in my 40's I should give it another go.
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Post by crabtree on Dec 5, 2020 10:41:57 GMT
I've seen about six stage productions, including the wonderful Peter Hall version, and they all work. I think the secret is not to be too literal with the animals - just a token representation distinguishing which animal is which. In every production Napoleon rising to his feet ha shocked me. I've often thought it would make a good opera or ballet, enjoying the artifice. I saw a very powerful version obliquely suggesting the animals were immigrants arriving in clothes and stripping to underwear and rolling about in the mud. Such a great book. And yes it works on stage.
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Post by MusicalTalk on Dec 5, 2020 17:58:43 GMT
At least it's Alan doing the music and not Elton John like the rumour was for a while...
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Post by oxfordsimon on Dec 5, 2020 18:01:20 GMT
I too have seen it in stage do it can work. But does it work better as a musical rather than a play (or a play with the occasional song)
I just can't see the need for a transition to the world of musical theatre.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Dec 5, 2020 18:09:54 GMT
At least it's Alan doing the music and not Elton John like the rumour was for a while... Elton John is doing the music for the other James Graham musical. |
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Post by originalconceptlive on Dec 5, 2020 19:22:40 GMT
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