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tristanrobin
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Joined: 4/25/05 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 704 |
 Posted: 8/21/08 at 10:09am |
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"Avoid Israel Horovitz's adaptation like the plague! The script is terrible!"
Totally disagree! |
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ClintonHammond
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Joined: 7/28/08 Location: Canada Online Status: Offline Posts: 28 |
Posted: 8/21/08 at 10:25am |
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Too many stage directions (so I used a LOT of black ink, blocking them out) especially stage directions that were unnecessary to any half-way creative director...
Too many impossible things (How did you have Marley take off his head? Or how did you show the audience that he "had no bowels"??? ) Too many irrelevant things (Bats? cats? Emotional italics... ) It's an awful script. But a good director can save it, as always. (A good director trumps a bad script every time) |
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whitebat
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Posted: 8/21/08 at 6:44pm |
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I'm not sure what script we used. (Possibly the public domain one?). It was quite faithful in tone and specific quotations to the original book. We took a non-musical version and added music (recorder, a capella vocal, chimes) between the staves.
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jayzehr
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Posted: 8/21/08 at 11:19pm |
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As it turns out the board consensus is that another theater in a neighboring town has the Christmas Carol market covered as far as a straight version. I'm going to keep looking for another Holiday script.
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tristanrobin
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Posted: 8/22/08 at 9:55am |
So, tell me, as a "creative director," when does 'impossible' become possible with a creative director?  I think it's a terrific script. But, I'm sure you're just a much more talented director than I.  |
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ClintonHammond
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Posted: 8/22/08 at 12:48pm |
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"when does 'impossible' become possible with a creative director?"
So, then answer any of the questions... Or is the script not terrific enough to stand a critical approach? "I'm sure you're just a much more talented director than I." Oh please... come down off the cross would ya... we need the wood for building flats. "I'm going to keep looking for another Holiday script." Every Christmas Story Ever Told And Then Some is fantastic A Christmas Story by Phil Grecian is a FANTASTIC, but technically demanding script. A ' creative' director can do a LOT with "Best Christmas Pageant Ever". It's well worth looking into. Good luck in your script hunt! |
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pdavis69
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Posted: 8/22/08 at 12:56pm |
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Once again certain things ring clear in the written word.
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MartyW
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Posted: 8/22/08 at 1:38pm |
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Oye! |
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Marty W
"Till next we trod the boards.." |
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jaytee060
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Joined: 1/18/07 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 63 |
Posted: 8/22/08 at 1:46pm |
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Just my two cents worth but I find Israel Horovitz's adaptation of The Christmas Carol to be one of the most original and refreshing versions to be found. So many versions are simply reworking of the same tired story
with emphasis of "staying true to the words of master". Now there is certainly nothing wrong with that....however, Horovitz finds ways to make
the Dickens classic exciting and innovative. Nothing wrong with that either.
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ClintonHammond
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Posted: 8/22/08 at 1:55pm |
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"I find Israel Horovitz's adaptation of The Christmas Carol to be one of the most original and refreshing versions to be found."
It's got some good dialogue, I'll grant it that... But most of its over-arching structure is so poorly hung together that it can be very nearly impossible to stage... |
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