Filmed Performances

[DRG8152]

Filmed Performances#1

Posted: 2/25/10 at 2:13pm

Hoping to get a little help here for a report I'm putting together. Could people give names of live performances that were successfully (subjective, I know) filmed for film/tv. Examples: Leguizamo's FREAK, Lonny Price's SWEENEY concert, the original SWEENEY with Angela and George Hearn etc. Any examples of good theater to film tapings would be very helpful.

Thank you.

[luvtheEmcee]

Filmed Performances#2

Posted: 2/25/10 at 2:17pm

The film of the Company revival, regardless of what you thought of the production itself, is quite well-done I think. It's a good translation of what was on stage. Sunday in the Park With George is also one of my favorites.

A work of art is an invitation to love.

Updated On: 2/25/10 at 02:17 PM

[Gothampc]

Filmed Performances#2

Posted: 2/25/10 at 2:18pm

The House of Blue Leaves (one of the best imo)

The Man Who Came To Dinner with Nathan Lane

The Women (Roundabout Production)

Smokey Joe's Cafe

Passion

Into the Woods

Sunday in the Park with George

The Pirates of Penzane (Kline, Rondstadt) - I wouldn't call it "successful" because the film quality is not that great (1980?) but I'm glad it's available because Patricia Routledge is great as Ruth.

If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.

[givesmevoice]

Filmed Performances#3

Posted: 2/25/10 at 2:49pm

The Candide concert with the NY Philharmonic.

When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain. -Kad

[DRG8152]

Filmed Performances#4

Posted: 2/25/10 at 2:50pm

Thanks for the great suggestions thus far. I should have been more specific and said "filmed live in the theater with an audience in attendance" (I don't think there is a Pirates of P version with Kline other than the feature, is there?). Any more suggestions are appreciated.

[once a month]

Filmed Performances#5

Posted: 2/25/10 at 2:52pm

Crazy for You
Pippin
Contact
Oh, Calcutta
Sophisticated Ladies
The Magic Show
Steambath
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
Fosse
Jekyll and Hyde

Updated On: 2/25/10 at 02:52 PM

[once a month]

Filmed Performances#6

Posted: 2/25/10 at 2:56pm

Pirates of Penzance was not the film of the same name that had the same cast (except for Ruth-played by Angela Landsbury)...this version was the one that played Central Park and later moved to Broadway (Ruth was Estelle Parsons on Broadway) with Kline, Rose, Ronstandt, Smith and Azito. It was in black and white, but such a great show!

[Kev]

Filmed Performances#7

Posted: 2/25/10 at 3:13pm

The "live" filming of RENT is excellent.

[Gothampc]

Filmed Performances#8

Posted: 2/25/10 at 3:19pm

DRG, here is the "Pirates..." that was filmed in Central Park before a live audience. The quality of the film is not great, but it's definitely worth watching. Patricia "Hyacinth Bucket" Routledge is Ruth.
Link

If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.

[philly03]

Filmed Performances#9

Posted: 2/25/10 at 3:28pm

Les Miserables ..to an extent. Footage is shown from the show as well as photos, but obviously it's a concert with people in costumes.


A TALE of TWO CITIES was likewise filmed, mostly as a concert but there were several props and legitimate action took place on stage!

[Gothampc]

Filmed Performances#10

Posted: 2/25/10 at 3:29pm

The Grapes of Wrath

If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.

[Cape Twirl of Doom]

Filmed Performances#11

Posted: 2/25/10 at 3:49pm

PASSING STRANGE (whatever you think of the show) looked pretty good on TV.

"It's Phantom meets Hamlet... Phamlet!"

[jacobp]

Filmed Performances#12

Posted: 2/25/10 at 4:11pm

WAIT. Where can I get a copy of Crazy for You?????

[Baylink]

Filmed Performances#13

Posted: 2/25/10 at 5:19pm

The did that with Calcutta? Really?

[defygravity24]

Filmed Performances#14

Posted: 2/25/10 at 5:21pm

Rent, Legally Blonde, Into the Woods

[Gothampc]

Filmed Performances#15

Posted: 2/25/10 at 6:01pm

"WAIT. Where can I get a copy of Crazy for You?????"

It was filmed for a one time showing on PBS. So you have to find somebody who taped it.

"The did that with Calcutta? Really?"

Yes, and it makes you realize how really, really, really boring the show is. The nudity is exciting for about five minutes and then two hours of boredom.

If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.

[twinbelters]

Filmed Performances#16

Posted: 2/25/10 at 6:46pm

Was the Light in the Piazza for PBS done in front of an audience?

I'm not sure if it was in front of an audience, but the flop Shangri-La was filmed for Hallmark Hall of Fame. See link.

Also, Simply Heavenly was filmed for "Play of the Week" in 1959, but again I'm not sure if that was in front of an audience.

Was Kiss Me, Kate with Brent Barrett in front of an audience? I have yet to see it.

Shangri-La (1956)

With Irma you gotta do something!

[broadwayboy987]

Filmed Performances#17

Posted: 2/25/10 at 11:01pm

I love the Aint Misbehavin one. I think that and Rent are my two fave's filmed for live TV.

[[tos]fan999]

Filmed Performances#18

Posted: 2/25/10 at 11:50pm

Kiss Me, Kate switches between having the audience and not, to keep it like a "play within a play". But then they put the audience in there at random times, even when it's not during "Taming of the Shrew" (Always True To You comes to mind). But it's a minor problem with an otherwise great DVD. I watch it all the time.

<-----Bernadette Peters and Alexander Hanson in A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC.

Send in the clowns...Send in the crowds!

"I prefer neurotic people. I like to hear rumblings beneath the surface."-Stephen Sondheim

[bwaylvsong]

Filmed Performances#19

Posted: 2/26/10 at 12:05am

I love Kiss Me, Kate with Rachel York and Oklahoma! with Hugh Jackman!

[ghostlight2]

Filmed Performances#20

Posted: 2/26/10 at 3:30am

"Was the Light in the Piazza for PBS done in front of an audience? "

Definitely, twin belter. It was a Live From Lincon Center broadcast, though of course the intermission interviews (other than Beverly Sills' portion of the show) were taped in advance.

"Kiss Me, Kate switches between having the audience and not, to keep it like a "play within a play". But then they put the audience in there at random times, even when it's not during "Taming of the Shrew" (Always True To You comes to mind). But it's a minor problem with an otherwise great DVD."

I think it was performed entirely before a live audience, [tos]fan999, but they only showed the audience from time to time (which I thought was an odd choice too). I highly recommend KMK, twinbelter. Here's one of the songs from it.


Bianca, a KMK excerpt Updated On: 2/26/10 at 03:30 AM

[amoni2]

Filmed Performances#21

Posted: 2/26/10 at 8:22am

Actually the live "The Pirates of Penzance" is in color and available from Netflix.

[BrodyFosse123]

Filmed Performances#22

Posted: 2/26/10 at 3:52pm

The CRAZY FOR YOU film was done/filmed at the Papermill Playhouse -- not during the show's original Broadway run at the Shubert Theatre.

Taped for television at New Jersey's Paper Mill Playhouse under Ockrent and Stroman's supervision, the cast of "Crazy For You" features Jim Walton, Stacey Logan, Jane Connell, Bruce Adler, and M*A*S*H*'s Larry Linville.

Link to info on PBS telecast: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/crazyforyou/

[adamgreer]

Filmed Performances#23

Posted: 2/26/10 at 4:01pm

Cathy Rigby's Peter Pan was filmed at La Mirada Center for the Performing Arts, in front of a live audience. It's a very good taping of her production of the show, and she along with Paul Schoeffler, are excellent.

[Brave Sir Robin2]

Filmed Performances#24

Posted: 2/26/10 at 4:04pm

I have Kiss Me Kate, Fosse, and Into The Woods. Anyone know where a fan-made DVD of Legally Blonde or Piazza would be sold?

"I saw Pavarotti play Rodolfo on stage and with his girth I thought he was about to eat the whole table at the Cafe Momus." - Dollypop