How was Amadeus staged?
How was Amadeus staged?
Jay94
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#1How was Amadeus staged?
Posted: 6/25/12 at 4:36amThe film is such an epic, it's hard to imagine how it could be done on stage
#2How was Amadeus staged?
Posted: 6/25/12 at 8:47am
The reason you feel it couldn't be done on stage is - it couldn't. The stage play Amadeus is Very different from the screenplay. Characters were added, scenes changed ... it was rewritten to be a movie.
Personally I love the stage show better. The last 10 minutes of act one - an amazing tour de force soliloquy for Salieri - is reduced in the movie to a ten second, non spoken scene. But the way it was done on stage would not have worked in a movie.
Buy the script of the play and you can see how it is staged. The play is wonderful. Hopefully there will be a revival soon. The last revival was dreadful.
Gothampc
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#2How was Amadeus staged?
Posted: 6/25/12 at 9:49amThe stage show relied on the audience to use their imagination more than the movie.
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Huss417
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#3How was Amadeus staged?
Posted: 6/25/12 at 10:09amIt was the play that had me on the edge of my seat. It could have been done on a bare stage and wouldn't have made a difference. The OBC and the play were both thrilling.
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dramamama611
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#4How was Amadeus staged?
Posted: 6/25/12 at 10:55amI loved and was mesmorized by the entire show. Marc makes excellent points. BOTH were successful and wonderful in their own right because the were made to work for their specific medium.
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#5How was Amadeus staged?
Posted: 6/25/12 at 11:50amAmadeus is one of my most favorite movies and I had the opportunity to see it on stage a couple of years back at the Chicago Shakespeare Theatre too and I loved the stage version too.
#6How was Amadeus staged?
Posted: 6/25/12 at 12:20pmStunningly theatrical plays like Amadeus, Equus, Angels in America, and many more, are usually treated literally and "realistically" when transferred to the screen. If you've seen the play first, the film often seems like a paler imitation.
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