TVs on stage?

#1

TVs on stage?

Posted: 2/21/13 at 4:31pm

Hi there,
I'm working a multimedia project in relation to multiple mediums and was curious of some examples of shows that literally have televisions placed on stage with the actors. Maybe they interact and respond with the televisions.
Thanks for your help!

#2

TVs on stage?

Posted: 2/21/13 at 4:33pm

Tommy and American Idiot immediately come to mind

#3

TVs on stage?

Posted: 2/21/13 at 4:40pm

Hairspray.

#4

TVs on stage?

Posted: 2/21/13 at 7:12pm

Bye Bye Birdie

#5

TVs on stage?

Posted: 2/21/13 at 7:24pm

Rabbit Hole

#6

TVs on stage?

Posted: 2/21/13 at 7:26pm

Sondheim on Sondheim.

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#7

TVs on stage?

Posted: 2/21/13 at 8:00pm

There's the scene in Sister Act where Curtis and the gang is watching the news report on the nuns on TV.

#8

TVs on stage?

Posted: 2/21/13 at 8:05pm

Hurlyburly. The main character Eddie has an entire monologue directed at the TV, as Johnny Carson is on.

#9

TVs on stage?

Posted: 2/21/13 at 8:13pm

Chess in London

#10

TVs on stage?

Posted: 2/21/13 at 9:52pm

What about movie screens? Evita. Sunset Boulevard?

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#11

TVs on stage?

Posted: 2/21/13 at 9:55pm

The Wooster Group's Hamlet.

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#12

TVs on stage?

Posted: 2/21/13 at 10:00pm

BRING BACK BIRDIE had a whole set composed of TV sets and both JERSEY BOYS and The Who's TOMMY both incorporate "live" cameras and their "live" feed on TV sets on stage.

#13

TVs on stage?

Posted: 2/21/13 at 10:11pm

BRING IT ON had TV screens that acted as backdrop scenery, computer screens, and video screens.

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--Aristotle

#14

TVs on stage?

Posted: 2/21/13 at 10:13pm

Memphis.

#15

TVs on stage?

Posted: 2/21/13 at 10:16pm

I've heard the incoming revival of the scottish play will use TV's onstage...

#16

TVs on stage?

Posted: 2/21/13 at 11:21pm

The Godspell 2001 National Tour "Yellow Album" used them.

#17

TVs on stage?

Posted: 2/21/13 at 11:24pm

Don't recall the name of the show, but Bill Irwin used a tv extensively in one of his.

#18

TVs on stage?

Posted: 2/22/13 at 7:45am

Memphis.

I thought about this, but did they really have TV's on stage? I remember early in the 2nd act Huey did his TV show and they had cameras, but where were the TV's?

#19

TVs on stage?

Posted: 2/22/13 at 9:13am

Matilda has a fair bit of tv action, including a song about how everything a character has learned is from telly.

#20

TVs on stage?

Posted: 2/22/13 at 9:15am

"Treats" in it's run in the WE at least had a TV, if memory serves it was also relaying what was live on tv rather than a recording if that makes a difference.

The Wooster Group's Hamlet (as mentioned above) is also really interesting for the way they used replaying the performances.

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#21

TVs on stage?

Posted: 2/22/13 at 3:01pm

"Largely New York" was the Bill irwin show that used TV monitors.

#22

TVs on stage?

Posted: 2/22/13 at 4:24pm

Just wondering-Didn't "The Farnsworth Invention" have them? It was, after all, about the invention of the TV.

#23

TVs on stage?

Posted: 2/22/13 at 4:28pm

I can't recall the actual television having a remarkably physical presence in The Farnsworth Invention.

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#24

TVs on stage?

Posted: 2/22/13 at 4:33pm

I've heard the incoming revival of the scottish play will use TV's onstage

Macbeth. You can call it "Macbeth".

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#25

TVs on stage?

Posted: 2/22/13 at 4:35pm

WHAT ARE YOU DOING MATT YOU'VE DOOMED US ALL

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